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If you turn off the news and actually socialize with people, you’ll notice how little hate there is out there.
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just-shower-thoughts
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via just-shower-thoughts.tumblr.com
Shower Thoughts
Life Is Beautiful
enjoy life
Gentle Reminders
Notes to self
Step Out Of Your Comfort Zone
Bad News
Social Animals
Socialize
Loner
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UPC (Universal Product Code) is the standard for general products and is used by almost all barcode systems. Although, for books ISBN is more often used in addition. Amazon also its own system called ASIN (Amazon Standard Identification Number), although it’s not prevalent outside of Amazon.
SKU (Stock-keeping Unit) is another identifier that is often used, however, it is generally not universal for a particular product. For instance, each vendor for a particular product may assign its own SKU to that product. On the other hand, a product may have a MPN (Manufacturer Part Number, or a model number) that is assigned by the manufacture. While this number is unique, it is not very universal because each manufacturer uses it’s own numbering conventions.
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Kurt Heinrich
,
So what's the difference between a SKU, MPN, and UPC? - HubLogix
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Identification Numbers
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Depth over breadth, man. I believe in diving deeply into a small pool of information.
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Josh Waitzkin
,
The Fighter's Mind: Inside the Mental Game
Notes to self
The Fighter's Mind
Work
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Greg has an interesting way, unique to New Mexico, of recharging his batteries. He grew up with a strong sense of local history, and one of his favorite hobbies is 'ghost towning,' where you get maps and track down old ghost towns in the New Mexican wilderness.
'It's incredible, these abandoned towns. Such hard work went into it and now nature is reclaiming everything. You come over a ridge and find a town that has been essentially unchanged for 130 years. It's a window into history. I get a sense of my own mortality. You find shoes, and books—they just up and left everything.'
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Sam Sheridan
,
The Fighter's Mind: Inside the Mental Game
Ideas
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The Figher's Mind
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Nobody panics when things go according to plan. Even if the plan is horrifying.
—
The Joker
,
The Dark Knight
Chaos
Insights
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Perception
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At the beginning of the new moon, for example, one's acetylcholine rises along with the capacity to perform. Acetylcholine is traditionally associated with attention. 'The mood it evokes in us is an Energizer Bunny-like pep. That vibe can be used to initiate social interactions, do chores and routines efficiently, and strive for balance in our activities.
—
Dr. Mark Filippi
,
Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now
Acetylcholine
Facts
Moon cycle
Moon cycle phase 1
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'When we speak of
tensegrity
,' Filippi explains, 'we mean the capacity a system has to redistribute tension and retain the same physical shape. Our manifested reality, from the infrastructure of our cells to the street grids of the towns and cities we live in, possess a tensegrity.'
—
Dr. Mark Filippi
,
Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now
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Present Shock
Systems theory
Tensegrity
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By putting email and Twitter in our smart phones and attaching them to our bodies so that something vibrates every time we are mentioned, summoned, or pinged, we turn a potentially empowering asynchronous technology into a falsely synchronous one.
—
Douglas Rushkoff
,
Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now
Email
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Present Shock
The internet
Twitter
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Many of us aspire to this ability to be 'on' at any time and to treat the various portions of the day as mere artifacts of a more primitive culture—the way we look at seemingly archaic blue laws that used to require stores to remain closed at least one day a week. We want all the time, to everything—and to be capable of matching this intensity and availability ourselves. Isn't this what it would mean to be truly digital citizens of the virtual city that never sleeps?
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Douglas Rushkoff
,
Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now
Notes to
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Instead of our offloading time-intensive tasks to our machines, our machines keep us humans working at their pace, or the pace of the companies on the other end of our network connections. Thanks to the Internet, we travel more on business, not less, we work at all hours on demand, and we spend our free time answering email or tending to our social networks. Staring into screens, we are less attuned to the light of day and the physiological rhythms of our housemates and coworkers. We are more likely to accept the false digital premise that all time is equivalent and interchangeable.
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Douglas Rushkoff
,
Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now
Notes to self
Present Shock
The internet
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The point is that time is not neutral. Hours and minutes are not generic, but specific. We are better at doing some things in the morning and others in the evening. More incredible, those times of day change based on where we are in the twenty-eight-day moon cycle. In one week, we are more productive in the early morning, while in the next week we are more effective in the early afternoon.
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Douglas Rushkoff
,
Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now
Health
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Present Shock
Time
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Although the thing we call time might be a mere concept—variation on energy in Einstein's equations—all this chronobiological evidence suggests there is a kind of synchronization going on between different parts of our world. In other words, even if we are ultimately unhinged from any absolute clock at the center of the universe, we are not unhinged from one another.
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Douglas Rushkoff
,
Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now
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Present Shock
Time
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...we also have internal clocks, governed by less understood metabolic, hormonal, and glandular processes. We listen to those inner rhythms while simultaneously responding to external cues, from daylight and moon phases to the cycle of the seasons. Still other evidence suggests a complex set of relationships between all these clocks. Body temperature rises during the daylight hours, but some people's rise faster than others, making them morning people, while those whose temperature rises more slowly over the course of the day reach their most effective state of consciousness in the early evening. Meanwhile, when our body temperature rises, we perceive of time as passing more slowly. This is because our internal clocks are counting faster, while time is actually passing at the same rate as always.
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Douglas Rushkoff
,
Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now
Health
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Present Shock
Time
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Leaving people in rooms with no external time cues, researchers found that the average person's biological clock would actually lengthen to a twenty-five-hour cycle. This, they concluded, is why traveling east, which shortens the day, is so much more disorienting than traveling west, which lengthens it.
