Walter Benjamin vs. BenjamAI
“On the Aura, Reproduction, and the Machine That Dreams” I have been deep in ChatGPT conversations recently and I happened upon a framework supposing that Walter Benjamin (Author of the Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction) considered whether ai similarly...
Changing Your Brain: Is it Possible to Rewire Your Brain?
I recently picked up a book by Moheb Constandi called Neuroplasticity. It was published by MIT Press in 2016 and I was mostly interested in reading about the current state of the science on the subject. Neuroplasticity is a general term that describes a number of...
Minimalists Revolt: Cal Newport on Saving our Digital Discourse
Last Monday I entered a wide corporate lobby with marbled floors and an imposing security desk. In midtown Manhattan on the second floor lies a kind of open floor plan tech campus home of Company. The backdrop of the event’s stage were gilded age windows...
The Edge of Tomorrow: Streaks, Failure & Learning How to Learn with Juvoni Beckford
In this episode of Cut Your Learning Curve, I speak with my friend Juvoni Beckford. Juvoni grew up in the Bronx. At a young age, Juvoni recognized the patterns that kept people from in his environment from reaching their full potential. Through a lot of hard work and...
Imposter Syndrome and Removing the Roadblocks
“Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.” Thomas Carlyle I think about this quote a lot when I sit down to write. Or rather sometimes when I don’t. It’s because I struggle with what might be called writers block but is...About Nate
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