"Is it necessary that every single person on this planet expresses every single opinion that they have on every single thing that occurs all at the same time?” he asks. “Can anyone, any single one, can anyone shut the fuck up about anything, any single thing? Can any single person shut the fuck up about … Continue reading Silence & Wanting to Be Heard
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Email & Tool Choice
Like everyone, I get more email than I really want. Most of it is newsletters. I usually use Thunderbird for email. It incorporates most of my email into one interface. It uses IMAP to pull the information from the email providers' servers, so I don't have to use some janky, javascript laden website for email. … Continue reading Email & Tool Choice
Film Review: Cruella
tl;dr: Derivative, thin plot but with inspired acting, visuals and costume design. Not recommended, but there are worse ways to spend 2 hours and 14 minutes. Generally speaking, I think it is best to offer reviews for things that are excellent or in exceptional circumstances, advice to avoid something terrible. Cruella is neither of these … Continue reading Film Review: Cruella
A China Prediction: A Debt Deleveraging in a Decade
"What happens when torrid monetary and fiscal reflation in the West meets tighter credit and evaporating liquidity in China?We will find out soon enough who calls the shots for world inflation in a globalised economy dominated by cross-border capital flows. We will also find out whether these two colliding forces moderate each other, or set off the … Continue reading A China Prediction: A Debt Deleveraging in a Decade
The P-Factor
"'One of the most interesting origins for much of this aberrant thought comes out of harsh and inconsistent and unpredictable early environments,' Caspi tells me. 'Those kinds of experiences that set up the anticipation of bad things happening, or they set up the anticipation of being rejected, they set up the anticipation of being violated, … Continue reading The P-Factor
Running, Building a Base and R.O.T.C.
I've never actually looked up what R.O.T.C. meant, the Reserve Officers' Training Corps apparently, but it was always clear to me what it was about. It was a combination of education and military training. I've never really liked the idea, and it wasn't until yesterday that I had some insight into why. I'm in the … Continue reading Running, Building a Base and R.O.T.C.
The Challenge of the 20%
"One fifth of people are against everything all the time."-Robert Kennedy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4NkkAQllfo I was reading somewhere that communities evolve away from reason to affirmation. In the initial stages of community formation, there are many elements that serve as a kernel that the community can form around. Sometimes it is an idea. Sometimes it is a … Continue reading The Challenge of the 20%
A Drake Equation for Alien Artifacts
"I propose a version of the Drake Equation for Lurkers on near-Earth objects. By using it, one can compare a Search for Extraterrestrial Artifacts (SETA) strategy of exploring for artifacts to the conventional listening-to-stars SETI strategy, which has thus far found no artificial signals of technological origin. In contrast, SETA offers a new perspective, a … Continue reading A Drake Equation for Alien Artifacts
Preferring Pain to High Cognitive Effort
"Cognitive effort is described as aversive, and people will generally avoid it when possible. This aversion to effort is believed to arise from a cost–benefit analysis of the actions available. The comparison of cognitive effort against other primary aversive experiences, however, remains relatively unexplored. Here, we offered participants choices between performing a cognitively demanding task … Continue reading Preferring Pain to High Cognitive Effort
HumanIPO
"Invest in people you believe in...HumanIPO is a marketplace for capitalizing human potential.—https://humanipo.app/ Ingenious new form of finance under late-stage capitalism or fresh coat on old idea. Thought experiment what if the unit of shares were expressed in years? That'd be called indentured servitude. Express it as fraction of a share or in dollars, you've … Continue reading HumanIPO
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