jamesgill

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by jamesgill 9mo ago
Ha--totally agree about the 'house full of easy first steps'. I have a few. But I think it all still applies; the key is to keep taking small steps toward the thing , not just 'keep taking small steps'. You look at a su
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by jamesgill 9mo ago
That's a good book. I actually came to understand all this better through a different book that I bought to understand my anxiety: Rewire Your Anxious Brain - https://www.amazon.com/Rewire-Your-Anxious-Brain-Neuroscie
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by jamesgill 9mo ago
Short answer: yes, I have--walking. I think the main learnings were (a) have faith in absurdly small steps, repeated, and (b) my anxious brain is always looking for the slightest excuse to skip it. No real tweaks, except keep trying to make
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by jamesgill 9mo ago
No, it’s an expansion of my reading of a different book: http://thinkhuman.com/book-notes-one-small-step-can-change-y... I read Clear’s book, though, and like it. Neither book has new ideas, but they both present old ideas
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Take One Small Step(thinkhuman.com)
150 points by jamesgill 9mo ago|32 comments
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by jamesgill 9mo ago
Jeff, your /books and /blog links appear to be broken here: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/about/
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You Are Not an Average(thinkhuman.com)
5 points by jamesgill 9mo ago|0 comments
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by jamesgill 9mo ago
Bye, Felicia.
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by jamesgill 9mo ago
The real “Trump Derangement Syndrome” is really just this—what used to be called demagoguery. It often works—for a little while. But it always ends in sad, destructive, painful ways.
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by jamesgill 10mo ago
But AI is not an agnostic thing. Its entire story arc is built on a race to monetize and profit—and that requires human data and captured users.
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by jamesgill 10mo ago
Wasn’t Sauron defeated by an amateur hacker who defeated the security, found a backdoor and destroyed the power grid?
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The Path Is No Path(thinkhuman.com)
3 points by jamesgill 10mo ago|0 comments
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Trust, or Rust(thinkhuman.com)
2 points by jamesgill 10mo ago|0 comments
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by jamesgill 10mo ago
That's Miss Jackson if you're Windows.
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The Source of Water(thinkhuman.com)
2 points by jamesgill 10mo ago|0 comments
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by jamesgill 10mo ago
Related: https://sive.rs/plaintext
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How Woodworking Taught Me to Be a Programmer(thinkhuman.com)
9 points by jamesgill 10mo ago|0 comments
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Global Village People(thinkhuman.com)
3 points by jamesgill 10mo ago|0 comments
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Estates of Being(thinkhuman.com)
1 points by jamesgill 10mo ago|0 comments
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Re-Cursive: Gen Z Never Learned to Write in Cursive(thinkhuman.com)
5 points by jamesgill 10mo ago|2 comments
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Trust the Process(thinkhuman.com)
4 points by jamesgill 10mo ago|0 comments
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by jamesgill 10mo ago
He said there would be both an "AI kill switch" but that it's also "opt-in". Taken together, his two statements seem a little...odd.
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by jamesgill 10mo ago
He didn't say he wasn't going to remove ad blockers; he said "I don't want to". No commitment or position, just a preference.
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by jamesgill 10mo ago
Why not make them disabled by default , with the option to turn them on?
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Don't Worry About College Majors(thinkhuman.com)
1 points by jamesgill 10mo ago|0 comments
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AI, AI Oh(thinkhuman.com)
2 points by jamesgill 10mo ago|0 comments
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Gil Gerard, Star of 'Buck Rogers,' Dies at 82(nytimes.com)
2 points by jamesgill 10mo ago|2 comments
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by jamesgill 10mo ago
I never knew that. Cool.
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by jamesgill 10mo ago
The part about Smalltalk's influence on Ruby is a good callout. Smalltalk has influenced many languages: Python's 'everything is an object (like Ruby)'; Objective-C's message sending syntax; JS's 'self&#
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The Roots(thinkhuman.com)
1 points by jamesgill 10mo ago|0 comments

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