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February 20, 2022

Technical Debt of the West | Melting Asphalt

So what is the substrate of Western thought?
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Westerners, he says, prefer to understand things as mechanisms, while the Chinese prefer to understand things as organisms — and these are two very different kinds of processes.

The Availability Bias: How to Overcome a Common Cognitive Distortion - Farnam Street
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We tend to judge the likelihood and significance of things based on how easily they come to mind. The more “available” a piece of information is to us, the more important it seems. The result is that we give greater weight to information we learned recently because a news article you read last night comes to mind easier than a science class you took years ago. It’s too much work to try to comb through every piece of information that might be in our heads.

Arabian Nights | Hacker News
GitHub - alevchuk/vim-clutch: A hardware pedal for improved text editing in Vim
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A hardware pedal for improved text editing in Vim. Contribute to alevchuk/vim-clutch development by creating an account on GitHub.