growingkittens

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by growingkittens 1y ago
I monitor kitten health while fostering. Continuous monitoring can be done to establish a baseline. It requires the right mindset, though. I look at the overall picture of a kitten's health while considering changes in status. The &quo
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by growingkittens 1y ago
Organizing all knowledge requires a flexible system of organization (starting with how the categories are organized and accessed, not the data). Random thoughts about organizing knowledge: - Categories need fractal structures. - Categorie
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by growingkittens 1y ago
I would say that the original poster is intimately familiar with procrastination, because they recognize that the underlying cause of most procrastination is a barrier of some sort. Different people have different combinations barriers, so
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by growingkittens 1y ago
I have always found that when a task becomes difficult to the point of procrastination, that is a sign that the approach to the task needs to be reworked. The phrase "do something instead of nothing" might be more useful than &quo
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by growingkittens 1y ago
I recently wrote this to someone who tends to give commands instead of advice, which is along the same lines: "You can lead a horse to water, and it may not drink. If you drag a horse to water, it will refuse to drink, then kick you,
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by growingkittens 2y ago
Body doubles work especially well for tasks that involve changing visual context and sequencing. As a child, I noticed that my brain worked differently when someone was in my room. I begged my mom to stay in my room so I could clean my room
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by growingkittens 2y ago
> People tend to hoard information. They are scared sharing it will make them look silly, or lose the power they think it provides. People tend to hoard information because they are incentivized to hoard information: it has a real benefi
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by growingkittens 2y ago
This is all because science is systematic (step by step), not systemic (considering the whole system). Both perspectives are required to understand reality. [1] It's time to update science. [1] "Systems Engineering: A systemic and
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by growingkittens 2y ago
"The attack appeared to impact business operations at the company's north Houston campus, as well as some global connectivity networks" Understatement. I think this affects their core systems (heard through the grapevine, of
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by growingkittens 2y ago
I actively collect methods of information organization, so "which have I studied" is too broad to list in a comment. Learning resources - the greatest learning resource is teaching yourself how to learn, and understanding how your
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by growingkittens 2y ago
I have noticed the same effect from studying different methods of information organization (such as ontologies or mind maps). Experience with a structured mental path is a fundamental part of learning. I've seen many educational games
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by growingkittens 2y ago
I am generally considered to be a kind and helpful person. There are many situations where a kindness turns to an expectation, which leads to entitlement: suddenly you are the bad guy if you don't go above and beyond. Being helpful aro
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by growingkittens 2y ago
My mother started teaching me to read as a baby by pointing to the words as she read them. I wonder how that compares?
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by growingkittens 2y ago
Doctors are not able to conceive of patients as a system, because they lack the training and tools to do so. This problem originates from science being systematic (step by step), not systemic (whole system). Both systemic and systematic app
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by growingkittens 2y ago
> I can only imagine how frustrating it is for someone whose career is based on a single treatment to be faced with cases in which that treatment does not work. I could tell from the language she used, however, that in her mind, CBT does
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by growingkittens 2y ago
Absolutely. I use my grandmother as an example of what happens when you take family away from someone. My grandmother lived between orphanages and an abusive mother who literally beat one of her children retarded with a frying pan. She was
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by growingkittens 2y ago
Thank you very much for this guide. I don't know if this falls under your project scope, but I have a suggestion. By default, Obsidian saves links in notes using the "shortest path" , which reduces compatibility: the links do
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by growingkittens 2y ago
It's not Spotify's fault that bots exist, but is their fault that they don't care. DeviantArt built a system that pretends bots are not a problem on the Internet...and gave them a profit motive.
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by growingkittens 2y ago
> Most students are not motivated to learn the subject material. Many students are demoralized by school because schooling doesn't bother telling kids why they are learning something. In elementary school, when the teacher stepped
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by growingkittens 2y ago
I like your interpretation, and GP could be rewritten to mean that. As it stands now: GP responded to someone with presumably bad parents by reminding them that their parents contributed to their existence. This sets the stage for their fol
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by growingkittens 2y ago
I am a good person in spite of my parents. My existence is difficult because my parents were abusive and negligent to a disabled child. My right to exist was questioned by the very people who created me. Is there a viable path toward real
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by growingkittens 3y ago
I also like to have a revolving set of tasks to work on. The tasks can be related or not, but the important part is switching to a task that engages a different part of the brain - allowing the previously engaged part of the brain to rest.
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by growingkittens 3y ago
The study looked at keeping a paper around (underlying situation: a reminder active in a workspace) vs. throwing it away (underlying situation: removing a constant reminder). They didn't study anything in-between, such as removing the
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by growingkittens 3y ago
I have always found analog writing to be a powerful cognitive tool. Writing changes your thoughts from abstract to concrete - and once a thought is "out of your head" on paper, it becomes an entity that you can perform additional
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by growingkittens 3y ago
Jackie Coogan suffered due to a lack of child protection laws - which still don't exist due to the strength of parent's rights in the US.
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by growingkittens 3y ago
*And a working executive function system in your brain. No amount of genuine desire and motivation can fix that issue.
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by growingkittens 3y ago
I live in the American South, where it is absolutely accepted by society and the law.
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by growingkittens 3y ago
There is no correct meaning of the word spanking, just a spectrum of meanings. Each instance has to be evaluated individually, because the spectrum of possible meanings is so wide.
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by growingkittens 3y ago
Barcode scanners are cool. I'm working on setting up a barcode system for my personal library and then probably home inventory. Do you have any recommendations? I found 4 used scanners for cheap (Datalogic Gryphon GD4400).
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by growingkittens 3y ago
You also mention a good strategy for tackling ambiguous problems in any part of life. 10 Identify the problem factors as you currently understand them. 20 Solve simple patterns in the problem to expand your understanding. 30 GOTO 10 until c

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