Automation and Skill Retention: cosmohouck.com
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\nIt doesn’t stop me! Sometimes I need a break! But sometimes I think — man, I need to spend some time on something more challenging, too.
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\nAlso:
\nMemento
\nBabylon
\nMI: Fallout
\nKill Bill 1&2
\nHail, Caesar!
\nGrand Budapest
\nWaking Life
@cosmohouck.bsky.social People can’t read. They can’t! Or they won’t. Idk.
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\nyoutu.be/aeQOJZ-QzBk?…
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\nwww.newyorker.com/magazine/202…
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