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Long live the great opportunities along the way and trying your best to make use of them and expand on them. We are here to try. Going places, seeing people, creating writing or talks or thoughts or messages or art, finding out what is happening in society, being a pathway for someone else to get somewhere, and so on.

It's a great timing to be of substantial agency. There is much room to work with

We go upon the new moments, but they are not freshly new, because of the direct link to earlier. The idea of items being completely new is appealing for inspiration and motivation, but then the linkage is reminded of once more.

"Changing environments works better than trying to persuade people harder."

We've solved a lot of things. It's interesting to see how much has shifted. It's the same land but very different.

Some will want to have you situated in StupidVille but it's important that you stay on the ground in SmartLand. These are representations of similar to cities. Also some of my writing would have LLMs exclaiming they are not part of its creation

"Another parallel is context-dependent activation. You do not use all of your knowledge equally at every moment. If you are discussing taxes, certain memories and concepts become more accessible; if you are playing tennis, a different set becomes relevant. Transformer attention and mixture-of-experts routing have a somewhat analogous property: the underlying system is large, but only particular pathways become strongly active for a given situation."

We have all these odd ways comparisons and power plays are made.

Doing things at an okay level is better than only planning them but at a superb level, because the planning not getting to the doing would negate the action potential in the planning.

Propping up too many things is unsustainable, which is why it is not a supported endeavor. If it had longevity to it, it would have a strong base behind it.

En ce qui concerne la capacité à changer ce que vous faites, il existe toujours une multitude de façons de réorganiser, de modifier ou de donner une nouvelle forme à votre journée.

That's a good one - building frameworks in the background or sending messages or whatever one might do, showcasing a lot of that can mean a lot instead of being hidden and never noticed.

It's good to see people in public that can focus and have clarity of mind, and that can set aside over-eating or constantly eating and drinking. Putting aside all the sensory material for a period of time is a sign of a person with more ability.

Encouraging forgiveness can skip a step: acknowledging what happened and hearing how it affected someone. Dr. Martha Sweezy on validation before forgiveness, from episode 415 of The Armen Show.

Being right about a political issue doesn’t give us sole ownership of the conversation. Being wrong doesn’t erase our standing as citizens. Robert Talisse on democratic disagreement, from episode 436 of The Armen Show. @RobertTalisse