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Dec 4, 2022

Cognitive revelation

My reading notes on Gérald Bronner’s book Apocalypse cognitive[1] turned into a review — sort of. I’m referring to the original French edition as there’s no English translation available. I found it a sobering analysis of humanity’s cacophonic predicament in the contemporary informational deluge. Contrary to what one might suppose…

Internet

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Cognitive revelation
Cognitive revelation
Internet

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Apr 1, 2022

Imagination upside down and back

The ability to form and bring about a mental image, one not directly traceable to a perceptual source, is habitually thought of as imaginative, or imagination proper. It can be an evocation of a true or phoney remembrance, even a mix of both, hence its potential for innovative newness. …

Imagination

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Imagination upside down and back
Imagination upside down and back
Imagination

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Mar 17, 2022

Intuition in action over content in appearance

On the ambiguity of taking intuition as one’s grasp of unmediated knowing, or of content just appearing, presenting itself to our consciousness already wrapped up as a belief. Is it something we do, or it just happens to us? Something must be happening. Irrespectively of external stimuli, such credence is…

Intuition

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Intuition in action over content in appearance
Intuition in action over content in appearance
Intuition

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Oct 17, 2021

Human Affairs — Oh no, not another book review!

A book by Paulo Finuras, published by Edições Sílabo last week, Human Affairs: Evolution & Behaviour — Selected Papers. I’ve been following Paulo’s work for a couple of years now since I’ve bumped into him on LinkedIn, and we became sort of virtual pen friends. I was looking forward to…

Evolution

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Human Affairs — Oh no, not another book review!
Human Affairs — Oh no, not another book review!
Evolution

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Jul 27, 2021

Definitely not another of such

About David Epstein’s book Range[1]. deliberate practice head start advantage or liability? sampling period late specialization slow bakers It feels like falling behind kind or wicked learning? parallel trenches chunking single and double-loop learning cognitive entrenchment Martian tennis scientific spectacles cognitively flexible computational thinking Fermi problems calling bullshit low on…

Learning

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Definitely not another of such
Definitely not another of such
Learning

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May 28, 2021

The Scout Mindset — Not Yet Another Book Review

A book by Julia Galef, published by Penguin last April, The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don’t. This book is about stopping deceiving oneself and viewing the world realistically without choosing between being happy and being a realist. I came to know about it in…

Judgement

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The Scout Mindset — Not Yet Another Book Review
The Scout Mindset — Not Yet Another Book Review
Judgement

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Jan 2, 2021

Qui scribit bis legit

This proverb, meaning “The one who writes reads twice” — which isn’t as old as might be supposed[1] — bears the idea that writing down what’s read improves one’s ability to retain and, eventually, to retrieve, as if by reading it twice. Longhand writing was a practice from the heyday…

Knowledge

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Qui scribit bis legit
Qui scribit bis legit
Knowledge

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Aug 20, 2020

The Clumsy Manifesto

Let me start by welcoming you to this Age of Agile[1], all-time permeating everyone, everything, everywhere, ailment to anything from a petechial rash to world inequality. At the height of the software crisis, the “Manifesto for Agile Software Development” came about with the proposal of valuing more some items on…

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The Clumsy Manifesto
The Clumsy Manifesto

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Dec 15, 2019

Cooperation or collaboration; was gibt’s?

What gives, then? Let’s assume a contemporary, technology-driven business context, projecting itself onto the digitally-transformed future of work. Are these synonyms or have different meanings? If so, is it a difference in kind or degree? The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines “cooperation” as a noun, meaning “the actions of someone who is…

Cooperation

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Cooperation or collaboration; was gibt’s?
Cooperation or collaboration; was gibt’s?
Cooperation

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May 16, 2018

Bloatedness in an ocean of ever-expanding ignorance

Those two are the main ones, the structuralistic existential constraints on the goal. Bloatedness is the quality or state of being bloated, as overfilled with a substance that’s been growing and stretching to the point of becoming excessively large; that’s the stuff I’m amassing to extract what I intend to…

Writing

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Bloatedness in an ocean of ever-expanding ignorance
Bloatedness in an ocean of ever-expanding ignorance
Writing

3 min read

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