Welcome to Friday,
Here are five things I thought worth sharing this week.
Scott Young offers some out-of-the-box career advice; become pretty good (top 25%) at two skills and the unique combination will set you apart from competition.
A short history of “How East Germany lost the battle for technology”.
This week while writing, I enjoyed listening to a selection of the music of Maurice Ravel. Composing a century ago, he was recognized as France’s greatest living composer, particularly for his orchestral compositions.
“When sound waves rush into our ear canal like high tide, the whoosh vibrating our eardrum, we call this percussion “noise.” Silence makes no waves, so we have defined it only as an absence of noise. Silence, though, is always present. Noise is simply what obscures it.”
Matt Zoller Seitz over at the Roger Ebert website nailed all the reasons that viral Apple ad is so smug and details all the ways it strikes exactly the wrong tone in our dawn-of-AI reality. Here is one perfect sentence, “The ad arrives amid a continued furor over the ethical, moral and copyright implications of “Generative AI,” which is a cool-sounding name for plagiarism software.”
Currently reading: Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Have a creative weekend. Enjoy the long weekend if you’re in the States!
Image: Summer Day. Sussman, Richard. American, ca. 1939.
