Notes from Alone together

(she's talking about the implications of increasingly intelligent robots, how kids interact with them, etc. This is a 12 yr old in one of her research groups.

"When there are computers ...as smart as people, the computers will do a lot of the jobs, but there will still be thingss for the people to do. They will run the restaurants, taste the food & they will be the ones who will have families and love each other. I guess they'll still be the ones who go to church."

Coaching

A good coach is simultaneously the chief cheerleader and chief critic." David H. Maister

Nature/Nurture

Reminded again in Susan Cain's "Quiet" of identical twin research that suggests temperament is roughly half genetic, when looking at a group of people. So it does shape a lot but certainly room for nature's impact and free will. She suggests that introverts might be more influenced by parents.

Look inside quote Jung

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. - Carl Jung #quote

chasing sheep

dangling between slumber and waking
chasing sheep over fences
finally I tumble

FDR, do what you can

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

The past, Faulkner

The Past Isn't Dead. It Isn't Even Past