Mind Hacks
by Tom Stafford, Matt Webb · first published 2004
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Music for airports was recommended in one of the Oreilly Mind Hacks books (which i don't hvae in front of me) http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596007799/ http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596101534/
The Now Habit - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Now-Habit-Overcoming-Procrastination... Mind Hacks: Tips and Tricks for Using Your Brain - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mind-Hacks-Tricks-Using-Brain/dp/059... Mind Performance Hacks: Tips & Tools for Overclocking Your Brain - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mind-Performance-Hacks-Tools-Overclo...
on “Ask HN: which are some good self-help books?” ↗This reminds me of a book I read a few years ago - Mind Hacks [1]. It discussed all kinds of interesting mechanisms that our brains use to fool us into thinking that we are always aware of our environment. In the eye chapter, there was an interesting side-effect…
on “What everyone should know about the human eye” ↗+1 for "Being Geek" - great read. Anyone read either "Mind Hacks" or "Performance Mind Hacks?" Wondering if they're interesting/useful.
on “O'Reilly "Geek Culture" ebooks 50 percent off” ↗Our brains are hard-wired to assume light comes from above, and 3D "pop out" from shading even means we can identify the shapes faster. More info and references in this section from Mind Hacks (I was a co-author): #20 Fool Yourself into Seeing 3D -https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=K6bjvFUcedgC&pg=PA57&dq=... (It briefly mentions Susan Kare's work who designed the first 3D buttons in Windows…
on “Hacker95.css – Make Hacker News look like Windows 95” ↗…it right now, just by holding out your own arm, and deciding at some point to flex your wrist—you’ll become aware that it’s difficult to pinpoint the moment at which you make the decision. One book, Mind Hacks, iirc tangentially described that and experimented on a reader’s consciousness. The core idea was that a brain (mind) is not an instantly accessible state, but a continuous process of collecting all reactions…
on “The Libet experiment doesn't disprove free will (2019)” ↗