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05-August-2023
03-August-2023
- Rigid adherence to any prioritization model, even one that’s concep... from Irrational Exuberance
- Ag-gag laws are anti-whistleblower laws that apply within the agric... from Matt McGrath
- You can give yourself back time by leaving meetings gracefully. Sa... from Josh Beckman
- as the ecotheologian Thomas Berry has written, "we must say of... from Robin Wall Kimmerer
- A bay is a noun only if water is dead. When bay is a noun, it is de... from Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Among our Potawatomi people, there are public names and true names.... from Robin Wall Kimmerer
02-August-2023
01-August-2023
27-July-2023
- As a medium, photography is kind of intrinsically selfish. So I bri... from Bill Shapiro
- In Eliyahu M. Goldratt's "Theory of Constraints", you... from ycombinator.com
- This reminds me of the story where a Houston airport kept getting c... from ycombinator.com
25-July-2023
22-July-2023
21-July-2023
19-July-2023
- The essence of the gift is that it creates a set of relationships. ... from Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Lewis Hyde has made extensive studies of gift economies. He finds t... from Robin Wall Kimmerer
16-July-2023
15-July-2023
- Time is not money. Time is beans. It was as serious as many jokes ... from Alexis Madrigal
- “The antislavery movement was, after all, an agricultural reform mo... from Alexis Madrigal
- recognize how fundamentally the political economy of plants structu... from Alexis Madrigal
- the term homeostasis: it refers to how your body maintains factors ... from Lorin Hochstein
- In his paper The Theory of Graceful Extensibility: Basic rules that... from Lorin Hochstein
- It is far easier to collaborate on a first principle model. At this... from sirupsen.com
- If you are designing for 8 demands it’s likely that 6 are easy, 7 r... from sirupsen.com
- Good architecture is built incrementally, but not designed incremen... from sirupsen.com
14-July-2023
13-July-2023
- The optimal amount of meetings is not zero, even if you work alone.... from Matt Levine
- By replacing integration tests with unit tests, we're losing al... from Computer Things
- When you’re a new leader, your model won’t have much data to go on.... from James Stanier
- Often, people who don’t have access to the raw data expect one narr... from Josh Beckman
10-July-2023
08-July-2023
07-July-2023
- Level 1 The human operator does the task and turns it over to the ... from PetroWiki
- Another useful concept is The Death of the Author, which is a part ... from ferd.ca
- If all the burghers of Small Town USA get together and say “we want... from Matt Levine
06-July-2023
05-July-2023
04-July-2023
- More things than you would think are dynamic strategic problems. If... from marcelo.rinesi
- There is an aliveness to fields that lawns do not have. Our small p... from Simon Sarris
03-July-2023
- in the U.S., there’s a false idea that certain choices around food ... from Alicia Kennedy
- In the allegory of long spoons, there are people in hell and people... from wikipedia.org
02-July-2023
01-July-2023
- To determine what actions you can take to drive meaningful change i... from Ken Britton
- A great framework for delegating work or encouraging a team member ... from Ken Britton
- Words matter, and the words you say about yourself and other people... from Josh Beckman
- If you’re debating a decision point and you find yourself in a stal... from Jeff Bruton
- Something I've been framing to myself and my team is 'momen... from Josh Beckman
30-June-2023
- The field of psychology holds the view that trust is a personality ... from DiscoStu
- On traditional “social media” platforms, in particular YouTube, the... from Drew DeVault's blog
- It is known that, when we learn or train in something, we pass thro... from wikipedia.org
29-June-2023
- I propose that there is one problem chief among them, an impetus fo... from George Hosu
- I used to try and weed my lawn a whole hell of a lot and pull the w... from ferd.ca
- The only good advice I have here is to re-evaluate your metrics oft... from ferd.ca
- A product is useless without a platform, or more precisely and accu... from gist.github.com
- When software – or idea-ware for that matter – fails to be accessib... from gist.github.com
- Organizing into services taught teams not to trust each other in mo... from gist.github.com
- We're talking about a guy who in all seriousness has said on ma... from gist.github.com
27-June-2023
- Now the real advantage of tracing to me is it comes out of the box ... from Mathew Duggan
- My experience is companies do not anticipate that the cost of monit... from Mathew Duggan
25-June-2023
- Any software is considered free software so long as it upholds the ... from writefreesoftware.org
- This, from last week, is one of the best stories you’ll ever read a... from Matt Levine
24-June-2023
- The code that gets written is the code that’s easier to write. An... from Fernando Borretti
