Author: cjtrowbridge
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On “Othering”
Recently, I listened to an interview of Dr Zimbardo of the Stanford Prison Experiment, who has lately been studying what makes people and especially groups of people either evil or heroic under pressure. The number one thing that makes a person or group evil is what he calls “othering.” If instead of disagreeing with…
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Startup 7: Top Story Review
This is part of a series on Building 12 Startups in 12 Months. This is number seven: TopStoryReview.com! Black-Box News is Bad If you look at the news on Google or Facebook , you will see a few stories which some mysterious algorithm has selected for you. Are these an accurate reflection of current events?…
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Dream: The Participating Observer
Note: This is a very graphic dream I had shortly after leaving a terrible job at a company with a culture that condoned many terrible behaviors in a small group of its people. I awoke in the night and knew I needed to get this down before it faded away. The sun has not yet…
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Perfect Server, Version 18
This is the latest iteration of my perfect server. I am building this in order to consolidate and deprecate previous server inventory. Also, it includes many new best-practices which should further secure this new server. The first step is to provision a new server. I use digital ocean. I will be logged in as…