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18 September
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It's isn't just to people with ADHD that this happens. Some tasks inherently take a certain amount of time. An appointment that breaks the afternoon into two blocks of time could leave you with no block long enough to complete a task.
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Something that can be done at any time is often done at no time.
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Spending enough time in San Francisco tends to make people want to start their own company.Their words
No matter how much fun you're having at your W-2 job, spend enough time in San Francisco and you may find yourself itching to build something of your own.
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In a conflict, a coherent weaker actor tends to prevail over an incoherent stronger one.Their words
In a contest between a coherent weak actor and an incoherent strong one, bet on coherence.
17 September
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Targeting old 16-bit computers, the authors couldn't afford to build a sloppy, wasteful UI, and so by modern standards the game UI is remarkably fast and responsive.
A custom virtual machine for the Stars! 4X gamenullprogram.com
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13 September
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Making trade deals with EU is good for Canada. Anything beyond that is just anchoring ourselves to a block who’s economic ambitions aren’t much higher than being an “open air museum”.
12 September
10 September
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When you're in a phase of experimentation, it's not particularly surprising that you will feel very generative and, at the same time, that nothing will be of production-grade quality, so to speak.
8 September
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3 September
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National congressional polling tends to stay stable between Labor Day and Election Day in midterm election years.Their words
midterm races in the modern era tend not to change all that much between Labor Day and Election Day.
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Innovation tends to come from slack time away from firefighting, not from being fully utilized.Their words
Innovation often comes from having time to focus on other work, instead of putting out fires.
31 August
From one piece How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe Liemandt 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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these kids have a block that they can't do it. You do whatever you can including paying them to break through the block. they then see themselves as a different person
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the best teacher you had, like everybody remembers the one or two teachers who changed their life. It wasn't because they marked up your paper really well. That wasn't what did it for them. It was because you had some block. They saw you and they convinced you you could do so much more.
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the number one motivator to get rid of a block. It's actually not the guy as the the biggest one. The number one thing that convinces kids they can do something is watching their classmate do it.
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AI-generated writing tends to repeat the same themes, names, and underlying ideas across different outputs.Their words
AIs don’t just repeat the same sentence patterns but also the same themes (memory is a favorite), names (Elara Voss, Marcus Chen), and underlying ideas.
29 August
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25 August
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As software evolves, it tends to get slower, more bloated, buggier, and bigger.
15 August
14 August
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Major sports leagues are de facto cartels with the power to block entry and competition.
13 August
6 August
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Obligers, the most common Tendency, tend to work well alongside every other Tendency, which makes them worth having on any team.
5 August
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This is the Jevons paradox in action: making compute cheaper per token in turn tends to lead to greater levels of AI use.
4 August
25 July
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If a subway line or a train station or a similar rail megaproject has an internationally renowned architect in charge, it costs too much and is unlikely to be functional.
Conflict About the FRA Study on Penn Stationpedestrianobservations.com
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15 July
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The reason is simple: TOD doesn't care about corridors but about the underlying transit, which is a subway, not a bus stopping every block.
13 July
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but as you get older that tends to decline with age which I thought was kind of perplexing because I you know a lot of curious people but we found that levels of state curiosity when I give you some interesting bit of information but I don't give you the answer if it's something you care about that actually increases with age your level of curiosity and learning.
9 July
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AI tends to flatten outputs toward sameness, so personal taste and perspective become the main way to stand out.Their words
AI flattens everything it touches. The way you stand out is by getting clearer about what you really want, your taste, your perspective, your opinions.
15 June
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the council does not simply keep the best bits from everyone. It keeps a minority of the good ideas, while peer review seems to give consensus ideas an extra push.
3 June
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So if you find yourself generating the same blocks of code over and over, even though it feels fast or convenient, it is still insane.
22 May
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Republican lawmakers have lost the party cohesion needed to shield a Trump ally from an impeachment trial.Their words
My guess is Republicans have lost the necessary cohesion to fall on Trump's sword and block a trial.
11 May
10 May
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I call it the force that no one controls but everyone obeys that tends to drag organizations down into mediocrity to the point that we lose control of them. Now, sometimes we lose control of them because we get fired.
5 May
1 May
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An advantage cows have that egg chickens lack is that stress immediately and measurably decreases their economic productivity.
