Category: Links of Interest
When a company adds AI…
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At this moment in time when I see a company added AI to their product, I wonder if they have their priorities sorted out. Yes I assume that AI is going to be useful to people at some point. Yes I see how people are using it now and I it’s interesting, but when your…
We guage our success based on people we know
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Two good quotes sent to me from Readwise today: How much of our desire for new clothes, a better car, a bigger house, a shinier computer or gadget, is actually driven by the fear that not having these things means we are, in some ways, missing out? Enough by Patrick Rhone and People assess how…
Now I Run this Newsletter Poorly
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Now, I run this newsletter poorly. There is no rhyme or reason behind my topic selection; my tweets are riddled with spelling errors; the courses I teach are challenging to find. I don’t do podcast interviews, and just the thought of attending an event to “network” makes me break out in hives. If I schedule more…
Greg Praising Analogue
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From Greg It’s been a week since I ditched the digital calendar and went back to an analog system. I am really enjoying this part of my workflow and already looking at other ways I can get further away my from devices. I know I can’t get rid of them altoghether, but this is a…
Four Months a Year on Social Media
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Well only if you count it as 8-hour work days, but still that’s crazy. I deleted social media from my phone years ago and have never missed it. I’m still on the fence about just leaving social media all together and using any time I’d spend on that to write/read or hang out with my…
Josh on Modern Day File Storage
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From Josh: Where you save the file won’t matter. What you name the file won’t matter. The file type won’t matter. When you last saved the file won’t matter. What will matter is your ability to use keywords to search for contents in the file. What will matter is your ability to use artificial intelligence…
Jamie’s list of books from 2022
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I grabbed a few of the recommendations from Jamie and happened to have a few on my shelf already.
Track Diversity in Your Reading
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If you’re looking for a book tracker then Bookish Brews has one that helps you track the diversity of the authors you’re reading. I’ve bookmarked this to see about adding it to my own Obsidian book tracking system.
If you want to sell books…you must love books
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Great article on the turn-around of Barnes & Nobel. Thanks to Matt for pointing the article out to me.
Homelesness is a Housing Problem
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From The Atlantic: In their book, Homelessness Is a Housing Problem, the University of Washington professor Gregg Colburn and the data scientist Clayton Page Aldern demonstrate that “the homelessness crisis in coastal cities cannot be explained by disproportionate levels of drug use, mental illness, or poverty.” Rather, the most relevant factors in the homelessness crisis…