Reading List for You

2023-01-02 03:09:50 TikTok is ‘digital fentanyl,’ incoming GOP China committee chair says

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/01/01/tech/tiktok-mike-gallagher/index.html Open / Comment

2023-01-02 02:57:33 What Is the Grey Rock Method?

The grey rock method is a technique in which an individual becomes emotionally non-responsive, boring, and virtually acts like a grey rock: bland, uninteresting, and unworthy of attention.

https://www.e-counseling.com/articles/what-is-the-grey-rock-method/ Open / Comment

2023-01-01 04:33:51 10 worst interview questions (interviewer perspective)

https://fibery.io/blog/worst-interview-questions-for-software-developers/ Open / Comment

2023-01-01 03:53:12 The 5% Rule

https://jonpauluritis.com/articles/5-percent-rule/ Open / Comment

2022-12-31 03:53:54 Book Review: Algorithms to Live By - The Computer Science of Human Decisions

https://blog.galowicz.de/2022/12/28/book-review-algorithms-to-live-by/ Open / Comment

2022-12-30 03:22:32 A Simple Way to Introduce Yourself

https://hbr.org/2022/08/a-simple-way-to-introduce-yourself Open / Comment

2022-12-30 02:59:57 Daydreaming and Concentration: What the Science Says

When you are daydreaming (or mind-wandering), memories that you thought were lost forever can come to the surface again.

“A Wandering Mind Is an Unhappy Mind.” The participants indicated that they were significantly unhappier when they were daydreaming than when they were performing a certain activity.

It is quite possible that we are a lot happier when we are fully immersed in our work than when we are daydreaming.

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/daydreaming-and-concentration-what-the-science-says Open / Comment

2022-12-30 02:42:48 Putting Ideas into Words

The first words you choose are usually wrong; you have to rewrite sentences over and over to get them exactly right.

If you're lazy, of course, writing and talking are equally useless. But if you want to push yourself to get things right, writing is the steeper hill.

http://paulgraham.com/words.html Open / Comment

2022-12-30 02:33:17 The Need to Read

Reading about x doesn't just teach you about x; it also teaches you how to write. Would that matter? If we replaced reading, would anyone need to be good at writing?

The reason it would matter is that writing is not just a way to convey ideas, but also a way to have them.

http://paulgraham.com/read.html Open / Comment

2022-12-29 01:25:41 Facebook addiction increases depression severity among people who are already depressed

https://www.psypost.org/2022/12/facebook-addiction-increases-depression-severity-among-people-who-are-already-depressed-64586 Open / Comment