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Social norm proposal: the first few times you meet someone new, you greet them by your own name instead of theirs
July 5, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Social norm proposal: the first few times you meet someone new, you greet them by your own name instead of theirs
Agreement with "Junior team members should not question the decisions made by senior team members" among consultant surgeons, consultant anaesthetists and pilots (Sexton et al., 2000).
One takeaway: aviation seems to have developed a very interesting safety-culture!
One takeaway: aviation seems to have developed a very interesting safety-culture!
June 20, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Agreement with "Junior team members should not question the decisions made by senior team members" among consultant surgeons, consultant anaesthetists and pilots (Sexton et al., 2000).
One takeaway: aviation seems to have developed a very interesting safety-culture!
One takeaway: aviation seems to have developed a very interesting safety-culture!
Chiang’s The Evolution of Human Science turns 25 this June!
Rereading it today, I’m struck by its sweetness.
Rereading it today, I’m struck by its sweetness.
June 19, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Chiang’s The Evolution of Human Science turns 25 this June!
Rereading it today, I’m struck by its sweetness.
Rereading it today, I’m struck by its sweetness.
Appreciating this Sunday how incredibly reliable most human bodies are most of the time.
Decades of life and barely ever more than a second without your heart beating, or more than a few without your lungs breathing.
Decades of life and barely ever more than a second without your heart beating, or more than a few without your lungs breathing.
June 15, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Appreciating this Sunday how incredibly reliable most human bodies are most of the time.
Decades of life and barely ever more than a second without your heart beating, or more than a few without your lungs breathing.
Decades of life and barely ever more than a second without your heart beating, or more than a few without your lungs breathing.
Danny Hillis' "A Time of Transition", from 1997, feels more current than ever – quite impressive!
(at the same time, whether we will get his or a wildly different future may be more uncertain than ever?)
longnow.org/essays/time-...
(at the same time, whether we will get his or a wildly different future may be more uncertain than ever?)
longnow.org/essays/time-...
A Time of Transition/The Human Connection - The Long Now
longnow.org
June 2, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Danny Hillis' "A Time of Transition", from 1997, feels more current than ever – quite impressive!
(at the same time, whether we will get his or a wildly different future may be more uncertain than ever?)
longnow.org/essays/time-...
(at the same time, whether we will get his or a wildly different future may be more uncertain than ever?)
longnow.org/essays/time-...
Reminder that we live in a world where a child can be older that their parents. The parents just have to fly around in a very fast spaceship for a while.
May 31, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Reminder that we live in a world where a child can be older that their parents. The parents just have to fly around in a very fast spaceship for a while.