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by mrxd 6y ago
Getting a voice teacher made a huge difference for me. I wouldn't have been able to make anywhere close to the same progress on my own. Having tried it, I think singing is poorly suited to self-learning. In my experience, vocal lessons
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by mrxd 6y ago
That’s probably true some of the time, but I think there’s a mode of mental health issues that I’ve experienced personally and seen in others who approach life with one foot on the gas and one foot on the brake. Basically, my hypothesis is
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by mrxd 6y ago
I'm sympathetic to the viewpoint that social media has some negative consequences, but I still think this is a really valuable satirical measure. What I've seen is that journalists often seem to think that if social scientists can
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by mrxd 6y ago
You have to pick colors and typefaces, why not pick good ones? There are probably millions of choices that are both beautiful and functional. The author seems to believe that there's an essential zero-sum relationship between form and
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by mrxd 7y ago
Great study. As usual, Robert Wright’s evopsych tendencies have him barking up the wrong tree. White college educated liberals are highly empathetic towards racial minorities, people they don’t have any kind of “tribal” or “in group” connec
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by mrxd 7y ago
So good and brilliant. I'm a huge fan of Amber A’Lee Frost.
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by mrxd 7y ago
Two things that I think are true: 1. Ordinary people reject expertise in ways that are incredibly stupid and harmful 2. Experts have expanded the scope of what they feel entitled to have opinions about well beyond their training and experie
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by mrxd 8y ago
Yes thank you, I'm aware of how traffic lights work. They don't rely exclusively on color—clearly a different design philosophy from the advice of this article, which is to not use color at all for functional purposes.
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by mrxd 8y ago
> color is in no way an "extra". It is functional, and treating it merely as ornament instead will lead to a more limited, more likely worse design Completely agree. It's a bizarre suggestion, to just arbitrarily drop one
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The Sharing Economy Was Dead on Arrival(daily.jstor.org)
64 points by mrxd 8y ago|90 comments
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by mrxd 8y ago
I have read the book, and found it frustrating for the same reasons I mentioned. For example, the core concept of System 1 vs System 2. He says somewhere in the book early on that they aren't actually "systems", i.e. a physic
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by mrxd 8y ago
Maybe it's just me, but I find Kahneman frustrating to read and this article really demonstrates the problem: he defines a concept and then gives examples which don't meet the definition. He defines intuition as thinking you know
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by mrxd 8y ago
It sounds like you're saying there shouldn't be stories with villains in the leading role? We shouldn't ever empathize with or put ourselves in the shoes of flawed characters? There's a school of thought that says that p
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by mrxd 8y ago
> The sooner we get rid of the emotion, the better, probably. Let's look at how this plays out in the real world. Someone gets dumped because they were a terrible partner. We hope that the pain of loss motivates them to do better in
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by mrxd 8y ago
The long term implications of "expediting" recovery in this way are troubling to me. It's natural to feel grief when you lose something in your life that was important, valuable and made you happy. You could shortcut that pro
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by mrxd 9y ago
I think you raise a good point. This is possibly the effect of using apps to lower the transaction costs of arranging services. It allows work projects to be decomposed into isolated, repetitive micro-jobs. Another aspect of gig economy com
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by mrxd 9y ago
What I took from this study is not that men are bad, but that bad behavior towards women is ultimately caused by male dominance hierarchies. It suggests that the best way to reduce hostility to women is by eliminating those hierarchies rath
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by mrxd 9y ago
What do you mean by “just as capable”? This research studied a case where men did not band together, but that low status men behaved differently from high status men.
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by mrxd 9y ago
This PDF lists figures for Seattle's Class A and B office space on the bottom of page 2: http://team.transwestern.net/Market-Research/Documents/West%... According to this, Seattle has 50.7 million square feet
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by mrxd 9y ago
This explains why Kahneman's book "Thinking, Fast and Slow" was such a hit. The easiest way to write a bestselling book is to tell people what they've heard a hundred times before. It does call into question the feasibil
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by mrxd 9y ago
> From that, other things follow: embracing change, learning to be a better spouse, etc In my experience, the harder it is to dissolve a relationship, the worse it is. There's no incentive for good behavior because the other person
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by mrxd 9y ago
Which of these interviews specially gave you that impression? I read a few and searched through the rest with various keywords, and I don't really see how you came to that conclusion. "minimalis[m/t]" - 2 mentions in 11
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by mrxd 9y ago
Without 'literal': don't be shy With 'literal': don't stand by the wall
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by mrxd 10y ago
> The Protestant work ethic is centered on the notion that work is a holy vocation The Protestant work ethic emerged from the Calvinist doctrine of predestination (who is saved and damned is decided by God in advance) and the belief that
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by mrxd 10y ago
I assume this was written in response to the widespread assumption that Ross Perot's business success was a qualification for the presidency.
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by mrxd 10y ago
It seems logical to me that as society grows more complex and sophisticated, citizens require more years of education to ensure political stability. Restricting education to what's needed for employment creates a class division between
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by mrxd 10y ago
OK, but what if a parent believes that there's a 75% chance of kidnapping (reality: 0.01%), but they leave their child unattended? Arguably they haven't done anything wrong because their child was not exposed to any risk in realit
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by mrxd 11y ago
A little naive, IMO. Parents don't actually have freedom and flexibility because they are constantly watched by paranoid neighbors on a hair trigger for any possible sign of abuse. When the government creates a rule like this, it actua
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by mrxd 11y ago
This articles has some basic misunderstandings about what artists and DJs use Soundcloud for, and how money is made in the underground music world. Consumers buy tickets to a DJ's show, DJ pays indie label, label pays artist. So three
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by mrxd 11y ago
I have a hard time with Andy implying that criticism of the hamburger menu comes from "young designers" sniping on Twitter. In fact it comes from many, many prominent UX writers like NNG, Luke Wroblewski, etc. looking at real data

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