Cormac Auty
@cormacauty
London-based researcher passionate about analysing how people in cities relate to their evolving environments and uncovering actionable insights to strengthen social resilience in our cities.
Cormac Auty
cormacauty.com
Why Do We Hoard Information We’ll Never Use? – Books, articles, and intellectual FOMO
youtu.beThe dopamine response of finding a source of information and collecting it is often equated by us with the reward of having consumed that information even though they’re not the same thing.
Sublime is a very good consumption tool, but I'm not sure it's a great creation tool
Sublime is great for consumption. If I have a loose idea on something and want to gain more insights on that thing - things to read around it, watch, listen to etc, I could paste the idea into an LLM and it would give me some suggestions of other existing work to ch
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Most of our attempts to become better people, fitter and healthier, more moral/ productive/ organised, and so forth, make this problem worse– because it's basically impossible to pursue any program of personal change without the thought, somewhere in the back of your mind, that successfully completing the change will catapult you into a new and som
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Don't create a complicated system, and don't keep trying out new tools. It's a waste of time, as fun as it is.
Leo Babauta • Zen To Done: The Ultimate Simple Productivity System
Keep it simple, and focus on what you have to do right now, not on playing with your system or your tools.
Leo Babauta • Zen To Done: The Ultimate Simple Productivity System
Promoting belonging in difficult times helps give people a sense of control when so many aspects of life seem precarious. Our sense of belonging to our local areas is a social asset built up over time, but we cannot take it for granted.
Nicola Bacon, Belonging, The RSA Journal
Belonging is fluid. It is specific to our everyday experience and life choices, but also driven by the pressures we find ourselves under. It is also strongly influenced by what services and institutions do, how we are treated when we are in need of care or support, and whether our surroundings, our workplaces, even the shops and cafes we use, posit
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