More serendipity it seems. Or perhaps, like when you buy a blue car and then notice loads of other blue cars, I’m just detecting what resonating with me.

All taken wildly out of context, but see if you can sense some themes.

Two things Ezra Klein says speaking on a podcast (at 11min and 28min)…

What you’re doing is not what you think you’re doing.

Allowing yourself to know what you’re noticing.

And two more points, made by Dr Adam Rutherford when speaking with the brilliant Ash Sarkar (at 14min and 1h 50sec)…

Slapping labels on things is a substitute for actually thinking about what the thing actually is, or what the thing does.

All of this shit has already happened. It just gets dressed up with new tech.

I’m getting hints of System 1 and System 2 thinking. And a whole bunch of other cognitive biases and semantic issues where these feel valid. Filed for reference.