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4 July 2022
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The Early Chinese Empires: Han and QinTheir words
Mark Edward Lewis' The Early Chinese Empires: Han and Qin is probably the best companion piece to your Sima Qian readings
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Early China: A Social and Cultural HistoryTheir words
Feng Li's Early China: A Social and Cultural History is a staid yet serviceable overview of the pre-imperial period.
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Medieval Chinese Warfare, 300-900Their words
David Graff's Medieval Chinese Warfare, 300-900 is actually a political-institutional history of China from 200 AD-1000 AD, and is probably the best political narrative history we have for the time period.
30 June 2022
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They weren't infallible oracles, but they weren't blindly casting about either.
From one piece Why On-Call Pain Is A Sociotechnical Problem 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I generally come down on the side of ‘no, it’s part of the job,’ just like it is for doctors.
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The ideal on-call rotation has seven to eight people; five people is a bare minimum.
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It’s reasonable to be woken up two to three times a year when on call. But more than that is not okay.
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A permanently painful on-call rotation is a five-alarm emergency, not a normal cost of owning code in production.Their words
Being on call should not be a constant cycle of things breaking down and firefighting, or alerts going off at all hours. This is not ‘normal.’ These are telltale signs of a fragile system and lack of alert discipline.
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Engineers should own their code in production, and it is management’s job to make sure that on-call does not suck.Their words
It is engineering’s job to own their code in production. It is management’s job to make sure it doesn’t suck.
28 June 2022
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Infinite JestTheir words
It's incredibly written, deeply complex, confusing as hell, and you'll probably throw it at the wall when it's done. But then you'll kinda go "okay... I'm glad I did that" and maybe start it again.
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End the FedTheir words
It's a book by a politician, about what you expect. Some interesting tid bits on the history of the Fed but you could get it from Wikipedia.
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Awaken the Giant WithinTheir words
This 1992 book changed everything about my life. It’s my Bible. Most of my beliefs come from it. I read it many times at a formative age, but re-read it now 30 years later, taking notes. It’s not a perfect book. It’s too verbose and full of expired American references. But its core messages are the wisest, most effective life philosophy I’ve ever encountered. You choose how you feel. Your emoti…
20 June 2022
From one piece Writing one sentence per line 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Weak openings like “I think” should be cut, and a sentence started on its subject and verb.Their words
Chop the weak beginnings, like “I think” and “Whether or not”. Start with powerful subjects and verbs.
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Delete any sentence not worthy of its own line.
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Writing one sentence per line, for your own eyes, improves prose more than any other habit.Their words
I've been doing it for twenty years, and it improved my writing more than anything else.
18 June 2022
17 June 2022
From one piece Post 49: Things That Make Me Enjoy Giving Career Advice 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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In any mentoring conversation, only a small fraction of what's discussed turns out to be highly valuable.Their words
in general, I expect 90% of a mentoring chat to be kinda useless, and 10% to be particularly high value.
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In particular, most EA careers and most careers to do with AI are competitive as fuck.
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often the best way to maximise your impact is by pursuing high-risk, high-reward strategies
16 June 2022
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Somebody with trauma should try a trauma-focused therapy such as EMDR before treating their nightmares directly.Their words
I would recommend that anyone who thinks they're suffering from trauma (eg PTSD) try a trauma-focused therapy like EMDR before trying to address nightmares directly, unless the nightmares are overwhelmingly worse than all their other trauma symptoms.
15 June 2022
From one piece Post 48: Prioritise Tasks by Rating not Sorting 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Having any ordering to follow, even an arbitrary one, helps overcome indecision about where to start workTheir words
There's a surprising amount of value in having any order at all (even an arbitrary one like first-come-first-served!) to break past indecisiveness about where to start.
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In prioritizing a list of tasks, the closest calls matter least while getting the very top item right matters mostTheir words
In hindsight, the hardest comparisons are in fact the least useful - if I do the fourth most important task before the third most important, that's no big deal, but doing the tenth before the first is a screw-up!
14 June 2022
10 June 2022
From one piece AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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A strategically aware intelligence can choose its visible outputs to have the consequence of deceiving you, including about such matters as whether the intelligence has acquired strategic awareness
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We’ve got no idea what’s actually going on inside the giant inscrutable matrices and tensors of floating-point numbers.
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The best and easiest-found-by-optimization algorithms for solving problems we want an AI to solve, readily generalize to problems we’d rather the AI not solve; you can’t build a system that only has the capability to drive red cars and not blue cars, because all red-car-driving algorithms generalize to the capability to drive blue cars.
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unaligned operation at a dangerous level of intelligence kills everybody on Earth and then we don’t get to try again.
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2 years after the leading actor has the capability to destroy the world, 5 other actors will have the capability to destroy the world.
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The Pigeon TunnelTheir words
The rest of the book is great, do buy it!
9 June 2022
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The Sense of StyleTheir words
Overall, I'm still firmly on team Strunk and White. But this was a pretty damned entertaining grammar book.
6 June 2022
From one piece In Defense of OpenStreetMap's Data Model 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The problem with talking to the customer for anything you are making is that you might be wrong.
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With each rule and added complexity you make the system less human and less fun. You make it a Computer Scientists rube goldberg machine while sterilizing it of all the joy of life.
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How the World Really WorksTheir words
But I highly recommend reading him on the subject because he is so good at explaining how the world’s energy systems work today.
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The Lincoln HighwayTheir words
Once again, I was wowed by Towles’s writing—especially because The Lincoln Highway is so different from A Gentleman in Moscow in terms of setting, plot, and themes.
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The Ministry for the FutureTheir words
The Ministry for the Future does a better job than any other book I’ve read of playing out, in a dramatic but realistic way, how high temperatures can literally kill people.
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Why We’re PolarizedTheir words
In his terrific book Why We’re Polarized, Ezra Klein argues that identity is the answer to the question suggested by his title.
3 June 2022
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Tyler Cowen will often praise a book by saying it is interesting on every page. Together with Daniel Gross, he has written a book that very much matches this description.
2 June 2022
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Influence: The Psychology of PersuasionTheir words
This is my list of the 10 best nonfiction books. These are the pillar books that have helped shape my thinking and approach to life. In my opinion, these are 10 nonfiction books everyone should read.
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MeditationsTheir words
This is my list of the 10 best nonfiction books. These are the pillar books that have helped shape my thinking and approach to life. In my opinion, these are 10 nonfiction books everyone should read.
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A Brief History of TimeTheir words
This is my list of the 10 best nonfiction books. These are the pillar books that have helped shape my thinking and approach to life. In my opinion, these are 10 nonfiction books everyone should read.
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The War of Art: Break Through Your Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative BattlesTheir words
This is my list of the 10 best nonfiction books. These are the pillar books that have helped shape my thinking and approach to life. In my opinion, these are 10 nonfiction books everyone should read.
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This is WaterTheir words
This is my list of the 10 best nonfiction books. These are the pillar books that have helped shape my thinking and approach to life. In my opinion, these are 10 nonfiction books everyone should read.
1 June 2022
From one piece Fiscal Policy under Low Interest Rates 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Real interest rates have steadily declined in all major economies for more than three decades. This decline was not caused by the Global Financial Crisis or the Covid crisis.
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There is no tight relation between growth rates and interest rates, either theoretically or empirically.Their words
while the growth rate may well affect saving and investment, there is no tight relation between growth rates and interest rates, either on theoretical or empirical grounds.
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A low r is actually a signal that something is wrong with the economy: In effect, if we think of the safe rate as the risk-adjusted rate of return on capital, the low safe rate is sending the signal that, risk adjusted, the return on capital is low.
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Low interest rates reflect underlying fundamental economic factors rather than central bank policy choices.Their words
In other words, central banks are not to blame for low rates: these low rates just reflect underlying fundamental factors.
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The main challenge in discussing fiscal policy is the widely held and nearly religious belief that public debt is very bad.
31 May 2022
30 May 2022
From one piece Jungle VIP 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Experiencing a wild animal on its own terms creates a real connection that seeing the same animal in a zoo cannot.Their words
Being on the orangutans schedule and at his convenience vs. going to the zoo is something like love vs. prostitution.
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Making a change within a complex system tends to produce unforeseen and unintended consequences.Their words
I'm reminded I'm in a huge dynamical system and making a change has unforeseen and unintended consequences.
29 May 2022
From one piece Science is political - and that's a bad thing 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I’ve noticed that, instead of treating them like other kinds of conflicts—where you put your hands up and admit to them but then do your best to make sure they don’t influence your science—scientists sometimes revel in political conflicts.
