Found this in my notes last night. It’s the list of things that I wanted to remember when I ran Mountain Lakes 100.
Tips I picked up from reading a lot of articles and from reading Jason Koop’s book, Training Essentials for Ultrarunning.… continue reading
I decided to get organized and stop dropping everything (links, notes, images, ideas) into Evernote (my distributed cognition 2nd brain) so I decided to try Pocket.
I don’t like that I’m locked into Pocket and can only share links with friends through a Pocket url.… continue reading
Good read following Hooked and The World Beyond your Head. Same topics but dialing in on choice architecture and variable rewards.
How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds — from a Magician and Google’s Design Ethicist
The takeaway is to always consider (when presented with a fixed set of choices, options, menu items) what is not in the list and why.… continue reading
Not that I’ve looked very hard, but I haven’t found a good way to get to the highlights I make in the books I read on the Kindle. In Crawford’s book, I took pictures within a note in Evernote and let Evernote handle the OCR scan. … continue reading
The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in the Age of Distraction, Matthew B. Crawford
Crawford’s starting position is that beginning in the Enlightenment there has been a push for the “individualism” as defined by Kant’s “rational human”, and “freedom” from the monarchy, the government, any outside influence in fact.… continue reading
I can’t say this book left me hopeful for future political and economic stability. Through a series of vignettes and essays, the author provides an outsiders perspective on modern Russia. He describes modern Russia based on it’s long history of authoritarian regimes.… continue reading