- discipline doesn’t scale, and if you want people to use good practi... from Fernando Borretti
23-June-2023
- Nathan's four Laws of Software: Software is a gas Soft... from Jeff Atwood
- My favorite observation from The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim, Kevin... from Will Larson
22-June-2023
21-June-2023
20-June-2023
16-June-2023
- It is funny to imagine an end state here in which markets are entir... from Matt Levine
- If you already know there’s an error , a weaker test can be more us... from Hillel Wayne
- After 2008, there was a perception that the government was implicit... from Matt Levine
15-June-2023
- the difference between recoverable errors and bugs: • A recovera... from joeduffyblog.com
- Software with fewer concepts composes, scales, and evolves more eas... from oilshell
13-June-2023
- Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad ho... from From Wikipedia, the free
- we are creating more data than we can manage. The primary output o... from johnnydecimal.com
- We don't quite know what to do with language models yet. But we... from Maggie Appleton
- Ad-hoc validation leads to a phenomenon that the language-theoretic... from Alexis King
- the difference between validation and parsing lies almost entirely ... from Alexis King
- Consider: what is a parser? Really, a parser is just a function tha... from Alexis King
- These are wonderful non-chat interfaces for LLMs that I would total... from Maggie Appleton
12-June-2023
11-June-2023
- SCHWARZENEGGER: I said, “We don’t know what happens with the soul a... from Danny DeVito
- Maybe the devices that we ended up with are too flat, too homogenou... from Kyle Chayka
09-June-2023
- much of the time, the crypto ecosystems seem to be built by pretty ... from Matt Levine
- from the SEC’s perspective the important thing here is that the rul... from Matt Levine
08-June-2023
07-June-2023
- At companies with slower headcount growth, promotions will usually ... from The Pragmatic Engineer
- While there is so much focus on education, the bottleneck for flour... from Simon Sarris
06-June-2023
- In distributed programming theory, granularity has been around for ... from blog.cloudflare.com
- In the Supercloud both code and data are mobile and move around the... from blog.cloudflare.com
05-June-2023
- Unlike simple machines, which cannot be copyrighted, software is au... from Why Software Patents are Bad, Period.
- People often start from the mistaken notion that patents are a righ... from Why Software Patents are Bad, Period.
- the assumption in a patent trial isn’t that you stole the idea. It... from Why Software Patents are Bad, Period.
30-May-2023
28-May-2023
27-May-2023
- I recommend that teams receiving executive feedback try to “extract... from Irrational Exuberance
- For example, let's take the simple question: "How old are ... from Jason Kottke
- Physical activity decreases the risk of a network of diseases, and ... from ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- The Maui surfer girls love each other’s hair. It is awesome hair, l... from Susan Orlean
- • If you don’t own your content, you’re stuck. Owning your conten... from Gordon Brander from Subconscious
25-May-2023
- combining search and AI chat is actually the wrong way to go and I ... from Garbage Day
- As these stories pop up people act like they’re an incredible marve... from Garbage Day
24-May-2023
- Last year I moved onto a street that had a ton of litter. I lived w... from news.ycombinator.com
- I am reminded of one of Matt Mochary’s teaching: when you have to d... from news.ycombinator.com
- if the US government does default, that will probably cause the pri... from Matt Levine
- Strong commitment in design is good for dementia, where challenges ... from Sara Hendren from undefended / undefeated
23-May-2023
- The law states that any circulating currency consisting of both &qu... from en.wikipedia.org
- One major purpose of dataflow analysis is observing safety constrai... from nick-black.com
- The directed multigraph defined by interpreting basic blocks as ver... from nick-black.com
- Subsequent branch-free instructions make up segments of linear code... from nick-black.com
21-May-2023
20-May-2023
16-May-2023
- A responsibility assignment matrix[1] (RAM), also known as RACI mat... from en.wikipedia.org
- I designed the RAMBO Model as a simple framework to lead a great en... from thecodecompany.com
14-May-2023
- Speaking from a systems design point of view, we say that all real-... from apenwarr
- much of science is straightforward, logical, almost rote. It's ... from apenwarr
- You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence i... from Robert M. Pirsig
- But to tear down a factory or to revolt against a government or to ... from Robert M. Pirsig
- the recently discovered aperiodic monotile: Monotile image Mono... from apenwarr
13-May-2023
- few days ago I did something that I never thought I’d do again, and... from brandur.org
- And then along came Brad Schoenfeld and Co., who laid hands upon th... from She's A Beast
