1/ Get this moment right and you get Renaissance Florence. Get it wrong and you get the New Soviet Man —and the twenty million graves that came with him.
AI is a Renaissance. Three of its four pillars are already here. The fourth is on us.🧵
Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas
In 1900, Theodore Roosevelt was on the presidential campaign trail.
He visited 567 towns, made 673 speeches, and traveled 21,209 miles.
And still he found time to read books for 4+ hours a day.
Here's a timetable of his day:
We all but stopped teaching our young men and women the tenet of servant leadership: “To whom much is given, much is expected of.” @ufhamilton was created to transmit again our cultural DNA, because ethical foundations of leadership no longer drive the US educational system. 3/5
For Memorial Day, do yourself a favor and take three minutes of your time to listen to this Civil War letter from Maj. Sullivan Ballou to his wife.
I just started re-watching the Ken Burns series, which debuted in 1990 to a record-breaking audience of 40 million, for the first time since it originally aired.
While I had forgotten all of the specifics of the show over the years, I NEVER forgot this letter or this moment, which closed the first episode.
Burns kept a copy of the letter in his wallet for 25 years.
The data is even more revealing when you remove suicides.
In 2024, America had 15,364 gun homicides.
The same year, Europe had around 62,700 deaths from summer heat.
America had ~2000.
That's a policy choice.
Kelly Johnson should be a household name. Please help me make that happen! I promise it's a fun read. It's also a management book hiding under a military/intelligence history. The world's greatest innovators and engineers are following Kelly's lead, whether they know it or not