Nhật Hoàng Nguyễn Phan

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“What is above all needed is to let the meaning choose the word, and not the other way around. In prose, the worst thing one can do with words is to surrender to them.”
George Orwell: Viết phải rõ, chắc và đơn giản | Vietcetera
For language is not just something to be used. It shapes the way we perceive and experience the world.
Language Shapes Our Reality. It isn’t just for ordering drinks when… | by Harry Readhead | Medium
“The things we can’t have often become the things we obsess over.”
Do you ACTUALLY want it, or do you want others to see you having it? | by cher | Medium
2. Get something working end-to-end right away, then improve one thing at a time.
Why are Machine Learning Projects so Hard to Manage? | by Lukas Biewald | Medium
This tidbit raises an interesting question: Does our language shape how we see the world? Beyond increasing our vocabulary, the very structure of our language can mold our thoughts and perceptions.
How Language Shapes Your Worldview | by Elan Kesilman-Davin | Read or Die — HQ | May, 2024 | Medium
“You are here to improve, not to impress.”
Ph.D. students shouldn’t focus only on dissertation (opinion)
The development of expertise requires coaches who are capable of giving constructive, even painful, feedback. Real experts are extremely motivated students who seek out such feedback. They’re also skilled at understanding when and if a coach’s advice doesn’t work for them.
The Making of an Expert
It’s very easy to neglect deliberate practice. Experts who reach a high level of performance often find themselves responding automatically to specific situations and may come to rely exclusively on their intuition. This leads to difficulties when they deal with atypical or rare cases, because they’ve lost the ability to analyze a situation and work through the right response.
The Making of an Expert
It really doesn’t matter how long. If you practice with your fingers, no amount is enough. If you practice with your head, two hours is plenty.
The Making of an Expert
This is old school stuff, but it’s the difference between getting into positive love relationships and negative love relationships that bring you down emotionally and hinder your quest for the good life.
Advice For New College Grads
Rethink what you really want.
Advice For New College Grads
The good things in life take work – that goes for everything from careers to relationships. Though you will always see examples of people who have it all and did seemingly nothing to get it, be mindful that these are the exceptions not the rule. So, adhering to point number one, be careful not to expect that getting to the good life will be easy.
Advice For New College Grads
Coachability: This trait has two aspects: responding well to feedback, and being self-aware enough to assess their own performance. Disagree and commit: Can they get out of their own ego and move forward, willingly, even when they don’t agree with the plan?
How to hire low experience, high potential people
Navigate the world on their own terms. The best high potential youth are often unconventional in some ways. And if you’re looking for someone unconventional and high potential, they’ll often have a rationale for their unconventional approach.
How to hire low experience, high potential people
Transformative companies need people to 1) do something crazy, time consuming, and novel without the burden of too much past experience and yet 2) have enough wisdom and experience to distinguish the special sauce of the business from the actually destructive craziness.
How to hire low experience, high potential people
No system exists in a vacuum; any individual intelligence will always be both defined and limited by the context of its existence, by its environment.
The implausibility of intelligence explosion | by François Chollet | Medium
When it comes to intelligence, inter-system communication arises as a brake on any improvement of underlying modules — a brain with smarter parts will have more trouble coordinating them; a society with smarter individuals will need to invest far more in networking and communication, etc.
The implausibility of intelligence explosion | by François Chollet | Medium
If intelligence is fundamentally linked to specific sensorimotor modalities, a specific environment, a specific upbringing, and a specific problem to solve, then you cannot hope to arbitrarily increase the intelligence of an agent merely by tuning its brain — no more than you can increase the throughput of a factory line by speeding up the conveyor belt.
The implausibility of intelligence explosion | by François Chollet | Medium
If intelligence is a problem-solving algorithm, then it can only be understood with respect to a specific problem.
The implausibility of intelligence explosion | by François Chollet | Medium
To talk about intelligence and its possible self-improving properties, we should first introduce necessary background and context. What are we talking about when we talk about intelligence?
