Posts Categorized: Friday’s Finds

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. “Until a drag queen walks into a school and beats eight kids to death with a copy of ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’, I think you’re focusing on the wrong shit.”… Read more »

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. “The ability to learn from experience in the present — from moments, not models — is what is needed when the past has become a hindrance and the future is… Read more »

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. “You don’t get to be a VP or CEO of a major corporation by being meek. You get there by being a polite sociopath.” —Dave Rahardja

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. “I set out to write a letter to friends who know Twitter and are Mastodon-curious. As I worked on it, I thought: What if the letter could serve as a… Read more »

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. “It’s very funny to me that the dominant Twentieth Century conception of AI was a slightly awkward nerd with an inhuman mastery of facts and logic, when what we actually… Read more »

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. Since 2009 many of these finds have come via Twitter. Given the current state of chaos on that platform — whither Twitter — more of my finds will be coming… Read more »

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. “Smart people don’t learn because they have too much invested in proving what they know and avoiding being seen as not knowing.” —Chris Argyris Vox populi, vox Dei An early… Read more »

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. “… complex systems don’t have to be organized top-down, either in the natural or social world. That we tend to assume otherwise probably tells us more about ourselves than the… Read more »

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. I don’t like Covid on a plane, I do not want it in my brain, I don’t like Covid, breathed in my face, I wear a mask, from place to… Read more »

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. Last night at the theater opening of ‘We Are As Gods’, I had occasion to declare: “Science is the only news. The rest is gossip.” Science is the only news…. Read more »