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Two Types of Knowledge There are two types of knowledge and most of us focus on the wrong one. The first type of knowledge focuses on knowing the name of something. The second focuses on knowing something. These are not the same thing. The famous Nobel winning physicist Richard Feynman understood the difference between knowing something and knowing the name of something and it’s one of the most important reasons for his success. In fact, he created a formula for learning that ensured he understood somethin

Source: The Feynman Technique: The Most Efficient Way to Learn Anything

Sunday, June 26, 2016 Creating Start-up Script in Ubuntu I installed Redmine in an Ubuntu Server at Windows Azure and was successful in doing so. However, Azure did some maintenance in my server and has to restart it. So, when I accessed Redmine again, Nginx redirected me to its Error 502 page. Upon checking, I realized that  there was really a restart that happened and I thought I have to create a start-up script to avoid this since it was not only me who is using the Redmine which I installed but also my

Source: Jetty Application Server: Creating Start-up Script in Ubuntu

This led Damasio to formulate what might be his great contribution to the understanding of the brain (and the human body): what he calls the somatic (as in body) marker hypothesis. Essentially, he reasons, when you’re thinking about a course of action, you imagine your body to be in the potential situation, and you get, in layman’s terms, a “good” or “bad” feeling about it. It’s not that right decisions come from that sort of feeling alone, but, Damasio argues, those “somatic markers” filter away lots of alternatives; they’re a shortcut to decision-making. While Elliot’s landscape of potential realities all had “flat” values, healthy people weigh the potential outcomes that are left after “somatic markers” filter the other possibilities out.As Damasio said in a later interview, wisdom, if you choose to accept it, is what happens when you accrue lots of somatic knowledge in your life: If you’ve been through lots, then you know how you would feel in a wide variety of situations, allowing you to make better decisions (and give, as one does, better advice). Therein lies the problem of the high-reason view: without the filtering provided by emotions and their somatic markers, the data sets for any given decision — whether it’s what to get for lunch or whom to marry — would be overwhelming. The working memory can only juggle so many objects at once. To make the right call, you need to feel your way — or at least part of your way — there.

Source: How Only Using Logic Destroyed a Man’s Life — Science of Us

This article is a month old. I’ve read it maybe 30 times at least. I read it to be connected to a sensible development manager mind, something that can’t be said of my boss (not our CTO, I think he will mostly agree with this). haha.
If you are a developer/programmer and you are passionate about your job. You would probably love this article.
 
 

In my current position as Senior Development Director there are six Development Managers that report to me. There are just under fifty software developers in my organization. We have enviably low employee turnover and very high customer satisfaction. Over the years I’ve given my direct reports and their direct reports the same insights I’m going to share with you now. These insights are hard-won wisdom rather than something I intuitively knew or read about. That is to say, I learned the hard way. The reason

Source: The Quiet Crisis unfolding in Software Development — Medium

Under Genghis Khan’s direction, the Mongols were as ruthless about stealing and absorbing the best of each culture they encountered as they were about conquest itself. Though there were essentially no technological inventions, no beautiful buildings or even great Mongol art, with each battle and enemy, their culture learned and absorbed something new. Genghis Khan was not born a genius. Instead, as one biographer put it, his was “a persistent cycle of pragmatic learning, experimental adaptation, and constan

Source: Ego is the Enemy: The Legend of Genghis Khan

There’s a funny blog post about how to download SQL Server Express from Long Zheng. It surprisingly how complex some companies make downloading things. I’ve always thought that a giant Download Now button is the best way, but perhaps that’s just me?Downloading SQL Server Express is unnecessarily hard, and it’s made harder by the new Microsoft Download Center “download multiple files” interface that doesn’t include descriptions or primary file recommendations. It should be a list of links, and you should be able to right click and Save As.

Source: Download SQL Server Express – Scott Hanselman
 
 
This is such a fucking useful blog. Direct links to sqlexpress installer downloads.

Silicon Valley wants the world to believe that it is the new America, and that the United States is the Great Britain of 1773. It does not wish for explicit political secession, but it wants economic and cultural secession. It doesn’t want to pay its taxes, and it only wants to follow American laws when they are convenient to it. It has emotionally divorced itself from the rest of us. So should we let it secede? On the contrary, we should secede from it. Silicon Valley draws its strength from Real American

Source: A call for secession from Silicon Valley – Michael O. Church

I care for a more technologically advance world.
It seems that SV is actively impeding this because it has slowly become less about technology and more about marketing.

 

Self-reflexive metacinema is a common device in Iranian films; everyone from Abbas Kiarostami to Mohsen Makhmalbaf has dabbled in it, and Panahi’s own take is pretty good–The Mirror, about a young girl trying to make her way home who suddenly decides to quit the director’s film and make her own way home (think Shirley Temple walking off the set of Wee Willie Winkie and you can imagine the consternation caused). In this film the meta-premise manages to keep us on our toes, trying to guess what is fiction and what is not. Along the way Panahi satirizes Iran’s political censorship apparatus; gives us a day-in-the-life snapshot of Tehran that also celebrates the people’s resiliency in the face of adversity (government oppression included); and does it all with a deft humorous touch–while under threat of imprisonment, and in direct defiance of a filmmaking ban. If that’s not big brass balls (on a man with a perpetual grin and the kindliest eyes) I don’t know what is.

