Everyone dies eventually. Coming to terms with the loss of someone who you were close to isn’t easy. Neither is seeing a friend go through that loss. How can you help your friend out? Anum shares some solid advice she’s gathered from her experiences as a grief counsellor.
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I'm a Theoretical Neuroscientist turned Data Scientist. I enjoy writing taking chances, making mistakes and getting messy.
Intro to Mind-Reading: EEG
How an electroencephalogram can read the electromagnetic waves that are created when your neurons fire. How you can use that information to understand if a person is alert and read what areas of the brain they’re using.
KNOTS! KNOTS! KNOTS!
The three basic knots you need to not die. The Fixed Loop (self-explanatory), the Clove Hitch (tying rope to object) and the Double Fisherman’s Bend (tying a rope to another rope) for extension purposes.
Debugging Your Thoughts with CBT
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) is a therapeutic technique to help sufferers of anxiety or depression deal with the unhelpful “thought spirals” they enter into.
This was basically the presentation version of this blog post.
Nutrition and Science
How to eat so you live a full happy life. Also, why things that are terrible for us taste so good.
The Terribleness of Digital Locks
Digital Rights Management is a type of digital lock that companies put on the things they sell you. They’re terrible in many ways. They discourage innovation, they increase insecurity and they infringe on a person’s right of ownership. They’re also illegal to break, which is a huge injustice in our legal system. We really need laws to make digital locks illegal.
The Clusterfuck of Education
According to Kieran Egan, education is founded on three conflicting principles:
- Societisation: Being educated on the values of your society and being given a ranking.
- Acquisition of Platonic Knowledge: Ironic understanding of the ways the world works, via mathematics, physics and psychology etc…
- Self-Actualisation and Personal Development: The growth of the student as a person and the progress towards their interests.
Any attempt to try and combine any of these principles ends up with them undermining each other.
A potential solution is to try and keep these ideas in seperate institutions. Societisation can be kept in traditional schools. Self-actualisation can be encouraged in hack-centre like groups. However, the platonic acquisition of knowledge is still a difficult problem to solve. Hopefully explorable explanations, as described in Seymourt Papert’s “Mindstorms: Children, Computer’s and Powerful Ideas” would be up to the task.
How Airplanes Work
The physics and mechanics of airplanes with tons of animations and a delightful cardboard model.
Design without the mumbo-jumbo
What is design for a practical perspective and how do you know if you’ve made a good design? It all boils down to Value, Ease of Use and Craft.
Prioritisation and Growth in Startups
How to set priorities in your startup to maximize growth.
