I have been a heavy user of Readwise for several years now and finally got around to writing a Python script to pull in my reading notes and highlights from what I’m reading. You can see them below, updated daily.
In the very early days of blogging, I used to regularly write longish posts about books I read. Now, for better or worse, I’m reading more articles and fewer books and my posts about them tend to be much shorter.
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Read: Chatbot Therapy Is Risky. It’s Also Not Useless.
This article pairs well with “What AI Means for Buddhism.“ Implemented ethically, AI could become a valuable tool for helping people improve their results when seeking mental health care. But Stade noted that the reasons behind…
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Read: 269 / ’Tis the Season… For Tending to the Inner Garden of the Soul
A question worth asking: ‘What does it mean that the earth is so beautiful? And what shall I do about it? What is the gift that I should bring to the world? What is the life…
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Read: A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft
I’m becoming more and more convinced that the people who are most well-positioned to leverage GenAI in its current form are those who are skilled at precise language. When you think about programming languages like Perl,…
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Read: “We Are All Socialists in Our Private Lives”
> If a monkey hoarded more bananas than it could eat, while most of the other monkeys starved, scientists would study that monkey to figure out what the heck was wrong with it. When humans do…
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Read: Overconsumption Is Killing the Planet. What Can We Do?
During the 1960s, for example, the average American person bought fewer than 25 garments every year. Fast forward 60 years, they’re purchasing nearly 70 pieces of clothing annually, or more than one new item per week.…
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Read: Being a Humanist Technologist
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…
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Read: What’s This for You Feed? Is It Algorithmic?
When you subscribe to a Smart List, all the posts from the accounts on that list will show up at the top of your screen, as a feed. That’s the “firehose”, nothing removed. By default, Smart…
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Read: ChatGPT Turns One: How OpenAI’s AI Chatbot Changed Tech Forever – The Verge
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…
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Read: What A.I. Means for Buddhism
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…
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Reading Notes for 2023-12-08
From: The Imperfectionist: You Can’t Hoard Life – Oliver Burkeman Spending your days trying to get experiences “under your belt”, in an effort to maximise your collection of experiences, or to feel more confident about the…