- Architect Albert Pope offers a better explanation in his excellent ... from Kneeling Bus
10-May-2023
08-May-2023
- the tech am I digging recently is a software framework called LangC... from Interconnected
- These constraints create better decisions both because constraints ... from Irrational Exuberance
07-May-2023
- many if not most software companies are probably Pareto-distributio... from Nadia Asparouhova
- The Platonic fold is the explosive boundary where the Platonic mind... from Nassim Nicholas Taleb
06-May-2023
- So here are the benefits of inheritance: • Unlike composition, y... from Hillel Wayne
- Elisa Baniassad and Alexander Summers have this great paper Reframi... from Hillel Wayne
05-May-2023
- The very most important thing to understand in finance and economic... from Matt Levine
- Paradoxically, the one clear winner in all of this is Meta. Because... from Dylan Patel
- Part of what makes LoRA so effective is that - like other forms of ... from Dylan Patel
- In many ways, this shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone. The current r... from Dylan Patel
04-May-2023
- We’re building apps to surround and harness AI, but we need microsc... from Interconnected
- Amdahl's law is often used in parallel computing to predict the... from en.wikipedia.org
03-May-2023
- Pollan proposes a new (and very old) answer to the question of what... from Michael Pollan
- That, for me, is the big difference between altruism—or its close c... from Mandy Brown
- “Wise souls are not humane.” To that, Le Guin writes: The “inhu... from Mandy Brown
- there have been many experiments running rats through all kinds of ... from Gwern Branwen
02-May-2023
- Syntax coloring isn't useless, it is childish, like training wh... from Douglas Crockford
- Just imagine if we rewound the clock back to 2016 and we were able ... from Frank Lantz
- The Lindy effect (also known as Lindy's Law[1]) is a theorized ... from en.wikipedia.org
- Every so often the US government thinks about defaulting on its deb... from Matt Levine
01-May-2023
- Text inputs have no affordances When I go up the mountain to ask t... from wattenberger.com
- Good tools let the user choose when to switch between implementatio... from wattenberger.com
30-April-2023
29-April-2023
- It’s using the ReAct pattern, which is straightforward and surprisi... from Matt Webb
- The fact that this slight change in study design yielded opposite r... from Katelyn Jetelina and Kristen Panthagani, MD, PhD from Your Local Epidemiologist
28-April-2023
26-April-2023
- The way double descent is normally presented, increasing the number... from chris-said.io
- In machine learning, double descent is a surprising phenomenon wher... from chris-said.io
- To encode the position of the current token in the sequence, the au... from dugas.ch
25-April-2023
24-April-2023
23-April-2023
22-April-2023
21-April-2023
- When you run into a complex problem, slow down to bring many differ... from Irrational Exuberance
- There’s no status website to check your relationship with other par... from Irrational Exuberance
19-April-2023
18-April-2023
17-April-2023
- The student who overcomes this problem might learn the following us... from plover.com
- If you look at a Greek temple, you will notice that the element tha... from Samuel Hughes
16-April-2023
- The process and the practice: Sources and habits Seeds Expe... from Rick Rubin
- Ultimately, the act of self-expression isn't really about you. ... from Rick Rubin
- Often, in making edits to a work: The ego comes in, saying: I wante... from Rick Rubin
- So when an artist creates a work that comes together by an unseen h... from Rick Rubin
- A river of material flows through us. When we share our works and o... from Rick Rubin
- Art doesn't get made on the clock. But it can get finished on t... from Rick Rubin
- If you know what you want to do and you do it, that's the work ... from Rick Rubin
- Believing a certain mood or state is necessary to do your best work... from Rick Rubin
- Just one habit, at the top of any field, can be enough to give an e... from Rick Rubin
- Discipline and freedom seem like opposites. In reality, they are pa... from Rick Rubin
- Many of our beliefs were learned before we had a choice in what we ... from Rick Rubin
- When meditating, as soon as the mind quiets, the sense of space can... from Rick Rubin
- Attuned choice by attuned choice, your entire life is a form of sel... from Rick Rubin
14-April-2023
- Inaction → Committed Action Clarifying our values and learning a n... from every.to
- Past/Future Preoccupation → Present Moment Contact Past/Future pre... from every.to
- Fusion → Defusion When we’re caught in avoidance, we tend to see o... from every.to
- Experiential Avoidance →Willingness When challenging thoughts and ... from every.to
- The ultimate goal of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is to ... from every.to
07-April-2023
- More capable models can better recognize the specific circumstances... from Simon Willison
- Avoidance speech is a group of sociolinguistic phenomena in which a... from wikipedia.org
