Nice sentences
''Each student of the ferns,'' I once read, ''will have his own list of plants that for some reason or another stir his emotions.''
Never lose your sense of wonder.
Guard it the way you would a small flame in bad weather.
I have been told that they signal health and that they will soon relent to the soil beneath summer's crushing embrace.
"No, my dear. Sadness might be many things, but it is rarely stupid. The good sadness, I think, is always trying to tell us something very important."
Steep yourself in the last months of 2015. The program AlphaGo has just defeated the European champion in Go, the first time a computer has ever beaten a human professional. The 18-time world champion Lee Sedol would be quite unmoved, remarking that “the level of the player that AlphaGo went against in October is not the same level as me.” (AlphaGo would defeat Lee the following March.) Elsewhere in the world, there is war in Ukraine. SpaceX landed its Falcon 9 for the first time. Star Wars: The Force Awakens premiered. A new startup called OpenAI was founded.
The way I list things in my writing often feels mechanical and factual. This is a nice mix of storytelling and listing.
I’ve been reading very little this week and reconciling with nature instead—swimming, cycling, and applying large quantities of sunscreen
Unlike "being outdoors", "reconciling with nature" feels so much softer and warmer.
As expected, the walk finished and my brain felt squeezed dry. I do more talking during these weeks than I do in an average quarter. So by day seven, my introverted soul is battered, but my heart is full. Spending a week with seven or eight inspired people and watching their personalities and quirks and kindnesses unfold each day, that does something good to your noggin. By the end, you’re bigger, and you hope everyone else feels similarly.
There’s an old joke that an engineer is someone who’ll spend an hour building a tool to automate a task that would take 10 minutes. But with AI, now you can make that tool in five minutes, and you don't need to be an engineer, and you don’t need to write code. You can just ask the model to make the tool for you, or, more fundamentally, just do the task for you itself.
They were at least agonizingly aware of the easy money in the vicinity and convinced that it was theirs for a few words in the right key.