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: 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…
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Reading Notes for 2023-11-29
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…
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Reading Notes for 2023-11-27
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…