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Follow the white rabbit 🐇
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🎶 Something to listen while reading
A confusing experience 🌿
/// For those of you willing to widen your gaze. I suggest the simple act of inhaling microsculptures.
/// Linguistic relativity matters.
/// Sentience matters.
/// On Coding, Ego and Attention
“Trying to avoid making mistakes is what activates this motivated reasoning. But in reality all it does is take energy that should be focused on learning and wastes it trying to preserve our misguided expert identities and incorrect (or at best incomplete) biases.”
/// Always check. No, Aristotle Did Not ‘Create’ The Computer vs. How Aristotle created the Computer.
/// Why tacit knowledge is more important than deliberate practice
Say you’ve got a patient who needs surgery for appendicitis. These days, surgeons will typically do a laparoscopic appendectomy. You slide a small camera—a laparoscope—into the abdomen through a quarter-inch incision near the belly button, insert a long grasper through an incision beneath the waistline, and push a device for stapling and cutting through an incision in the left lower abdomen. Use the grasper to pick up the finger-size appendix, fire the stapler across its base and across the vessels feeding it, drop the severed organ into a plastic bag, and pull it out. Close up, and you’re done. That’s how you like it to go, anyway. But often it doesn’t.
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Even before you start, you need to make some judgments. Unusual anatomy, severe obesity, or internal scars from previous abdominal surgery could make it difficult to get the camera in safely; you don’t want to poke it into a loop of intestine. You have to decide which camera-insertion method to use—there’s a range of options—or whether to abandon the high-tech approach and do the operation the traditional way, with a wide-open incision that lets you see everything directly. If you do get your camera and instruments inside, you may have trouble grasping the appendix.
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Over time, you learn how to head off problems, and, when you can’t, you arrive at solutions with less fumbling and more assurance.
/// We Are What We Watch: Movie Plots Predict the Personalities of Those who “Like” Them
Further analysis reveals various associations between the movies’ psychological themes and their fans’ personalities, indicating congruence between the two. For example, films with keywords related to anxiety are liked more among people who are high in Neuroticism and low in Extraversion. In contrast, angry and violent movies are liked more by people who are low in Agreeableness. Our findings provide a fine-grained mapping between personality dimensions and preferences for media content, and demonstrate how these links can be leveraged for assessing audience psychographics at scale.
/// Failure resume
A failure resume is, as its name suggests, a list of rejections and setbacks. This concept originated in academia, but can be applied to improve one's career, resilience, and approach to challenges in any walk of life.
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🐦 Tweets for thought
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A few notes 🌿
It was last night. I was staring at the opening mouth of our fashionable harsh mistress. I noticed there are a lot more fireworks going on 30-15-10-5 minutes before actually making our way into our mistress's room. I see excitement gathering up together in a rather common concoction. Same goal, disappointing fizzle. Embracing the shiny brand-new mistress and leaving the old one behind. Possibilities ahead. I had to amuse myself, so I quickly compared this to the feeling you experience when upgrading your phone, having a clean slate to set up. All yours. Hedonic adaptation kicks in, and the new contraption gets dull in 1 week. Even this stretch of time is getting thinner. The fireworks mostly stop 5 minutes past midnight. But their intensity is decreasing at 12:01. We were so eager to get rid of our old mistress, so we started our early celebration. Once the new mistress enters the room, the old one gets eaten by our ignorance and lack of defaulting our reflection. We do not celebrate the dance of the new as much as we celebrate getting rid of the old. Intensity increasing at 11:51/52/53/54/55. I might be biased. One can replicate this exercise next year. We are all Bluebeard after all.
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