
đ Oi, mga repapips, Brian Dys here! I love music, photography, and creative stuff like UX design and art. This is a place where I collect my thoughts and works. Apart all these, I’m Jaycelle’s better half and Bryce’s dad. đ„°
Specifically, modern AI is better understood as AT â âArtificial Timeâ that can be prosthetically attached to human minds. And highly capable computing systems are best understood as existing in superhistory rather than embodying superintelligence.
When youâre blessed with intelligence youâre cursed with the ability to use it to concoct intricate stories about why things happened â especially stories justifying why you made a mistake or why youâll eventually be right in an area youâre wrong.
Too Smart
But itâs all too easy to imagine some enlightened, superintelligent being standing outside our world, looking at us with the same pity and smug superiority that we feel toward the piranha.
Quantum Mechanics, Platoâs Cave and the Blind Piranha
The goal of coaching isnât to make someone feel good. The goal is to break through a personâs guise of knowing. Human beings are master rationalizers in an effort to protect themselves from feeling challenged and embarrassed.
The Key to Effective Coaching: Psychologically Safe Partnering That Encourages Discomfort
We played his favourite classical music (one for a future episode of Troika), read the news or books, and generally waffling in an attempt to provide some comfort. Mostly he slept, and we listened to his breathing, trying to discern any changes.
Bryan Font
Will business and engineering programs continue to expand their curriculum to include 4D design thinking? If so, the activities in which UX teams engage today may come to be shared by folks in other parts of the organizationâa trend weâre already beginning to see.
Amy Edmondson defines psychological safety as âa shared belief that the team is safe for interpersonal risk takingâ. What kind of risks? Expressing ideas, concerns, feedback, etc, without fear of any kind of repercussions. The idea is that when everyoneâs perspective is shared, the team can learn from all these perspectives and perform at its best.
Facilitating Feedback That’s Psychologically Safe
When the two groups were given a variety of puzzles, children in the second group were more likely to choose a harder puzzle. Dweck also found that praising the process made them more likely to feel confident in a task even if they made a mistake.
A psychotherapist says parents who raise confident, mentally strong kids always do these 3 things when praising their children
If the whole team is responsible for product success, not just getting things built, then the whole team understands and contributes to both kinds of work.
Dual Track Development is not Duel Track
Describing the whole from so many different angles illuminates the complex. By chronicling microinteractions, such as those between areas of hot and cold water or high and low pressure, we can see how changes in one aspect produce cascading change.
How Description Leads to Understanding
But why follow the Mongol horde deep down the rabbit hole? Why not research Willardâs sooty boubou, or any of the other theoretically interesting subjects Wikipediaâs ârandom articleâ button tosses my way? Why does curiosity beckon us this way, and not that?
But is there a better term that would describe a non-specialist person whose chief skill is curiosity, generalist knowledge and an ability to integrate various disciplines and their specialists to solve a problem? As it happens, there is â and it comes to us from a science fiction novel from 1950.
The Nexialist approach: Van Vogt and the idea that âspecialisation is for insectsâ
Feature factories are deeply unsatisfying for craft obsessed designers as it turns them into âshort order chefsâ. It feels like weâre somehow skipping the parts where we feel we can add the most value to both the companies we work and the users we serve.
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They have to feed you every six hours. So if I can stack six hours on six hours on six hours, and just focus on getting to the next meal, it doesn’t make matter how much I’m in pain, doesn’t matter how cold I am.
Why Emotionally Intelligent People Embrace the Small World Rule to Achieve Huge Goals
But Tverskyâs point is that if your job is to be creative and think through a tough problem, then time spent wandering around a park or aimlessly lounging on a couch might be your most valuable hours. A little inefficiency is wonderful.
Casualties of Perfection
Iâve always been a dreamer. My mum taught me to never give up and to reach for the stars. On July 11th, itâs time to turn that dream into a reality aboard the next Virgin Galactic spaceflight, in the company of this brilliant crew of mission specialists.
How do we quantify the informal effects of people physically working alongside each other â making and losing friends, falling in love?
If working from home becomes the norm, housing inequality will deepen
Consistent effort over time is more sustainable than pushing your limits to work as fast as possible. To do our best work, we need mental downtime, space for self-reflection, and a realistic schedule we can actually keep up with.
An ode to slowness: the benefits of slowing down
All of this does not imply that you can choose your own reality. Firstly, you can choose what questions you ask, but the answers are given by the world. And even in a relational world, when two observers communicate, their realities are entangled. In this way a shared reality can emerge.
A new quantum paradox throws the foundations of observed reality into question
1. Use base components for variant sets
10 Figma Best Practices to 10X Your Workflow
Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas. Logic will never change emotion or perception.
Bedtime procrastination becomes revenge bedtime procrastination when the decision to delay sleep is in response to a lack of free time earlier in the day. Staying up late and carving out some leisure time even if we feel tired and need sleep becomes a way of getting revenge on daytime hours with little free time.
The psychology of revenge bedtime procrastination
If we removed the contents of the universe, we would remove space and time also. This is the ârelationalâ view of space and time: they are only the spatial and temporal relations between objects and events. The relational view of space and time was a key inspiration for Einstein when he developed general relativity.
Does a chair exist if nobody sits on it? Relational quantum mechanics says âNO!â
When handling risks, it is important to be aware of what we donât or canât know for sure. The Precautionary Principle is not intended to be a stifling justification for banning thingsâitâs a tool for handling particular kinds of uncertainty. Heuristics can guide us in making important decisions, but we still need to be flexible and treat each case as unique.
The Precautionary Principle: Better Safe than Sorry?
The filing cabinet contributed to the rise of a popular nontechnical understanding of information as something discrete and specific. Critically, it illustrates the moment in which information gained an identity separate from knowledge, an instrumental identity critical to its accessibility.
The Filing Cabinet
The more we describe successful people as having guru-like powers, the more everyone else looks at them and says, âI could never do that.â Which is unfortunate, because more people would be willing to try if they knew that those they admire are probably normal people who played the odds right.
Career ladders help you make more consistent, fair decisions around promotions. This improves employee recruitment, engagement, and retention, while reducing bias and improving the quality of your workforce.
Career Ladders 101 (Founders Series: Part 3)
Instead, at work, seek to contribute. Find the hottest, most vibrant part of the economy you can and figure out how you can contribute best and most. Make yourself of value to the people around you, to your customers and coworkers, and try to increase that value every day.
Interview: Marc Andreessen, VC and tech pioneer
Everything is sales also means that everyone is trying to craft an image of who they are. The image helps them sell themselves to others. Some are more aggressive than others, but everyone plays the image game, even if itâs subconscious. Since theyâre crafting the image, itâs not a complete view. Thereâs a filter. Skills are advertised, flaws are hidden.
Harder Than It Looks, Not As Fun as It Seems
Advancing in seniority and experience is not about moving âup the ladderâ but rather about widening your circles of impact and influence â whether as a people manager or hands-on expert.
Become Better, Together