Human Invariant – Don’t Build an Audience – as some of my friends try to double with publishing videos and shorts across all the social media, I keep thinking about it. Is algorithms really smart enough or it is an illusion. Seems to me if you have enough content and push it a bit with promoting it is mostly true.
https://archive.org/details/vanishingactssci0000unse/page/378/mode/2up – wonderful book, a collection of science fiction. I found it because of Ted Chiang story Seventy Two letters, but what really got me was this marvel:
ENDANGERED SPECIES by JOE HALDEMAN
Men stop war to make gods
sometimes. Peace gods, who would make
Earth a haven. A place for men to
think and love and play. No war
to cloud their minds and hearts. Stop,
somehow, men from being men.
Gods make war to stop men
from becoming gods.
Without the beat of drums to stop
our ears, what heaven we could make
of Earth! The anchor that is war
left behind? Somehow free to
stop war? Gods make men to
be somewhat like them. So men
express their godliness in war.
To take life: this is what gods
do. Not the womanly urge to make
life. Nor the simple sense to stop.
War-men make gods. To stop
those gods from raging, we have to
find the heart and head to make
new gods, who don’t take men
in human sacrifice. New gods,
who find disgust in war.
Gods stop, to make men war
for their amusement. We can stop
their fun. We can make new gods
in human guise. No need to
call to heaven. Just take plain men
and show to them the heaven they could make!
To stop God’s wars! Men make
their own destiny. We don’t need war
to prove to anyone that we are men.
But even that is not enough. To stop
war, we have to become more. To
stop war, we have to become gods.
To stop war, make men gods.
Avoid the Spot lite by Sean Goedecke – I continue to collect the articles on craft and influence in the engineering organizations, if you are interested in growing in big tech, this is a good blog to follow.