03-April-2023
- Every change in scale is also a learning experience. In the physica... from Jack Cheng
- Every change in medium is a learning experience. Paint and clay hav... from Jack Cheng
- There’s a difference between personal and Personal. Between the idi... from Jack Cheng
- From the point of view of relationshps which appears in the design,... from Jack Cheng
- In this process, we figure out the most beautiful and comfortable a... from Jack Cheng
- The Field of Centers analysis is a way of mapping out what has a st... from Jack Cheng
- The priority of circulation is another of those modern, convenience... from Jack Cheng
02-April-2023
- All you crazy MFs are completely overlooking the fact that software... from Steve Yegge
- Teasing out the distinction between onboarding engineers and execut... from Irrational Exuberance
- Topological sorting is the sorting of vertices of a directed acycli... from Giridhar Manepalli
- Timestamps produced by a vector clock take the most amount of space... from Giridhar Manepalli
- variant of Lamport Clock, hereafter referred to as Lamport Origin C... from Giridhar Manepalli
- Timestamps produced by a Lamport clock take the least amount of spa... from Giridhar Manepalli
01-April-2023
- But the thing about state-sponsored attacks is that they’re a bit l... from Matt Webb
- Your choice of data layout/structure has two consequences: it makes... from Hillel Wayne
- First of all, if you’re talking to a manager, they will love you if... from amyn
31-March-2023
- The Therac-25 was a computer-controlled radiation therapy machine p... from wikipedia.org
- GPT-3/4 is like a Meeseeks box for computer and internet tasks. Kee... from ycombinator.com
- But here is his best line: Taleb had been busy. He had already ... from Matt Levine
28-March-2023
27-March-2023
- There are useful mental analogies between pedestrian line-of-busine... from ycombinator.com
- The door-in-the-face technique is a compliance method commonly stud... from en.wikipedia.org
25-March-2023
21-March-2023
- You can buy a bank’s attention to bespoke needs by bringing it depo... from Bits about Money
- Infrastructure undergirds society; failures of it are a per se emer... from Bits about Money
- Regulators then heard the numbers, did a bit of modeling in Excel, ... from Bits about Money
20-March-2023
- The three bank runs which already happened had idiosyncratic causes... from Bits about Money
- The decision to sharply manage down the price of eggs was, indirect... from Bits about Money
- All prices embed an interest rate derivative [[Banking in very unc... from Bits about Money
- when interest rates rise, all asset prices must fall [[Banking in ... from Bits about Money
19-March-2023
- CAP theorem is perhaps the best-known statement of the tradeoffs in... from apenwarr.ca
- The truth is, nearly every attempt to design a hierarchy-free, &quo... from apenwarr.ca
18-March-2023
- Financial systems help us overcome a collective action problem. In ... from Nick Rowe
- Nick Rowe memorably described finance as magic. The analogy I would... from Nick Rowe
- Thompson’s argument in that post is that Silicon Valley used to be ... from Matt Levine
- I’ve been thinking of a kind of article I commonly write: Here’... from Hillel Wayne
- To write about something hard to explain, write a detailed letter t... from startupy
- Separate the processes of creating from improving. You can’t write ... from startupy
- What we are trying to do influences what becomes salient to us. If ... from startupy
17-March-2023
15-March-2023
- Most organizations run these twice a year, which is a reasonable am... from Irrational Exuberance
- Executives are rarely held accountable unless they expose themselve... from Irrational Exuberance
- Once you acknowledge that leadership is inherently non-deterministi... from Dan Na
14-March-2023
10-March-2023
- Potential SLIs for different types of components Request-driven... from Steven Thurgood and David Ferguson
- Types of components The easiest way to get started with setting SL... from Steven Thurgood and David Ferguson
08-March-2023
07-March-2023
- Dealing with Error: • Put the knowledge required to operate the te... from Don Norman
- Poka-yoke is another Japanese method, this one invented by Shigeo S... from Don Norman
- the Toyota Production System. Among its many key principles is a ph... from Don Norman
- Errors have two major forms. Slips occur when the goal is correct, ... from Don Norman
06-March-2023
- the true nature of housing prices. It’s not about the house, it’s a... from goodreason.substack.com
- Forcing functions are the extreme case of strong constraints that c... from Don Norman
- Physical constraints are made more effective and useful if they are... from Don Norman
- These four classes of constraints-physical, cultural, semantic, and... from Don Norman
- It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy-books and... from Don Norman
- Here are three levels of mapping, arranged in decreasing effectiven... from Don Norman
- insights from the seven stages of action lead us to seven fundament... from Don Norman
