Jamie Brandon

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  • The Life Goals of Dead People Recommends

    I won't summarize it - it's only a few minutes read. But I often catch myself being a dead person, and having a term for it has noticably improved my life.

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  • Not the End of the World Liked

    What struck me the most about both of these was the strength and pervasiveness of the media bias towards negativity, and how fervently people want to continue believing in downfall of all that is good and the intrinsic evil of modernity, even when faced with clear evidence otherwise.

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  • Factfulness Liked

    More than anything, these books convinced me to work hard to avoid these negativity chambers entirely and aim to only hang out in spaces where people are trying to make things better, instead of delightedly bemoaning that everything is awful.

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  • Digital Minimalism Liked

    This is when I first started to notice how much of my experience of life is determined by where and how I direct my attention.

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  • Deep Work Liked

    They argue that daily solitude is necessary for emotional processing, and that being deprived of solitude by constant entertainment leads to anxiety and insomnia, your mind racing in bed as it tries to catch up with the work it missed. Nearly a decade after reading I'm thoroughly convinced by this theory.

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  • Uncontrolled Liked

    I read this as a cognitive science post-grad and it perfectly captured my unease with the field.

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  • A City Dreaming Liked

    Pretending to be urban fantasy, but really a love letter to New York and to unplanned adventures.

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  • Microadventures Liked

    This book congealed for me the idea that adventure is more an attitude or a habit than a circumstance. I'd experienced that before, especially in the parkour scene in London, but always in narrow contexts. Alastair convinced me to treat my whole life the same way.

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  • The World Beyond Your Head Mixed on

    There is a lot I disagree with in this book (not least his intense distaste for safety features in cars), but I feel there is something important in there somewhere.

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  • Espresso Lessons Loved

    I also love Espresso Lessons, although it's much more climbing-specific.

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  • The Rock Warrior's Way Liked

    While notionally a book about climbing, it's really about what the author calls 'personal power' - the ability to act effectively in the world - and all the ways that that power can be drained by ego, fear, comfort-seeking, and even poor definitions of success and failure.

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  • The Rock Warrior's Way 1 Jan 1970 Liked
  • Espresso Lessons 1 Jan 1970 Loved
  • The World Beyond Your Head 1 Jan 1970 Mixed on
  • Microadventures 1 Jan 1970 Liked
  • A City Dreaming 1 Jan 1970 Liked
  • Uncontrolled 1 Jan 1970 Liked

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  • Deep Work 1 Jan 1970 Liked
  • Digital Minimalism 1 Jan 1970 Liked
  • Factfulness 1 Jan 1970 Liked
  • Not the End of the World 1 Jan 1970 Liked
  • The Life Goals of Dead People 1 Jan 1970 Recommends
  • jamii — Tinkering with systems. Writing at scattered-thoughts.net. 24 Aug
  • focus — Minimalist text editor 13 Jul
  • Artificial adventures 1 Jul
  • I'm not a cat 24 Jun
  • 0060: SF 21 Jun
  • 0059: NYC and SF? 5 Jun
  • jams 15 May
  • Borrow-checking without type-checking 22 Apr
  • Borrow-checking surprises 7 Apr
  • 0058: borrow-checking surprises, books, links 7 Apr
  • 2025 17 Feb
  • 0057: consulting, zest progress, reads that lasted, books, links 17 Feb
  • zest — Zest is a (very wip) programming language for building systems that are both malleable and legible. 4 Feb
  • s3-splits 27 Jan
  • 0056: consulting, zest progress, existentialize, modular borrowing, do we understand sql, zjit updates, books 6 Dec 2025
  • 0055: consulting, sql needed structure, slow forum, on the line, out of thin air, papers, other stuff 1 Nov 2025
  • SQL needed structure 4 Sept 2025
  • 0054: zest namespaces, store tags after payloads, go allocation probe, everyones got one, pprof labelguns, go value types, go perf probe, tpde, anyblox, books 2 Sept 2025
  • Everyone's got one 5 Aug 2025
  • go_allocation_probe 19 Jul 2025
  • Go allocation probe 18 Jul 2025
  • gel-toy 28 Apr 2025
  • maps 7 Oct 2024
  • baby-2nd-bench 10 Jul 2024
  • zig-honggfuzz — Demo of how to use honggfuzz for coverage-guided persistent fuzzing of zig programs. 18 May 2024
  • understanding-software-dynamics 20 Oct 2022
  • preimp 7 Sept 2022
  • dida — Differential dataflow for mere mortals 14 Apr 2022
  • imp — Various experiments in relational programming 27 Feb 2022