As bright young curious minds navigating this new epoch of academia, I shared the following advice…

No amount of calculator tricks can replace actually understanding the logic and focus to grind through this first-year discrete math problem.😂

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Interesting fact (courtesy of Grok) Dance forms throughout history have often reflected cultural ideals of beauty and the human body. However, these dances aren’t just about showcasing physical form. They carry rich traditions, symbolism, and deeper cultural purposes. Belly dancing, for instance, has roots in storytelling and communal celebration. Likewise, styles like ballet, twerking, and many others use movement to express emotion, tell stories, or communicate social meaning. Beauty may be one element, but it’s really just one part of their broader cultural significance.

The Kama Sutra

Human nature is a spectrum and its environment and incentive models shape it. However consciousness has the tendency to naturally recognize Truth and Beauty.

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AI does not come with an instruction manual. We must learn how to use it and a lot of mistakes will be made along the way. The models are becoming more powerful, even the free versions. The subscription models are still much better but as with any technological tool, its progress equates to the democratization of its accessibility .

What is Love? Not the map, but the territory of what it fundamentally is. To truly comprehend this immense force of consciousness, humanity may need to develop or evolve the skills, habits & capacity to direct more of the brain’s resources (time, space & energy) toward consciously knowing and understanding what Love is.

Every generation fears that a new cognitive tool will make humanity less capable of thinking. Socrates worried that writing would weaken memory and genuine understanding. The printing press was accused of flooding society with information and reducing intellectual rigor. Calculators were said to undermine mathematics. Search engines were supposed to make people intellectually lazy. Yet history tells a more nuanced story. Some skills do diminish in importance. Fewer people perform complex arithmetic by hand. Few navigate with paper maps. Most of us no longer memorize large amounts of information. But the frontier of what humanity can collectively understand and create has expanded dramatically. The calculator did not destroy mathematics. The search engine did not destroy knowledge. The internet did not destroy learning. They changed what was worth learning. The question is not whether AI will change how we think. It undoubtedly will.The question is whether we will use it to think less, or to think about things previous generations could never reach.

Distractions can easily manipulate the uneducated mind causing drift away from the fundamentals.

Organizations with distributed operations consider Mobile and Satellite connectivity critical infrastructure. It is utilized where fixed line infrastructure is costly and impractical. It’s also considered as backup connectivity if primary connections fail.

How the world has changed… When an individual’s world was largely confined to their immediate surroundings, and their mind could only expand to the boundaries of their physical environment, there were certain roles in society where one could reasonably assume the person occupying them probably sat at the back of the class. Today, information is abundant and accessible to almost anyone with an internet connection. What irks me is when people who have never built a successful business or obtained a meaningful tertiary qualification speak with absolute certainty that AI will diminish humanity’s capacity to think.

Politics is The Devils social experiment.

At an AI conference, a speaker argued that image generation models should produce more diverse outputs. My first thought was: build it. We live in an age where the tools to create, fine-tune, and deploy AI models are becoming available to anyone with enough curiosity and determination. Instead of waiting for a handful of companies to perfectly represent every culture, community, language, and worldview, perhaps the future is millions of specialized models built by the people who understand those communities best.

Organizations are often judged by their leaders, but they are sustained by the people with the skills. Leaders can coordinate, allocate resources, and set direction, but without the engineers, technicians, operators, craftsmen, healthcare workers, programmers, and countless other specialists, nothing gets built, repaired, delivered, or maintained. The true strength of any organization lies in the competence of its people.

Listening to financial macro analyst Luke Gromen doing a Bernie Sanders impersonation on Coin Stories with @nat brunell is peak ₿ear-market entertainment.

With AI, engineering something of true value is no longer reserved for the cleverest minds. It belongs to the wisest ones.