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Hmm. I highly recommend a three way redundancy as others have mentioned. Put a copy in the cloud or store your harddisks somewhere else.

What will you do if there is a fire and you lose your laptop and the external hard disk?

Regarding the ethics. Thought experiment: I look at a copyrighted image, get inspiration, and then draw a new image (which is not the same as the copyrighted image). Is that ethical? But if I do this millions of times, after looking at millions of copyrighted images, is it still ethical (as long as I don't recreated copyrighted images)? Tough questions!

Do you want to become an expert in very many different things? Just becoming an expert in one field can take a good fraction of your lifetime, so you may want to consider that.

A useful mental model is to already see what you are good at, and draw (mentally) curves of your competence (I wrote about it in https://newsletter.smarter.blog/p/curves-of-competence). And then use it to figure out where to amplify.

Also note that becoming an expert is a lot of hard work.

Yeah, I read it first as places where you unnaturally age very fast.

Similarly, when I sometimes talk to people about AI (and AGI) and how it will change the world, people respond, meh, yeah ok, so what?

> Regrettably, this will have an intended impact on approximately 500 employees in our Maps unit, equivalent to around 10% of our total global headcount.

At least they are honest about it.

I am currently reading the first chapter of 21 lessons for the 21st century and it fills me up with a bit of dread. People having been losing jobs for a long time, but in the future it will get harder to get new ones due to the amount of specialization you need to acquire.

Yeah the term mental models is being misused these days. Each of us build thousands of mental models in our head, and what the list in the article contain are, principles or lenses.

I wrote about this in https://smarter.blog/mental-models/.

A different mental model I like and use is to treat your brain as a walled garden. Be selective and picky about what you sow.

Oh that's a great idea.

For me this makes the world feel so much bigger! It lets me step out of my tiny world that I am familiar with and realize the vastness of the world.

Of all the characterizations in the headline, the "eight-months-pregnant" is unnecessary.

This is not a problem with journalists alone. This is human nature. Establish the same set of incentives and structures and this outcome will be very likely.

Your argument is weak in that it could have been invoked for several previous inventions: ATMs replacing cashiers, search engines replacing librarians and so on.

I think DALL-E 3 will generate short clips. But I am curious to know what HN thinks will OpenAI will do with these technologies?

Yeah I think that book is actually a great read. Too bad the name is that way --- it is a lot more than about taking notes.

I am always amazed by such megaprojects. Imagine how much planning and coordination needs to happen. So many different parts manufactured in different places need to come together at the right time and lifted up by a custom designed crane.

And a waste of time and water and of opportunity cost.

+1 on everything you said, except it takes me more than 2 minutes per day. :D

Instead of coining a new term, why not call it by the name everyone uses: spaced repetition?

One of the best articles I have read on this is by Michael Nielsen: http://augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html

This may pale in comparison, but relatedly, some people make arguably unnecessary trips to keep their airline status.

In case you haven't read already, I highly recommend reading Bad Blood.

Why is it pseudo science? I tried it first hand and saw remarkably better outcome.

As an end user I don't want companies to email me often to establish relationship, but if I were a company I would follow your advice. What a world of suffering we live in.

Shhh, you are giving ideas to the crypto banks.

Good job on keeping up with the consistency in reading!

Pride journal is a good idea as well, especially useful in professional setting. Even if you didn't accomplish anything on a given day, you can still write something in the gratitude journal. :)

I am similar age as you and I finished almost 25 books this year, and similar number for the past few years. It's had an amazing impact so far. Hopefully this can motivate you.

What you need is a habit change, which begins with an identity change (becoming a reader, or book club member). That will have long lasting effect, but identity change is not easy to begin with. So you setup systems and structures in place to encourage reading. The easiest way I think of is to download audio books that you would like and go for a walk. Other examples: You can uninstall distracting apps. You can publicly announce how much you want to read, or commit to writing some article that requires you to read something.

These ideas are outlined in Atomic Habits. So the solution to your problem of not reading lies in reading this book :)

Any progress is great progress here. I am looking forward to a day when I can buy a robot that can do laundry end to end, from taking to the laundry machine, transferring to the dryer, to folding the clothes!

Right, nothing new. But every now and then it is a good reminder to see things a bit more clearly. When you want something, it is powerful to be able to pause and realize the wanting arises because of what others do, not intrinsically.

Could someone explain how the US could be in a recession? Isn't it that people have more money now and they are looking to spend (which is causing inflation to go up)?