The Sunday Summary: Hesitation, truth, ignorance, and walking
The Sunday Summary: Hesitation, truth, ignorance, and walking
Here’s a bit about what I wrote, read and learned over the past week. I hope you find it helpful!
Blog posts from the past week
AI will replace doctors before nurses. It feels a bit counter-intuitive, but it’s likely that AI will replace many doctors long before it can replace nurses.
Genius Hesitates. Consider the “hesitation” spoken of by Michael Faraday when introducing for the first time the revolutionary idea of magnetic fields. Genius hesitates.
Information has no essential link to truth. “When we look at the history of information from the Stone Age to the Silicon Age, we therefore see a constant rise in connectivity, without a concomitant rise in truthfulness or wisdom.“
Are you using AI to make you better or to do the work for you? Things will certainly change in the comings years, but we’re at a point right now where there is a pretty clear divide: are you using AI to make you a better person, or are you just using it to be lazy?
You can’t point to a day. It’s like if you floss regularly and get a good check-up at the dentist. Which day of flossing did the trick? Or if you only floss sporadically and get a bad check-up, which day of skipping caused the cavity?
The discovery of ignorance. “A scientific institution gained authority because it had strong self-correcting mechanisms that exposed and rectified the errors of the institution itself. It was these self-correcting mechanisms, not the technology of printing, that were the engine of the scientific revolution. In other words, the scientific revolution was launched by the discovery of ignorance.”
Noteworthy articles that I read
An MLB manager found value in long walks. Research suggests it’s a ‘brain-changing power’
A great article about the power of walks when it comes to creativity. An interesting find was that the act of walking (such as on a treadmill) was far more important than location (such as walking through nature).
via Tim Villegas
Books that I’m reading
Finished reading “Building a StoryBrand 2.0“, one that I’ll likely return to every few years.
Continued reading “Never Eat Alone“
I started reading “Cues“
I started reading “How to Know a Person“
Tech Rec
Stealing the idea from my friends at the Tech Talk Y’all podcast, I’ll drop in some tech recommendation every week as well.
TickTick: Not to be confused with TikTok, TickTick is a simple task management app that is quite amazing. It’s got a beautiful design, handles tasks very well, and does some nice habit tracking too. While our work tasks are all managed centrally with ClickUp, TickTick is a great app that I use for personal tasks.
I hope you found some value in this. If you ever have questions, ideas, or disagreements regarding anything I write, please don’t hesitate to reach out.