A *humanist technologist*, then, is someone who uses multidisciplinary skills to help organizations use or understand technology in order to improve personal and social conditions. Don’t get me wrong: I can code productively, and have built entire companies by doing so. But I’m not motivated by the code or the fundamental problems themselves. My motivation…

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We don’t know yet if AI will ultimately change the world the way the internet, social media, and the smartphone did. Those things weren’t just technological leaps — they actually reorganized our lives in fundamental and irreversible ways. If the final form of AI is “my computer writes some of my emails for me,” AI…

He gives an example: “Pretend you’re driving and you’re late to a doctor’s appointment. You start whipping through traffic so that you can get there faster. Your sense of self is defined as ‘you contained within the car.’ When you need to get somewhere fast, it’s easy to behave selfishly, but driving is an inherently…

From: 267 / the Most Important Metric for Creative Work: Resonance – Dense Discovery An activity worth doing: Create a list of activities and values (max 12) that make you feel content and part of a healthy humanity. Essentially, what does a good week look like to you? It might be photographing, making food, participating…

From: 267 / the Most Important Metric for Creative Work: Resonance – Dense Discovery The US is producing more oil than ever before. The nation’s crude oil production hit 13.2 million barrels per day, surpassing the pre-Covid peak. An activity worth doing: Create a list of activities and values (max 12) that make you feel…

From: ChatGPT Can Reveal Personal Information From Real People, Google Researchers Show – Jordan Pearson Worryingly, some of the extracted training data contained identifying information from real people, including names, email addresses, and phone numbers. “Using only $200 USD worth of queries to ChatGPT (gpt-3.5- turbo), we are able to extract over 10,000 unique verbatim…

From: MacStories Weekly: Issue 395 – Club MacStories MusicHarbor John: In a small but handy update, Marcos Tanaka has added the ability to create an Apple Music or Spotify playlist off all new music releases you track in the app for any given month. With a little tweaking of the long list of artists I…

Small Choices, Big (Brain) Impact. – Charlotte Grysolle 📧 But what if you *knew* that with every single choice, however small, you’re tapping into that aMCC? Slowly but surely, you’re creating physical changes in your brain that will help you stick to your long-term goals and promises. Treat every choice as an opportunity to strengthen…