Weekly learning round up 🔮🪄✨
🍭 no theme this week 🍭
- An interesting conversation between Jordan Peterson and Andrew Schulz
notable moments
- Andrew on his ecstatic drug experience — when his joy is overflowing, his instinct is to call his friends and tell them he love them. He didn’t try to keep the joy to himself or save it somewhere.
- it made me think: Perception of scarcity is the cause of most relationship issues.
- the importance of getting good at articulating thoughts in writing or in speech.
- “If you get finesse in language, nothing can possibly stand in your way. ”
- “We read to learn. We communicate to negotiate, to plan, to strategize, bring people on board… If you want to get somewhere, learn how to speak.”
2. Carl Jung on Dreams
- “Dreams are impartial, spontaneous products of the unconscious psyche, outside the control of the will. They are pure nature; they show us the unvarnished, natural truth, and are therefore fitted, as nothing else is, to give us back an attitude that accords with our basic human nature when our consciousness has strayed too far from its foundations and run into an impasse.” [Collected Works Volume 10, paragraph 317]
- I journal my dreams for the whimsical imagery but never thought to analyze them more deeply
3. A designer that I look up to
- made me realize I have to work on my animation skills
- why are so many designers averse to using animation in web design?
- need to get to the bottom of how are animations implemented in code
4. Dark forest theory in The Three body problem
- The novel hypothesizes a scary theory to solve for the Fermi paradox (ie. if there are smart aliens, where aren’t they talking to us yet?)
- There is life everywhere in the galaxy, but the each galactic civilization try to stay silent about their existence so not to get killed.
- 1. Say planet A and B learned about each other, due to the inefficient communication across lightyears, the planets would be stuck in a suspicion limbo of “I don’t know if they know we are hostile, if they do they are probably planning an attack too”. Leaving both planets no choice but planets to attack each other.
- 2. Even if planet A is way stronger than planet B, B may have experienced a military technology explosion by the time A reached B. The safest bet for A is still to kill B.
5. Rounding up weekly learnings is really helping me consume information more consciously
Thanks for reading! :)
