What is the Most Minimal UK Address Possible?
https://microblog.vladh.net/posts/most-minimal-uk-address/
https://microblog.vladh.net/posts/most-minimal-uk-address/
Vlad's Website
What is the Most Minimal UK Address Possible?
Postcodes in the UK are pretty specific — a postcode such as “SE1 6AD” will often identify one or a few specific buildings, unlike countries where a postcode represents an entire neighbourhood.
This leads to an interesting question: how short can you get…
This leads to an interesting question: how short can you get…
How to find out what you want to do creatively
https://mrsteinberg.com/how-to-find-out-what-you-want-to-do-creatively/
https://mrsteinberg.com/how-to-find-out-what-you-want-to-do-creatively/
Mrsteinberg
How to find out what you want to do creatively –
En dash, em dash and hyphen; what’s the difference? (also ndash and mdash, or n-dash and m-dash)
https://www.punctuationmatters.com/en-dash-em-dash-hyphen/
https://www.punctuationmatters.com/en-dash-em-dash-hyphen/
Punctuation Matters
How to use the en dash, em dash and hyphen (also ndash, mdash)
It's easy to use the hyphen, em dash and en dash to make your writing flow better. Let's look at some examples of the en dash...
The 8 Myers-Briggs (MBTI) Cognitive Functions: Your Personality, Explained
ENFPs and ENTPs often feel like introverts but process the world through extroverted intuition (Ne), which means outwardly focusing toward their physical reality, making them dominant extroverts.
https://www.wellandgood.com/what-are-mbti-functions/
ENFPs and ENTPs often feel like introverts but process the world through extroverted intuition (Ne), which means outwardly focusing toward their physical reality, making them dominant extroverts.
https://www.wellandgood.com/what-are-mbti-functions/
Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time
Intermittent breaks for renewal, we have found, result in higher and more sustainable performance.
Once upon a time, I did overwork and lack of sleep. When I overworked and lacked of sleep, the next day I went through activities with poor performance. One of my friends reminded me to get enough sleep so that I could do my task optimally. He was right. When I get enough sleep, as well as work, the next day I was fulfilled.
https://hbr.org/2007/10/manage-your-energy-not-your-time
Intermittent breaks for renewal, we have found, result in higher and more sustainable performance.
Once upon a time, I did overwork and lack of sleep. When I overworked and lacked of sleep, the next day I went through activities with poor performance. One of my friends reminded me to get enough sleep so that I could do my task optimally. He was right. When I get enough sleep, as well as work, the next day I was fulfilled.
https://hbr.org/2007/10/manage-your-energy-not-your-time
Harvard Business Review
Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time
As the demands of the workplace keep rising, many people respond by putting in ever longer hours, which inevitably leads to burnout that costs both the organization and the employee. Meanwhile, people take for granted what fuels their capacity to work—their…
Negativity drives online news consumption
Although positive words were slightly more prevalent than negative words, we found that negative words in news headlines increased consumption rates (and positive words decreased consumption rates)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01538-4
Although positive words were slightly more prevalent than negative words, we found that negative words in news headlines increased consumption rates (and positive words decreased consumption rates)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01538-4
Nature
Negativity drives online news consumption
Nature Human Behaviour - Examining real-world data that tested different headlines for the same news story on real news readers, Robertson et al. find that people are more likely to click on a...
The age of average
All the things in the world looks similar. People seek the safety of the familiar. Perhaps it’s our obsession with quantification and optimisation. Or maybe it’s the inevitable result of inspiration becoming globalised.
https://www.alexmurrell.co.uk/articles/the-age-of-average
All the things in the world looks similar. People seek the safety of the familiar. Perhaps it’s our obsession with quantification and optimisation. Or maybe it’s the inevitable result of inspiration becoming globalised.
https://www.alexmurrell.co.uk/articles/the-age-of-average
Alex Murrell
The age of average — Alex Murrell
In the early 1990s, two Russian artists named Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid hired a market research firm to survey the public on what they wanted in a work of art. Across 11 countries they then set about painting a piece that reflected the results. Each…
Why encouraging more people to become entrepreneurs is bad public policy
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11187-009-9215-5
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11187-009-9215-5
SpringerLink
Why encouraging more people to become entrepreneurs is bad public policy
Small Business Economics - Policy makers often think that creating more start-up companies will transform depressed economic regions, generate innovation, and create jobs. This belief is flawed...
