It’s a set of apps that help you sync files between devices. It does so without relying on a centralized server, which is a curse (because you need the devices to be on and online) and a blessing (because it can be fast and private). I use it every day. It’s great!

I use my to-do app as a ‘Read Later App’ 🤷‍♂️🙃

If people are here to receive recommendations, I’m preaching to the choir. But responding the question directly, a computer of my own. Being able to go online or work on digital stuff whenever I want to has changed my life for the better.

The book Influence by Cialdini not only talks about the levers of influence, but how to minimize their impact.

I love how you put it. I think the particular consequences of not making money quickly enough is pulling the plug in projects. Investors want money, not games.

You seem to be doing quite some things well. Maybe pay attention to your brushing? My dentist once had me brush my teeth in front of her and identified why in some teeth I’d consistently be clean and in others I’d consistently build plaque.

Her recommendations: brush from the gum to the tip of the tooth. Try to aim at the holes between teeth. Pay close attention to the part in front of your tongue, in your lower front teeth; that part can easily build plaque if you don’t use the tip of your brush well to get in the holes between your teeth.

I read ebooks 😢

We all have thoughts in our head. They are the lenses through which we see reality.

Sometimes, we are aware of that. For example, we may realize we’re being prejudiced or that we’re being cranky because of our mood.

However, this uses up a lot of energy; our frontal lobe is very energy-hungry. So we spend most of the time thinking habitual thoughts and following habitual behaviors. We don’t realize we’re looking at reality through a lens. We assume we are simply looking at reality.

What I am wishing for is for people to constantly be aware that the way they are looking at reality depends on the lenses they have learned and habitually use.

Metacognition becomes routine for humans. We are able to better de-fuse from our thoughts, and recognize them not as reality but as thoughts about reality.

Could this backfire? Like, sure, no combustion engines, but that would be solved in the long run with electricity. But are there things I’m forgetting that would be critical? Like a chemical process for critical chemicals that requires explosions or something like that.

This brought to my mind Coherence Therapy and its emphasis on memory reconsolidation. Also this therapy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFdSd5ow0yw

I do the same but with interviews with the people that made the movie, especially the writers.

So you’re saying I can eat it, right? Gotcha. 😉

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT, pronounced “act”) not only helped me with generalized anxiety (which I no longer suffer from), but it also opened the door to fascinating research that I have been reading about ever since.

It is transdiagnostic because it exploits the fundamental building blocks and processes of cognition. In other words, it helps everyone who has mental health problems, as long as they are verbal (so nonverbal autistic people may require other therapy).

It is also ‘superdiagnostic’, because it improves peoples lives regardless of whether they are diagnosed with a mental health disorder.

Anyone who wants to have more flexible cognition and change their behavior, all with an empirically validated approach, could benefit from ACT.

lol yeah, dishwashers require a high upfront cost. But I think they are cheaper in the long run because they use less water (and maybe less electricity?) than washing dishes by hand. I did a quick search online and it seems to be the case. However, I wonder if those first links are wrong.

That you can think of an average as the center of mass of a dataset. Similarly, that you can think of a standard deviation as the center of mass of the distances between each point and the average.

I think it means more exercise leads to more growth.

What does your writing mean to you? Can you find a meaningful relationship between what your writing means to you and what your work means to you?

Similarly, what do you weekends mean to you? Can you find a meaningful relationship between what your writing means to you and weekends?

Even snakes are afraid of snakes

- Steven Wright

You know? It isn’t that bad! The punchline could be punchier, but I like it!