tyleraland

How did you find out?

BPA-free also comes to mind: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bpa-replacement-a...

Thanks for the link. This theory seems relevant to my own work and motivation.

> A child playing baseball may be satisfying his need for physical exercise, while the professional player is satisfying his parental instinct by providing a good income for his family.

> For children and professionals, baseball is a means to two different ends.

When other people start setting goals for me (and I buy into them), I'm apt to lose motivation, even if the nature of my work remains unchanged. Perspective can be a very powerful tool. I appreciate the nuance provided by this "16 basic desires" theory.

https://explorable.com/16-basic-desires-theory

I worry about the consequences of labeling a large group of assembled people as "terrorists" based on the (real or perceived) actions or rhetoric of a few.

E.g., if a large group of angry protesters is staring down a national guard and shots are fired on the crowd, officials need only claim that the crowd fired first and thus the slaughter of "terrorists" might be justified.

Ancient warfare: anxiety as one anticipates impending war, which may be known months or years in advance (armies were slow), and very bloody melee combat which probably left survivors with PTSD.

Pre-modern warfare: relatively few people lined up and shot each other to death from long distances. People on the front lines knew they were likely going to die.

Modern warfare (WWI and beyond): constant artillery fire inflicts chronic and acute shell shock [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_shock

I've tried and really like the guided meditations (audio) from https://www.headspace.com/

There are some very short ones for free, longer ones cost money

I only started to understand how to look at this problem once I realized the host was going to eliminate a bad door _no matter what was chosen_. Of course if you have already selected a bad door he won't eliminate it.

Another useful exercise is to stretch the number of doors to some large N and suppose the choice was posed repeatedly with a decreasing number of doors. If you can have anywhere from 2 to N guesses and as N decreases the number of bad doors decreases, it seems more obvious that you should always switch.

How is MobileOrg's search? I tried switching from Evernote on all my devices to synced text files, but I found that on my phone I really needed a text/file editor/browser that searched document contents rather than just title. Evernote does this, but I couldn't find anything else that came close.

My eye-opening creepy moment was after installing Facebook's android app. I had the G+ app already installed, but logged in with a dummy account which follows various people I don't know in real life. For some reason, G+ put those people in my contact list and one day I accidentally called one of them that put their phone number on G+. It never rang because I quickly hit disconnect. The next day on Facebook, guess who was suggested I add as a friend? Mystery dial.