Science is political - and that's a bad thingsciencefictions.org
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And that’s because, whereas this scientist is right that conflicts of interest of some kind are probably inevitable, conflicts are a bad thing.
Science is political - and that's a bad thingsciencefictions.org
28 May 2022
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Edge BrowserTheir words
Modern browser with split-screen functionality. Helps organize different work contexts more efficiently. Yeah I know, I know. It's a Microsoft product.
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FigmaTheir words
I'm using Figma as just a design tool but now it's become our virtual whiteboard for the entire company. Never would have expected the collaboration features to be the real hook.
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CanvaTheir words
Tool for quickly creating simple graphics, presentation slides, and other visual content. Very useful for everyday graphic needs.
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Lucide IconsTheir words
Collection of open-source icons for use in web and mobile applications. Provides a wide range of icons for various use cases.
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TailscaleTheir words
Tailscale is a zero config VPN for building secure networks. I'm using this for connecting all my devices.
26 May 2022
25 May 2022
From one piece Do You Learn More by Struggling on Hard Problems? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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For starters, it’s abundantly clear that both practice and instruction are necessary for effective learning.
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Pure discovery learning, where students are never shown instructions or examples, fails miserably.
24 May 2022
23 May 2022
From one piece Major Version Numbers are Not Sacred 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I actually prefer more frequent major versions with smaller sets of breaking changes. There is a real danger in saving up all your significant changes and releasing them in one whopping major version once a year.
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If we want to live in a world where SemVer improves our collective experience as much as possible, it means we need to believe something new: Major version numbers are not sacred.
22 May 2022
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An Elegant PuzzleTheir words
I read this book because I read Will Larson's blog and newsletter and they're frequent sources of management insight. This book reads like a collection of blog posts with smooth transitions.
17 May 2022
From one piece Professional Programming: The First 10 Years 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Dependencies aren't free. You have to keep them up to date. They increase your compile or loading times.
Professional Programming: The First 10 Yearsthorstenball.com
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Code has mass. Every additional line of code you don't need is ballast. It weighs your codebase down, making it harder to steer and change direction if you need to.
Professional Programming: The First 10 Yearsthorstenball.com
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Everything is the result of trade-offs. You will never reach 100% on every axis that you care about. Something has to give.
Professional Programming: The First 10 Yearsthorstenball.com
13 May 2022
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Snow CrashTheir words
I stuck it out to the end for a deus ex machina and that was some bullshit. This book would have been a perfect short story about pizza delivery.
11 May 2022
From one piece Is There a Housing Shortage or Not? 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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There’s a reasonable amount of evidence that housing prices tend to adjust to match regional incomes.
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The more restrictions on land use, the higher rents you see.
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If there’s one thing to take away from this essay, it's that you can’t infer a housing shortage by looking at housing construction rates in isolation.
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So, historical evidence suggests that the US is short at least several million housing units.
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There is essentially zero correlation - the metros with the largest rent increases had added population / added housing ratios no different than metros with smaller rent increases.
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BreathTheir words
Anyway, the book has compelling parts, but hurts its own arguments with sloppy pseudo-science.
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Climate change is the existential crisis of our timeTheir words
Climate change is the existential crisis of our time. We need more ideas and progress in every sector, including software-based approaches to preventing emissions and sequestering carbon.
6 April 2022
From one piece In defense of simple architectures 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The cost of our engineering team completely dominates the cost of the systems we operate
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Despite the unreasonable effectiveness of simple architectures, most press goes to complex architectures.
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computers are fast enough that high-traffic apps can be served with simple architectures, which can generally be created more cheaply and easily than complex architectures
4 April 2022
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When you take venture funding, you sign up for a rocket ship ride that will either take you to the moon or to crash-land painfully back on earth. Those are the only two choices. And both rides tend to require heavy extraction of value from the customer.
Announcing RedwoodJS 1.0 and $1M Fundingtom.preston-werner.com
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22 March 2022
From one piece The Electric Car's Shrinking Role in Reducing Oil Demand 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Electrifying high-mileage vehicles — trucks and vans — cuts oil demand more than electrifying private cars does.Their words
Trucks, vans, and other high mileage vehicles promise to impact oil demand more than EVs.
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Oil demand will fall mainly because petrol cars get driven less, not because they are replaced by electric ones.Their words
Falling consumer oil demand looks much more like driving the Camry 6000 miles per year instead of 12,000 miles rather than a shiny new electric car in every garage or robot taxis swarming everywhere.
19 March 2022
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Moonwalking with EinsteinTheir words
The book Moonwalking with Einstein explores humans' relationship to memory, our ideas of knowledge, and how that's shifted over time. But it begins with an exploration of competitive memorization and the techniques used by memory champions.
18 March 2022
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How science works can be reasoned about in advance, because the activity has invariants that do not change over time.Their words
If we know the invariants of the problem at hand we can make assertions about the best way to solve that problem now and in the future.
From one piece How to pay professional maintainers 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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$1,000/month without benefits is a nice way to show appreciation, but won’t achieve any other goals.
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Governance is a delicate and complex topic, and you want to leave it as orthogonal as possible to funding.
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Finally, the health of the project depends on issue triage, bug fixes, refactors, and design work more than on new features. In fact, new features increase the maintenance burden.
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I often read advice along the lines of “if you want to help a project send PRs” and I never understood it. Reviewing and iterating or pushing back on PRs is work! Often more than writing the code itself.
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From one piece Widespread misperceptions of long-term attitude change (with 1 co-authors) 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Imaginary trends could thus spuriously shape people's real beliefs and behaviors.
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Overall, our findings suggest that widely shared stereotypes of the past lead people to misperceive attitude change, and these misperceptions can lend legitimacy to policies that people may not actually prefer.
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Our findings suggest that the national discourse around contentious social issues, policies resulting from that discourse, and perhaps the opinions that drive discourse in the first place would be very different if people better understood how attitudes have and have not changed.
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These misperceptions may bedevil people's efforts to understand and change their social worlds, distort the democratic process, and turn imaginary trends into real ones.
6 March 2022
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From one piece Training language models to follow instructions with human feedback (with 19 co-authors) 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The next-token language modeling objective is misaligned with following user instructions helpfully and safely.Their words
This is because the language modeling objective used for many recent large LMs-predicting the next token on a webpage from the internet-is different from the objective "follow the user's instructions helpfully and safely" (Radford et al.,, 2019; Brown et al.,, 2020; Fedus et al.,, 2021; Rae et al.,, 2021; Thoppilan et al.,, 2022). Thus, we say that the language modeling objective is misaligned.
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Fine-tuning with human feedback is a promising direction for aligning language models with human intent.Their words
Even though InstructGPT still makes simple mistakes, our results show that fine-tuning with human feedback is a promising direction for aligning language models with human intent.
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For example, large language models can generate outputs that are untruthful, toxic, or simply not helpful to the user. In other words, these models are not aligned with their users.
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Making language models bigger does not inherently make them better at following a user's intent.
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The LoopTheir words
Science journalist Jacob Ward warns about a future in which AI technology forms a tight cybernetic feedback loop with the biases ingrained into the human brain, pushing our day-to-day existence in frightening directions. It's sort of like a version of The Terminator in which Danny Kahneman plays a starring role. As longtime readers and listeners of mine know, a big theme in my techno-criticism is the under-appreciated degree to which technologies exert powerful, unintended consequences on our personhood and culture, so Ward's warning hits a sweet spot with me.
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Of Mice and MenTheir words
Steinbeck deploys a standard third person omniscient narrative style that avoids all the flash of the modernists, and then postmodernists, that soon after took over the literary scene. But in his hands, it's enough. I still think about the ending.
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Cathedral of the WildTheir words
I picked up this book after hearing Varty's recent appearance on Tim Ferriss's podcast and I wasn't disappointed.
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The Devil's TeethTheir words
I'm a big fan of Susan Casey, who has perfected a style of nature journalism that's built around a narrative of personal adventures. (I recommend you start with The Devil's Teeth.)
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Living with a SEALTheir words
The book was light and fun, but it makes a lot more sense if, like me, you first read Goggin's mega-bestselling memoir, Can't Hurt Me.
2 March 2022
From one piece Write plain text files 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Storing your own writing in a company's proprietary format is a mistake, because you will outlive the company.Their words
You will outlive these companies. Your writing should outlive you. Depending on companies is not an option.
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That's why I only use plain text files. They are the most reliable, flexible, and long-lasting option.
