Michael Conterio

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Latching on to the last thing

I am not a politician. There’s lots of reasons for this, but one of them is that that I have a tendency to just believe the last thing that I heard[1]This is apparently a common memory bias known as the “availability bias”. I’m more likely to flip flop on particular Read more…

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By Michael Conterio, 1 yearApril 16, 2021 ago
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Successes

Lots of things I have done have been successes, but I’m rubbish at thinking of them as such. It’s almost a form of imposter syndrome – if I’ve done something, then clearly it can’t have been that hard. I think it’s worse with things that I do regularly, or that Read more…

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By Michael Conterio, 3 yearsApril 9, 2019 ago
A rollercoaster
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In and out of a creative slump

In March this year I performed my science comedy show and it went pretty well. In April I finished writing the first draft of a 1-hour long comedy drama play. In May I attended a weekend musical improv workshop and loved it. And at the very beginning of June I Read more…

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By Michael Conterio, 6 years ago
A laptop with some video editing software open. A lamp is behind the laptop
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Video editing, and other things I’m not so good at (plus bonus lizard)

This weekend I spent some time taking some video footage and some audio recordings of a show some of my friends did, and attempting to mash those together into something resembling a decent video of the song that they performed. I was actually quite happy with how it turned out Read more…

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By Michael Conterio, 6 yearsApril 20, 2016 ago
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