Sunday, November 17, 2024

How Your Brain Works & Changes @Huberman Lab Essentials

 Essentials: How Your Brain Works & Changes - Huberman Lab

This Essentials episode introduces how the nervous system creates sensations, perceptions, emotions, thoughts, and behaviors, as well as how we can change our nervous system — a phenomenon known as neuroplasticity.

Saturday, November 16, 2024

book: Homo Prospectus by Martin E. P. Seligman

 Homo Prospectus: 9780199374472: Medicine & Health Science Books @ Amazon.com

by Martin E. P. Seligman 

Our species is misnamed. Though sapiens defines human beings as "wise" what humans do especially well is to prospect the future. We are homo prospectus.

In this book, Martin E. P. Seligman, Peter Railton, Roy F. Baumeister, and Chandra Sripada argue it is anticipating and evaluating future possibilities for the guidance of thought and action that is the cornerstone of human success.


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Ari Wallach: Create Your Ideal Future Using Science-Based Protocols - Huberman Lab

Saturday, November 9, 2024

book: Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari

Nexus:
A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
- Kindle edition
by Harari, Yuval Noah. 

Politics & Social Sciences Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.

Amazon.com: Yuval Noah Harari: books, biography, latest update

"For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite allour discoveries, inventions, and conquests, we now find ourselves in an existential crisis. The world is on the verge of ecological collapse. Misinformation abounds. And we are rushing headlong into the age of AI—a new information network that threatens to annihilate us. For all that we have accomplished, why are we so self-destructive?

Nexus looks through the long lens of human history to consider how the flow of information has shaped us, and our world. Taking us from the Stone Age, through the canonization of the Bible, early modern witch-hunts, Stalinism, Nazism, and the resurgence of populism today, Yuval Noah Harari asks us to consider the complex relationship between information and truth, bureaucracy and mythology, wisdom and power. He explores how different societies and political systems throughout history have wielded information to achieve their goals, for good and ill. And he addresses the urgent choices we face as non-human intelligence threatens our very existence."




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Saturday, November 2, 2024

book: Longpath by Ari Wallach (+TV: A Brief History of the Future)

 Longpath: Becoming the Great Ancestors Our Future Needs – An Antidote for Short-Termism: Wallach, Ari: 9780063068735: Amazon.com: Books

Many of the problems we face today, from climate change to work anxiety, are the result of short-term thinking. We are constantly bombarded by notifications and “Breaking News” that are overwhelming our central nervous systems, forcing us to react in the moment and ultimately disconnecting us from what truly matters. But there is a solution.

Futurist Ari Wallach offers a radical new way forward called “longpath,” a mantra and mindset to help us focus on the long view. Drawing on history, theology, neuroscience, evolutionary psychology, and social technologies, Longpath teaches us to:

  • Strengthen our ability to look ahead
  • Relieve reactions to stressful events
  • Increase capacity for cooperation
  • Boost creativity





Ari Wallach, most recently an adjunct associate professor at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs and host of a new TV series titled A Brief History of the Future. We discuss the importance of learning to project our understanding of ourselves and our goals into the future, both for our own sake and for future generations. We also explore how this fosters a sense of unity and community within our species.

Ari Wallach: Create Your Ideal Future Using Science-Based Protocols - YouTube


Ari Wallach | Longpath


A Brief History of the Future | PBS


The World’s Largest Concentrated Solar Power Plant | A Brief History of the Future | PBS - YouTube

Saturday, October 19, 2024

book: Hackers & Painters by Paul Graham

Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age: Graham, Paul: 9781449389550: Amazon.com: Books

Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age, by Paul Graham, explains this world and the motivations of the people who occupy it. In clear, thoughtful prose that draws on illuminating historical examples, Graham takes readers on an unflinching exploration into what he calls "an intellectual Wild West."

Hackers & Painters - Wikipedia

is a collection of essays from Paul Graham discussing hacking, programming languages, start-up companies, and many other technological issues.



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