MINUTES of a MONDAY #91

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BRAIN FOOD > A Slight Nudge

“For 20 years, Hugh Howey dreamed of writing a novel. But he had a full-time job, other hobbies, family, friends, and, eventually, a feeling that it was too late to chase his dream. “Often,” Hugh said, “the feeling that we can’t break our stasis and launch our lives in a different direction is really due to the feeling that we should have done it five or ten or twenty years ago.”

He then began writing in his spare time.

Every day, “I wrote in the morning before work and on my lunch break.” It was a small change, but “it’s like a meteor heading towards the Earth,” Hugh said. “You don’t need to blow it up. You just need to send a rocket up there to slightly nudge it in a different direction.” Over time, a tiny change in trajectory accumulates, causing the meteor to miss Earth and sail through space. Similarly, Hugh continues, “If you consistently maintain even just a little bit of energy in one direction, it’s incredible what you can deflect over time.” Writing just a little bit during his spare time, “I accumulated a lot of words, and in a five or six year period, I wrote about 15 novels,” which sold well over time that “I now have the luxury of writing full-time.”

Extract from Billy Oppenheimer’s Six at 6 on Sunday newsletter

SOUL FOOD

“Watching the news is how you stay on top of other people's agendas. Taking a walk is how you stay on top of yours.”

Johnny Uzan

LOL

Gabriel Iglesias on why Indian people don’t rob banks:

APPENDIX

"Communication by voice is really intimate, really impactful. It allows the AI to express subtleties, things that are perceived as sincere, urgent, joy, concern. And all of these serve to foster a deeper connection between the user and machine. You can see how these interactions can potentially become addictive."

Visar Berisha, an Arizona State University professor who studies AI speech technology, speaking to NPR.y

A.O.B

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