User experience research (UXR) is a function that works with users and analyzing data to learn about and test ideas.

When given the option to start with something pre-built, developer minded users are skeptical they won’t have enough control over the implementation and run into a critical limitation or burden.

Users that think about your product in terms of how it will be used and what they need it to do.

Users that frame decisions by understanding cost, benefits, and want to buy solutions.

An easy way to explain a Zettelkasten system of taking notes would be to explain it as a mind map (connections between discrete concepts) combined with atomic notes (each note has a single topic).

A tools for networked thought that allows the user to offload a process into something external to themselves.

A photography exhibit by Eric Pickersgill which shows people in their every day life looking at their phones, but with the phone removed from the image.

White people respond with outrage over any allegation, perceived or actual, of racism because they see racist as synononymous with bad people who hurt others.

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In mindfulness, the practice of meditation aims to deconstruct the ego by observing thoughts and trying to notice where they originate.

People tend to conflate the ability to write code and intelligence.

Mercury is a better option for colonization than Mars because of the abundance of solar and thermal energy and availability of water.

Most messages sent on Slack do not happen in public or private channels, but in DMs.

A way of expressing similar, but different objects. For example in object oriented programming you might have a Vehicle class that specifies a method to move and any method that operates on a Vehicle can call the move method.

A staggering amount of energy is used to power Bitcoin and Ethereum, the two largest blockchains.

An interstellar object that passed through our solar system in 2018.

Uber drivers in Kenya call it ‘riding Karura’ when you use the app to match with a driver, cancel the ride, then paying the driver a pre-negotiated amount in cash.

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Describes different systems that require reliance on others by plotting across two axes—how many people need to behave correctly out of how many for the system to work.

How we think about thoughts is composed of metacognitive knowledge - our understanding of our thinking and learning, metacognitive regulation - strategies and practices that control our learning, and metacognitive experiences - thoughts and feelings while learning something.

New-practitioners adopting the practice of meditation and mindfulness has a tendency to coincide with a change of identity.

When a person acts on behalf of others they may act in their self-interest.

Love and kindness meditation where you concentrate on visualizing someone you know being purely happy and reciting phrases to with them well.

Seeing patterns or interpreting meaning in randomness that is not truly there.