Had a fantastic conversation with Fareed Zakaria last night about his best-selling new book, Age of Revolutions... I asked him about Biden, Trump and what the French revolution has to teach us about compromise in the 21st Century... youtube.com/watch?v=EY-8g-…

Exactly. We're #framers .

We need to worship our minds, not the AI which is the offspring of our minds.

The abacus method of math, even if it is imaginary.

Thank you, Richard Susskind, for writing and sharing your ideas. And to Kenneth Cukier for publishing my opinion piece in 2018.

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Human brains do something much more significant than AI ever could: conjure up data and mental models that didn't already exist, argues Kenneth Cukier.

Joanna J Bryson, Dr Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes, and Kenneth Cukier debate whether the brain is more or less than a computer. iai.tv/video/models-m…

GenAI continuing to get a bit of that Scarlett Letter feel.

The Economist doesn’t have bylines because everything is actually written by Shashank

The UK government is not conservative in the classical sense of adhering to a duty to the national inheritance, community and civic virtue -- they're posh, unreflective, market-extremists whose only ideology is self-centeredness. So sad.

Unbelievably good.

In most countries, college-educated voters have turned against right-wing populists

Not so in India. Call it the Modi paradox

My piece in The Economist this week, inspired partly by countless convos with family/friends in India who 😍 Modi but 😬 Trump

economist.com/asia/2024/03/2…

This How I Write guest is an underrated gem of a human being.

She launched Stripe Press, wrote the famous About Us page for Figma, and is an expert on all things business writing.

I bring you Brie Wolfson, and 14 things she's learned about writing:

1. You cannot do great work…

An IBM slide from 1979.

'In reality, books compete for our reading time alongside newspapers, magazines, and other online publications...To make it onto a reader’s nightstand, an author will have to compete with the roughly 3 million books currently in print' elysian.press/p/publishing-i…

Indeed... I like Biden's formulation as a senator: 'show me your budget and I'll tell you what you value' - perfect apercu of corporate life.

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In my Bloomsbury Books UK interview earlier last week, I was asked which my favourite bookshops around the world were. My sad but true answer: most of them have closed down.

This is the paragon of a responsible, sincere and authentic reply to unfounded criticism.

Why civil-engineering should not use math. Why astronomy should not use telescopes. Why biology should not use microscopes. Why epidemiology should not use information. Why science cannot—and should not—become statistics-driven!

Oh The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social! Really?

On Bach’s birthday, enjoy our latest acquisition ⁦Bodleian Libraries⁩, the autograph MS of his cantata for Ascension Day: ‘Auf Christi himmelfahrt allein’, from the collection of the late Sir Ralph Kohn, gifted through AIL. On display now in our ‘Write, Cut, Rewrite’ show!

When I tell the kids to just put on another layer rather the turn up the radiator...