Emily Sokolow

@emsok

Fine artist, writer & communication strategist. Moved from tech to advertising to the woods. NYC ~ Israel ~ LA.

🔎Communication strategy (integrated - brand, digital, content, messaging, SEO)

🎨Oil painting, surrealism, portraiture

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The gambler needs to learn new knowledge about the machines and simultaneously use what they have already learned to optimize their decisions. In the literature, these two activities are referred to as exploring and exploiting. You can’t do both things at the same time. When you explore, you are pulling new arms on the bandit trying to figure out... See more

Henrik Karlsson • Almost Everyone I’ve Met Would Be Well-Served Thinking More About What to Focus On

sharpening the blade

The Multi-Armed Bandit Problem

It’s up to artists to use language to turn the sublimity of the mystery into nuggets that we can cognitively behold.

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artist inspiration

our achievement budget is a function of the number of priorities we have.

Henrik Karlsson • Almost Everyone I’ve Met Would Be Well-Served Thinking More About What to Focus On

sharpening the blade

There are about 4,000 weeks in a lifetime. It’s a lot easier to make time for things you love when you view the world in weeks, rather than years.

Krista Tippett • Oliver Burkeman – Time Management for Mortals

how to create a meaningful life and motivation

Alex Katz’s New Paintings in Venice Celebrate Grass, Water, and Clothes

Andy Battaglia artnews.com

artist inspiration

At age 96, Alex Katz is still expanding as an artist.

one of the most important and subtle questions in science is problem selection. How do you choose what to work on? No one tells you what to do. And you do have to answer this question multiple times. With a company, in some sense, you have to decide it once, and then it's an iterative process from there. Whereas in science, you're frequently... See more

critical thinking and sharpening the blade

Problem selection and how to think, referencing “Apprentice to Genius”

How to think in writing

Henrik Karlsson open.substack.com

motivation and artist inspiration

Why write

"Collaborate Together" - A New Way for Arab and Jewish Youth Collaboration in Mixed Cities throughout Israel

The report details the positive impact of the "Collaborate Together" project, fostering Arab-Jewish youth relations in mixed cities in Israel post-2021 social unrest through meaningful interactions and mutual understanding.

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cross-cultural communication

Reaching wide audiences requires all-terrain language, and the urgency of the present moment, amplified by chronological feeds, doesn’t allow for much stylistic variety. Efficiency is key — compressing as much information as possible to the least amount of words is the ideal of all communication.

While I do agree that many areas of interaction, like... See more

nonverbal communication and