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Tag: Attention

  • Why The Best Player Alive Barely Runs – Chunking

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    They’re chunking positions of people and angles of legs and spins of balls in order to understand immediately what’s going on and what might happen next. The more patterns you absorb in any domain, the less effort it takes to read what’s happening and to predict what’s coming next. So when Messi walks, he’s not…

  • The End of Reading Is Here – The Atlantic

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    Maryanne Wolf, a cognitive neuroscientist at UCLA, argues that people are losing the ability to think deeply about writing. That doesn’t mean they are forgetting how to decode individual words. Rather, they are losing the higher-order abilities of comprehension and synthesis. America, in other words, isn’t illiterate. It’s postliterate. — Read on www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/08/reading-crisis-postliterate-age/687618/

  • The year is 2063 and you were never interesting.

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    Somewhere around your mid 20s, the memories stop. The window has become the door has become the room has become the entire house has become a window again. You have a portal in your pocket full of apps that are designed within an inch of their lives to take the best of you – your…

  • Decision Fatigue: Why You Feel Exhausted Without Having “Done” Anything Physically

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    None of these studies points to a magic solution, but they do, quite consistently, point in the same direction. The first is to reduce the number of trivial decisions we make without realizing it: the more routines and default settings we have for repetitive tasks, the fewer resources we spend on decisions that add no…

  • IA : « Réhabilitons le brouillon, la rature, l’essai, l’erreur, non comme signes d’échec, mais comme conditions de la pensée »

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    La perfection algorithmique exerce ici une séduction dangereuse. Elle promet de supprimer la faute, l’hésitation, la lenteur, la honte de mal formuler. Mais une société qui ne tolère plus l’erreur finit par ne plus tolérer l’humain. L’enfant qui apprend, l’étudiant qui cherche, le chercheur qui doute, le citoyen qui écrit maladroitement une idée juste : tous…

  • Booksmaxxing: how reading became sexy | Books | The Guardian

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    This is beginning to sound a trifle insane. That’s booksmaxxing! Isn’t this all coming at a time when book reading is actually in decline? Overall, yes. Since 2003 the number of Americans reading for pleasure has dropped by 40%. So booksmaxxing is a niche trend cocooned within a much larger trend that’s heading in the…

  • We Are Living in Pinocchio’s World – On my Om

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    The grifters and the hucksters and the influencers selling impossible things succeed because audiences reward certainty and punish doubt. They honor confidence and resist complication. A clean story about a genius who will fix everything travels faster than a difficult story about tradeoffs. The Field of Miracles stays open because people keep wanting to bury…

  • Satisficing vs Maximizing

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    Maximizers tend to be less satisfied with their decisions and their lives. They are typically less happy, more prone to regret and more likely to compare themselves endlessly with others. Satisficers don’t necessarily have low standards. Their standard is “good enough for me” rather than “the best out there,” and that makes it possible to…

  • Being Fed Content

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    The point was to get out and to feel like you’re hunting, to feel like you’re living your life. I’m going to the movies, I’m going to this show. What streaming has done—it’s very convenient, but it’s taken the feeling of going hunting and turned it into we’re all just being fed. We’re all farm…

  • Do I belong in tech anymore? · Ky Decker

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    I am coalescing around some core beliefs: Things that are worth doing are worth doing well. Things that are done well require time and effort. You make meaning through the doing. Ideas are common; effort is not. There are no shortcuts. — Read on ky.fyi/posts/ai-burnout