talkersi lesson-3

We’re suffering from a rest deficit because we don’t understand the true power of rest.

Intentional moments of sensory deprivation can begin to undo the damage inflicted by the over-stimulating world.

But when this person is alone, they feel unappreciated and like others are taking advantage of them.

You can’t spend 40 hours a week staring at blank or jumbled surroundings and expect to feel passionate about anything, much less come up with innovative ideas.

This can be countered by doing something as simple as closing your eyes for a minute in the middle of the day, as well as by intentionally unplugging from electronics at the end of every day.

You might also keep a notepad by the bed to jot down any nagging thoughts that would keep you awake.

This occurs when we fail to differentiate between those relationships that revive us from those relationships that exhaust us.

This occurs when we fail to differentiate between those relationships that revive us from those relationships that exhaust us

It’s the person everyone depends on, the one you’d call if you needed a favor because even if they don’t want to do it, you know they’ll give you a reluctant “yes” rather than a truthful “no”.

This occurs when we fail to differentiate between those relationships that revive us from those relationships that exhaust us.

We're researching it into existence with locations as diverse as Shakespeare's birthplace, the Great Barrier Reef, not to mention one of Australia's largest autonomous mines

For me, right now, there are six big questions that frame our approach for taking AI safely, sustainably and responsibly to scale.

This system is old. Some archaeologists think it's as old as 40,000 years. The last time we have its recorded uses is in the nineteen teens. It's had remarkable longevity and incredible scale

It houses lots of government apartments and busy people. From the outside, it looks like something out of American science fiction: all gleaming glass and curved lines, and a piece of orange sculpture

And we're actively working to decolonize our imaginations and to build a curriculum and a pedagogy that leaves room for a range of different conversations and possibilities.

They built ways to manage this place and to manage it remarkably over a protracted period of time.

The Ngunnawal and Ngambri people, this is their land, never ceded, always sacred.

It means a lot to me to get to say those words and to dwell on what they mean and signal.

It's a heady mix.

I also acknowledge that we're gathering today in many other places, and I pay my respects to the traditional owners and elders of all those places too.

In 1944, along with anthropologists Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead, mathematician Norbert Wiener convened a series of conversations that would become known as the Macy Conferences on Cybernetics.

Who gets to articulate it? How does it get framed and imagined?

But for me, there's something really important to reclaim here about the idea of a system that has to accommodate culture, technology and the environment.