There’s so much of coverage for Colossal — a firm that plans to resurrect the Woolly mammoths. I have made an entry in the diary. We will remember this day as one when the curious scientists planted the seeds for the massacre at Jurassic Park.
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I published a few thoughts on busyness. Over the years, I’ve realized that my mind has become a pool of copious ideas from varied fields. It is like an open pond, extremely prone to ripples from externalities, big and small. I allow that no more.
My potential is mine to fulfill or to waste.
I completed agree with Kimberly Hirsh. When someone says live upto your potential, I don’t understand what that means. Who decided what my potential was? How did you decide that? And the bigger question is, why?
My potential doesn’t define me - what I do, does.
There’s no such thing as writer’s block. There’s simply a fear of bad writing. Do enough bad writing and some good writing is bound to show up.
Seth Godin suggests just write something. I agree with him.
If you are not fully vaccinated yet — well, McSweeney’s essay is important for you — you need to search for a genuine reason for that. The only reason that’s genuine is that you physically can’t. Either there aren’t enough vaccines where you live, or you have some physical condition which limits you from getting the shot.
The tension is simple: If a platform is carefully vetted and well-curated, it meets expectations and creates trust. If it’s too locked down and calcifies, it slows progress and fades away.
Seth Godin talking about how open platforms are always in risk of becoming spammy and losing the trust of the users. I entirely agree — it’s a path that most platforms, open and closed, follow.
They enjoy the carefree attention from the excited early adopters who associate with the core values of the platform creators. But as the platform grows, it attracts users which would neither share the excitement nor the patience of the early adopters. They get noisy — they want to use the platform like their old one they are comfortable with. They need features that they are used to, not what the platform provides.
So, eventually, the tension that Seth refers to above gains prominence.
China puts limits on playing video games →
Children and teenagers are now banned from online gaming on school days, and limited to one hour a day on weekend and holiday evenings under government rules
Is that really a government? That sounds utter crazy!?
“As some richer countries hoard vaccines, they make a mockery of vaccine equity.”
Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, the Africa director at the World Health Organization, said in an online news conference.
We’re providing more to the rest of the world than all the rest of the world combined”
Mr. Biden said in another press conference.
Both might be be true - but one reeks of elitism, an indifference to the world’s suffering.
Liked Martin MacDonald’s tweet→
My brain is like Chrome. 237 tabs open, 3 are frozen, and I’ve no idea where the music is coming from.
I think all can relate to this! 😊
Soon enough, I’d learn that my idle curiosity was, in fact, a mystery that has baffled and, at times, infuriated botanists for decades. This snack has been widely sold on the streets for decades and yet, somehow, no one seems to know what it is.
A fascinating read - so close to the home and yet I was clueless of this mystery.