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The Concept of the Mind
Vaughn Bell has a good post reminding us that the “mind” as a single distinct concept is an assumption that many cultures don’t share: The idea that the self can be split into body and mind is at the root of psychology, but there is no laboratory test, questionnaire or brain scan that tells us this [...]
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Tags: behavior, mind, psychology
The Quirks of Living Alone
The New York Times profiles the quirks of people who are living by themselves: What emerges over time, for those who live alone, is an at-home self that is markedly different — in ways big and small — from the self they present to the world. We all have private selves, of course, but people [...]
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Tags: living, living alone
How Waiters Read Your Table
The Wall Street Journal has an interesting piece on the increasing trend of restaurants training their waiters to read the tables they serve: Reading a table happens within seconds of a waiter coming to a table. By asking for a cocktail menu or smiling and making strong eye contact, “they are saying ‘hey, I want to engage [...]
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Tags: Business, dining, Food, restaurant, waiter, waitress
Google Glasses are Coming
In a time when many of us are trying to find ways to disconnect from the online world, Google wants to barrage us with an invention they will unveil later this year: Google Glasses. The New York Times has the scoop: According to several Google employees familiar with the project who asked not to be [...]
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Tags: Google, Google Glasses, Google X
On Listening to Audio Books
Maggie Gram has an interesting perspective on listening to audio books. She started listening to them while she was still a grad student, but she faced hesitation about her avocation to friends and strangers. Is it considered lazy to listen to books? What does an audio book have that a printed book doesn’t? When is [...]
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Tags: audio books, books, reading
Ben Horowitz is a prominent venture capital investor. He started the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz with Marc Andreessen, the co-founder of Netscape, and the firm made vast amounts of money on investments in companies like Groupon and Skype (and will make even more when Facebook files for IPO). But it’s his stance on the [...]
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Tags: Ben Horowitz, Business, investing, life, rap, rap lyrics, VC, venture capital
Well, this is something you don’t see every day. One hedge fund decided to tell the bitter* truth in its annual letter to investors: Dear investor, In line with the rest of our industry we are making some changes to the language we use in our marketing and communications. We are writing this letter so [...]
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Tags: economy, finance, funny
In the Saturday essay for The Wall Street Journal, Alain de Botton considers how religion influences society. After contemplating specific examples (such as Catholic Mass), he comes to the following conclusions: Religion serves two central needs that secular society has not been able to meet with any particular skill: first, the need to live together [...]
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Tags: Alain de Botton, religion, religion for atheists, religion in society
The Best Obituary Ever
John Fairfax lead an eventful life. He crossed the Atlantic Ocean because it was there. He then crossed the Pacific Ocean because it was also there. And he did it by ROWING. The New York Times ran his obituary today, and it’s the most impressive obituary I’ve ever read. See for yourself, but here’s a great [...]
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Tags: John Fairfax, life, obituary
The Design of the Windows 8 Logo
This is the new logo of Windows 8: It’s radically different from Windows logos of the past. So how did Microsoft go about designing this logo? The Windows team at Microsoft provides an in-depth look: In some ways you can trace the evolution of the Windows logo in parallel with the advancements of the technology [...]
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Tags: design, Microsoft, Windows 8, Windows 8 logo
