By far one of the best PPT tutorials I have come across.
Category: Learning
Some of the stuff I wanted to learn about in moments of madness.
[Link] Introduction to Philosophy
[Video] The World’s Largest Community Kitchen
[Video] Why You Don’t Need Certainty To Be Influential
QOTD
“The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.” —Mortimer Adler
[Link] Art, AI & Crypto
To Learn: What is an NTF?
NFTs are the bridge from conceptual art to contractual art
— seth goldstein (@seth) February 19, 2021
Seth Goldstein takes photos of the sunset every day and then train an AI model to turn it into a 30-second MP4 video, & puts it up for sale. If anyone can copy a video, how dose he make his work unique? He turns it into a NFT (a Non-Fungible Token).
minted my first art token https://t.co/SOmrUG0kuI, an ai-generated synthetic video of imaginary waves trained off 1k high rez photos pic.twitter.com/GtPyA5fLrW
— seth goldstein (@seth) February 10, 2021
Fascinating.
[QOTD] Epictetus
“Your relentless pursuit of wisdom postpones your actually possessing it. Quit chasing after tonics and new teachers. The latest fashionable sage or book or diet or belief doesn’t move you in the direction of a flourishing life. You do.”
[Link]: Persuasion & the Dilution Effect
Organizational psychologist Niro Sivanathan offers a fascinating lesson on the “dilution effect,” a cognitive quirk that weakens our strongest cases — and reveals why brevity is the true soul of persuasion.
[Learning] Life Lessons from 3 centenarians
Love their perspectives, their sense of humor & their view on regrets.
Handy feature on MacOS: Hover Text
Hover Text is ridiculously useful when doing presentations, and also for weak eyes generally
When you enable Hover Text on your Mac, you can move the pointer over something on the screen — for example, text, an input field, a menu item, or a button — and display a high-resolution zoomed version of it in a separate window.
HT to Somner Panage