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The dissolution of Apple’s elite design team(fastcompany.com)
11 points by robg 4y ago|0 comments
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by robg 4y ago
This topic always makes me think of Thomas Nagel’s classic, What is it like to be a bat? https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/iatl/study/ugmodules/hum...
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by robg 4y ago
1. Start with sleep. The glymphatic nervous system washes away the brain damage caused by daily stress. Not enough or low quality sleep and brain damage is accumulating. Go to bed and realize that time in bed doesn’t equal time asleep. Lowe
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by robg 4y ago
Seems like the email should be the confirmation, and without the confirmation the trial stops. Opting in with a yes alone, when my four year olds can now ask Alexa for stuff, seems like a terrible design choice by itself.
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by robg 4y ago
This narrative is tiresome. Squid game alone was worth the monthly cost. There’s just good competition now.
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by robg 4y ago
I’m raising three, they each have their own spark, no? Calling it natural and innate is just as underspecified as saying God-given or lucky or a leap of faith.
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by robg 4y ago
“So, too, does Kierkegaard advocate a leap, not out of reason or against reason (the swimmer has done some intellectual preparation), but recognizing that forward movement in life is not primarily a function of our rational capacities but o
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Kierkegaard’s Leap of Faith(academic.logos.com)
2 points by robg 4y ago|2 comments
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by robg 4y ago
Too narrow a view of faith. Kirkegaard wrote of a “leap of faith” by which the will and passion necessary to believe in yourself and your abilities is inherently spiritual. Rather than a blind leap, we use reason to literally and figurative
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by robg 4y ago
Thanks for sharing this, great read, love this analysis: “Spinoza and Kierkegaard are very different thinkers in many ways, but I see them as connected in this resistance to objectified religion. Spinoza’s insistence that religion is a vir
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by robg 5y ago
Working in this space and seeing the potential for true smart displays tied to lifestyles, curious what folks would want to see in TVs as a better medium than phones. What features do you want? What pain points do you have that huge immersi
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Why American Teens Are So Sad(theatlantic.com)
9 points by robg 5y ago|5 comments
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Measuring progress (and gaps) in the US skilled technical workforce(beta.nsf.gov)
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How to Live a Happy Life(ox.ac.uk)
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by robg 5y ago
What are you using to benchmark sleep quality?
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Neuroergonomic tactics can relieve cognitive burden(aeon.co)
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New tools use artificial intelligence to assist students with autism, dyslexia(nytimes.com)
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by robg 5y ago
Highly recommend Smile by Brian Wilson too. It’s caught out of time but a masterwork of what was coming. As we lose musical prodigies to their genius, for decades and forever, their impact moves me and my family by the grace of bringing emo
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by robg 5y ago
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankyl
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The Peculiar Blindness of Experts(theatlantic.com)
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by robg 5y ago
In neuroscience absolutely, from behaviorism, to the cognitive sciences, to modern techniques of every grain size. Psychology is still awash though in pseudoscience.
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Probe Reveals Government Access to Unregulated Internet Data Streams(wsj.com)
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by robg 5y ago
The analytics here are really interesting but the general framework is not new. I was doing this work 20 years ago: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16672666/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17243357&#x2
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by robg 5y ago
Start with Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankyl
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by robg 5y ago
Where AI and neural networks still have so much to learn from actual intelligence. Seems like the technical and computational problem set for this century, where a greater understanding of brains will branch out more broadly.
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First images of cerebrospinal fluid in the brain during sleep (2019)(bu.edu)
347 points by robg 5y ago|111 comments
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A suicide hotline’s use of data echoes Silicon Valley’s privacy debates(subscriber.politicopro.com)
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UFOs, the Channel Islands and the Navy's 'drone swarm' mystery(thehill.com)
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by robg 5y ago
I love the Pollan shorthand: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. By food, he means stuff with minimal processing. A potato, not potato chips, fruit not juices, etc. Let how the food is prepared guide your choices as if you were processin
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by robg 5y ago
In order: 1. Moving more means 2. Sleeping better means 3. Stressing less means 4. Eating well Treat your brain and body as biological knowledge engines. Decades of research have shown how exercise, sleep, stress, and nutrition affect learn

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