2023-10-27 Links

Daily Reads:

A day in Pompei – a full length animation of what happened in 24 hours when Mount Vesuvius emptied its bowels.

Ben Werdmuller: Journaling in private with my friends Not everything has to be about building a brand or a following. It can just be about reflecting, or sharing something with your friends. Private spaces allow us to be weird, unvarnished, and vulnerable in a way that’s harder for most people if they think the world could be watching.

Ness Labs: The Science of Brainstorming Particularly enjoyed the language around creativity types (combinatorial, exploratory and transformational) and the examples in each.

Ethan Molick: The best available human standard for AI argues that in many cases the AI is competing with no-one available to do the task. AI is also better than most humans at brainstorming.

QOTD:

Simple acts of generosity, of spirit as well as wealth, have a more lasting impact on us than any amount of marginal consumption. It is to be found in simple acts of noticing what is around us, and our deep relationship to it as our unconscious forces insight to the surface of our conscious in the hope that we might pay attention.
– Richard Merrick

Music:

John Mayer & Ed Sheeran Slow Dancing in a Burning Room