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SURVEY: Help me decide my next explorable!
🕑 Added 2018-06-13 16:09:22 +0000 UTC This time, I want to teach not just an idea, but a SKILL. So let me ask you, dear reader, what skill do you want to learn?The last two times I posted a help-me-decide-my-project survey like this, y'all picked The Evolution of Trust and The Wisdom and/or Madness of Crowds. So, I trust your exquisite taste! ;)
Superthanks,
~ Nicky
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misc updates:
- Merci beaucoup to everyone who recommended French comics to me on my last post! Although, heh, honestly at my current level, I'm struggling to finish reading Babar, Le Petit Éléphant.
- And actually, I have two book recommendations for you in return! They're fairly short books, too: 1) Tribe by Sebastian Junger, on war, disaster, and our human need to be needed by each other. 2) The End of Education by Neil Postman, on the old & new purposes (the "ends", ha ha wordplay) of public schools. Despite the wildly different topics, they both hit a theme I care a lot about: the human need for meaning, for purpose – and how modern society is horribly lacking in it.
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Comments
Dag Frode Solberg
I find the topic of learning how to learn very interesting. If you have some nice resources related to that. Could we have a look?
Grävling
Just to let you know that it is a network reset error that was causing google forms to not load. The problem is with my ISP, and since the whole building has the same service provider, it is no surprise that I have the same problem wherever in the building I am. So does everybody else .... the building is getting a new ISP soon, thank goodness. But at any rate .... it's not YOU. :) .... form filled from cafe down the street ....
Kahekili Stokes
Money Spending. That Is What You Should Talk About.
Grävling
Not sure what could be getting me both on my tablet and my debian machine, but I installed a spanking new google-chrome-beta on my linux machine, and no joy.
Nicky Case
I have indeed been slowly and steadily going through the Meaningness site! There's a LOT of stuff there.
Nicky Case
Huh. That's really weird. :( It's a Google Forms survey -- do you have any browser extensions that might be interfering with Google-related sites? (I had to turn off my EFF Privacy Badger extension temporarily to create the survey)
Grävling
Back at home, the link is not working with firefox or chrome on my laptop, either.
Grävling
On my android tablet I cannot load your survey using Brave, firefox, chrome or opera. Starts to load and then hangs in the middle. Will try with my laptop later.
Maic López Sáenz
In the topic of ways we form meaning from our lives and societies I have been reading a fascinating book: Meaningness. The name comes from both meaningfulness and meaninglessness, as the attribute of things that have meaning, because these things are both meaningful and meaningless. In this chapter, the last part of the book, the author explores the history of how different modes of societies derive meaning and how we ended up now: <a href="https://meaningness.com/meaningness-and-time" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://meaningness.com/meaningness-and-time</a>