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One of the reasons I've never cared for crypto currencies is that the associated utopia of trustless society had zero appeal to me. I don't think the world is better off by erasing the need to trust in our transactional counterparts, so turning these transactions into pure computing always struck me as a regression.
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But wherever this leads us next, it's clear to me now that I was too hasty to completely dismiss crypto on the basis of all the things wrong with it at the moment. Instead of appreciating the fundamental freedom to transact that it's currently our best shot at protecting.
20 February 2022
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These ideas can be disturbing and off-putting, but I think there is also a strong case for them, for those who wish their ethics to be principled and focused on the interests of others.
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It appears that the evidence for all of these beliefs is much weaker than sleep scientists and public health experts want us to believe.
9 February 2022
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From one piece in which five different paths lead to methods 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Relying on metatables for method lookup tends to produce surprising, unpredictable behavior.Their words
This is a common problem with using metatables; they can lead to surprising, unpredictable behavior.
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But I do want to stress that each of these five approaches are all just trade-offs, and none of them are universally wrong.
4 February 2022
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From one piece Future-proof ethics 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Combining these three pillars yields a number of unusual, even uncomfortable views about ethics. I feel this discomfort and don't unreservedly endorse this approach to ethics.
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Indeed, I think some of the best opportunities to do good in the world come from working on issues that aren't yet widely recognized as huge moral issues of our time.
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Ethics based on common sense and the conventions of the time has a horrible track record.Their words
Ethics based on "common sense" seems to have a horrible track record.
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Garmin inReach Mini 2Their words
I own an inReach Mini, used it for several years, and have no intention of upgrading to the Mini 2 because I don't see $400 of value in these improvements (or even $250, if I was able to sell my used Mini for $150).
31 January 2022
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From one piece Collections: Rome: Decline and Fall? Part II: Institutions 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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the system of social organization that characterized the ancient world practically vanished and would have to be redeveloped centuries later.
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Of course that assumes a loss of state capacity, but as we’re going to see, the evidence for that loss is actually quite ample.
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But whereas other Roman institutions didn’t survive the collapse of Roman political authority, the Church as an institution very much did.
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Precisely because the late Roman system was so top-heavy and centralized, the collapse of central Roman rule mortally wounded it and left the successor states of Rome with much more limited resources and administration to try to achieve their aims.
From one piece Bjorn’s Corner: Sustainable Air Transport. Part 4. Reality checks. 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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These projects have been around for years, yet no one has done this simple math.
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An airliner's empty weight is at least half its take-off weight, and no flying design has ever come in below 47%.Their words
The model output, which uses data from 74 presently flying airliner variants, from short-haul Commuters to long haul Widebodies, made with aluminum or composites, shows that the OEW fraction (OEW divided by MTOW) never go below 47%.
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the electric technology used for cars only has to beat energy hogs that are below 10% in efficiency, our everyday car. But to qualify for aircraft use, the technology has to equal or beat what is used today, which is at the 30% to 40% efficiency level using modern turboprop or turbofan engines.
25 January 2022
From one piece Inside the Mind of A Famous Investor | Marc Andreessen 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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as you age, you just naturally build up all of this all of this sort of psychic scar tissue and you have all these cautionary lessons in your in your head all the time. And you just you and and therefore as a consequence, right? Your your aperture of what you're willing to explore as you get older just shrinks.
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Open access to information makes a closed information regime on the Soviet model fundamentally impossible to sustain.Their words
it's like could you ever have another Soviet Union like in the era of the internet? Um you know North Korea's doing their damndest to try to maintain that model you know but without going full North Korea like I'm not sure you can. I I mean, I guess I'm an optimist on this point. Like I tend to think open access information basically makes a lot of these historical things, you know, fundamentally impossible.
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what we have now is kind of at the at the sort of deepest level what we have is kind of this big fight between people who want to use the internet to basically reinforce top-down power uh, versus people who want to use it to disrupt top-down power.
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And so all of the people who have achieved positions of power and authority in the world based on prior generations of technology are inherently threatened by new technology because new technology will upend the power and status structures and then a new set of people will, you know, come to the foreground and and take the power.
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What what I find generally is if I don't understand something, I I try to read backwards and and and kind of the further back back I read, the more universal things I find. And the more things that I think are kind of remarkable and unique to our era actually turn out to be quite universal.
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From one piece My first impressions of web3 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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web3 is not on a path away from centralised platforms, and its privacy story is already below the internet’s low bar.Their words
I don’t think it’s on a trajectory to deliver us from centralized platforms, I don’t think it will fundamentally change our relationship to technology, and I think the privacy story is already below par for the internet (which is a pretty low bar!), but I also understand why nerds like me are excited to build for it.
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People don’t want to run their own servers, and never will.
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From one piece 2021 letter 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The US focus on efficiency has revealed the brittleness of its economy, which has neither the manufacturing capability to scale up domestic production of goods nor the logistics capacity to handle greater imports.
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Beijing diagnosed the problems with financialization earlier than the US, where the problem is now endemic.
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Beijing deliberately rejects comparative advantage and targets a high level of manufacturing output for its own sake.Their words
The leadership is targeting a high level of manufacturing output, rejecting the notion of comparative advantage.
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It has displayed a stronger record of reform than any other developing country, as the leadership keeps pulling off politically-difficult tasks: shrinking the state sector, re-orienting the economy towards export-led growth after WTO accession, and so on.
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China's cultural and intellectual output to the world is far smaller than its economic weight.Their words
Never has any economy grown so much while producing so few cultural exports.
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Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19Their words
Briefly, I think that this is one of the most important books so far of the twenty-first century.
18 December 2021
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Free software is designed to be used commercially, but you have to do it correctly. This is a resource which is made available to companies who want to exploit it, but they must do so according to the terms of the licenses.
15 December 2021
14 December 2021
13 December 2021
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On changing their mind
I used to think that this was unequivocally a win for open source. That to fight for attention with the commercial alternatives, we had to adopt the commercial playbook. Now I think it’s at the very least a mixed blessing.
11 December 2021
From one piece log4j: between a rock and a hard place 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Software upgrades that invalidate previously learned knowledge make programmers worse at their craft.Their words
When software "upgrades" invalidate my old knowledge, it makes me a worse programmer.
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We as a profession misunderstand and misuse the concept of backwards compatibility, both upstream and downstream, by focusing on narrow legalistic definitions instead of outcomes.
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a good software project tries to break downstream as little as possible, and when we do break downstream, we should do our best to make the breakage obvious and easy to fix.
8 December 2021
5 December 2021
1 December 2021
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A Random Walk Down Wall StreetTheir words
A fine intro to investing if you think you can reliably beat the market or that active trading is a good use of energy. If you're already bought in on index funds though, you won't find much here.
30 November 2021
25 November 2021
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Samsung Galaxy Watch 4Their words
The Galaxy Watch 4 is easily the best smartwatch that Samsung has ever made, and also notably, the first one on Wear OS.
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COROS Pace 2Their words
Arguably the single unit on this entire post with the most bang for the buck, the COROS Pace 2 is a full multisport watch that can do swim/bike/run/triathlon, but even more than that
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Garmin Forerunner 245Their words
While this Garmin watch lacks some of the triathlon features the COROS Pace 2 has, it makes up for it with added running features like PacePro and in the case of the 245 Music, well, music.
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Polar Vantage M2Their words
In some ways, it’s really a disservice to assume that because these are budget options that they’re somehow bad.
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Garmin Fenix 6 ProTheir words
There’s still really no competition here. If you’re looking for the most feature-packed higher-end watch
23 November 2021
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Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be AliveTheir words
That led me to pick up this new book from one of the great science writers of our time, Carl Zimmer, and it did not disappoint.
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The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human ValuesTheir words
I just finished this book a few weeks ago and it is still reverberating in my mind
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The Bomber MafiaTheir words
It’s one of the first truly audio-first books that I’ve encountered, both in the prose style which has clearly been written from the ground up to be heard, not read
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The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of HumanityTheir words
I wouldn’t say that this is the most compelling book I’ve ever read in terms of the prose style or storytelling, but it does provide a very helpful, almost quantitative overview of all the potential threats looming out there
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Trust ExerciseTheir words
But what really makes it brilliant is a kind of meta-fictional twist that happens in the middle of the book
22 November 2021
From one piece The Rising Tide of Semiconductor Cost 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Finally, not just old chips and new chips, but the companies that make the chips (semiconductor fabs) are becoming more consolidated and more strategic.
