Time management; Screenshots; Twitter trolls
Milk, No Sugar #283
💡Think
The availability heuristic, or bias, is when we rely on a tiny subset of usually extreme information before making a decision.
For example, someone may hear of a plane crash in the news and then decide that they are scared of flying, despite the thousands of other flights that day that were perfectly safe.
When making judgements ourselves, it’s very easy to rely on this availability and recent bias to cloud our perception of the right way to go.
The next time you’re faced with a fork in the road, take a step back and ask yourself whether you’re making a clear or biased call.
📷 Look
📖 Read
❶ My fixation on time management
This is an article where the author opens up wide about the issues with our fixation on over achievement and counting every minute to make sure we’re as productive as possible at all times. They also hold a mirror up to our expectations on how we spend time at work; I’m sure we’ve all been in a 60 minute meeting that could’ve been 20.
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❷ Screenshots – the internet’s gremlins
How often do you take screenshots? If you’re anything like me, it’s dozens of times per day, from Tweets to Slack messages to something dumb I’ve seen online. Have you ever accidentally sent it to the wrong person? What if the content was damning? Screenshots were originally a literal photo of a screen, but have warped into their own little beasts of productivity hack slash “look how stupid this is!” comedic material.
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❸ Twitter has turned us all into trolls
It’s incredibly easy for people on social media, Twitter particularly, to be “whipped up into ideological crusades” against others. When someone makes a slip, people pile on and very quickly it’s gone from a mistake into an international outrage. The sideline to all of this is that there are people who revel in this, the trolls that wait for a glimmer of entertainment in another’s misery. Scary stuff.
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Bonus round
There’s a new type of business emerging – the DAO. It’s a community driven business model, and here’s an explanation so you can keep up
🎧 Listen
Orphaned by QAnon
This podcast is as meaty as the name suggests. The host speaks with several people who have “lost” their parents to conspiracy theories, and have decided to cut contact because the relationships became so fractured. It’s a side that we rarely think about – the adjacent connections of those who succumb to a theory. Really interesting stuff.
Listen to this podcast (28 minutes)
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🙏 Thanks
Have a great week,
Luis Ouriach
@disco_lu
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Kevin Fernandez (@kvnfz)