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There are many articles about disconnecting but you have to read this one by Craig Mod, it’s based on reclaiming his attention, not on some weakly thought through real/virtual dualism, he references some interesting ideas and his resulting rules are simple.
He also gave a good interview on the same topic, on the excellent Hurry Slowly podcast.
A great read weaving the Antikythera Mechanism, Jacques Cousteau, Lost Knowledge, The Memex, libraries, museums, Google and algorithms. I mean really, what’s not to love?
What algorithms can help us do is process the whole information and delve into the knowledge to create something that is very similar to an inference, \[…] So when you are looking for something … thinking laterally—not just sequentially, but in a cross-disciplinary way—so you can connect things that are apparently unrelated. That is basically where we see the whole area of information processing going from now on.
Fascinating line of thought on considering intelligence as something autotelic, an end in itself, something we can enjoy doing instead of something purely functional. How can we understand thinking, intelligence, interestingness and curiosity from that perspective. How could we then think of AI from that same angle? Then goes on to the different behaviours and features of autotelic and functional intelligences. I could probably have highlighted half of that article.
Thinking is enjoyable when what you're thinking about is interesting; it is a stronger function of input than thinking capacity. This is a tautology: "interesting" is basically definable as "that which is enjoyable to think about." A definition of curiosity follows naturally: seeking out that which is interesting, (ie enjoyable) to think about.
Curiosity is an appetite rather than an objective. It can be temporarily satiated, but never exhausted. It is in fact the central appetite for life itself, for creatures with sufficiently large brains.
None of this article is focused on learning, and yet everything is. A CEO living and embodying the curiosity, empathy and soft skills we talk about so much here and on We Seek.
He has inspired the company’s 124,000 employees to embrace what he calls “learn-it-all” curiosity … that in turn has inspired developers and customers—and investors—to engage with the company in new, more modern ways. Nadella is a contemporary CEO able to emphasize the kinds of soft skills that are often derided in the cutthroat world of corporate politics but are, in today’s fast-moving marketplace, increasingly essential to outsize performance.
Riffing off of the WEF’s top ten skills for 2020, Stowe Boyd presents his own excellent list of skills. Some favorites; boundless curiosity, freestyling (learn to dance with robots) and deep generalism. Also includes some great quotes by Google’s head of People Operations, Laszlo Bock.
We can’t be defined just by what we know already, what we have already learned. We need a deep intellectual and emotional resilience if we are to survive in a time of unstable instability. And deep generalists can ferret out the connections that build the complexity into complex systems, and grasp their interplay.
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