Here are some interesting links I’ve collected in the last few months. I want to share them. With you! So sit down, open a few tabs and enjoy. Beats spending your time doing laundry. 😉
I’m perpetually doubting my own skills and eager to improve and learn what I know; and what I don’t know. This short video and related articles on the Dunning Kruger effect is something everyone should watch. Especially those who think they’re unaffected.
https://kottke.org/18/06/the-dunning-kruger-effect-we-are-all-confident-idiots
You don’t have the right to believe whatever you want to
https://aeon.co/ideas/you-dont-have-a-right-to-believe-whatever-you-want-to
The whole family watched this fun video from PBS Eons (and Hank Green!) about how the T-Rex lost its arms.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=772GiBXnWoQ
Something that might explain why some folks are on edge about race-related matters in America. Unfortunately they’re wrong, but it provides some thinking on how folks think. I always thought the US was a melting pot of multiple flavors. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/24/opinion/america-white-extinction.html
Mr. Rogers was a big part of my childhood. Both my parents worked and I was a latchkey kid for most of my adolescence. As such, Mr. Rogers raised me and he’s a model for what kind of man I try to be like. There’s a documentary and book coming out soon about him. One of the things that has come out of this look into Rogers work is this set of rules for talking to children. I think they apply in our writing and working with communities. “Freddish” imbues writing with clarity, positivity, and simple understanding.
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https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/06/mr-rogers-neighborhood-talking-to-kids/562352/
I find these sort of introspective investigations of journalistic entities by other journalists to be a weird hyper-meta narrative of how organization and the news they produce are created. This one in particular, as Vice is a rather unorthodox and divisive group.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/06/inside-vice-media-shane-smith.html
I’m not a people manager, but I’d like to be one day. Like many of Rands’ past writing on the subject, this one seems incredibly apt for me. I’m not a very confrontational person. Sometimes you need to say the hard thing. That’s hard!
http://randsinrepose.com/archives/say-the-hard-thing/
As someone who works remotely (and believes everyone within a single organization should if anyone does) I found this manifesto useful. It covers tips on creating a remote-only org, how it changes the act of working, and it’s advantages.
https://www.remoteonly.org
Related to the two prior links, personal development has been on my mind as of late. Austin Kleon shares a note on figuring out what you want to learn. “the easiest way to re-invent yourself is to find something new to learn.”
https://austinkleon.com/2018/05/16/what-do-you-want-to-learn/
When seeing someone who I don’t recognize, but who obviously recognize me, I like to remind them (and myself) that sorry, my brain stopped storing that pattern and I’ll need you to help me create a new one.
https://kottke.org/18/05/mosaicism-or-dna-differences-from-cell-to-cell-not-just-person-to-person
Ok, I’m running low on time here. So more links, less talking!
Trump stuff 🤮
- https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/7u1y9g/fbi_has_second_dossier_on_possible_trumprussia/dth3sg6/?context=3
- https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/michael-cohen-and-the-end-stage-of-the-trump-presidency
- https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/how-to-stay-sane-as-a-cartoonist-in-trumpland
- http://www.allgeneralizationsarefalse.com
Other stuff
- https://www.reddit.com/r/MensLib/comments/7t7ggu/the_female_price_of_male_pleasure/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/minimalism/comments/86pkeu/meta_can_everyone_be_minimalist/dw6vo9n/
- https://www.thecut.com/2018/02/how-to-overcome-self-consciousness.html
- https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2018/04/23/strange-and-maddening-rules/
- http://baynvc.org/unpacking-microaggressions/
- http://nymag.com/selectall/2018/04/katherine-maher-wikimedia-executive-director-interview.html
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=naleynXS7yo – Ugh, funny and so true. “We judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their behaviour.”
- http://chappellellison.com/giving-and-taking-criticism/
- https://kottke.org/18/05/the-respect-of-personhood-vs-the-respect-of-authority
- https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/18/style/jordan-peterson-12-rules-for-life.html
- https://np.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/8gnimv/crackdown_on_students_silencing_free_speech/dydm9sl/?context=3
- https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/28/opinion/sunday/the-end-of-intelligence.html
- http://nymag.com/selectall/2018/04/jaron-lanier-interview-on-what-went-wrong-with-the-internet.html
- http://wilwheaton.net/2018/05/my-name-is-wil-wheaton-i-live-with-chronic-depression-and-i-am-not-ashamed/
- http://wilwheaton.net/2018/05/i-got-better-2/ – I started taking CBD oil to help with my anxiety and depression thanks to Wil’s writing
- http://nymag.com/selectall/2018/05/i-dont-know-how-to-waste-time-on-the-internet-anymore.html – Well, I’m still wasting my time here… 😉
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%27s_law
- https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/12/style/who-are-my-real-friends.html?smid=tw-nythealth&smtyp=cur
- https://aeon.co/ideas/you-dont-have-a-right-to-believe-whatever-you-want-to
- https://www.thecut.com/2018/05/how-anna-delvey-tricked-new-york.html – this story is a page-turner. So crazy that if you didn’t tell me it really happened I’d believe it’s fiction.
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Footnotes
- This short video of Fred Rogers gives me goosebumps every time I watch it. (context)