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Douglas Rushkoff
,
Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now
Fac
Facts
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Time
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For [Stewart] Brand, the solution is to expand our awareness of the larger, slower cycles. He is working with inventor Danny Hillis to build a 10,000-year clock—a clock of the 'long now' that changes our orientation to time. His hope is that by beholding this tremendous time-keeping structure in the desert (itself the product of a multigenerational effort), we will be able to experience or at least perceive the bigger cycles that evade us in our daily schedules. In addition, instead of writing our years with four digits, Brand encourages us to use five, as in 02020 instead of 2020, keeping us aware of the much larger timescales on which important activity is still occurring. We could still operate on the timescale of seasonally changing fashions or TV schedules while remaining cognizant of the greater cycles binding humanity to the cosmos.
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Douglas Rushkoff
,
Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now
Notes to self
Present Shock
Time
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...the survival of a species depends on adaptation and learning on six distinct timescales. On the shortest, most immediate scale, species must exist from year to year. The unit of survival for this year-to-year existence is the individual life form. Over decades, the unit of survival is the family, whose multiple generations last much longer than any single individual's life span. Over centuries, it's the tribe or nation. Over millennia, it is an entire culture. Over tens of millennia, it is the species itself, slowly evolving or surrendering to an evolved competitor. And over eons, the unit of survival is 'the whole web of life of our planet.' Human beings have endured as a result of our ability to adapt on all six scales of being and to balance the conflicting demands of each.
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Douglas Rushkoff
,
Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now
Facts
Notes to self
Present Shock
Time
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Great ideas don't really come out of sudden eureka moments, but after long, steady slogs through problems. They are slow, iterative processes. Great ideas, as Johnson explained it to a TED audience, 'fade into view over long periods of time.'
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Douglas Rushkoff
and
Steven Johnson
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Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now
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Present Shock
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Every choice potentially brings us out of immersive participation and into another decision matrix.
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Douglas Rushkoff
,
Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now
Notes to self
Present Shock
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Social media lets people feed back their responses immediately and to one another instead of just back to the business or politician concerned. Then other people respond as much to those messages as they do to the product or policy. They are feeding back to one another.
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Douglas Rushkoff
,
Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now
Facts
Notes to
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Present Shock
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New ideas seem to emerge from a dozen places at once, a mysterious zeitgeist synchronicity until we realize that they are all aspects of the same idea, emerging from a single network of minds.
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Douglas Rushkoff
,
Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now
Notes to self
Present Shock
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Nature is patterned, which is part of what makes a walk in the woods feel reassuring. The shapes of the branches are reflected in the veins of the leaves and the patterns of the paths between the trunks. The repeating patterns in fractals also seem to convey a logic or at least a pattern underlying the chaos. On the other hand, once you zoom in to a fractal, you have no way of knowing which level you are on. The details at one level of magnification may be the same as on any other.
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Douglas Rushkoff
,
Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now
Facts
Fractals
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Present Shock
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What makes fractals so interesting is that they are self-similar. If you zoom in on a shape in the pattern and look at the image at a much higher scale, you find that very same shape reappearing in the details on this new level. Zoom in again and the patterns emerge again.
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Douglas Rushkoff
,
Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now
Facts
Fractals
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Present Shock
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Once 'the shadow of the future' lengthens, we have the basis for more durable relationships.
—
Robert Axelrod
,
Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now
Management
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Present Shock
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It is now usually cheaper to just try something than to sit around and try to figure out whether to try something. The product map is now often more complex and more expensive to create than trying to figure it out as you go. The compass has replaced the map.
—
Joichi Ito
,
Innovating by the Seat of Our Pants
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Management's job is not to fill current employees with the collected, compressed wisdom of the ages, but rather to support them in the jobs only they are actually charged with doing. Management becomes a bit like customer service department for the employees, who are the ones responsible for the business.
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Douglas Rushkoff
,
Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now
Management
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Present Shock
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When a bank wants to move a big quantity of shares, for example, it doesn't want everyone to know what it is doing. If news of a big buy leaked out before the big buy could be completed, the price may go up. To hide their motions, they employ the same technique as stealth planes: they use algorithms to break their giant trade into thousands of little ones, and do so in such a way that they look random. Their sizes and timing are scattered.
In order to identify this stealthy algorithmic movement, competing banks hire other mathematicians to write other algorithms that monitor trading and look for clues of these bigger trades and trends. The algorithms actually shoot out little trades, much like radar, in order to measure the response of the market and then infer if there are any big movements going on. The algorithms are, in turn, on the lookout for these little probes and attempt to run additional countermoves and fakes. The algorithmic dance—what is known as black box trading—accounts for over 70 percent of Wall Street trading activity today.
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Douglas Rushkoff
,
Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now
Facts
Notes to self
Present Shock
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Our iPads and Androids are nothing like the productivity-computing tools on which they may once have been based but are instead purchasing platforms designed to increase the ease and speed with which we consume.
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Douglas Rushkoff
,
Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now
Digital media
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Present Shock
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But the initial choice to have email at all is to open a loop. The choice to open a particular email, though, constitutes entry into something more like static information. The problem is that the sender may have spring-loaded a whole lot of time and energy into that message, so that clicking on it is like opening a Pandora's box of data and responsibilities. A week of the sender's preparation can instantaneously unfold into our present.
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Douglas Rushkoff
,
Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now
Email
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Present Shock
Work
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Flowing information, like twenty-four-hour news or MTV videos, is more like the nonnarrative experience of electronic music or extreme sports. We get a textural experience, we learn the weather, or we catch the drift. We do not get to the end; we shut it off and it continues without us.
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Douglas Rushkoff
,
Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now
Digital media
Notes to self
Present Shock
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Catching up with Twitter is like staying up all night to catch up on live streaming stock quotes from yesterday.
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Douglas Rushkoff
,
Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now
Digital media
Notes to self
Present Shock
Twitter
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