Our #OpenAcess Perspective piece is now online at NPJ Complexity
"Antifragility in complex dynamical systems"
wherein we define scales of @nntaleb's antifragility:
https://t.co/rA9NfXlNmc
⚠️If you want to stay sane, curate your Twitter timeline (in 4 papers):
1) Bad emotions are contagious in social media
2) If you see false info enough, you start to believe it
3) Algorithms that maximize for engagement maximize conflict
4) The opinions here aren’t representative
Second, the more multi-faceted your job, the less risk of it being automated out of existence.
The gig-worker model of performing one fairly narrow task for multiple clients (even if you perform it exceptionally well) is especially exposed.
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But without major (and unlikely) transfers from local governments to households, there's no way to do this.
Very few governments in this position have been willing (or able) to accept a short-term contraction for longer term resolution. We'll see if China will be different.
Young children naturally inspire happiness when you see them. How do they do it? By showing you their unqualified joy when they see you. Do this to the people you love
https://t.co/lE1EkGkCyw
THE 3 RULES OF EFFECTIVE INCENTIVES
Rule #1:
Group incentives do not affect group behavior unless they’re translated to individual incentives.
(examples below; thread)
Most workers don't find purpose in the company mission.
They find purpose in seeing the difference their actions directly make on others.
Managers: talk less about mission and more about *specific and concrete* examples of how your workers would be missed if they were gone.
Never correct someone's grammar if you understood what they meant. Verbalism doesn't increase the information content of a message. The academic exercise of judging one's form of expression is a clear mark of a non-doer.
We talk a lot about the New Silk Road these days. Let's not forget the OG! This map shows the Silk Road of the first century CE. Routes were largely the same for a millennium! (blue = maritime travel; red = land based travel) Source: https://t.co/1c3ZRVZG6R
The word “engineer” comes from the medieval Latin word “ingeniator,” which comes from “ingeniare” meaning clever; native talent. It sounds like the original engineers were known for their creative cleverness and ingenuity.
Compared with males who tended to use the upward angle, females took selfies more with the downward angle, which puts their physical assets in a more favorable light. https://t.co/bqeOzUzyEY
Blue ringed Octopus. This woman was blissfully unaware that each blue ringed octopus has venom 1000 times more powerful than cyanide & enough to kill 20 humans in minutes! ☠️ The scary part is the bite is so small most humans won't even feel it... 🐙
Dostoevsky’s “contrarian friend” lamenting in 1876 the fact that French women discovered birth control and only have two children and France will cease to be France because only the “proletariat who are no longer Frenchmen” procreates.
What else is a current hot topic on Twitter in 2023? 😂