(This post touches on one noteworthy good news tidbit from my last week, then secretly waxes nostalgic over Dolly Parton, showcases some cheeky parkour and then, after complaining about my overloaded schedule, raises backyard sociological questions as to the most suitable work approach: Time-driven 9 to 5 or output-driven? Oh yes, its WHV Nerd Index [...]
Entries Tagged as 'life'
The Human Animal Post
August 1st, 2010 · 16 Comments · life, science
(This post has a point. A very important point if I might say so myself and I’m even skipping the Weekly Head Voices because of it. Please read it, in sessions if you have to, from start to finish. It has a WHV Nerd Index of 0/5 and a Backyard Philosophy Index of 5/5. You [...]
Tags:backyard philosophy·cognition·cognitive bias·determinism·love·neuroscience
Island Style [Weekly Head Voices #27]
July 26th, 2010 · 4 Comments · life, weekly head voices, work
(This post introduces the new Weekly Head Voices Nerd Index, or WHV-NI, a metric by which you can see if you should read a post or not. See this page for an explanation of the WHV-NI. The NI of the first part of this post is 0/5, whilst the NI of the part starting with [...]
Sometimes, being in academia rules. [Weekly Head Voices #25]
June 28th, 2010 · 2 Comments · life, science, weekly head voices, work
Kids! It’s now truly summer over here, which means as much as possible time outside, which means less time available for writing blog posts. However, weeks 24 and 25 of 2010 contained such newsworthy items, that I’m simply forced to trade some sun-light for a bit of TFT exposure. In this post, we talk flowers, [...]
Tags:luminaries·phd·stick figures·visualisation·visualization
Augmentation [Weekly Head Voices #23]
May 29th, 2010 · 6 Comments · life, weekly head voices
(This edition is about babies, textbook Ph.D. defences and mind-viruses in Snow Crash, all of which can mostly be filed under backyard-philosophy(ish).) On the theme of striving for The Next Level, my not-quite-1-month-old bundle of joy laughed out loud today for the first time! I’m sure that it was not a false alarm, as I [...]
Tags:backyard philosophy·books·meme·memetics·mind-virus·neuromancer·phd·snow crash
