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You have twenty-four hours in a day, but how many of those hours include your highest-quality attention? Some days are so frenetic and fragmented that you might not have any at all. Attention can be cultivated but also destroyed—by distractions, interruptions, and environments that don’t protect it. The challenge we face in building a Second Brain is how to establish a system for personal knowledge that frees up attention, instead of taking more of it.
Building a Second Brain
Tiago Forte
Most Belt and Road projects are funded by Chinese state banks that, unlike international lenders such as the World Bank, don’t require recipients to protect biodiversity.
Humans are active listeners; we create meaning where there is none, or none intended. It is not that the octopus’s utterances make sense, but rather that the islander can make sense of them, Bender says.
What an Octopus’s Mind Can Teach Us About AI’s Ultimate Mystery
octopus test
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