The implausibility of intelligence explosion | by François Chollet | Medium
You get stuck when you try to make something that’s wrong for you right.
on compatibility - by Nix 🕊 - starting from nix
Deep down, I think we all know what compatibility feels like because we’ve felt it before in at least one arena of life. It might be work or platonic friendships or hobbies. It is that click of pure recognition. It feels… natural. Instinctual, almost. And with time, your relationship to said thing or person evolves in a deeper, truer, more meaningful way.
on compatibility - by Nix 🕊 - starting from nix
Thinking critically does not mean criticizing everything around you, doubting every little thing or being a pessimist. This is the ability to adequately assess reality. Analyze and verify information, look at the situation from different angles, form your own opinion, objectively look at your own and others’ judgments, as well as ask the right questions.
Critical thinking. Recently, critical thinking has become… | by Semyon Kolosov | Medium
The erosion of genuine social connections in the wake of digital media is not being countered with initiatives to strengthen community ties or enhance real-world interactions. Instead, under the purview of Andreessen and his cohorts, we’re seeing the development of AI-driven social platforms and VR experiences that simulate human interaction, providing a semblance of connection without the depth and richness of genuine human relationships.
A decade of discontent is coming. | by Joan Westenberg | Dec, 2023 | Medium
Things that decelerate us in this era of speed like books, arts, or poetries, are secretly transforming the trees inside us to become a jungle. It's hard to notice, and it will always be, but in the end, it will still get us there. It might be a different there of Speed, but surely an equally rewarding one.
#95: The Speed culture - by Tuấn Mon - Many One Percents
If you're working on your Mass, don't be sad if it is slow. It needs to be slow to be a Mass. Patterns only emerge when there is enough connection between random dots.
#95: The Speed culture - by Tuấn Mon - Many One Percents
people don't just share a piece of work, they share a representation of a trusted Mass of work.
#95: The Speed culture - by Tuấn Mon - Many One Percents
The bigger question of what to do with your life is one of these problems with a hard core. There are important problems at the center, which tend to be hard, and less important, easier ones at the edges. So as well as the small, daily adjustments involved in working on a specific problem, you'll occasionally have to make big, lifetime-scale adjustments about which type of work to do. And the rule is the same: working hard means aiming toward the center — toward the most ambitious problems.
How to Work Hard
Trying hard doesn't mean constantly pushing yourself to work, though. There may be some people who do, but I think my experience is fairly typical, and I only have to push myself occasionally when I'm starting a project or when I encounter some sort of check. That's when I'm in danger of procrastinating. But once I get rolling, I tend to keep going.
How to Work Hard
The only way to find the limit is by crossing it. Cultivate a sensitivity to the quality of the work you're doing, and then you'll notice if it decreases because you're working too hard. Honesty is critical here, in both directions: you have to notice when you're being lazy, but also when you're working too hard. And if you think there's something admirable about working too hard, get that idea out of your head. You're not merely getting worse results, but getting them because you're showing off — if not to other people, then to yourself. [6] Finding the limit of working hard is a constant, on…
How to Work Hard
Number one in your life’s blueprint, should be a deep belief in your own dignity, your worth and your own somebodiness.
What is your life's blueprint? | Martin Luther King Jr: An extraordinary life
And I say to you, my young friends, doors are opening to you–doors of opportunities that were not open to your mothers and your fathers — and the great challenge facing you is to be ready to face these doors as they open.
What is your life's blueprint? | Martin Luther King Jr: An extraordinary life
Affection in healthy relationships is freely given and received. Healthy couples don’t need to remind themselves to show their partner that they love and appreciate them. They just do. And the recipient receives affection with affection rather than turning it away or taking it for granted.
3 Core Components of a Healthy Relationship
Identity. In our childhoods, people ask us about our career plans by asking us what we want to be when we grow up. When we grow up, we tell people about our careers by telling them what we are. We don’t say, “I practice law”—we say, “I am a lawyer.” This is probably an unhealthy way to think about careers, but the way many societies are right now, a person’s career quadruples as the person’s primary identity. Which is kind of a big thing.
