@ThisIsSethsBlog

Author, blogger, a lifetime of projects. This is a retweet of my blog.

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Staring at decisions seths.blog/2022/12/staring-a…

Staring at decisions

Soap is 85 cents a bar or two for a dollar. Which should you buy? It depends. It depends on how much space you have, whether you like this brand, how full your cart is and whether or not you’…

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The next big thing seths.blog/2022/12/the-next-…

The next big thing

This is the season for all the lists–the hot authors, singers and restaurants in any given genre. If you’re on the list, congratulations! You’re the next big thing. For now. But t…

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Slow modems seths.blog/2022/12/slow-mode…

Slow modems

The internet doesn’t have to be this way. It seems like the structure we live with and struggle with and sometimes work against is pre-ordained and obvious, but much of it is the result of th…

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Little screens and productivity seths.blog/2022/12/little-sc…

Little screens and productivity

If you want reach and engagement, optimizing for small screens is usually the way to go. There are more mobile devices in the world than we can count, and large numbers of people spend their days c…

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Prompt engineering seths.blog/2022/12/prompt-en…

Prompt engineering

It began with what bosses needed to say to get workers to do what they needed done. And then it became widespread, because typing the right things into Google makes it more likely you will find wha…

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Sooner or later… seths.blog/2022/12/sooner-or…

Sooner or later…

Random events are unevenly distributed and rarely arrive on time. Resilience and frequency increase the chances that the break we are hoping for will arrive when we need it. The resilience to keep …

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It was only a matter of time seths.blog/2022/12/it-was-on…

It was only a matter of time

The question, of course, is how long? We’ve been working hard on fusion for sixty years (using ‘we’ to include myself with all of humanity, not because I’m a physicist). The…

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And what if you can’t tell? seths.blog/2022/12/and-what-…

And what if you can’t tell?

Our stories about brains are all invented. If a stunning surrealistic painting turns out to have been painted by an elephant or a toddler, does that make it less beautiful? If an essay on the natur…

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Attention, trust and GPT3 seths.blog/2022/12/attention…

Attention, trust and GPT3

When AI is smart enough to write an essay, then what happens? GPT3 is back in the news, because, as expected, it’s getting better and better. Using a simple chat interface, you can easily ask…

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Don’t let a story get in the way seths.blog/2022/12/dont-let-…

Don’t let a story get in the way

The thing is that facts almost never get in the way of a good story. Because a good story feels true. A good story resonates. A good story is based on our feelings, long-held and hard-earned. A goo…

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The best job you ever had seths.blog/2022/12/the-best-…

The best job you ever had

Would you fill out this simple, quick and informal survey for me? We spend most of our lives at work. And yet we don’t spend much time talking about it the opportunity to make it worthwhile. …

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“You’re right” seths.blog/2022/12/youre-rig…

“You’re right”

If a customer, a colleague or a friend is generous enough to share their feelings, those feelings are what they are. We might disagree with the assumptions that led to those feelings. But acknowled…

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The eggplants before Richard Nixon seths.blog/2022/12/the-eggpl…

The eggplants before Richard Nixon

For thousands of years, eggplants have had ‘features’ like this. But once we learned what they resemble, we can’t unsee it. It used to be a weird shape for a vegetable, but now it…

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The Massie Effect seths.blog/2022/12/the-massi…

The Massie Effect

Put this one next to Dunning Kruger, which shows that people of low ability traditionally overrate how talented they are. The Massie Effect is the tendency of people who support good causes to beli…

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Expertise seths.blog/2022/12/expertise…

Expertise

In a competition between someone who knows the most and someone who is willing to learn the most, the edge usually goes to the curious and empathic professional, not the one who is simply protectin…

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When we look in the mirror seths.blog/2022/12/when-we-l…

When we look in the mirror

When we look in the mirror, who do we see? [A note I sent to a young friend.] The person we see when we look in the mirror is the person we become, the person we fight to defend and persist with. I…

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Confidence doesn’t help win the lottery seths.blog/2022/12/confidenc…

Confidence doesn’t help win the lottery

It doesn’t matter how sure you are that this is a winning ticket, the ticket doesn’t care. And there are lots of lotteries in our lives. I was talking to a fifteen-year old the other da…

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Accounting (and small business) seths.blog/2022/12/accountin…

Accounting (and small business)

Every small business needs a bookkeeper, but few take appropriate advantage of accounting. Accounting is a way to turn organized books into insight. Particularly: It can help us make decisions. Any…

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