What’s the value of management consulting?

https://elischragenheim.com/2016/07/01/from-a-toc-perspective-paying-tribute-to-a-great-pragmatic-thinker/ In a public speech he gave in 1971 he warned: “The wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a…

Trust Your Judgement

That op-ed from Yuval Harari the other day: the world after coronavirus. Apparently it wasn’t just me who thought it’s a bunch of nothing. https://twitter.com/ne0liberal/status/1248570850258935809 Is this just people trying to signal being more “woke” than Yuval? Or it is genuinely trash? https://twitter.com/TheAnnaGat/status/1248568134983958529 https://twitter.com/TheAnnaGat/status/1248569240074018817 What I took from this is…. speak up. share your thoughts.…

Is there a way to learn non-linearly?

if we can only think linearly (where it’s natural to do cause-effect deduction, reductionism), then it feels learning is an even more restricted / bottlenecked activity in this pandemic it became more apparent how bad we are at wrapping our heads around / making sense of complex adaptive systems like the world. we can’t easily…

[index] Learning Notes

The notes I take for podcasts and Youtube videos Finished Standalone Ray Dalio on TED Connects (April 4th 2020) Ryan Holiday — How to Use Stoicism to Choose Alive Time Over Dead Time | The Tim Ferriss Show (April 11th 2020) Noam Chomsky: Coronavirus – What is at stake? | DiEM25 TV (April 12th 2020)…

A Response to “Will Coronavirus (Really) Change the World?”

Just read this earlier: https://eand.co/will-coronavirus-really-change-the-world-77d16e860996 There’s a topic that’s become fashionable amongst intellectuals these days. How will Coronavirus change the world? Do you see the work we really have to do now? We have to reverse centuries — and I mean centuries — of colonialism, capitalism, supremacy, patriarchy. Around the world. And there is no…

[Book Summary] Made to Stick

Why messages don’t stick? The main problem is the “Curse of Knowledge”. The person sharing the idea has insider information that others don’t, so they have already framed the problem and understand its relevance. Six principles of stickiness: Simple. What’s your point? Say it. And shut up. Unexpected. Violate people’s expectations. Engage people’s curiosity over…

How I Learn and Two Ways of Thinking About Book Summaries

Update Nov 2020: I have since split this into two posts and developed them further http://proses.id/how-i-learn/ http://proses.id/book-summaries-useless-useful/ How I Learn Read non fiction books, take notes and summaries Watch videos, take notes and summaries Widens my radar, curating my consumption feed, join different communities, niches. Follow and interact with as many people people from diverse…

Hikmah Salah Jurusan (Cerita Anak IPS yang kejeblos ke IPA)

I just discovered “epistemology” is a thing XD awalnya liat https://twitter.com/RealtimeAI/status/1247316248049975297 lalu gw googling…. apa ini ya, sering denger… istilah gaje anak2 filosofi kayak “postmo” Epistemology: the theory of knowledge, especially with regard to its methods, validity, and scope. Epistemology is the investigation of what distinguishes justified belief from opinion. oh…. so what I’ve been…