I think we are all born with a natural inclination towards risk (and many other things) which gets amplified or reduced depending upon upbringing and circumstances. As they say – ‘nature provides the knobs, nurture turns them up or down’.
CULTURE
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Beyond Smartphones: The Next Revolutionary Device
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Awesome. I’ve got to try this. There is no way that the iPhone will
be the last device for humanity. I believe something like this will be the next big device. It’s exciting to think technology might actually bring us more into the real world instead of starting at phones -
David Foster Wallace on Internet Technology and Human Adaptation
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David Foster Wallace on the internet, way back in 1996. "Like at a certain point we're gonna have to build up some machinery, inside our guts, to help us deal with this. Because the technology is just gonna get better and better and better and better. And it’s gonna get
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Language Evolution Enabled Human Species Reach Moon
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If I told you a million years ago that a species would learn to modulate the noises coming out of its mouth and as a result make it to the moon, you’d whack me in the head.
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Elon Musk Overlooks Newton’s Fundamental Contribution to Rocket Science
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Elon forgets that without Newton there would be no rockets.
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Empathy: The Missing Superpower in Business Education
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Empathy is a manager’s greatest superpower. Always surprises me that not a single business school has it on their syllabus.
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Baudrillard on Commodifying Suffering in Tech Culture
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although Baudrillard would have something to say about that $15k for suffering
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Manifesto: The Return of Magic in AI Era
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This is a topic I keep dancing around, in pieces like Most Human Wins, Modern Magnificenza, and The Return of Magic. Today's essay is the closest to a manifesto I've come:
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Technology Creates Means, Not Meaning: Our Role
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Something I've been thinking and reading a ton about is the idea that as means grow, meaning seems to shrink. Technology creates means, but we shouldn’t expect it to create meaning. It can create the space for us to create meaning, but actually creating meaning is up to us.