Category: Reading List

So much data had accumulated, he argued, and computers were already so much better than us at finding relationships within it, that our theories were being exposed for what they were – oversimplifications of reality.

Are we witnessing the dawn of post-theory science?

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As video conferences give an increased importance to the faces of the participants while hiding the rest of their body, measuring how individuals perceive the social traits of these faces is central to the impression formation.

Impression Formation From Video Conference Screenshots: The Role of Gaze, Camera Distance, and Angle

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These are the kinds of relationships — fleeting but indicative of significant eras in life — whose memories older generations may have kept neatly enclosed in picture albums as they, quite separately, moved on to different stages of life.

Nostalgia for Nostalgia

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The most important variable was the stories people told and the emotions they suddenly stumbled upon. And that was the only thing you couldn’t measure and couldn’t predict with foresight. That’s why the results don’t compute.

Does Not Compute

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So, my prediction is that young adults in their twenties increasingly choose to spend a decade of their lives living between a set of rented or swapped spaces around the world, working remotely, and immersing themselves in communities and cultures.

10 Forecasts For The Near Future Of Tech

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Zwicky’s strategy for solving problems and generating answers is simple. Take a problem, break it down into categories, add various values into each category, and link the values together to create unique combinations.

The Zwicky box: a powerful method for problem solving and creativity

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Steve’s first pass is to eliminate images that fail to meet basic standards of technical merit. Shots that are over- or underexposed are rejected, as are out-of-focus images. Even when there are elements that Steve likes in the image, such as expression or composition, he rejects the shot if the technical aspects are not right.

How a National Geographic Photographer Selects the Best Images From a Shoot

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When a single metric is used to determine success or failure, human beings are likely to try to optimize their behavior to improve that metric — sometimes with ridiculous or dangerous consequences. People manage the metric, rather than using the metric to help manage the underlying issue of interest.

Campbell’s Law: The Dark Side of Metric Fixation

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What is striking is not the machine’s humanness, but the lengths we are forced to go to become compatible with the machine.

Same Old

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If you talk to mental health experts on college campuses, they’ll tell you that along with the rise of ubiquitous smartphone use and social media use among the students on the campus, came an explosion of anxiety-related disorders on those campuses. That’s the canary in the coal mine.

Why you should quit social media

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Infants learn how to interact with their surroundings and discover ways to change their environments from their caregivers, and children learn to regulate their behaviors from observing their parents and caregivers.

High agency: how to feel more in control in your life and work

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The lack of language affects even functions that do not seem to be intrinsically “linguistic,” such as math. Developmental research shows that keeping track of exact numbers above four requires knowing the words for these numbers.

Language Is the Scaffold of the Mind

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The way Goldstein describes it, non-attachment is about not holding on to anything that happens in life, whether those are experiences, events, or thoughts. That’s the difference with detachment, which means you pull away from something. Applying this concept in your life will have a huge difference in the way you live.

Detachment vs Non-attachment: Eastern Wisdom for Inner Peace

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Never view falling as failure. See the truth of it as I did. Falling down is a necessary part of trial and error in motion. Observe the newborn attempting to walk or the young gymnast attempting to tumble. They succeed or learn. Win-Win!

Make A Habit of Falling Down

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And you surround yourself with a bubble of love, other teachers who can support you and tell you, “Yes, you deserve care. You are a valuable, educated, wonderful human being. You are not just, you know, Darth Vader dealing with these kids. You are a valuable person who deserves resources, who deserves care, who deserves love, who deserves freedom to oscillate.”

The cure for burnout (hint: it isn’t self-care)

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We can help remote workers get on top of their workloads and mitigate work-life balance conflicts by moving away from hyper-responsiveness and real-time communication towards greater asynchronous communication — the type that truly gives people the freedom to decide when and where to work.

Remote Work Should Be (Mostly) Asynchronous

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Reputation is the aggregation of ideas that have swarmed your body. Reputation is a list of your chronic afflictions.

The tyranny of ideas

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As Raihani points out, we are constantly trying to second-guess the reasons for others’ actions – and we punish people harshly when we suspect that their motives are impure. Those instinctive suspicions may or may not be true, of course. We often base our judgements on intuition rather than hard facts.

