Author: neil

Ethan Mollick: How to Use ChatGPT to Unstick Yourself, & Using ChatGPT to make Teaching Easier

How virtual environments work in Python

“The purpose of life is to experience things for which you will later experience nostalgia.”

The Sculptor vs The Robots:

“All the big dreams of better ways of doing things fall apart because the people involved don’t have the inner strength. The real work is about gradually improving people’s ability to be themselves and to trust each other. If that work doesn’t happen, the rest is just window dressing”

Mastering Humility: The guitar teaches you to be humble, in spades.

 

Bernadette Mayer’s list of journalling prompts for writing experiments.

Sam Reilly on Relational infrastructure

Data Centres to heat swimming pools

Understanding Why Searching the Internet Inflates Confidence in Explanatory Ability

Tim Bray on the LLM problem

Margaret Atwood on “The Editorial Process”

Bono & The Edge at NPR Tiny Desk

You can’t reach the brain through the ears! Adam Mastroianni

 

 

 

 

Machine Learning as a hypothesis generation tool. “A central tenet of our paper is that hypothesis generation is in and of itself a valuable activity, and hope this encourages future work in this largely “pre-scientific” stage of science.”

Rudyard Kipling: “Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”

Seth Godin: Is it a t-shirt brand? I (still) wear one that was designed a month or so into Covid as a way to maintain identity of my team. The name’s been changed since, and yet the logo is memorable, and the identity still continues, nearly 2 years after the change of name. The answer: “Why would someone want to wear your name around town? What’s in it for them? Go build that and the t-shirts will take care of themselves.”

Office furniture hustlers in Silicon Valley!

 

Using AI to improve your public speaking

The Conversation Dance: “Think about one of the best conversations you’ve ever had. How did it make you feel? What impact did it have on you?”

Meta is rediscovering the cubicle 🙂

“What sort of hungry are you?” Not a rhetorical question at all. The focus is on the person wanting food, as opposed to the skills of the chef, or the items on the menu.

ReadTrellis – this looks like a game-changer for learners.

Your tireless, endlessly creative AI Tutor…With every Trellis, you get a Socratic Guide to teach you the material. It can even quiz you for your understanding!

On the Farnam Street blog, Why write?

Jessica Hagy: 10 Ways to go to bed satisifed

Albert Wenger’s India impressions of 2023

 

Deadlines as technology

Jon Stokes: What it would take to push pause on AI

Dave Snowden on Rethinking Design Thinking

 

Dadirri: Deep Listening & Quiet Waiting

Tendayi Viki: Do Corporate Innovation programs produce results?

Did Big Tech Set up the world for an AI bias diaster?

Yeah, Elon-gate is still crashing and burning. This time with a potshot at a designer.

How Mr. Beast learns. Regardless of his financial success, the way in which he learns is insanely inspiring.

Anna Tims: What being a hospice volunteer taught me about life & death.

 

ChatGPT and crocheting patterns?

Yet another reminder that digital transformations ought not to start with technology. Is anyone listening?

Long Now Foundation: The Heresy of Decline Imagining the implications of a below-replacement birth rate.

Doubling down on RSS. I subscribe to a large number of varied sources of content, & can’t see life without RSS. I’m clearly not alone.