Content tagged with "Philosophy"

I'm not really saying anything revolutionary or novel in this post, it's just a bit of a stream of consciousness rant about how companies behave when they think we're not watching them....

When I was growing up I remember my parents and grandparents frequently talking about companies that they trusted and telling me good makes for things:

"German cars are well engineered... you should drive a Volkswagen"

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Fair warning: Some of the quotes in this post are a bit sweary.

I've been reflecting on a few articles that I've read over the last couple of days about consumer trends in devices and parallels with generated content. I'm sure everyone's sick of "yet another hot take on enshittification" - but what about an optimistic one?

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I don’t get apathy at work because I care way too much about pretty much everything. This isn’t necessarily a good thing in an office job. I was chatting with a friend about how caring can become a maladaptive trait at work, when you’re asked to do something that really doesn’t matter and no one cares about, but you just can’t bring yourself to do mediocre work.

I feel this so hard, one of the reasons I had to leave my corporate job and get involved with co-founding a company back in 2016

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After a long period of not managing it, this week I am attempting to return to the Weeknote format that I started earlier in the year. This week I’ve been busy with building bots, playing games and getting a date for my PhD viva.

I really like this concept. You should definitely give a shit about your customers and give a shit about your employees and colleagues if you want to build any kind of meaningful professional network

I’ve been doing mindfulness meditation through headspace for a couple of years and trying to adopt this kind of attitude does help me personally. Quite often the key is to notice when chastising I’m and break out of the thought pattern which can be tricky in the moment! Of course, your mileage may vary

This is a spoilery jumble of my notes and thoughts based on Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport and it’s part 7 of #100DaysToOffload

This week I read Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport, a computer science professor at Georgetown University. The book is about the philosophy of Digital Minimalism which is all about being more intentional about how you spend your leisure time and reducing time spent with eyes down on our phones listlessly scrolling in cyberspace in order to have a more fulfilling life. Digital Minimalism isn’t anti-tech or luddism, but about being more mindful of how we are using technology to make sure we get the most out of it with fewest negative impacts.

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A recent opinion piece I read on Wired called for us to stop labelling our current specific machine learning models AI because they are not intelligent. I respectfully disagree.

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