Stark Reality - Todd I. Stark

Glad to hear you've got such a bounty of great...

2011-07-21T23:44:10.858-04:00

Glad to hear you've got such a bounty of great books! Thanks very much for stopping by.

This was one of the books, that maybe last year I ...

2011-07-21T01:34:36.662-04:00

This was one of the books, that maybe last year I would have loved. This year though, I've read so many grat books that I loved, this one was just average.
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Thanks for your comment.

2011-07-16T11:15:03.142-04:00

Thanks for your comment.

I really like your post

2011-07-14T00:58:00.576-04:00

I really like your post

Thanks very much for your comments, Amir. I value...

2011-06-06T00:36:46.233-04:00

Thanks very much for your comments, Amir. I value your experience and your expert opinion.

Todd

excellent review! great point. intermittent fastin...

2011-06-06T00:14:26.778-04:00

excellent review! great point. intermittent fasting is a great method - i do an 18 hour fast the day after my cheat day - being a large man who works out 8 hours per week - the alternate day fasting does not work. so im inline with all you've written. spot on.

amir

p.s my caps lock isnt working :)

Thanks for the link, Richie! You're welcome, ...

2011-05-24T15:59:06.110-04:00

Thanks for the link, Richie!

You're welcome, T.J., thanks for your useful instructional.

Todd

Following Stephan's comment I looked up Erik P...

2011-05-24T13:55:15.236-04:00

Following Stephan's comment I looked up Erik Paulsons wall drill on youtube http://youtu.be/Om7w58UnX6A great video, great clip, great instructor - cheers Stephan, nice blog Todd.

Honoured to be referenced here Todd. Thank you.

2011-05-24T12:14:30.353-04:00

Honoured to be referenced here Todd. Thank you.

Yak: Thank you!

2011-04-11T11:14:04.340-04:00

Yak: Thank you!

Hi todd, great post,i liked the monkey doing defen...

2011-04-11T10:33:33.751-04:00

Hi todd,
great post,i liked the monkey doing defense move great comparation!!!

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Thanks for your comments Kevin, and I apologize fo...

2011-03-08T17:41:05.922-05:00

Thanks for your comments Kevin, and I apologize for taking so long to publish your comment! The comment notification must have gone into my spam filter.

Todd, your final paragraph summarizes my thoughts ...

2011-01-13T14:34:18.108-05:00

Todd, your final paragraph summarizes my thoughts on the book. There are some ideas I value and am now developing into writings of my own. Specifically, Shenk mentions, almost in passing, that hope, humility, and determination characterize the an environment in which capacity can increase. While not a major focus beyond that statement (why not a chapter devoted to each?), this insight should

Thanks, Carol!

2010-11-24T01:23:15.286-05:00

Thanks, Carol!

I think he's onto something. I much prefer to...

2010-11-24T00:26:41.947-05:00

I think he's onto something. I much prefer to read on the screen - my thinking is much less scattered (less ADD). However, I hate Kindles because they lack a back light and their screens are too small - I like the interface of a netbook more also.

Hi Todd, No hurt feelings here. Water under the b...

2010-08-26T23:21:36.731-04:00

Hi Todd,

No hurt feelings here. Water under the bridge. It was all my fault for not being more clear in how I phrased my emails. I am more than grateful you took the time to blog this and let's see what the future brings. in terms of news...

and nice pest....i rather like that ! better

Dan, Thanks for the re-write and the additional i...

2010-08-20T11:33:41.824-04:00

Dan,

Thanks for the re-write and the additional information.

You're right, your re-write would have been a better article more in line with the way I would want to have responded if I hadn't felt pressured at the time.

You are a pest, from my perspective, but a relatively nice one and there are much worse things a person could be than a nice pest.

Todd, I guess I deserve the tongue-lashing above, ...

2010-08-20T04:38:20.814-04:00

Todd, I guess I deserve the tongue-lashing above, but what some people call pestering others call enthousisma. Still, it's your blog and I accept the way you have characterized my pestering. Makes me look like a rather vile person who just wants to get his name in the papers, or in this case, the blogosphere, and I often get this from people who don't know me and find my pestering an

Thanks very much for your comments, Dan. I real...

2010-06-21T17:08:23.807-04:00

Thanks very much for your comments, Dan.

I really appreciate your frustration, I found that a lot of smart people seemed to be dismissing Carr out of hand even without reading his book. Now I don't agree with his most pessimistic message, that the different ways of using attention tend to destroy each other because the brain is permanently reshaped by particular media use. But

This is a very important essay, both Carr and Pink...

2010-06-20T03:08:55.957-04:00

This is a very important essay, both Carr and Pinker and Mangen and Dr Wolf. But Todd, I hope you can blog or interview me on my ideas here below:

It is my hunch that reading
on screens is not "reading" per se, but a new form of human reading,
and I call it "screening" for now until a better word comes down the
line, and it will, someday. Soon. I have

Thank you very much.

2010-05-29T02:38:51.945-04:00

Thank you very much.

Good blogpost!

2010-05-28T17:41:03.564-04:00

Good blogpost!

Thanks, Kathy! I think the trick is to know wha...

2009-12-29T23:26:47.160-05:00

Thanks, Kathy!

I think the trick is to know what groups are good at and where they go astray, and under what conditions.

For example there's a good post at PsyBlog about brainstorming that explores the reason why brainstorming doesn't work very well in general. It turns out that individuals are much better at generating ideas, while groups are particularly good at

Thanks so much for this post, Todd. Yes, yes, yes....

2009-12-29T22:59:16.342-05:00

Thanks so much for this post, Todd. Yes, yes, yes.

@Coert -- when I saw Surowiecki speak about his book, he began by stating that while ANTS become smarter as more of them work together, humans become... dumber. And I think he actually does an excellent job of explaining in his book the precise constraints under which the crowd *is* smart -- nearly always as a result of aggregated

I agree Coert, expertise is both undervalued and o...

2009-12-24T23:52:45.717-05:00

I agree Coert, expertise is both undervalued and overvalued. Although we understand somewhat what it takes to be an expert chess player, we haven't really focused on distinguishing which domains are enough like chess to generallize the findings. Taleb makes the interesting distinction that fields where meaningful surprises occur and make prediction unreliable don't have true experts in