Werner Herzog Isn’t Afraid ... - Freakonomics
Werner Herzog Isn’t Afraid ... - Freakonomics
‘Waiting to Die’ by Paul Krafft from Capital and Labor (1907)
The reverend William Schuler Harris’ Capital and Labor (1907) frames its titular subjects as locked in a perennial struggle, “dating back to the time when the Egyptians laid the lash upon their slaves”. Writing in the early twentieth century, Harris is skeptical of the “orator [who] frequently soars into ecstasies over the privileges of the American workers”, for he sees how the labor force is suffering under the “galling yoke” of trusts and monopolies. Substitute those scourges of the Gilded Age with unfettered multinational conglomerates and something similar holds true today. The author’s list of obstacles facing workers are as relevant now as they were more than a century ago: the needs of “civilized life” increase more rapidly than wages; the skilled worker remains at…
Please stop multitasking. I’m begging you. Please.
The greatest trick we ever pulled on ourselves as knowledge workers was convincing ourselves we could juggle multiple projects with no consequences.
Robin Spielmann — Design Engineer
Design engineer at the intersection of code, design and art. My own little space on the internet: side projects, writing, photography and postcards.
A Modern Guide to Thinking, Fast and Slow - Critikid
A chapter-by-chapter analysis of Kahneman's text with a focus on the replication crisis, clarifying which findings remain solid and which have not held up to scrutiny.
Why I'm Worried About Job Loss + Thoughts on Comparative Advantage — LessWrong
David Oks published a well-written essay yesterday arguing that the current panic about AI job displacement is overblown. I agree with a few of his p…
The Math Superstar Who’s Terrified of AI—and Just Took a Job at OpenAI
Jacob Tsimerman won the biggest prize in math. Now he’s working on the most important problem of his career.
Structured Procrastination
``. . . anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment." -- Robert Benchley, in Chips off the Old Benchley, 1949
Claude Mythos and misguided open-weight fearmongering
Another dance around fears of open-source.
How to balance full-time work with creative projects – The Creative Independent
A guide to finding the right day job, protecting your time, and building creative habits by Jeffrey Silverstein. Illustrated by Sunny Eckerle.
Everything is In-Between — Douglas Rushkoff
I’ve begun this piece maybe twenty times in the past three weeks. By the time I’ve finished the first paragraph, some new thing happens that obsolesces whatever event I’m writing about. And I’m not even writing about the news, so much as using one shared moment as a “peg” for a piece about some larger phenomenon or strategy.
Strategies for Long Projects - Ben Brostoff
I’m in the middle of three multi-month to a year projects right now: Writing a book Running a marathon Building a ...
