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White Fragility
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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Smart Programmer Fallacy
People tend to conflate the ability to write code and intelligence.
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Colonizing Mercury Is a Better Prospect Than Colonizing Mars
Mercury is a better option for colonization than Mars because of the abundance of solar and thermal energy and availability of water.
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80% of Slack Messages Are Dms
Most messages sent on Slack do not happen in public or private channels, but in DMs.
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Polymorphism
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.
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Bitcoin and Ethereum Use the Same Amount of Electricity as the Country of Austria
A staggering amount of energy is used to power Bitcoin and Ethereum, the two largest blockchains.
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Oumuamua
An interstellar object that passed through our solar system in 2018.
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Karura
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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Disintermediation
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Trust Models
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.
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Metacognition
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.
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Spiritual Materialism
New-practitioners adopting the practice of meditation and mindfulness has a tendency to coincide with a change of identity.
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Principal-Agent Problem
When a person acts on behalf of others they may act in their self-interest.
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Metta
Love and kindness meditation where you concentrate on visualizing someone you know being purely happy and reciting phrases to with them well.
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Uncanny Valley
An object’s likeness that is very similar to another, but slightly off which evokes an eerie negative reaction.
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COVID-19 Is a Vehicle of Fantasmic Projection
The virus and pandemic of COVID-19 serves as a container for people to project their own fears, beliefs, and ascribed meaning.
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Apophenia
Seeing patterns or interpreting meaning in randomness that is not truly there.
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Low-Bandwidth Collaboration
Collaboration is low-bandwidth if the mediums in which groups of people coordinate require little resources.
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Learning Fringe Programming Languages Makes You Faster
Learning a programming language that is immature and substantially different from what’s commonly used in the industry makes you faster at programming, specifically debugging and unblocking.
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Immediacy in Creative Tools More Important for Remote Teams
When working remotely, teams rely on low-bandwidth collaboration (e.g. video conferencing).
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Creators Need an Immediate Connection to What They Are Creating
From a talk by Bret Victor where he talks about the principle of getting immediate feedback in a tight loop with whatever you are building.
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Ego Depletion
Baumeister and Tice introduced the concept that willpower is a finite resource that can be exhausted when used because it requires mental energy.
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Web CLI
A command line interface for a web application that seamlessly blends text based user input and graphical UI elements for output.
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Speed Is Undervalued
Doing things fast has more primary and second-order benefits than we realize which makes it hard to conceptualize its full value.