Dostoevsky is the darkest most vile corner of my psyche
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*Player Piano* by Kurt Vonnegut pretty much perfectly encapsulates some of my biggest fears towards society at large, especially so as AI becomes more advanced and ingrained into personal and professional society.
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*Every Heart a Doorway* by Seanan McGuire
“For us, the places we went were home. We didn’t care if they were good or evil or neutral or what. We cared about the fact that for the first time, we didn’t have to pretend to be something we weren’t. We just got to **be**. That made all the difference in the world.”
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Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason.
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The Tipping Point by Malcom Gladwell – When he described the “Maven” personality type, I felt like I was reading about myself.
From Wikipedia:
>Mavens are “information specialists”, or “people we rely upon to connect us with new information.”[4] They accumulate knowledge, especially about the marketplace, and know how to share it with others.
>Gladwell cites Mark Alpert as a prototypical Maven who is “almost pathologically helpful”, further adding, “he can’t help himself.”[8]
>In this vein, Alpert himself concedes, “A Maven is someone who wants to solve other people’s problems, generally by solving his own.”[8]
>According to Gladwell, Mavens start “word-of-mouth epidemics” due to their knowledge, social skills, and ability to communicate.[9] As Gladwell states: “Mavens are really information brokers, sharing and trading what they know.”
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Dostoevsky is the darkest most vile corner of my psyche
*Player Piano* by Kurt Vonnegut pretty much perfectly encapsulates some of my biggest fears towards society at large, especially so as AI becomes more advanced and ingrained into personal and professional society.
*Every Heart a Doorway* by Seanan McGuire
“For us, the places we went were home. We didn’t care if they were good or evil or neutral or what. We cared about the fact that for the first time, we didn’t have to pretend to be something we weren’t. We just got to **be**. That made all the difference in the world.”
Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason.
The Tipping Point by Malcom Gladwell – When he described the “Maven” personality type, I felt like I was reading about myself.
From Wikipedia:
>Mavens are “information specialists”, or “people we rely upon to connect us with new information.”[4] They accumulate knowledge, especially about the marketplace, and know how to share it with others.
>Gladwell cites Mark Alpert as a prototypical Maven who is “almost pathologically helpful”, further adding, “he can’t help himself.”[8]
>In this vein, Alpert himself concedes, “A Maven is someone who wants to solve other people’s problems, generally by solving his own.”[8]
>According to Gladwell, Mavens start “word-of-mouth epidemics” due to their knowledge, social skills, and ability to communicate.[9] As Gladwell states: “Mavens are really information brokers, sharing and trading what they know.”
Can I say Portnoy’s complaint?