Readit NewsI'd be more interested in being sent a selection of recommended classic essays. E.g. by people like Orwell or Montaigne. You could populate it with essays found on project Gutenberg, or from high quality magazines like London Review of Books.
Also the examples are very tech focused. Are you planning to include other areas?
Economics detective radio - similar to EconTalk
Rationally speaking - interviews related to rational thinking.
80,000 Hours podcast - in depth interviews about the world's biggest problems and how to use your career to solve them. (Disclaimer: I used to work for them, but I genuinely love the podcast)
Feeling good podcast - by one of the pioneers of cognitive behavioural therapy, discusses mental health techniques.
It always troubles me when people throw this global piece into it. This global number is absolutely meaningless outside of a regional and often even city based economy.
The quality of life someone can purchase for their family with a $34,000 salary if we live in SF is a terrible and incredibly rough quality of life.
When people speak about the 1%, they are typically speaking colloquially about the 1% from any given region.
The quality of life one can purchase for their family with a $34,000 salary in NYC is still just awful when compared to quality of life of the richest people in China or the richest people in India.
Earning at least $55,000 per year in the US with a household of one adult puts you in the top 1%.
$32,000 puts you in the top 3.4%, which is still pretty good.
I'm very sick of the AI hype train. I took a PR class for my last year of college, and they couldn't help but mention it. LG Smart TV ads mention it, Microsoft commercials, my 60 year old tech illiterate Dad. Do any end users really know what it's about? Probably not, nor should that matter, but it's very triggering to see something that was once a big part of CS turned into a marketable buzzword.
I get triggered when I can't even skim through the news without hearing Elon Musk and Steven Hawking ignorantly claim AI could potentially takeover humanity. People believe them because of their credentials, when professors who actually teach AI will say otherwise. I'll admit, I've never taken any course in the subject myself. An instructor I've had who teaches the course argues it doesn't even exist, it's merely a sequence of given instructions, much like any other computer program. But hey, people love conspiracies, so let their imagination run wild.
AI is today what Big Data was about 4 years ago. I do not look highly on any programmer that jumps bandwagons, especially for marketability. Not only is it impure in intention, it's foolish when their are 1000 idiots just like them over-saturating the market. Stick with what you love, even if it's esoteric. Then you won't have to worry about your career value.
While some experts like Andrew Ng are sceptical of AI risk, there are lots of others like Stuart Russell who are concerned.
Here is a big list of quotes from AI experts concerned about AI risk: http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/05/22/ai-researchers-on-ai-ri...
There are a host of other qualities, but this strikes me the most "inborn" one.
1. Mandatory online assignments for credit that require a code from a new textbook. (Usually because then the professor doesn't have to grade the assignments.)
2. New editions of textbooks every year, where the order of chapters or questions is shuffled, requiring you to have the latest edition of the textbook in order to do an assigned problem set ("Read Chapter 3, do question 2, 3, 5, 7 on page 148" only applies in the latest edition).
3. Libraries often only have two or three copies of the textbook, and all the students want to access them at the same time (cramming the week before exams).
4. The university library has hours and closes at night.
5. Fewer people buying textbooks leads to textbook publishers increasing per-book costs to cover the fixed costs of a print run, leading to fewer people buying textbooks.
6. Different professors teaching the same course having different preferred textbooks. Both get listed on the course description, but you don't know which one you should buy until the first day of class.
For us, assignments (both problem sheets and essay questions) were written by our tutors. They came with a reading list that would include a selection of relevant articles, books, and textbooks, but there was no single one that you had to use.
> If you can’t find one, write one. It’s not that hard.
I've used three or four textbooks written by my professor, and I can't say the quality was all that great. Considering that the set of professors who currently choose to write their own textbooks probably skews toward professors who are good at writing textbooks, I'm not super high on this plan.
> Students: You should go on strike. If your textbook costs more than $50, don’t buy it. If it has more than 500 pages, don’t read it. There’s just no excuse for bad books.
Many students already do this. It's not uncommon for students to not buy a single textbook in a semester. In fact, the professors that do care about textbook price generally make textbooks optional. It turns out that's a lot easier than writing your own textbook and somehow selling it for cheap.
"Open to many possibilities ... instead of starting with a predefined set of focus areas, we’re considering a wide variety of causes where our philanthropy could help to improve others’ lives." and "Open about our work ... Very often, key discussions and decisions happen behind closed doors, and it’s difficult for outsiders to learn from and critique philanthropists’ work. We envision a world in which philanthropists increasingly document and share their research, reasoning, results and mistakes to help each other learn more quickly and serve others more effectively."
This all seems pretty useful so I don't get what your criticism is.
I can't say the drug use caused it, but I and the rest of her friends are of the opinion that it contributed (we all have experience with psychedelics, mostly in our younger days). We know that the microdosing also turned into macrodosing on a lot of occasions. She's in a group of friends who follow Phish around, and it's basically part of their identity.
She's doing better now, but still thinks she's in some kind of a stimulation, and has described feeling like she's on a never-ending acid trip. She's always been one of my most solid friends, and this came completely out of left field.
We can't get her to see any psychiatrists who would want to put her on anti-psychotics (which is basically all of them). So we just tell her we love her, and try to convince her that if this is all a big simulation, we're not in on it either.
You could also try contacting https://challengingpsychedelicexperiences.com/
There are also therapists who work with people before and after psychedelic experiences, called psychedelic integration therapists. They usually have legit mainstream psychotherapy qualifications.
There are also integration circles where people support each other. For example, https://acerintegration.com/ This was set up by a researcher in psychedelics. Not sure if it would be appropriate for someone experiencing psychosis though. You could also try contacting the researcher directly for recommendations: https://www.drrosalindwatts.com/
There are also forums where you could ask for advice, e.g. https://old.reddit.com/r/RationalPsychonaut/
They might be able to point you to other resources like this in your area.