Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid-19 3/4: Declare Victory and Leave Home. Our progress here suddenly looks great. I expected a surge to happen in March and am pleasantly surprised to see it happen this large and this quickly. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid-19 3/12: New CDC Guidelines Available. Then, finally, we got guidelines! Real ones that made a non-zero amount of sense! Nice. (more)

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TinySeed raises $25 million to back more bootstrapped startups. (more)

Josh Kaufman: Debugging Dysthymia: Overcoming Chronic Fatigue. I've been exhausted for over a decade. (more)

Scott Alexander: Is Everything A Religion? Is there anything that isn’t like a religion? I spent this morning trying to come up with the least religious things I could think of. Trying to think of practical disciplines aimed at producing a quantifiable result, disciplines which strive to be evidence-based with a minimum of extraneous ideology. What came to mind was investing and medicine. (more)

vs Life Expectancy, Standard Of Living, Life Style, Well-Being? (more)

Gideon Lewis-Kraus on Slate-Star Codex (Scott Alexander) and Silicon Valley’s War Against the Media (more)

Depression is a state of low mood and aversion to activity that can affect a person's thoughts, behavior, feelings, and sense of well-being. A depressed mood is a normal temporary reaction to life events such as loss of a loved one. It is also a symptom of some physical diseases and a side effect of some drugs and medical treatments. Depressed mood is also a symptom of some mood disorders such as major depressive disorder or dysthymia.[1] People with a depressed mood may be notably sad, anxious, or empty; they may also feel notably hopeless, helpless, dejected, or worthless. Other symptoms expressed may include senses of guilt, irritability, or anger. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depression_(mood) (more)

In Carlota Perez's Model in Technological Revolutions And Financial Capital, the period when a society changes the Game Rules to reduce the financialization of a Technological Revolution so that Progress through the Economic Transition can accelerate. (more)

attempt to test a Model/Hypothesis in a way that reduces the uncertainty of its truth (?) (more)

author http://joshkaufman.net/ (more)

Self-reference is studied and has applications in mathematics, philosophy, computer programming, and linguistics. Self-referential statements are sometimes paradoxical, and can also be considered recursive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-reference (more)

author. While giving tests of relative readability at two colleges in Virginia, he discovered that, while the relative readability of a text was an important factor in determining comprehension, an even more important factor was background knowledge. (hmm, is that self-referential?) Hirsch founded the Core Knowledge Foundation in 1986, and wrote Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs To Know* in 1987. He also co-wrote The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy.* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.D._Hirsch

A strange loop is a cyclic structure that goes through several levels in a hierarchical system. It arises when, by moving only upwards or downwards through the system, one finds oneself back where one started. Strange loops may involve self-reference and paradox. The concept of a strange loop was proposed and extensively discussed by Douglas Hofstadter in Godel, Escher, Bach, and is further elaborated in Hofstadter's book I Am a Strange Loop, published in 2007. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_loop (more)

3rd book in Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy series (more)

Ben Hunt (Epsilon Theory) on Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can't Lose. ...the polarized electorate and the monolithic market are not stable. (more)

the arising of Complexity via Self Organizing rather than Top Down Design? (more)

Mental Model (more)

tool for generating and organizing thoughts about a desired effect. (also called Ishikawa Diagram) (more)