Yeah, I guess sometimes I just want to know how long to cook the chicken. I don't want a bespoke recipe with soul and feeling. I'm going to add ingredients that my family likes. I just want to remember how long it generally takes to cook a specific something-or-other.
I don't know. I did enjoy the read even if I didn't agree with it very much.
I'm unsure if it's meant to be life advice or philosophy but it misses the mark on both for me.
If life advice: Sure maybe for you? Others might find they're a bit happier with a drink and their comfort TV shows in the evening.
If philosophy: Aren't mindless self indulgence and relentless self improvement both just raging against an inevitable death? In a Buddhist sort of "All life is suffering" sort of way? What about being present?
> “Can I confirm that March should be the launch date?”,
> don’t say “I assume we’re all aligned that March should be the launch date”.
...only if you really aren't sure. I would actually say something like "We're planning to launch in March unless there are reasons not to."
If someone has a really great reason, they'll speak up. Getting "confirmation" from a group that may be indifferent can sometimes be even worse. How many people in the group aught to "confirm" before we move forward? What if one extremely uninformed person loudly confirms? Then a person with a real issue may feel like they don't want to stir things up by disagreeing.
Tangentially related: This is why you should say "If you can't see my screen, please let me know." when you start sharing your screen on zoom rather than "Can you see my screen?" Who on Earth aught to answer that in a large meeting?
Assuming a "yes" and allowing for the "nos" to speak up is much more successful in general I think.
Asheville NC seems to be turning into a "work remote" tech hub. I moved here during the pandemic and have met many tech workers just walking around my neighborhood. Technically it's a city (looks like ~90k population), but coming from NYC it certainly feels like nature to me. There are streams and mountains and back yards.
I've run an account for an old job I had (promoting a bar), but beyond that I haven't really interacted with twitter, ever. Everything I hear of it is negative. (Note: I only know what happens on twitter from people on podcasts talking about what happens on twitter. So it's possibly not an accurate reflection of the platform.)
I've seen people that I respect appear to lose their sanity from things being said on it. An example is Sam Harris, who is of course a brilliant author and neuroscientist.
He's gone from a person I respected a lot for his thoughts on atheism and spirituality to being a person who I've heard dedicate hours of podcasts to basically complaining about what people say on twitter. As an adult, it's almost shocking to hear someone intelligent revert to anguishing about the same things misguided teenagers might concern themselves with.
He's not the only one. It appears famous people who use twitter end up using it as a scope into what they might perceive the real world to be like. However, what seems to be the discourse on twitter has no relation to the discourse in my neighborhood (in Western North Carolina) or my previous neighborhood (East Village, NYC).
So no, OP, you're not the only one baffled. I'm extremely baffled.
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Given how helpless much of the world is against Malaria and how many people it continues to kill each year, this strikes me as one of the most significant scientific discoveries of our lifetime. Am I missing something?
This is a super exploitable human behavior when playing with novices at poker. Even smart folks can just become a bit to curious about seeing more cards even though they know it's not rational. Making the best decision requires discipline and maybe going against "instinct" and "gut feeling"
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This is exactly right. My wife worked in the wedding industry for a long time and so she was aware of this when we finally decided to tie the knot. For each vendor we spoke with we only told them we were having an engagement party. We got the prices and then later revealed that this was for a wedding. We advise all of our friends that are getting married to do the same. You can save a decent chunk of change.
I agree. I was a music major long ago and at least as far as musical applications go, relative pitch is much more valuable. Hearing intervals and harmony is much more important for the performance of music.
I traveled around South America while working remotely a few years back. There's almost none of this disneyfication. In Ecuador, Peru, and Chile it was extremely normal to have days with no interactions with anyone who could speak English.
I know that this article is mostly about those who live in the host city, but it does also mention the experience of the traveler. For any travelers looking to avoid these situations, there are plenty of wonderful places to go where there's not disneyfication. I almost just began to list countries out but really: It's almost everywhere other than a few major cities in Europe!
It's mentioned in the article several times, but if you're interested in making some analytically driven donations, quickly, https://www.givewell.org/ is the place to start.