comfortably dumb

If you are telling me a story, I will try not to interrupt. I’m not yet good at it, but I’m trying hard. I strive for stillness and silence.

@Ade_ofNaija @tomharari @bpoppenheimer Yes, by the student and his masterful master

@tomharari @bpoppenheimer "Mastery" is the name of a book? By who please

James Cameron has written & directed 3 of the top 4 highest-grossing movies of all time (Avatar, Avatar: The Way of Water, and Titanic). Before he made movies, Cameron was a truck driver. He didn't go to film school. Instead, on the weekends, he would go to the library and.. "I'd pull any thesis that [University of Southern California] graduate students had written [on] anything that related to film technology," Cameron explained. "And for the cost of xeroxing (photocopying), I [got] all these doctoral dissertations [and] build up these big binders on how everything was done." "So I literally gave myself a full graduate course on film technology for about $120. I didn’t have to enroll in school because it was all there in the library. I’d set it up to go in like I was on a tactical mission, find out what I needed to know, and take it all home." Takeaway 1: When asked what motivated him to read those big binders full of information on filmmaking, Cameron said he was just following what excited him. "People seek out the information and knowledge they need," he said. "It's like a divining rod." The mythologist Joseph Campbell similarly talked about how reading is like "a divining rod," a way to find what you are uniquely attracted to and meant to do. "You’ve got to read," Campbell said. "Find [what] excites you. And if it doesn’t excite you…It’s not yours.” Takeaway 2: Of course, at some point, Cameron had to put the binders down and pick up a camera. When he eventually attempted to make his first movie, Cameron said, “It was a bit like a doctor doing his first appendectomy after having only read about it." The bestselling author and learning expert, Scott Young, has a great article with a great title, "Do The Real Thing." "When you examine case studies of people who have had major accomplishments," Scott writes, "you expect there to be some trick or shortcut...More often, however, the strategy used is dead simple: doing the real thing." Takeaway 3: Leonardo da Vinci used to sign off his letters, “Leonardo da Vinci, disscepolo della sperientia” ("disciple of experience"). He used to believe that one learns best by solely "doing the real thing." Over time, however, he evolved out of this belief and, biographer Walter Isaacson writes, "became a disciple of both experience and received wisdom." When you examine case studies of people who have mastered their craft, you usually find they are "disciples of both experience and received wisdom." Like Cameron, they read the library and they do the real thing. - - - “Those who are in love with practice without theoretical knowledge are like the sailor who goes onto a ship without rudder or compass and who never can be certain whither he is going.” — Leonardo da Vinci Follow @bpoppenheimer for more content like this!

@SkillnetIreland Count my beans oh beancounter licence Tree is the magic number

At the 2023 Global Government Fintech Lab event, Minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill announced Sustainable Finance Skillnet and Maynooth University's partnership on a pioneering Postgraduate Diploma in Sustainable Financial Technology & Innovation. Learn more below.

@Victory_Ire @KristineParkerH @AIToolReport Nobody is

"My boss thinks I'm an AI genius, (I'm not) it's because I read The AI Tool Report (and they have no idea it exists.)" - AI Tool Report Reader

@RobLooseCannon Già guard ?

Leopardstown is a curious name for a town in a country without leopards, but a closer look reveals an even more fascinating and gruesome reason for the title. As Gaeilge Leopardstown translates to Baile na Lobhar, meaning the 'town of the lepers'.

@DAMIADENUGA Your curiosity damigella bella

What are you people consuming again? SIGH

@Oladapomikky1 I start when I feel You go ahead and win You take your medal And I will do your thing

@SteBjoerne PhD e’ un porcoddio Porcoddio s’è candidato

Despite what you might hear on the street, I love all the PhD candidates I work with! Even those addicted to prompting!

@TactiFail @IanColdwater You can borrow my elegance Pause magnete quist

@IanColdwater I have, for many years, had that same ambition. With any luck, if I still have hair in 25 years, it will be white like his. I will unfortunately still not have any sense of style, but it’s something at least.

@IanColdwater He told me the same the other day Being arse might be nice some day

@TheFigen_ The romans learned the words of the birds The sheep flew the romans away Do you wanna learn or do you wanna fly?

@TheFigen_ @Lilin989 Eccafe’ e e shcarpe

@Nyaloqa @DailyLoud My wife is a hospital Her father is a brick

Elliot Page claims he had sex with “Juno” co-star Olivia Thirlby “all the time” while filming the movie 😳

@edward1993 @historyinmemes I got a scar on my cock When my wife said stop wanking her sister told us to stop I left to find my wank They could not find me for years, died when we lost hope 🍄

@historyinmemes Looks like a Walk Machine I had as a child. I used the walk machine until I fell off more than 3 times. I got a scar, so I realized it was not for me, lol.

During WW2, the British produced the Welbike, the smallest motorcycle to ever be used by its military.

@historyinmemes I could get the Welbike with my Welfare back there If i lose my wel bike i don’t need to have insurance Il you lose your wel fare, then get on your hike

@BDSixsmith One bad thing about this

Yeah he must be so embarrassed.

@mysteriouskat If silence tells me MEASURE I stick ME arm with pill If science tells ME nothing I gotta be the BALL Pause 🍄 Pause Absinthe RIPOSO

Forget about the 135 minimum IQ score and Masters in Genders Studies from an Ivy League university. Can we just create a new social media platform that admits people solely based on whether they can pass a basic critical thinking test?

You might not like the name you call When you hear you’re dumb Then you think he’s miserable And wake up with a thump 🧐 Pause Lento Andante Allegro Stocazzo Tata’

@mysteriouskat @PeterStead1 @Twitter Is that a Chevy 69? How bazar Ta’

@PeterStead1 @Twitter Really? How bizarre.

"If you’re afraid of speaking truth, do you truly live in a free society?" My latest Substack is all about self-censorship. randomminds.substack.com/p/self-censors…

@mysteriouskat If truth already exists read my false words If you want a present put it in your words 🍄