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Steve Beresford🦉 @thehiddenowl

Searching for the rare and avoiding placeholders

Joined April 2016
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Steve Beresford🦉@thehiddenowl
8 Jun 2023
“Sit as little as possible; do not believe any idea that was not born in the open air and of free movement.” Reading some Nietzsche at present. Really like his philosophy of walking and ideation
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Who else is cancelling their Stan Sport first thing tomorrow You had one job Even Mickey Mouse wasn’t this Mickey Mouse @StanSportAU
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Reading Yiyun Li’s book ‘Things in nature merely grow’. A must read for all parents Remember these things are just placeholders
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FRANCE 24 English
@France24_en
4 Oct 2024
🦉 A mass treasure hunt appears to have come to an end... 🇫🇷 A buried statuette of a golden owl has finally been unearthed in #France after 31 years of searching. 📙 The hunt, “On the Trail of the #GoldenOwl,” was based on a book of riddles published in 1993
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The person who explores on foot versus car, does not see the same thing Apologies to Nietzsche for the adaptation
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Adam Grant
@AdamMGrant
9 Dec 2024
We learn more from reading on paper than on screens. 54 studies, 171k people: we process print more deeply than digital content—as long as it's informational rather than purely narrative. The paper advantage holds across ages and has grown over time. Long live physical books.
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One of the most important things I learned from @johnevann was the ‘theory of constraints’ This is more than focus on the weak points in the exploration workflow. If the workflow is permutation based and not combinatory, then each weakness is a fatal flaw
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Itai Yanai
@ItaiYanai
3 Nov 2024
The proliferation of competing articulations, the willingness to try anything, the expression of explicit discontent, the recourse to philosophy and to debate over fundamentals, all these are symptoms of a transition from normal to extraordinary research. ― Thomas S. Kuhn
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Went to the Fire Garden in Adelaide. Can’t recommend high enough. A sensory treat Wish I could find out who the guitarist was. Perfect for the whole show. Compagnie Carabosse ⁦@IlluminateAdl⁩
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Adam Grant
@AdamMGrant
1 Apr 2024
Narcissistic leaders are threatened by talent. They want to be the smartest person in the room. Humble leaders are drawn to talent. They surround themselves with people who make them smarter. Great leaders grow talent. They strive to make everyone in the room smarter.
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Why aren’t you working on the best project you can conceive? Even if it’s only covert
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“Don’t put your time into failed institutions” Samo Burja I took your advice
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I’m off to my first archaeology conference this week on the Hellenistic world I love the challenge of new disciplines. It’s refreshing and of course a little intimidating The biggest opportunities in my career have been taking on what at the time felt too steep a climb
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It’s easier to raise $50M for something incremental than $2M for something transformational
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I’m a lion with a dream of being a child I’m reading Nietzsche’s ‘Thus Spoke Zarathustra’ at present Every now and then you find a text that you just nod along to, and wonder why you didn’t read it earlier
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A young geo said to me recently he was a field geo because he spends time in the field on rigs - Never maps - Spends 12 minutes a day looking at rocks Field geologist is not a word I would use to describe this job. It’s long road to learn your craft with this little geology
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A key question I ask myself during exploration is what is missing or more importantly (but less quantifiable) why is it missing? Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence
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Enjoyed this podcast on the role of metallurgy in late Bronze Age to early Iron Age Saka culture in East Kazakhstan overcast.fm/ 30IclSQus
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“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” Buckminster Fuller What are you building?
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One of my Xmas gifts was a bookcase to house my unread books. The book piles had grown into a new lifeform My new system is I now have new piles of books to be read that sit atop of the bookcase of unread books!
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One of the most powerful technology additions to exploration in the last few years is Google Lens Early OCR based techniques exploded our access to primary geology data (x10-100) but GL has added real time practicality We need to stop exploring based on secondary geology data
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