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Maybe talking to ourselves in the mirror works after all – I don’t talk to myself in the mirror, but I talk to myself a lot in my journals. We talk about long-term responsibility to the natural eco-system and to society, but my suspicion is that till we learn to undertake long-term responsibility for ourselves, we will not be in the position to undertake that on a societal level. It didn’t matter what I achieved professionally, or how many people told me how good my work was. I felt empty, fragile and exhausted. I felt like I had to keep up that relentless pursuit just so I can be continually validated so I can continually exist. Can you imagine asking anyone these days how long their project would take, and how your response would be if they reply, “30 years”? We would be shocked if they said something like 3 years.

Roam has a learning curve, but after a few weeks of playing with it I already love it much more than Evernote and Notion. Here's why, and how I'm using it.

And it’s here where I made the crucial mistake – I prioritized winning over improving. do I do something that’s uncomfortable that will eventually push me to be better? Or do I prioritize winning right now, even if it doesn’t help me later? I chose the latter, to my detriment. It’s strange to say it, but for me, it’s far more comfortable being uncomfortable, than it is to be content on a seemingly endless plateau.

Companies are a sequencing of loops. While it’s possible to stumble into an initial core loop that works, the companies that are successful in the long term are the ones that can repeatedly find the next loop. However, this evolution is poorly understood relative to its existential impact on a company’s trajectory. Figma is a … Continue reading Why Figma Wins →

Supercompensation theory states that when an appropriate training load is applied to an athlete, followed by an appropriate recovery, the athlete’s body not only returns to the previous baseline, but supercompensates in order to be prepared for a greater future training load. The hardest person to coach is usually yourself.

Funnily enough, I was dancing to “Memories” earlier today while listening to the Spring ’20 mix.

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It is my 37th birthday today, and what I really crave, more than anything, is a continuity to my days. Not an accumulation, the sense that they’re adding up to anything, not necessarily, just a continuity. The sense that one day leads into another leads into another leads into another on and on and on.

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All that goes to say, if you just one day got rid of pre-publication peer review entirely – just got rid of it, full stop – there’s no reason to believe that the overall quality of published research would go down, at all. You’re still incentivized to publish your best work; arguably more so because you no longer have the cover of “being peer reviewed” as legitimacy. There will still be good research, and bad research. And post-publication peer review will still be able to pass judgement on anything it wants.

The academic journal business model is a funny one, because the journals themselves don’t actually do much work. The content is produced by PIs, for free, who apply for publication in hope of getting selected. Other PIs who review and curate submissions also work for free: it’s considered a part of academic duty, and prestigious to accept but disastrous to decline. In short, aside from the cost of ink and postage, academic journals deal in one thing only: positional scarcity. The real shame in academic publishing, if you ask me, isn’t Elsevier’s 35% profit margin on journal subscriptions. It’s the much larger amount of money, time and influence that is regressively taxed from the young scientists, to the old ones, in exchange for nothing but brand access.

Only rarely do online-first takes on economics, management theory, cultural theory, and analytic philosophy, among others, make the leap into academia, that other internet of texts. There are perhaps numerous reasons why this is the case. A significant one, though, is the lack of coherent citation and attribution practices on the web.

Truly take a moment to think about it: How do you want to occupy space online? What are your goals? It’s nice when people treat their social media accounts as extensions of themselves, rather than as ads for themselves. The internet should not be a space to spam innocent bystanders with Soundcloud links and promotional blurbs. Instead, it should be a space to really exist inside of, and a place where you can forge connections that organically grow into mutual interest in—and support for—each other. Online friends are just different than your IRL friends. So, do not drop your friends or completely abandon your “old life” when you get a few hundred or thousand followers online.

Even if offices vanished entirely, that would only make room for new urban functions that would probably be more vital, further consolidating the city’s relevance.

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A sign of great hardware and software is in forgetting about it, smoothly allowing it to integrate with your life — drawing fluency from it. ​ Speed and reliability are often intuited hand-in-hand. Speed can be a good proxy for general engineering quality.

Buy/Stream: https://anjunabeats.ffm.to/20mz.pbt Follow Anjunabeats New Releases on Spotify: anjunabeats.ffm.to/newreleases.pbt Find out more about #Anjunabeats20: https://anjunabeats.com/20/ Release Date: 11th June 2020 Born and bred in London, Anjunabeats started life as a university project in the year 2000. Today, Anjunabeats is one of the world’s best-loved dance labels. Over 700 releases spanning two decades wear the iconic Anjuna ‘A’. To celebrate, they’ve opened the vault for a handpicked group of artists from the label’s 20-year history. Each artist will sift through thousands of hours of music to create a definitive, mix of their all-time favourite Anjunabeats releases. On 11 June, GRAMMY nominee Mat Zo delivers the second mix in the series. "Anjunabeats is a label with a lot of history, and it's cool to be a part of that. I've seen the label evolve over the years from relatively humble beginnings, and it's amazing to still be a part of it 12 years later. With this mix, I wanted to show how broad the range of Anjunabeats and Anjunadeep is, and what drew me to the label in the first place.” - Mat Zo 1. Michael Cassette - Zeppelin 2. Signalrunners - Meet Me in Montauk 3. Myon & Shane 54 - Not A Lot Left 4. Andy Moor - Fake Awake (Ecomix) 5. Bart Claessen - Elf (2001 Returning Mix) 6. Signalrunners & Julie Thompson - These Shoulders (Club Mix) 7. David West feat. Andreas Hermansson - Larry Mountains 54 8. Maor Levi - Illumina 9. David West - Welsh Morphology 10. Kyau & Albert - Kiksu 11. Above & Beyond - World On Fire (12 Inch Mix) 12. Maor Levi - Shapes (Oliver Smith Remix) Website: www.anjunabeats.com Anjunastore: www.anjunastore.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/anjunabeats Twitter: www.twitter.com/anjunabeats Spotify: Anjunabeats.lnk.to/NewReleasesYo/Spotify Instagram: www.instagram.com/anjunabeats SoundCloud: @anjunabeats Reddit: reddit.com/r/AboveandBeyond Discord: www.discord.gg/anjuna

The third hurdle is your ego ⏤ be extra cautious when you already prefer an option. It will be hard to let go of it to explore alternatives.

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Of the familiar Propitious haze? Of snug unawareness. The dark hangs heavily Over the eyes.

I notice the “you don't belong here” looks when I dress a certain way. You may read each of these encounters and think “this isn’t so bad” in isolation, but a lifetime of small injustices is a massive boulder to carry.

Failures in an organization larger than 1,000 people are attributable to failed communication. The question mark is underused, the exclamation point overused. Treat headings as the structure of your argument, not your document. So only show [numbers] after you are done presenting your main point.

Fewer than 1 percent of doctorates in math are awarded to African-Americans. Edray Goins, who earned one of them, found the upper reaches of the math world a challenging place.

cabinets of my will. On such legs as are left me, My taste will not have turned insensitive To honey and bread old purity could love.

Outside the leaves flame usual in darkness and the rain and breathing in the quiet air

Let’s remember these words when the current protests have died down, and the world has moved on to the next thing. That will be the test of really means it — as opposed to who is just jumping on the bandwagon — when they say #blacklivesmatter.