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Aotearoa Daily Kōrero 30/10/2023

Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!

Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!

Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.

So, how’s it going?

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Hope those up north are doing ok with the weather. Windy is showing a big low pressure system sitting on the top of the north island that isn't forecasted to dissipate until the end of the week. Looks like another week of crappy weather yay..
- The falls up here today:
- It was very windy and heavy downpours overnight up here in the Far North. The rain seemed to come in phases, once it eased for a bit, easily went back to sleep. We’re lucky in being down the west side of a ridge, so were more sheltered there. It’s gone lighter now (11:00am), no rain and a lot less windy. Could be we’re currently in the eye of the storm.
  
  It does look like the eye is pretty close to the far north now. Wind is starting to pick up now in Hamilton, but not much rain. My poor plants are all holding on for dear life.
- I love using Windy - but one thing I've noticed is that the Wind Speed predictions consistenly seem to be higher than predicted on Metservice. I'm sure its due to different models etc, but curious to see which of the two lands "closer".
  
  Is that for all the models on Windy? Changing between them can sometimes have pretty big differences that I've seen.
Thought for the day
I saw this interesting article on intellectual humility; but there is a nice section on a single trait is not sufficient to be a good thinker.
My thought for the day is: is it important to you to be a "good thinker".
- I mainly don't want to end up like I've so often seen with older relatives getting stuck in one way of thinking and falling for misinformation easily.
  The world/universe/society/whatever is always going to change whether we like it or not and it's up to us to remain adaptable and work with what we have rather than always pining for the "good old days"
  
  Those older relations I've seen thrive in old age are mainly the ones who kept on being interested in the world, because that interest promotes engagement and learning. Like, using email at 100.
  
  It really commendable that you don't want to fall for the misinformation; some (or a lot) of the "good old days" are imagined / misremembered.
  I see this with my contemporaries as well as the older generation. I think "social" media has a lot to answer for; the volume of misinformation has gone from a trickle in the 80's and 90's when I grew up; to a torrent of; at the low end lies, to the upper end active manipulation of elections.
  Algorithmic information feeds constantly steering people to confirmation bias bubbles is something that seems to be happening more and more.
  I'm an optimist; I especially think that education is the answer to a lot of societies ills. But some days, it is hard to be an optimist.
- Interesting indeed. Article pitches the need to be a good thinker as a generic need, which I think misses the point. The need to be a good thinker is, I think, essential but highly situational - but I expect it's a practised skill, so there's no harm in applying it in 'non essential' areas. Maybe that then runs the risk of overthinking everything. But then maybe I'm overthinking that.
  
  I'm convinced that a lot of overthinking is just practice.
  I mean, so what if I have a plan for the zombie invasion? I also have a plan for a gas explosion in the kitchen, and the one informs the other!
- That is an interesting article thanks! I think it's right, but also there's an aspect of humility that the author doesn't really touch on, and that's people who are quite disenfranchised. It's not so much "whatever, man" as "I am probably wrong because I am dumb/people like me don't know things like that/can't do that".
  I used to see it a fair bit in nontraditional students. So, I'd suggest another fundamental component that has to be nurtured sometimes is sapere aude ("dare to know"). Having the courage to not only accept humility, but to try for more knowledge anyway.
  
  Nicely put

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