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Cassavas: cyanide poisoners and enemies of rationality
Cultural psychologist Joe Henrich points to the cassava as evidence that blindly following tradition is sometimes better than individual rational choice. (book, summary article)
Pairing at Work: the Weaponization of Coder Vulnerability
What did we miss out on, by failing to make more space for people not to pair? By treating this pairing culture as something so fragile, and so precious?
Pairing requires being vulnerable, to another human being, for hours at a time. Intimacy, both physical and mental. I had to share space, decisions, thought processes, and often feelings with this person.
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Elecciones México 2018
The Mexican general election will be held on July 1. The likely winner of the presidency is Andrés Manuel López Obrador (aka AMLO), a left-wing populist representing the Juntos Haremos Historia coalition (“Together We’ll Make History”). The election has already been marred by significant violence, with at least 112 politicians killed and 80 withdrawing since the start of election season in late 2017.
Advice on how to be creative from people who are
Don’t just say, ‘Oh, I need to work on that.’ Say, ‘I need to work on this element of that.’ Absolutely eat dessert first. The thing that you want to do the most, do that. Fast Company interviews Joss Whedon on how to get things done, part of a round-up of creative advice from Guillermo del Toro, Ron Howard, Chris Hardwick, Josh Fox, Alex Kurtzman and Robert Orci, Robert Rodriguez, Matthew Weiner, and Ernest Greene aka Washed Out.
Looking for a promotional writer for a game
We have a website for our game. The problem is all the words are made up gibberish.
If you could take that and replace it with actual words, so that people read the words and say "hey, this CYOA/Diablo game sounds stupendous and I will buy it right now," that would be ideal.
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