Naveen Srivatsav

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I just heard someone describe ChatGPT as "Mansplaining as a Service" and y'all I have never in my life heard anything so simultaneously accurate and depressing.

To be a writer, to be an artist, is to shepherd a glimmer of something we have not fully seen. To coax something we only faintly understand. To be coaxed by it in return. And to give it as a gift to someone we have never met.

#writing #reading @bookstodon

Is COP27 the End of Hopes for Limiting Global Warming to 1.5 Degrees Celsius? - Inside Climate News

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt—The COP27 climate conference in Egypt may be remembered as the moment when the world gave up on limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, the most ambitious goal set by the 2015 Paris Agreement. Late Friday, the last scheduled day of the climate talks in Sharm el-Sheikh, the heads of the national […]

Inside Climate News
Let me ask this way: how willing are you to bet that a random AI-generated recipe will taste as good as a 4-star-and-above rated restaurant? How much? Why or why not?

#Children dying from #Strep throat and other #immune consequences

This #virus season has been like no other with high #hospitalization rates from #RSV, #Influenza and now more #children are dying from Strep A #bacterial #infections. This long thread looks at what might be going on.🧵1/

( Also available as a 1 page web view here: https://pingthread.com/thread/1599756689489944576 )

Thread by jeffgilchrist: Children dying from Strep throat and other immune ... - PingThread

Children dying from Strep throat and other immune consequences This virus season has been like no other with high hospitalization rates from RSV, Influenza and now more children are dying from Strep A bacterial infections. This long thread looks at what might be going on.🧵1/

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I'm at that age where having the right tools at hand, physical or digital, feels important. Like McLuhan sagely pointed out, "we shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us". This is not just a fate we are resigned to, but a call to action. Since there are many things you can't control about the world, start with the things you can control to increase the level of agency you can bring to bear.

"If all you have is an MC Hammer, everything looks like you can't touch it"

- ancient proverb

The Stoic Key to Kindness

“Suppose someone standing by a clear, sweet spring were to curse it: it just keeps right on bringing drinkable water bubbling up to the surface.”

The Marginalian
Bertrand Russell on why "fruitful monotony" is essential for a full life https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/01/21/bertrand-russell-boredom-conquest-of-happiness/
Bertrand Russell on the Vital Role of Boredom and “Fruitful Monotony” in Human Flourishing

“A generation that cannot endure boredom will be a generation… in whom every vital impulse slowly withers, as though they were cut flowers in a vase.”

The Marginalian

Today's geeky productivity hack: set up a Eisenhower Matrix system in my to-do app. Boom. Instant structuring of the never-ending to-do list into a focused timeline.

Put simply:
- Due dates convey level of urgency.

- Priorities (H/M/L) convey well level of importance.

- Flagged items depict focus for the day.

- Smart list for tasks coming due in next 7 days -> Urgent

- Smart list for tasks with priority attached -> Important

- Smart list for manually flagged items -> Focus

QED for me.