Tom Barker

Technology Leader, Author and Professor

[Tom Barker @CaptainTomJrEsq]

@techgirl1908 from what i can tell blue check pretty much just means far right troll at this point - instant pass over. the threads that are full of blue checks i dont even bother reading

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@Grady_Booch while i'm with you on crypto and ai, the longevity pieces i'm still bought in on, mainly because i've seen such improvements in my own health and reframing what i thought i could do - longevity doesnt mean live to 150, but be healthier closer to 100

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@svpino agreed, i've found a streamlined version of kanban to be faaar more efficient

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@RCarhartHarris he's big in comp sci circles, we have a conference named after him - i remember when i read that it actually made me sad how it reduces our consciousness us down to the hologram formed by two reflective surfaces - ie our storage and retrieval functions

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My 2023 halfway mark @goodreads @five_books

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@Grady_Booch Now do banking next

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@ericniebler this one in particular reminds of hofstadter's strange loop concept, where consciousness is the hologram created by two reflective surfaces (memory storage, memory recall) facing each other. that my "i" could be reduced to a hologram bummed me out when i first read him

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@Helenreflects a full 1/3 of books on my philosophy bookshelf are either a section of or a play on or just the full shot of school of athens

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@JoJoFromJerz As shallow as it might sound, this combination would be transformative and the key to finally being comfortable in his own skin: cycle, lift, leave-in-conditioner

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@lcperry15 I didn’t get around to reading Rabelais until my early 40s

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I watched #Stutz tonight, it was beautiful and honest and maybe the best intentioned thing I’ve seen in a long time - the tools that are talked about ring very true, give a syntax to a lot of mental models that I’ve learned myself over 30 years of reflection and practice

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@sreekotay I read Augustine’s confessions this year and one of my favorite parts of it was his deconstruction of time, that there is no past or future, just an ever shifting present

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@Grady_Booch I suspect it depends on one’s definition of running. I could see an anonymous evergreen experience showing ever aging tweets in perpetuity, a time capsule snap shot of last known good

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@BNBuzz if this past year has taught us anything, it’s that we shouldn’t be so comfortable with offloading the ownership of what we actually pay for or create - from media to content, lots of reminders that ownership has gotten very gray lately

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@AdamHertz That’s actually a comforting thought

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@sreekotay Quite a splash at the bachelor party - maybe I’m showing my age here

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@timepinto Not 20 years yet, but I've been working on an epic poem on and off for the past 5 years

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@emilyst I've pretty much weaned myself off of social media as a whole the past year and a half, I'm just hanging out here lately to take in the spectacle. I've found it's a much happier place just living in real life

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@Grady_Booch In every situation there are things to learn from observing, this whole endeavor is really a master class in what not to do; I just hope individuals get the correct lesson from this and not think this is behavior to model after