Cities and regions will thrive to the extent that the businesses and people in them can develop better by being there rather than somewhere else. To create this capability, communities need both magnets and glue. They must have magnets that attract a flow of external resources—new people or companies—to expand skills, broaden horizons, and hold up a comparative mirror against world standards... Communities also need social glue—a way to bring people together to define the common good, create joint plans, and identify strategies that benefit a wide range of people and organizations. [link]
People: Good read - 12 careers lessons. Wiz Khalifa sells mushrooms growing kits. List of timeless concepts. Prada flowers. Positive news. Gamified exploration. EarthSpecies: learning to talk with other species.
Tech: 15 joules/day nuclear waste diamond. Hardware for homeless (charging phones) - when can pan handling become cardreader handling?
Business: Holes in buildings. Fermented food attracts the agroindustry. Google kills its whiteboard. Aérogami jackets. Carrefour and Shrinkflation. Tyranny of tiny tasks.
Adapting to AI: Secret cyborgs - digital x humans. Hating AI for the wrong reasons. KissanGPT - gpt3.5 for indian farmers. Machine unlearning.
DIY: Imports in Neo4j. One RPi5 is at least worth 2 Pi4s.
“The problem is that, as every individual task becomes easier, we demand much more of both ourselves and others. Instead of fewer difficult tasks (writing several long letters) we are left with a larger volume of small tasks (writing hundreds of e-mails). We have become plagued by a tyranny of tiny tasks, individually simple but collectively oppressive.”
