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• 26-Jun-2020
  Hot Tubbing an Online Community by Caleb John Clark, 1999 Some years ago I read Caleb John Clark’s essay (blog post, really) about online community and it has stuck with me ever since. It’s currently not easily searchable on the web. A shame. I am extracting it from the Internet Archive and placing the text here. “Hot Tubbing an Online Community” Caleb John Clark, January...

  indienewsindieweblistservpsychologysocial-mediasocial-software
• 28-Oct-2016
  Leah on “Black Sheep” It’s been some time since Leah wrote anything at length. Do yourself a favor and have a read of This One is for My Flock of Black Sheep (and Their Families), one of many good bits: There have always been outcasts because we as humans have always been in tribes. In order for tribes to...

  leahpeahpsychology
• 02-Dec-2010
  K-R Grief Observation In Wikipedia, about the Kübler-Ross model, it’s said of the “5 stages of grief (denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance)” this (the emphasis is mine): Kübler-Ross claimed these steps do not necessarily come in the order noted above, nor are all steps experienced by all patients, though she stated a person will always experience at least...

  deathgriefmompsychology
• 15-Jan-2010
  Clay Shirky’s rant about women Terrific rant from my favorite internet pundit, Clay Shirky: And it looks to me like women in general, and the women whose educations I am responsible for in particular, are often lousy at those kinds of behaviors, even when the situation calls for it. They aren’t just bad at behaving like arrogant self-aggrandizing jerks. They...

  Clay Shirkypsychology
• 04-Aug-2008

  
  Three Photos from Yesterday Yesterday we started out hot on the west coast of the island, and ended up rainy on the northeastern (Hana Road) coast. It was actually quite a nice day. We went and hiked up to Twin Falls, one of many waterfalls and swimming holes on Maui. We swam for a bit, and I even ended...

  Hawaiiphotospsychologyvacation
• 04-May-2008
  Sickness’ End and DOS Joe This morning, after a fitful 14 hours of sleep, I woke up feeling better. This crud I got — microorganisms all taking over my whole nasopharyngeal area and causing systemic disruption that among other things caused me to miss swimming 3 days in a row. Actually, I shouldn’t go today either, so that’s like 4...

  healthpsychology
• 08-Feb-2008
  The Mind of the Market Fascinating video about market, social, evolutionary, genetic economics. Heck, it’s about everything. Talk at Google: via Paul Kedrosky: Michael Shermer on the Mind of the Market

  economicspsychologyvideo