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Namaskar Readers!
Reading is an essential skill that plays a crucial role in our lives. It involves interpreting written or printed words to understand the meaning and message conveyed by the writer. Here are a few reasons why spending a few hours each day reading is beneficial for everyone:
Builds empathy: Reading can help build empathy and understanding of different people and cultures. This can lead to a more tolerant and compassionate view of the world. Most importantly, reading helps us think rationally.
Enhances knowledge: Reading helps us gain knowledge about various topicand expands our horizons and deepens our understanding of the world around us.
Enhances cognitive function: Reading is a great exercise for the brain. It helps improve cognitive function, including memory, concentration, and analytical skills.
Fosters creativity and imagination: Reading helps stimulate our imagination and creativity. It can help us see the world from a different perspective and inspire us to create new ideas and solutions. Immensely helps us build better product.
Reduces stress: Reading is an excellent way to relax and reduce stress. It can help to calm our minds and improve our overall well-being.
In my personal opinion, reading is an essential skill. We should dedicate atlest 60 minutes daily to enhancing our knowledge. Enjoy this week's curated reads and drop your feedback in the comments.
Enjoy this weeks curated read.
Mayur Chaudhary, Founder RethinkingUX
💎 Handpicked Curated reads - Week of 5th March 2023Stop using your phone number to log in
The number problem - In the age of the smartphone, however, phone number recycling is a major privacy and security problem. Many of us keep huge parts of our lives in our phones and the apps on them. Some of those apps, like WhatsApp, require our phone numbers to register for accounts. Or we use our phone number as a security measure. But phone numbers were never intended to perform these functions. A must read…
Banning Noncompetes Is Good for Innovation
Noncompetes help no one except dying companies — those who can’t compete to hire the best talent and can’t survive in the innovation marketplace. Noncompetes have a harmful effect on talent mobility, entrepreneurship, and equality. They restrict employees from switching employers or starting their own competing business. California and Massachusetts present a paradigmatic natural experiment on the effects of noncompetes. Massachusetts has long enforced noncompetes — and only recently in 2018 passed a law limiting their use, based on the mounting economic research about their harms. California has always deemed noncompetes void. Read the full story…
Holistic Design means You Fly High above the Users’ World
In user experience, designers try to work with a better grasp of all the human dimensions that are involved between users and a particular design. They can explore the various angles more realistically than they would if they focused only on catering to a few aspects of what the users experiences. From there, designers can examine the intricate dynamics in users’ different environments to get a better idea of the balance they need to achieve in their design. Read this wonderful read….
👨💻 Brilliant read contributed by Pranjal Choudhary at RethinkingUX Slack channel.
Talking AI with AI
AI and the massive positive impact I believe it’s going to have on all facets of society. ChatGPT is not human and not conscious. It does not reason like we reason, but there are interesting parallels between how it works and we work, since it is trained on a huge amount of human data from the internet. ChatGPT was just a research release – but it captured both the public’s and the news media’s attention because it presents such a good focal lens into the future. Listen to the podcast…
Google's New Tech Can Read Your Body Language—Without Cameras
WHAT IF YOUR computer decided not to blare out a notification jingle because it noticed you weren't sitting at your desk? What if your TV saw you leave the couch to answer the front door and paused Netflix automatically, then resumed playback when you sat back down? What if our computers took more social cues from our movements and learned to be more considerate companions? Read more about tech innovations…
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