The Rising Tide of Semiconductor Costfabricatedknowledge.com
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TSMC can pass its rising costs on because at the leading edge its customers have nowhere else to go.Their words
Given the concentration of fabrication power at TSMC, customers really don’t have another option.
The Rising Tide of Semiconductor Costfabricatedknowledge.com
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Chips are getting more expensive mainly because they take more process steps, not because the tools got dearer.Their words
The primary driver is not only the rising costs of tools such as EUV, but the rising number of steps to make a chip.
The Rising Tide of Semiconductor Costfabricatedknowledge.com
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Extra LifeTheir words
Steven Johnson, Extra Life – Johnson explores the astonishing expansion in life expectancy over the last two hundred years, and asks how we measure it and who – and what – deserves the credit. Wide ranging and a pleasure to read.
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A World Without EmailTheir words
Cal Newport, A World Without Email – this is marketed as a self-help book by a self-help guy, but it’s much more than that.
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RationalityTheir words
Steven Pinker, Rationality – the joy of this book (other than Pinker’s playful wit) is the sheer range.
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The Complete Guide to Absolutely EverythingTheir words
Adam Rutherford and Hannah Fry, The Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything – just delightful, wide-ranging stuff from the surely best science-communication double-act in the world. The perfect gift for the nerd in your life.
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Anthro-VisionTheir words
Gillian Tett, Anthro-Vision – my colleague Gillian Tett makes the case for thinking like an anthropologist in business and in life. The description of how KitKats took Japan by storm is a particular delight.
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The Remains of the DayTheir words
I read Remains of the Day years ago and thought it was brilliant.
20 November 2021
19 November 2021
17 November 2021
16 November 2021
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Adding a dependency is a serious decision which requires consensus within the team, an audit of the new dependency, an understanding of its health and long-term prospects, and an ongoing commitment to re-audit them and be prepared to change course as necessary.
I will pay you cash to delete your npm moduledrewdevault.com
9 November 2021
From one piece The Future of E-Bikes 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The e-bike market has no cheap standard model, which is what it would take to make the e-bike a mass product.Their words
E-bikes range in price from $1000 to $10,000. The market is still lacking a Toyota Corolla equivalent.
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A hybrid is a poor machine because it carries two complete powertrains, and most e-bikes repeat the same mistake.Their words
Hybrid-electric cars are an engineering abomination. They have both gas and electric powertrains, ensuring they are more expensive and complicated than their competitors.
7 November 2021
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27 October 2021
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25 October 2021
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Surprisingly, fuel consumption per passenger mile would be lower in a Celera 500 than in a 737. The larger the fuselage, the harder it is to achieve the same drag reduction.
23 October 2021
20 October 2021
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DynamoDBTheir words
I typically recommend looking at serverless native databases like DynamoDB or Fauna however they do not work for all preferences or workloads.
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FaunaTheir words
I typically recommend looking at serverless native databases like DynamoDB or Fauna however they do not work for all preferences or workloads.
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PlanetScaleTheir words
That said, I'd personally pick Planetscale in this situation.
19 October 2021
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I believe this needs to change because, as a former longtermist who published an entire book four years ago in defence of the general idea, I have come to see this worldview as quite possibly the most dangerous secular belief system in the world today.
From one piece Against longtermism 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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For example, there’s a good case to make that the underlying commitments of longtermism are a major reason why humanity faces so many unprecedented risks to its survival in the first place.
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Effective altruism is deeply utilitarian in practice, whatever its members say about not being utilitarians.Their words
The fact is that the EA movement is deeply utilitarian, at least in practice, and indeed, before it decided upon a name, the movement’s early members, including Ord, seriously considered calling it the ‘effective utilitarian community’.
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In a phrase: people exist for the sake of maximising value, rather than value existing for the sake of benefitting people.
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The initial thing to notice is that longtermism, as proposed by Bostrom and Beckstead, is not equivalent to ‘caring about the long term’ or ‘valuing the wellbeing of future generations’.
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The short answer is that elevating the fulfilment of humanity’s supposed potential above all else could nontrivially increase the probability that actual people – those alive today and in the near future – suffer extreme harms, even death.
9 October 2021
From one piece How New Managers Fail Individual Contributors 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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great engineers really shouldn’t need to manage large teams to get promoted, and companies lose out on a critical skillset when they push all of their good engineers into management.
How New Managers Fail Individual Contributorselidedbranches.com
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But it is critical that you step back on the technical decisions to make room for the team members to own things and grow.
How New Managers Fail Individual Contributorselidedbranches.com
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Passing tasks to a team without the context behind them tells them they are the doers and the manager is the decider.Their words
When you don’t give your team the context for the work and just pass on tasks and work items to them, you make it clear that they are simply “doers” and your job is the job of “decider.”
How New Managers Fail Individual Contributorselidedbranches.com
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A manager whose own code finishes every project is adding their value rather than multiplying the team’s.Their words
If it’s your code that gets you over the finish line for every project, you aren’t providing multiplicative value for the team, you’re providing the additive value of your work as an engineer.
How New Managers Fail Individual Contributorselidedbranches.com
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As a manager, your output is not measured by your individual work. Rather, your output is measured by the work of your team and the people that you influence.
How New Managers Fail Individual Contributorselidedbranches.com
8 October 2021
6 October 2021
From one piece Opinion: Manipulating viruses and risking pandemics is too dangerous. It's time to stop. 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Like nuclear physics, with its potential for global catastrophe when put to destructive ends, the proliferation of pandemic biology ought to be considered a matter of international security.
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But perhaps the biggest question of all isn’t being asked insistently enough: Why is anyone trying to teach the world how to make viruses that could kill millions of people?
30 September 2021
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19 September 2021
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Martyr MadeTheir words
I started listening to Darryl Cooper's Martyr Made last year as part of a deep dive on cults, but kept going because I found him incredibly insightful.
13 September 2021
From one piece The future of the App Store 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Credit cards provide stronger fraud protection and easier recourse for unwanted charges than app stores do.Their words
most credit cards themselves provide stronger fraud prevention and easier recourse from unwanted charges than the App Store ever has
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Most people use a Facebook-owned app not because it's a good app, but because it's a means to an important end in their life.
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The realistic alternatives to Apple's App Store would end up worse than the App Store itself.Their words
Apple's App Store is the devil we know. The most viable alternatives that would crop up would be far worse.
12 September 2021
11 September 2021
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Falling fertility is transmitted by the values that mass media spread, not by how rich any individual is.Their words
It seems to be correlated strongly with societal (not individual) wealth, and mediated by norms transmitted via mass media.
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Klara and the Sun: A NovelTheir words
Klara and the Sun is an absolutely remarkable example of how to develop this understanding.
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Never Let Me GoTheir words
I loved his Never Let Me Go, which I thought was beautifully delicate and raw and powerful.
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Other MindsTheir words
There's a book, which isn't in the five I've chosen (though it could well have been), Peter Godfrey Smith's Other Minds, which I think is a beautiful exploration of other minds.
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The Feeling of Life ItselfTheir words
His book, The Feeling of Life Itself, is a very accessible, authoritative and up-to-date manifesto for IIT.
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The Mechanical Mind in HistoryTheir words
There are a couple of other books I'd have loved to have included here. My PhD supervisor, Phil Husbands, and Owen Holland, have a recent book called The Mechanical Mind in History
10 September 2021
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Disarming the NarcissistTheir words
Now a self-help classic, Disarming the Narcissist is a practical, step-by-step communication guide to help you cope with and confront the narcissist in your life.
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Schema Therapy Online CommunityTheir words
This online community is a powerful way to stay in touch with other schema therapists around the globe, on a regular basis; to be part of the ever-growing ST community.
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Schema Therapy Training Institute video seriesTheir words
This video series is grounded in an understanding, both conceptually and practically, of the essential value of the therapy relationship in schema therapy
7 September 2021
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James Hoffmann's AeroPress videosTheir words
I highly recommend watching all three of his videos, because the tests and discussions he presented are of a very high quality.
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AeroPressTheir words
While I have enjoyed the AeroPress a lot in the past especially when travelling, I have always had one big complaint about it: getting a thick coffee bed to minimize uneven flow when pressing out the water limits the brew ratios that can be used.
6 September 2021
3 September 2021
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The Listening BookTheir words
Everyone should read this book of little essays about listening. It teaches your ears to pay more attention. It calls your attention to sounds you hadn’t noticed. It’s beautifully written, and makes your life better. I read it twice, 24 years ago, and reading it again this week, it was even better than I remembered.
1 September 2021
30 August 2021
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The World After CapitalTheir words
That means I will read it again and you should too.
