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Posts by Andrew West

The older I get, the more I care about values over beliefs. Beliefs are propositional. You can learn. You can unlearn. You can pull your head out of your ass.

Your values are what put it up there in the first place.

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Eleven Minutes I’d planned to be up at dawn. Instead I slept in. Took a hot shower. Knocked the mud off my hiking boots. Almost 10am and still in the driveway with the engine running. Deep River county park was...

https://andrewowest.com/blog/eleven-minutes

#Creativity #Art #Naval-gazing #UnsolicitedOpinion

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The smartest people in the world today are not focused on solving the world's problems.

No, they are all employed specifically to grab an increasing share of our collective attention, by whatever algorithmic magic they can muster.

I think that this is the essence of our global polycrisis.

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To Love, To Hate AI When I was teaching during the golden age of bootcamps, I had too many students who, like me, were originally drawn to design as a less starving alternative to artist. And like me, they didn't...

https://andrewowest.com/blog/to-love-to-hate-ai

#AI #DesignEthics #UnsolicitedOpinion

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Remember when social media was more social than media? Feels like everything revolves around "publishing," "broadcasting," etc.

Man, I just want to be a person talking to people.

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