Frontiers Friday #4: Five Notes for Your Development
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Frontiers Friday #4 Dispatch
From My Desk: The Cobra Effect.
What happens when we do not pay attention to the law of unintended consequences? Read this new blogpost.
BBC Podcast Heart and Soul: The Wind Phone
How did a phone booth become a place for pilgrims to visit in a small Japanese town of Otsuchi? Listen to this heartrending episode. It teaches us something poignant about grief.
Bookworm: How Emotions are Made by Lisa Feldman Barrett.
Great books are the ones that up-end my previous beliefs. This book is one of them. Also one of the first that I've come across that challenges the classical view of emotions being universal (and the whole Paul Ekman facial expression theory).
Her main thesis: emotions are constructed; variation is the norm (echoing themes from the science of the individual; see Todd Rose's excellent book, The End of Average)
Many gems about how from the body budget perspective, there are no fundamental differences between physical metabolic illnesses and mental health issues.
For practical tips, zoom in on the Chapter, Mastering Your Emotions.
Tech Tool: Scrivener
Hands down, when I'm diving deep into any writing project, Scrivener has been my go-to software for more than a decade. Think "Word meets Excel".
I love it simply because it's very conducive in the way that I approach writing—messily. The design of the software allows you to jump-around like a spreadsheet, but also dive deep and focus in. I take snapshots of my history of my writing, in case I need to go back to things I've (regrettably) scrapped.
While I still use google docs, word and the like for less focused writings, Scrivener is hands down, really amazing.
Documentary: The Social Dilemma
Most of my close friends know that I'm somewhat a "paranoid android" when it comes to tech, and I would love to be "technologically independent" as far as possible (e.g., use DuckDuckGo instead of Google, rarely park my primary content on socials).
This Netflix documentary drove the nail in the coffin even further. Key interviews consists of people like the the accidental inventor of the "Like" button Justin Rosentein, to the ex-google ethicist turned whistleblower Tristan Harris. (Pair this with a TED talk by Harris).
Like it or not, social media has changed our social fabric. We need to learn to weld it and not simply take it as "by default," but have a relationship with these tools "by design."
Kick Off to Therapy Reimagined Conference!
If you are at this virtual conference, Therapy Reimagined Conference, drop me a message on their chat feature!
I'd be on the lounge discussion after the keynote, which happens today. Love to hear from you there.