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Time Perception
- A 2013 study showed an animal's perception of time is related to its size.
- Researchers measured neural activity in 30+ species using flashing lights.
- They determined that if an animal can detect the blinking of light at higher frequencies, it indicates their ability to perceive time at finer resolutions.
- This is different from human
Evolutionary Ideas • Chapter 22: Brain Time | Chapter 23: Better the Devil You Know | Chapter 24: Time Flies When You’re Having Fun | Chapter 25: All’s Well That Ends Well | Chapter 26: New Eyes | a Summary of Evolutionary Ideas | End Credits
The World of the Buyer
- Understand the concept of "sonder": each buyer is a world unto themselves.
- Avoid mistaking your limited perception of them for their full reality.
The Consultancy Business • 'Questions Are the Answer to Everything': Sales for Nice People With Martin Stellar
What are the sources that bring in the most visitors? Let’s see what channels bring consistent traffic. Look at the general channel groups, but also the specific sites that lead people to you – respectively, under Acquisition > Overview report and Acquisition > All Traffic > Source/Medium report.
Vassilena Valchanova • A Step-by-Step Guide for Content Marketing Analysis
The One Call
At a 3-day personal development program focused on helping people get unstuck, Jeremy Giffon picked up an idea he now refers to as “the one call.” “And the idea,” he said, “is that if you tell people there’s one call they should make, almost everyone immediately knows what that call is. And people will go 40, 50 years without ever... See more
At a 3-day personal development program focused on helping people get unstuck, Jeremy Giffon picked up an idea he now refers to as “the one call.” “And the idea,” he said, “is that if you tell people there’s one call they should make, almost everyone immediately knows what that call is. And people will go 40, 50 years without ever... See more
My understanding of any brand exists in relation to the collective understanding of the brand. In fact, that collective intentionality dictates what the brand means – it assigns a type of status function on to an otherwise commodity product. I may personally disagree but I know what I'm disagreeing with - the collective perception. Brands can only
... See morefarisyakob.typepad.com • Brands: Socially Constructed Reality
Whereas chimpanzee alpha males use their power to have sex with as many females as possible – and consequently sire a large proportion of their troop’s young – the Catholic alpha male abstains completely from sexual intercourse and childcare. This abstinence does not result from unique environmental conditions such as a severe lack of food or want
... See moreYuval Noah Harari • Sapiens
Use a “distraction list” to jot down any thoughts or ideas that come up during focused work time and then address them later.
Postanly Weekly • 42 Short Habits to Defend Your Time
By enhancing creativity, dampening stress, facilitating social contact, enhancing trust and bonding, forging group identity, and reinforcing social roles and hierarchy, intoxicants have played a crucial role in allowing hunting and gathering humans to enter into the hive life of agricultural villages, towns, and cities. This process has gradually
... See moreEdward Slingerland • Drunk
Value of Process Over Result
- Rory Sutherland argues that the value in advertising often lies in the initial questions asked during the process, such as redefining the problem.
- He suggests that businesses are too quick to jump to execution.
- For consumers, slow AI has value because people refine their preferences in the act of searching, for example,