numinous.productions
How can we develop transformative tools for thought?
· Shared by 3182, including Dion Almaer, Phillip Murphy, Mario Clemente, Evan (he/him), Richard MacManus, tylercowen, Enrico Bertini, Nicky Case · 🐘 mas.to/@ncase, Alexander Seifert, Michael Nielsen, Anne-Laure Le Cunff, Andy Matuschak, Gordon, Gabriele, Jens-Christian Fischer, Mattia Fregola 🤔, Jonathan Kogan, Oleg Baskov, Dominik Grolimund, cantlin
The New Yorker
Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds
Summary · 12+ min · · New discoveries about the human mind show the limitations of reason. · Shared by 2227, including Shelley Bonanno, MA, LLP (she/her/hers), Susan Krauss Whitbourne PhD, ABPP, Jeff Atwood, justin caouette, Braden Kelley, Liliane Ferrari ™, Anita Leirfall, Mathew Ingram, 💥 Katie Martell, Jason Silva, Stowe Boyd, Thomas Power, Howard Getson, Matthias Sala, Christina Farr, DP, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Jane, Nir Eyal, Moritz Meenen
Harvard Business Review
Productivity Skills to Help You Gain Time Back
6 min · · Time is your most valuable resource. Spend it carefully. · Shared by 1619, including Stephanie A Kowalski, Niklaus Gerber, Katja Evertz, Matthias 🔥 I help you waste less time, Leonardo Sumulong, Nrupal Akolkar, Beth Price Almeida, Elinor Stutz, Charles Duhigg, Kate Nasser, Jonathan Kogan, Carla Gentry 🎶, Vala Afshar, Tiffani Bova, Shawn Venasse, Deb Lee, Philippe Gauvin, JP Nicols 🇺🇸🇺🇦, Wilko S. Wolters, Thomas Power
Farnam Street
Mental Models: The Best Way to Make Intelligent Decisions (109 Models Explained)
20+ min · · The smartest people in the world use mental models to make intelligent decisions, avoid stupidity, and increase productivity. Let's take a look at how ... · Shared by 1134, including Charlie Oliver, Taylor Pearson, Oleg Baskov, Korben, Dominik Grolimund, hardmaru, Jonathan Kogan, Liv 😷, ben, James Clear, André Borges, Konrad Weber, Mark Kaigwa, Christina, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, hiten.eth, Mathias Böhm, Ross Dawson, DP, Thomas Pleil
colorhunt.co
Color Hunt
· Curated collection of beautiful colors, updated daily. · Shared by 1086, including Fabricio Teixeira, Glenn Oberholzer, Lluís Codina, Mark Kaigwa, Stephen C Sanders, Casey Smith, Daniel Williams, danabramov.bsky.social, Courtney Bolton ★, Stephanie A Kowalski, Eric L. Barnes 🏝️, L. Taylor Banks, Barnaby Skinner, Zain Fathoni, Lailo, { Monah } 💡, Greg Meyer, Nils Hitze, Kenneth Kalmer, Herbert Bay
UX Collective
The State of UX in 2019
20+ min · · From the tools we'll use, to our process, to the behaviors that will change the way we design — here's a list of what to expect for User Experience (UX) Design in the next year. · Shared by 982, including femke, Fabricio Teixeira, Val Head, David Teodorescu, Moritz Meenen, David Cancel, designshard, Adham Dannaway, Daniel Boos, Sachin Rekhi, Stu Collett, Stef Walter, Tatiana Mac, hiten.eth, Chris Peterson, Gisele Navarro, Mike Davidson, Jacob Cass, Chris Messina, Herbert Bay
VICE
MIT Predicted in 1972 That Society Will Collapse This Century. New Research Shows We're on Schedule
5 min · · A 1972 MIT study predicted that rapid economic growth would lead to societal collapse in the mid 21st century. A new paper shows we're unfortunately right on schedule. · Shared by 956, including Arin Basu, Chris {he, they} , Oliver Raduner, Yann “不停” Heurtaux ⏚ @shalf@mastodon.social, Jonathan Kogan, Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, Marsha Collier, David Wallace-Wells, Martin Ford, Stever Robbins @stever@newsie.social, Gabriele, Gerd Leonhard, Dirk Spannaus, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Tactical Tech, Pat Kua, Prof Steve Keen, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Stowe Boyd
The New York Times
How the Virus Won
3 min · · Invisible outbreaks sprang up everywhere. The United States ignored the warning signs. We reconstructed how the epidemic spun out of control. · Shared by 545, including David Wallace-Wells, Gary Marcus, Mathew Ingram, Peter Shankman, George J Huba PhD, Ida Bae Wells, Amy Siskind 🏳️🌈, Hiroko Tabuchi, Brad Feld, Kara Swisher, Niall Ferguson, Kevin Roose, Chris Messina, anildash.com, Kevin M. Kruse, Ted Coiné, @meyerweb@mastodon.social, zeldman, Hilary Mason, Eric Topol
Live Science
Nuclear fusion is one step closer with new AI breakthrough
4 min · · The green energy revolution is getting closer. · Shared by 485, including Howard Getson, Christo Meid, Dr. James Canton, Matteo Furia
