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Dr. Serrano
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Dr. Serrano
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That sweet nexus between health, digital tech, and behavioural science!😎
lagos, nigeria Katılım Eylül 2016
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Without the informed consent of the patient, the health worker should still not breach confidentiality, EVEN WHEN THE PATIENT HAS APPEARED TO DO SO.
There are, of course, exceptions, but this situation does not appear to represent any one of them.
Nigerian Medical Association@nationalnma
@joshibza Thank you for your attention to this matter. However, the concerned patient has actually put the details in public domain so 🤷🏿♂️
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A brilliant statistician who spent 50 years studying why massive engineering projects fail realized one terrifying truth:
Individual incompetence is almost never the actual problem.
His name is W. Edwards Deming, the man who famously rebuilt Japan's post-war manufacturing empire from scratch. He argued that we obsess over individual performance and completely ignore the environment.
Here are 4 operational frameworks he used to build elite, failure-proof organizations:
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If your mother is still alive, you’re already halfway ahead in life’s race.
Don’t take that blessing for granted.
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Another tangent...
The nature of thought without language.
Does a language enable or limit thought? Or enables, then limits? Or simultaneously enables and limits (different parts of)?
What about the impact of non-scripted languages like music, on thought?
Akash Muni@akashmuni27
People who are born deaf and grow up using sign language actually think in sign language. Not in words they hear in their head but in visual spatial concepts. They mentally see the shapes and movements of signs. But it goes deeper than that. Research shows that thought is not actually dependent on language the way most hearing people assume. A lot of thinking happens in images, feelings, spatial relationships and abstract concepts that exist before language gives them a name. The assumption that thinking requires words is actually a hearing person's assumption. Deaf communities have pushed back on this for decades. The more interesting question is whether any of us are really thinking in words at all, or whether language is just the tool we use to explain thoughts that already happened.
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I am an excellent writer with an MA in English Lit, but in the last six months have been repeatedly accused of using AI to produce my work. I am now deliberately sabotaging my own copy so it seems more plausible that I wrote it. I hate living in this timeline.
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Africa's role models for economic growth and human dev should be China and India.
Whether you prefer a political dictatorship or a multi-party, multi-ethnic democracy, there is something for you.
300-400M persons lifted out of poverty within a generation is not a joke!
Magatte Wade@magattew
African countries copy Europe’s regulatory approach, then wonder why we get European results: stagnation, when not flat-out decline. Stop copying their mistakes. Copy what worked before they regulated themselves into increasing irrelevance.
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@MikeOshadami @flyunitedng @AirCanada Nigeria airlines would rather fold up than treat their customers with respect.
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When I feel anger at the world, I try to treat it as a weather system moving through my body rather than a verdict about reality. Anger arrives with speed. It quickens my pulse, tightens my jaw, sharpens my sense of being right. Especially when it feels like righteous anger. It wants motion and impact. It wants language that lands like a blow. That is why I stop and breathe. Breathing is the smallest form of refusal I know. A few slow breaths give my nervous system a different instruction: soften, lengthen, return.
I especially try not to write. Writing is a kind of amplification. It takes whatever is inside me and gives it architecture, rhythm, authority. When I write in anger, the sentence becomes a weapon that looks like a sentence. Even when the facts are accurate, the posture is often crooked. Anger loves clean villains and quick conclusions. It does not linger. It does not ask the second question. It does not make room for complexity, contradiction, or my own participation in what I’m condemning. It pushes me toward performance: a bright, hard voice that can win a moment and lose the truth.
Introspection needs a different atmosphere. It needs time, silence, and a willingness to discover something I did not already know. It needs the ability to hold two ideas in the mind without rushing to crush one of them. It needs curiosity, which is difficult to access when my body is braced for conflict. Breathing helps because it gives me a tiny interval between stimulus and response. In that interval, I can tell the truth to myself: I am hurt, I am afraid, I feel powerless, I want control, I want recognition, I want repair. Anger can be a signal, even a moral signal, and it can still be a bad editor.
So I wait. I let the heat drop. I let the story in my head loosen its grip. I come back to the page when I can ask better questions: What am I actually responding to? What do I know for certain? What am I assuming? What part of this is grief, envy, disappointment, shame? What would I say if I were trying to understand rather than win? When I return in that state, I can still be fierce. I can still name harm. The writing has a chance to become accurate, humane, and useful, which is what I want from it.
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This is what foreign aid did to Africans.
Yahara was my employee. 26 years old. Beautiful, smart, capable.
But she walked with her head down, never made eye contact, never stood tall.
One day, she confessed to me that a lifetime of seeing Africans as helpless victims in every movie and magazine had convinced her that maybe we really were inferior.
Then I told her the truth about why Africa is poor.
What happened next is the most powerful thing I've ever witnessed in my life:
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I got a call from a scammer yesterday.
Me: “Hello.”
Scammer: (thick, heavy accent) “Hello. This is Tom Smith from Microsoft Support. We are seeing a lot of virus activity coming from your device.”
Me: “Oh no. My device? Are you sure?”
Scammer: “Oh yes, Madam. We have many reports.”
Me: “Oh, jeez. How can I fix it?”
Scammer: “It’s okay, Madam. We can help you right now. Are you in front of your device?”
Me: “Yes. I was just about to use it. I’m glad you called.”
Scammer: “Good, Madam. Please push the Start button.”
Me: “I think it’s already on.”
Scammer: “Okay, Madam. Now click on Control Panel.”
Me: “I don’t see that.”
Scammer: “Do you see a bunch of information above the Start button?”
Me: “Yes.”
Scammer: “That is your Control Panel.”
Me: “Wow. I didn’t realize it had a name.”
Scammer: “Yes, Madam. Now press Internet Options.”
Me: “I don’t see any Internet options. I don’t think I bought that feature. This is just a cheap one.”
Scammer: “All devices have Internet, Madam. Press the Start button again.”
Me: “Okay. Same as before.”
Scammer: “That’s fine, Madam. We will restart your device. Please turn it off.”
Me: “Um… I don’t know how. I’ve never turned it off. It kind of just stays on.”
Scammer: “There must be an off button. How do you stop it when it’s running?”
Me: “I usually press the big button.”
Scammer: “Okay, Madam. Press that button.”
Me: “Okay.”
Scammer: “Is your device off?”
Me: “No. The door popped open.”
Scammer: “Door? Is there a disc inside?”
Me: “No. There’s a burrito.”
Scammer: “Why is there a burrito in your computer?”
Me: “Computer? I thought you said this was microwave support.”
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"Ensconced in the bottom of this electronic missive, lies information compressed in the deceptively small body of an icon. There, dear reader, you will find the treasures I speak of."
Simons@Simon_Ingari
Stop using "please find attached" in your emails.
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