21 August 2021
19 August 2021
From one piece 3 Steps for Effective Translation to Learn Any Language 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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In traditional classroom settings, the development of skills often gets overlooked in favor of facts. Facts in the form of conjugation tables, word lists, grammar explanations, the names of verb tenses, and so on. All of these things are related to language, but it’s important to realize that knowing these things has nothing to do with speaking and using a language productively.
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This is an important detail that often gets overlooked, because language learning is, first and foremost, about acquiring skills. About learning how to read, write, speak, and listen, along with all of the countless subskills that any competent language speaker has in his or her toolbox.
18 August 2021
From one piece Product Discovery Basics: Everything You Need to Know 2 beliefs · producttalk.org
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The product trio—comprised of a product manager, design lead, and tech lead—is responsible for product discovery.
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Product discovery is a decision-making process, and good discovery keeps the customer inside that process.Their words
Product discovery is a decision-making process. Good product discovery includes the customer throughout that process.
From one piece The truth about distraction 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Work that matters requires tolerating discomfort and boredom rather than escaping into distraction.Their words
Consider the possibility that mild discomfort – butterflies in the stomach, a sense of difficulty, a moment of boredom – might simply be the price of doing things you care about.
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This is why most anti-distraction hacks – web-blocking apps, noise-canceling headphones, personal rules – never seem to work very well.
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you don’t get dragged away against your will. You surrender willingly.
16 August 2021
From one piece There's no such thing as a fresh start 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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the perfectionist's fantasy of reaching her deathbed with a perfect record of accomplishments under her belt isn't just extremely unlikely, but doomed from the start
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Life change never comes from one transforming plan; it comes from small adjustments to the life you already have.Their words
This, in my experience, is the only way personal change ever really happens: by first seeing that it's always a matter of rebuilding the ship mid-ocean, making adjustments to a life you can't ever take back to port or trade for another.
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We are transitioning from a world where everything is made in China, to one where everything is designed and sold by China too.
15 August 2021
14 August 2021
12 August 2021
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On changing their mind
Five years later, the facts on the ground have finally changed. I no longer believe that this bargain is worth it for most new applications.
11 August 2021
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From the River to the SeaTheir words
Sedgewick was more successful in developing his characters, and I also appreciated that he took regular tangents into other related and interesting matters like the Leadville mining boom, the growth of Los Angeles, and the business maneuvers of other railroad barons like Jay Gould and Collis Huntington.
9 August 2021
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CalTopoTheir words
My own platform-of-choice has become CalTopo, and I think it's now the clear winner for those who have similar needs.
6 August 2021
5 August 2021
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First Round ReviewTheir words
A treasure trove for consumer and enterprise technology companies.
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Remains of the DayTheir words
He always has an interesting take on products.
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How I Built ThisTheir words
Like my startup books, each of these podcasts gives insight into product and strategy.
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How to Build an Iconic CompanyTheir words
These are three-minute podcasts that talk about startups, leadership, management, and strategy.
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Lenny’s NewsletterTheir words
A weekly Substack product newsletter that pulls together lots of highly relevant resources.
3 August 2021
2 August 2021
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How Buildings LearnTheir words
I’ve read this book three times since 1999, and gifted it many times to others. It’s changed the way I look at buildings. I read it again now because I’m building a new house. Its main idea is that all buildings are predictions, and all predictions are wrong, so design to make them easy to change. I think of it metaphorically in life: assuming my predictions about what I want will probably be w…
1 August 2021
From one piece Thinking about “traceability” 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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This brings us to the central challenge of all content tracing proposals so far: to make tracing possible, a tracing system needs to turn every WhatsApp user (including the originator) into a cooperative green circle — regardless of whether users actually want to cooperate with police.
Thinking about “traceability”blog.cryptographyengineering.com
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Information revealed about “who sent what” in an E2E system is not the same as metadata.
Thinking about “traceability”blog.cryptographyengineering.com
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In short: traceability can really screw with the “who sent what” side of content confidentiality.
Thinking about “traceability”blog.cryptographyengineering.com
31 July 2021
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Elgato FacecamTheir words
previously I used a GoPro as a webcam, but since Elgato released this webcam, I switched to it.
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Elgato Wave 3Their words
The main microphone I use for sessions and meetings. I use it in combination with the Elgato Wave Pop and Elgato Wave Shock Mount.
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Logitech MX KeysTheir words
Great keyboard, bought it in the US, as the US International (available in EU) is not the same as US English.
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Rode microphone boom armTheir words
Just a great and flexible microphone boom arm.
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Front MatterTheir words
When I switched to Hugo, I needed to have an extension which allows me to keep my article front matter up to date.
29 July 2021
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20 July 2021
From one piece A case against security nihilism 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Rather: NSO’s genius is that they’ve done something that attackers were never incentivized to do in this past: democratize access to exploit technology.
A case against security nihilismblog.cryptographyengineering.com
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The problem that companies like Apple need to solve is not preventing exploits forever, but a much simpler one: they need to screw up the economics of NSO-style mass exploitation.
A case against security nihilismblog.cryptographyengineering.com
16 July 2021
15 July 2021
From one piece Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold (with 33 co-authors) 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Despite these advances, contemporary physical and evolutionary-history-based approaches produce predictions that are far short of experimental accuracy in the majority of cases in which a close homologue has not been solved experimentally and this has limited their utility for many biological applications.
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Here we provide the first computational method that can regularly predict protein structures with atomic accuracy even in cases in which no similar structure is known.
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Despite recent progress10-14, existing methods fall far short of atomic accuracy, especially when no homologous structure is available.
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Accurate computational approaches are needed to address this gap and to enable large-scale structural bioinformatics.
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Pereira MaintainsTheir words
I think it's the most wonderful novel of the last 20 years. I can't think of anything I admire more.
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The Summer BookTheir words
Sophie and her grandmother spend a lot of time pottering about and playing and building little Venetian lagoons for the ants to go into and that sort of thing. It's very funny and very charming. And you think that's all it is—a sweet little book about a child and her grandmother.
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The Jeeves Omnibus - Vol 1Their words
I read it because it was a book, and books were fun. I thought it was terrific. Really wonderfully funny. I've gone on thinking that for the subsequent 60 years or so.
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Oxford historical thesaurusTheir words
Have you seen the Oxford historical thesaurus? Fantastic. It must be one of the last great books produced as a printed object.
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The Chambers DictionaryTheir words
This dictionary is a great thing to have. It's just so fascinating.
6 July 2021
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First FriendsTheir words
If you enjoy history books and/or are a student of the US Presidency, you should grab this book and give it a read.
29 June 2021
From one piece Do you think it is more important to find inspiration or to get to work and write? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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A maker cannot summon the good line, only be at the desk when it arrives, and the outcome is not theirs to influence.Their words
Pen poised, I sit to attention, in my suit, on the edge of my imagination, prepared for the beautiful line to arrive. Sometimes it does, sometimes it does not — either way I am powerless to influence the outcome.
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I also have an affinity with artists who treat their craft as a job and are not dependent on the vagaries of inspiration — because I am one of them. Like most people with a job, we just go to work.
21 June 2021
19 June 2021
18 June 2021
12 June 2021
9 June 2021
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Startup CXOTheir words
It is the kind of book you will keep by your desk and pull out from time to time to figure out how to approach an issue or to help one of your senior leaders figure out how to do that.
7 June 2021
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VimTheir words
For writing software I full-screen a terminal and use Vim. Ctrl+Z for a shell.
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VS CodeTheir words
Every now and again I go searching for a replacement IDE. VSCode came closer than anything else in the last two decades to replacing Vim, but somehow I am back here.
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QSFP+ 40gbit hardwareTheir words
The router and Proxmox machines are attached with some QSFP+ 40gbit hardware I got off eBay. It's fun! I highly recommend playing with second-hand network hardware.
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iMac 5kTheir words
The 2014 iMac 5k I dedicate to video conferencing, mostly Hangouts and Zoom.
3 June 2021
1 June 2021
31 May 2021
29 May 2021
28 May 2021
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Somewear Global HotspotTheir words
Conclusion: If you expect to regularly carry the device but not a smartphone, which is the case with very few people, the inReach is the better option. Otherwise, the Somewear is more attractive: its seamless messaging and cost-savings more than offset the 0.5-ounce weight penalty and its slightly larger size.
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Gaia GPSTheir words
And for your mapping, I highly recommend instead the Gaia GPS or CalTopo apps.
