Producer & Songwriter, hill sprinter, art lover, talker
Los Angeles, Oakland
Joined December 2008
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This famous video filmed at the Sasquatch Music Festival 2009 is often shown in corporations, team working classes, etc. and it actually shows an interesting aspect in psychology: the role of leading with a example (even if weird) and imitation
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7 years of data from Jewish Israeli and Palestinian teenagers attending a 3-week summer camp revealed that being assigned to share a group activity (eg bunk, table, dialogue group) meant that two out-group members were 12X as likely to become close psycnet.apa.org/record/2020-…
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I think about these two and a half pages from Norm Macdonald’s book constantly. When I reviewed it, I wrote that they would “make for a fine eulogy”—and I swear I didn’t mean anything by it. But they do.
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"If someone’s much better than you at something, they probably try much harder. You probably underestimate how much harder they try."
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No host likes shooting promos, especially for a phone version of their hit game show, but Trebek did them with good humor. So long, Alex, and fuck 'em.
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Optimization is the world eater.
You don’t need a malignant Singularity - you just need a few hundred optimization functions pointed at civilization and collapse is all but certain.
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Twitter suspended #Unity2020's account for amplifying #JustSayNoToDonaldAndJoe as President Trump was accepting the Republican Party's nomination. Pull back the curtain and see how we got here: vague rules and selective enforcement are the duopoly's best defense. Heads up, @jack
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In the greatest church ever designed by man to honor transcendent glory, there‘s a small but remarkable monument.
It is to the anarchist who, unable to create works of beauty & wonder himself, will one day blow up the vulnerable church.
A dark angel gives the anarchist a bomb.
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When you see a mob doing something, it should make you less likely to do it yourself, not more likely.
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Dear Artists,
Read this tweet every single day. xitter.cf/jcolenc/status/1446998…