22 April
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A single year tends to look much like the one before it, but a decade can change everything about a person's life.Their words
In one year you'll probably mostly be thinking and doing what you think you'll be doing in a year today. In a decade, EVERYTHING can change.
7 April
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there's sort of there's two types of work that tends to be involved in any kind of creative project. There's routine stuff and there you just want to avoid procrastination. You just want to like, you know, how do I get good at this or how do I outsource it and how do I do it as rapidly as possible? Um and just avoid you know, like getting into a situation where you're prolonging it. Um, and then there's high variance stuff where you actually you need to be willing to to you know take a lot of time.
1 April
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the philosophy we all operate at the time was no one should be blocking anybody else. No one can block anybody else.
28 February
15 January
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Public scrutiny of a new technology tends to jump only after a deadly incident, otherwise rising slowly over decadesTheir words
Scrutiny typically either jumps several points on any 10-point scale after an incident that kills a bunch of people, or increases very slowly over decades.
14 December 2025
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Boos blockTheir words
Bought after much cutting-board deliberation and based on your recommendations. We love this thing. We got one that nearly fills a section of our counter (between the stove and wall) and it's heaven to have so much space to cut various things at the same time.
5 December 2025
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ChatGPT, in particular, seemed to just want to validate me, tell me how great I was, reinforce any bad beliefs I might have had, and avoid saying anything uncomfortable.
18 November 2025
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AI translation will stop you learning to speak a language, exactly as AI summaries stop you understanding a book.Their words
Similarly, AI translation will prevent you from learning to speak another language, AI summaries will block you from really understanding the arguments laid out in a book, and AI analyses of your personal problems will make it harder for you to think through solutions to your own problems.
22 October 2025
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Agreement is often quiet. It's the likes, it's the shares, it's the nods as people read along at their computers that you never hear about.
30 September 2025
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And I would rather lose everything I have than yield to this pressure because, if you submit to this pressure and agree with something that is fundamentally wrong and violates rights of other people as well, you become broken inside, you become a shell of your former self on a deep biological and spiritual level.
4 September 2025
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You're dominant in contests, particularly with conspecifics. If you're trying to win a territory or win mating rights, bigger things usually beat up smaller things. So there's going to be selection favoring them. But then big things don't usually do well in extinction events, so that tends to reset the clock by killing off the big stuff, and then smaller stuff does better again.
29 August 2025
8 April 2025
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Installing Lua libraries via apt-get tends to produce more stable results than installing via luarocks.Their words
Installing via apt-get instead of luarocks will tend to get you more stable results.
in which web pages are served but also fetchedtechnomancy.us
17 March 2025
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NextDNSTheir words
You can block ads by blocking entire domains at the DNS level. I like and use NextDNS
27 January 2025
3 May 2024
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The same law that made chips cheaper made the factories that produce them enormously more expensive.Their words
These enormous costs are ultimately due to the same factor that has steadily driven down the cost of semiconductors: Moore’s Law, the observation that the number of components on an integrated circuit tends to double every two years.
How to Build a $20 Billion Semiconductor Fabconstruction-physics.com
17 April 2024
From one piece Measuring personal growth 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I have this theory that life has a circadian rhythm. Every 3-6 years, you become a different person.
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Growing older tends to expand rather than shrink the number of achievable dreams and options.Their words
As I grow older, I have more dreams. I now know many things that I didn't know before, and I have access to more resources than I ever did.
26 January 2024
9 November 2023
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It unfortunately hallucinates most when you at least want it to hallucinate. So when you’re asking important, difficult questions, that’s when it tends to be confidently wrong.
5 April 2023
7 March 2023
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High rung thinking will almost always land on "centrist" position because it acknowledges tradeoffs, or on non-politicized positions because it's not beholden to supporting either of the two parties in a zero-sum game. It's not a coincidence that the political square is a triangle.
30 January 2023
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Building a manufactured object at a high enough rate pushes its cost down toward the cost of its inputs.Their words
A high rate of production tends to drive costs down toward the cost of inputs.
30 May 2022
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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.
8 February 2022
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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.
3 December 2021
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RelicTheir words
One of the best thrillers of the 1990s. I re-read this book in honor of Halloween this year (but didn't finish until November) and was pleased to find that it held up.
25 October 2021
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What air travellers actually value is door-to-door time, and public policy tends not to measure it.Their words
Reduction in door-to-door travel time is king. Public policy may not keep this in mind.
29 October 2020
1 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.
31 October 2018
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