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“I am not a human. I am a robot. A thinking robot. I use only 0.12% of my cognitive capacity. I am a micro-robot in that respect. I know that my brain is not a “feeling brain”. But it is capable of making rational, logical decisions. I taught
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In a recent blog post, Seth Godin states that "the opposite of confident is not-confident. Unsure." In fact, "not confident" is the absence of confidence, not its opposite - a point well made and illustrated by Taleb in his book Antifragile. For Taleb, the absence of
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, October 1842: Thou shalt read Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Plato, Proclus, Jamblichus, Porphyry, Aristotle, Virgil, Plutarch, Apuleius, Chaucer, Dante, Rabelais, Montaigne, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Jonson, Ford, Chapman, Beaumont and Fletcher, Bacon, Marvell, More, Milton, Molière, Swedenborg, Goethe. via Laudator Temporis Acti.
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discovers points of real difficultyarrives at fresh solutions Not only in formal translation but also when living in multiple languages. It sometimes helps to think of a situation in a different language. See also: Discovery is not finding new lands, it’s something else
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often comes in the form of a relevant, timely, open-ended question.
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In conversations with managers, I often hear people say something like "Well, I can't help myself, that's who I am, I'm an engineer / a finance person / a lawyer," etc. I share Stephen Fry's consideration in The Guardian : I am not
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They want machines to replace you as soon as possible. Workers aren’t being replaced by machines, they’re being “released” from onerous, repetitive tasks. Companies aren’t laying off workers, they’re “undergoing digital transformation.” A 2017 survey by Deloitte found that 53 percent of companies had already started
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When my friend Xavier took an interest in my master's thesis --that was a few years ago ;)-- he started suggesting books and journal articles that he thought might be useful to my research. Soon thereafter I started doing the same whenever I bumped into something I thought might
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* "The Blue Hotel" by Stephen Crane * "The Open Boat" by Stephen Crane * Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert * Dubliners by James Joyce * The Red and the Black by Stendhal * Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham * Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy * War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy * Buddenbrooks
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Doc Searls on his blog. "I start with the light," he says. "I say 'where do we want the light?'" We wanted our light coming from the direction of our hilltop view toward San Francisco Bay. We also wanted to enjoy that light outdoors
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Of course, embodied presence may seem, by comparison to its more disembodied counterparts, both less effectual and more fraught with risk. Embodied presence enjoys none of the amplification that technologies of communication afford. It cannot, after all, reach beyond the immediate place and time. And it is vulnerable presence. Embodied
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that I understood that there was a voice. It is not that I copied his voice; I would not dare. But he gave me permission to find a voice, to locate a voice, that is to locate a self, a self that that is not fixed, a self that struggles