The Amazing Things & Ideas - To be wrong is to be free
Oh, the beauty of being wrong, For it is a path to new light, A journey to knowledge and insight, Where the mind and heart are strong. To find out you are wrong, Is to open the door to growth, To discover new truths, And to shed the old cloth. For when we think we know it all, We close ourselves off to change, And the world becomes small, And our minds become strange. But to be wrong is to be free, To explore and to learn, To see the world with new eyes, And to let our spirits burn. So let us embrace our mistakes, And see them as gifts, For they lead us to new paths, And to wisdom that uplifts. For it is better to find out you are wrong, Than it is to be right, For the journey of discovery, Is the truest delight. — A Whitman-styled poem on the beauty of embracing fallibility made by ChatGPT. The Amazing Things & Ideas List1. Online course I’m hooked on:Introduction to Ancient Greek History by Donald Kagan
2. Contra MacAskill on sacrificing for future generations:3. On the perils of “economic creationism”4. A 15th century Florentine thinker on the human condition:
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