Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

And making too many personal sacrifices, wanting to leave your job, and having a bad or cynical attitude about your work. Then the brain, ever on a quest for both equilibrium and efficiency, noted the response’s effectiveness and will turn to it again the next time stress hits.

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Classy

APRIL 27, 2021

The most common signs of employee burnout we’ve seen are: Brain fog that causes forgetfulness of something a person has done before or randomly forgetting to complete tasks. Sudden cynical attitude about the job, company, or working conditions . It is okay to not always have a “can-do” attitude if your plate is already overflowing.

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The Verge

APRIL 13, 2021

Researchers and academics The Verge spoke to for this story highlighted two distinct but connected concerns with Google’s behavior. As one researcher at Google Brain Montreal, Nicolas Le Roux, commented on Twitter: “My submissions were always checked for disclosure of sensitive material, never for the quality of the literature review.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

The reality is that our brains only have the capacity to manage a limited number of relationships ??? The papers points out the benefits of these forms of participatory culture, including peer-to-peer learning, changed attitude toward intellectual property, skills valued in the modern workplace, etc. each of various qualities.

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Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 14, 2022

In all, there were over 30 overlapping sessions, plus breakout rooms, allowing inquisitive minds to pick the brains of developers, configurators, architects, and anyone responsible for building on Salesforce. Most everyone in attendance arrived with the same knowledge base and eager attitude to learn together as these tools mature.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 20, 2023

Tell stories One of the best ways to engage supporters is to use effective storytelling strategies. When people read stories , chemicals like dopamine and oxytocin are released in their brains. Include the key elements of a good story: Protagonist: This is usually the individual the campaign is helping.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

. ” Bloom recalls going to a nonprofit conference hearing people talk about their incredible work in their presentations, but the hall way conversations revealed a different story. High levels of stress and burn out and people feeling guilty if they don’t put their work first.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

I have a very logical brain, so I needed something to explain the woo-woo mystical realm in a way that my conscious mind could understand. There’s a lot of that going on with the platforms — for instance, Instagram is turning into a shopping app and the grid is being disfavored in terms of Stories and now Reels. I’m an Excel girl.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 6, 2014

First, believe deeply – in your heart and then in your brain – that donors matter. Sharing the stories of how your donors’ gifts are making a difference. Enjoy them now; then practice a year-round attitude of gratitude. Joyaux , ACFRE, Joyaux Associates. Third, behave accordingly! Chew ‘em up. Spit ‘em out!

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Tell a story. And you really can only share your passion unless you have a kind of energized spirit and positive attitude, terrific. And having your own stories, like really great stories about the volunteering that you’re doing, or the experience you’re having with your beneficiaries and being able to tell those stories.

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Bloomerang

JULY 20, 2023

Tell stories One of the best ways to engage supporters is to use effective storytelling strategies. When people read stories , their brains release chemicals like dopamine and oxytocin. Include the key elements of a good story: Protagonist: This is usually the individual the campaign is helping.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 19, 2019

First, believe deeply – in your heart and then in your brain – that donors matter. Sharing the stories of how your donors’ gifts are making a difference. Enjoy them now; then practice a year-round attitude of gratitude. Joyaux , ACFRE, Joyaux Associates. Third, behave accordingly! Chew ‘em up. Spit ‘em out!

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

That is, the headline needs to be tantalizing enough to get a reader to click through, but mustn’t give away the whole story. A great example comes from an Upworthy story about Mitt Romney: Too vague, so readers aren’t interested: Mitt Romney Says Something Bad, Again. Use numbers: Our brains can understand it more easily.

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The Next Web

MAY 11, 2013

Bill Gurley from Benchmark Capital drew criticism after claiming Dropbox to be a “major disruption” because the team “had taken a hard problem – file synchronization — and made it brain dead simple” as disbelievers fell into the Steve Jobs camp that file sync is a feature, not a product.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

Baldrick’s Foundation shares expert story-telling advice. Creating share-worthy content means understanding your audience and the story they want to tell. Twitter and Facebook serve different functions, but two things should always be consistent: your ask and your story. What’s the story? It’s hot.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Jimmie Alford, one of the great fundraisers in America, told me a story a few years ago, which was about this volunteer who had to raise money for mental health in a community. ” So we have in our brains, the amygdala, the fear center, where you have flight, fright, and freeze as the emotional reactions to things that’s scare you.

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The AI Alignment Forum

MARCH 11, 2025

global pause, automated alignment research, whole brain emulation, etc) that strategies in this respect could focus on. by governments); other social incentives and attitudes relevant to decision-making around AI development/deployment (e.g. brain computer interfaces or BCI [18] ).

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The AI Alignment Forum

MARCH 14, 2025

10] Broader attitudes and incentives : AI labor can also play a role in shaping the broader attitudes and incentives that determine how our civilization responds to misalignment risk e.g., by helping with communication about the risks at stake. At least as of early 2024. . See also Critch (2022) here. ^

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The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

That is, to the extent the instrumental convergence story predicts power-seeking on the grounds that power of the relevant kind will be instrumentally useful for promoting certain outcomes, the AI needs to care about promoting those outcomes at least a little. [7] See e.g. Soares on deep deceptiveness as an example of this sort of story.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

At SOSV, we use a tool called Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument (HBDI), to help the founders better understand themselves and their team members. I agree with YC’s Sam Altman, who says, “Attitude is more important than experience” in his Stanford Start-up talk on team and execution. But that’s not the full story either.

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The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Published on February 13, 2025 6:39 PM GMT Introduction I have long felt confused about the question of whether brain-like AGI would be likely to scheme, given behaviorist rewards. I claim that brain-like AGI is a not-yet-invented variation on Model-Based Reinforcement Learning (RL), for reasons briefly summarized in Valence series 1.2.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

One day in 2020, I published an article about a Chinese hardware maker which would have otherwise been a typical funding story. My attitude has over time gone from disappointment at companies’ lack of respect for journalistic independence to a growing concern that my portrayal of them might unfairly prejudice their growth.

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The Verge

JUNE 16, 2020

And my mother used to say that she was going to donate my brain to Harvard Medical School as a completely unused human organ. And in fact, there’s a funny little story. Maybe you can tell me a little bit about those shoes. Well, when I was growing up, I really, really, wanted to be a Boston Celtic.

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Recode by Vox

MARCH 6, 2025

This is deep brain rot territory, and whats happening on X seems to be, to some degree , informing Musks plan to dismantle the federal government workforce. As this attitude increasingly permeates businesses and government, prudence is becoming the fastest route to dismissal. Sign up here for future editions.

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