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I find that many people can learn a lot by doing but then at some point hit a wall and really struggle to recognize that another kind of learning needs to take place to understand …

It's fascinating that one of the top features insiders are interested in is making File Explorer more dependable.

I think he discovered cultural history. Also uses the word "excavating", maybe he read a bit of Foucault.

Can you give some more details on what you consider culture and what kind of books you read to that end?

Looking for something external, trick, app or whatever, and generally relying on science for concentration is conceptually the wrong approach.

Your diffuculties arise from the way you talk about the problem. You ask how you can be sure that a person can change their identity? Your question already presents a mechanism tha…

Those are mostly either heavily marketed recent books or some very popular books considered "classics" that sort of circulate as representing some field (which they mostly really d…

Yasujiro Ozu was making films since the 20s.

That is mostly my point. What conclusion can you actually make about any other society, current or historical, on the basis of "our practical problems being mostly solved by techno…

One follow up question you might want to be asking is why you thought that in the first place and what it has to do with current societal views.

That is unfortunately the case with me and it took me several years to start realizing that prolonged stress can result in this cascading effect where muscles tightening can distor…

I think interpreting the intention of the author and the students should take into account that the author's research is in human-computer interaction and that the students most li…

What it 'really is' is mostly a construction, an amalgam of perceptions that are usually descriptions of observers of what other people seem to do when they find things out or how …

I think framing issues with learning and understanding a skill and what it requires from you as a 'trick' is very detrimental.

What I'm arguing about is that there is a big assumption made prior to any judgement about models of any kind. At any given point all you have is your singular experiential point o…

No, 'things outside' are only known to us as mediated through (what we perceive as) the body. The object of which you estimate your degree of belief lies within our experience. The…

Is there any meaningful way for you or anyone else to claim anything exists outside of their experience?

I think it's a strange idea to talk about 'evolving consciousness.' As if matter somehow manufactured being out of an absence of being.

Consciousness is all of your inner experience. It's not about control or perception, that is it's not about what you can control and how you perceive things but that you can contro…

I think a very important step is acknowledging that the person standing in front of you has the capacity to feel whatever negative or positive emotion that you can feel. (That is r…

It's great to see this kind of anthropological approach to money. It has been difficult to find a coherent way to talk about it.

There is another documentary called Containment by historian of science Peter Galison: https://vimeo.com/124451868 .

The Scientific Revolution: A Very Short Introduction. This is a non-popular example, I found it because I like the series. The book introduces the context of the scientific revolut…

I don't have a specific question but I would be interested in reading any books on Bell Labs' culture at the time if he or you are aware of any.