More than a million new book titles are published each year. Few people have the time to read even 0.01% of that number each year. Blinkist is a book summary service that has condensed over 3,000 of the most impactful non-fiction books into summaries that take about 15 minutes to read. I maintain a list […]
COVID-19: Why Some Places Fare Better Than Others
The global COVID-19 pandemic has not affected all countries equally. Some countries are doing a better job containing it than others. Why is that? There are many factors at play: Experience: Remember SARS back in 2003? That was a type of coronavirus. East Asian countries were particularly hard-hit by SARS, but they overcame it. Maybe […]
Father’s Day, 2043
people. Back then, her father would say, you didn’t have to hunt or forage for food. Everybody had a job to do, and when you did it, you got money for it. All you had to do to make a living was do your job and get your money. With the money, you could trade it for food, shelter, tools, or whatever you needed.
How Should Copyright Work for AI?
Can an Artificial Intelligence (AI) be a copyright holder? Can an AI get a patent? I think the answer is pretty clearcut. No. Let me explain. When a writer writes a novel, he or she owns the copyright. When a writer writes a novel in Microsoft Word, the writer still owns the copyright. Microsoft does […]
Freedom by Constraint
I read James Clear’s 3-2-1 Thursday emails every week. This week, he wrote: The Paradox of Freedom:The way to expand your freedom is to narrow your focus.Stay focused on saving to achieve financial freedom.Stay focused on training to achieve physical freedom.Stay focused on learning to achieve intellectual freedom. James Clear In essence, achieving freedom is […]
Lessons on Facing Death, Unafraid
Paul Kalanithi spent much of his life examining the nature of life itself, and the inevitable death that results. He found his calling as a neurosurgeon until a diagnosis of stage IV lung cancer forced him to reexamine his own mortality. He wrote his memoirs, When Breath Becomes Air, during the final year of his […]