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Online group mindfulness practice
There is something very powerful about the emerging trend of remote group mindfulness practices, facilitated over live web-video. I've seen countless times now, how a group of 10-20 people (mixed: from very old to very young - from all over the world - with varied backgrounds) get together online on a regular basis, to do Qigong/Taichi/Yoga/Meditation/etc. together. There is a fascinating element of self-organization to generate "calmness over distance" at play here, which yield positive outcomes and fosters community.
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The world's top 50 websites (Based on monthly traffic volume - Nov 2020 - SimilarWeb)
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Why Managers Fear a Remote-Work Future (The Atlantic)
"Remote work lays bare many brutal inefficiencies and problems that executives don’t want to deal with because they reflect poorly on leaders and those they’ve hired. Remote work empowers those who produce and disempowers those who have succeeded by being excellent diplomats and poor workers, along with those who have succeeded by always finding someone to blame for their failures. It removes the ability to seem productive (by sitting at your desk looking stressed or always being on the phone), and also, crucially, may reveal how many bosses and managers simply don’t contribute to the bottom line."
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38% of remote workers work from bed (Axios)
45% of American teleworkers regularly work from a couch, 38% regularly work from bed and 20% often work outside, according to a study.
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China’s after-school tutoring crackdown goes nuclear
New draft rules circulated today would force China’s private education companies to turn nonprofit. Share prices of tutoring companies plummeted, and some see the end of a highly lucrative industry.
A popular Chinese commentator argued on Twitter today that turning the education companies nonprofit would be a big blow to investors, but not necessarily for parents and children. Even if this new policy is problematic, “the direction is right.”
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Shutdown
In summary, significant parts of the dominate infrastructure stack (e.g. the Internet) will go offline for a bit in the foreseeable future. The alternative would be far more devastating. Prepare accordingly and enjoy the silence.
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Research on how to be productive in remote teams: be bursty, switching between solo work & intense periods where everyone is exchanging info together at the same time. Bursts allow idea exchange & solo gets work done. A 1 SD increase in burstiness ups team performance by 29%!
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The Internet Is Rotting - By Jonathan Zittrain (theatlantic)
"The glue that holds humanity’s knowledge together is coming undone."
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U.S. govt. Shuts down Al-Alam, Al Masirah and Press TV websites.
"U.S. government says the blocked websites were engaged in "smuggling technology, nuclear, chemical, biologic and radiologic weapons, or engaged in building, importing, selling, or distributing illegal drugs."
#Comment: And then you wonder why countries on US’s "hit list" (more than half the world?) see the internet as a weapon of empire. At this pace, the "western" internet will be superseded by a different system shortly, and the US internet giants will rapidly loose power.
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Emojis Meet Hieroglyphs: If King Tut Could Text (nytimes)
An exhibition at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, “Emoglyphs: Picture-Writing From Hieroglyphs to the Emoji” highlights the seemingly obvious, but complicated, relationship between the iconic communication system from antiquity and the lingua franca of the cyber age.