21 May 2021
20 May 2021
16 May 2021
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The British Industrial Revolution in Global PerspectiveTheir words
The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective is the best book on the country’s adoption of sustained economic growth at the turn of the nineteenth century, full stop.
14 May 2021
11 May 2021
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Publishing a standing list of your own mistakes, and correcting them, is part of doing science honestly.Their words
I make mistakes, and acknowledging and correcting them is an important part of how I grow.
5 May 2021
4 May 2021
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The New BuildersTheir words
My friend Seth Levine and Elizabeth MacBride have written an important book about the changing face of entrepreneurship in the US.
1 May 2021
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The Copernican RevolutionTheir words
but I also recommend his Copernican Revolution
30 April 2021
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Getting Things DoneTheir words
Classic book with near-cult following. How to manage every last itty bitty tiny thing in your life. Keep your inbox empty. Re-read 16 years later. Still great.
24 April 2021
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14 April 2021
From one piece Mailbag #2 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Many films are the most fun the first time because a part of our brains loses itself in the plot and actually experiences what the characters are experiencing, to an extent.
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People should feel free to enjoy art they love regardless of the artist's personal failings or beliefs.Their words
I think in most cases, we should feel fine loving the art we love, regardless of who the artist is, what they did, or what they believed.
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Clearly something other than the current type of healthcare advances will be needed to crack through the natural human lifespan ceiling-it'll take some deeper recoding of the human genome.
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Hardcore HistoryTheir words
Currently hooked on Dan Carlin's Hardcore History . 100 people recommended it to me and I kept putting it off and finally listened to the 6-part WWI series and that was that for me.
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Gravity BlanketTheir words
But Instagram has gotten pretty good at it and now I own a gravity blanket , a moon pod , stretchy jeans , a great hoodie , and like 19 fidget toys and physics toys and other stupid things that make me happy .
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Moon PodTheir words
But Instagram has gotten pretty good at it and now I own a gravity blanket , a moon pod , stretchy jeans , a great hoodie , and like 19 fidget toys and physics toys and other stupid things that make me happy .
10 April 2021
7 April 2021
2 April 2021
From one piece Bjorn’s Corner: The challenges of hydrogen. Part 31. Wrap-up: Where we stand 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Now you have a carbon fuel burning aircraft that is more complex and heavier than the plane that it replaces, and if you do your sums carefully, you find that there are no fuel efficiency gains and, therefore, no environmental gains.
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Having done the sums before hitting the keys, I was a skeptic. It just didn’t work, even with optimistic assumptions around the parameters for the aircraft and its batteries.
30 March 2021
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Several Short Sentences About WritingTheir words
The 2nd-best and most-radical book about great writing. It tells you to focus entirely on the sentence, an approach that was already my favorite, which is why I bought this book. It recommends you boldly eliminate transitions and conjunctions, split compound sentences, don't save your point for the end, and revise by deleting. This is the first book I've seen printed as one sentence per line —…
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The Beginning of InfinityTheir words
I’m currently stuck in a loop where, at least in science, I’m only going to read The Beginning of Infinity and The Fabric of Reality over and over again until I understand them fully.
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The Fabric of RealityTheir words
I’m currently stuck in a loop where, at least in science, I’m only going to read The Beginning of Infinity and The Fabric of Reality over and over again until I understand them fully.
7 March 2021
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FeedlyTheir words
I use Feedly to follow most of the usual economics blogs, as well as dozen or so journals
6 March 2021
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Understanding ComicsTheir words
Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud: I believe I first saw this book being recommended highly by Bret Victor aka worrydream. I think I then encountered a few screenshots of it on the Internet that made me really like it. It's very worth reading even if you don't really care all that much about comics.
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Masters of DoomTheir words
I was really excited when a friend sent me this book, because it gets right into the details of the history and production of these games that meant so much to me.
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The Nasty BitsTheir words
The Nasty Bits, by Anthony Bourdain. I read this book not too long before Anthony Bourdain died. I remember really enjoying his voice, his style, his sense of flair.
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Predatory ThinkingTheir words
Predatory Thinking, by Dave Trott. I found this book in a bookshop at some point and I found it really compelling. It includes a story about neutrinos that I love.
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DuneTheir words
The book is worth reading for its own sake, and it's particularly worth reading (in my opinion) to get a sense of how it has impacted so much of sci-fi and pop culture.
3 March 2021
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Shoe DogTheir words
A must-read for anyone who wants to start a business, has started a business, wishes they started a business or has ever thought about starting a business.
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Why We SleepTheir words
A flawed but really useful book. Some of the data here is exaggerated, it appears.
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GreenlightsTheir words
I was impressed with the depth and insight in this memoir. I hate to say it, but you rarely expect much from celebrity books. This one delivered though.
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EducatedTheir words
Don’t get me wrong, it’s very good and a great story. But much like Hillbilly Elegy a few years ago, I was left wondering, “What’s everyone going on about?”
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BecomingTheir words
Former first lady. Well written. Some really interesting parts. Some not-so-interesting parts. What else is there to say?
24 February 2021
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Freedom from the MarketTheir words
Mike Konczal of the Roosevelt Institute has a wonderful new book: Freedom from the Market
16 February 2021
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Direct TruthTheir words
It moves around. Keep coming back to I Am That, Direct Truth, Vasistha's Yoga, Jed McKenna, and Ashtavakra Gita.
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Vasistha's YogaTheir words
It moves around. Keep coming back to I Am That, Direct Truth, Vasistha's Yoga, Jed McKenna, and Ashtavakra Gita.
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Ashtavakra GitaTheir words
It moves around. Keep coming back to I Am That, Direct Truth, Vasistha's Yoga, Jed McKenna, and Ashtavakra Gita.
15 February 2021
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MacBook Air (M1)Their words
This is an amazing laptop. Its battery life is iPad tier. I can run iPad and iPhone apps seamlessly.
13 February 2021
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First, it justifies various psychotherapies - EMDR and coherence therapy seem to come out especially well here - that focus on trying to get the brain to pay unusually precise attention, under unusually safe conditions, to something it usually represses.
5 February 2021
1 February 2021
From one piece Does energy imbalance (calories in > out) cause obesity? 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Body fat is biologically regulated, so losing weight provokes a starvation response that pushes the weight back on.Their words
This is a phenomenon I call the “starvation response”, and it happens because body fat mass is biologically regulated.
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In people living their normal lives, circulating insulin level, and the insulin response to carbohydrate, don’t reliably predict who will gain weight and who won’t.
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The brain, not insulin or fat tissue, is what ultimately controls the energy balance equation.Their words
However, whichever side of the energy balance equation is giving orders, the brain appears to be the commander-in-chief of the equation as a whole.
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No matter what your model of obesity is, in order to explain the development of an obese body, energy imbalance has to be a link in the model’s causal chain.
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The Moon is a Harsh MistressTheir words
AI was in the air in the mid 1980s, but there were two things especially that made me want to work on it: a novel by Heinlein called The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
30 January 2021
29 January 2021
From one piece How TSMC Might Spend $28 Billion 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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TSMC raises capital spending when it believes a wave of demand is coming, rather than after the demand has arrived.Their words
I think TSMC thinks a fat pitch is coming.
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TSMC's real advantage over its foundry rivals is that it can outspend them, not that it is technically ahead.Their words
Unlike Chartered and SMIC, they have the power of the purse and they leverage it like few other companies can.
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Well, this $20 billion in retrospect was far too little.
24 January 2021
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Audio HijackTheir words
I record all my podcasts using Audio Hijack.
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Ferrite Recording StudioTheir words
On the iPad, I write using 1Writer or Drafts, and edit podcasts using the Apple Pencil and Ferrite Recording Studio, which is the best podcast editing app I've found on any platform.
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Uplift V2Their words
I recently bought a new desk, the Uplift V2, with a reclaimed wood desktop, and I love it.
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iPad ProTheir words
When I'm not at my desk I primarily use a 12.9-inch iPad Pro.
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Uplift V2 standing deskTheir words
I recently bought a new desk, the Uplift V2, with a reclaimed wood desktop, and I love it.
23 January 2021
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When I first heard the stagnation hypothesis, I was skeptical. The arguments weren’t convincing to me.
From one piece Technological stagnation 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Stagnation does not mean no progress; it means progress slower than the late 1800s to mid-1900s peak.Their words
Stagnation just means slower progress. And not even slower than that pre-industrial era, but slower than, roughly, the late 1800s to mid-1900s, when growth rates are said to have peaked.
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It’s that we went from five simultaneous technology revolutions to one.
