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> *“I think there's this idea that people have of going to Europe or whatever and finding yourself, and I think that's a load of shit. I don't think you can go find yourself in a nightclub in Budapest or anything like that. But something that I did realize is once you get out of your home environment, for me, getting out of Atlanta and going to... I didn't know anybody in Barcelona when I got there, that was my first stop. It kind of separates the parts of you that were a byproduct of your environment, where you fit in and the social hierarchy of where you are. And then the stuff that's left is what you actually like. So I don't think you find yourself when you're going in hostel-hopping, but you do get a lot better idea of what stuff you did was actually stuff you wanted to do or what stuff you value.”*
The Infinite Loops Guide To... Agency - Infinite Loops
Substack
"When they're in situations where there are multiple sources of information coming from the external world or emerging out of memory, they're not able to filter out what's not relevant to their current goal," said Wagner, an associate professor of psychology. "That failure to filter means they're slowed down by that irrelevant information."
Media Multitaskers Pay Mental Price, Stanford Study Shows
Adam Gorlick
*Right now, today, we can't see the thing, *at all,* that's going to be the most important 100 years from now.*
It certainly won't be software. Today, software is the dominant field of systems engineering. But before that, there were integrated circuits, and before that, discrete transistor circuits, and before that, vacuum tubes, and relays, and mechanical gears of all sorts, and on and on, back to the hand-axes. Vannevar Bush's differential analyzer was a mechanical masterpiece which no longer matters.
*I will not fix your vacuum tubes. I will not invent your Darlington pair.* Any concept, technique, or tool that is specific to software engineering is guaranteed to have a short shelf life, at least on any time scale that I personally care about.
*(Which is totally fine if you're into that, but this is my ill-advised personal note, not yours, and I personally care about mattering 100 years from now.)*
So what lives on?
An Ill-Advised Personal Note About "Media for Thinking the Unthinkable"
Bret Victor
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