Daniel Gross: How to Win

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH1bewTg-P4&mc_cid=af2c7fb458&mc_eid=b3f6e964b2

startup advice - the necessity of going back to basics: sleep, water, exercise, mind (sabbath, reading, mindfulness), and finally leadership.

about 20:44, Kegan's construct - theory of adult development: stage 2 "imperial mind" - particularly interesting in this day and time. -- have to get past stage 3: socialized mind that depends too much on what other people think of you .. Stage 5: self transforming mind as an ultimate goal (including genuinely willing to learn from others)

Can AI and humanity coexist? You betcha.

Amazing - author of "AI Super-powers" - Kai-Fu Lee talks about AI and humanity coexisting:

VR - virtual reality

Jason Jerald wrote a book on VR - www.thevrbook.net.

Virtual reality, Augmented reality, ..  XR (anything-Reality)
Point is to hijack your senses and have the capacity to generate visceral experiences.

Use cases - medical imaging, iMedic - distributed interactive consultation - explaining to patients what's going on and options for treatment.

MAKEVR software

Neuroscience education is to help people (kids and adults) gain higher level of self awareness.

20th century illiteracy refers to reading and writing.  Modern illiteracy is https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8800-the-illiterate-of-the-21st-century-will-not-be-those

“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. ”
― Alvin Toffler

And now,

The best way to predict the future is to invent it. 

Alan Kay (1971) at a 1971 meeting of PARC.
Similar remarks are attributed to Peter Drucker and Dandridge M. Cole.
Cf. Dennis Gabor, Inventing the Future (1963): "The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented."

Word of the Day: Proprioception:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Get early notification of upcoming events:  https://www.meetup.com/ATT-Boston-Tech-Entertainment/ .

"be a VR developer and fail 10,000 times quickly!"
"look back and understand your mistakes / failures"

Levels of competence:

1. unconscious incompetence (don't even know what you don't know)
2. conscious incompetence (know you're bad)
3. conscious competence (know you're good)
4. unconscious competence (don't even know why you're good at something)

Suggest the spectrum should have the endpoints:

Reality <-- --=""> Virtuality

VR meetup

Try a lot of VR experiences.

Get a HMD

Learn Unity - work through tutorials 

Define YOUR project

Science of Love

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/06/happily-ever-after/372573/

How about a PhD ?

De-Extinction as Moral Hazard

So it turns out the term is being used by Stewart Brand in talking about de-extinction.
https://after-on.com/episodes/030

The section on de-extinction starts at 01:07 (one hour and seven minutes) and talks about a "frozen zoo" http://institute.sandiegozoo.org/resources/frozen-zoo%C2%AE doing cryo-preservation that was accused of moral hazard at 01:11.

"If you can bring back an animal from extinction, why try to preserve it now?  Kill them and eat them now."

"Seat belts will make people drive recklessly and dangerously."
"Motorcycle helmets will make riders careless on the road."

Bob and Em's daughter Susan has been traveling and teaching in the Far East.  She posted this saga of the bamboo saxaphone:
https://wendingblog.com/2018/05/07/the-bamboo-saxophone-saga/

Here is the video she mentions in her blog:

and then there is

burghers of calais and a clown

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Burghers_of_Calais

Michael Wolf

Check it out -  https://www.artsy.net/artist/michael-wolf

"For people to really take a close look at photographs and be moved by them, they have to be visceral."
-Michael Wolf
 
Speaking of visceral, I was immediately drawn to this one that was (almost) live - imagine the flesh colored (digestive) channels pulsing with bodily fluids on their way to the .. sewer?   The heavier cast iron pipes are NOT just rainwater.
https://www.artsy.net/artwork/michael-wolf-pipes-2

Community Networks

Building a community network:
http://communitytechnology.github.io/docs/cck/index.html#introduction

Why?  Because it's better and cheaper than what you can get from commercial service providers.
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/d345pv/harvard-study-shows-why-big-telecom-is-terrified-of-community-run-broadband