Tag: Knowledge
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Benchma(r)king – James Bridle
What we have here is, quite literally, a chair designed by someone who has read a lot about chairs but never actually sat in one. They know what a chair should look like, what it should do, the mechanics of how one is put together, the physics of holding you up. But they have no…
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John Battelle’s Search Blog In Defense of Writing (and Reading, and Conversation)
Not often does a New York Times’ OpEd rouse me to respond – but this one certainly did: I’m a College Professor. Writing Isn’t as Important as We Think. The author, Joe Cruz, is the chair of the philosophy department and the program on cognitive science at Williams College. He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy……
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Any Human Ever: one life from over 100 billion
Draw one random life from the more than 100 billion humans who have ever lived. Every detail sourced. — Read on anyhumanever.com/
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Why did we wait so long for the bicycle?
Howes says that “innovation is not in human nature, but is instead received. … when people do not innovate, it is often simply because it never occurs to them to do so.” Joel Mokyr says, similarly, that “progress isn’t natural” — Read on blog.rootsofprogress.org/why-did-we-wait-so-long-for-the-bicycle
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Medieval Wound Man
Far from reinforcing the common perception of the European Middle Ages as a backwards and bloody period of human history, the Wound Man reminds us that it was in fact a period busy with innovative medical treatments, a vital link between the long-standing cures of the classical world and developments that were to follow in…
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The world is bigger than you can imagine – by Scott Sumner
Most economies are very large and complex, and even relatively free market economies have extensive government intervention. This complexity allows people to find evidence to support almost any position on the question of optimal policy regimes. In a country that is viewed as relatively successful, it is almost always possible to find a few examples…
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Satisficing vs Maximizing
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…
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Woozle effect – Wikipedia
The Woozle effect, also known as evidence by citation, occurs when a source is widely cited for a claim that the source does not adequately support, giving said claim undeserved credibility. If results are not replicated and no one notices that a key claim was never well-supported in its original publication, faulty assumptions may affect…
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Do I belong in tech anymore? · Ky Decker
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
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“Context is that which is scarce” – Marginal REVOLUTION
3. One correspondent from a successful company wrote me: “- I’ve been onboarding ~5 people every two weeks for my team. – The number of them that actually learn all the important stuff in under a month is zero. The number of them that have a self-guided strategy to learn what is relevant is almost…