Herbert Simon on Information Overload

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.

- Herbert Simon 

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. H. L. Mencken 

Chairman of Icahn Enterprises L.P.; etc., etc.

 

Chairman of Icahn Enterprises L.P.; etc., etc.             

Some people get rich studying artificial intelligence.  Me, I make money studying natural stupidity.

Worthwhileness

 

 

Success in Learning

 

 

"Success in learning is dependent on good study habits and study methods, not some innate ability."

Make your learning stick: Take advantage of the established learning science principles of practice, application, and reflection. 

To ensure your newly learned knowledge and skills stick with you, it’s important to repeatedly practice skills, apply knowledge in different contexts, and reflect on what you have learned, especially as you practice and apply in new settings. 

A well-designed learning experience will provide you with opportunities to practice, apply, and reflect, but you can reinforce your learning outside of a class by connecting it to your everyday life and work.

Rules for Living

 

 

Two Amigos

 

What man actually needs

 

Viktor Frankl | Man's Search for Meaning 

@ViktorFranklll

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What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him.  What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.

Are You Having Trouble Paying Attention? “Stolen Focus”

  “Stolen Focus” 

https://youtu.be/VsrM-j2ksaY

Myth: Fundamental nutrition advice keeps changing

 

 Fundamental nutrition advice keeps changing — a lot.

This is not the case, said Dr. Marion Nestle, a professor emerita of nutrition, food studies and public health at New York University. “In the 1950s, the first dietary recommendations for prevention of obesity, Type 2 diabetes, heart disease and the like advised balancing calories and minimizing foods high in saturated fat, salt and sugar. The current U.S. Dietary Guidelines urge the same.” Yes, science evolves, but the bottom-line dietary guidance remains consistent. As author Michael Pollan distilled to seven simple words: “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” That advice worked 70 years ago, and it still does today, Dr. Nestle said. And it leaves plenty of room for eating foods you love.

Source:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/19/well/eat/nutrition-myths.html?auth=login-google1tap&login=google1tap&smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur

 

Love is enough

 

 

The Woodworker

 

Charles Hayward, a cabinet maker and editor of The Woodworker magazine, offers some advice on how to succeed in woodworking (and in life):

"One thing is certain: that, even though the craft is a lifetime's study, the application of a few simple principles will assuredly bring success in woodworking. In the first place, never start a job until you know precisely how you are going to do it. Pass its construction step by step through your mind, so that you may hit upon the snags and mentally smooth them out.

Don't work hurriedly. Your very keenness may prompt you to rush, but to do so is fatal. Curb your desire to see the thing finished, and always concentrate intently upon the particular bit of the job you have in hand.

In all you do be accurate. No measurement, no cut, no squaring, should be "near enough." It must be right. For often one inaccuracy becomes the seed of others, and reproduces trouble as the work proceeds.

Finally, don't worry about an honest mistake. Ponder the reason for it and so learn from it. Progress at your own speed from simple job to something more difficult, but never force the pace. At the same time, be just as ambitious as your previous work warrants."

Source: The Woodworker 

Do it right the first time

 

"The hard way is the fast way.

Do it right the first time and you won't have to do it over the next time."

Albert Camus on resilience:

 

Philosopher and author Albert Camus on resilience:

"In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."

On the New Year:

 

Author Patricia Digh on the New Year:

"At the end of each year, I ask myself two questions:

1) What do I want to create in this New Year?

And, perhaps even more importantly,

2) What do I want to let go of?"

Source: Life is a Verb

10-year dreams. 5-minute actions.

 

"10-year dreams. 5-minute actions.

Where do I want to be in 10 years?

What can I do in the next 5 minutes to contribute to that outcome?"

Writer Jeanette Winterson on second chances:

 

Writer Jeanette Winterson on second chances:

"I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance."

Source: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?