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====== 2021-07-01 ======

===== Heap: =====
Came across this inconsistency in my attempt to refactor my_each_with_index

<code>
def my_each_with_index
    index = 0
    # self.my_each {|item| yield item, index and index += 1}
    # ^^^ look into why this doesn't work
    # 
    self.my_each do |item|
        yield item, index
        index += 1
    end
end
</code>

[[https://drossbucket.com/2021/06/30/hacker-news-folk-wisdom-on-visual-programming/|Hacker News fold wisdom on visual programming]]
==== Book: Deep Work ====
The importance and reverence of Deep Work in this book was actually humbling. I haven't produced much deep work since College. The closest I come is sitting down and working on code or my prior plannings with a fermentation business. Both allow research to be done and writing or content to be produced. This was more an abstract way of framing Deep Work as what is most enjoyable and highest order on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs (self actualization), while also explaining the daily dredge we normally deal with. Some of the methodology seems sound enough, I've heard it elsewhere, but it has been captured in a unique way here. Instead of focusing on just a generalized 'better you' the focus is on better 'best you'. Focus work can be a super power in the modern world.

=== Rules ===
  - Work Deeply
  - Embrace Boredom
  - Quite Social Media
  - Drain the Shallows

==== Book: Futureproof ====
Read this book in a couple of days, rented form the library using Libby. Mostly on humanizing your life in order to out compete AI. A lot of different jobs are going to majorly change over the coming years as new tools are created in order to increase profits and effective work per employee. Gig economies are the mechanical turk of a hopeful community who would rather see the whole thing automated and become a money printing machine.

=== Rules ===
  - "Be Surprising, Social, and Scarce"
  - Resist Machine Drift
  - Demote Your Devices
  - Leave Handprints
  - Don't Be an Endpoint
  - Treat AI Like a Chimp Army
  - Build Big Nets and Small Webs
  - Learn Machine-Age Humanities
  - Arm The Rebels

=== Reading List ===
  * Artificial Unintelligence by Meridith Broussard (2018)
  * The Second Machine Age by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee (2014)
  * Humans Are Underrated by Geoff Colvin (2015)
  * Human + Machine by Paul R. Daugherty and H. James Wilson (2018)
  * Mind over Machine by Hubert L. Dreyfus and Stuart E. Dreyfus (1985)
  * Rise of the Robots by Martin Ford (2015)
  * The Technology Trap by Carl Benedikt Frey (2019)
  * AI Superpowers by Kai-Fu Lee (2018)
  * Machines of Loving Grace by John Markoff (2015)
  * Forces of Production by David F. Noble (1984)
  * Technopoly by Neil Postman (1992)
  * How to Break Up with Your Phone by Catherine Price (2018)
  * Inside the Robot Kingdom by Frederik L. Schodt (1988)
  * You Look Like a Thing and I Love You by Janell Shane (2019)
  * Future Shock by Alvin Toffler (1970)
  * The Human Use of Human Beings by Norbert Wiener (1950)
  * In the Age of the Smart Machine by Shoshana Zuboff (1988)