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Atomic Habits
We are all creatures of habits, good and bad, and instilling new ones like eating well, or exercising, or simply remembering to pay bills on time can be so freeing.
August 23, 2021
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AI for Everyone
Short and engaging easy to understand course on what AI is about. What I love about this course is that it talks about value AI in industries as well as
August 18, 2021
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What is “scientific”, really?
Given the current emphasis on “believing in science” (a meaningless category of belief), I can’t recommend highly enough Zoltan Dienes’ exploration of scientific inference – Understanding Psychology as a Science:
August 12, 2021
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All Tech is Human
All Tech is Human is one of the most active organizations I’ve found so far. There are lots of papers written on the topic which you can access on their
August 9, 2021
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The Cut Up Technique (Bowie & Burroughs)
First popularized by William S Burroughs, this creative method gained even more attention when it was cited by David Bowie. Bowie described the application of this method to help inspire
August 4, 2021
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Joseph Campbell – Hero’s Journey
The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell was published in 1949 and has had a far reaching impact on storytelling ever since. In fact, the hero’s journey as
August 4, 2021
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Oblique Strategies by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt
If you are familiar with Brian Eno or Peter Schmidt you might think about how people as creative as them keep their edge. I always thought creatives are just able
August 1, 2021
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On Writing by Stephen King
I picked this up thinking it would just be an interesting read and that it wouldn’t apply to me as I didn’t do creative writing. Then I realized once I
July 24, 2021
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The Extreme Self
I found this at Foyles in Waterloo station in London recently, while I was waiting around. I wish I could say this happened more often as I love any excuse
July 23, 2021
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You and your research by Richard Hamming (Mathematician and Computer scientist)
Sometimes I come across something that I can’t believe I didn’t find sooner. This is one of those things. It’s more than research as the title suggests. As Hamming himself
July 22, 2021
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences
Have you ever wondered why maths so perfectly helps us describe physics? It all fits together so well by a happy coincidence. This a famous article by physicist Eugene Wigner
July 16, 2021
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The Egg – Andy Weir
Philosophical look at the nature of time, the universe and consciousness in a few pages…it made me look at everyone else in a different way.
July 13, 2021
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Bayesian Statistics: The Fun Way
Provides a decent enough primer about Bayesian Statistics with, per the author’s claim, fun examples. Despite the frolics, some of the examples can be quite instructive, such as estimating the
July 13, 2021
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If I could only visit one store in London…
…It would be Liberty! On a recent trip to London I had very limited time after the self isolating requirements arriving from an ‘amber’ country. I could only really visit
July 9, 2021
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International travel – Top 3 tips for US to UK travel (June/July 2021)
I travelled June 14-28th 2021 with a family of 4 with green cards. Here are some tips to help your trip run smoothly. Print everything – passenger locator forms,
July 6, 2021
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Dawson City – Frozen in Time
Imagine finding reels of long lost footage from the turn of the last century. Not just any old footage but long forgotten-about film showing the first hand experiences of the
June 3, 2021
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My Octopus Teacher
You’ve probably heard of this for an Oscar winning reason. This film on Netflix won Best Documentary this year and it was well deserving. The star of the film is
June 3, 2021
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Neural – Human Centered AI news from TNW
I found this while researching and coming an article entitled ‘what would happen if we connected the human brain to a quantum computer’. They couldn’t have come up with a
May 27, 2021
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Made for Love HBO Max
Ok it was bound to be a technology related one! Made for Love has a premise that I couldn’t resist. What if a technology could create a ‘love’ chip that
May 26, 2021
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The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr & E.B. White (1959)
Writing well is a useful skill in almost any career. Not only for what you produce, but because to write well you first have to think through your ideas clearly.
April 26, 2021
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Ask for a starting bonus
This is the advice that people thank me for most often! Sometimes, it doesn’t matter how hard you negotiate, the employer just can’t match your expectation for base salary, stocks,
April 21, 2021
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Research salaries – be a detective!
It seems obvious advice but it really does pay (!) to do your homework when it comes to salaries. I have come across some people who know so much –
April 20, 2021
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Mass by Jim Baggott
If you ever wondered what the Higgs Boson particle was and why it caused so much excitement then this book on Mass by Jim Baggott is a worthwhile read. Baggott
April 16, 2021
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The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli
I discovered the The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli a few years ago and it reignited my interest in Quantum Physics. This is the original review that reeled me in. The title caught
April 16, 2021