Lucky seven: Weekly letter with five quotes and two doses of reflection.
Today, let's explore some quotes shared by Stewart Brand.
- Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.
- The sociologist Elise Boulding diagnosed the problem of our times as “temporal exhaustion”: “If one is mentally out of breath all the time from dealing with the present, there is no energy left for imaging the future.
- Starting anew with a clean slate has been one of the most harmful ideas in history. It treats previous knowledge as an impediment and imagines that only present knowledge deployed in theoretical purity can make real the wondrous new vision.
- Everything looks like a failure in the middle.
- Bots are at best narrow AI, nothing that would make a cleric remotely nervous. But they would scare the hell out of epidemiologists who understand that parasites don’t need to be smart to be dangerous.
And two thoughts from me. Sometimes positive, sometimes funny, and once serious:
- Get into the habit of cooking yourself a beautiful breakfast. Fry tomatoes and mushrooms in real butter and garlic, fry an egg, slice up fresh avocado, and squirt too much lemon. Sit and eat it and do nothing else. Close your eyes and feel the battle of the tastes - which one did you catch first?
- I keep telling friends that I listen to all genres of music. They laughed at me, but I found a video. Hope this brings a smile for you to start the week better!
