An Obsidian user on Medium recently lost an entire vault to data corruption because of an encryption plugin.
I’m very sorry this happened to them, and that they didn’t have a backup.
Truly, if our notes in Obsidian can’t function without features that exist only in that app, we’ve shackled ourselves to the wall of a prison without a door.
Always have an exit plan! Always backup your work! And never lock all your data with a key you don’t own.
For the last year and a half or so I've been basically watching the (metaphorical) tides come in and doing my best to stand on my tippy toes and keep my nose above water.
Last month, my emotional capacity and executive function reached their lowest point in several years.
So today is my first day on a 12 week medical leave.
Hopefully I'll see some reversion towards function...
I wonder if Napier University computer library still has old copies of JOOP and Dr Dobbs. I loved the random stuff I’d find just thumbing through old issues.
I call this the Malcolm Gladwell myth, since it his book the popularized and distorted already questionable research.
As usual, I'm not a psychologist. I don't have a PhD in any science. I do coach Agile and Scrum. I also explode the balloons I call NeuroMyths. As a general rule, if Gladwell writes about it, tread carefully.
In "Outliers", Gladwell suggests that completing 10,000 hrs in their chosen discipline will excel.
The original study was about deliberate practice with the intention of improving performance, with focus and feedback. Without deliberate intention and feedback, we might be experiencing the same HOUR over and over again, repeating the same mistakes.
10,000hrs was just a catchy number in the original paper by Anders Ericsson, it wasn't magically. If was an average then Gladwell missed that the group would be spread to either side of that number
The students in the study were already exceptionally good violinists. This was about going from exceptionally good to world class.
It was a narrow study, in a small area, not a good source for a generalist book
Others have shown since:
Deliberate practice works well in fields with stability where the rules don't change often: chess, classical music, tennis etc. In areas where the landscape is changing then deliberate practice
#UncertaintyTax when circumstances are uncertain our brains press pause. An experiment that Berger cites: students were offered a cheap vacation and placed in three groups: pass, fail and unknown. The pass and fail groups both wanted the vacation. The uncertain group didn't want the vacation as much. Yet eventually they will either be in the pass or fail group, so their interests should be the same. The Uncertainty caused them to press pause.