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Grace Zhang

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  • Spouses get to see the worst sides of each other more than anybody else, and so it’s very easy for people to learn to think more poorly of their spouses than other people – which is sad because there’s a sort of optical illusion / selection bias at play.
    👫 relationships are challenging + a lot of work - @visakanv's blog
  • Why? Because “hard technical problems” wasn’t my root goal—my root goal was to use my skills to get the most possible leverage on improving the world.
    You don’t need to work on hard problems
  • The more we empathize with others, the more likely we are to recognize the hardest problems; and the more we focus on solving these problems, the more likely we are to produce designs that improve the human condition. This point leads us finally to our last lesson, which is to work with empathy.
    Lessons from Hangeul – Fonts Knowledge - Google Fonts
  • the primary responsibility is not to change the world but to understand, in contrast with the Humean lineage that describes the ethical agent as an actor, whose primary responsibility is to change the world. It was nontrivial, however, to achieve the sort of clear perception she spoke of; among other things, it required an integrated character. Witnessing and attending sound passive, but it is far from easy to achieve clear perception, to truly and deeply see
    attending to the other - by Jasmine Wang 🌱
  • Give as many people ownership over your org as you can: give responsibilities to people not in leadership, and seek out their ideas. Pull back the curtain and invite others backstage as often as you can. With their help, constantly push in new directions.
    Galactic Empire | Purdue Hackers
  • Build something people deeply identify with and care about seeing continue. Establish strong values, constantly live them, and reward others for living them. It’s okay to be the only one carrying the torch for a while, but give torches to other people as soon as you can. Encourage others to contribute their own pieces to the culture and make it their own.
    Galactic Empire | Purdue Hackers
  • Naming implies existence of the named. Meaning (of a term) does not necessarily imply existence of the term. [e.g. centaur, Spock, unicorn, etc.] i.e. a term can be understood (can have meaning) without the implication of the existence of that to which it ostensibly refers.
    Quine: ‘On What There Is’ – Summary | Dr Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes
  • We have built up an instinctive habit of looking things up and seeing how other people have done it before trying it for ourselves. But the downside is that this habit primes our brains to value our work in the context of the taste of others rather than of our own.
    Taste is a guide for what is worthwhile
  • The story went that if a lowly carp could leap over a particular waterfall, referred to as the Dragon Gate, it would be transformed into a dragon, and that when one succeeded, the summer rains would start to fall. There are numerous waterfalls in China which are claimed to be the Dragon Gate, but the most notable is on the Yellow River, near Henan.
    On the Origin of Species: Magikarp - Bulbanews
  • Among 18 to 25-year-olds, 80% say that their own self-care is a top priority when dating and 79% want their partners to feel the same, according to Tinder’s Future of Dating Report 2023. Additionally, 75% of young singles find someone more attractive if they are willing to work on their mental well-being[13].
    Dating Statistics And Facts In 2024 – Forbes Health
  • 75% of Gen Z believe they are challenging the dating and relationship standards that were passed down to them
    Tinder Newsroom - News
  • the combination of strong moms and silly dads seem to raise deeply empathetic, strong-willed, and curious children. in turn, they grow up without any hesitation around the feeling of being loved. their perspective of the world is innocent until proven otherwise and even then, they challenge and persistently hold the belief that people are good; that they are capable of spreading goodness, and that as humans, the only thing we have in our control is to be good to yourself and others.
    arielle lok
  • In each case, the “helper” tried to learn about the “complainer’s” reality in as much detail as possible—not just the problem, but the whole person and whatever else was behind the immediate issue. And that’s what made it possible for them to actually help.
    To listen well, get curious
  • When I lift, there’s no room for anything else. Midfoot under the bar, feet shoulder width apart, grab the bar, shoulder blades in back pockets, take the slack out, DEEP BREATH, pull back through the heels. Powerlifting is as mental as it is physical. There’s no space for wanting to die.
    “You just get stronger”: How Powerlifting Saved My Life -The Toast
  • When I lift, there’s no room for anything else. Midfoot under the bar, feet shoulder width apart, grab the bar, shoulder blades in back pockets, take the slack out, DEEP BREATH, pull back through the heels. Powerlifting is as mental as it is physical. There’s no space for wanting to die.
