“@mhdempsey In general the two forms I am most interested in are 1) coalescing of people from randomly talking --> implicit --> explicit groups 2) reverse engineering physical events by seeing ripples they cause in network closure”
The high-return activity of raising others' aspirations - Marginal REVOLUTION
“At critical moments in time, you can raise the aspirations of other people significantly, especially when they are relatively young, simply by suggesting they do something better or more ambitious than what they might have in mind. It costs you relatively little to do this, but the benefit to them, and to the broader world, may be enormous”
I think that we underestimate the power law of throughput by how close you are to someone. And given non-linear decay of pairwise trust as you add people to group, and group trust being the GCD of pairwise trust. So much left unsaid in the public commons of the internet— Kevin Kwok (@kevinakwok) October 22, 2018
Single words for values are seductive because they have deep meanings. But, because they have deep meanings, you’ve little assurance that everyone has the same definition. (“What is love?”)— Sean Rose (@seanrose) October 22, 2018
The event will take place in February 2019, and the deadline to apply is November 8th. If you are interested, but can't make it to NYC, please fill out the "can't make it" form on our site as we'd love to hear from you: https://t.co/l4CQUiU1Ow— Gary Chou (@garychou) October 22, 2018
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Check out @mbrandonw's talk on how reducers compose, which covers how you can build up with a big ole "appReducer" out of all the smaller reducers in your code base:https://t.co/VFkcZyVxrr— Stephen Celis (@stephencelis) October 20, 2018
“@cocoaphony Right. I'm not opposed to methods, but there's a giant class of operations that do not have a "primary" object that they're acting on, and simply make more sense written as free functions because of this.”
”I know that the “Ph.D in 4chan” comment is a joke, but seriously, people who study the language of online harassment are invaluable. I know some anti-harassment researchers and I admire their work. It’s not easy to comb through the hate to make t
“I know that the “Ph.D in 4chan” comment is a joke, but seriously, people who study the language of online harassment are invaluable. I know some anti-harassment researchers and I admire their work. It’s not easy to comb through the hate to make the internet a better place.❤️”
“You should worry about the potential damage that can be done to your business if something were to happen because not enough people were knowledgeable or had the right tools to do their job.”
I was thinking about how happy I am when I get the kind of praise I need. It doesn’t make me feel smug or complacent, it makes me feel strong and empowered and like what I’m doing matte…
“There is no such thing as a bad estimate in regards to pointing to a story. I'm not even sure if there is such a thing as a good estimate. Use retro's to speak to inefficiencies/bottlenecks/miscommunication. Stop worrying about the damn points.”
What does OLED black smearing look like? In this example, the dark grey square seems to be lagging behind the light grey square, but they’re locked together. (Needs to be viewed on an OLED screen.) pic.twitter.com/WYFEXKAvsG— Marc Edwards (@marcedwards) October 20, 2018