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the ANTHROPOLOGiST / AndrewZuckerman
What is a prerequisite for the company you keep? For Andrew Zuckerman, it is trustworthiness. In this commission, the photographer examines
the lives of those whom he relies on everyday:his tailor, his grocer, his butcher, his peers. Each has a dedication to his or her craft that renders them credible—Zuckerman no exception.
life  public 
september 2011 by mwfogleman
What Do Women Want? - Discovering What Ignites Female Desire - NYTimes.com
“I feel like a pioneer at the edge of a giant forest,” Chivers said, describing her ambition to understand the workings of women’s arousal and desire. “There’s a path leading in, but it isn’t much.” She sees herself, she explained, as part of an emerging “critical mass” of female sexologists starting to make their way into those woods. These researchers and clinicians are consumed by the sexual problem Sigmund Freud posed to one of his female disciples almost a century ago: “The great question that has never been answered and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my 30 years of research into the feminine soul, is, What does a woman want?”
culture  psychology  interesting  science  life  article  research  sexuality  gender  women  sex  feminism  porn  nyt  anthropology  articles  nytimes  2009 
april 2009 by mwfogleman
Overcoming Bias: Even When Contrarians Win, They Lose
If you want credit as an innovator then you should be conservative. Become prestigious in a conservative way, until late in your career. Reject non-standard views but not explicitly; just ignore them so your quotes won't bite you later. When the time is right, look around for ripe once-contrarian ideas and take one. Change the name and vary the methods and topics, grab the first few high profile resources, and trash the original contrarians as weirdos. If you instead want influence, then go ahead and be contrarian early in your career. You are still well advised to be radical in a conservative way, but know that influence is easier than it seems, even if credit is harder that it seems. Most important, know that the fact that few support your contrarian view says less than it might seem about how reasonable is your view. Most people prefer credit to influence, and credit-seekers are better off rejecting a non-standard view now and grabbing it later, should it succeed.
philosophy  science  life  blog  advice  social  society  innovation  humanity  academia  overcomingbias  influence  rationality 
january 2009 by mwfogleman
Overcoming Bias: Planning Fallacy
A similar finding is that experienced outsiders, who know less of the details, but who have relevant memory to draw upon, are often much less optimistic and much more accurate than the actual planners and implementers. So there is a fairly reliable way to fix the planning fallacy, if you're doing something broadly similar to a reference class of previous projects. Just ask how long similar projects have taken in the past, without considering any of the special properties of this project. Better yet, ask an experienced outsider how long similar projects have taken. You'll get back an answer that sounds hideously long, and clearly reflects no understanding of the special reasons why this particular task will take less time. This answer is true. Deal with it.
planning  timeboxing  lifehacks  productivity  software  learning  psychology  science  life  blog  article  management  project  projectmanagement  time  bias  cognitive  scheduling  agile  schedule  smart  fallacy 
january 2009 by mwfogleman
Overcoming Bias: A New Day
Sometime in the next week, I suggest you hold a New Day, where you don't do anything old. Don't read any book you've read before. Don't read any author you've read before. Don't visit any website you've visited before. Don't play any game you've played before. Don't listen to familiar music that you already know you'll like. If you go on a walk, walk along a new path even if you have to drive to a different part of the city for your walk. Don't go to any restaurant you've been to before, order a dish that you haven't had before. Talk to new people (even if you have to find them in an IRC channel) about something you don't spend much time discussing. And most of all, if you become aware of yourself musing on any thought you've thunk before, then muse on something else. Rehearse no old grievances, replay no old fantasies. If it works, you could make it a holiday tradition, and do it every New Year.
lifehacks  overcomingbias  routine  life  hacks  novelty 
january 2009 by mwfogleman
Tough Learning
The natural sciences have a reputation for posing special challenges to the way we think and learn: they are a form of “extreme thinking”. In this essay physicist Michael A. Nielsen discusses some of the challenges facing researchers in the natural sciences, and how those challenges shed light on other tough learning situation
reference  education  howto  lifehacks  productivity  tips  learning  philosophy  psychology  science  interesting  life  inspiration  advice  research  article  social  brain  creativity  ideas  articles  teaching  lifehack  essay  personal  thinking  motivation 
december 2008 by mwfogleman
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