Brain Ticklers, Ed. 28
Links for May 2022 with Q-rated ticklers from around of internet that I think you SHOULD read! Enjoy (or Don't, I am not your boss)
Hello Subscriber (how personal, no?), here are links for you for the forthcoming month. Have fun (with/without reading this).
What I wrote
Creator Mindset: Learn a quick and dirty (and likely wrong) way to determine whether one has a ‘Creator Mindset’ or not, with Jekyll and Hyde as an example.
Alter Ego: Idea: Personal assistant that becomes as personal as it gets, becomes a member of your Internal Family System, and makes you hate yourself.
Updated Ha Ga conundrum (Look at the end for a note from Tholkappiar)
History, Culture, Society
Ideal governance (for companies, countries and more)
Evidence for a midlife crisis in great apes, consistent with the U-shape in human well-being
Interesting-Perspectives
The temple with the three omniscient idols? Where one always tells the truth, one always lies, and one answers randomly.
Language evolved as a ‘cheap’ form of social grooming, a way to increase group size because speaking is 2.8x better than picking fleas (says, Dunbar).
This article made me think if my Mu-Sick issue is actually about a case of sensory overload
Add spatial distance to luxury products
(Even) Photography is not objective, it is similar to any other art, a set of choices. (Only mirrors are objective?)
Science & Technology
IBM unveils z16 mainframe, which is reportedly quantum proof. Okay, mainframes continue to live. And can be quantum-proof. Wow. People who are experts in these kinds of things, please confirm if this is yet another sales-y talk of IBM (like Watson & Health).
Mushrooms communicate with each other using up to 50 ‘words’, scientist claims. I tell you, they are just next to Dolphins, who are the most intelligent species on earth. (We are not.)
Never mind stitches—it is possible to solder wounds closed
Misunderstandings by the machines (includes Xerox Scanners, Microsoft Excel, iPhone cameras etc.). Special mention: A graph that is made by perceiving it (Look for the interesting Einstein-Marilyn illusion)
Earbuds that can collect heaps of neural data—and uncover the mysteries of gray matter. (I am sold)
Perso-Dev
If Self-Compassion feels cringe, how about being your own friend? (On this topic of if some technique or piece of advice makes you squirm with embarrassment, a professor of mine in B-School made me read 'Feel the fear and do it anyway' with a very similar advice: That embarrassment is that's probably a sign that you need it.) — JIC you didn’t read the Alter-go story above.
Pixar’s Rules of Storytelling.
Allow error into your life and experience the joy of surprise.