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A batch of the best highlights from what Josh's read, .
While there is so much focus on education, the bottleneck for flourishing has not been *knowledge acquisition* for quite some time. Instead it seems to be within direction, discipline, and finding (or continuing to find) incentives to learn and build.
Agency and Schooling
Simon Sarris
One of my favorite systems papers ever is the [COST](https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/hotos15/hotos15-paper-mcsherry.pdf) paper, which examples a number of big-data platforms, and observes that many of them have the desirable property of scaling (near-)linearly with available hardware, but do so at the cost of being *ludicrously* less efficient than a tuned single-threaded implementation.
Efficiency trades off against resiliency
Posts on Made of Bugs
We are showered every day with gifts, but they are not meant for us to keep. Their life is in their movement, the inhale and the exhale of our shared breath. Our work and our joy is to pass along the gift and to trust that what we put out into the universe will always come back.
Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer
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