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Após mais uma leitura de Fahrenheit 451, achei interessante uma reflexão que o livro me trouxe. Naquela sociedade, as pessoas estão sempre "se divertindo" com suas telas e conteúdos vazios. Em um diálogo, surge a seguinte reflexão quanto aos livros e à aquisição de conhecimento: É importante termos acesso à conteúdo de qualidade, livros de qualidade. O segundo ponto, é pensar. Refletir e digerir o que lemos. O terceiro passo é que tenhamos a liberdade para aplicar o que aprendemos. Esse é o poder dos livros, é sobre o que Fahrenheit fala. Os bons livros nos ensinam a pensar o mundo. E, como em Fahrenheit, as pessoas hoje em dia estão, em grande maioria, sendo impedidas de pensar por conta própria devido à constante distração em forma de entretenimento. Eu trago uma problemática com isso: até que ponto as futuras gerações estarão aptas à refletir e questionar? Se seguirmos daqui em diante como estamos agora, o futuro será composto de pessoas que pensam ou autômatos?
In his new book, Thinking with Tinderbox, our friend Mark Bernstein explores how we use paper, notecards, or apps to support our thinking, and takes a look at the way art, literature, and philosophy created the systems we use today. Have a look on the Eastgate Systems website… #ebook #tinderbox #thinking #eastgate https://eastgate.com/Tinderbox/ThinkingWithTinderbox.html
How New Ideas Arise via The MIT Press Reader [Shared]
While discussing the problem of how ideas arise in his “Science of Logic,” Hegel stated that “the beginning must be an absolute, or what is synonymous here, an abstract beginning.” Therefore, a new beginning “may not suppose anything, must not be mediated by anything,” but “must be purely and simply an immediacy, or rather merely immediacy itself.” In other words, Hegel declares the utter necessity of intuition, renouncing the control of the rational mind in favor of unconscious foresight. This is perhaps motivated by the fact that self-censoring doesn’t exist in the unconscious or in ideas, which are free to combine in improbable and ever-mixing associations.
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https://welchwrite.com/blog/2025/04/24/how-new-ideas-arise-via-the-mit-press-reader-shared/
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group .. um .. eating .. long rooted in history perhaps .. but not in our DNA methinks .. so maybe due a rethink .. coz .. well .. itza nice to mix it up a bit dontchya fink 
.. I mean a bit of a change once in a while creates new possibilities and perspectives .. it is .. ya know .. a fact, mate 
Twisted Logic; Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Big Questions by Leighton Vaughan Williams, 2024
Draws upon an array of popular and novel puzzles, problems, and paradoxes, and uses these to help understand and navigate our everyday world. Addresses some of the big questions. Aimed at all those interested in learning about weird and wonderful problems and paradoxes.
One Tool to Rule Them All!?
The Fact
There is no #tool to rule them all. Effective #knowledgemanagement depends on your goals, needs, and context and builds on solid #thinking and working habits—not on a single tool.
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Siegel, S. T. (2025). One Tool to Rule Them All!? Stop Chasing After the “Perfect” Tool for Thought for (Personal) Knowledge Management. It Does Not Exist. Notelab. Developing Ideas Through Evidence-informed Note-Making. https://lnkd.in/d3cruGDK
The 4 Types of Luck by Sahil Bloom [Shared]
The 4 Types of Luck
In 1978, a neurologist named Dr. James Austin published a book entitled Chase, Chance, & Creativity: The Lucky Art of Novelty.
In it, Dr. Austin proposed that there are four types of luck:
Blind Luck
Luck from Motion
Luck from Awareness
Luck from Uniqueness
Here's how to think about each type:
https://welchwrite.com/blog/2025/04/15/the-4-types-of-luck-by-sahil-bloom-shared/
Curiosity: The neglected trait that drives success via BBC [Shared]
On 7 January 1918 at New York’s Hippodrome, the incredible illusionist Harry Houdini unveiled one of his most famous tricks – the vanishing elephant – in front of thousands of spectators.
The beast in question, Jennie, reportedly weighed 10,000 pounds (4,536kg). She raised her trunk in greeting, before a stagehand led her into a huge cabinet and closed the doors behind them. After a dramatic drum roll, the doors reopened – and the cabinet was now empty. To the thousands of spectators, it seemed that she had vanished into thin air.
How could Houdini have managed to hide such an enormous animal? No one at the time could provide a definitive explanation of what had happened, though there is one predominant theory.
Okay, I think I'm stuck. I've moved all my thermostats (4 heating zones, 1 AC zone) to #HomeAssistant sensors and #nodered automations. The only thing I can't figure out is how to replicate a "hold". In other words, if a user changes the temperature via the homeassistant UI, the node-red automations suspend for x amount of time.
I see there is a 'currentUser' val, but I it's the same in NR as my HA login. Maybe it's tied to the long access token?
Processing out loud... #thinking #automation
She stopped in the midst of placing the pin in her hair, suddenly struck by a thought that she needed to intently run through in her mind.
Have you ever done that? Needed to think something through so fixedly that you can't move anything beyond the blinking of your eyes?
Truly amazing, are the human mind and spirit.
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How To Be More Intelligent 101 via Nicholas Bate [Shared]
1. Read staggering amounts, regularly returning to the classics both fiction and non-fiction.
2. Write your own notes of your daily learnings aiming for super concise summaries. In that way you must squeeze and reveal the essence of a subject.
3. Stay active during the day. That’s not just ‘go to the gym’. Stay active; you’ll notice the ideas flowing so much more quickly and easily.
Plus 100 more!
https://welchwrite.com/blog/2025/04/07/how-to-be-more-intelligent-101-via-nicholas-bate-shared/
Everyday things that make you uncomfortable? Wait, shouldn't they be usable and make us feel comfortable. Well, surely Katerina Kamprani wants exactly this: make us think! But not only this, since her objects are going to put a smile on your face. Go and see yourself. https://beyondtellerrand.com/blog/speaker-intro-katerina-kamprani
beyond tellerrand EventsSpeaker Introduction – Katerina KampraniKaterina Kamprani creates work that makes you smiling happily, but thinking at the same time. Her uncomfortable everyday things come with a twist, but you need to come to btconf Düsseldorf to find out about them.
The Ideological Brain: The Radical Science of Flexible Thinking by Leor Zmigrod, 2025
Why do some people become radicalized?
How do ideologies shape the human brain?
And how can we unchain our minds from toxic dogmas?
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A lot of what people are calling #FOMO is actually something else.
When you go to bed and within 5 seconds of not falling asleep you grab your phone for some light entertainment, thats not fear of missing out!
Its FOT - fear of thinking.
You fear that thinking will make you feel sad about the world and your part in it.
#mindfulness doesn't teach you to stop thinking. It teaches you to stop fearing your thoughts, to stop judging your emotions and to turn your negative feelings into positive actions.
Empowerment is the only antidot for powerlessness.
Miss out on the distractions and concentrate on solutions.
Does AI Kill Critical Thinking? Maybe Not If We Use It Right. https://substack.com/inbox/post/156929798 #AI #thinking
My social media profiles mention that I'm a recovering academic. What do I mean by that, and why do I think it's important?
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/learning/2025/01/recovering-academic
