Author: seanherbison.com

Here’s a quick test. Imagine you’ve taken a class, and you’ve received the grades below. You need 80% overall to pass. What catches your attention? If you’re sensible, the answer is that percentage at the bottom. Well done, you passed by a mile. As it happens, those are my grades. What’s the thing that catches…

One of the reasons I made this site was to give myself more incentive to pay attention and take useful notes when reading books. Here, I’ll give my takeaways from what I’ve read in the last week or two. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience  – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi “Attention is our most important tool in…

One of my goals for this year was to start writing. So far, I’ve managed to publish two articles (one of which was “Why I’m Writing”), while having twenty-seven “in progress”.  As I mentioned there, I’ve come to realize I have rather a lot of perfectionist tendencies. Unfortunately, realizing that and dealing with it are…

I’m not an AI expert. If you want one of those, I recommend checking out Eliezer Yudkowsky. For the last two decades, he has been warning of the potential threat of AI in very concrete terms. His efforts, including founding the  Machine Intelligence Research Institute, have largely been ignored, and we’re now approaching some of…

Why Write Now? As you can see, I’ve written something. Why? Good question. It’s 2023, and I’ve been sort of meaning to write for a couple years now, in the same way I sort of meant to meditate prior to 2016. And like meditation, I don’t know exactly what I want to get out of…