    “You just get stronger”: How Powerlifting Saved My Life -The Toast
  • Thus, the increased mutation rate due to mitochondria is probably what kick-started the evolution of sex.
    The talk: a brief explainer of sexual dimorphism
  • When an artist draws, they are offering an artistic interpretation of what they have experienced.
    Ask the Art Prof: The Importance of Drawing From Direct Observation – Clara Lieu
  • When we critically examine effective altruism and longtermism, we can see them as falsely utopian ideologies cloaked in the opaque vocabulary of science and math. Let’s instead strive for a world where altruism doesn’t have to be maximally effective for it to be worthy, where doing good doesn’t have to be optimized, where morals aren’t a function of the market
    Towards Ineffective Altruism
  • Ineffective altruism eschews metrics, because “What does doing good look like?” should be a continuously-posed question rather than an optimization problem.
    Towards Ineffective Altruism
  • Something that I think gets misunderstood about effective altruism is that its obsession with outcomes doesn’t derive from tech culture. It’s a relic of the last major wave of philanthropy, starting in the 1990s, whose origins lie in management consulting and investment banking. Effective altruism is often associated with tech, but it’s genetically more similar to McKinsey.
    Nadia Asparouhova | Idea machines
  • a person can think they know a heck of a lot about you, before they even get the chance to like you. Which is pretty much what it means to live online today.
    'Date Me' Google Docs and the Hyper-Optimized Quest for Love | WIRED
  • The discrepancy between the undesired self and the actual self seems to be even more important than the discrepancy between the ideal self and the actual self in predicting life satisfaction (Ogilvie 1987; Ogilvie and Clark 1992), self-esteem (Endo 1992), and negative affect (Cheung 1997; Heppen and Ogilvie 2003; Ogilvie et al. 2008; Phillips et al. 2007). Moreover, the correlations between these two types of self-discrepancies (i.e., the perceived actualization of the undesired self and the perceived actualization of the ideal self) are weak and insignificant (Heppen and Ogilvie 2003; Ogilvie…
    Self-Standards and Self-Discrepancies. A Structural Model of Self-Knowledge - PMC
  • Visiting a scene just long enough to claim a dateline for an article based on somebody else’s uncredited reporting—let’s call it a “dateline toe-touch”
    Rick Bragg's "dateline toe-touch."
  • the breaking of your soul upon my lips
    As Is The Sea Marvelous by E. E. Cummings - Hello Poetry
  • Magnetic Bottle Opener/Vase Workshop
    Private Team Event | Magnetic Bottle Opener — Wood Thumb
  • Your Car Is Tracking You. Abusive Partners May Be, Too.
    How Tracking and Technology in Cars Is Being Weaponized by Abusive Partners - The New York Times
  • “For those affected by domestic abuse, a phone is a lifesaver. It makes it possible to reach out for help. It is a gateway to building a new life, away from harm,” FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel said last week in prepared remarks. “That is why we are focusing on the connection between survivors and communications.”
    Phone bill privacy rules highlight tech hurdles for domestic violence survivors
  • A pre-publication copy of the full BIETNA report is available for download from the CAR website using the form on this page. We encourage you to read the report and learn more about the workforce needs of the North American battery industry.
    Battery Industry Workforce Needs in North America - Center for Automotive Research
  • “But when you save it, it’s saved forever. You can’t put a price tag on that.”
    After Shutting Down, These Golf Courses Went Wild - The New York Times
  • Louisa Thomsen Brits, a British-Danish writer, casts hygge as a state of mindfulness: how to make essential and mundane tasks dignified, joyful, and beautiful, how to live a life connected with loved ones.
    The Year of Hygge, the Danish Obsession with Getting Cozy | The New Yorker
  • The most practical advice, though, was simple: build more cables for geographic diversity and redundancy.
    The Secret Life of the 500+ Cables That Run the Internet - CNET
  • Sure, people can be passionate about creating ingenious work, but the passion itself isn’t the source of the pretension.
    Who is Pretentious? - by Madison Huizinga - Cafe Hysteria
  • Many young writers I read/skim on Substack seek out sources external to themselves — art, film, theory — to make sense of the world
    ౨ৎ Girl blog - by terry nguyen - Vague Blue
  • he’s created this immense vertical filing cabinet in his brain
    Curius / Onboarding