It is always a trade off. “Locking up my money and forgoing consumption for a year might not be as painful as slaving away behind a cash register for 1000 hours, but it’s not nothing.” https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/why-do-people-get-paid-to-invest
Art is fun if you know a lot. This channel helps you with that.
I do not agree with all, but there is wisdom in all of them. “Most social norms have no consequences when you break them. People who’ve figured this out keep saying “you can just do things” because it’s true. Society… Read More »50 Things I Know
It is more complicated than 5 steps of separation.
I do not really care but now I know.
I love Ed’s blog posts. You should read them. “OpenAI’s launch of ChatGPT was next up, triggering an international arms race for AI and what looks set to be the largest movement of capital in technology ever. “I kept seeing… Read More »Ed Zitron is mad as hell
It is weird. “What followed was three hours of flying in lazy circles, like a very expensive, very slow merry-go-round. After the allotted time, we are informed that we must fly to Iceland to refuel and then we will be… Read More »Greenland
This is why census and biometrics exists. “In August 2023, over one million Paraguayans disappeared. Results from the 2022 census, released that month, put the number of Paraguayans at 6.1 million — 1.4 million fewer than the numbers projected by… Read More »Why Governments Can’t Count
Lot of fun stuff. “People have exactly N names, for any value of N.” https://shinesolutions.com/2018/01/08/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names-with-examples/
“Martin Seligman’s research (1967, 1975) demonstrated that individuals exposed to uncontrollable outcomes eventually cease trying. In workplaces, this sounds like constant negativity: “Nothing will ever change.”Example: After years of ignored feedback, an employee criticises every new policy. The complaint is… Read More »How can I deal with a team member who is always complaining?