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it’s that simple
it’s that simple
likely in childhood, when life seemed to limit itself to the small world around us. that the contours of their experience were articulated It reminds me of the passage I quote in my original piece from social psychologist Devon Price: “If a person’s behavior doesn’t make sense to you,” Price writes, “it is because you are missing a part of their context. It’s that simple.” As I said last week, no one’s “bottom half of their to-do list” — the things they avoid and find themselves incapable of completing — are exactly the same, and the consequences of the inability to complete them are different. The question can’t just be how I can prevent my burnout; it has to be how I can prevent yours. The answer will entail not just creating better workplaces, but also becoming better people. How can you communicate to your kid — in a way that they will actually hear and trust and internalize — that you care about them learning, but that their ability to get into a “good” college is not tied to your love for them? How can you work to make the “mental load” in your household visible to your partner, and collaborate with them, in a way that’s not passive aggressive or creating even more load, to share it? How can you implement policies in your workplace that don’t incentivize demonstrations of “overwork”? (It’s not just saying that there’s no expectation to answer emails after 6 pm, for example, but that no emails should be sent). Or even just simply acknowledge that events that seem like fun work “escape” to some people on your team feel like much, much more labor to others?
·annehelen.substack.com·
it’s that simple
cold
cold
a nervous, obligated curiosity We had witnessed the end of its long southbound journey out of mundanity and darkness. It was one more of the small, strange, lit up events the city offers, the tree like a hallucination, devoured by the darkening avenues, brought in to offer a visible reason to exclaim about something, the city inventing something upon which to rejoice. The holidays feel overwhelmingly personal, but perhaps the best thing about them is that they are not personal at all. look to the unnamed days of January and February
·griefbacon.substack.com·
cold
Seed Stage Philanthropy
Seed Stage Philanthropy
The idea that groundbreaking work is driven by individuals probably makes sense to a lot of people, yet in practice, there’s no readily available funding for individuals Sometimes, an individual just needs a check, and a vote of confidence from someone they respect, to keep going. I found that formalizing the program actually helped to decouple it from my identity. It’s either that, or just go off the radar entirely and fund opportunities privately. I hadn’t planned on giving these grants a name at all, but a friend suggested I should, because it would make it something that the recipients could be proud of and take ownership in. After seeing a few more grant cycles, I think he was right. I was surprised to learn how many applicants said that the validation mattered more than the money. If I can help validate someone’s idea, amplify their work, or connect them to others, that’s often more meaningful than capital. I think these are potentially good ideas. I think someone ought to pursue them. But when I consider what gives me energy, I realize I have no desire to scale anything up here. I like having enough skin in the game to help me think about interesting questions in philanthropy, but this isn’t my full-time focus. The process of making new ideas legible to others is emotionally taxing.
·nadiaeghbal.com·
Seed Stage Philanthropy
Joris Voorn @ Grand Palais for Cercle
Joris Voorn @ Grand Palais for Cercle
Joris Voorn playing a unique DJ set in the beautiful loggia of the Grand Palais, in Paris, for Cercle. Subscribe our channel for more videos: http://bit.ly/2BINQUh Subscribe our Spotify playlist: Cercle.lnk.to/Spotifyplaylist ☞ Joris Voorn https://www.facebook.com/jorisvoorndj/ https://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/jorisvoorn ____ Video credits: Artist: Joris Voorn Venue: Grand Palais Produced by Cercle Executive producers: Philippe Tuchmann & Derek Barbolla Film directed by: Pol Souchier & Derek Barbolla Directors of photography: Anatole Vaillant, Jérémie Tridard Photographer: Mickael Fidjili Sound Engineer: Timothée Renard assisted by Aurélien Moisan Video mapping: ETC & Cosmo AV Technical partner (sound, light, truss): FL Group Special thanks to Grand Palais RMN for their all their help & their warm welcome. ______ Follow us on http://www.cercle.live
·youtu.be·
Joris Voorn @ Grand Palais for Cercle
On Covering Webcams
On Covering Webcams
The problem isn’t your camera, it’s malware. Don’t install any software from unknown or sketchy sources, keep your OS up to date, and you should be fine. And if you do have malware on your Mac, the webcam is likely the least of your problems.
