Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
At the third level of interest, a planner would be applying ABP and running into practical problems.
James A. Dewar • Assumption-Based Planning: A Tool for Reducing Avoidable Surprises (RAND Studies in Policy Analysis)
Holmes hasn’t yet met the man in question, but already he knows what his observational goal will be.
Maria Konnikova • Mastermind
Consolidation
Henry L. Roediger III • Make It Stick
“profiling on higher past, present or future offending may be entirely counterproductive with regard to the central aim of law enforcement
Brian Christian • The Alignment Problem
to internal mental states like personal intentions or private guilt,
Joseph Henrich • The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
He was short and sturdy and as a general thing uninspired, and Mr Coyle, who found no amusement in believing in him, had never thought him less exciting than as he stared now out of a face from which you could no more guess whether he had caught an idea than you could judge of your dinner by looking at a dish-cover. Young Lechmere concealed such ac
... See moreSusie Boyt • The Turn of the Screw and Other Ghost Stories
“Here comes that dreamer!” they said to each other. “Come now, let’s kill him and throw him into one of these cisterns and say that a ferocious animal devoured him.” Genesis 37:19–20
Martin Luther • Faith Alone: A Daily Devotional
He was “Bella Moses’ son,” the one of her children most like her, the one in whom surfaced most strongly the mixed strain of passionate idealism and overweening arrogance that she had inherited from her parents, Grannie and Bernhard Cohen. When the idealism died, the arrogance was already well rooted and strong. If it was given nourishment, it woul
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