GET A LIFE NOW
Life unfolds in moments. Don't miss it.
COMPASSION
with reverence in order to give it true value.
— Albert Schweitzer
7/05/2025
Chronic procrastination isn't a character flaw.
DOPAMINE and PROCRASTINATION
Think of dopamine like water in a wave pool.
No water = no waves.
Low baseline dopamine = no motivation peaks.
You can't generate drive from an empty tank.
7/04/2025
Robin Williams: 12 Best Quotes and Sayings
7/03/2025
DAVE BARRY
Dave Barry has defined a sense of humor as "a measurement of the extent to which we realize that we are trapped in a world almost totally devoid of reason. Laughter is how we express the anxiety we feel at this knowledge".
"We've Lost Control" - Eric Schmidt WARNS About What's Coming in 2026
6/16/2025
Rory Sutherland: Run Clubs, ADHD, Club Penguin and Crime Scenes
Godfather of AI: I Tried to Warn Them, But We’ve Already Lost Control! Geoffrey Hinton PLUS COPILOT SUMMARY
Geoffrey Hinton
Mitigating AI threats requires a multi-faceted approach that balances innovation with safety. Here are some key solutions:
Regulation & Governance: Governments and organizations must establish clear AI policies to ensure ethical development and prevent misuse.
Transparency & Explainability: AI systems should be designed to be interpretable, allowing users to understand how decisions are made.
Bias Reduction: Developers must use diverse datasets and implement fairness checks to minimize discrimination in AI models.
Cybersecurity Measures: Strengthening data protection and implementing robust security protocols can prevent AI-driven cyber threats.
Public Awareness & Education: Increasing AI literacy helps individuals recognize risks and use AI responsibly.
Human Oversight: AI should complement human decision-making rather than replace it entirely, ensuring accountability.
These strategies can help harness AI’s benefits while minimizing its risks.
What aspect of AI safety concerns you the most?
Diana Damrau SINGEN Mozart - The Queen of the Night Aria
6/12/2025
Portrait of Leonard Cohen
Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Leonard Cohen, Donald Brittain & Don Owen, provided by the National Film Board of Canada
6/10/2025
Self - Regulation as Limited Resource
Strength Model of Self-Regulation as Limited Resource
R.F. Baumeister, K.D. Vohs, in Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 2016
4.2 Final Remarks
Folk wisdom has long invoked the notion of willpower as a key ingredient for successful self-control and self-discipline, suggesting that energy is consumed in such acts of volition. Psychological theory dispensed with energy models for decades. Skepticism and even hostility toward explaining self-regulation in energy terms are to be expected. Yet the alternative versions generally have large conceptual gaps that cannot be filled without subtly reintroducing the idea of depleted energy resources, or at least resources of some sort. The traditional folk notion of willpower as a limited supply of energy that fuels effort and virtue has proven surprisingly durable, and if updated with new findings, it still forms the basis for a promising scientific account of human volition.
Wisdom Sayings and Quotes
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. ...
Deal with the faults of others as gently as your own. ...
Justice is truth in action. ...
A new broom sweeps clean but an old broom knows the corners. ...
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and he'll eat forever.
The wise understand by themselves; fools follow the reports of others.
The riches that are in the heart cannot be stolen.
Russian Proverb
The only thing we can know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
Leo Tolstoy