[Shows that are understandable on mute have a strong visual context.]
[Comic books have visual cues that support the text.]
[Some stories have narratives that use predictable tropes, which are easier to grasp than improvised situations.]
[Certain shows are focused on a single domain whereas news can move freely between multiple.]
[Political dramas or technical lectures requires specific domain knowledge.]
[Overdubbed content can be simplified because things don't always translate.]
[Listening to a news broadcast has some shared language with conversation, but they require different skills and different vocabularies. Better to narrowly focus on one and move on after you master it.]
[There is a disputed theory that mistakes in geometric repetitions were intentionally made to show humility and how only God can produce perfection.]
[The binary form of AABB provides enough variation to allow a dance to be extended indefinitely.]
The Dangers of Intellectualized Emotions
[Avoid using umbrella terms (like upset, overwhelmed, stressed, weird, okay) or metaphors (like soread too thin) and try to use plain language (sad, angry, frustrated, confused, scared, disappointed) to communicate emotions directly.]
[To eat healthy, it isn't enough to avoid unhealthy food, it is necessary to keep your home stocked with healthy alternatives. Make the right thing easy.]
Message from Beloved Osho on his Birthday
[Whatever exists is full of God. The green of the trees, the bark of a dog, a child laughing.]
[Asking 'where is God' is the wrong question because they cannot be indicated anywhere. Ask 'where God is not']
[God is reflected through you. If you are filled with love, then God is everywhere.]
Five Things To Read Today About Female Sexuality
[The popular understanding of rape is a stranger in a dark alleyway, but in reality 90% of victims know their rapists.]
[Self-partnering is learning to trust yourself and your body to guide you. Questioning our ability to make the right choices leaves the door open for others to disorient you (intentionally or not).]
Love and Meditation, Yoga and Tantra
[Loneliness is a feeling of incompleteness, aloneness is the feeling that you are enough.]
[When lonely people meet, the misery is multiplied.]
[Real love is to help the other to be alone, to not need you.]
[Don't expect love, give it, without waiting for something in return.]
[Love the other not as a person but as a god, then instead of ordinary lust love becomes worship.]
[Loneliness is boredom with yourself, aloneness is bliss.]
[With the right approach, love makes you meditative and meditation makes you loving.]
[Finding meditation through love is Tantra. Finding love through meditation is Yoga.]
WebMD, And The Tragedy Of Legible Expertise
[All drugs have infinite possible side effects.]
[Warning people too little might cause death and lawsuits. Warning people too much might cause avoidance that leads to death and lawsuits.]
[When institutional pressures force people to optimize for things that compromise the primary research, those with more resources might be worse at the job than those with less.]
There are no First World countries
[Trying to create something new makes it hard to predict what the 'goals' are in advance, they must be dynamic and respond to the environment.]
[Focus on the tradeoffs you are willing to make as opposed to concrete goals.]
[Autonomy is not about doing whatever you want: it's about being able to act in the moment using a deep understanding of current resources and constraints.]
Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System
[A system with an unchecked positive loop will destroy itself.]
[The United States goverment's Toxic Release Inventory from 1986 required factories to report hazardous air emission publicly each year, which reduced emissions by forty percent over a few decades with no fines or determinations of 'safe' levels: information itself is valuable when it puts bad actors on a list they don't want to be on.]
[Trolling is about the reaction and not the content.]
How to write good prompts: using spaced repetition to create understanding
[Prompt writing is similar to translating text in that you avoid a rote or mechanical approach in favour of one that 'stimulates the right thoughts']
[A basic knowledge of chicken stock could include: how to make and store it; why it's important; ways to use it; some common variations.]
[When memorizing lists, write explanation prompts for each element to make generating the collection on-demand easier.]
[Some lenses that you can use to identify elements that are important to memorize are: attributes and tendencies for what makes it so and what's always or never true; similarities and differences between adjacent concepts; listing examples or how it forms a part or whole; causes and effects describing what it does and does not do, what makes it so, and when it is used; significance and implications relating to why it matters or what it suggests.]
The internet didn’t kill counterculture—you just won’t find it on Instagram
[Actual power controls the means by which lesser power is displayed. It doesn't need a social media presence because it owns social media.]
[Metaphors can be misleading when aspects of the source are not in the target, or vice versa, for example: saying that a word processor is like a type-writer will not cause someone to look for a 'replace' command.]
[A city designed by the same architect using the same visual appearance would be difficult to navigate and somewhat boring.]
[Language allows us to reference things that are not visible or things from the future in a way that see-and-point does not.]
[Sacrificing control allows us to benefit from the effort of others. We may not want someone re-arranging our desk, but notifications, automatic trash cleaning, and background news fetching are all useful.]
How to Validate Your Business Idea in 3 Steps (The Right Way)
[If 2% convert, 98% still hate your guts. Focus on building relationships and helping people with their objectives instead of these numbers.]
The Technium: Scenius, or Communal Genius
[Scenius is the communal form of genius.]
Mutual appreciation — Risky moves are applauded by the group, subtlety is appreciated, and friendly competition goads the shy. Scenius can be thought of as the best of peer pressure.
Rapid exchange of tools and techniques — As soon as something is invented, it is flaunted and then shared. Ideas flow quickly because they are flowing inside a common language and sensibility.
Network effects of success — When a record is broken, a hit happens, or breakthrough erupts, the success is claimed by the entire scene. This empowers the scene to further success.
Local tolerance for the novelties — The local “outside” does not push back too hard against the transgressions of the scene. The renegades and mavericks are protected by this buffer zone.
[They're often unremarkable from the outside.]
[A scenius is a form of genius scattered amongst members of a scene, characterized by: mutual appreciation by everyone of risky moves and subtlety; rapid exchange of ideas, especially something invented in the community; network effects when something is successful.]
[It cannot be bought into existence. If it appears, fan the flames and keep accountants, architects, police, and do-gooders away. Let it remain inefficient, edgy, and on the fringes.]
Gina Bianchini Discusses Deeper Networking
[During the interview, rather than trying to hype or sell your company, ask the candidate what is important to them? Try to understand what is the fit. How can they have the best professional experience of their life while moving the company's goals forward?]
Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice
[If you can't help someone, pass them to the appropriate person with a recommendation. Doing this right will make two people happy and more disposed to helping you in the future.]
[Sell solutions to increase revenue or decrease cost, nothing else.]
[The question 'What is your previous salary?' is about finding ways to pay you less money.]
[Always have counteroffers, including non-monetary ones. If they can't go higher on salary, talk about vacation.]
[Communication skills: describe the level of your programming abilities as stories of building systems that helped millions of kids to learn and made tons of money for the company.]
[Modesty is not career-enhancing in American business culture.]
