Laura Pike Seeley
@laurapikeseeley
Laura Pike Seeley
Managers could benefit from thinking more like hackers. Hacking helps us take a step back from the worn-out management tenets of efficiency, long-term planning, hierarchical decision-making, and full information, to adopt instead more adaptable strategies.
Why Managers Should Think More Like Hackers
However, Sini Eräjää, Greenpeace’s European food and forests campaign lead, said it would be “a terrible idea” to cut down natural forests and replace them with wood plantations.
Timber cities ‘could cut 100bn tons of CO2 emissions by 2100’
neural pathways we don’t use die off over time. What makes our brains hold on to these pathways — and create more — is not simply repeating the same things we’ve learned over and over again, but continually taking on difficult problems.
Stanford duck syndrome: How the myth of effortless genius hurts learning
Neuroscience and learning
Our current definition of “productivity” is broken. It pushes us to treat busyness as a proxy for useful effort, leading to impossibly lengthy task lists and ceaseless meetings. We’re overwhelmed by all we have to do and on the edge of burnout, left to decide between giving into soul-sapping hustle culture or rejecting ambition altogether. But are... See more
Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout by Cal Newport
It’s still hard to imagine letting AI handle meetings — and not being offended when a bot shows up instead of the human we were expecting.
Unless, of course, we evolve to a future where every meeting is full of bots and we’re all at the beach.
Unless, of course, we evolve to a future where every meeting is full of bots and we’re all at the beach.
Would you let AI rep you in a meeting?
A lot of people believe meaningful work is only for people in helping professions, nonprofits, or social impact work. While it’s true that some jobs are engineered for meaning, any job can be meaningful—even (especially) those that our culture might deem “mundane.”
fastcompany.com
Even if content moderation were implemented perfectly, it would still miss a whole host of issues that are often portrayed as moderation problems but really are not. To address those non-speech issues, we need a new strategy: treat social media companies as potential polluters of the social fabric, and directly measure and mitigate the effects... See more
Social media is polluting society. Moderation alone won’t fix the problem
So here is the take-home lesson. We have to seek novelty, because this is what lays down new memories in the brain.