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Giving Advice: Rewards and Penalties

Yet another stub. I need to write on the paradox that it’s easier to tell a good writer how to improve his writing than a bad writer, and he is also more likely to accept your advice. With business managers, it’s harder to give advice to a good manager than a bad one, but he, […]

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Design

Bad design is a scourge, whipping us daily. Engineers need to be taught common sense, and mocked mercilessly, and by name if possible, when they inflict pain on us. I am installing a Canon printer. They ask me for the model. Of course, they should care enough about their customers to have a separate set […]

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Wikipedia as a vocation

This is a stub. I should use it to encourage smart people to do Wikipedia edits. My email to Gigerenzer and emails to friends contain good material. I have written down strength and weaknesses of mine below, because they are relevant to this. What I will be writing about is that people with skills like […]

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Rasmapedia

This is a stub. I need to imitate Wikipedia. This is the answer to the problem of organizing blog posts and notes. I should see if I can adapt the exact same software Wikipedia uses, because is is extremely well-designed– the markup commands, the text editor, the version tracking, everything. This is worth some time […]

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Signal, Noise, and CDC

A nice-sounding worship session in Frankfurt Germany caused over 100 peoplet to get covid-19 because of the singing. This is a stub for an entry on the probelm of Signal and Noise. The problem is growing. It started around 1500. Before then, you could read every book in your town, and read them all carefully. […]