Aeon+Psyche
The self is not singular but a fluid network of identities
13+ min · · You cannot be reduced to a body, a mind or a particular social role. An emerging theory of selfhood gets this complexity · Shared by 477, including Anita Leirfall, Stephanie A Kowalski, justin caouette, Andrzej Jóźwik, Vaughan Bell, Abeba Birhane, Marylin Delgado (@marylindelgado@zirk.us), Esther Schindler, kp, Gabriele, John Hagel, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Carly, Bas Grasmayer, Jason Silva, Tom Connor, Rick Powell
Carbon Brief
Explainer: Nine ‘tipping points’ that could be triggered by climate change
Summary · · The persistent march of a warming climate is seen across a multitude of continuous, incremental... · Shared by 473, including pkashwan.bsky.social, Dr. Marshall Shepherd, Vincenzo Tremonte, Katja Evertz, Hendrik Dietrich, Tom Connor, 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛, Robert McSweeney, Marius Bleuer, getAbstract, Josep M. Ganyet, Philanthropy News Digest, Mike Butcher, Reto Knutti
medium.com
Things I Wished More Developers Knew About Databases
20+ min · · A large majority of computer systems have some state and are likely to depend on a storage system. My knowledge on databases accumulated… · Shared by 461, including Mike Tamir, PhD, Dr. Ganapathi Pulipaka 🇺🇸, Matthias Lampe, Jaana Dogan ヤナ ドガン, Bryan Onel, Stefan Weber, Eliska Hutnikova, Balda, @brianleroux@indieweb.social 💙, Fabrizio Bianchi, Clemens
Scientific American
AI Designs Quantum Physics Experiments Beyond What Any Human Has Conceived
7 min · · Originally built to speed up calculations, a machine-learning system is now making shocking progress at the frontiers of experimental quantum physics · Shared by 426, including Matthias Lampe, Nicolas Babin, John Nosta, ExApologist, Marcus Borba, AI, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, David Gates, Martin Ford, Startup Overseas, Bob E. Hayes, Michael Fisher, Brian Ahier, Nige Roberts-Willson, Jennifer Ouellette, R.NFT R “Ray” Wang 王瑞光 #1A #AI
a16z
Investing in the Podcast Ecosystem in 2019
Summary · 20+ min · · More and more people are listening to podcasts, but the industry is still young. Venture capital firm Andreesen Horowitz’s Li Jin, Avery Segal and Bennett Carroccio have compiled insightful data about podcasting. The format, they say, is still evolving, and they foresee many possible developments. Their report will intrigue even those who think they know a lot about podcasts. · Shared by 419, including Johannes Lenz, Aldo Gnocchi, ErmanTaylan.eth, Clemens M. Schuster, Daniel Lawniczak, Marcus Schwarze 🚀, Howard Getson, Dominik Grolimund, andrew chen, getAbstract, Kevan Lee 👋, Richard MacManus, Yvette Dubel, Chris Messina, Christophe Jean, Li Jin, Steven Sinofsky, Thomas Power
github.com
cyrildiagne/ar-cutpaste
· Cut and paste your surroundings using AR. Contribute to cyrildiagne/ar-cutpaste development by creating an account on GitHub. · Shared by 409, including Axel Rauschmayer (INACTIVE), Giuliano Liguori, Bilal Zuberi, Taylor Ling, Paul Roetzer, Una 🇺🇦, Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦, Joe Groff ⎷⃣, Yves Mulkers, Andy Kirk | Visualising Data, Ouriel @Zengo, Jamie Burke ⛺️, Nige Roberts-Willson, TonyParisi.eth, francesc, @kevinctofel@hachyderm.io 🇺🇦, Steven Sinofsky, hardmaru, Pete Skomoroch, Robert McGregor
a16z
Hidden Networks: Network Effects That Don’t Look Like Network Effects
Summary · 12+ min · · Some network effects (when a network gains more value to its users as more people participate in its platform) don’t show up in the usual metrics. Their hidden nature makes them hard to measure – but they can confer significant long-term competitive advantages. In an insightful article for A16Z.com, D’Arcy Coolican – an Andreessen Horowitz partner and a co-founder of the peer-to-peer lending platform Frank – shines a light on hidden networks, giving useful guidelines for identifying when they’re at work. · Shared by 391, including getAbstract, rudolph regter, Chintan Shah, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦 @tibor@mastodon.social, Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, Ricky Yean, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Gabriele, Chris Schultz✌️ & ❤️, Claudia Sommer, Bernhard Huessy, Bill Johnston, Niklaus Gerber, Dominik Grolimund, almagentia369, Jonathan Kogan, Yvette Dubel, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Liliane Ferrari ™, kp