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Andrew Curry summarises and adds to Art Kleiner's post about things we already know are going to happen in 2030. Kleiner channels Pierre Wack's idea of the “predetermined element” using the example of the River Ganges:

I first came across Are.na in early 2018 when I was doing my research for the whitepaper of what became MoodleNet. It's a wonderful place, and one that I've spent much more time over the last year or so as a Premium subscriber.

Sigh. It's only recently that I've realised that living on a tense knife edge between routine (autism) and novelty/excitement (ADHD) is not how most people experience their inner lives.

I'm still coming to terms with it, but even though I don't have a diagnosis, reading about AuDHD is quite liberating. For example, just accepting that I have an "interest-based neurology" allows me to cut myself some slack. Because, at the end of the day, I'm my own harshest critic.

Civilisation is a thin film across an ocean of chaos.

— Werner Herzog

I ended up quote-posting the same thread on both Mastodon and Bluesky this morning in response to different, but related stimuli.

Given that my posts are auto-deleted after a certain period of time on Mastodon, I thought I'd save what I said here so I can come back to it in future.

I'm on holiday and so reading more, both fiction and non-fiction, as well as actually watching films (I subscribed to Mubi).

I've just finished reading A Philosophy of Shame: A Revolutionary Emotion by Frédéric Gros. I really enjoyed other books by him, and so was looking forward to getting into this one after receiving it as a member of the Verso Book Club.

Team Belshaw is on holiday for a week. If you're still pretending to work, this is a great time for you to catch up on:

• Notes in this Substrate digital garden since I started it a few months ago
• What Tom and I have been up to with FIELD STATION
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Yo dawg, I herd you like zines, so I put an zine in your zine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iYAMYsWMM8

(I said I might do this...)

I'm really pleased at how this essay by Tom and me for FIELD STATION turned out. It's about decision making in the AI era, using some physics metaphors:

One of the first questions we ask new clients is "how do you make decisions?"

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