○ How to think

Collection of resources improving reasoning, empathy, planning, understanding:

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

~Robert J. Hanlon (Hanlon's Razor)

Reality is that which, when you stop believing it, doesn't go away.

~ Philip K. Dick, VALIS

I don't like the word materialist because it suggests we know what the material is

~ Richard Penrose

it is only the way it is until we discover the new way it is, and then that is the way it is until we discover the new way it is, and so it goes until the world is no longer flat, electricity lights the night, and shoes are no longer tied with ribbons.

~ Godwin Baxter - Poor Things

Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.

~ Jon Karauker - Into the Wild

When you're explaining a concept/idea and some people don't get, keep in mind that different human brains experience thinking differently. Your brain and someone else's might not share the same thinking patterns, and it goes way deeper than differences in experience and knowledge.

All to often in life, we see people do what we want them to do and we say nothing, assuming that the behavior has become natural for them, as easy standard. We justify our lack of praise by claiming that it would be embarrassing to the employee to call attention to a behavior that she sees as something fundamental What we're failing to realize is that the point of praise is not only to reinforce the behavior in that employee, but also to reinforce it in everyone else.

  • Patrick Lencioni - The Ideal Team Player

Maybe there's no ends, maybe just infinity

Maybe no beginnings, maybe just bridges

~ Sampha - Satellite Business 2.0

Dripping golden blood from important arteries as I smash through once again

Screaming, "More love, less hate"

The words rattling my boney ribcage

At that moment, I realize I'm actually in my apartment wearing yеsterday's clothes

Trying to make my kеyboard and mouse sing like the voices in my head

On an ergonomic rolling throne

A million mouse clicks away

A trillion mouse clicks away

From the light at the end of a twisted and incredible tunnel

A journey with no true end and a beginning too far away to remember

~ Louis Cole - Quality Over Opinion

People aren't actually moved by competence at all. Competence is actually one of the least moving things in the world. You're moved by something being resonant and clear. There's an amount of competence that's necessary to get something to be clear and then there's superfluous competence, which is whittling away all the life in it.

~ Jacob Collier - Logic Session Breakdown: Little Blue

Machines, after all, are conceived, designed, and constructed by people. By human standards, machines are pretty limited. They do not maintain the same kind of rich history of experiences that people have in common with one another, experiences that enable us to interact with others because of this shared understanding. Instead, machines usually follow rather simple, rigid rules of behavior. If we get the rules wrong even slightly, the machine does what it is told, no matter how insensible and illogical. People are imaginative and creative, filled with common sense; that is, a lot of valuable knowledge built up over years of experience. But instead of capitalizing on these strengths, machines require us to be precise and accurate, things we are not very good at. Machines have no leeway or common sense. Moreover, many of the rules followed by a machine are known only by the machine and its designers. When people fail to follow these bizarre, secret rules, and the machine does the wrong thing, its operators are blamed for not understanding the machine, for not following its rigid specifications. With everyday objects, the result is frustration. With complex devices and commercial and industrial processes, the resulting difficulties can lead to accidents, injuries, and even deaths. It is time to reverse the situation: to cast the blame upon the machines and their design. It is the machine and its design that are at fault. It is the duty of machines and those who design them to understand people. It is not our duty to understand the arbitrary, meaningless dictates of machines.

~ Don Norman - The Design Of Everyday Things

The most effective way of helping people remember is to make it unnecessary.

~ Don Norman - The Design Of Everyday Things