Credits Renée DiResta is the technical research manager at the Stanford Internet Observatory. One of the more remarkable artifacts of late-stage social media is the indelible presence of a particular
Published in UX Collective · 4 min read · Mar 16, 2016 -- And why the notion of ontological design means that we as designers should think a step further and design mindful systems that will, in turn,
Oh, this is great! Feynman said that whenever he heard something new, he checked it against his ~12 most important questions to see if it opened any doors, and whenever it did people would perceive hi
This article discusses the Chinese philosophy of change based on the Yijing (I Ching, Book of Changes). A canonized Confucian classic, the Yijing is a composite text consisting of three distinct layers. Its first layer is comprised by the 8 trigrams and 64 hexagrams allegedly created by the mythical…
Your Top Rival Can Be Your Biggest Ally Friendly competition can expand the “win” pie and enhance your performance. Credit... Till Lauer By March 14, 2019 A few years ago, an entrepreneur named Wade E
Photo: Ismail Sadiron/Getty Images/EyeEm An acquaintance recently theorized that my main problem in life is that I have no purpose. It was weird to hear but also welcome. What is a life purpose? It so
Anthropology has struggled to provide an adequate account of morality. In 1962, the philosopher Abraham Edel () complained that “anthropology has not furnished a systematic concept [of morality]” (67)
Nearly every science-fiction novel seems to agree on one thing: in the future, work will be indistinguishable from art. Such wide agreement suggests that work is far more than a means of income genera
Hello! What's your background, and what are you working on? Hello! I'm Buster Benson. I wanted to write the Great American Novel and got a degree in creative writing before getting swept up in the won
I'm a philosopher, sociologist, game designer, and entrepreneur. My biggest contribution is a definition of "human values", “meaningful living”, etc that's precise enough to create surveys, metrics, a
A Subjective Units of Distress Scale ( SUDS – also called a Subjective Units of Disturbance Scale ) is a scale ranging from 0 to 10 measuring the subjective intensity of disturbance or distress curren
This post now available in German . The Theory of Constructed Emotion offers a radical new take on what emotions are, where they come from, and how they shape our lives. Presented by psychology profes
This is a guest post by Malcolm Ocean Are questions just for asking? It kind of seems like it. I mean, if you consider the phrase “ask me a ______”, then the blank is obviously “question”. Just like h
Pragmatism is a philosophical tradition that – very broadly – understands knowing the world as inseparable from agency within it. This general idea has attracted a remarkably rich and at times contrary range of interpretations, including: that all philosophical concepts should be tested via…
July 25, 2019 × Aaron Z. Lewis × Glencoe, IL It’s 2013, and I’m lounging on the hardwood floor of my childhood bedroom with a blasphemous book that I smuggled home from college: Sam Harris' Letter to
From the inception of art on computers, intellectuals have breathlessly theorized about the endless new possibilities for creating new media. This has persisted through many advances in technology, fr
I can’t even tell if I was wrong or not. Maybe you’ll have better luck: In June at Refactor Camp I gave a talk about voids ( How To See Voids ). The hook for my talk was a pretty picture of late after
Gangnam Style! What’s it about? (Who knows!) Gangnam Style! What genre is it? (Who cares!) In our present, atomized mode of meaningness , cultures, societies, and selves cannot hold together. They sha
You are trapped in a horrific video game, crawling with bloodthirsty ghouls. There is no way out. When you reach the final level, the boss monster will eat you alive : GAME OVER. It’s your move. Many
At the end of my last post , I talked about Brian Cantwell Smith’s idea of ‘the middle distance’ – an intermediate space between complete causal disconnectedness and rigid causal coupling. I was alrea
Yesterday I recorded a conversation with Jonny Miller for his Curious Humans Podcast. (About which, more fairly soon.) Near the end of our conversation, Jonny asked me a question akin to this one: “If
“Haunted,” by Penny Mathews So— we are all monsters . Then what? I’ve suggested that there are three ways of relating to one’s own monstrosity: rejection, inversion, and incorporation. This page is ma
Success at work — and in life — requires exceptional decision-making skills , especially when time is a factor. But this isn't an easy skill to master. There never seems to be enough time, resources,
Human beings have this amazing ability to retreat from reality without knowing precisely what reality is, in which direction it lies, and how to solve the converse problem of deliberately approaching
Count me as a Buster Benson fan. His 2016 Cognitive bias cheat sheet is legendary among behavioral designers. I have a framed print out of his codex in my home and I’ve enjoyed his writing on various
Jonny Miller 🐢 @ jonnym1ller 😋This conversation with @buster is so delicious you could almost eat it (and it may also shift the way you think about 'productive disagreements')📚We also dive into about
Book Club How to stop being scared of disagreements and make them productive. By Emily Ludolph Image courtesy of Penguin Publishing Group 0 In the past, 99U has tackled arguments by digging into how t
I’m a Black Feminist. I Think Call-Out Culture Is Toxic. There are better ways of doing social justice work. Aug. 17, 2019 Credit... Na Kim By Ms. Ross, an expert on women’s issues, racism and human r
AM Renault/Flickr Listen to a narrated version of this essay: The lecture below was delivered to the plebe class at the United States Military Academy at West Point in October 2009. My title must seem
What is reality? It’s a question that the human species has wrestled with since time immemorial. Everything that we see, feel and touch on a day-to-day basis is definitive proof of our existence, righ
The Art of Productive Disagreement By Buster Benson These are two things that might surprise you: No. 1: You don’t have to be right all the time. No. 2: Disagreements can actually be a good thing. In
An idea whose time has gone. Every culture has its preferred description of the human distinction. These descriptions are analytical and homiletical. We call ourselves not only what we are, but also w
The point of complex debates is not to prove your side right and the other wrong. Smart people make this mistake most often, and end up losing before they ever get started. The point of complex debate
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Problem that is difficult or impossible to solve In planning and policy , a wicked problem is a problem that is difficult or impossible to solve because of incomplete, contradictory, and changing requ
A recent post summarizes the argument in the title: “Why The Therapeutic Needs The Spiritual And Vice Versa And Why They Both Need Philosophy.” On Twitter, I discussed the matter further with my frien
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How To Argue Effectively | Buster Benson on 0.1% buster benson how to argue effectively Nov 19, 2019 How To Argue Effectively | Buster Benson, author of Why are we yelling - the art of productive disagreement on 0.1%. 🔴Get the 0.1% book for free: https :// bit . ly / 2Z8T3iV 🔴Follow me on Instagram:…
Based on the name Eris, the Greek goddess of discord, erisology is a word I made up that means “the study of disagreement”. I needed a word for that when starting a blog to write about (among other th
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