- if group meeting you are organising, be dictatorial on options + triage who needs to be there and who doesn't (ie. who you schedule around vs who can read the minutes/watch a recording)

i have a flow for this:
- if 1:1 meetings, use calendly or similar so the person can book what suits them
- if group meeting that you are not organising, have a link to a calendar view that is visible to others

I wonder if there has to be a breaking point on that model, though. Optimising for addiction worked on our brains then, but our addiction-rattled brains might be different now. Or maybe this is a question of convenience eroding quality of existence; people still want to be fulfilled, right?

The idea that "intellectual life has been commodified" is resounding. I wonder if that could turn...if the so-called "productive" elements of the knowledge economy (information processing, data analysis, etc) are sucked up by AI, can we shift back to respecting inquiry for its own sake?

Brooks is responding to responses on his own article in the prior issue about "how the Ivy League ruined America"; it's an interesting article that rails against what my Education lecturers at uni described as "the neoliberalisation of education"---edu that hinges on standardised testing and such.

They select for the qualities that the meritocracy can quantify---but those aren't the qualities that matter. Intelligence is overrated, and temperament and desire are underrated." - David Brooks in The Commons in February's issue of The Atlantic

...But my argument is that our system doesn't even turn out ideal capitalists: Large numbers of new employees have to leave their firms because companies don't know what to look for in applicants...

Why do you say so? It seems to me the paper is careful about what it claims (see attached from the paper itself and editors' notes), but the PR is atrocious.

Australia too!

Also missed being on a platform that doesn’t cause visceral pain!!!!

Gil—the paper does not (and is careful not to). There is a separate claim out of Microsoft now that they have supportive data that was presented on Feb 18 at a Station Q meeting, and that will be presented again at APS March Meeting.

and many other things!

- “Forest Picture” voetica.com/poem/7044
- “That sanity be kept” ramblingatthebridgehead.wordpress.com/2021/07/11/t...
- “Vision and Prayer” voetica.com/poem/5555
- “Fern Hill” voetica.com/poem/3807
by Dylan Thomas
- Shakespeare’s sonnets :)

- “Permanent Press” by Alice Friman (I loved you then / in the old way of longing. Four wars / nine recessions, ten presidents: patches.) www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
- “Blues for Almost Forgotten Music” by Roxane Beth Johnson www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/54418/...

Poetry:
- “Traveler, your footprints” by Antonio Machado www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/58815/...
- “The Art of Disappearing” by Naomi Shihab Nye anthonywilsonpoetry.com/2014/07/22/l...

Very open to recommendations for 2024, especially in the vein of interesting fiction. I am suffering a little from too-many-books, and have a bit of a list going, but good recommendations that cut through the noise are welcome.

- Gohan: Everyday Japanese Cooking - Emiko Davies
- Our Share of Night - Mariana Enriquez
- The Scent of Time and The Burnout Society- Byung-Chul Han

Still cooking on Thus Spoke Zarathustra and The Ethics of Ambiguity!