Take Sam Altman. Altman is not an engineer. He is not a scientist. He has no real training in either. He is an entrepreneur, with a flair for optimistic tech futurism. He places bets on where technology is headed, and then attempts to bend society in a direction that makes those bets pay off.
The previous generation of venture capitalists were, for the most part, actual engineers and scientists. They had spent time in the lab. They had experience being “close to the metal.” They made some real money early, then started to point that money in the direction of funding audacious high-risk/high-reward projects that didn’t fit anywhere else. The sector was small, compared to government money and corporate R&D money.
Folks like Altman approach the future much like bad sci-fi.
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“The VC approach is the prevailing model today. And I have become increasingly convinced that many of the problems with the current state of Silicon Valley are rooted in the venture capital-class simply acquiring too much capital. VC is fine (*good*, even!) when it is relatively small. But when VC is the primary source of funding new science and technology breakthroughs, the whole system gets skewed.
As it stands today, the primary direction-setter for new advances in science and technology is “what do folks like Marc Andreessen and Peter Thiel and Gary Tan and Sam Altman find exciting?”
— Dave Karpf, On Giant Piles of Cash And Their Origins
https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/on-giant-piles-of-cash-and-their
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Make Bad Things
https://janusworx.com/blog/make-bad-things/
#100WordHabit #Art #Life
Original: https://amandaswork.tumblr.com/post/731449232798760961/sadbuddies-pssssst-stickers-available-now
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#100WordHabit, #art, #life
No love is wasted
https://janusworx.com/blog/no-love-is-wasted/
#100WordHabit, #Love
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#100WordHabit, #love
“Just to be clear, I’m not mad at anyone who has tried to reassure me by telling me I have impostor syndrome, and I recognize it as a real problem that lots of talented people struggle with.
But I am furious at a world in which women and POC are being told to be as self-confident as a group of mostly white dudes who are basically delusional megalomaniacs. We’re great the way we are, level-headed self-assessments and all. Stop rewarding *them* for being jackasses.”
— Chris Xu, Stop Blowhard Syndrome
https://www.tumblr.com/xuhulk/110549967516/stop-blowhard-syndrome
via @aworkinglibrary
https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/toward-inquiry
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Hello #Emacs and #OrgMode friends, is there a way to insert a deadline *with* time for a task?
for e.g. with:
Buy Book: CSS in Depth, Second Edition, Keith J. Grant
DEADLINE: <2024-06-10 Mon>
I want the deadline to be
DEADLINE: <2024-06-10 Mon 09:00>
I’m inserting times manually by hand currently. But am I missing an M-x org-some-command-to-insert-date or a handy keyboard shortcut?
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#emacs, #orgmode
My Reading Life
https://janusworx.com/blog/my-reading-life/
#100WordHabit #mjbWrites #Books #Reading
The Art of Losing - The Art of Losing
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#100WordHabit, #mjbwrites, #books, #reading
Je vais essayer d’écrire plus de toots en français pour mieux apprendre
Amis français, si vous tombez sur cela, n’hésitez pas à me corriger. (orthographe, langue, nuance, tout…)
Cet toot vous est présenté par Google Translate (pour l’instant)
#mjbBabbles #Francaise
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#mjbBabbles, #francaise
One of my #Lindy reads
https://indieweb.social/@mariapopova/112225229936977238
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#lindy
Be intentional.
Be deliberate.
Be deliberately intentional https://fosstodon.org/@carlton/112225030457554250
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