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Erik Torenberg
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3 podcasts this week:

Spoke with @jarroddicker about the future of the news business, the intersection between blockchain and journalism, and why journalists will be more like free agents.

spreaker.com/user/10197011/…

breaker.audio/venture-storie…
Spoke with @jgheller about why the health industry does very well at acute care but not preventive care & the opportunities -- and challenges -- to building preventive health care companies.

breaker.audio/venture-storie…

spreaker.com/user/10197011/…
And fresh off the presses, I had @sbyrnes and @ShastriMahadeo come on for a Request for Startups: AI Edition, where we discussed opportunities in finance, insurance, healthcare, construction, & manufacturing, among other segments.

breaker.audio/venture-storie…

spreaker.com/user/10197011/…
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Erik Torenberg
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What is the best example you've come across -- whether in nature, narrative, or something else -- to describe #3: how we are more interconnected than we think?

Here's an example below:
1/ "While wandering around Montgomery Woods, we happened upon a solitary tree standing in a clearing, covered in bright green moss & bathed in light.

It felt special, and I started thinking about what circumstances led to this wonderful scene that we found ourselves in.
2/ On the surface, it seemed random: what are the chances of a tree getting totally covered in moss in this beautiful forest and getting bathed in light just as we arrived? And then I thought about what could make an opening in the forest canopy:
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Erik Torenberg
@eriktorenberg
1/Quick summary of some of the ideas from "Why Buddhism is True" by @robertwrighter — go read the book for the real thing!

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Evolution did not design us to see the world clearly, it designed us to do whatever we needed to do to get our genes into the next generation.
2/ Feelings were designed to get genes in the next generation, but doesn’t that mean they were designed to make us see the world clearly or bring us happiness.

We don’t see the world clearly— this is why we suffer, and why we make others suffer.
3/ Evolutionary psychology is a diagnosis, buddhism diagnosed it along time ago— it also also offers prescription.

Meditation and in particular buddhism meditation is very well equipped to address that problem.
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Erik Torenberg
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Why in some fields is plagiarism accepted (e.g Kanye sampling beats, Apple & Xerox) and in others it merits shame (e.g. Jonah Lehrer plagiarizing)?
The music example is a bad example, but the broader Q still stands - how come we accept "copying" in some industries and don't in others?

the line between "paraphrasing" and copying is fine indeed.
if we believe in the one global brain theory -- wait for more on this -- then we'd look at this Q in a new light.

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