How to Pick a Career (That Actually Fits You) — Wait But Why
For science to progress means you need the great imaginative leaps to take you from one paradigm to the next. And whether you believe ideas are finite fruits to be consumed, great man/woman theory of idea capture, the belief that genius is a tutelary deity that came to you, or continuous error correction being our glorious future, you still want the feeling that the theory of relativity, the discovery of DNA or the theory of evolution gave us, of having finally cracked open the door to a new part of our universe1.
On thinkers and doers - by Rohit - Strange Loop Canon
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
On thinkers and doers - by Rohit - Strange Loop Canon
Courage, imagination, and determination are usually more important than being smart. To an astounding extent, research is about emotional self-management.
Quick thoughts on research
No matter what your age, learning to talk to people of many different ages is a competitive advantage. This can be intimidating, especially at first.
Quick thoughts on research
Collaboration as mutual mentorship: The best collaborations often involve mutual mentorship2. That is, your collaborator helps you grow, and you help them grow. This is partially a function of your respective capacities. But it's also in part a reflection of your willingness to learn.
Quick thoughts on research
And there was a moment where it felt exactly like that: like her and I were different voices in the same head, melded together, no sense of separation, no longer alone. Of course, the mind is suggestible in ways like this, with the right cues you can lose your sense of identity, or imagine that a rubber hand is your own hand.
The problem of other minds - by Kasra - Bits of Wonder
It’s clear to us that we share one world, that we can see each other and make contact through the haze, but it’s too easy to convince ourselves otherwise, to believe that we exist in islands of our own, to imagine the haze between us is an impenetrable wall beyond which nothing exists.
The problem of other minds - by Kasra - Bits of Wonder
Yêu không dễ dàng, nó là một chuỗi những lựa chọn để ta mở lòng, để họ bước vào thế giới của ta và tạo một không gian đủ an toàn để ta cảm nhận được tình yêu của họ.
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Thích một người thì đơn giản, bây giờ không thiếu những người single thú vị để ta tìm hiểu, nhưng sau cái "talking stage" đó là một hành trình lột bỏ lớp vỏ bọc hào nhoáng để đào sâu những thương tổn, khiếm khuyết, đau đớn bên trong không chỉ của họ mà cả của ta để yêu và được yêu.
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It’s this combination of seemingly random events that makes serendipity feel so special. It makes a relationship or an idea feel like it was meant to be. Like the universe made it happen.
How to Engineer Serendipity - David Spinks' Newsletter
physically centered people process information in a systemic way – they gather and assimilate large amounts of data, and think in terms of the interconnections that make up whole systems of functioning.
The Systems Thinker – Human Dynamics for the 21st Century - The Systems Thinker
Emotionally centered people, on the other hand, process information in a non-linear, associative, interactive way that incorporates feelings and intuition, rather than through a strictly rational process.
The Systems Thinker – Human Dynamics for the 21st Century - The Systems Thinker
Mentally centered people process information in a logical and sequential way.
The Systems Thinker – Human Dynamics for the 21st Century - The Systems Thinker
A conscious goal of this facilitative approach is that students become aware of and value their own processes (including learning) and their associated gifts, capacities, affinities, and developmental needs. Not only do they feel highly affirmed, but they become equipped with fundamental self-knowledge that will serve them throughout their lives.
The Systems Thinker – Human Dynamics for the 21st Century - The Systems Thinker
Because they know their own and each other’s personality dynamics, and have worked to develop themselves, the teacher-facilitators have created harmonious working relationships. They also have close relationships with the parents, who are involved in the planning process and attend Human Dynamics presentations. Teacher-facilitators, parents, and students thus share both a common endeavor and “a common language” for communication and mutual understanding.
The Systems Thinker – Human Dynamics for the 21st Century - The Systems Thinker
As a result, many teachers use pedagogical approaches that exemplify learning by facilitation rather than instruction and have designed methodologies and learning environments to meet the needs of all the personality dynamics.
The Systems Thinker – Human Dynamics for the 21st Century - The Systems Thinker