HeyJaredHere is your brain...
Using neuroscience to reverse engineer a better mind. Explored through the lens of a PhD engineer and the beautiful chaos of parenting two tiny humans. (Illustrated by one of them.) Think lightbulb moments, not tips.
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AI broke the internet. I think we can fix it. (opens the original)
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My little sister is awesome. Where I got an A, she got an A+. Where I finished school as runner-up dux, she came along three years later and finished as dux. We both went on to study Engineering, and she kept right on being awesome.In the final year of our degree, a finalist from each discipline competes to win the prestigious Barton Medal. It is a grand night where the 500-strong auditorium fills with people from all over the state to watch these four finalists have their engineering showdown.
You think you're learning when you read. Only 4% do. (opens the original)
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Why are you here?I don’t think anyone would say it’s to simply read or be entertained. You’re here because you want to learn.1 This requires an ability to build higher level concepts, solutions and ideas out of already-learned lower level ones, independently of words or stimuli in front of you.Learning requires remembering.What can you remember from when you scrolled through your feed last week? Yesterday?
Thinking in the age of cognitive automation with Dylan Kane and Juliette Ryan (opens the original)
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In this video, joined me to talk about thinking in the age of automation, direct from the coalface, where he teaches fifth grade. We covered everything from the optimal rate of learning to ways in which rewards can be used to motivate and form positive habits, including the success rate he strives for and why he checks what students remember a day later rather than at the end of class. Dylan admirably went against the grain and forwent the use of technology in the classroom earlier this year wit
Lion or troll: which is worse for your brain? (opens the original)
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A few years ago, my father discovered an employee had been misappropriating funds from his company and promptly dismissed him. “Disgruntled” is probably too passive a term to describe the subsequent state of this once seemingly good-natured ex-employee. He proceeded to slander my father all over the internet, even going so far as to create an entire website dedicated solely to this enterprise. (As a further twist of the knife, he used the misappropriated funds to finance his new vocation.)My fat
In defence of pop neuroscience (opens the original)
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Neuroscience is everywhere. “Regulate your nervous system” as a way to practice emotional control. “Dopamine fasting” as a way to reduce mindless consumption. Or “That’s neuroplasticity” as an explanation for anything remotely to do with behaviour change.There are those who spread this “pop” neuroscience and there are neuroscientists who, frankly, despise it. If you go hunting deeply enough, you’ll come across a distinguished corner of Substack occupie
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