Fight the Power
The collapse of authority leads to anxiety. Anxiety leads to outrage. Outrage
leads to fear. Fear leads to submission. Don't submit.
https://putanumonit.com/2020/06/18/fight-the-power/
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Fnords of the Times
Tesla wealth hypocrisy billionaire. Trump Musk Trump Musk COVID. Misogynist
racist Silicon Valley.
https://putanumonit.com/2020/05/20/fnords-of-the-times/
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The part of the selfish gene that stuck with me the most was the chapter(s) on Evolutionarily Stable Strategies. Does a given cooperate/compete strategy lead to a stable population level. (Not necessarily taking over, just winning enough to be stable.) I recently remembered Seth Godin's answer to "How can you tell a shortcut from a hack?" and it made me think, "does it need to be evolutionarily stable to be a proper shortcut?" (shortcut v. hack answer at 19:39 https://www.akimbo.link/blog/s-3-e-14-waiting-for-godiva )
Sam Harris’ waking up app is free until the end of the year. His lesson on (the nonexistence of) free will has a good exercise that give me first hand experience that I don’t have as much free will as I thought. He whittled my concept down to: free will is picking off a menu that we can’t control with strong nudges on what to pick and if we’re not paying attention we follow the nudge by default.
For whatever reason I’m reminded of this joke, “Jean-Paul Sartre is sitting at a French cafe, revising his draft of Being and Nothingness. He says to the waitress, “I’d like a cup of coffee, please, with no cream.” The waitress replies, “I’m sorry, Monsieur, but we’re out of cream. How about with no milk?”
He’s certainly got me in a “god of the gaps” trap but I’m not fully convinced that the last bit of free will isn’t there.
Sam Harris’ waking up app is free until the end of the year. His lesson on (the nonexistence of) free will has a good exercise that give me first hand experience that I don’t have as much free will as I thought. He whittled my concept down to: free will is picking off a menu that we can’t control with strong nudges on what to pick and if we’re not paying attention we follow the nudge by default.
@Bert if you’re exploring the fringe of possibility space the only way to fail is to die before reporting in.
@nindokag Yes. Go back in time and add:
from __future__ import absolute_import, division, unicode_literals, print_function
to all your modules.
I work at a large organization and if I want my career to go anywhere I need to develop a broader view. Can anyone recommend some software to keep track of what’s going on in other departments? I imagine it would be like a business contact manager except for keeping “in touch” with projects instead of people. If you can even tell me what the name for this is, it would be helpful. (Ideally it would link with a people manager too)
I spend my time doing software development and self development. Interests in optimization and game theory.