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These correlations between personality traits and intelligence challenge many stereotypes of the disorganized moody geniuses or the happy dumbs => https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/study-personality-intelligence-links/ #psychology #socialsciences #intelligence #personalitytraits
An enormous study links intelligence and personality in surprising ways

Are fools happy and geniuses disorganized — or is that a mistaken stereotype? A study of two million people yields intriguing insights.

Big Think

The inconvenient truth about productivity

I didn’t ask to become a personal productivity guru, but somehow my colleagues keep volunteering me for the role — most recently for Isabel Berwick’s Working It podcast, in the recording of which I blushed and generally felt like an imposter.

This is partly because the practice of managing your own time well is fiendishly complicated. There a

https://timharford.com/2023/08/the-inconvenient-truth-about-productivity/

#UndercoverEconomist

The inconvenient truth about productivity

I didn’t ask to become a personal productivity guru, but somehow my colleagues keep volunteering me for the role — most recently for Isabel Berwick’s Working It podcast, in the recording of which I…

Tim Harford
“Living in paradise, or most anywhere else, has a cost. Climate change is real, and we need to pay.” => https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/08/home-insurance-costs-wildfires-floods-weather/675141/
What Your Insurer Is Trying to Tell You About Climate Change

Insurers are trying to send a message. The government is trying to suppress it.

The Atlantic
Learn the basics about LASIK in my most recent piece => https://www.senyanze.de/to-lasik-or-not-to-lasik/ #eyehealth #lasik
To LASIK or not to LASIK

LASIK is the most popular elective eye surgery used to treat refractive errors, but it isn't right for everyone.

Senyanze Kalla
Opinion | The Case for Acting on Your Desires and Not Being a Good Person

You want what you want because you want it.

The New York Times
Why Every Kid Needs At Least 3 Parents

Rather than struggling to rebalance the division of labor, why not spread the roles among a greater number of committed adults?

Romper
To develop mastery one must learn. To learn one must understand. To understand, one must be fluent. And to be fluent, one must memorize and practice. http://nautil.us/issue/40/learning/how-i-rewired-my-brain-to-become-fluent-in-math-rp #learning #neuralplasticity #mathematics #adultlearning #stem
The End of German Exceptionalism

The country<span> is joining</span> the European mainstream, with its political class struggling to counter rising far-right support and an economy that is no longer best-in-class.

The Atlantic
Is the idea that democracy always benefits society misguided, or just mathematics? https://aeon.co/videos/is-the-idea-that-democracy-always-benefits-society-misguided-or-just-mathematics #democracy
Is the idea that democracy always benefits society misguided, or just mathematics? | Aeon Videos

Can an argument for democracy be based on a mathematical theorem? From Plato’s tyrants to Condorcet’s ‘jury theorem’

Aeon
Drawing in the sand at the beach? Our ancestors did the same 140,000 years ago

Ammoglyphs – ancient ‘sand art’ – are a relatively new find.

The Conversation