"Ever since I first learned about confirmation bias I've been seeing it everywhere." (from jon ronson)

Big fan of Paul Bloom and now his Substack!

Why is it hard to understand what makes hard problems hard? The mission to quantify practical solvability defines a field of computer science called meta-complexity. This year, Quanta dove into this puzzle in an extended article and short documentary. quantamagazine.org/complexity-the…

ill give you a real reason to call 911

“No matter how much you change & no matter how much you improve, it’s not permanent.” David Goggins [on why humans must have every day “I don’t want to, but I will anyway” practices to reify their growth.] Goggins is on the Huberman Lab podcast out now: hubermanlab.com

Duolingo's AI conversation feature really lets you get off the grid I was supposed to order a meal en un restaurante but I decided to kidnap the waiter and rob him at gunpoint instead

“The universe is only as large as our perception of it. When we cultivate our awareness, we are expanding the universe. This expands the scope, not just of the material at our disposal to create from, but of the life we get to live.” — Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

“The students and faculty in the painting department at the Accademia […] had long since arrived at an arrangement whereby the students wouldn't require the faculty to teach anything, and in return the faculty wouldn't require the students to learn anything”

you really captured my eyes

Business, Innovation, and Managing Life (April 10, 2024) x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

I had the joy and the honor of being invited to give the Harvey Mudd College commencement address this year. In the vector space of all advice, I explore a 5-dimension subspace orthogonal to the “follow your dreams” vector. YouTube Link: youtu.be/W3I3kAg2J7w

Quiero expresar mi absoluta indignación por la detención de Freddy Superlano, exijo su liberación inmediata.

Caracas, 30 de Julio de 2024 🇻🇪 Los venezolanos siguen y seguirán en las calles de manera pacífica ejerciendo su legítimo derecho a la protesta.

Ganó Edmundo, Ganó Venezuela 🇻🇪 Conoce en vivo los resultados de la elección presidencial del 28J: resultadosconvzla.com

15 years ago, Admiral James Stavridis, USN, Ret. met Nicolas Maduro, and it didn't go well. Now he has advice on how the US can help protesters bring down the corrupt Venezuelan leader trib.al/RPWWt4P via Bloomberg Opinion

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Venezuela’s Top Lawmaker Calls for Arrest of Opposition Leaders Machado, Gonzalez bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Las amenazas y persecución en contra de los miembros de la oposición democrática resguardados en la embajada de Argentina en Caracas deben detenerse. Hacemos un llamado para la aprobación inmediata de su salvoconducto.

“Your whole life is a kind of apprenticeship to which you apply your learning skills. Everything that happens to you is a form of instruction if you pay attention.”