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Published in Be Unique

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As Technologies Advance, We Drowse

How the glorious triumph of technologies redefines our culture — We have to admit the fact that our world has become a place riddled with sophisticated technological artifacts that are largely incomprehensible to us. I used to take these words less seriously than they deserve. It’s safe to say that few of us can confidently explain the internals of a…

Technology

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As Technologies Advance, We Drowse
As Technologies Advance, We Drowse
Technology

7 min read


Published in Curious

·May 21, 2021

Why Most Productivity Techniques Don’t Work As Intended

And how a simple concept of computer science can mitigate them — You’d think people would realize they’re bad at multitasking and would quit. But a cognitive illusion sets in, fueled in part by a dopamine-adrenaline feedback loop, in which multitaskers think they are doing great — Dr Daniel J. Levintin High complexity is the hallmark of modern working culture. Our work…

Productivity

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Why Most Productivity Techniques Don’t Work As Intended
Why Most Productivity Techniques Don’t Work As Intended
Productivity

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Published in Thoughts And Ideas

·May 9, 2021

How Media Can Hinder Our Clear Thinking

Beware when content begins shrinking — TikTok is all the rage. Probably you know at least one person who is active on the platform, but can it be as innocuous as it seems? I believe TikTok is an exemplar of another distinct form of content creation in the future. …

Thinking

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How Media Can Hinder Our Clear Thinking
How Media Can Hinder Our Clear Thinking
Thinking

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Published in Geek Culture

·Apr 4, 2021

A Short Guide to AI for Laymen

What’s all the hype? — The advent of AI is gradual, though for the masses it seems to occur in discontinuous leaps. In the 90s a human chess champion lost a game to Watson, a chess program from IBM, and perhaps the next thing you know is another match between AlphaGo and Lee Sedol hitting…

AI

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A Short Guide to AI for Laymen
A Short Guide to AI for Laymen
AI

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Jan 12, 2021

Truth Concealed and Revealed

Everybody Lies — by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz — Logicians and mathematicians inspect the state of matter, the train of thought on paper, for speech is too fleeting to grasp. The brain is only capable of remembering a measly list of items. We see that paper is an extension of the brain. Both speech and information are fleeting. The…

Life Lessons

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Truth Concealed and Revealed
Truth Concealed and Revealed
Life Lessons

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Published in The Startup

·Aug 29, 2020

Surf Modern Internet by Stealth

The Art of Invisibility — The World’s Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data — 1 Your Password Can Be Cracked The leak of celebrities’ photos gives us a shudder, as we should be in full charge of the data of our own. Tools available on shady forums and github alone could be used to back up your iPhone, or for attackers to get into your iCloud account. Following a suspicious…

Privacy

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The Art of Invisibility By Kevin Mitnick Summary
The Art of Invisibility By Kevin Mitnick Summary
Privacy

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Aug 26, 2020

The Art of Invisibility by Kevin Mitnick

Book Summary 0 — As I was talking with some friend from high school, he chuckled or even scoffed at my recent whereabout. I told him I’d been up to Internet privacy. He really seemed to contemplate for a moment, before tentatively retorted, “Well, I’m not a criminal. I’m an open book, really, just…

Privacy

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Privacy

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