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Saw other posts on this topic here, but thought I would post my own as well. Takeaway: if you are interested in how/why psychology may be different in different areas of the world, or what drove European prosperity in the last few centuries, you might like this. https://digitalsauna.wordpress.com/2022/02/21/the-weirdest-people-in-the-world-by-joseph-henrich-2020/

Hello, I wanted to share some book reviews that I hope would be useful to readers of this site. If you have any suggestions about relate reading, or suggestions about how to improve my reviews, please leave comments. Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari, 2017 Sapiens: A Brief History of...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subvocalization I'm curious about how often or to what degree visitors to this site subvocalize as they read. I was originally interested in reducing subvocalizations as a way to increase reading speed, as the idea is mentioned in multiple pieces I've read about speed reading. The Wikipedia entry seems to...

http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2013/11/singularity-or-bust-.html I've never heard of this before, and have only watched 7 minutes so far, but I'd imagine many people here would be interested in this video.

I currently log the total number of hours I work each day in an OpenOffice Spreadsheet. I input the start time, lunch/break time, and end time, and it calculates the total hours worked. I'm not savvy enough to create this type of spreadsheet myself, so I looked through a large...

I'm looking to build up a “tool-box” of strategies/techniques/habits for reading non-fiction effectively and efficiently. I’ve already posted on this topic; below, I’ve tried to distill/summarize some of strategies shared by Less Wrong users and those contained in the resources they recommended. Thanks to those who contributed. As far as...