Interesting Ideas

Time is scarce not necessarily resources

But to get that clout, you have to stand out. Attacking the same old progressive targets — Donald Trump, Republican senators, conservative influencers — is a low-yield activity, because the field is too competitive. Everyone attacks those people. But finding more novel targets for mob attack — like an NYT writer who calls a second-generation American an “immigrant” — can be a high-yield activity. It’s basically outrage entrepreneurship

Here are some examples:

• Instead of implementing a list_users, list_events, and create_event tools, consider implementing a schedule_event tool which finds availability and schedules an event.
• Instead of implementing a read_logs tool, consider implementing a search_logs tool which only returns relevant log lines and some surrounding context.
• Instead of implementing get_customer_by_id, list_transactions, and list_notes tools, implement a get_customer_context tool which compiles all of a customer’s recent & relevant information all at once.

When I was doing the press rounds for Dignity, I realized I needed one take-home lesson, one platitude, that summarized what I’d learned from ten years talking to people all over the US, and my answer was, “Everyone wants to be a valued member of something larger than themselves,” and I still believe that, but I would now amend it to end with “something larger than themselves that transcends this material world.” Or, something that lives on for eternity.

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive

Life is too short but I’ll live for you strokes on selfless

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t Johnstone “began to think of children not as immature adults, but of adults as atrophied children

“People who claim to be unimaginative would think up the most astounding stories, so long as they remained convinced that they weren’t responsible for them,” Johnstone writes.

Cicero — the Roman statesman, lawyer, and philosopher — on the power of nature and knowledge:

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”