Innocent Ouko, M.D.

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When my mind wanders, I write

[Innocent Ouko, M.D. @innoholmes]

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention - Herbert Simon

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"He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once."

—Nassim Taleb

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‘I sincerely believe’ has less weight than ‘I believe’; in the subscription of a letter, ‘Your sincerely’ means virtually the opposite of ‘Yours’.

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Food is a burden so long as it stays what it was; only when it changes into blood and tissue does it become strength.

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Populism means being an intellectual is a liability.

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“It is a myth—widely believed but not less mythical for that—that people are most creative when they are most free.”

— Herbert Simon

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Post-accident attribution to a ‘root cause’ is fundamentally wrong.
Because overt failure requires multiple faults, there is no isolated ‘cause’ of an accident.

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The evaluations based on such reasoning as ‘root cause’ do not reflect a technical understanding of the nature of failure but rather the social, cultural need to blame specific, localized forces or events for outcomes.

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What is true intelligence?

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If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you, but answer: ‘He was ignorant of my other faults else he would not have mentioned these alone.’

- Epictetus

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Kenyans, the word we have been looking for is here!

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I know some leaders in our country need to hear this:

You lose all of the plots for the affections of a race
Man does not become superior 'cause you connect him to a cape
Nor does he become inferior because you connect him to an ape

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Albert Camus spoke for all such innovators when he said that “a man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.”

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The brain depends upon elegance to compensate for its own small size and short lifetime.

- E. O. Wilson

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Stuck at:
1. The shortest distance between two points is a straight line
and
2. The longest time between two points is a straight line

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No slavery is more disgraceful, than one which is self-imposed.
— Seneca

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AI can make what you produce better while making you worse at producing it. Or it can genuinely make you better.