forksticks!

I'd like to share some reflections on the death of a patient. I’ve thought about her a lot. She gave me explicit consent to tweet the details of her case, about four hours before she died. Her hope was that someone might benefit from her experience. /1

The classic symptoms of ADHD, "inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity," describe the ways that ADHD sufferers annoy their parents, not what it's like to actually live with ADHD. additudemag.com/symptoms-of-ad…

Steffen M. Olsen got the difficult task of retrieving our oceanographic moorings and weather station on sea ice in North West Greenland this year. Rapid melt and sea ice with low permeability and few cracks leaves the melt water on top.

‘Reading about spontaneity won’t make you more spontaneous, but it may at least stop you heading off in the wrong direction; and if you play the exercises with your friends in a good spirit, then soon all your thinking will be transformed.’

This is amazing: Large-scale public housing, financed with "a Wohnbausteuer (Housing Construction Tax) on rents, so powerfully skewed that the largest 0.5 percent of residences accounted for 42 percent of revenues"

It took around 8 weeks to become numb to The Ongoing.

I am giving an internal talk to the Max Planck IT community next month. They asked for something about the role of software in science. Here's what I'm giving them. I will try to record and upload afterwards...sure to be spicy.

It's a breath of fresh air to see cog psy research that rejects pre-formalized experimental designs and just _watches what people actually do_ when they work to crack a problem. It reminds me of David Chapman' preachings on the need for more ethnomethodology in cognitive science

BEYOND HUMAN / JAZZ POPCORN ROBOT No audience, no player, no composition #twittermusiclab #soundart #sundayvibes

This unhinged idea is critical to the proposition that surveys are meaningful - that there is A Meaning of e.g. “Are you a risk-taker?” that is reflected in Likert scale responses.

My pillars of parenting: 1. It’s OK to want behavior from a child. But any feeling that they MUST behave someway is toxic, even not expressed, even in subtlest form. Address any such sense with meditation to thoroughly release. Then can you can truly advise instead of command.

several noncoercive parenting wins today: we went to the dentist for the first time and his verdict was “how fun!” and then I let him paint my bare chest with brown paint and wipe it to make it acceptable for me to clean his butt

PSA: If you keep thinking about it, write it down, set an alarm, emotionally process it (somatically, not narratively), make a decision. Looping is a sign of something that doesn't fit in working memory. Ignore your own assumption that it is trivial.