Links #5

Another collection of interesting reads from around the web:

• Leaving the phone at home. This is an interesting exercise. I'm surprised by how different I feel just by leaving that device at home. It's a bit worrying.
• 30 bits of advice for 30 years.
• Solitude and Leadership.
• Stephen Fry Reads Nick Cave’s Stirring Letter About ChatGPT and Human Creativity: “We Are Fighting for the Very Soul of the World”
• Confessions of a Viral AI Writer. About ChatGPT and the writing process:

  I recalled Zadie Smith’s essay “Fail Better,” in which she tries to arrive at a definition of great literature. She writes that an author’s literary style is about conveying “the only possible expression of a particular human consciousness.” Literary success, then, “depends not only on the refinement of words on a page, but in the refinement of a consciousness.”

• How it feels to get an AI email from a friend
• Jim Nielsen: It’s Humans All the Way Down.