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• Ask HN: Any interesting books you have read lately?

  I’ve had the pdf of “Almost Perfect” by Pete Peterson [0] on my cloud for a while and like reading it in bits and pieces and rereading it when I’m stuck somewhere without data. It’s the story of WordPerfect and while desktop software is very different than today’s software the organizational dynamics is fascinating to me. And I like how what to me is a very technical thing- writing excellent software- is designed... - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

• What do you wish schools taught?

  Our brains are tools. We are using our own, and people around us are using theirs. We should get to learn more about our brains and how to use ours together. So: Bad arguments, fallacies and other biases. Once these are a common understanding, you can enter into constructive investigation and dialogue about Science, History, Politics, etc. Source: about 1 year ago

• I have been seeing this push more and more to raise the voting age. I guess they didn't like that Gen Z showed up to vote. Keep voting Gen Z!

  Here. You are featured on almost every page. Cheers. Source: about 1 year ago

• Critical thinking skills

  This is also a good start: https://bookofbadarguments.com/. Source: over 1 year ago

• In the US, there’s more than two political parties, why don’t more people look outside those two?

  As someone who is often disliked because of my attention to the truth, I would highly recommend getting a copy of https://bookofbadarguments.com/ -- people will already dislike you for pointing out their wrong, the least you can do is have fun with it IMO. Source: over 1 year ago