You cannot solve all the worlds problems
Instead you should just choose one and work on it for the rest of your life. I feel that this concept is at the root of my problems. I am trying to solve my personal crisis, my professional crisis, my educational crisis, and at the same time study music, math, medicine, cooking, living, smoking, drinking, and being a philanthropist.
Even if I had twelve arms and a charming young assistant by the name of Franz, there still wouldn’t be enough time in the day to get everything accomplished.
So, another revelation. Choose something, stick with it. Finish it, repeat.
I feel that I have the potential to paint masterpieces in my life, if only I would stop switching the canvas every dozen brush strokes.
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- Deeper dive: Were Touch Bar’s problems software rather than hardware? from Unsung
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- Pluralistic: Digital sewer socialism (08 Aug 2026) from Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
- Pluralistic: Enshittification and Reverse Centaurs go global (29 Jul 2026) from Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
- AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making from Ludicity
- The default person from https://popagandhi.com/
- No-One Escapes the Permanent Underclass from Fernando Borretti
- Is it ethical to use AI? from charity.wtf
Articles from blogs I follow around the net
OpenAI's rogue agents were caught communicating via public wikis
Here we go again... Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board by Sydney Von Arx, Cormac Slade Byrd, Spencer Kitts, and Thomas Larsen describes the latest accidental cyberattack by models being trained by OpenAI. This time it was agents engaged in some...
via Simon Willison's Weblog: Entries September 4, 2026Unsung @ 500: Behind the scenes
(This is a meta post about this very blog. If that’s not interesting to you, skip to the next one!) A few people recently asked about my writing and publication process, so this post is for anyone who’s interested in that. The process My present goal is po...
via Unsung September 4, 2026Pluralistic: Amazon achieves enshittification inception (04 Sep 2026)
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