Just finished reading "Every Valley: The Story of Handel’s Messiah" by Charles King. Great book, highly recommended! www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...

I'm currently focusing on Attic Greek, but I'm looking forward to eventually following some of this advice and learning Homeric...

Great translation. I'm currently reading @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social 's translation of The Iliad to my wife, and this will be next!

Is there a sizable community of people in Korea learning Ancient Greek? I've noticed some here on Bluesky, and this after reading Han Kang's Greek Lessons, about a Korean learning Ancient Greek. BTW, Greek Lessons is a great novel... Han Kang is a genius.

Looks like some great Ancient Greek books to look into from Juan Coderch! www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bJn...

Somehow I have been learning Ancient Greek for two years but never heard of this podcast series! pca.st/podcast/6ac9...

This is exactly what I find so fascinating about reading ancient works—discovering how similar we are to humans across time. Great collection of translated ancient tablets:

For the past week or so, I've been using the Minimal Phone app to turn my Android phone into a boring phone. Highly recommend!

After reading this first chapter of Αλέξανδρος, I'm sad I don't have more people to practice my conversational Ancient Greek with 😢

Applying some of my sweet sweet spreadsheet skills to my #AncientGreek learning...

I made it to Chapter 15 of Λόγος, and it seems to have made a big jump in complexity. #AncientGreek

You can tell that the people behind Biblingo really take language learning seriously and know the science of language acquisition. They introduce the pieces of Ancient Greek gradually and then give you practice with comprehensible input along the way. #AncientGreek

The perfect combination of ancient and cutting edge technology—sometimes the best way to get the definition of an Ancient Greek word in a text I'm reading is to ask ChatGPT. (The text is Athenaze, Italian Ed.) #AncientGreek

Looking for authors and journalists on Bluesky? Here you go! bsky.app/profile/did:...

Can't wait to visit this combo subway/museum in Thessaloniki:

I've been using the Biblingo app (biblingo.org) as part of my Ancient Greek language learning for a while now. While my interest in Ancient Greek is broader than just Biblical Greek, it's really felt like a good complement to the Ranieri-Roberts approach. Highly recommend! #AncientGreek

"καὶ σαθραῖς ταῖς κώπαις ἐρεττω" "And with these rotten oars I row" —Thrasymachus #ReadAncientGreek

I've gotten to Thrasymachus in the Ranieri-Roberts Approach, and this is great content. It's starting to get really fun to read Ancient Greek as the content gets more interesting. #AncientBluesky #LearnAncientGreek

If you are learning the Ancient Greek language, you might find this feed I created helpful. Any time people mention Ancient Greek books or other learning material, it should show up here: bsky.app/profile/did:... #LearnAncientGreek

I was so impressed by The Creative Act by Rick Rubin, it has made it on my favorite books of all time list, as well as this list of my fave non-fiction books of 2023…

It might only be due to the Ancient Greek text on the whiteboard behind Paul Giamatti's character, but this movie looks great! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgIyk1tvTd8&ab_channel=ONEMedia

It took me a while to accept that all startups are chaotic… https://open.substack.com/pub/kathekonta/p/when-chaos-is-a-good-thing?r=e0pwi&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Very interesting! Researchers have partially deciphered a previously undeciphered script. They conclude it's descended from Imperial Aramaic script, and the language is likely a middle Iranian language: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-968X.12269

"A recent study describes a new AI that produces high-quality translations of ancient texts." https://bigthink.com/the-future/ai-translates-cuneiform/

I've been using ChatGPT with Code Interpreter today. It really brings ChatGPT to a new level. My favorite thing to do: upload a spreadsheet of data in CSV format and as ChatGPT to analyze it. Sixty seconds later, I have charts and a qualitative analysis of the data.

This is an incredible book. Made me see comics anew. I love its approach of being both a comic itself, all while analyzing comics' art, meaning, form, and much much more. I'll be reading everything else by Scott McCloud. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/102920.Understanding_Comics

“If you could reproduce a person's thought patterns, have you actually recreated the person…” https://kathekonta.substack.com/p/strange-loops-and-chatgpt

With the news of Code Interpreter coming to all ChatGPT Plus users soon, there's about to be another wave of people talking about our impending doom from AI. A good time to revisit the Pyramid of Creativity: https://kathekonta.substack.com/p/the-pyramid-of-creativity

I created this ChatGPT prompt a while ago to help in creating OKRs... time to share it with the world: Write Surprisingly Good Goals with AI: https://open.substack.com/pub/kathekonta/p/write-surprisingly-good-goals-with?r=e0pwi&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

There’s just too many books that I NEED to read… https://www.amazon.co.uk/Not-End-World-Generation-Sustainable/dp/1784745006

I'm not sure if I'll love this book, but it might have the greatest title of a book I've ever seen. Need to read! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37758635-fully-automated-luxury-communism

I love using ChatGPT to argue two sides to a debate motion, and then summarize resulting points. Really useful for thinking through a problem. https://chat.openai.com/share/91a28e53-aff9-4310-9748-c96388716cb3

Prioritizing creativity has made the work day both more productive for me, as well as more fun: https://kathekonta.substack.com/p/three-tips-to-get-more-creativity

I've collected some tips that have helped me increase my creative time at work. Try them out… maybe they will help you too: https://open.substack.com/pub/kathekonta/p/three-tips-to-get-more-creativity?r=e0pwi&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Finally read Marc Andreessen's essay "Why AI Will Save the World" which is getting a lot of attention. Still digesting it, but I agree with most of his arguments. I love the optimistic take on AI, and it's a nice antidote to the AI panic that is so prevalent right now.

Paraphrased from Oliver Burkeman's 4000 Weeks: "Life just is a process of engaging with problem after problem, giving each one the time it requires." This is always true, but there are weeks when I really need to remind myself of this.

"I define [creativity] as any activity that has a reasonably direct link to the creation of something that is new and potentially replicable or durable." — Jim Collins https://kathekonta.substack.com/p/measuring-creativity-time

"I define [creativity] as any activity that has a reasonably direct link to the creation of something that is new and potentially replicable or durable." — Jim Collins

The ability to cope with change is such an underappreciated personal skill. It's great in a work context, where change is pretty constant, plus it has a huge positive effect on personal wellbeing.

Better a tough but creative day than an relaxing but non-creative one.

I've been reading "Creativity Inc" by Ed Catmull, the story of Pixar's rise. Amazing how the company was basically a failure for the first 15 years of its life. So clear that it's often only in retrospect that a company seems like it is destined to be a success.

A lot of people argue that we shouldn't chase happiness. And they do it for good reason, since the kind of happiness most people look for is the fleeting, empty kind (eating a bowl of ice cream).

The AI transformation is here, and it's affecting every job that involves thinking. And it's mostly a good thing: https://kathekonta.substack.com/p/the-coming-creative-renaissance

I really love Jim Collin's idea to measure your amount of creativity each day. It does seem to correlate with retrospective happiness.