LLMs can be confidently wrong. That isn’t a bug — it’s a mirror.
They’re trained on human language, processed through neural networks modeled after the human brain. Of course they share our flaws — they’re made to communicate like us.
When the half-life of knowledge is short, speed and adaptability are your leverage.
Go deep on what lasts - it’s worth the study.
Treat the rest like tools: learn what you need, use it to build, then move on.
Thoughts, feelings, and shared experiences—transcends time and space.
Thoughts and emotions that create bonds of attachment between us have no difficulty in crossing seas and decades, sometimes even centuries, tied to thin sheets of paper or dancing between the microchips of a computer. We are part of a network that goes far beyond the few days of our lives and the few square meters that we tread.
— The Order of Time, Carlo Rovelli
The past can be remembered or regretted, the future is full of possibility.
We cannot change the past; we can have regrets, remorse, memories. The future instead is uncertainty, desire, anxiety, open space, destiny, perhaps. We can live toward it, shape it, because it does not yet exist. Everything is still possible… Time is not a line with two equal directions: it is an arrow with different extremities.
— The Order of Time, Carlo Rovelli
Wisdom is the perseverance to make the right sacrifices over time for a richer, more fulfilling life.
Perhaps the deepest insight that comes from thinking about later life as a chance to exploit knowledge acquired over decades is this: life should get better over time. What an explorer trades off for knowledge is pleasure.
— Algorithms to Life By, Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths
The illusory safety of inaction leads to fragility; trying, learning leads to growth and adaptation.
To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been.
― Chester Barnard
Insight and wisdom come from looking beyond the immediate and visible. Explore the root causes behind the situations you encounter, don’t simply react to the observable effects.
We’re out where the little waves are too broad, we can’t see the rock that hit the center. We know there’s something there, but not why. I wanna know why.
— Neuromancer, William Gibson
Every portion of me will be reassigned as another portion of the world, and that in turn transformed into another. Ad infinitum.
— Meditations, Marcus Aurelius
Make peace with the past through responsibility, humility, and grace.
Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough.
— Exhalation, Ted Chiang
Whether journalist or a historian, storytelling is more a mirror than window.
The witness is like most people - when he talks about something, he’s really just talking about himself.
— Alex, Pierre Lemaitre