“A well-written life is almost as rare as a well spent one.”
—Thomas Carlyle
“History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.”
—Winston Churchill
Lightning Studios
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Lightning Studios
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Inspiring learning as a way of life. Join the great conversation. AI, Philosophy, and Future of Learning Newsletter: secondvoice.substack.com
Joined December 2024
- "Joining Lighting was like reading Nietzsche for the very first time. I was deeply inspired by the mission, to inspire learning as a way of life; and, when I met the team, it was as if serendipity had a name.” Meet @bobbyjgeorge, CEO of Lightning! Prior to this, he has been a
- What if Great Books could talk back?
- The Classics are Free and Open Source, and everyone knows they're awesome, and yet we still don't read them. We're here to help. Introducing a New Way to Read the Classics.My life has been enriched by joyful learning. Few things give me greater joy than sharing my love of learning with others. Which is why today is a momentous day. With gratitude to my Creator, Source of Life, for allowing me to reach this day, I'm announcing that we at
- "There is no end to the writing of books." - Ecclesiastes With AI, though, it becomes possible to find the needle in the haystack.Just three days since launch and users have already added more than 20,000 books to their libraries on Alexandria.wiki More than 1000 conversations with Virgil about the classics. What will you read next?
- Hell. Purgatory. Paradise. Written by Dante Alighieri in the 14th century, 'The Divine Comedy' follows the author's journey through the three realms of the afterlife, throughout which Dante encounters lost souls, repentant sinners, and heavenly beings, all the while reflecting
- Introducing Bolts!⚡⚡⚡ Bolts are curated pathways of understanding through our Great Library. They are a path of progression from one idea to the next, from one thinker to another. A bolt can serve as a precise and legible guide to understanding broad concepts,
- Meet Plato (428-348 BCE), the philosopher who shaped Western thought for over two millennia. A student of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle, he founded the Academy in Athens—the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. His dialogues explore everything from
- Love to see new beta users playing with Virgil! A Political Philosophy PhD and executive coach, who now works as an executive at a Medtech company writes, "Engaging with it on Père Goriot; it’s so much better than the generic LLM’s." Music to our ears!
