The more I open up, the deeper I connect with others.
Yet, looking outwards might be only a distraction. Finding the balance often boggles my mind.
Yet, looking outwards might be only a distraction. Finding the balance often boggles my mind.
It's Quench, my periodic posts with recent discoveries. #3.
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1. 50 things I know by Sasha Chapin
"I know that limerence can be misleading. It can be the beginning of a good relationship, or a complete disaster. If someone feels like the answer to the question of your life, you might want to address the fundamental sense of lack that they are triggering."
2. I'm an absolute fan of airplanes. Today enjoyed this AMA with Blake Scholl, CEO and founder of Boom Supersonic. I've got 2 answers (thanks Blake).
"I know that limerence can be misleading. It can be the beginning of a good relationship, or a complete disaster. If someone feels like the answer to the question of your life, you might want to address the fundamental sense of lack that they are triggering."
2. I'm an absolute fan of airplanes. Today enjoyed this AMA with Blake Scholl, CEO and founder of Boom Supersonic. I've got 2 answers (thanks Blake).
3. A reason to rethink the origins of life - "dark oxygen" in the Pacific Ocean's depths. Turns out, charged metallic lumps in the ocean, at 4,000m, produce oxygen in darkness, similar to photosynthesis in plants. So different from our earthly reality! Teams like The Metals Company are targeting the seafloor's rich manganese and metal deposits, sparking a race for ocean mining.
5. I've noticed that many see Elizabeth Holmes as a shady example in deep tech, especially after the Netflix series. To me, this narrative serves purely as entertainment. Antiexamples in complex, fragile industries rooted in consumer beliefs are dangerous.
"The scarcest resource isn't financial capital but emotional capital - the willingness to believe. High profile failures salt the earth for all those who follow. A great service would be a genuine technical analysis of past high tech failures to understand exactly Was it the specifics of the approach? The execution? The environment? Or is this path fully shut?"
6. "The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better. It is wrong to think these three statements contradict each other. We need to see that they are all true to see that a better world is possible." A graph by Our World in Data:
"The scarcest resource isn't financial capital but emotional capital - the willingness to believe. High profile failures salt the earth for all those who follow. A great service would be a genuine technical analysis of past high tech failures to understand exactly Was it the specifics of the approach? The execution? The environment? Or is this path fully shut?"
6. "The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better. It is wrong to think these three statements contradict each other. We need to see that they are all true to see that a better world is possible." A graph by Our World in Data:
Heard/Seen
1/ Sang Woo Kim, The gaze comes from within, 2023
2/ The secret ingredients of great hospitality by Will Guidara. Will is the the founder of Eleven Madison Park, one of the world's best restaurants. A friend recommended Will's book during our discussion about a Michelin Star taqueria. I finished the book the same day and immediately searched for more.
Don’t take yourself too seriously. And remember - one size fits one.
Thoughts/Quotes
1. “I remember sitting in his backyard in his garden, one day, and he started talking about God. He [Jobs] said, “ Sometimes I believe in God, sometimes I don’t. I think it’s 50/50, maybe. But ever since I’ve had cancer, I’ve been thinking about it more, and I find myself believing a bit more, maybe it’s because I want to believe in an afterlife, that when you die, it doesn’t just all disappear. The wisdom you’ve accumulated, somehow it lives on.”
Then he paused for a second and said, “Yea, but sometimes, I think it’s just like an On-Off switch. Click. And you’re gone.” And then he paused again and said, “And that’s why I don’t like putting On-Off switches on Apple devices.”
- Walter Issacson, the biographer of Steve Jobs.
2. If you're not busy being born, you're busy dying.
- Bob Dylan (open interpretation)
- Bob Dylan (open interpretation)
3. We have paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology.
- Anjan Katta, CEO of Daylight
4. Form follows emotion.
- Hartmut Essinger, German-American industrial designer and the founder of the design consultancy Frog. He developed the Snow White design language for Apple Computer.
- Anjan Katta, CEO of Daylight
4. Form follows emotion.
- Hartmut Essinger, German-American industrial designer and the founder of the design consultancy Frog. He developed the Snow White design language for Apple Computer.
Music
Intense track filmed at a legendary Guria Maruti Circus. Warning: the stunts in this movie...
Questions
- What implications will new technologies have in 10, 20, or 50 years? How will children raised with AI companions interact with the world?
- Does silence hold more answers than new knowledge? It’s tempting to keep looking for more.
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- Dasha