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Have you heard of the 6 geniuses? It is a book that proposes that there are 6 areas of "managing" one's self and others, and some are areas of genius and some are areas of frustration and some are competencies.

The book also proposes that spouses who are compatible tend to have complimentary areas of genius and frustration.

More to your point: if someone has an area of frustration to discern what course of action will fix, and you have that as an area of genius, then be kind about it as you probably got married because there are other ways you complement each other.

Tldr; earth is not a perfect sphere. Rotation of the earth makes the middle fatter. Density of areas of the earth make gravity change. The lowest density area is off the coast of India and it confused people since 1948. We recently did a computer Sim of 19 scenarios across 150m years of tectonic plate movement and magma density and temp. A couple scenarios predicted "plumes of magma" with different density under that area. The models didn't accurately predict some other known tectonic and volcanic activity, so really we just have a really good preliminary theory.

Battery electrolysis of h2O into o2 and h2 that these engage in need a consistent power source. Either the power source is the core of the earth spinning, or there is some electrical something making these nodules consistently split.

I'll be curious about it, but I think that climate change may slow more from lower cost land surface batteries than these electrolysis water splitting batteries and associated ecosystems. Aka I won't hold my breath... ba dum tsss

Tldr; other papers simplify muscles to the molecular level. This one explores how it acts as an engine in various contexts: human neuron contraction, insect hydraulic contraction, and shape of the whole fiber throughout the process.

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Interesting stuff

Well, I'm 2 days late tk the party, but here I am.

I know of several groups that have the best of all worlds for a painful learning cost: apprenticeships. I know that the typical job growth of a apprentice involves doing your tasks, anticipating, then moving to management if you have the propensity toward that. The most intense desk jobs of the accounting world is the "big 4" which have 2 cycles: boom and consolidate/bust.

The boom cycle promotes the technical "senior" to the management position and requires the manager to review the work of the guy who just got promoted to senior. The manager becomes more concerned about roi over time and eventually goes into sales/estimating.

The consolidating cycle is where the fat is cut because it is "up or out" to maintain a pyramid structure. Those who get the boot often manage well (due to the high exposure) and are confident when starting a apprenticship business of their own (have technical and management and client service skills)

This pattern is similar for all apprenticeships I think like plumbers, cement masons, accountants, etc. The work product is well known, the skills are transferable, and correctness are easily observed by others with the skill.

The pain is when a manager takes tips from a "competent manager" as defined in the article who then has subordinates prioritize low roi activities like formatting or making it clean from sawdust before closing a wall up. Soon a roi-focused manager will look over the competent-manager's shoulder and say why is your team slow, and the answer is "they are slower than me (because they are being trained to look pretty) and i am telling them to work fast, maybe I need to tell them that they are low performing" and turnover increases until that manager stops training people as the manager isn't the client.

Aka the farmer who plants the trees will bulldoze the land or not water the trees then bulldoze the dead saplings because it is an efficient use of land.

Not without some simulations of proto human societies with resources scattered. We are far from that level of simulation such that we could place any weight on it.

Successful fossil fuel propaganda given 10+ years to build and a single political cycle across that time to keep it closed before ever being "turned on".

- source happened to my relatives grids a few times, and they got pretty cynical to the "tax" imposed to get nuclear then no nuclear.

There is a principle of governance that "you are taxing too much" is soo easy to build a platform off of that you will be DOA in elections if you manage any government that tries to invest like you say.

Investment restricted to "government responsibility foresight" infrastructure gets enough flac already. It only takes one down turn for the "golden goose" of the investment to be spent on the buddies of who just got into office

Nice connection! I thought i heard of this before!

I have found that MBTI is generally considered pseudoscience and survey nonsense that has small correlation to anything with the preference for "big 5" instead. This definitely decreases the "ah ha!" feeling I had when reading this article.

My understanding of the article is that this is not a giant framework to try and "categorize the world" like MBTI, but is a way to help the people who have difficulty communicating without being deemed "awkward" to think about the neuroscience and the strengths that they can focus on instead.

Maybe Ill look up any studies performed over P & J to see if it is correlated with anything other than "awkward" predictions.

A coping skill for people who are hard of hearing is to dominate a conversation (hear their own voice) then step away before they are found out. Perhaps that coping skill is used in other situations where someone is coping hard about their perceived (in)ability to connect with others.

I can't tell enough from your comment to see if you found any characteristic other than they talked more than you preferred in a conversation.

I think your comment is meant to be silly/funny. I will answer as if you were serious :P

To clarify what I understood from the article:

Autism is independent of cognitive mapping based communication styles, but it definitely makes difficulties in communication more intense especially when all communication styles are lumped into the same bucket. When considering neurotypical people, the way language is processed (left brian vs right brain) is often based on the "default" for the language. Here is an oversimplification of two languages, but the "default" seems to fit:

- American Sign Language is a visual and idea based language that tends to have more "weaver" right brain, "no point" communications. The Grammar focuses on "what and How".

- English is a auditory and command based language that tends to have more "concluder" left brain, "get to the point" communications. The grammar focues on "Who did it and why"

Improv classes increase "creative pathways" in the right brain. Others who are more right brained, may engage in "planning and resource allocation classes" to stimulate language usage in the left brain. Ability to "get to the point" and ability to "creatively improv" are both crucial skills, and by default as we speak english, the average person in class may need more "improv" classes to be successful. (you are an individual and not equal to "average", so this doesn't quite apply to you)

I think the article posits that the cognitive style of autistic people have gotten is a pathology, and within that, there is additional groups of communication style. A well read person doesn't normally devolve into references to culture often unless they are bored and want to make a game of it

The article's perspective partially excuses a person who otherwise would have intense anxiety about communicating because they are not "normal" and are generally considered awkward. The burden of communication is similar to the burden that an "intense introvert" would describe how "i like your company, but only in doses". With the label of weaver, this weaver communicator person could seek friends who think with a similar thinking style opposed to trying and failing and learning helplessness when it comes to friendships. Career wise, this label allows a weaver to pursue a path that doesn't involve sales where making a point and the "constant close" is highly valued.

To people who have intense social anxiety or a neurodivergent pathology where many peers are unable to hold a job. The idea that children/adults with this label can be steered to areas where they can easily excel is a very good thing.