Already lost to me is the LinkedIn post that brought this to my attention, but searching for that story, I found an article that told some more of the background. https://mindmatters.ai/2024/05/a-man-a-boat-and-a-goat-and-a-chatbot/ The link between the original post and the classic non-fiction work “Gödel Escher Bach” is the icing on the cake. You’re familiar with the …
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competitive hotdog eating
Some of the horrors that professional hot dog eaters put themselves through. [via flowing data]
Escherian stairwell
Learning about the legendary Escherian Stairwell at RIT. [via farnam street brain food]
clickbait and netflix
Compelling argument on Slate about Netflix heading the way of all social sites as they follow the way of all sites that are seeking to monetise attention.
average face
Noah Kalina has been taking a photo of his face every day for over 20 years. Here is a rolling average of these photos, shown at 2 months per second. It’s a bit of a confronting demonstration of the passage of time.
working from near home
Sydney is again in lock-down (or as we’re calling it, a stay-at-home order), so this article on working from near home by Cal Newport is a little further in the future. After over a year of working mostly outside the office, if anything, it has brought me greater appreciation of the workspaces that I’ve had …
unlikely databases
There’s a search engine dedicated to death notices and obituaries in Australia – the Ryerson Index.
Organisational cost of insufficient sleep
Working on the amount and quality of my sleep has been a personal project for at least a few years, but there’s plenty of research to suggest that organisations should also be thinking about employee sleep.
how kids learn
An article came across my desk today about how children learn at different ages, citing work by Egan (1997); from somatic (age 2) to mythic (age 5-10) to romantic (age 10-15) to philosophical (15-20) to ironic (21+). I’ve really enjoyed the kind of reflective learning that my current course of study has put me through, …
a lot of free books
A directory of 800 free eBooks of varying qualities. via Kamal Weerakoon.