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  • Evolution moves toward greater complexity, greater elegance, greater knowledge, greater intelligence, greater beauty, greater creativity, greater love. And God has been called all these things, only without any limitation: infinite knowledge, infinite intelligence, infinite beauty, infinite creativity, and infinite love. Evolution does not achieve an infinite level, but as it explodes exponentially it certainly moves in that direction. So evolution moves inexorably toward our conception of God, albeit never reaching this ideal.

    — The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil

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  • Seek Concepts, Not Conclusions – A key habit of good curating is the ability to be fickle. In practice, this means not getting too hung up on the need to quantify or understand every idea you save at the moment. Many times, the best thing you can do is to gather something, save it, and then move on to the rest of your daily life. Perspective comes from having time and patience.

    — Non-Obvious: How to Think Different, Curate Ideas & Predict The Future by Rohit Bhargava

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  • By the end of the decade, we’ll agree the Metaverse has arrived* and it will be worth many trillions. The question of exactly when it started and how much revenue it generates will remain uncertain. Before getting to that point, we will exit the current phase of hype and probably enter and then exit another one, too. The hype cycle will be caused by at least three factors: the reality that many companies will over-promise what sort of Metaverse experiences will be possible and when; the difficulty of overcoming key technical barriers; and the fact that, even when those barriers are overcome, it will take time to figure out exactly what companies should build “in the Metaverse.”

    — The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything by Matthew Ball

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  • As we work to get our ideas out into the world and try to find and engage the people those ideas will resonate with, it’s easy to fall into the trap of skimming the surface of our story for the facts we believe will give us some tangible advantage. But if we want to give ourselves the best chance of spreading our ideas and creating an impact, we have to get better at telling our real story and living our purpose.

    We need to invest the time to reflect on why we began on this path and how our past informs our present and future. If we’re to do work that matters, we have to dig deeper in order to understand the connection between our personal stories and the work we do. Because now more than ever, our work, not just our job title, is part of our identity.

    — Story Driven: You don’t need to compete when you know who you are by Bernadette Jiwa

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  • Innovation is mysterious. Inspiration is largely unpredictable. But it’s obvious from all the success we see in the marketplace that we can rise to the occasion. Once the habit is ingrained and you become the starter, the center of the circle, you will find more and more things to notice, to instigate, and to initiate. Momentum builds and you get better at generating it. If you go to bed at night knowing that people are expecting you to initiate things all day the next day, you’ll wake up with a list. And as you create a culture of people who are always seeking to connect and improve and poke, the bar gets raised.

    — Poke the Box by Seth Godin

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