Samta

Navigating complexity in learning | Education philosophy, pedagogy, outcomes, behavior science and Tech | Building education that 'works' @SunstoneEdu

[Kaushik Basu @kaushikcbasu]

One of the great truths about collective human behavior was expressed by Nietzsche: “In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”

[Margaret Thatcher @MrsMThatcher]

Countries are not rich in proportion to their natural resources; if that were so Russia would be the richest country in the world; she has everything, oil, gas, diamonds, platinum, gold, silver, the industrial metals, timber, and a rich soil.

Countries are rich whose governments have policies which encourage the essential creativity of man who in order to succeed must work with others to produce goods and services which people choose to buy.

So Japan, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and so on have no natural resources but are now among the most prosperous countries in the world.

The market is not a new-fangled invention of some academic economists, it is the oldest trading organisation known to man.

Only a flourishing free enterprise economy can generate the higher living standards at every level and the jobs which people need if we can honestly say that they are enjoying the benefits of freedom.

[Eric Jorgenson 📚 ☀️ @EricJorgenson]

Most schools will spend millions PREVENTING kids from using AI to "cheat" their legacy system.

I hope some schools spend millions teaching kids to USE AI to accomplish incredible things.

[Samta @samta09]

@siddharth3 I just can’t believe an idea of myself, as someone who would write ‘right 1 for u’! Rest is history!

[Samta @samta09]

Whoever agrees to this, is the right 1 for u @siddharth3 Here's a transparent metastable carbon allotrope to wear on ur finger.... marry me?

[Swapan Seth @swapanseth]

Remembering our father on what would have been his 88th birthday today.

[Shashi Tharoor @ShashiTharoor]

Just amazing. And incomprehensible in the world of Indian politics.

[Samta @samta09]

8. What habits did you create in 2022 that you'd want to keep?
9. What new thing did you spend a lot of money on?
10. What do you feel you’ve gotten a lot better at in 2022?
11. At the end of next year, if you are drastically exceeding your expectations, what would you be doing?

[Samta @samta09]

A friend forced me to write my own 'personal annual review' of 2022 on these 11 questions. Oh boy, it was hard! Yet, surreal - that a task as small as this could leave one feeling more contained and in control. To owning 2023 on your own terms!

[Samta @samta09]

4. How did you have fun differently in 2022?
5. What people/kind of people did you spend less time with in 2022?
6. What people/kind of people did you spend more time with in 2022?
7. What did you feel guilty for in 2022?

[Safia Latif @safialatif]

New Year’s Eve, oil on wood

[Arvind Panagariya @APanagariya]

I hate to inflict one more of this by ChatGPT but it is simply too good not to share. I asked the AI software to write an ode to India’s economic reforms. I was blown away by how it described the policy change followed by it’s impact.

[Gaurav Dalmia @gdalmiathinks]

A beautiful poem.

[Samta @samta09]

"Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink." - Ludvig von Mises

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

What others say doesn't directly affect your emotions. Between their words and your feelings is your interpretation of their intention.

Agency lies in the space between stimulus and response.

A sign of emotional intelligence is recognizing your power to change your assumptions.

[Samta @samta09]

"Unsymbolized thinking" is a type of cognitive process that occurs without the use of words. Interesting article delving into some new research on cognition and language and correlation between two.

[Philosophy Matters @PhilosophyMttrs]

Can we think without using language? … https://t.co/UR8Tk7i8G6

[Samta @samta09]

The Guardian - basis data from Open Source Shakespeare 2016 - found that majority of fatalities (54/100 in his plays) were due to stabbings. 2nd most common cause of death was being poisoned. #FunFact Even Shakespeare relied on some tried and true tropes 😀

[Samta @samta09]

Charlie Munger talks about inversion - that problems are often best solved when they are reversed. It’s often easier to think about what you don’t want than what you do. #antigoals - an appealing, but more so, a comforting idea in ambiguity. https://t.co/S9GA7YFwuA

[Samta @samta09]

@TheSwamy Recently chanced upon this letter by Kurt Vonnegut to students - where he tells them to practice any art (any form) - “to find out what’s inside you, to experience ‘becoming’ and to make one’s soul grow”. I wish someone had read out letters like these when I was a teenager.