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Deric Bownds
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Deric Bownds writes MindBlog, a personal blog at dericbownds.net about science and philosophy. Since 2010, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2007, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Deric Bownds' posts as sources: a PDF of the power posing paper, a narcissism-epidemic graph, and references on mindfulness and chronic pain research. None praise the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Writing by Deric Bownds on the structure, function, and evolution of mind, brain and consciousness.
What Hacker News says?
I've worked with researchers studying how mindfulness can ameliorate chronic pain. Here are some references- the mind is a powerful thing. http://dericbownds.net/uploaded_images/medpain.pdf http://www.neuro.cjb.net/content/31/14/5540.short
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on “What kind of buddhist was Steve Jobs, really?”I would like to note that the STEM gender gap is much lower among new immigrants students (particularly from Asia and Eastern Europe) than their US-born counterparts, at least anecdotally. And I think this biases me towards the non-negativity approach argued for in the article. Much of the data about lower STEM performance from females in the U.S. comes from 1970's and 1980's data, when females also took fewer cours…
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on “Stop complaining about the lack of women in tech”Here's a link to the paper: http://dericbownds.net/uploaded_images/carneyetal.pdf It's about a 5 minute read if you skip the statistics.
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on “Power Posing: Fake It Until You Make It”It's pretty fun that "leadership" is correlated with "vanity", "narcissism", and "entitlement". I'm not actually sure what these measure, precisely, but the graph is good for a laugh. http://dericbownds.net/uploaded_images/narc.png
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on “The narcissism epidemic is dead?”
