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Xinyue Ma

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  • Wonderful interactions don't have to be entirely practical. We've all been in math class, either biting our lips or repetitively clicking a pencil while crunching numbers. Behaviors like this are considered fidgeting. In other words, repetitive movements that apparently help release situational stress, or even enhance concentration. Although there is no scientific research that supports this claim 4, fidgeting does regardless feel like a part of intentional interaction design.
    Invisible Details of Interaction Design
  • We can think of pinching akin to movements that require intricate motor skills, like picking up tiny objects or working with spices. Naturally, we pinch our fingers for higher precision
    Invisible Details of Interaction Design
  • Great interactions are modeled after properties from the real world, like interruptability.
    Invisible Details of Interaction Design
  • The top four commonly used quantitative methods are: Van Westendorp Becker-DeGroot-Marschak Multiple price list Discrete choice or choice-based
    The ultimate guide to willingness-to-pay
  • If you make people feel good about themselves, they will seek to be around you to get those feelings again
    Jack Schafer | Flipping the Like Switch Part Two | Jordan Harbinger
  • making minor mistakes deliberately
    Jack Schafer | Flipping the Like Switch Part Two | Jordan Harbinger
  • The spotlight effect: why we all overestimate how much other people notice about us
    Jack Schafer | Flipping the Like Switch Part Two | Jordan Harbinger
  • “name it and claim it” when manipulative techniques are being used against you
    Jack Schafer | Flipping the Like Switch Part One | Jordan Harbinger
  • Friendship Formula (Friendship = Proximity + Frequency + Duration + Intensity)
    Jack Schafer | Flipping the Like Switch Part One | Jordan Harbinger
  • Academic life had presented me with much the same problem: I thought about things only as hard and as thoroughly as my grades required. Maybe I stopped debating to see if I could still think of things to say when there weren’t any prizes. To a greater or lesser extent, I am still working on that.
    Even if you beat me - The Dublin Review
  • Coming face to face with the irrelevance of your own strivings demands some kind of response.
    Even if you beat me - The Dublin Review
  • When we prepped for debates we seemed to inhabit our own private time zone, in which everything we could possibly say or think of was exchanged effortlessly, to a degree that amused even us.
    Even if you beat me - The Dublin Review
  • I no longer found it fun to think of ways in which capitalism benefits the poor, or things oppressed people should do about their oppression. Actually I found it depressing and vaguely immoral.
    Even if you beat me - The Dublin Review
  • I wanted to be seen as deserving, but I didn’t want to say I was deserving. As a result, I vacillated between a weird self-righteousness and a deceitful kind of self-deprecation.
    Even if you beat me - The Dublin Review
  • The most ambitious debaters go out of their way to absorb information about sexual violence, racial profiling, police brutality: issues many of them will never experience firsthand. I did the same thing. Did it make me more empathetic and self-aware? Or did it just continue to affirm the idea that if I were smart and competitive enough, I could speak for anyone I wanted?
    Even if you beat me - The Dublin Review
  • When I first started out, I knew nothing at all about the outside world. I didn’t know when the war in Afghanistan had started, or what the Patriot Act was, or where exactly the Arab Spring was happening. In the very beginning, I accepted defeat in debates on such subjects with good humour; after that, I made some disastrous attempts to fake my way through them; eventually, I just started reading the news.
    Even if you beat me - The Dublin Review
  • By the time I was attending major championships, the speakers who had seemed so formidable when I first started out had graduated and left debating behind, or stayed around for long enough to become unremarkable. The machinery that drives effective speeches isn’t lastingly mysterious: observe it for long enough and you can see the moving parts. The harder I practised, the harder it was to recapture that sense of glamour that motivated me in the beginning.
    Even if you beat me - The Dublin Review
  • It is difficult for even the most avid novice to sustain their enthusiasm through this period; it was impossible for me. That seven-minute interval of mild euphoria during which I actually delivered my speech came to seem like a tinier and tinier oasis in a desert of spiritual exhaustion and food served in plastic wrap.
    Even if you beat me - The Dublin Review
  • For me, the speaking part was easy, something like the experience of particularly quick and effortless typing: you think the words, and then the words appear on the screen, without any real awareness of the intermediary process. You think the concepts, and then the concepts express themselves.
    Even if you beat me - The Dublin Review
  • Competitive university debating requires of its participants a particular intersection of personal qualities. You have to enjoy talking out loud in front of people. You need to have a taste for ritualized, abstract interpersonal aggression. You have to be willing to tolerate physical and mental discomfort: weekends of sleeplessness, bad food or no food, and interminable group conversations about how tired and ill everybody feels. And you have to learn how to lose.
    Even if you beat me - The Dublin Review
  • Popularity was not a mysterious arrangement of personal loyalties within a social code I didn’t understand: it was essentially just the same thing as success. Successful people were popular. You knew whose jokes to laugh at, because they were the people who gave the best speeches and said the cleverest things. I found this transparency encouraging somehow.
    Even if you beat me - The Dublin Review
  • leaving the security of 85 percent of its critical infrastructure up to privatization makes the United States especially vulnerable to cyberwarfare attacks
    Nicole Perlroth | Who's Winning the Cyberweapons Arms Race? | Jordan Harbinger
  • U.S. government is ‘biggest buyer’ of zero-day vulnerabilities,
    U.S. government is ‘biggest buyer’ of zero-day vulnerabilities, report claims | CSO Online