20 January 2021
From one piece Fund people, not projects IV: Scientific egalitarianism and lotteries 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The cost of peer review is largely dominated by applying for grants, not peer reviewing.
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The way I see this is that reviewers can identify what's obviously not great and what is obviously great (Perhaps identifying the latter is easier than the former). But there is a "messy middle" where it is unclear what to fund.
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Pre-grant peer review predicts which research will have impact substantially better than chance does.Their words
I have reviewed before the effectiveness of peer review at figuring out "what's good" in the context of grant awards, finding that peer review as currently practiced does substantially better than chance at predicting future impact, especially for the most impactful of the papers; but at the same time is is far from perfect, leaving plenty of variance unexplained.
From one piece We Are Not Special 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Rather than fix a trad issue with trad engineering, Boeing opted for the software kludge, and then people died.
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We can change software much faster than anybody else can change their systems.
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Software is far more consistent than any other kind of engineering.
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Software is not uniquely unpredictable; other engineering disciplines are hit by the same surprises and overruns.Their words
To assume that software is uniquely unpredictable is a special kind of arrogance.
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Almost nothing programmers believe is unique to software is actually unique to software.Their words
Almost everything we think is unique about software appears in every other field of engineering.
19 January 2021
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From one piece Something of Value (memo to Oaktree clients) 3 beliefs · oaktreecapital.com
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Not only are the traditional staples of classic value investing (readily discernable quantitative measures of cheapness in the here-and-now) no longer likely to produce a sustainable edge on their own, but the world has gotten more complex, with many more dynamics that can drive a decoupling of near-term metrics from valuation, both to the positive and negative.
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The value-versus-growth distinction does not serve investors well in a fast-changing world.Their words
My extensive discussions with Andrew led me to conclude that the focus on value versus growth doesn’t serve investors well in the fast-changing world in which we live.
Something of Value (memo to Oaktree clients)oaktreecapital.com
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Rather than being defined as one side of this artificial dichotomy, value investing should instead consist of buying whatever represents a better value proposition, taking all factors into account.
Something of Value (memo to Oaktree clients)oaktreecapital.com
9 January 2021
From one piece TSMC, Briefly Explained 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Only TSMC, Intel and Samsung can still manufacture at the leading edge, and that is a duopoly rather than a monopoly.Their words
This leaves just TSMC, Intel, and Samsung Foundry as the last competitors in the industry capable of doing work at the leading edge.
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Rising cost, not lost skill, is what drove all but three firms out of leading-edge chip manufacturing.Their words
But over time things got more and more expensive and people started dropping out.
8 January 2021
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This is a fortunate conclusion, because it means that it's possible to use bibliometrics to select a candidate set of sufficiently good scientists, and then use human reviewers to select among them.
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Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good CookingTheir words
This was my holiday gift this year to a few friends who I know love to cook.
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Open: An AutobiographyTheir words
It is rare that a sports book captures my attention, rarer still when a sports autobiography does. But “Open” delivers a compelling life story superbly told by an athlete. Desire, motivation, and competitive drive him to the the highest levels of professional tennis, but he loses his interest, and was so often unhappy, confused and unfulfilled by his achievements. As an autobiography, it is bluntly honest, sometimes painful, but most of all a fascinating compelling read.
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Coach: Lessons on the Game of LifeTheir words
His tales of Coach Fitz, what leadership truly is, and how the world has changed makes for a wonderful read. Oh, and its Michael Lewis.
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Plays With CarsTheir words
He was game, and as part of my prep, I read this amusing short collection of his writings. They were fun and funny and informative — everything you could want in a collection about cars.
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Hamilton: The RevolutionTheir words
It reveals a depth to the show that makes it even stronger than previously believed.
3 January 2021
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22 December 2020
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Markdown MonsterTheir words
While I love VSCode, Markdown Monster does one thing incredibly well. Markdown.
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FiddlerTheir words
Fiddler - The easy, clean, and powerful debugging proxy for checking out HTTP between here and there. It even supports sniffing SSL traffic.
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Ditto Clipboard ManagerTheir words
WindowsKey+V is amazing and close but Ditto keeps pushing clipboard management forward on Windows.
21 December 2020
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KapTheir words
Other software I use to build stuff includes Netlify for hosting, GitHub for version control and collaboration, SVGO and TinyPNG for optimization, Kap for screen recording, GoatCounter for analytics, and Chrome and Firefox dev tools.
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TalkyTheir words
For communication, I use Slack for work and community text chat, Talky for video calls, DropBox Paper for writing, Trello for task management, and regular old texts and phone calls for chatting with family.
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TrelloTheir words
For communication, I use Slack for work and community text chat, Talky for video calls, DropBox Paper for writing, Trello for task management, and regular old texts and phone calls for chatting with family.
1 December 2020
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From one piece Number of miles as a self-driving car progress and safety metric (Metrics Episode 1) 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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But nobody will ever get to the billions of representative miles necessary to say anything compelling about expected safety until after they actually deploy their fleet.
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Even if you have the best possible safety drivers, every test mile adds some risk. Hopefully that risk is no worse than human driver vehicle risks, but that’s a different discussion.
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Miles driven measures how well funded a self-driving company is, not how safe it is or how far ahead.Their words
But having a ton of miles doesn’t mean you’re ahead, it just means you’re well-funded and you’re out there operating.
23 November 2020
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AntifragileTheir words
The book that’s had one of the greatest influences on my thinking. If you enjoy the content on this site, you’ll love Antifragile.
22 November 2020
20 November 2020
From one piece A few ways to make money in FOSS 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The fast route — venture capital funded — is going to impose constraints on your business that will ultimately make it difficult to remain true to your open-source mission.
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And yes, you are building a business. You need to start thinking of your project as a business and of yourself as a business owner.
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ZSA MoonlanderTheir words
I like the Moonlander. It gets out of my way and lets me focus on writing and code.
29 October 2020
28 October 2020
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Not Caring What Other People Think is a SuperPowerTheir words
I follow Ed Latimore on twitter. He writes a lot of interest things there, so I was curious to pick up his book to see what he'd say in a longer form. This book is like getting beers and talking life with Ed for about 5-6 hours. Lots of truisms and life lessons that should resonate in the world we live in today. It's no Earth-shattering, but it is a great way to get more good ideas in your head.
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BossypantsTheir words
Not only is Tina Fey a very funny writer, it's fascinating to have the opportunity to climb inside the head of a successful female leader. Reading the internal drama within Tina's head as she thought about whether she wanted a second child while considering how it would affect the 100+ employees that worked for her on 30 Rock was priceless. As a manager, it gives me an understanding and level of empathy I wouldn't have had otherwise.
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Sapiens: A Brief History of HumankindTheir words
A lot of people have raved about this book in Silicon Valley, so I wanted to see what it was all about. It's a great interpretation of the history of man. Unfortunately, it has about 10% of the citations it deserves for the subject matter. I found it a really interesting set of ideas for how to think about how we evolved. I felt there was some inaccuracies, but appreciate having the perspective of an expert.
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Tipping PointTheir words
If you've ever read Malcolm Gladwell's books, you know the formula: 5-10 specific anecdotes and a rule he emphasis throughout. Save yourself some time and read a blog post or review of the book. 4. "Startup Lessons Learned" by Eric Ries (10.12.10)
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The Lean StartupTheir words
If you actually want to learn how to actually BE a lean startup or how to actually do it, this book will not help you. If you want to learn the high level concepts only then this is a great book. The other books I have above I encourage you to read before this one if you want to truly learn and implement lean practices. 7. On the Shortness of Life by Seneca (3.13.18)
25 October 2020
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Silky PocketboyTheir words
I like the Pocketboy and it's staying in my bike bag for the long haul. Recommended for people who need a small high-performance folding saw to cut through whatever is in your way.
4 October 2020
2 October 2020
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Nomad Goods Card Wallet PlusTheir words
Nomad Goods Card Wallet Plus - A slim leather wallet for cards and folded cash.
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Benchmade Mini GriptilianTheir words
Benchmade Mini Griptilian - There's always a use for a reliable knife. A bonus in going with Benchmade: they will sharpen and clean your knife for free for life; just mail it in.
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Stowa Flieger Classic 40Their words
Stowa Flieger Classic 40 - When I'm not wearing my Apple Watch, this classic Pilot watch is on my wrist. Sapphire crystal, blued steel hands, and a date window at the 6 o'clock position. Perfect.