·daringfireball.net·
On Covering Webcams
Tracking Dependencies With DEPENDENCIES.md
Tracking Dependencies With DEPENDENCIES.md
A growing list of third-party libraries is something most development projects have to deal with it. On many projects it can be hard to figure out why a certain dependency was added, or whether it still makes sense to keep it. We can track dependencies through a DEPENDENCIES.md document just like we track changes via a CHANGELOG.md.
·blog.mazur.me·
Tracking Dependencies With DEPENDENCIES.md
“Blogging changed that. Links were given generously, happily. It was a cooperative ecosystem, not a competitive ecosystem. The work of others made your work possible. Linking to their work made your work more useful to the reader. It was all good.”
“Blogging changed that. Links were given generously, happily. It was a cooperative ecosystem, not a competitive ecosystem. The work of others made your work possible. Linking to their work made your work more useful to the reader. It was all good.”
·mobile.twitter.com·
“Blogging changed that. Links were given generously, happily. It was a cooperative ecosystem, not a competitive ecosystem. The work of others made your work possible. Linking to their work made your work more useful to the reader. It was all good.”
Urinal Protocol Vulnerability
Urinal Protocol Vulnerability
When a guy goes into the bathroom, which urinal does he pick?  Most guys are familiar with the International Choice of Urinal Protocol.  It’s discussed at length elsewhere, but the basic prem…
·blog.xkcd.com·
Urinal Protocol Vulnerability
failure
failure
I was teaching writing all day but not writing myself, and on twitter so many people I knew were starting tinyletters, sending small paragraphs of heart-rending, un-pitch-able prose, family stories and recipes and album recommendations and lowkey erotica in little forward-marching scrolls of text that I’d read curled around my phone late at night while I couldn’t sleep. I was jealous of my students and I was jealous of everyone starting tinyletters and of everyone publishing essays, and of the world going on one bright achievement after another all around me. I wrote some paragraphs quickly, without looking, like muttering under my breath, told myself I didn’t have to edit it because no one would read it anyway, and hit send. The whole college application is a murderously hopeful document, and hope is the most mercenary emotion, the struck-match trick of salespeople and con artists and politicians, leaving the door unlocked at night, risking everything in a game to which no one told us the rules.
·griefbacon.substack.com·
failure
230 New Emojis in Final List for 2019
230 New Emojis in Final List for 2019
The final emoji list for 2019 has now been approved by the Unicode Consortium and includes a total of 230 new emojis coming to major platforms this year. Additions include previously drafted candidates such as a Flamingo, Otter, and Guide Dog, as well as a Waffle, Hindu Temple, Sari, Sloth,
·blog.emojipedia.org·
230 New Emojis in Final List for 2019
Why the placebo effect is getting stronger
Why the placebo effect is getting stronger
One is that a placebo doesn’t change a person’s underlying biology related to the condition. Instead, it affects how the person experiences or reacts to an illness. In some settings, placebos can trigger the brain’s reward system,” Jeremy Howick of the University of Oxford, who is working on ways to maximize the placebo effect, told Quartz. “It releases chemicals that changes how people feel.” Another theory, from Nicholas Humphreys, a retired psychologist formerly at the London School of Economics, is that placebos are just a way of triggering the immune system. From a biological perspective, immune systems are a huge expense and may drain an animal’s energy reserve. So perhaps placebos act as a signal to get the immune system going. But none of those theories explain why the placebo effect is getting stronger. One explanation is advertising. The US and New Zealand are the only two countries where direct-to-consumer advertising of drugs is legal. The fact that more people are believing that pills work, means the stronger the placebo effect.
·qz.com·
Why the placebo effect is getting stronger
Hot and Cold Observables
Hot and Cold Observables
Reactive Programming in Swift. Contribute to ReactiveX/RxSwift development by creating an account on GitHub.
·github.com·
Hot and Cold Observables
“Sometimes we to have to shave a few yaks to figure out what ‘better’ is. If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be ‘research.’”
“Sometimes we to have to shave a few yaks to figure out what ‘better’ is. If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be ‘research.’”
@rob_rix Sometimes we to have to shave a few yaks to figure out what "better" is. If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be "research."— Chris Parker (@ctp) February 13, 2014
·twitter.com·
“Sometimes we to have to shave a few yaks to figure out what ‘better’ is. If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be ‘research.’”