Let’s start with some Pete Holmes philosophy. Technology helps, but it destroyed us and our humanity. You know it, but this is fantastic: @peteholmes I very much dislike waze. @adamcarollashow #peteholmes (more…)
Chasing AGI: altruism, self-interest, capitalism, libertarian technologists, and a different existential threat for the human race.
Will technologists chasing artificial general intelligence (AGI) allow AGI to say, “Billionaires are a large part of the overall problem for humanity & we shouldn’t have them?” & how do we prevent (more…)
Newsletter #0060 – Beware the fury of a patient man.
The line is from John Dryden and his poem “Absalom and Achitophel”, written in heroic couplets in 1681. I’ll put the entire poem at the bottom. It’s a GREAT read. Also, a similar quote: “There are three (more…)
Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden (written in heroic couplets and first published in 1681)
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli’d his kind, Ere one to one was cursedly confin’d: When Nature prompted, and no Law deni’d Promiscuous (more…)
Ridley Scott’s “Ridleygrams” for Alien, aka his unbelievably detailed and thought out storyboards that is another side to his professional fame.
More about this talent and his process here:
Newsletter #0059 – Genius is an event, not a person.
Hannah Gadsby was on Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend podcast, and they said the title / subject line of this newsletter. I can’t stop thinking about it. Essentially, would gravity have never been figured (more…)
Newsletter #0058 – The opposite of love isn’t hate, it’s indifference.
Wilhelm Stekel is the quote. This is the entire passage (inset w/ quote blocks), but it leads us to think deeply about action, inaction, community, and being part of something larger than yourself. The (more…)
Newsletter #0057 – “Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t”
Bill Nye is the newsletter quote. Here he is, in fact, and he’s not teaching kids anymore. What a guy! nb: he’s swearing like a pirate. Also, a meditation: A flower does not (more…)
Like the foundation for my newsletter, sending single links of events in every direction was too much, so I compiled it all for friends:
I was sending single event links to friends & groups of friends. 100s of links in every direction. & apparently I'm a rambling gadabout, so I'm just documenting where we've been in (more…)
Newsletter #0056 – A person who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.
MAUI It’s incredibly raw, it’s still too hard to truly process, but we got tired of talking and sympathizing from a keyboard, so we’re throwing a DJ gig for Lahaina and the citizens and friends of Maui. (more…)