Which on that topic, ‘The Culture Map’ was one of the first books that made me feel less insane because it addressed unseen rules. And ‘That’s Not What I Meant!’ (while dated) has a chapter on why direct communication and metacommunication is uncomfortable for some, which I found interesting.
Ooooh this exactly. The amount of upset NT people get about discussing metacommunication is so intense. At very least in this day and age of international businesses you’d think it would be more common? Cultural communication differences are in the same ballpark.
At least now I can try to make a canoe I guess.
Honestly I was kinda startled. Now I get why previous advice I’ve received has been unhelpful. It’s like getting directions from someone thinking you’re in the same suburb, maybe just one street over… only to discover you’re actually on different continents. No wonder I can’t meet you in the middle
No worries! Honestly writing like this is so rare—mostly you just find things from the NT perspective with a very simple, child-friendly description of how to talk to ND people. I love how you went back down the ladder of inference to figure out how totally different the underlying assumptions are.
Legitimately cannot thank you enough for this, it made sense of things I could sense but could never see for decades.
Honestly, you are out here saving lives and sanity here—this is the first time I have ever read a breakdown of these communications differences that actually articulated the details and MADE SENSE. The “cast, then iterate” thing changed the whole way I think about collaborating.
Weird movie tie-in, but get that bag I guess
They channel energy to the single brain cell
Someone is not paying attention...
Best design of the week is this face on a desiccant pack
Nails inspired by Mika
(by @ivys ailartistry on ig)
And look, I’m not Catholic nor am I comfortable with all their traditional views, but I’m happy to see at least one church leader being savage on the topic of protecting the poor and disenfranchised. 🤷♀️
As this comprehensive and entertaining tumblr post’s note says, imagine fucking up so bad that God’s mouthpiece on earth tells you to shut up.
www.tumblr.com/kaijutegu/77...
“In my work with the defendants I was searching for the nature of evil and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants, a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”
I found this quote from GM Gilbert in the thread—he was a psychologist who worked with and testified about Nazi leaders at the Nuremberg Trials, and…basically this 100%
Hey y’all turns out empathy is *checks notes* evil now …?
www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLo...
i can see how you would come to this conclusion if your job didn't require you to ever be correct
An anonymous developer has created a trap for LLM crawlers that scrape data for AI, called "Nepenthes".
Great name...
zadzmo.org/code/nepenth...
This is one of the most beautiful (and unexpectedly cyberpunk) videos I have ever seen
youtu.be/LKcT-aQuIFs
No worries, shall do. And if any of my ramblings were helpful, super happy!
(Addendum: how much you care about all those things I mentioned of course depends on the user you’re targeting. More academic searchers will find a lot of that may be a bonus, or will work through differences for the quality—regular googlers will notice it a lot more). I promise I’ll stop now!)
All that said, overall I really love the product and despite a touch more cognitive effort to get used to it at first, I’ve found myself recommending it a lot at work. I hope it really takes off! 🚀
Sorry for the essay! I actually work as a product designer on Search (not at Google! 😅). So this was a super cool opportunity to really think about how rankings and results feel. Thank you for asking!
Oh and I realised Google has a very predictable ranking of sites, so I felt slightly disoriented when I used Kagi—e.g. they have a summary, then Wikipedia, then a relatively predictable set of sites for different types of queries. Kagi gives more diversity but it takes more effort to orient myself.
And there’s some tiny glitches on mobile (the images sometimes start vertically squished then pop into the proper proportions after a second).
