This was radical. “Christianity comes from Judaism, but Jews think they are Chosen People: Only them have been chosen by God to receive the Torah and follow his commandments. It’s a religion mixed with an ethnicity. A private club. Back… Read More »How Christianity Went Viral
Just do good job and don’t be discouraged.
This. “most of what experts know cannot be put into words. Not won’t — can’t. It is structurally tacit. It lives in the body, in the practice, in the cumulative pattern-recognition of having done a thing for a long time.… Read More »The Tacit Dimension: Why Your Best Engineers Can’t Tell You What They Know
Wanted to write this after the Eurovision but life got in a way even tough it is quite short one. The winner Bangaranga by Dara was great. But it is interesting to see the progress of it. Here is the… Read More »Bangaranga, Dara and The Importance of Presentation
This is mo longer as clear. “Historically, the biggest driver of the number of people that could live in a specific area—the density of people—was food per acre: If one acre can produce a lot of food, it can feed… Read More »A Science of Cities
Change can happen very fast. “Electricity went from less than 5% electric to over 90% in less than 20 years!At the beginning, new technologies take some time to figure out, but once they’re ready, uptake can be vertiginous.” https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/peak-oil-is-coming
In EU this would be basically illegal.
Automation and its downsides. “In competitive markets, an automating firm captures the full cost savings from replacing workers but bears only a fraction of the resulting demand destruction. In a market with twenty competitors, each firm feels one-twentieth of the… Read More »The Dead Economy Theory
This industry is just weird AF. “My first task was to read a conversation between a user and “the assistant,” one of the major large-language chatbot models. Using a “bible” that dictated how the assistant should respond, I was to… Read More »I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Secretly Training AI
Avoid dogma. “There are an ever-increasing number of opinions you can be fired for. Those doing the firing don’t use the word “heresy” to describe them, but structurally they’re equivalent. Structurally there are two distinctive things about heresy: (1) that… Read More »Heresy