• WOWOW: Intellectual Work and Calorie Intake

    edited by Alexander Becker on September 20, 2008 | Link

    Intellectual work, Mavens, Connectors and Salesmen; no more productivity, statistics neither, finally, the impact of the highly improbable.

    • Thinking People Eat Too Much: Intellectual Work Found To Induce Excessive Calorie Intake (Polymeme) --

      Blood samples taken before, during, and after each session revealed that intellectual work causes much bigger fluctuations in glucose and insulin levels than rest periods. "These fluctuations may be caused by the stress of intellectual work, or also reflect a biological adaptation during glucose combustion," hypothesized Jean-Philippe Chaput, the study's main author. The body could be reacting to these fluctuations by spurring food intake in order to restore its glucose balance, the only fuel used by the brain.

    • Know Your Strength for More Success: Are you a Connector, a Maven, or a Salesman? --

      They are the ones who tell Connectors about what's hot. They always have the newest inside scoops on gadgets and specials. The upside of Mavens is that they amass a vast store of knowledge and are eager to share it with others. The downside is that Mavens can sometimes be a bit geeky and awkward around people.

    • 43 Folders: Time, Attention, and Creative Work --

      Friends, I'm done with "productivity" as a personal fetish or hobby. There are countless sites that are all too happy to vend stroke material for your joyless addiction to puns about procrastination and systems for generating more taxonomically satisfying meta-work. But, presently, you won't find so much of that here.

    • The Fourth Quadrant: A Map of The Limits of Statistics --

      Statistics can fool you. In fact it is fooling your government right now. It can even bankrupt the system (let's face it: use of probabilistic methods for the estimation of risks did just blow up the banking system).

    • Also by Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Low Probability, High Impact: The Black Swan, The Impact of the Highly Improbable --

      Some scenarios are rather improbable, but when they do materialize, their effects are devastating or overwhelming, depending on the matter changed.

    Extremistan vs. Mediocristan.

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