Includes stuff about anything where feedback causes the system to adapt, including the systems of nature, those that are man-made or cultural, and those of the human mind.
Much hilarity: Seeking to quell fears of terrorists somehow breaking out of America’s top-security prisons and wreaking havoc on the defenseless heartland, President Barack Obama moved quickly to announce an Anti-Terrorist Strike Force headed by veteran counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer and mutant superhero Wolverine. […] “I believe a fictional threat is best met with decisive …
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This is the third follow-up to my my previous entry on self-knowledge and motivation. The entire series can be found here. I’ve finally figured out the problem that I’ve been having with motivation for working on Project X. It’s really pretty simple, and I don’t know why I didn’t realize it before. I’ve taken some …
Nice! I don’t understand how it got past the credit card companies’ lobbyists though. Unless even they can’t convince politicians to look the other way anymore…
This is the second follow-up to my previous entry on self-knowledge and motivation. In the last article I talked about habit, and how I was able to establish some useful habits that let me overcome my urge to sleep all the time. Near the end, I noted that I wasn’t able to establish a habit …
At first glance, something like this seems to be a good idea for consumers. But as a software developer, I can say with complete certainty that it would drive the cost of software into the stratosphere, and run every software company that’s smaller than Microsoft or IBM out of business. And if Microsoft had the …
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This is the first of several planned follow-ups to my previous entry on self-knowledge. As mentioned there, in the last year or so I haven’t had much reason to get out of bed in the morning. Literally — I was in bed until nearly noon most days, despite having gone to bed between midnight and …
Interesting.
For the past several years, I’ve been trying to design and write a very ambitious programming project (referred to here as Project X). But even though I find the project fascinating and intellectually stimulating, recently I’ve found that I’ve had less and less drive to actually work on it. Last week, I saw another Ford …
Fascinating stuff.
A fascinating article. I didn’t realize that humans could do this sort of thing.