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1/ One of the big lessons from AI so far is that more data is more effective than better algorithms.
2/ I wonder if the same isn't true about humans as well.
3/ Some of the smartest/wisest people I know have large data sets (from reading, life experiences etc.)
4/ The most helpful content and experiences are those which contains the most surprise in the information theoretic sense...
5/ While still familiar enough that you are able to contextualize them (e.g. reading Kafka in Swahili would have high informational content but would be too unfamiliar to me to contextualize)
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Question for the bloggers: How do you decide which post in your backlog to write next?

My internal algo is something like: brand relevance * long-term ROI (SEO value, whether it's Evergreen content, etc) * Effort Required * How Excited I am about it.
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1/ A Thread on the importance of context, modernism vs. postmodernism, and how to be a genius.
2/ Two of my favorite quotes from the last few years are
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Putting together my presentation for the annual review workshop @fortelabs and I are hosting tomorrow and just wanted to share a couple of the things I've found most helpful this year.
One of the themes I repeatedly compe back to is @SPressfield's idea of "the Resistance" - that which you are most afraid of is that which you most need to do.

Thinking through where "The Resistance" is for me often tends to be the best indicator of what I need to work on
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People talk a lot about running government like a business, and about the importance of common sense in politics. But over the years, I’ve found that those who advocate such approaches in theory are often most resistant to applying them in reality. Here’s a case in point: 1/7
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High-Performance Medicine: my @NatureMedicine review of #AI and where we're headed nature.com/articles/s4159…
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It's art up for review in opinions, of course I'm going to gravitate towards something shared with interest, when he didn't say a word for 2 days! Why was he there? #opendata #smartcities #bigdata #ai
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