I think there’s a more general point here about the tendency to teach specific knowledge, rather than fundamental knowledge along with the skills to generalize it, but I’m too tired to come to any real conclusion right now.

Bluesky is an opportunity to “bring in more physics”, designing in friction on the protocol-level as a proactive way to avoid downstream moderation issues. …we highlight the importance of allowing users to freely “plug in” a moderation filter so that users can see what the resulting content looks like before committing to it. This should include asking ourselves: - Is the team designing the protocol and assessing proposals representative of the people who are most hurt/marginalized by these technologies? - Are the initial clients of the protocol diverse? This shouldn’t be another case of US-based initial clients and the rest of the world follows.

There’s a metaphor here, if you want there to be, about how to structure your life to make things easy on yourself. Starting a bike tour is a hard decision, but once you’re on a bike, pedaling is all you can do. If you want to be able to do things that are hard, structure them so that the difficult choices are made up front, and the automatic action to take moves you towards your goal. Figuring out how to apply this lesson to your life is left as an exercise for the reader.

Although project-based learning holds some place in a large percentage of edtech startups today — potentially because the lack of administrative burden makes it more economically efficient — I think the lasting value of this type of education is largely overhyped. …they often attempt to pack too many disparate kinds of learning into the project-based model. In doing so, they can inadvertently make it harder to master fundamental concepts by strengthening strengths and not pushing students to improve their weaknesses. The general level of excitement over revisiting the foundations of education today is super interesting, but it could also be very easy for us to reinvent the wheel in a worse way.

This also tangentially relates to my slippers as portals theory — that the act of eating a meal is a portal back to the home, not something tied to work…A reminder that there is more to life than AWS infrastructure, that there is food, love, and home.

Every strategy has two components to it that are super important. One of them is that you have to be able to see it. Not every feature of a release or a product is visible but everybody should be able to watch a visualization of the product and understand where their work will contribute to that visualization. Which brings us to the second point. The easiest way for people to understand it is to write something like a press release. That’s an interesting question and there is an easy answer, which is, that deadlines are what the team wants it to be. Now a big part about coming up with a deadline is that it is as much about the start as it is about the end date. Because the start date for work should also be the start date for which the end date has integrity. My first rule of meetings is to just not have them and then work backwards. And I don’t mean cliches like we have no meetings on Wednesdays, I mean don’t have meetings until you know what you’re going to accomplish. And the rhythm of the work is very different from the rhythm of the calendar. Things that you just say are weekly or daily or biweekly, they’re never connected to anything except the calendar. This is generally the path that people take: first they divide the product into a frontend and backend. Of course computer science people love that because you have an API, and you have a user interface that’s separate from the data, and it all sounds great—except in all systems for all of software history, the best, most innovative features come from breaking the abstraction layers between the frontend and the backend. The truth is once you have product-market fit, it’s unwise to listen too closely to your users. Because your users are so vested in incrementally improving the product that you’re going to incrementally improve your product to death.

I doubt I even know what really matters to me anymore, so I can just hope to venture back into the world again with wide eyes.

And maintaining this equilibrium isn’t just for my own sake. I want myself to be the most important thing so it can also, simultaneously and paradoxically, become the least important thing.

Posted on Wednesday 31 Mar 2021. 1,339 words, 7 links. By Matt Webb.

Over the past eight years, one thing that’s different is that I take longer breaks. I’ll sometimes go months without writing, which is not something I used to do. I used to write every day. I still take a lot of notes, but I think I allow myself more time to be receptive to the world, as opposed to always worrying about saying something. I think it’s very much a poet’s novel, which means it’s basically—a woman stands out in a field thinking about other times she stood out in a field. And I think a lot of my energy when living in the city was going towards the performance of being human. That idea of “Hello! Look, I got dressed today. Ta-da!”

Speaking to another respectable flesh and blood person forces you to think more clearly.

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I've had a lot of conversations with students lately that start with disclaimers like "I'm sorry, I'm not really good at math, so..." and since it's not so easy to give a pep talk in-person with the whole pandemic and everything, I thought I'd give the pep talk here. (Just keep in mind that I'm not a very good mathematician, so... KIDDING! I'm a perfectly capable mathematician!) ^-- If you felt like you wanted more about being stuck, click some of these --v - Ben Orlin has a conversation with Andrew Wiles, one of the GOATs of mathematics, about being stuck: https://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2017/09/20/the-state-of-being-stuck/ - Kate Poirier asks students to reflect on belonging in mathematics: https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/poiriermat1575fall2020/2020/10/23/assignment-are-you-bad-at-math-really/

Understanding requires effortful engagement; you are not likely to draw much understanding from a folder of barely-skimmed PDFs.

25th of March, 2021. Part of the Topos Institute Colloquium. ----- Abstract: The climate crisis is part of a bigger transformation in which humanity realizes that the Earth is a finite system and that no physical quantity can grow exponentially forever. This transformation may affect mathematics — and be affected by it — just as dramatically as the agricultural and industrial revolutions did. After a review of the problems, we discuss how mathematicians can help make this transformation a bit easier, and some ways in which mathematics may change.

silence’s grammar Embodied presence also liberates us from the need to prematurely reach for explanations and solutions — for an answer. If I can only speak, then the use of words will require me to search for sense. Silence can contemplate the mysterious, the absurd, and the act of grace, but words must search for reasons and solutions.

I’ve never dreamed big enough. You know what happens when you’re too scared to dream big? Or when the circumstances of your life limit your imagination? By the time someone finally asks you what you want, you have no idea how to answer that question. You have to practice knowing what you want, just like you have to practice anything else. Can you describe your wildest dreams to someone else? Can you even describe them to yourself? Practice now. Why not?

We’re so busy tracking completion — how many miles run, books read, calories burned, cities visited — that we forget to remember a project’s value in the first place.

Look for me In the people I’ve known Or loved, And if you cannot give me away, At least let me live on in your eyes And not your mind.

Neurobiology sometimes seem so reductive. Do you worry about that?

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Are there any famous/notable mathematicians who have their own YouTube channel? I found this amazing video regarding the book. The YouTube channel name is The Math Sorcerer, but I don't know what ...

But I think we need to make a conscious effort to realize: every time is different. Even if you put the same effort in and make the same decisions, the world, the people in it, and you, have all changed. What worked before, might not work now. The idea that failed before, well — maybe its day has come.

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This is how I used to do most of my writing: out in public, in the midst of things. I’d forgotten how much I missed it. ​ We imagine offices and classrooms and weddings, the casual tenderness with which we’ll interact. I think Peterson is right. It will take some time to move past what we’ve just gone through. Move past we will. I already am, giddy to be with others. And yet: I’d argue that some elements of our grief should stick with us.

Kevin Buzzard's invited talk at CICM arguing that getting undergraduate mathematics formalised in theorem provers is useful and important. Slides at http://wwwf.imperial.ac.uk/~buzzard/one_off_lectures/ug_maths.pdf

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