People with internal monologue basically think in language. They are often very articulate. Jordan Peterson said he thinks in words, and he talk very fast.
I think in abstract and concrete imagery, and only found out recently that other people think in words.
I think thinking abstractly hinders my verbal skill as there is a translation layer from idea to words.
It's indeed mind blowing when you first realize how other thinks.
Likewise. His more programming-centric writing, in particular, is a breath of fresh air relative to the current "teams, tests, and tickets" dogma. Personal favourite: http://paulgraham.com/head.html
Pingyin doesn't not only help me learn Chinese, but also learn English's pronunciation later in life. It's not one-to-one match but close enough.
Bopomofo predates Pingyin and did what Pingyin did but with non-Latin alphabet. It was always a surprise looking back that Mao adopted "Western" alphabets for Pingyin when he was very much against western ideology.
It was an excellent call, especially when writing is done digitally nowadays.
Actually - the legend goes - that Mao wanted to ditch Chinese characters in favour of Pinyin, until Stalin said every great civilisation needs its own writing system.
Chinese writing was seen as a factor in holding back the country - everything was up for change or removal.
This is amazing. Money doesn't make us live longer, but does $45 billion help bring the future sooner? I bet it does. It will widen our horizons on what's possible. Everyone on earth will benefit from it.
Different generation consumes news differently. I am the "newspapers" generation, but I found BI useful. If it is clickbait, I just skip it. The UI/UX makes easy to skip things you don't like. Try to do that on a piece of newspaper...
With that said, I did skip a lot on BI. I go to BI because of its fast updates and maybe just a habit.
It is tricky. The expected value is mathematics term people invented for easy calculation. It is different from the "value" in human perception.
How much is a $1 lottery ticket worth? It is probably 40 cents depending on the probability. It's worth zero for all the people who lose and millions of dollar for the luck one. There is no "between" value which is what expected value represents.
Software eats the world, or it may not. I don't think most of startups are doing what they do to realize that goal. All they do is to solve a specific problem with technology. Of course if the "problems" aren't there, they would fail.
I don't know what the action items are for the tech communities after reading the article. We find something interesting to do with our tech talent, and aren't really trying to choose which future we want to live in.
Regardless, Maciej has some great insight and offers some different prospective in tech/web.
I don't think there is ET. The probability that atoms fuse together to construct a organism that is capable of turning sun into bio-energy and multiplying itself just by chance is too small to have two civilizations in this universe.
No one procrastinates on things they enjoy doing. You may not have found your niche yet, keep looking. People grow up learning competing with each other all the time as it is theme of life. You would have to unlearn that and enjoy life.
I think in abstract and concrete imagery, and only found out recently that other people think in words.
I think thinking abstractly hinders my verbal skill as there is a translation layer from idea to words.
It's indeed mind blowing when you first realize how other thinks.