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From the page: "he real problem here is that people are demanding any easy relief, instead of confromting the root causes. In going to a psychiatrist, their socioeconomic problems get demoted to "factors" and their feelings become pathologized. Society needs that illusion/lie, because it has created unrealistic expectations in people, and no real ways of fulfilling them. Furthermore, people "cannot look directly at either the sun or the death" (La Rochefoucauld)."

From the page: "There's more to User Interface design than just aesthetics and fluffy feelings; actually, there's hard theoretical work turning a typically guru-istic field into hard engineering. The goal is to start from the basics of human psychology and information theory to derive a quantitative means for analyzing and designing UIs."

Great review of Earth's ultimate album "The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull"

From the page: "As anyone can add information to the network, the real question is how to deduce/synthesize it, use it, analyse it, generate ideas, create and keep meaningful and open conversations - i.e., how to equilibrate the 3 elements of the information ecology: production, distribution and processing."