Fermi Question of the Day: "How many horses are there in the US?"
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Fermi Question of the Day: "How many horses are there in the US?"
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Invites like these are my raison d'Γͺtre
Tis the season πΆπΈ
* Trump victory and increased polarisation could be related to ego protection against humiliation from contemptuous libs
(obvs not the full story - economics blablabla, tough year for incumbents blablabla)
Basic pattern I thought I saw from Envy:
* Contempt is another taboo emotion that seemed increasingly prevalent among Libs ie. Basket of Deplorables etc
* It was identified by Gottman as one of the "Four Horseman" of marriage failure and people are v sensitive to signs of contempt
Yup I was wrong here - hope I'm right in the long runπ€π»
Review: It wasn't my favourite video of hers. The videos are too damn long now π΅ I probably got too much of the content via the Tangents on her Patreon - can recommend those.
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the grass is greener where you water it π©π»βπΎπ·
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On World TB Day "The fight against TB isnβt overβββunless we decide to let it be"
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Premier Inns are great - usually great customer service when it isn't too
epistemic anti-motivation
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Hmmm so my family are mostly still on android.
Do you think it's still worth it?
oh no
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I think there's also something about improving over time too.
Makes the initial effort worth it
π₯Ή so relatable
But if you judge someone's intelligence based on their ability to speak your language then I don't think you have an accurate picture of the world π€·π»ββοΈ
IMO it's somewhat rude to force a person to use your preferred method of communicating without a reasonable attempt to use theirs.
Even if you're bad at languages, attempting some local phrases when you're abroad on holiday goes a long way in building rapport.
IMO forcing someone in the moment to put a fake number on something (especially when they aren't numerically confident) distorts what they were trying to communicate.
It's helpful to become more calibrated with numerical estimates but you can lie with numbers just as easily as lying with words.
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Love to see stuff like this
As a non-researcher, I really value getting an understanding of how mistakes are corrected. Honestly it makes me trust institutions more than if they never admit to being wrong.
I still think its useful to write up non-generalisable productivity advice. Especially if the general advice (ie. use a planner π) didn't work for you
Economics, sociology and psychology are the descriptive sciences.
Management and marketing are the practice.
The problem is probably that the descriptive sciences don't act like they have anything to learn from practice
But if there's knowledge value that isn't being distributed that's bad.
It's a pretty big problem if the means of knowledge production and the means of mass distribution don't understand each other.
Business people gonna distribute any value they can
I'll be honest - I don't understand what this means
π«£ dumb business person
To be clear here, I mean that neither side loses face when it is a transaction.
Business person doesn't feel dumb and is comfortable exchanging money for knowledge.
Academic gets the status from money.
Obviously there is a integrity risk here but honestly that was the beauty of professions
I agree - I think this is honestly what the "consulting" industry should be
Agree but I think the solution is more academic relationships with the private sector.
There's distrust on both sides.
In general, my guess is business people feel like academics hold them in contempt because of the lack of rigour.
Private sector responds by creating its own knowledge
"good intentions start to rot if you don't act them out"
It's called personal branding π π»