Today on my run I was reminded of Santa Fe Institute's Murray Gell-Mann + his taxonomic obsession with particles, languages, + birds. A hedgehog disguised as a fox captured perfectly by Gould in this excerpt from his essay on Nabokov, "The Paradox of Intellectual Promiscuity."

I often get requests for good #SystemsThinking content, esp post my #SymptomstoSystems sessions. Usually, I share top-of-mind books/refs & 2-3 recent reads. ST is too vast & transdisciplinary, so this approach has to change. So here's a living thread with recos. Do add yours!

Ramit Sethi the way our financial credibility is determined by credit is a huge problem. we’re penalized by reporting agencies if we pay cash or pay off/close credit cards. it results in higher cost w/even auto ins & utility deposits. financing a lifestyle beyond our means is a necessity

“Once you hold these longer timeframes in mind, you start to raise the question of what you do on Monday. Does your behavior start to reflect this larger frame?” —Stewart Brand, Cofounder of The Long Now Foundation

On a random day I can always giggle at the fact that a group of owls together becomes a parliament

Correction, we are on track to eliminate capital gains in 2025. There are better approaches to reducing taxes than wiping out gains.

A statement from Sally Kornbluth, President of MIT

Lucille Ball didn’t just break the fourth wall- she broke the fifth: the boundary between comedy and consent. I time traveled through a matriarch's feminism. And it held.

1. The "No Failure" Research Method Demis Hassabis said: "There's no such thing as failure in blue sky research as long as you're picking experiments that meaningfully split the hypothesis space." Takeaway: Design tests where success AND failure both teach you something

5. Practice High-Stakes Decisions in Low-Stakes Environments "How many times do you get to practice a massive decision moment in your life? Maybe a dozen key decisions." Takeaway: Use games, simulations, and small bets to practice big decisions.

Corvid Cleaning, a startup in Sweden, cleaning up cities by offering crows bird food in exchange for dropping cigarette butts and litter into garbage bins. This is elite Harmony Innovation! #harmonyintelligence #multispeciesrights

Geoffrey Hinton says I'm more optimistic now, not because we'll control AI, but because we might not need to "don't try to dominate superintelligence; design it to care, like a mother wired to protect her child" Control through attachment, not power. we want AI to be like that

꩜ Mayussa ꩜ His Majesty King Charles III's first circulating coin designs represent subjects close to His Majesty's heart and symbolise the four nations of the United Kingdom.

If you’re legitimately worried that Trump will declare your country an enemy and attack you if he doesn’t win the Nobel peace prize, that’s a pretty strong indicator that he shouldn’t win the Nobel peace prize.

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela. It should inspire those engaged in similar struggles around the world - and remind those of us lucky enough to live in America that we have a solemn

Elon Musk Remember Google, Microsoft and Meta HQ? Adult Day Care

I attended the launch of the Stone Center at MIT, on inequality and future of work. Wonderful discussions but much work to be done, and a deeper reckoning on the impact potential of such work. Def helps that the founders are Nobel laureates. Daron Acemoglu simon johnson

Yesterday in Cambridge. When winter comes And food is scarce We’ll want our toes (sic) To stay indoors. When summers gone We’ll fly away And find the sun 🥲 When winter comes.

Happy to recruit the brother as a friend. I’d dig such gifts so hard