«Michele Jay-Russell, a food safety researcher at the University of California Davis who has investigated salad-related poisoning outbreaks in the past, said the raw vegetables that are the most common culprits are basically all salad greens, but especially the chopped and bagged kind.»
Source: https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/4/26/17282378/romaine-lettuce-recall-ecoli-yuma
Interesting. I wonder how much effort is required to make a decision reversible (I’m thinking of rolling out new software features and backing up).
«One heuristic might be defaulting to saying no, as Steve Jobs did. Or saying no to any decision that requires a calculator or computer, as Warren Buffett does. Or it might mean reasoning from first principles, as Elon Musk does. Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com, has another one we can add to our toolbox. He asks himself, is this a reversible or irreversible decision?»
Source: https://www.fs.blog/2018/04/reversible-irreversible-decisions/
Interesting report. (No, I did not read it all.)
https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-in-extreme-poverty-by-world-region
Huh.
https://twitter.com/JihadiJew/status/989336080771039233?s=20
«We are hot-wired to experience negative things far more intensely than positive things. (It is a survival thing. Negative stuff can kill you) So the world always looks a little darker than it is.»
I am going to jail soon, I’m 18 yrs old, what should I do before and while I’m in jail? by Kelly Lord https://www.quora.com/I-am-going-to-jail-soon-Im-18-yrs-old-what-should-I-do-before-and-while-Im-in-jail/answer/Kelly-Lord-1?share=93d4b792&srid=uInIe
Hmm.
Why the myth of willpower is so troubling
As anyone who has struggled with a diet knows, willpower won’t work in the long run. And failures of inhibition are too often confused for a moral failing. We blame willpower failings for weight gain, even though it’s genetics and our calorie-laden environments conspiring against out waistlines. We blame addicts for not restraining their urges, even though their addiction has a biological hold on their brain.
And overall, psychologists are shying away from the concept, as years of work suggesting that willpower is a finite, essential resource has come under intense scrutiny.
In a specific situation, sure, you can muster willpower to save yourself from falling back into a bad habit. But relying on willpower alone to accomplish goals “is almost like relying on emergency brake when you are driving your car,” Saunders says. “You should focus on things that drive you toward your goals rather than stopping things that are in your way.” What’s more, the human “emergency brake” that is willpower is bound to fail in some instances, causing you to crash.
And it’s time we all took these lessons to heart. Focusing on failures of willpower leads to shame, both public and private, and holds back our curiosity from finding and enacting solutions that actually work.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/arizona-8-special-election-result/
«Still, both the generic ballot and special election results (when taken in the aggregate) are fairly reliable indicators. Rather than choosing between them, it’s best to consider both. That means entertaining a wide range of scenarios that run between Republicans narrowly holding onto the House and an epic Democratic wave.»
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10104291240252023&id=9209032
Good post by a black cop on the Starbucks arrest. She even got around to saying the thing I was thinking, which doesn’t happen very often.
So, for that tiny fraction of people who might be interested, I deleted the tweet that the Twitter algorithm and censors were so sure was hate speech, but it’s been lovingly preserved on my blog (under post title “Twitter blocked me”).
We now return to our normal diet of 80% tweets.
[Hidden Brain] Tunnel Vision
https://play.podtrac.com/npr-510308/npr.mc.tritondigital.com/NPR_510308/media/anon.npr-mp3/npr/hiddenbrain/2018/04/20180402_hiddenbrain_hb_ep_65__tunnel_vision_rebroadcast_mix_final.mp3?orgId=1&d=2200&p=510308&story=598118226&t=podcast&e=598118226&ft=pod&f=510308 via @PodcastAddict
A really good episode on how scarcity affects your thinking, whether your scarcity is money, time, companionship, whatever.
The key is to realize you’re in a “tunnel” and to look up. Tricky, but there it is. Also, be compassionate, for others and yourself.
