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Juliana Maria Manalo

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  • What struck me about Haidt’s comment is how rarely I hear anything structured that way. He’s arguing three things. First, that the way Instagram works is changing how teenagers think. It is supercharging their need for approval of how they look and what they say and what they’re doing, making it both always available and never enough. Second, that it is the fault of the platform — that it is intrinsic to how Instagram is designed, not just to how it is used. And third, that it’s bad. That even if many people use it and enjoy it and make it through the gantlet just fine, it’s still bad. It is a…
    Opinion | I Didn’t Want It to Be True, but the Medium Really Is the Message - The New York Times
  • McLuhan’s view is that mediums matter more than content; it’s the common rules that govern all creation and consumption across a medium that change people and society.
    Opinion | I Didn’t Want It to Be True, but the Medium Really Is the Message - The New York Times
  • “Hungry.” That was the word that hooked me. That’s how my brain felt to me, too. Hungry. Needy. Itchy. Once it wanted information. But then it was distraction. And then, with social media, validation. A drumbeat of “You exist. You are seen.”
    Opinion | I Didn’t Want It to Be True, but the Medium Really Is the Message - The New York Times
  • “A little bit of everything all of the time,” as the comedian Bo Burnham put it
    Opinion | I Didn’t Want It to Be True, but the Medium Really Is the Message - The New York Times
  • As an intellectual movement that exploded on the scene in mid-twentieth-century France, “existentialism” is often viewed as a historically situated event that emerged against the backdrop of the Second World War, the Nazi death camps, and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, all of which created the circumstances for what has been called “the existentialist moment” (Baert 2015), where an entire generation was forced to confront the human condition and the anxiety-provoking givens of death, freedom, and meaninglessness.
    Existentialism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
  • “the existential self,” the individual who “makes himself”
    nietzschean existentialism - Google Search
  • That’s why in 1982 computer scientist Scott Fahlman invented the emoticon. His invention actually predates the Web: The above suggestion was posted on a message board on Carnegie Mellon’s network, but the sentiment endures.
    The Webbys 25 for 25: The Invention of The Emoticon
  • How can an industry that, unlike other business sectors, persistently promotes itself as doing good, learn to do that in reality? Do you want to not do harm, or do you want to do good? These are two totally different things.
    Opinion | Who Will Teach Silicon Valley to Be Ethical? - The New York Times
  • Urban planning includes techniques such as: predicting population growth, zoning, geographic mapping and analysis, analyzing park space, surveying the water supply, identifying transportation patterns, recognizing food supply demands, allocating healthcare and social services, and analyzing the impact of land use.
    Urban planning
  • epistemology, the philosophical study of the nature, origin, and limits of human knowledge. The term is derived from the Greek epistēmē (“knowledge”) and logos (“reason”), and accordingly the field is sometimes referred to as the theory of knowledge.
    Epistemology | Definition, History, Types, Examples, Philosophers, & Facts | Britannica
  • The parton model was proposed by Richard Feynman in 1969 as a way to analyze high-energy hadron collisions.[2] Any hadron (for example, a proton) can be considered as a composition of a number of point-like constituents, termed "partons".
    Parton (particle physics)
  • Monopolies, which are owned by the government, are common. These may include financial services, utilities, or even companies within the transportation sector.
    Understanding Command vs. Mixed Economy
  • In a command economy, the system is controlled by the government. A mixed economy is partly run by the government and partly as a free market economy, which is an economic system that includes no government intervention and is mainly driven by the law of supply and demand.
    Understanding Command vs. Mixed Economy
  • emotional intelligence is the ability to accurately perceive your own and others’ emotions; to understand the signals that emotions send about relationships; and to manage your own and others’ emotions.
    How Emotional Intelligence Became a Key Leadership Skill
  • As popularized by supply-side economist Arthur Laffer, the curve is typically represented as a graph that starts at 0% tax with zero revenue, rises to a maximum rate of revenue at an intermediate rate of taxation, and then falls again to zero revenue at a 100% tax rate.
    Laffer curve
  • The Laffer curve assumes that no tax revenue is raised at the extreme tax rates of 0% and 100%, and that there is a tax rate between 0% and 100% that maximizes government tax revenue.
    Laffer curve
  • The new Tax-Free First Home Savings Account (FHSA) — a registered account set up to allow individuals to save for the purchase of their first home — is certainly the most significant personal tax change in the 2022 federal budget.
    An early look at the new federal Tax-Free First Home Savings Account FON Commentaries. Vol. 2, No. 24– Finances of the Nation