Hey readers! This post dives into thought-provoking topics like why programmers should stay paranoid, the manager’s chase for endorphins, and groundbreaking discoveries about animals surviving without oxygen. We also explore the burnout from our achievement-obsessed society, delve into the science of mental models, and critique perfectionism. Plus, there’s a cool online CSV editor and insights into synthetic user research. Enjoy!
- Programmers Should Never Trust Anyone, Not Even Themselves: Programmers should be paranoid.
- The manager’s unbearable lack of endorphins: Musings on management and how to can get that endorphin rush that I’m missing
- This Is The First Animal Ever Found That Doesn’t Need Oxygen to Survive: Some truths about the Universe and our experience in it seem immutable.
- The achievement society is burning us out, we need more play: This is about more than a self-help switch – it will take structural changes to reject capitalism’s productivity obsession
- The Science of Mental Models: Diving deep into Johnson-Laird’s theory of mental models. It is one of the leading psychological theories of reasoning, even though it doesn’t have the status of being a consensus theory (few theories in psychology do).
- Perfectionism is optimizing at the wrong scale: At the risk of stating the obvious even more obviously than I usually do: sometimes the perfect approach involves tolerating imperfection. Imperfection?! Yes. Specifically, the more macroscopic one’s view becomes, the more microscopic imperfections may need to be tolerated — if they don’t matter to the goal, or the
- Commabot – Online CSV Editor: Online CSV Editor with Virtual Assistant
- Synthetic Users: If, When, and How to Use AI-Generated “Research”: Synthetic users are fake users generated by AI. While there may be a few use cases for them, user research needs real users.
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- 5 things we learned about podcasts from the Digital News Report 2024: Here’s what the Reuters Institute’s Digital News Report 2024 had to say about the state of news podcasts and audiences.
- Traffic engineers build roads that invite crashes because they rely on outdated research and faulty data: A traffic engineer argues that, contrary to his profession’s view, ‘human error’ is not the main cause of deaths in car crashes in the US.
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