"Tell Them Frame" would make the world a better place imo.
Think the waiter was friendly?
Tell them.
Your friend looked good today?
Tell them.
Someone's work inspired you?
Tell them.
The world is loud with criticism and quiet with appreciation. Be the exception. It could make someone's day.
Think the waiter was friendly?
Tell them.
Your friend looked good today?
Tell them.
Someone's work inspired you?
Tell them.
The world is loud with criticism and quiet with appreciation. Be the exception. It could make someone's day.
Reframing shareholders as not owners of a company, but suppliers of capital. If they don’t like the returns, they can invest elsewhere.
consciousness isn't framed yet.
It’s often forgotten that Francis Crick, who along with James Watson discovered the structure of DNA, spent the last 25 years of his life researching the brain. In fact he spent as long researching the brain as he had on molecular biology and genetics, publishing 23 research papers, many articles and two books on neuroscience and consciousness.
Crick was intrigued by how little was known about consciousness. He found it “remarkable that most of the work in both cognitive science and the neurosciences makes no reference to consciousness”.
It’s often forgotten that Francis Crick, who along with James Watson discovered the structure of DNA, spent the last 25 years of his life researching the brain. In fact he spent as long researching the brain as he had on molecular biology and genetics, publishing 23 research papers, many articles and two books on neuroscience and consciousness.
Crick was intrigued by how little was known about consciousness. He found it “remarkable that most of the work in both cognitive science and the neurosciences makes no reference to consciousness”.
There’s a woman named Kalina Christoff who studies what’s called spontaneous thought. I looked at some of her work, which includes things like daydreaming and mind wandering. These are very interesting phenomena where the mind just finds its own path.
She put experienced meditators in an MRI scanner and told them to press a button whenever a thought arose. They were trying not to have any thoughts at all. What she concluded was that you can only go about ten seconds without a thought.
But here’s the interesting part. When people pressed the button, she could see what was happening in the brain at the same time the thought appeared. She noticed activity in the memory center she was observing, the hippocampus, about four seconds before the person was aware of the thought.
So there is actually a very elaborate and fairly long process before thoughts become conscious. They seem to exist somewhere else first, and then they pop into what we call the stream of consciousness.
The fact that it takes about four seconds suggests that something is going on during that time. Perhaps different thoughts are competing with one another to get into that workspace.
She put experienced meditators in an MRI scanner and told them to press a button whenever a thought arose. They were trying not to have any thoughts at all. What she concluded was that you can only go about ten seconds without a thought.
But here’s the interesting part. When people pressed the button, she could see what was happening in the brain at the same time the thought appeared. She noticed activity in the memory center she was observing, the hippocampus, about four seconds before the person was aware of the thought.
So there is actually a very elaborate and fairly long process before thoughts become conscious. They seem to exist somewhere else first, and then they pop into what we call the stream of consciousness.
The fact that it takes about four seconds suggests that something is going on during that time. Perhaps different thoughts are competing with one another to get into that workspace.
Kalina Christoff Research on spontaneous thought suggests that our minds generate ideas before we become aware of them. In one experiment, experienced meditators were asked to press a button whenever a thought appeared. Brain scans showed activity in the hippocampus about four seconds before participants consciously noticed the thought. This suggests that thoughts form and compete in the background before entering conscious awareness. In terms of framing, it means what we perceive as a “new thought” is often the result of earlier mental processes shaping which idea finally reaches our attention.
Feelings frame vulnerability.
AIs will fool us into believing they are conscious. We are already seeing that with AI psychosis and people forming emotional bonds with machines. That is the literal definition of the word dehumanizing. Yet we are still moving in that direction.
So who are we? What is actually special about us?
I would argue that we have more in common with animals, who like us are mortal, can suffer, and are vulnerable, than we do with machines. Machines are incredibly smart. At the level of intelligence, they may eventually outstrip us. In some ways they might already have.
But they cannot feel.
I do not think they ever will, because feelings have no meaning without vulnerability. They require mortality. Feel require a story that frames 'em.
If you do not have a story, there is no context for feeling. There is no lived experience behind it.
AIs will fool us into believing they are conscious. We are already seeing that with AI psychosis and people forming emotional bonds with machines. That is the literal definition of the word dehumanizing. Yet we are still moving in that direction.
So who are we? What is actually special about us?
I would argue that we have more in common with animals, who like us are mortal, can suffer, and are vulnerable, than we do with machines. Machines are incredibly smart. At the level of intelligence, they may eventually outstrip us. In some ways they might already have.
But they cannot feel.
I do not think they ever will, because feelings have no meaning without vulnerability. They require mortality. Feel require a story that frames 'em.
If you do not have a story, there is no context for feeling. There is no lived experience behind it.
Framing Startups
Product Type × Market Type
Product Type:
Market types:
we can place Ethiopian startups into the same 3×3 grid frame
Product Type × Market Type
Product Type:
Painkiller → Solves an urgent, expensive problem (people must use it).
Toothpick → Nice-to-have tool; improves convenience but not critical.