Why overly kind and moral people can rub you up the wrong way

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Generative art/design is any work created with an element of chance. We define some rules and allow a source of randomness to guide us to an outcome.

Creating Generative Patterns with The CSS Paint API

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Once a view becomes part of your identity it’s almost impossible to see its flaws, when it needs to adapt, or has expired.

It Sounds Crazy

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To start with, the very abundance of digital data exacerbates the most fundamental constraint on information commerce—the limits of human comprehension.

The Information Economy

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Software costs nothing to copy, but someone still has to create it. The costs of development may approach zero as copies approach infinity, but there is still a very-non-zero amount of time and capital needed for activation energy.

Software scarcity

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When you communicate on mass media, whether it’s a 30 second spot on prime-time TV, a press ad in a National newspaper, or a 6 sheet in a city centre, you will reach a large number of those who are in your target market. But you will also reach a large number of those who are not.

The errors of efficiency

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Very often, this new behavior involves breaking the rules. Then, a winning strategy for founders is to build products that make these new models more accessible to a wider audience.

The Ownership Economy: Crypto & The Next Frontier of Consumer Software

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On the other hand, life isn’t always hellish. We experience love, friendship, adventure and heartbreaking beauty. Could all this really come from random collisions of particles?

What God, Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness Have in Common

This is also where it pays to remember that your goal is not always to make the other person feel as comfortable as possible.

9 Secret Rules of Winning Arguments

The value of the web is not embodied in its technology, so much as in the network of relationships that make up the ecosystem. Ecological networks take a long time to evolve, and can’t just be ported over.

Building new weblike things

Not all employees are interested in a ‘traditional’ growth plan (working up the ladder). Uncovering where employees want to develop, whether it’s taking on more responsibilities or moving into a different role, helps managers better create career development paths to get them there.

A New Survey Suggests a Free and Effective Way to Hold Onto Your People

If you still feel shame about an incorrect or poorly perceived contribution to a team meeting, it is time to stop dwelling on it. The remark might be holding you back, but it is likely that everyone else forgot about it months ago.

Fear of judgement: why we are afraid of being judged

The news didn’t make your opinions more rational, it just made you more confident you were right. Rarely do we read things we disagree with. It’s much easier to just put our walls up and tune out.

Why You Should Stop Reading News

Whatever the case, being aware of my level of interest and engagement helps me adjust my energy as the project moves from start to finish. The goal is to maintain equanimity through the project’s lifespan to achieve more even results.

The Project Engagement Dilemma

Even professors who have incorporated directory structure into their courses suspect that they may be clinging to an approach that’s soon to be obsolete.

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The crux of emotional intelligence involves removing unhelpful emotional reactions from your interactions while simultaneously emphasizing helpful reactions and improving the clarity of your thinking.

People Who Embrace the ‘Z-Y-X Rule’ Have Very High Emotional Intelligence

Designers must become environmental activists as we are in a position by the choices we make to change our relationship to the natural world.

32 experts on the most urgent matters facing designers today

In a way, the biggest advantage I had was not knowing anything. Starting with a “blank slate” approach was extremely valuable, as many prior conceptions of how a virus operates did not necessarily apply in the case of this novel coronavirus.

21 Experts on the Future of Expertise

What I believe has served me well is something that’s often overlooked when you think about being the “best” – being easy to work with.

What does “best” mean?

A snapshot of someone’s life on Instagram tells you nothing about that person’s actual life. That’s how we should treat all those things: As pure entertainment, not as inspiration for life.

’Why Am I Not Rich & Famous?’ the Delusion of Our Times

Usually if I learned a concept a long time ago, it means that I’ve lost touch with what it’s like to learn it for the first time today. So running an explanation by a few people who don’t already know the concept helps to catch incorrect assumptions I’ve made.

Patterns in confusing explanations

Step one is to create space between emotion and action. It’s OK to have fear and trust issues. But it’s not OK to let them hold you back.

Don’t Wait to Train Your Successor

People who practice self-compassion treat themselves with kindness, care, and concern in the face of negative experiences.

Self-handicapping: when we avoid effort to protect our self-esteem