Recommendation: Graham’s The Four Quadrants of Conformism
Paul Graham recently wrote a highly interesting essay on the four quadrants of conformism. Well worth reading.
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Self-Improvement
OmniFocus and iCal for Realistic Tasks-for-Today Planning
OmniFocus is pretty useful, but it lacks in support for a realistic planning of what you can accomplish during one day. However, iCal can help here.
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People Filter
We all reject people, whom do you reject — and why?
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Recommendation: YAF SUPERCUT: Best of Ronald Reagan
Strange how history seems to repeat itself, or rather, how some themes swing back and forth. Ronald Reagan seems to be perfectly suited for today's world.
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Recommendation: The Art of Manliness Podcast
An (so far) interesting podcast addressing a lot of different topics.
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False Dichotomies (Presentation Slides, German)
Slides (in German) about false dichotomies (a rhetorical fallacy), expanded to cover false moral dichotomies (going back to Haidt and referring Boghossian's and Lindsay's book «How to have impossible conversations»).
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Why Creativity is Incompatible with Collectivism/Socialism
A short comment on creativity and collectivism/socialism with a few (longer) quotations.
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The Right Kind of Wrong. Or: Using bad practice just because it’s industry standard.
What do you do when something is "industry standard", but clearly inferior. Yet, you get into trouble when you do it better, because people don't recognize it as better?
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The best predictor for future behavior is past behavior. — Or: What I wouldn’t give for a good Learning Analytics System
It's impressive what you can do with the information about students performance way before they take their final exam. If there just were a good learning analytics system to ... you know, actually use the information. Of course, that would require that student performance was actually something most universities did care about.
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Knight Forks
A short parallel between a move in chess and a situation in life in which there is no good choice, but you still have to make choice.
Image: Wikipedia
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