Programmer Interrupted: The Real Cost of Interruption and Context Switching
https://contextkeeper.io/blog/the-real-cost-of-an-interruption-and-context-switching/
https://contextkeeper.io/blog/the-real-cost-of-an-interruption-and-context-switching/
ContextKeeper
Programmer Interrupted: The Real Cost of Interruption and Context Switching
Interruptions and context switching are the two most costly factors that directly impact a programmer's daily productivity. Although there is no permanent way to avoid them, there are some interesting strategies to minimize their impact. The Cost of an Interruption…
Making friends as an adult is just hard
https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2021/11/10/making-friends-adults
https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2021/11/10/making-friends-adults
WBUR
You're not uncool. Making friends as an adult is just hard
Forming new friendships as an adult can seem like an impossible feat. Psychologist Marisa G. Franco shares her top tips for making genuine connections.
The Neuroscience of Everybody's Favorite Topic
On average, people spend 60 percent of conversations talking about themselves—and this figure jumps to 80 percent when communicating via social media platforms
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-neuroscience-of-everybody-favorite-topic-themselves/
On average, people spend 60 percent of conversations talking about themselves—and this figure jumps to 80 percent when communicating via social media platforms
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-neuroscience-of-everybody-favorite-topic-themselves/
Scientific American
The Neuroscience of Everybody's Favorite Topic
Why do people spend so much time talking about themselves?
The D.E.N.N.I.S. system: Résumé tips for Senior Devs
https://jacobbartlett.substack.com/p/the-dennis-system-cvs-tips-for-senior
https://jacobbartlett.substack.com/p/the-dennis-system-cvs-tips-for-senior
Jacobstechtavern
The D.E.N.N.I.S. system: Résumé tips for Senior Devs
Swipe Right on Your Dream Job
Health advisory on social media use in adolescence
6. Adolescents should be routinely screened for signs of “problematic social media use” that can impair their ability to engage in daily roles and routines, and may present risk for more serious psychological harms over time.
Indicators of problematic social media use include
- a tendency to use social media even when adolescents want to stop, or realize it is interfering with necessary tasks
- spending excessive effort to ensure continuous access to social media
- strong cravings to use social media, or disruptions in other activities from missing social media use too much
- repeatedly spending more time on social media than intended
- lying or deceptive behavior to retain access to social media use
- loss or disruption of significant relationships or educational opportunities because of media use
https://www.apa.org/topics/social-media-internet/health-advisory-adolescent-social-media-use
6. Adolescents should be routinely screened for signs of “problematic social media use” that can impair their ability to engage in daily roles and routines, and may present risk for more serious psychological harms over time.
Indicators of problematic social media use include
- a tendency to use social media even when adolescents want to stop, or realize it is interfering with necessary tasks
- spending excessive effort to ensure continuous access to social media
- strong cravings to use social media, or disruptions in other activities from missing social media use too much
- repeatedly spending more time on social media than intended
- lying or deceptive behavior to retain access to social media use
- loss or disruption of significant relationships or educational opportunities because of media use
https://www.apa.org/topics/social-media-internet/health-advisory-adolescent-social-media-use
Taxonomy of procrastination
I claim that if you want to do a thing and
- you like doing it; and
- you’re sure it will work; and
- you’re sure it will be awesome; and
- you’ll get the benefits quickly;
then it will be easy. So if you’re procrastinating, look for the bottleneck.
https://dynomight.net/procrastination/
I claim that if you want to do a thing and
- you like doing it; and
- you’re sure it will work; and
- you’re sure it will be awesome; and
- you’ll get the benefits quickly;
then it will be easy. So if you’re procrastinating, look for the bottleneck.
https://dynomight.net/procrastination/
DYNOMIGHT
Taxonomy of procrastination
There’s a little accountant named Jim that lives in my head