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Choose Simplicity Over Artificiality
4+ day, 22+ hour ago (475+ words) Silicon Canals Choose simplicity over artificiality is the sort of maxim that sounds like taste dressed up as wisdom, the kind of thing said by people who have decided that plain is virtuous and polish is suspect. Treated that way…...
At Harvard, men paid to assemble Lego Bionicle models built an average of 10.6 when their finished work stayed on the desk??? but only 7.2 when the experimenter dismantled it as they worked, handing back the same plastic pieces to be built again.
5+ day, 20+ min ago (855+ words) Edited by Lachlan Brown A small Harvard experiment found that men built more Lego models when their finished work remained intact. The result raises a precise question about effort and visible progress. At Harvard, a small experiment gave men a…...
Teams got the hiring decision right 15 percent of the time when the newcomer held the information the group needed, and 28.7 percent of the time when an original member held it — and the originals had been talking to each other for five minutes - Silicon Canals
1+ week, 1+ day ago (471+ words) Edited by Christy Suriadi A study of 370 three-person teams varied who held the unshared information the group needed. Teams were less likely to reach the correct decision when the newcomer held it than when one of the originals did. A false…...
Learning in the age of information: how access counterfeits understanding, and how to tell knowledge from wisdom
1+ week, 5+ day ago (549+ words) Silicon Canals We have quietly collapsed three things that used to be easier to tell apart: information, knowledge, and wisdom. The age of information has delivered an almost violent abundance of the first, more facts, papers, explainers and answers than…...
In a computer model of 1,000 fictional 40-year careers, the most highly talented individuals reached the top in only 3% of simulations. Extreme success usually went to moderately talented people who encountered an exceptional run of luck.
1+ week, 6+ day ago (1455+ words) Edited by Lachlan Brown A 40-year computer model shows how talent can improve average outcomes while rare, compounding runs of luck still decide who reaches the very top. Success stories become cleaner in hindsight. The uncertain launch becomes a master…...
When ByteDance moved to end its fortnightly six-day rota in 2021, a large share of its own staff objected rather than celebrated, because as much as a fifth of their pay was classed as overtime
3+ week, 6+ day ago (521+ words) Edited by Mal James In China's tech industry, overtime pay has become so integral to worker compensation that reducing grueling schedules threatens to shrink paychecks, forcing companies into an uncomfortable choice between labor reform and staff retention. A company scraps…...
Older adults who feared confirming the stereotype that they cannot manage technology were using computers less a year and a half later, while the reverse did not hold, which puts the adaptation problem somewhere other than in the person
4+ week, 1+ day ago (762+ words) When older adults internalize stereotypes about their tech abilities, they withdraw from digital tools entirely—suggesting the real barrier isn't resistance but the weight of expectation itself. The way the question is usually put contains its own answer. Older people…...
AI's hidden water footprint may have reached 765 billion litres in 2025??? consumed in data-centre cooling and the power plants supplying them. That's more than twice the volume of bottled water the entire world buys in a year.
4+ week, 1+ day ago (1068+ words) Lachlan Brown is a writer at Silicon Canals contributing across the Mind pillar. The 765-billion-litre figure is the upper end of a modelled range, not a global meter reading. Its size and uncertainty both point to the same problem: data-centre…...