Source: Critic After Dark: Taxi (Jafar Panahi)

Search »International Edition+Why millennials struggle for successBy Angela DuckworthUpdated 1741 GMT (0141 HKT) May 3, 20164 photos: From millennials to the greatest generationFrom millennials to the greatest generation – Steve Jobs with a new LISA computer during a press preview in 1983. Baby boomers like to claim this visionary for their own.Hide Caption3 of 44 photos: From millennials to the greatest generationFrom millennials to the greatest generation – On November 30, 1965, about 20,000 marchers protested in Washington against American involvement in the Vietnam War. Those who were born in 1945 were on the tail end of the “greatest generation,” and some participated in anti-war rallies in their youth.Hide Caption4 of 44 photos: From millennials to the greatest generationFrom millennials to the greatest generation – Many Millennials love “The Daily Show,” previously hosted by Jon Stewart.Hide Caption1 of 44 photos: From millennials to the greatest generationFrom millennials to the greatest generation – For generation X, Kurt Cobain of Nirvana was a cultural icon.Hide Caption2 of 44 photos: From millennials to the greatest generationFrom millennials to the greatest generation – Steve Jobs with a new LISA computer during a press preview in 1983. Baby boomers like to claim this visionary for their own.Hide Caption3 of 44 photos: From millennials to the greatest generationFrom millennials to the greatest generation – On November 30, 1965, about 20,000 marchers protested in Washington against American involvement in the Vietnam War. Those who were born in 1945 were on the tail end of the “greatest generation,” and some participated in anti-war rallies in their youth.Hide Caption4 of 44 photos: From millennials to the greatest generationFrom millennials to the greatest generation – Many Millennials love “The Daily Show,” previously hosted by Jon Stewart.Hide Caption1 of 44 photos: From millennials to the greatest generationFrom millennials to the greatest generation – For generation X, Kurt Cobain of Nirvana was a cultural icon.Hide Caption2 of 4Story highlightsAngela Duckworth: Grit, that special combination of passion and perseverance, is the key to successBaby boomers are grittier than millennials, she says, but not for the reasons we thinkAngela Duckworth, PhD, is a 2013 MacArthur Fellow and professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the co-founder of the Character Lab, a nonprofit whose mission is to advance the science and practice of character development in children. She is the author of a new book, GRIT: The Power of Passion and Perseverance (Scribner). The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author.(CNN)”What’s wrong with millennials?” This is a question many older Americans are asking. Why do they keep changing their minds about what they want to do with their lives? Why does even a hint of critical feedback send them into a tailspin of self-doubt?In a word, why don’t they have more grit?This last question is particularly important to me because I am a psychologist who studies grit. I define grit as passion and perseverance for long-term goals. It’s what keeps us going when everything else makes it seem easier to give up. In my research, I find that how you score on my Grit Scale—a short survey of your current level of passion and perseverance—predicts achievement.Grittier students are more likely to earn their diplomas, grittier teachers are more effective in the classroom, grittier soldiers are more likely to complete their training, and grittier salespeople are more likely to keep their jobs. The more challenging the domain, the more grit seems to matter.Millennials’ much-needed optimismI now have Grit Scale scores from thousands of American adults. My data provide a snapshot of grit across adulthood. And I’ve discovered a strikingly consistent pattern: grit and age go hand in hand. Sixty-somethings tend to be grittier, on average, than fifty-somethings, who are in turn grittier than forty-somethings, and so on.So, why are millennials at the bottom of the heap in grit? There are two possible explanations. That’s because the sixty-somethings I’ve surveyed differ from the twenty-somethings in two ways. One difference is that they grew up in the “Mad Men” era rather than the new millennium. But it’s also true that they have more than twice as much life experience.Do millennials lack grit because our culture devalues a work ethic?Let’s consider the first possibility and assume that older adults are grittier than their younger counterparts because in their formative years, they were shaped by different cultural forces. Back in the day, the story goes, you were expected to grow up to do one thing for a living and then retire. You were exhorted to work hard, and you were told that nothing in life comes easy. These cultural norms validated a solid work ethic and a single lifelong career.If you’re a baby boomer, chances are you agree with this explanatio

Source: Opinion: Why millennials struggle for success – CNN.com

 
 

What determines your success isn’t “What do you want to enjoy?” The question is, “What pain do you want to sustain?” The quality of your life is not determined by the quality of your positive experiences but the quality of your negative experiences. And to get good at dealing with negative experiences is to get good at dealing with life.

Source: You probably know to ask yourself, “What do I want?” Here’s a way better question — Quartz
I’ve internalized this before a couple of years back.
I had a personal motto. Proof of desire is pursuit.
I sort of forgot about it and only now am beginning the process of re internalizing and living it again.