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These are my notes on Robert McIntyre’s talk at the Long Now Foundation: Engram Preservation: Early Work Towards Mind Uploading | Robert McIntyre I stumbled across the Long Now Foundation back in 2011 and heard about their 10,000 year clock, a project to design a clock to keep time for 10,000 years (and bring media …
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Note: If you’d like to read it in the fancy magazine layout version, it’s on pages 70-71 in the March 2021 issue of Waste Advantage Magazine. “Back in the truck, Casanova.” Matt flashed a smile at the girl. “Don’t mind him. He’s just hating because he’s ‘happily’ married.” My partner Matt Murphy was a smooth-talker …
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This is from my series on Optimizing Communication. There’s a great scene in Born on the Fourth of July, Oliver Stone’s second film on Vietnam. (WARNING: SPOILERS) Tom Cruise’s character has been told that the Viet Cong are moving into the area. His commanding officer then asks him if he sees their rifles. The pressure …
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This is from my series on Optimizing Communication. “Only hire rock stars!” We’re two weeks into our incubator burning through our meager seed funding and that’s the advice that’s supposed to help? The people who know me know that I’m obsessed with optimizing and improving. I consume a lot of information on this topic and …