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THE YEAR OF OUR UNKNOWING
The Fluid Mind and the Ever More Magical Future of Interfaces
A Liberal Decalogue | Bertrand Russell
Writer's Diary
As Byung-ho Chan points out, the multitasker returns to an animal state: it's animals who have to remain in this state of watchfulness and vigilance, who cannot really commit to a single task, but are always in the pluralized state of having to survive. Animals do not become calligraphers, or mathematicians, or poets. They remain animals.
I find that there's something very wrong with people who ignore or suppress or have cut out their drives. And something very wrong with people who will never be reasonable or apply reason and give reason charge to their instincts or over their instincts.
The Power of Effective Agenda-Setting – A brighter future for all through science, technology, and innovation
Edwin Cohn and the Harvard Blood Factory
Cohn never missed an opportunity to recruit talented scientists, often going out of his way to poach people who were “between” research roles. He also had a stunning ability to look ahead and anticipate what sorts of talent his field would need to grow.
Cohn was a powerful institutional figure who possessed what was apparently direct line reporting to the President of Harvard, James Conant, who was a chemist. Given this rare privilege, Cohn seemed always able to garner the generous funding that ensured progress would never be hampered by traditional academic bureaucracy.
"Quarterly reports and intermediate milestones are not how fundamental discoveries are made. Progress is made by exploring the unknown, gambling for the sake of knowledge" - me
On Physics: The priceless value of big science
How predictable is technological progress?
32 year old YLC shows off the world's first Convolutional Network in 1993 for Text Recognition.
Our learnings on venture funds
Robotics: A Product Selection Problem
1157 sample translation scentoftime
Running A Software Business On 5 Hours A Week | Kalzumeus Software
Standing Invitation | Kalzumeus Software
Notes Toward a New Romanticism
Are We Entering a New Romantic Era?
The Analects Oa Confucius : Arthur Waley : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Angels In Indiana
Dissolving the Fermi Paradox
The authenticity inventory
On OnlyFans performer Lily Phillips' 100 men in one day. How quickly we forget about Annabel Chong!
Journalist Evan Wright, for LA Weekly, reported: ‘I experienced a sense of numbness on Jasmin’s set – as I would on many others – that I can only compare to accounts I have read of combat. It was the sense of being in a group of people deliberately and methodically engaged in acts of insanity.’
Iyanu Okusanya on Instagram: "The truth is, that you cannot create anything of value without both self doubt and self belief” ✨ - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie @chimamanda_adichie Full speech can be watched on YT: “Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie addresses Harvard’s Class of 2018” at Harvard University. #iyanusmusings #iyanuokusanya #chimamandangoziadichie #selfdoubt #selfbelief #achieve #achievement #procrastination #belief #believeinyourself #believeinyourdreams #fear"
The five pairs of Ruby slippers
David Foster Wallace: On Being Entirely Yourself
10 Reasons Why Technological Progress Is Now Reversing
My Year of Tech and Relaxation by August Lamm
Herbie Hancock jams with his Fairlight CMI
Sesame Street: Herbie Hancock Makes Sounds