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: “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…
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Reading Notes for 2023-12-06
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…
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Reading Notes for 2023-12-06
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…
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Reading Notes for 2023-12-02
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…