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by jansho 9y ago
It doesn't have to be that complicated though. For example, there's a window of opportunity in everyone's lives where the brain is at its most plastic and 90% of development occurs: between 2 to 5 years old. Yup, preschoolers
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I love Elon Musk's original vision. I think we need one backup plan as radical as that. But when you have others like Jeff Bezos jumping on the bandwagon, it becomes a race and I wonder about the true motives. Race for what? Humanity,
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You can do the same for younger siblings who may sometimes struggle with school, friendship, love, career and life in general. I have two and they both want to be engineers. One of them is very similar in character to me - and I'm alre
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> This motivates many of the conclusions of Stoic thought: the moderation, the development of awareness about one's sphere of control. I've always admired stoicism but found that the principles aren't exclusive to this. Bu
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> However, money can also provide the means to choose your challenge rather than to be forced to always deal with survival. This. I agree with the comment overall, but just in case someone is reading my comments from last night, there&#x
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I think today is my bad wordsmith day. I was so detached from feeling reality, I felt jealous when I saw scavengers in Nigeria finding 'treasure' in the junk yard that they can fix and sell in the market. And when I was in a not s
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> The part of my brain that was able to rationalise the distorted thoughts had stopped working, and now I was believing every irrational fear that came into my brain as if it were absolute fact. I descended rapidly into paranoid delusio
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This looks super interesting. Like putting mini books in the margins of a big book, plus the novelty factor of the book design itself. But would it have the same delicious effect that Mr Abrams had when he first found said book that inspire
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Hmm my edtech aims for global literacy; so a reading programme for ESL kids who may be disadvantaged enough to only have access to a smartphone. So that at least frees me from that glum thought of IQ vs Nurture tug-o-war. While I'm a
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When you find yourself in this situation, it's a good idea to "zoom out" a little and get closer to nature and real people. I took long walks, trying to soak up the sun, trees, insects everything. I also walked all over the c
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I also identify with you. I struggled to find the venture that hits the "golden point", where it solves a genuine problem, doesn't disrupt to the point of messing up lives, is beautiful (by virtue of having an arty-farty pers
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Ah sorry, I got it wrong twice. But you got me thinking again: because this ransomware is targeting the infrastructure itself (national healthcare service) isn't this playing with fear too? If I was in hospital, or my friends/fami
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I meant it in a more general way: a group of horrible people taking over a core function of society and saying "If you don't do x we will do y." And they will actually do y. As you may have gathered, my original statement is
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From the Guardian: "He adds that the fear is that the ransonware cannot be broken and thus data and files infected are either lost or that the only way to get them back would be to pay the ransom, which would involve giving money to c
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"in a small number of ecosystems, like Facebook, Google, Twitter, YouTube and so on ." Hope that's clearer now.
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How Platforms Are Poisoning Conversations(theatlantic.com)
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Self-Compassion Works Better Than Self-Esteem(theatlantic.com)
428 points by jansho 9y ago|148 comments
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Where was I even subjective there? Of course the way the systems are designed affect how we communicate and how information is made available, whether for good or for bad . Now it's necessary to consider them because hatred has gone v
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I have a feeling that we agree on the issue at heart. Thanks for being courteous and responding back :) Internet 2.0 is something that I struggle with, there's just way too many factors to consider. On paper (or mind) a decentralised i
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Wars are actions driven by hatred when hatred becomes the status quo. Hatred can be the status quo of the Internet. The Internet may just be a collection of information, but it is continually being shaped by user actions. The Internet is
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To be fair, Bush seems a lot nicer after he took up painting
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> More often than not, wonderful things are created out of hatred for the status-quo. Example? Cos I'm not a fan of the rationalisation of the World Wars as "okay but it did advance technology a lot." Hatred is what imbala
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> Not only have tabloids been doing it, but all journalism--just look at the 1890s and how "fake" news was. Except now there's so much happening so fast, we can't keep up! Plus with "personalisation", no one
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Well no the point is that while all roles are important, some are so foundational that if they break down, the whole system breaks down. Innovation doesn't happen all the time, and it needn't to, as long as the system is stable an
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Not a teacher but an instructional designer. Digital courses tend to have very high dropout rates so my job is to design the best possible eLearning experience with maximum information/skill retention. I credit my successes (apologies
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Yes all roles are important. If elephants get wiped out, there will be some consequences. If insects or algae gets wiped out, the world is apocalyptically screwed.
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> I get about a third of the way through a lot of books and say "ok I get it", as the author basically just continues to say the same thing in different ways. With you here, I thought the same with "Quiet" and "S
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Technology is a special case; it's changing so rapidly that there isn't time to academically study its full-scale impact. But the impact of social media on self esteem, especially on vulnerable people, is well-studied. https:&#x2
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From both consumer and designer perspectives, Instagram is my favourite social media. It strikes a beautiful balance overall: quick to post; very low commitment if I choose to; a gold mine of info, inspiration and talent if you know where t
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> Anecdotally, I've never seen one interview with Zuckerberg where a journalist actually calls him out on his "we're just connecting people" poppycock. I have no doubt that intentions can be good. But I find it very

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