The Courage to be Disliked

I can second this! Almost the only book of its kind I actually liked, not going to say that "it changed my life", but it was quite eye opening

the predominant theory is that the length of an organism's lifespan is inverse to the rate of it's metabolism. Look into Kleiber's law. Also worth reading the book Scale by Geoffrey West.

Thanks for the recommendation.

I'm reading this book "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" and it's quite fascinating to think deeply about what is Consciousness. I think the book does a good job of defining and explaining Consciousness.

Highly recommend it to think critically about the subject, but I think your point is valid, consciousness occurs for many things, and then it doesn't have to many other things. You don't need consciousness to nearly instantly detect that b comes after a sequence of {a,b,a,b,a,?}. You need consciousness to think about _why_ b comes after though. When you go for a swim and then recall the event, you most likely recall it in an objective or third person way mentally - the image or visual in your memory is that third person view.. but that's not actually how you experienced it.

I wonder how much of that applies to animals, and I wonder if we can ever get that answer.

+1 - and the mole and the chile en nogada there is fantastic. The churches are beautiful. Really neat day trip.

theoretically what's in it for them is that people will build content faster and with less barriers for eventual consumption on their platforms

Does anyone remember 'the sixty one', I used to use that all the time to discover music, was really cool - sadly, I left with the rest after the redesign plus overall the music discoverability market was already shifting away from it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thesixtyone

Not the same at all but I use this site to find artists that are "close" to an artist I already listen to a lot. I like it a lot.

https://www.music-map.com/porcupine+tree

Not sure how well this works for what you have in mind, but it may help. I'm not a fan of the "just play stuff related to the artist I'm listening to" to find new things, rather I would prefer to get a list of artists and explore those on my own.

Oh damn, I had forgotten about the sixty one. Spent so much time on it! Thanks for the nostalgia.

That's a very weak blanket statement, there are totally reasonable A/B tests you can run that don't deteriorate a user's experience, and the results can guide you to a better customer experience overall.

It did not mean it too seriously, of course there are also good AB tests, but there are a lot of bad ones out there. Those are what the article was about.

(edited for clarification)

Obviously, it depends on what the A/B test is about. Molesting or not the customer for the sake of some shortsighted metric is a bad choice; deciding what content should go above the fold or not (e.g. Amazon places images, short description, details/specs and similar products in that order) is a good choice.

I used Hugo+Git+Netlify and it worked well, however its a pain to create a custom template that I love - I'm in the process of switching to Wordpress+Elementor, just because I'm taking a more visual approach to building now and am a bit lazy with trying to manage my own design system and all that...

That being said, there's nothing wrong with Hugo or other static site generators, and they are crazy fast and mostly hands-off once you got what you need.

That deck is so well done, the way it lays things out about Foley and how he ran the business is a great teaching moment for people in any business. It does a great job of showing what red flag type statements and behavior to look out for in leaders.

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