I’m back home after time in Washington D.C. for work. It was a great week, though D.C. is far from my favorite city. That said, it’s admittedly nice to have something like the Mall to run laps on in the morning.
Henrik Karlsson’s newsletter is excellent and I loved a recent post about how life is long. The post is paywalled, but the closing thought is beautiful:
So . . . life is precious, it is our one brief chance, and we should take that seriously. But it is also not one chance, precisely, but a series of chances. If we take each chance seriously and give it our all, ten years is a lot; it is a lifetime. And then, if we want, we can start over and live another life. And then a new one again. And again.
My favorite blog posts are those that register a new (to me) way to view something. In that way I appreciated how Ahmed Soliman reframes ADHD as not a deficit, but a cognitive variation.
When your environment treats your natural patterns as problems, no amount of self-improvement can make you feel whole.
I’m also re-reading Caro’s The Power Broker and, this time, plan to also read his LBJ series as well (which I’ve never read). They’re long, but my goodness is he an exceptional writer.
Thinking ahead to what else I’d like to read this year, I want to focus on deeper, more meaningful books that explore how technology shapes attention. In that way I’ve found OpenAI’s newer models to be excellent reading companions.
ChatGPT does a good job of both creating a reading list and explaining more difficult to grasp concepts as you read. I’m very bullish on the future of AI-assisted learning and only wish this had been available while I was in college. I think it’s going to be a step change from even what the web allowed for, especially for folks in rural or isolated communities.
