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  1. The Blueprint for System Change | Ash Sarkar Meets Extinction Rebellion Founder Roger Hallam

    An absolute surprise banger of a strategy and design podcast. So many sparks of ideas and quotes:

    When you're developing a strategy you have to do some sub optimal things to get to a better place

    Shut up and listen

    • Remote enables a diverse audience
    • The power of listening
    • Nonviolent Communication
    • Present something » move to a breakout space » do something… but NO q&a
    • Building solidarity with people (in-person) by embodied ‘doing’
    • Create a pathway to action – The Steps Collective
    • Breakout groups FTW: create empowerment by enabling everyone gets time to speak – Liberating Structures
    • A social conditioning that other people are disposable (similar topic in a recent Trashfuture
    • First pancake theory: accepting that your first try at something is going to be crap
    • Growth comes from working through the hard stuff
    • Sortition
    • Delegate conferences aren’t designed to foster deeper connection or change - Reminds me of a conversation with James Lang when curating Research by the Sea

    Props to Tom Scott for the recommendation.

  2. Bored of it

    MY GOD MAKE IT STOP! Paul perfectly expresses the increasing frustration caused by the monotonous creep of AI gobshite.

  8. Time: a non-renewable resource

    @apolaine@pkm.social 100% this! I’ve always loved the idea of flipping the power dynamic of a job interview. I’ve often told people asking for career advice that “A job interview is as much about you deciding whether they are the right match for you”. Time as a non-renewable resource is brilliant framing!

  9. Musk: Eat our own poop!

    Musk:

    The cumulative sum of human knowledge has been exhausted in AI training. That happened basically last year.

    The only way to then supplement that is with synthetic data where … it will sort of write an essay or come up with a thesis and then will grade itself and … go through this process of self-learning.

    Also Musk:

    The cumulative sum of sustenance has been exhausted in binge eating. That happened basically today.

    The only way to then supplement that is with human faeces where … it will sort of resemble chocolate ice cream or be the next McDonald’s and then will digest itself and … go through this process of self-nourishment.