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Recommendation: The Art of Manliness Podcast

2019-10-19 | Reading time: 1 minute

An (so far) interesting podcast addressing a lot of different topics.
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Climate Change Activism

2019-10-15 | Reading time: 4 minutes

Some thoughts on Fridays4Future, Students4Future, and Scientist4Future -- and strikes at schools and universities.

Image: Pale Blue Dot.
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Don’t let customer support try to justify design decisions

2019-09-21 | Reading time: 3 minutes

The conversation about the missing Three Panes View of DEVONthink 3 is an interesting example to me of how not to deal with customers.
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Weight Hacking Part IV – The Long View

2019-09-17 | Reading time: 1 minute

Losing weight is simple, keeping it off is hard. Funny thing, with tracking, you'll see phases, trends and where you'd end up when.
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DEVONthink 3 — Where the heck is DEVONthink going?

2019-09-17 | Reading time: 4 minutes

DEVONthink 3 looks sleek (if colorless) and comes with new features. More important is what they ditched, and possibly whom.
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Looking at a Shadowrun Future — By political parties delegating censorship powers to corporations

2019-09-17 | Reading time: 1 minute

We are weary of censorship by the state. But unfortunately, censorship got delegated to private companies. Unfortunately for us ... and the state.

Image: Shadowrun Rulebook Cover Image.
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Why Creativity is Incompatible with Collectivism/Socialism

2019-07-30 | Reading time: 16 minutes

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.

2019-07-30 | Reading time: 1 minute

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

2019-07-30 | Reading time: 3 minutes

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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Regulating citizens to the mean (with an SD of 0)

2019-06-05 | Reading time: 5 minutes

There are currently a few ... interesting developments that cast a deep shadow on future creativity. At least, that how it appears to me. It’s not that the situation is a problem now, but there is a trend, and I don’t like where it leads.
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