All imaginable futures are not equally possible.

So I now see upgrading as a type of hygiene: You do it regularly to keep your tech healthy.

We can’t save it up or hoard it. We have to spend it second by second, in real time.

A fact is interesting, an idea is important, but only a story, a good argument, a well-crafted narrative is amazing, never to be forgotten.

This is the curse of the postscarcity world: We can connect to only a thin thread of all there is. Each.

At the rate AI technology is improving, a kid born today will rarely need to see a doctor to get a diagnosis by the time they are an adult.” Medicine.

The web holds about a trillion pages. The human brain holds about a hundred billion neurons. Each biological neuron sprouts synaptic links to thousands of other neurons, while each web page on average links to 60 other pages. That adds up to a trillion “synapses” between the static pages on the web. The human brain has about 100 times that number of links – but brains are not doubling in size every few years. The global machine is.

Even a very tiny amount of useful intelligence embedded into an existing process boosts its effectiveness to a whole other level.

Metadata is the new wealth.

Our greatest invention in the past 200 years was not a particular gadget or tool but the invention of the scientific process itself.