This is a great one thanks, David! I guess I'll have to read Ulysses at some point now. I also appreciate your ability to make me have to look up at least one word per newsletter. This time it was maudlin!
If it's alright, can I ask a more reflective question? I know last week you mentioned that you're starting work on your next book. Now that it's your third book, I'm curious if you've noticed any ways that you feel you changed as a writer since you were writing your first. Does it get easier? Does the success of the first two make it easier?
I wonder if Simon is insinuating that automation will limit our ability to employ our skill and problem solving which will, in turn, lead to us being able to love less. Reading his book would probably answer that. If that is so and his theory is true, I wonder if artificial intelligence will do the same, but in a larger scope.
Happy Valentines Day to you David. I love that you've written about love - if you think of it most novels, songs, poems, have love of some kind, or the knots associated with love, at their core. It's what makes the world go around, as they say. Thanks for your words as always and your wisdom.
The quote from Herbert Simon encapsulates my worldview quite well.
This is a great one thanks, David! I guess I'll have to read Ulysses at some point now. I also appreciate your ability to make me have to look up at least one word per newsletter. This time it was maudlin!
If it's alright, can I ask a more reflective question? I know last week you mentioned that you're starting work on your next book. Now that it's your third book, I'm curious if you've noticed any ways that you feel you changed as a writer since you were writing your first. Does it get easier? Does the success of the first two make it easier?
I wonder if Simon is insinuating that automation will limit our ability to employ our skill and problem solving which will, in turn, lead to us being able to love less. Reading his book would probably answer that. If that is so and his theory is true, I wonder if artificial intelligence will do the same, but in a larger scope.
Happy Valentines Day to you David. I love that you've written about love - if you think of it most novels, songs, poems, have love of some kind, or the knots associated with love, at their core. It's what makes the world go around, as they say. Thanks for your words as always and your wisdom.
Love, Margit
“Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.”--Freud