Ekman Training - Reviews and/or Testing

8 Benquo 19 June 2012 09:25PM

I'm considering taking Ekman's microexpressions training because it's cheap in both time and money. Has anyone here taken it? Did it work for you? How do you know?

 

The course does seem to come with tests included (both before and after), but if anyone has any ideas for some cheap tests I can do before and after to see if it really works, I'd be happy to do those as well, and report the results. Cheap tests should cost me less than three hours total and less than $100 total.

 

Alternately, if enough people here have done it we could pool our "before" and "after" scores to independently verify whether there's an effect.

[LINK] Making Big Decisions about Money

10 Benquo 04 April 2012 04:02PM

Seth Godin has an article about how to translate monetary values into something intuitively commensurable with the thing you're buying:

Making Big Decisions about Money

The conclusion:

If you go to the free school, you can drive there in a brand new Mini convertible, and every summer you can spend $25,000 on a top-of-the-line internship/experience, and you can create a jazz series and pay your favorite musicians to come to campus to play for you and your fifty coolest friends, and you can have Herbie Hancock give you piano lessons and you can still have enough money left over to live without debt for a year after you graduate while you look for the perfect gig...

Suddenly, you're not comparing "this is my dream," with a number that means very little. You're comparing one version of your dream with another version.

Longecity funding cryo research [link]

6 Benquo 28 February 2012 02:24PM

I don't understand enough of the relevant science to evaluate the prospects of the research being funded here:

http://www.longecity.org/forum/donate/goal-8-cryopreservation-research/

If anyone here knows substantially more than me, does it look promising?

Meetup : Rejection Therapy in DC

2 Benquo 19 July 2011 01:41PM

Discussion article for the meetup : Rejection Therapy in DC

WHEN: 24 July 2011 02:00:00PM (-0400)

WHERE: National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC

We will meet in the inner courtyard of the National Portrait Gallery/American Museum of Art (near the Chinatown and Metro Center stations if you're taking the metro). We will take 30 minutes to an hour to discuss strategies and goals, and then we will go off separately to do rejection therapy (so be sure to show up well before 3PM - or if you know you'll be late, contact Benquo so you can find us later). After an hour or two of that, we will meet back in the courtyard at a designated time to discuss what we've learned, and any cool things we got by asking.

Discussion article for the meetup : Rejection Therapy in DC

Meetup : DC Meetup Learns Decision Theory

1 Benquo 19 July 2011 01:28PM

Discussion article for the meetup : DC Meetup Learns Decision Theory

WHEN: 07 August 2011 01:30:00PM (-0400)

WHERE: Washington, DC

Meetup is at a private residence, contact Benquo for details.

Our very own Jeff has agreed to present on decision theory.

Discussion article for the meetup : DC Meetup Learns Decision Theory

Meetup : DC Weekly Meetup is Back!

1 Benquo 13 July 2011 12:26AM

Discussion article for the meetup : DC Weekly Meetup Resumes

WHEN: 17 July 2011 01:00:00PM (-0400)

WHERE: Washington, DC

Agenda is fairly light this time, mostly we'll just hang out:

  • Follow-Ups to New York Joint Meet-Up

  • Plan future activities

Meetup is at a private residence. Contact Benquo for venue details.

Discussion article for the meetup : DC Weekly Meetup Resumes

DC Meetup: Sunday June 26th, 1:00 PM

0 Benquo 20 June 2011 02:35AM

Sunday June 26th
Core hours: 1 PM - 3PM
Apartment #1005
3001 Veazey Terrace
Washington, DC 20008

Please note this meetup is now regularly scheduled; you can see the Wiki for details, any changes will be sent out to the mailing list. If you're not on the list, and you want to know about future meetups, you should add your email to the list.

Notes:
Core hours are 1-3, but many people stay around longer than that.

Topic TBA.

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