RCortex

Do you have any recommendations for books for managers written by managers? The last book I skimmed on this topic was "The Alliance," by some people at linkedIn. According to one of the reviews on amazon it mainly just talks about industry-wide blacklists for employees if they leave their jobs for a better one.

$160...for wireless earbuds + mic. I mean I have the money to throw away but...why. They look ok, kinda odd, but not like call center headsets at least.

You could buy a DS for that much right? That's about how much the ps2 slim costed back in the day.

It's not a matter of abnormal vs normal, it's a matter of dysfunctional versus functional in various situations. It's also a matter of the brain itself inhibiting healthy functioning of the entire body (in the case of depression and similar illnesses) The mind is the body, most especially the brain.

> There are so many forms, expressions, and causes of depression, requiring wildly different approaches to treatment, that I think we do a great disservice by lumping them all under the same umbrella term.

While individuals with mental illnesses often have unique/situational characteristics, there are common causes and symptoms of such illnesses, hence our ability to categorize illnesses by name. Because the causes and symptoms are similar, medical professionals and therapists can prescribe appropriate cognitive, pharmaceutical, and other treatment plans.

Telling yourself your depression is unique just feeds into the idea that it's unsolvable and that depression is rational...

The treatment/theraputic perspective is that depression is a treatable disease of the brain, one that can be modified by changes in behavior/thinking and/or by medication.

(Note: the paper paints a mixed picture but concludes with the generally-accepted scientific model that depressive realism is rarely accurate)

...It's strange how I've been seeing more and more about how Depression is somehow "Rational" lately. That kind of thinking reinforces depression, and is part of the core of the illness. Also this meta-study doesn't assess whether depressed individuals also overestimate helplessness. (One of the studies in the paper only tests if they underestimate control in an experiment, which might sound like the same thing at first blush but it isn't) Broken clock is right twice, poorly-designed studies, and all that...

> though, it is easier to believe that the system works as intended and people want to trust that it works as intended. I don't think America is truly authoritarian as much as it is too lazy to pay attention until either the guns are...

I wonder if people just don't know how to make a difference. I wonder what would happen if schools taught activism as part of social studies. The idea itself is absolutely hilarious. A lot needs to be taught in social studies, like just getting kids to get along adequately

"This is far too valuable to limit to sick people"

Not a word about the major negative side effects including panic attacks, seizures, and death, or how some members of the population are at far greater risk of experiencing these side effects for reasons we do not yet know or fully understand.

Sure, if it helps someone near death why not, but I don't like the rosy picture this article portrays.

Oh you, not every top universities has to play by those rules.

GMOs are one answer, there are numerous others that don't destroy farmland so effectively (intercropping, aeroponics, ocean farms, to name a few) or put farmers under the gun of chemical companies.

> buddhism...precisely rejected the vedas

It's a lot more complicated than that...

Please post a source or more of an explanation before spreading FUD like this...