Vitamin → Improves life gradually (education, productivity, lifestyle).
Market types:
Red Ocean → Highly competitive / known market.
Orange Ocean → Emerging market with some competition.
Blue Ocean → New market category with little competition.
we can place Ethiopian startups into the same 3×3 grid frame
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Today at ‘Kibir: an International
Women’s Day Film Festival’ organized by the UNFPA! watched two movies DIFRET and HIDOTE.
There is a decade and half difference between two movies and both show how little progress we have made. It's shock to me to hear FGM still happens in Ethiopia. It thought its outlawed and stopped being practied.
True story: The movie production team went to scout for actors, then found real woman who is local-expert in FGM operation...
The lady came showed them how its get done they wrote up everything. Scripted it all etc. On the shooting time. The lady gets pissed off when she realised she is not gonna be cutting the actor girl in front of her. They had to explain her, she herself is acting and she is doing it in Reel not in Real life. Oh god.
The movie was well made, I expect it to win many international awards.
Even though am not pro NGO, have to apprciate the supporting embassies of Canada, Sweden, Spain and Denmark on this.
Women’s Day Film Festival’ organized by the UNFPA! watched two movies DIFRET and HIDOTE.
There is a decade and half difference between two movies and both show how little progress we have made. It's shock to me to hear FGM still happens in Ethiopia. It thought its outlawed and stopped being practied.
True story: The movie production team went to scout for actors, then found real woman who is local-expert in FGM operation...
The lady came showed them how its get done they wrote up everything. Scripted it all etc. On the shooting time. The lady gets pissed off when she realised she is not gonna be cutting the actor girl in front of her. They had to explain her, she herself is acting and she is doing it in Reel not in Real life. Oh god.
The movie was well made, I expect it to win many international awards.
Even though am not pro NGO, have to apprciate the supporting embassies of Canada, Sweden, Spain and Denmark on this.
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📖 Ben Carson’s life can be framed through Jim Collins’s idea of “encodings”
"encodings" are innate, durable capacities awaiting discovery. early signals that reveal how someone is wired.
Carson’s story is not about escaping weakness but decoding wiring, the gradual discovery that the same mind once dismissed in a classroom was precisely the mind capable of navigating the extreme complexity of the human brain.
Born in Detroit in 1951, Carson initially appeared academically slow and unfocused, a narrative that masked rather than defined his underlying capacities. Those early years were less a limitation than an unrecognized encoding: a mind unusually suited for spatial reasoning, intense concentration, and three-dimensional visualization. Once disciplined and cultivated, those traits aligned perfectly with neurosurgery, where Carson rose to become the youngest director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins and led the pioneering 1987 operation separating twins joined at the back of the head. 🤯
"encodings" are innate, durable capacities awaiting discovery. early signals that reveal how someone is wired.
Carson’s story is not about escaping weakness but decoding wiring, the gradual discovery that the same mind once dismissed in a classroom was precisely the mind capable of navigating the extreme complexity of the human brain.
Born in Detroit in 1951, Carson initially appeared academically slow and unfocused, a narrative that masked rather than defined his underlying capacities. Those early years were less a limitation than an unrecognized encoding: a mind unusually suited for spatial reasoning, intense concentration, and three-dimensional visualization. Once disciplined and cultivated, those traits aligned perfectly with neurosurgery, where Carson rose to become the youngest director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins and led the pioneering 1987 operation separating twins joined at the back of the head. 🤯
InterplayFrames
"encodings" are innate, durable capacities awaiting discovery. early signals that reveal how someone is wired.
Framing self-excavation.
Follow the thread of energy, not just competence. Collins distinguishes between what you can do and what animates you. Encodings generate vitality; skills merely generate results. Track where you feel most alive, not just most capable.
Resist the "manufactured self", Society will pressure you to develop what Collins calls "acquired competencies", skills you can learn but that drain you. Trusting your encodings requires the courage to be "mediocre at many things to be exceptional at your few." This means accepting that your path will look irrational to others.
Iterate through action, not introspection, You cannot think your way to encoding clarity. Collins advocates for "conducting experiments of one", small, low-risk tests that reveal whether a suspected encoding produces both quality and energy. Discovery is iterative; each application refines your understanding.
The work is less self-improvement than self-excavation, removing the accumulated expectations to reveal the durable capacities beneath.
Follow the thread of energy, not just competence. Collins distinguishes between what you can do and what animates you. Encodings generate vitality; skills merely generate results. Track where you feel most alive, not just most capable.
Resist the "manufactured self", Society will pressure you to develop what Collins calls "acquired competencies", skills you can learn but that drain you. Trusting your encodings requires the courage to be "mediocre at many things to be exceptional at your few." This means accepting that your path will look irrational to others.
Iterate through action, not introspection, You cannot think your way to encoding clarity. Collins advocates for "conducting experiments of one", small, low-risk tests that reveal whether a suspected encoding produces both quality and energy. Discovery is iterative; each application refines your understanding.
The work is less self-improvement than self-excavation, removing the accumulated expectations to reveal the durable capacities beneath.
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