The Observer Effect.
The Observer Effect: Marc Andreessen
20+ min · · Marc Andreessen on how he spends his time, learns, the 'build' essay and much more. · Shared by 355, including Martina Pugliese, Kevin_Indig, Niklaus Gerber, kees, Alain, Sachin Rekhi, Mathias Böhm, Howard Getson, John Tan⚡️, Alex Iskold | 2048.vc, Anand Sanwal, Chris Messina, Vikram Dutt, Mark Kaigwa, Bill Johnston, Sunnie J. Groeneveld, Bri Kimmel, René Pfitzner, Christian Surchi, Pascal Sulser
World Economic Forum
Why we need a new approach to young people's mental health
4 min · · Most mental health systems are structured on child and adult systems, with the cut-off point being 18 years – right in the middle of the onset of illness. · Shared by 89, including Nicolas Babin, Steve Case, Bilal Aslam
The Guardian
We can no longer ignore the potential of psychedelic drugs to treat depression
5 min · · At Imperial College we’ve been comparing psilocybin to conventional drugs – and the results are potentially game-changing, says Robin Carhart-Harris · Shared by 281, including Emmy van Deurzen☀️🌍 🌻🌹🌳🇪🇺🇫🇷🇳🇱🇬🇧🇺🇸⭐️, Liliane Ferrari ™, Graham Brown-Martin, Jason Silva, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Ethan Zeigler, Neil Hart 💙, ron boger, Bruce Lawson
Stratechery
Dust in the Light
13+ min · · The Internet ends gatekeepers and increases transparency, which has world-altering effects — both good and bad. · Shared by 135, including Patrick OShaughnessy, Ben Thompson, Scott Monty, Mark Kaigwa, Mathew Ingram, Semil, Anthony Hamelle
WIRED
Inside the NSA’s Secret Tool for Mapping Your Social Network
3 min · · Edward Snowden revealed the agency’s phone-record tracking program. But thanks to “precomputed contact chaining,” that database was much more powerful than anyone knew. · Shared by 294, including Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Bernhard Huessy, Marsha Collier, Howard Getson, Katja Evertz, John Nosta, Christian Surchi, Luca Like, John Koetsier, Matthias Lampe, René Clausen Nielsen, Liv 😷
Aeon+Psyche
What is the problem with ethical trolley problems?
12+ min · · Are thoughts experiments experiments at all? Or something else? And do they help us think clearly about ethics or not? · Shared by 239, including Nolen Gertz, Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine, 🧠 Larry G. Maguire, Jo Wolff, David V. Johnson, Marylin Delgado (@marylindelgado@zirk.us), Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Miguel Angel Escotet, Doug Sundheim, Tamsen Webster, Message Strategist (she/her), Anita Leirfall, ExApologist
erinbromage.com
The Risks - Know Them
15+ min · · It seems many people are breathing some relief, and I’m not sure why. An epidemic curve has a relatively predictable upslope and once the peak is reached, the back slope is also predictable. Assuming… · Shared by 932, including 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Fred Destin, Jeff Atwood, erik spiekermann, HeidiCohen - Top Global Marketer, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Eric Topol, Danielle Fong 🙋🏻♀️, Steve Case, Vala Afshar, Rand Fishkin, Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis, Semil, Mike Davidson, Tim O'Reilly, Paul Graham, Leah Klungness, Anne Thompson, Chris Messina, Mathew Ingram
thisworddoesnotexist.com
neuropsychologism: this word does not exist
1 min · · 1. psychiatry or mental illness as distinguished from schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or other forms of mental disturbance because of the impairment of the normal development of consciousness. 2. a… · Shared by 609, including 𝖒𝖒𝖆𝖑𝖊𝖝, Metropolis, hardmaru, Fabricio Teixeira, Tamsen Webster, Message Strategist (she/her), Alf Rehn, Erin McKean @emckean@xoxo.zone, Madam Grammar, Mike Davidson, Josh Wolfe, Chris Bailey, David McCandless, Stef Walter, Ian Lurie 🇺🇦 @ianlurie@mastodon.social, Joe Germuska, Jeff Atwood, Piotr Migdal, Esther Schindler, Jane, Thomas Power
The Atlantic
Why Birds Do What They Do
9 min · · The more humans understand about their behavior, the more inaccessible their world seems. · Shared by 43, including Liv 😷, Dan Hill
The School of Life
Nature as a cure for the Sickness of Modern Times
10 min · · The modern age has manhandled nature like none before it ever quite has. Previous eras may not have treated it with too much respect – the Ancient Greeks stripped most of their coastline of trees by… · Shared by 52, including Simon C, Gregor B. Rosenauer
WIRED
An Unlikely Partner to Counter Cyberattacks
3 min · · To combat increasing ransomware attacks on U.S. cities, the National Guard needs help from Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. · Shared by 28, including Tris Hussey, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Backchannel
The New Statesman
Lockdown should never be compared to the genuine evils suffered by minorities in history
3 min · · In early 1942, a few months after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, the apparent aim of which was to prevent anti-American espionage.…
Harvard University
How scent, emotion, and memory are intertwined — and exploited
4 min · · A Harvard panel explores the connection between smell, emotion, and memory. · Shared by 378, including Barry C Smith, Jonathan Kogan, Rich, 瑞拿頭, @ShannaPeeples@mastodon.nl, Liv 😷
Farnam Street
The Psychology of Human Misjudgment, by Charlie Munger
· The Psychology of Human Misjudgment, a speech given in 1995 by legendary investor Charlie Munger, opened my eyes to how behavioral psychology can be applied to business and problem-solving. Munger,… · Shared by 793, including Liv 😷, Jose Paul Martin, Josh Wolfe, Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, Chintan Shah, Gabrielle Mendoza, 瑞拿頭, Vikram Dutt, Jason Zweig, Tauno, StanChan, Ayala Sherbow, Rifki Caesar Novaldin, davidabrock, Ceferino Díaz, Fern, Carly
Visual Capitalist
Visual Capitalist
5 min · · Rich visual content for the modern investor. Visual Capitalist is a new way to discover business opportunities and learn about investment trends. · Shared by 75, including Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Thomas Telandro, Abel Caballero Díaz, Boris Périsset, Nomad Capitalist, Patric Fornasier
MIT Technology Review
We’re not going back to normal
6 min · · Social distancing is here to stay for much more than a few weeks. It will upend our way of life, in some ways forever. · Shared by 565, including m, Thomas Fuchs , R.NFT R “Ray” Wang 王瑞光 #1A #AI, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Bill Gross, Aníbal M. Astobiza, Frank Gruber, caroline sinders, David V. Johnson, Gerd Leonhard, W. David Stephenson, Klaus Eck, John Koetsier, Peter van Sabben.eth, Jana Eggers, Thomas Power, Steve Case, Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine, justin caouette, Jake Jackson