I am not a paid subscriber to RibbonFarm, so I can’t offer you any insight into what 🔗 all this has to do with friction, AI, meaning, and zero-interest rates? (Readwise link that includes a few highlights) … but it made for a fascinating read in its own right … particularly in light of the Meccano news I linked to a couple of days ago - and the Lego comparisons.
A great example of why I enjoy reading the ideas of Venkatesh Rao.
This is in Stoop.
I click on the ‘Read On’ link and see this.
BUT - if I save to ‘Read Later' in ‘Readwise’ and then open Readwise, I see this
Tom Evslin with some interesting arguments around climate, population and the world at large. Who knows if he is right and since we do not know, it’s probably not a good idea to assume.
What’s that stock warning?
… historical performance should not etc etc.
Nothing is unimportant to a little child. He might cry if the wrong person peels an orange. On some level this makes sense: When your model of the world is paper thin, a tenuous thing that startles you endlessly, the few experiences that become routine carry a lot of weight. If someone else peels the orange then you might as well change the rules of gravity, too.
🔗 Dispatches from childhood, Simon Sarris
Lovely.
If you love blue album covers AND/OR you didn’t know that blue album covers were a thing, then 🔗 The Feminine Blue Mystique - by Rachel Cabitt is the place for you.
“There are the crypto people who have seamlessly become AI people, much like how the amateur Twitter epidemiologists suddenly morphed into military experts.”
🔗 Salesforce jumps on the artificial intelligence bandwagon with a surprise acquisition
“It’s also worth noting Tempo was incubated by SRI International, the agency that created Apple’s Siri software.”
it’s not clear if this is being positioned as a benefit or a warning. 😂
🔗 Dana on Carter: “His entire political life lasted just 14 years.”
Talk about how you get defined!
Carter didn’t enter politics until he was 42, running for State Senate. While Governor in 1973 he appeared on the game show “What’s My Life,” saying he was running for President. While the panelists weren’t blindfolded, no one recognized him. His entire political life lasted just 14 years.
Jimmy Carter was a man completely outside his time, and outside his place, from the moment of his birth until his death. He wasn’t a great orator. He wasn’t a wartime leader. Yet no one in 20th century America has proven more important, based on the strength of his example, and his steadfast belief that we can be better than we are.
This Is Not The End.
🔗 Nick Cave on Growing Older - older mind you … not ‘old’.
This IS The Beginning.