Smartphones; AI ethics; Futility of desire
Issue #367
💡Think
Hey folks 👋
I posted something the other day with some napkin career advice which seemed to resonate with a few people, so in the interest of advice number 6, I’m going to paste the post right here! (original)
Career advice:
1️⃣ Bias for action
2️⃣ Talk to the room you're in: kick acronyms to the kerb
3️⃣ Over-communicate project status
4️⃣ Bullets, not paragraphs
5️⃣ Talk slower
6️⃣ Share everything you know
7️⃣ Build a consistency muscle
8️⃣ Ask for help
9️⃣ Less "I", more "we"
Have a great week,
Luis
📷 Look
📖 Read
❶ The phone-based childhoods of now
This topic keeps coming up, which means it’s something to take seriously. Mental health and life satisfaction in those born after 1996 is practically on the floor, and the theory is that the batteries with screens we carry around are responsible. We’re in a position to do something here, I just don’t think we know what yet.
❷ The problem of AI ethics
The title sums this one up pretty well, but it’s a smart analysis on why this is such a hard topic to tackle, due to the ever-changing nature of what we’re dealing with. If it changes every 3, 6, 12 months, how can we work on any semblance of global ethics?
❸ Schopenhauer, and the futility of desire
I loved the writing in this article. At its core, it’s a person in their 40s hitting that mid-life crisis, but it more widely discusses the human condition and how we feel a need to distinguish between stuff we complete, and stuff we don’t; as if it defines our every cell. This is all via the 19th-century philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer.
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Bonus round
Silicon Valley’s gold rush roots
Inside the secret cities that built the atomic bomb
🎧 Listen
Where’s my flying car?
Where are those flying cars that were supposed to be here in the future aka now? Who would even use them, would they be safe and actually practical? Imagine how many vehicles would be flying around in the sky not on roads, sounds chaotic.
Spotify – Apply Music (54 minutes)
Have a great week,
@disco_lu