Category Archives: computers

  1. King Ludd, Flow States, and Bill Russell

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    February 3, 2023 by libroshombre

                Flow states, switch-cost effect, and ludditeism have been worrisome lately; it started with a thought-terminating cliché, which is also …
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    Category: attention, computers, reading, reading brain, technology | Tags: , , ,

  2. Confidence, Kissing, and Convicts

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    May 5, 2019 by libroshombre

    The ancient Chinese strategist Sun Tzu said we should feign inferiority to encourage our opponents’ unwarranted arrogance. That’s easy for …
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    Category: computers, confidence, hacking, kissing, librarians, malware, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , ,

  3. Vulgarity, Punctuation, and Doris Day

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    April 7, 2017 by libroshombre

    Ebenezer Cobham Brewer knew vulgarity when he encountered it, and there’s even a selection of them in the section titled …
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    Category: computers, ebooks, education, Library of Alexandria, reading, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , ,

  4. Parrots, Programming, and the Bleeding Edge

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    September 27, 2016 by libroshombre

      Old Alexander Pope was on to something when he described good conversation as “the feast of reason and the …
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    Category: advertising, communication, computers, technology, translations, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , ,

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