Keeping The Light Alive
Welcome to?The?Art?of?The?Impossible, my weekly newsletter where I unearth five pieces?of?content which I hope will both inspire?and?embolden you.
PODCAST
This week, I did things a little bit differently because I felt it was the right time to bring Syreeta Challinger onto the podcast - a founder, a coach, podcaster and an incredible human. Listen here or wherever it is you get your podcasts from.
Syreeta grew up in South East London and as a child of mixed heritage, experienced regular racism from people on the streets to teachers in the classroom. A creative and sensitive soul like so many of us, Syreeta went on to forge a career in design and product development before meeting the love of her life in Hong Kong. However, this wonderful love story had a very difficult obstacle to overcome when her then-boyfriend Rob had a catastrophic brain haemorrhage and stroke in 2014 when he was just 37 and Syreeta was 32. It left him paralysed and unable to speak. Listen here or wherever it is you get your podcasts from.
Rob and Syreeta’s story is one of hope and love and resilience and strength and I can’t think of a better time than now to release it. Because I think we could all do with a little bit of hope right now.
Listen here or wherever it is you get your podcasts from.
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INTERVIEW
I really enjoyed this Lenny Rachitsky interview with Katie Dill - Head of Design at Stripe , previously at Airbnb and Lyft.
Lessons in this interview include:
Watch the interview here.
BOOK
The Worlds I see by Dr Fei-Fei Li
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The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI showcases not only the power of artificial intelligence, but the need to use it responsibly.
This moving memoir of a scientist coming of age as an immigrant in America who finds her calling at the forefront of the AI revolution.
Known to the world as the creator of ImageNet , a key catalyst of modern artificial intelligence, Dr. Li spent more than two decades at the forefront of the field. But her career in science was improbable from the start. As immigrants, her family faced a difficult transition from China’s middle class to American poverty. And their lives were made all the harder as they struggled to care for her ailing mother, who was working tirelessly to help them all gain a foothold in their new land.
Dr Li's adolescent knack for physics endured, however, and positioned her to make a crucial contribution to the breakthrough we now call AI, placing her at the center of a global transformation.
Over the last decades, her work has brought her face-to-face with the extraordinary possibilities—and the extraordinary dangers—of the technology she loves. The Worlds I See is a story of science in the first person, documenting one of the century’s defining moments from the inside.
It provides a riveting story of a scientist at work and a thrillingly clear explanation of what artificial intelligence actually is—and how it came to be. Emotionally raw and intellectually uncompromising, this book is a testament not only to the passion required for even the most technical scholarship but also to the curiosity forever at its heart.
Pre-order the book here (not available on Amazon yet).
FILM
SLY / Sylvester Stallone Documentary
This looks great and comes out 3rd November on Netflix .
For nearly 50 years Sylvester Stallone has entertained millions with iconic characters and blockbuster franchises, from Rocky to Rambo to The Expendables. This retrospective documentary offers an intimate look at the Oscar-nominated actor-writer-director-producer, paralleling his inspirational underdog-story with the indelible characters he has brought to life and what is the cornerstone of his success.
"The Rejection Was My Encouragement."
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Thank you for reading?the?newsletter?and?for listening to?the?podcast this week and,?if you enjoy them, please do share with your network - my goal is to have these stories reach as many as possible so that others can be inspired too!
Thank you.
Danielle