Brilliant short story writer George Saunders has written his first novel, and reflects here on the process.
Originally shared by Samantha Dunaway Bryant
A very articulate description of what can be a very inarticulate process: what we actually DO when we write. H/T Shannon Turlington
Some good ones here.
Originally shared by Singularity Hub
8 Principles for Leaders to Make the Most of the Exponential Age http://suhub.co/2mUeaCT
tl;dr: Innovation thrives in a climate where you can try something, fail, and not be homeless and starving as a result. Also, in a climate where everyone has a bit of money to spend on creating or buying a new product.
Originally shared by Larry Panozzo
I think these are valid points. Do you?
via Terrence Lee Reed
Originally shared by Self-Rescuing Princess Society
Ooo! Great list!
And I love that there are comments with the names of other amazing warrior women from that era!
Originally shared by David Brin
Joel Garreau writes about our latest strategic worry – “weaponized narrative” seeks to undermine an opponent’s civilization, identity, and will by generating complexity, confusion, and political and social schisms. It can be used tactically, as part of explicit military or geopolitical conflict; or strategically, as a way to reduce, neutralize, and defeat a civilization, state, or organization. Done well, it limits or even eliminates the need for armed force to achieve political and military aims.
http://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2017/01/weaponized-narrative-new-battlespace/134284/
“Far from being simply a U.S. or U.K. phenomenon, shifts to “post-factualism” can be seen in Poland, Hungary, Turkey, France, and the Philippines, among other democracies. Russia, whose own political culture is deeply post-factual and indeed post-modern, is now ably constructing ironic, highly cynical, weaponized narratives that were effective in the Ukrainian invasion, and are now destabilizing the Baltic states and the U.S. election process.”
Garreau continues: “By offering cheap passage through a complex world, weaponized narrative furnishes emotional certainty at the cost of rational understanding. The emotionally satisfying decision to accept a weaponized narrative — to believe, to have faith — inoculates cultures, institutions, and individuals against counterarguments and inconvenient facts.”
http://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2017/01/weaponized-narrative-new-battlespace/134284/
The company I work for has just been through a certification process for some of their products which can feed into this initiative.
The headline exaggerates, and New Zealand is a group of islands, not a single island, as the article implies.
However, this is large and important news: an official proposal to use gene drives (genetically-engineered changes designed to spread through the whole population) to eliminate invasive pests.
Lots and lots of due diligence is required, and it won’t happen soon, if it happens at all. But the conversation is happening, and that in itself is remarkable.
Originally shared by Singularity Hub
Natural Selection Is About to Be Overpowered by the First-Ever Mammalian Gene Drive http://suhub.co/2meaZbW
If I had stayed in publishing instead of moving to tech writing and thence into IT, I would have hit the same problem this woman had: it’s hard to be an acquisitions editor when your taste doesn’t match the market’s.
More power to those who can “write to market,” but some of us can’t.
Originally shared by Karen Conlin
Peternelle is one of my Tweeps. Her first novel, The Beast Is an Animal, just hit the shelves. Part of the process was keeping a prologue she added at what she thought was the end of the process, and ditching the other 250 pages to start over.
“The voice that I found in that prologue was my voice.”
For all your cold sleep revival sciencebabble needs.
Originally shared by Daniel Lemire
Nanowarming appears to bring back to life cryopreserved organs with minimal damage.
The decision to give this five stars was easy; it’s wonderfully executed, with clean copy editing and a plot that escalates stakes in textbook fashion.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1926757805?book_show_action=false&from_review_page=1