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Of course, personalized art might never catch on, because people will continue to prefer common hits that everybody likes. How can you dance or sing together to a song nobody besides you knows? But algorithms could prove even more adept at producing global hits than personalized rarities. By using massive biometric databases garnered from millions of people, the algorithm could know which biochemical buttons to press in order to produce a global hit that would get everybody swinging like crazy on the dance floors.
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari
There was an intangible quality of the Will that had nothing to do with practice or even intelligence. It was that hidden part that was vaguely categorized as “force.” Thaddeus had always likened it to an all-consuming hunger. A bloodlust. A lack of self-imposed limitations.
A Binding of Blood
Azalea Ellis
Emotional fail fast heuristic. Sometimes this is misleading, but usually there’s something off internally. And often externally as well (missing information, felt but unarticulated risk, etc)
Move fast and break things.
Feel fast and break goals.
Crash early, crash often.
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