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I’m talking about the kind of change exemplified by luminary psychologist Marsha Linehan, who details her journey from spending 21 months in a psychiatric hospital isolation ward due to severe, intractable Borderline Personality Disorder, to pioneering the world’s first and most widely renowned scientifically-based treatment for same—in a memoir... See more

Design to code is about automating beautiful visual designs into clean code that matches the designed look. It takes a collaborative approach between designers and developers to get it right, which ultimately turns days of work into minutes. But how did we get here, and where is it going?

An over-dependence on artificial intelligence is often just lethargy disguised as efficiency, and the “outsource everything to AI” crowd ignores the fact that the work is often more valuable than the output.

I have two predictions regarding the broader use of AI as a crutch:

First, folks who are willing to go out of their way to add a human touch to... See more

Jia Jiang adventures boldly into a territory so many of us fear: rejection. By seeking out rejection for 100 days -- from asking a stranger to borrow $100 to requesting a "burger refill" at a restaurant -- Jiang desensitized himself to the pain and shame that rejection often brings and, in the process, discovered that simply asking for what you... See more

In their book Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict, political scientists Erica Chenoweth and Maria Stephan compare over 300 violent and non-violent struggles in the 20th century to conclude that non-violent civil disobedience is about twice as effective as armed revolution.

As Varoufakis points out in Technofeudalism , one of the paradoxes of capitalism is that when you as a worker are hired somewhere, there are two kinds of value being exchanged. There’s your ‘exchange value’, or how much money your time is worth in the free market. And then there’s your ‘experiential value’, the value of your qualities as a human... See more

Dit laatste leefde nog niet heel sterk tijden de latere jaren 40 of de jaren 50, maar is vooral tijdens de jaren 60 prominent geworden. Dat nationalisme en volksidentiteit onder Europese mensen slecht was, dat racisme en segregatie in de VS ook moest leiden tot een schuldcomplex onder mensen in Europa, dat ook toen bezette landen zich schuldig... See more

In my way of thinking, radical agency involves finding real edges: things you are willing to do that others aren’t, often because they’re annoying, unpleasant, or obscured in a cloud of aversion.