nico kokonas
- This is arguably the most foundational principle of productivity. Make fast decisions with limited certainty.
from Minimum Viable Productivity by Daniel Kazandjian
- It’s a rather simple question that quickly gets to the core of someone’s sense of well-being and legitimacy: did your childhood leave you feeling that you were – on balance – OK as you were? Or did you somewhere along the way derive an impression that you needed to be extraordinary in order to deserve a place on the earth? And, to raise an associat... See more
from Overcoming the Need to Be Exceptional - The School Of Life
- For me, my anxiety and emotional state improved when I realized I got a lot of joy and contentment from the _process_ of learning new things, and trying to gauge my improvement always meant comparing myself to others.
from Ask HN: Does learning self-improvement techniques help? | Hacker News by automatom
The term “dependence” has traditionally been used to describe “physical dependence,” which refers to the adaptations that result in withdrawal symptoms when drugs, such as alcohol and heroin, are discontinued. Physical dependence is also observed with certain psychoactive medications, such as antidepressants and beta-blockers. However, the adaptati
... See morefrom Drug dependence is not addiction—and it matters
A large fraction of the flaws in software development are due to programmers not fully understanding all the possible states their code may execute in. [...] No matter what language you work in, programming in a functional style provides benefits. You should do it whenever it is convenient, and you should think hard about the decision when it isn’t
... See morefrom Post-Architecture: Premature Abstraction Is the Root of All Evil by Arend van Beelen jr.
All mathematics exhibits in its conclusions only what is already implicit in its premises,
from The Sciences of the Artificial by Herbert A. Simon
- Also, psychedelics have a fundamental discordance with allopathic research which can never be overcome. The placebo problem is unsolvable. And these medicines are customarily adjacent to non-directive therapy, and ongoing integration. We'll never be able to quantify those things in a trial format the same we we can for a blood pressure pill. Finall... See more
from Home | Substack
- All across our culture, you’ll find people eager to abandon the fundamental task of our lives, fostering and maintaining human connection, so that they can fall deeper into a pit of hedonistic distraction forever. You send an email a large language model wrote for you to spare yourself a minute of mental activity at the end of a long day working fr... See more
from You Are You. We Live Here. This Is Now. by Freddie DeBoer
- But the informational value of the web has been nearly destroyed. Fake News isn’t even the biggest problem. It’s the digital ecosystem’s insistence on stifling curiosity by prioritizing ANSWERS over questions.
Most impactfully, the web has been systematically re-engineered to hinder discovery in order to drive people as quickly as possible to comme... See morefrom Questions and Cancers by Joe Maceda