Hasnain says:

What a great read on the perils of being too numbers driven

Hasnain says:

"Which is why I’m going to keep nagging you, my dear friends and co-workers. I’m going to encourage you to spend time with your friends, to stop messaging our team at night, to go outside and spend time in the redwoods or at the coast. I’m going to remind you that work matters, but in the scheme of things, it kind of really doesn’t. The best way to preserve the passion and energy you have for your work is to take great care of your brain, your body and your soul; be kind to yourself, and protect the open spaces that allow you to relax and restore your resources. This is not New Age babble. This is reality. Trust me.'

Hasnain says:

This was a really engrossing read.

"Today, interrogations still get framed as accusatory moral dramas, and not just on TV. American police officers are trained in the Reid Technique, developed in the 1950s by John Reid, a former Chicago cop. In a pre-interrogation interview, the detective assesses a suspect’s credibility by observing his body language, such as fidgeting or eye movements. (There is no evidence these are reliable cues to deceit.) Once he decides that a suspect is lying, the interrogator moves into confrontational mode, in an effort to break the suspect’s resistance. The technique has been consistently associated with false confessions. It survives, at least in part, because it makes the interrogator feel in control, positioning him as a heroic protagonist."

Hasnain says:

Bookmarking for future reading. This was a great read on rust for gamedev

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Posted on 2017-10-26T20:54:40+0000

Hasnain says:

"But still, I obviously think it’s worth talking about. People act so weirdly when it comes to this stuff, precisely because we don’t talk about it, even today, in 2017. Fuck flying cars and laser guns, I want transparent discussion of mental problems in society."

Hasnain says:

Sad read.

"Not every day was bad. During spring break in 2016, Jake’s father wrote: “Jake was relaxed and his old sarcastic, personable, witty self.” A week later, though, Jake couldn’t get through a school day without texting his mother to pick him up or hiding out in the nurse’s office. At home, Jake threatened suicide again. His younger siblings were terrified. “It was the depth of hell,” his mother told me."

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Posted on 2017-10-23T19:11:21+0000

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Posted on 2017-10-22T16:55:38+0000

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"Even so, hardly anyone associates the Sackler name with their company’s lone blockbuster drug. “The Fords, Hewletts, Packards, Johnsons—all those families put their name on their product because they were proud,” said Keith Humphreys, a professor of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine who has written extensively about the opioid crisis. “The Sacklers have hidden their connection to their product. They don’t call it ‘Sackler Pharma.’ They don’t call their pills ‘Sackler pills.’ And when they’re questioned, they say, ‘Well, it’s a privately held firm, we’re a family, we like to keep our privacy, you understand.’ ”"