On the last Friday of each month I curate some of the observations and insights that were shared on social media. I call these Friday’s Finds.
“Picard management tip: Time is the rarest commodity. Manage yours wisely.” —@Picard Tips [RIP Sir Patrick Stewart]
“Artificial Intelligence is to Intelligence as Lung Cancer is to Lung” —@DCoder
My kid today: “taxis are insane, they’re like Ubers you don’t need an app for” —@JA Westenberg
“It’s 1986 and my mother is shouting at me to stop touching the computer, I’m wasting my life. It’s 2016 and I am fixing mother’s computer, regaling her about the variety of rich opportunities computer touching has given me in my life. It’s 2026 and I am cursing my mother for ever letting me touch a computer. I have wasted my life.” —@ptoothfish
COVID patients lumped together in Edmonton hospital 2026-10-13
Havoc is hitting hospitals as patients hospitalized for some other acute illness are getting COVID, adding to the complexity of care — and Alberta’s COVID vaccinations aren’t available yet, and the province’s low vaccination rate isn’t helping … “Last year was the deadliest flu season on record, and Alberta’s lowest vaccination rates for over a decade. The UCP [governing party] is charging most Albertans over $100 for a COVID shot during an affordability crisis instead of making it easier for people to get vaccinated and taking pressure off our health care system,” —Sharif Haji, NDP, MLA
How to Hold Your Helplessness: Nobel Laureate Bertrand Russell’s Salve for the Anxiety of Overwhelm
One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision … Traditional systems of dogma and traditional codes of conduct have not the hold that they formerly had. Men and women are often in genuine doubt as to what is right and what is wrong, and even as to whether right and wrong are anything more than ancient superstitions. When they try to decide such questions for themselves they find them too difficult. They cannot discover any clear purpose that they ought to pursue or any clear principle by which they should be guided. —Bertrand Russel 1949
