No Infringe, No Cringe, Let Me on My Values Binge 💃

A very good afternoon to you. You might've read recently about the bladeless Dyson engine. It was made up for 1st April. I completely fell for it.

It gave me serious pause. The post contained a photoshopped image alongside some technical descriptions of air currents and techie-sounding names that only a specialist might be suspicious of.

Frankly, if I chose to make something up right now, there's nothing that anyone can do to stop it. Research is time-consuming. Fact-checking is a full time job.

This is actually the note on which Season 1 was built. Surprisingly, I summarised how to do the research in only a few minutes, but it won't take you that little.

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Season 1 highlights:

📝 How to Research Anything in Life Science (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)

🧬 How X_Y Chromosomes Actually Work (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)

🧪 Indefinite Health with Dr. Aubrey de Grey (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)

🎶 Science Sing-along with John Hinton (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)

🚣♀️ Cambridge Chat with Saba Shirvani (Spotify / Apple Podcasts)

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This is why integrity cannot be a breathe-over-your-shoulder exercise. It really is something that only exists when people embody it and do what is right in the dark.

...when no one is watching

On the internet, everyone is watching, all the time. Most of it is an unknown unknown. I don't know that LinkedIn has tweaked this interface to death to get you reading and get me writing. You don't know that I'm tweaking the placement of links to see what happens. It sounds trivial, but it isn't. A small change in link placement and formatting can be the difference between 15 clicks and 150 clicks. Our attention, desire, curiosity and commitment are currencies in a hot goldrush.

Our identity and life meaning are some of the things we surf as we're surfing. It's a materialised stream of consciousness. It knows I've been thinking of buying a new toothbrush.

Have we ever so intimately faced our every half-baked thought?

We have other people pre-empting, cultivating, taunting, growing and warping our thoughts for us. But it's also a wonderful invitation to become cut-throat about ourselves. To strengthen, question and test our values, assumptions and frameworks. I can see the appeal of The 10 Commandments. Should I checkout? Check the commandments. Should I follow or block? Check the commandments. Should I twist the truth to my followers?

It actually woks quite well, and if you're so inclined, you can certainly adapt the commandments or write your own. Does that sounds ridiculous?

It's what the brands do. It's what the corporations do. It's the law.

It is so convenient to trim back thinking time. A bit like the wardrobe of all grey T-shirts, it saves thinking effort. Should I get the job? Should I [insert decision]? Well, check commandment #2 of your what is my life based on booklet. Others will give you theirs, but the usefulness never clicks until you land your own.

Mine?

• Recognition
• Dynamism
• Abundance
• Correctness

If I've ever hated something in my life or I've been in a situation that made me cringe, it's very likely that it was because one of those values was infringed.

No infringe,

No cringe,

Let me on my values

Binge.

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