Marie Asma Ben Othmen

Phd in environmental economics, lecturer and researcher interested in all sustainability related topics / sustainable agriculture and food systems

[AJ Thurston, PhD @AJThurston]

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[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Indeed, great damage was done today to the public’s faith in the American legal system.

If a former President can be criminally convicted over such a trivial matter – motivated by politics, rather than justice – then anyone is at risk of a similar fate.

[Adrien Quatennens @AQuatennens]

@EmmanuelMacron Chaque heure de votre inaction, ce sont des gosses qui crèvent.

Que la France reconnaisse l’Etat de Palestine. Tout de suite. Maintenant. Qu’elle fasse l’embargo sur les armes et sanctionne le gouvernement israélien. Tout de suite. Maintenant.

[Int. Association of Agricultural Economists @IAAEAgEcon]

CALL FOR PAPERS: The 32nd #ICAE2024 is set for August 2-7, 2024, in New Delhi to address pressing issues in agri-food systems. Submission guidelines and the link to the submission system can be found at https://t.co/wxu7g1vtcS

Deadline for submissions is 15 January 2024

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

If you sit in back-to-back meetings at work, read this:

Microsoft's Human Factors Lab studied 14 participants across two days of video meetings.

• Day 1: 4 back-to-back 30-min meetings.

• Day 2: 4 30-min meetings with 10-minute breaks in between.

Participants wore EEG caps to monitor electrical activity in their brains.

The results were fascinating...

The two key takeaways:

Takeaway 1: Back-to-Back Meetings Promote Stress

Back-to-back meetings created an accumulating buildup of stress in the brain.

Anticipation of transitions caused further spikes.

Short breaks in between meetings allowed the brain to reset and never experience the stress buildup.

Takeaway 2: Breaks Promote Performance

Back-to-back meetings resulted in negative levels of frontal alpha symmetry, a brain state connected to lower levels of engagement.

Short breaks in between meetings resulted in positive levels, meaning participants performed better.

Conclusion: Take More Breaks

The conclusion of the study seems to be that short breaks in between meetings are necessary:

• Eliminate stress buildup
• Improve performance
• Reduce impact of attention residue

I started implementing 25-minute meetings into my schedule (a built in 5-minute break) and immediately noticed a positive impact.

A short walk or some movement in that window provided a clear reset.

25-minute meetings also eliminate the 5 minutes of “how about the weather” low value chit chat most meetings open with.

If you set the tone to dive in and stay focused, there are few things that take more than 25 minutes.

Try it!

If you enjoyed this or learned something, follow me @SahilBloom for more in the future.

[Mariona Tomàs @mariona_tomas]

Attending the opening conference at #euraconference23. Three days of conference ahead

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

Fungi is the foundation of all life on Earth, throughout its history. It's humbling to think how dependent humans are on all other organisms. We are truly in this together, where the "we" includes 10-100+ million species of living creatures on Earth.

[Nathan Lands @NathanLands]

AI video has started to produce mindblowing results and could eventually disrupt Hollywood. (PT17)

Here are the best AI videos I've found:

[Marie Asma Ben Othmen @Marie_Asma_]

@"France Expands Organic Farming Aid & Grants Agriculture Ministry Overturn Power"https://t.co/ZftpG1oZbQ on @LinkedIn

[Charles W McKinney, Jr. @CharlesWMcKinn2]

I need y’all to stop making 17 year olds feel like they’re behind because they haven’t identified their life’s work yet.

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

Do not use your energy to worry. Use your energy to believe, to create, to learn, to think and to grow.

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

Focus is essential for a productive life.

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

This dog is my spirit animal:
1. Be kind
2. Resist conformity

[Rowan Cheung @rowancheung]

This is insane.

We can now detect feelings in real-time through facial expressions using AI.

(Open-sourced code in the next tweet)

[Marie Asma Ben Othmen @Marie_Asma_]

Cultiver les sols d’une métropole au lourd passé industriel, est-ce une bonne idée ? https://t.co/25o0cMva0y via @FR_Conversation

[Thomas Pesquet @Thom_astro]

✨✈️🦊As The #LittlePrince turns 80 years young yesterday, don’t miss any opportunity to “Turn your life into a dream, and that dream into a reality.” As eloquently written by #SaintExupery.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

How to learn anything.

The Feynman Technique:

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

The idea that time is an illusion breaks my brain.

There are many weird ideas in physics, but that one... that, as Einstein said, "distinction between past, present & future is an illusion" is just too weird.

The arrow of time seems fundamental to my cognition, but maybe not?

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

Education is the acquisition of knowledge, while intelligence is the ability to use that knowledge to think and reason. One can be highly educated but not necessarily intelligent, and vice versa.

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

The measure of your intelligence is not your ability to acquire knowledge but how you handle uncertainty and navigate through it and behave when you don't know what to do.