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See also, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29035995

It's hard to overstate how annoying is this kind of Twitter blogging. This notwithstanding, as an academic, I can say that most never question this absurd system, too focused on the publish or pe…

Quote from article: It’s clear that Wikipedia is animated by some principles that date to an earlier time in the Internet’s history. To start, there is a deep-seated suspicion of authority — after all…

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29053186

The article obsesses over whether the human brain can understand the human brain. But the brain is a structure with a vast flexibility. Even a basic sensory function in a basic insect has a developmen…

It may be that motivation begets more motivation, which would then become a question of how to get the ball rolling each day or, however often. For me if I want to write something I will not sit down …

I write on a Mac: TextEdit- it can do a word count at least

One very poor practice in higher ed and universities is that people rarely go through an editorial process where they can see how much early drafts can be improved through re-writes. So students write…

I began writing recently in a browser editor (substack) that doesn't do the corrective spelling. I could barely write because I had to constant stop and figure out how to really spell the word. T…

Not really disagreeing- just stressing that there is a large literature on what’s called expert performance, which shows a powerful function for what they call deliberate practice. Stressing the expli…

Write regularly yes, but quantity does not lead inherently to quality. You have to hold a higher and then higher standard for what’s good

Nice plants!

For many indoor plants, soil acts as a porous environment for roots to hang out in, where there’s humidity and air. Too much soil act as nothing but a wet blanket, too root-bound and the roots are not…

Yes, cool, didn’t know. Reminds me of how some plants move water from deep in the soil up the roots at night — to hydrate the soil around the dry roots near ground level for when the day comes

I think that's true about surviving versus thriving. I have a bonsai nursery and 'bonsai' is one area where there is a lot of serious interest. Lots of disagreements but a much higher r…

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=broscience

That raises the question: fight to control the meaning of a concept or hand over the concept to the other? Do we really want FB to have it?

That’s a good link: seeing what plants can become really encourages more interest in keeping them healthy

This is useful as well https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29018417

Don’t forget clever Hans: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clever_Hans

Me too, and when I do, my dog does too

The first line: “A widow and her four children have been driven insane by eating the marijuana plant.” Then it gets better: “Neighbors, hearing outbursts of crazed laughter, rushed to the house to fin…

That Wikipedia page is great, but entirely incomplete. I can see many missing ones, including their hysterical coverage of drugs. https://www.nytimes.com/1927/07/06/arch…

What training, what experience? Always think burn-out. Has to be something you would miss if you couldn’t do it anymore

On the brain itself: Edelman Bright Air, Brilliant Fire: On the Matter of the Mind On brain and drugs: https://www.google.co.nz/amp/s/www.newscientist.com/article/…

The article says now we can’t say we didn’t know, but surely we’ve know long before now George Orwell, 1984 Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely fo…

Cognitive behavioral therapy has more success but any comparison is averages that may not fit the individual. Szasz would look for structures in a person’s life, past and present, that undermine menta…