Best of Twitter - Week of June 1, 2020 - special edition: my best tweets of 2018

Jun 7, 2020

I have not encountered a single good tweet in my timeline this week, so I figured it’s a good opportunity to do a special edition of the newsletter. Enjoy. (new subscribers: I’m usually less self-centered 🙂 )

Alexey Guzey @alexeyguzey

"Employees who practice mindfulness meditation are less motivated, having realized the futility of their jobs" boingboing.net/2018/06/17/tun…

Instance Of Class @InstanceOfClass

We must hurry if we wish to win the game before we realize the game is pointless.

Alexey Guzey @alexeyguzey

Reading notes: Civilization & Capitalism, 15th-18th Century, Vol. I: The Structures of Everyday Life reddit.com/r/slatestarcod…

Alexey Guzey @alexeyguzey

2/n genius and (psychosis and ego-strength )

Alexey Guzey @alexeyguzey

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Alexey Guzey @alexeyguzey

found @michael_nielsen's quotes page mnielsen.github.io/notes/quotes/q…

Alexey Guzey @alexeyguzey

is Harvard employing someone a strong signal of this researcher's competence? Probably not if the entire scientific field is bs reddit.com/r/slatestarcod…

Alexey Guzey @alexeyguzey

one of the most important papers I ever read is "Statistically Controlling for Confounding Constructs Is Harder than You Think" journals.plos.org/plosone/articl… (by @talyarkoni and @CookieSci) A blog post by one of the authors that beautifully describes the paper: talyarkoni.org/blog/2016/06/1…

Alexey Guzey @alexeyguzey

Dostoevsky: "You all, healthy people, he said, can’t imagine the happiness which we epileptics feel during the second or so before our fit.… ... for all the joys that life may bring, I would not exchange this one."

Alexey Guzey @alexeyguzey

when a student asks "why do i need to do practice problems, i already understand everything" show them this

SwiftOnSecurity @SwiftOnSecurity

Reality Has a Surprising Amount of Detail by @johnsalvatier "If you wish to not get stuck, seek to perceive what you have not yet perceived." https://t.co/3NwoSweaDB https://t.co/464azHYzeB

Alexey Guzey @alexeyguzey

In India "the law criminalizes rape in most cases, although marital rape is not illegal when the woman is over the age of 15." Same for many other countries: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marital_r…

Alexey Guzey @alexeyguzey

grognor.blogspot.com/2016/12/compar…

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Is this thread thing a different format from a Substack post? Or?

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