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Breville Bambino Plus Espresso MachineTheir words
Breville Bambino Plus Espresso Machine and Baratza Encore ESP Pro Coffee Grinder - Developers need coffee, and I like mine HOT. The integrated milk steamer is a must-have, and since this machine takes freshly ground beans, the grinder allows me to tweak the grind size for perfect single dose espresso shots.
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Google KeepTheir words
Google Keep - I use this primarily as a shared shopping list and "wish list," and for saving web links and lists I want to add to/come back to later.
1 October 2020
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29 September 2020
From one piece making computers better 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The tech industry's economic and intellectual energy is directed away from human flourishing rather than toward itTheir words
The economic and intellectual horsepower in Silicon Valley and the wider tech world seems to be pointed away from these goals.
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The Information Age could be a species-level shift comparable to the Industrial RevolutionTheir words
I find it plausible that the Information Age will be a species-level shift on par with the Industrial Revolution.
25 September 2020
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BearTheir words
For those, I use the free version of Bear
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MacDownTheir words
For a free Markdown editor (on Mac), I can't recommend MacDown highly enough. It has a simple interface with an editor and preview pane and it just works.
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KindleTheir words
To read books, I use the Kindle.
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Adobe Acrobat ReaderTheir words
To read papers, I use Adobe Acrobat Reader and sync them in the cloud. This lets me read, highlight, and sync my papers across devices (work laptop, personal laptop, iPad). Instapaper does the same for online articles.
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InstapaperTheir words
To read papers, I use Adobe Acrobat Reader and sync them in the cloud. This lets me read, highlight, and sync my papers across devices (work laptop, personal laptop, iPad). Instapaper does the same for online articles.
12 September 2020
From one piece Progress: Fluke or trend? 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Progress isn’t natural; we make it happen through choice and effort, and we only do so when we believe it is possible and desirable.
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Progress is not driven mainly by material resources, so running out of them is not what would stop it.Their words
I don’t think progress is primarily driven by material resources.
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Two centuries of progress were a trend with real causes rather than a fluke, and can continue far into the future.Their words
A foundational conviction of this project is that progress is a trend with definite, substantive causes, and that it can continue far, far into the future.
9 September 2020
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On changing their mind
When I first developed my Bidirectional Translation method, I applied it to each and every language I decided to learn.
From one piece The Only True Way to Learn a Language 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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For your health and sanity, do not force yourself to learn a language using a method you hate, no matter how good other people say it is. Trying to do so will only lead to disappointment, and ultimately burnout.
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While there is no absolute best and fastest way to learn a language, there definitely is a best and fastest way FOR YOU, personally, to learn a language. A method that is tailored to your likes and dislikes, your learning style, and your schedule.
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There is no best or fastest way to learn a language; the question has no general answer.Their words
after 30 years of learning languages and 10 years of coaching people to do the same, I am 100% positive when I tell you that there is no absolute best and fastest way to learn a language.
8 September 2020
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Others are the golden threads of this world, holding it together at the seams with no more than a dozen people knowing about it. Remove one of these and it all comes crashing down.
How can you not be romantic about programming?thorstenball.com
3 September 2020
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Salt, Fat, Acid, HeatTheir words
Such an incredible book on becoming a better chef, with little tricks and methods I use almost every day now. Plus the recipes in the back are delicious!
1 September 2020
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The effort typing requires, not raw typing speed, is what determines whether it becomes a real obstacle to writing.Their words
It doesn't matter if you can type 90 words per minutes or 130, but if it takes you effort to type something and, if given the choice, you'd rather not do it, then we have a problem.
30 August 2020
From one piece Full circle 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Planned images are limited by one's means and imagination. Serendipitous ones are unlimited by chance and one's subconscious.
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Creative work should feel liberating and produce order and beauty from incoherent parts.Their words
Anything creative (except perhaps accounting) should come with a sense of liberation and the satisfaction of having made order and beauty out of incoherent parts.
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the very best position to be in as a photographer is an amateur: a person who engages in the activity for the love of it, without the constraints of shooting to a client's expectation
24 August 2020
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I suppose in a nutshell it is also why the book is almost always better than the movie...
19 August 2020
From one piece Why Civilizations Collapse 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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We act as if we are already living in a scientifically-planned society, immune to collapse on a time scale that any of us have to worry about.
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That knowledge never should have been lost in the first place, but in a dysfunctional society, such loss of knowledge becomes the rule.
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Despite being an excellent epistemic opportunity, civilizational collapse seldom inspires introspection among thinkers living through it. Mayan or Roman thinkers don’t seem to have reflected on their ongoing collapse.
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Though we usually think of collapse as a slow process, it can in fact happen very quickly, as was the case with the Late Bronze Age collapse.
15 August 2020
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I believe creativity is really two parts: curiosity and the ability to not just ask "what if?", but also use some foresight to imagine the potential outcome.
12 August 2020
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MonoLisaTheir words
I’m a code nerd and a font nerd, so I don’t take this choice lightly, but this is my favorite dev font. I love its combination of legibility and subtle personality, and plus, the code ligatures are great.
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FirefoxTheir words
Firefox is a great browser with some awesome tools, plus strong privacy. I use Edge when I need to test on Chromium; I don’t even install Chrome on my personal machines.
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MoErgo Glove80Their words
For my money, the Glove80 is the world’s best ergonomic keyboard.
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NotionTheir words
my current favorite notes app. Can grow and get as complex as you need it to be, but for simple notes, the markdown and code highlight support is fantastic.
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Fira CodeTheir words
If you’re not willing to spend the money, though—and I definitely understand if that’s the case— Fira Code is my runner-up.
8 August 2020
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uBlock OriginTheir words
I block distracting parts of websites with uBlock Origin’s amazing “element blocker,” which lets you select and remove any part of the page. As a fan of minimalism in web design, I really enjoy being able to adversarially enforce it on any rogue webpage.
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WitchTheir words
Witch can display separate app windows separately, only display windows from the current workspace, and supports text search on window titles so that you can search directly for the window you want without having to skip over.
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Kindle4RSSTheir words
I do most of my Internet reading on my Kindle via Kindle4RSS.
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SlackTheir words
A special dishonorable mention goes to Slack, which can easily suck away a quarter of your time without you noticing. If you use Slack and you haven’t disabled the “unread messages” badge, stop reading this post and do it now.
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nativefierTheir words
For the rest (e.g., oddly, most Google web apps), I use a command-line tool called nativefier to turn them into desktop apps.
30 July 2020
From one piece ERP 226: How To Understand And Deal With a Narcissist, an Interview With Wendy Behary [Transcript] 3 beliefs · drjessicahiggins.com
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And no one should feel burdened to become the therapist of the narcissist in their life. It's not your responsibility as a partner, as a child of a narcissist, or even a friend.
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PsychotherapySchema therapyNarcissism
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the approach that I use is called Schema Therapy, and Schema Therapy is designed to work with very complex personality types, personality disorders, and even those that are happening along a spectrum
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In 30+ years of working with narcissistic men mostly - yes, it is possible for people to change. And even narcissists can change. Now, I don't really believe anyone changes completely, but it is possible to get meaningful change.
27 July 2020
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Startup CommunitiesTheir words
has updated his excellent book on startup ecosystems
25 July 2020
24 July 2020
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Because these folks – these farmers – make up the majority of the population of basically all agrarian societies in the pre-modern period. And when I say ‘the majority’ I mean the vast majority, on the order of 80-90% in many cases
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Victorinox Hunter Pro AloxTheir words
The problem is the knife is way too heavy. Maybe if they ditched the liners, thinned the blade, and re-worked the steel backstrap you would have something that could cross-over between outdoor use and Urban EDC without pulling your pants off. As it stands the Pro Hunter strikes me as an oddity in my collection. Large and heavy, which makes it less practical. I hope it won't stop Victorinox from attempting to innovate, but it doesn't entirely feel like a step forward for the brand.
9 July 2020
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ItempoolTheir words
Also, and I'll admit I'm biased because it was built by friends, the act of actually writing math questions on Itempool is a delight
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DesmosTheir words
It's an online graphing calculator that makes it very simple to whip up surprisingly complicated graphs. I found it abundantly useful for live presentations over a stream, and what's nice is that you can share the links of what you build so that students can play with them.
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Wacom tabletTheir words
During my time at Khan Academy, I found using a Wacom tablet worked quite nicely
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Focusrite Scarlett SoloTheir words
USB Audio Interface to take the feed from the mic to the computer (Focusrite Scarlett Solo)
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Rode Lavalier Lapel MicrophoneTheir words
A lav mic (More specifically a Rode Lavalier Lapel Omni-Directional Condenser Microphone)
1 July 2020
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