- Seven stages of action: one for goals, three for execution, and thr... from Don Norman
- How do we form an appropriate conceptual model for the devices we i... from Don Norman
- Affordances determine what actions are possible. Signifiers communi... from Don Norman
- The presence of an affordance is jointly determined by the qualitie... from Don Norman
- An affordance is a relationship between the properties of an object... from Don Norman
- When we interact with a product, we need to figure out how to work ... from Don Norman
05-March-2023
- Something interesting about using voice for this means that you are... from Xe's Blog
- Construal level theory says that we think more concretely, as oppos... from Robin Hanson
04-March-2023
02-March-2023
- The point is, it doesn’t matter what you read, what matters is how ... from Noam Chomsky
- Actually, it reminds me in some ways of things that you find in non... from Noam Chomsky
- Instead, the basic principle I would like to see communicated to pe... from Noam Chomsky
- You just keep being struck by the marvels of what you’re discoverin... from Noam Chomsky
- Well, the drive to “advance”—I think you have to ask exactly what t... from Noam Chomsky
- But the point is, for classical liberals in the eighteenth century,... from Noam Chomsky
28-February-2023
- We all bring cognitive biases. The explicit ones we love to cast as... from Ilya Grigorik
- Separating out the well and worthy workers from the sick and unprod... from Doug Belshaw
- to meet a future full of catastrophe, we need to think and act like... from Doug Belshaw
- Inverse relationship between ease of access and quality of advice: ... from Irrational Exuberance
- That said, much like internal communication, networking is a relati... from Irrational Exuberance
- One thing I've noticed is that a lot of colleagues don't kn... from ycombinator.com
- in practice the answer is that some companies create negative exter... from Matt Levine
27-February-2023
- The entrepreneur is the customer and the LP is the shareholder. Tha... from Fred Wilson
- It’s not like survival, resilience, perseverance and strength in th... from Huw Lemmey
- For the Integrity Institute, the label “integrity worker” applies t... from New_ Public Staff
- A challenge with big projects is that what you're working on lo... from Michael Nielsen
- solo creative work is about a combination of maintaining a strong e... from Michael Nielsen
- A few desirable qualities for creative contexts: Note that very few... from Michael Nielsen
- this is the first important non-intuitive thing about KYC and AML r... from Patrick McKenzie (patio11)
26-February-2023
- The bottom line is this; in modern multicore, multi-CPU devices, th... from Glauber Costa
- The io_uring interface works through two main data structures: the ... from Glauber Costa
- as devices get extremely fast, interrupt-driven work is no longer a... from Glauber Costa
- brown lands , a semi-obsolete urban planning term that encompasses ... from Field Notes from Christopher Brown
24-February-2023
- These are qualities of a good system that we should strive to fulfi... from Josh Beckman
- Data can be processed as unbounded or bounded streams. Unb... from apache.org
- Consistent hashing is a distributed systems technique that operates... from NK
- Nothing is unimportant to a little child. He might cry if the wrong... from Simon Sarris
- When you see the world as magical, it meets you as a magical place.... from Simon Sarris
23-February-2023
- "Scenius" is Brian Eno’s term meaning communal genius and... from Interconnected
- Cognitive load is the amount of working memory needed to complete a... from Colin Dembovsky
22-February-2023
- If you are talking to a human and he or she doesn’t understand you,... from Tyler Cowen
- Noriaki Kano, a Japanese researcher and consultant, published a pap... from Folding Burritos
- Enron was applying selection at the individual level according to m... from Eliezer Yudkowsky
- Selecting the hen who lays the most eggs doesn't necessarily ge... from Eliezer Yudkowsky
21-February-2023
- So, does the creation and destruction of information have any direc... from William Kent
- pot makes you feel fine with being bored, and it's when you'... from goodreads.com
20-February-2023
- With more education, more and more people want to be published. Mor... from Gabriel Zaid and Natasha Wimmer
- It’s a cocktail not of judgment, but of analysis and perception. Th... from Alicia Kennedy
- A martini is supposed to be made to the drinkers’ preferences; a ma... from Alicia Kennedy
- We can use breathwork to move out of the fight-or-flight state and ... from Melissa Young
- It’s also known as sama vritti pranayama, born of the yogic practic... from Melissa Young
- what the chemical industry calls “verbund.” This is a setup in whic... from Sebastian Trzcinski-Clément
- mere-exposure effect: doing something many times makes us believe w... from Sebastian Trzcinski-Clément
- The promotion of brainstorming as a starting point is all the more ... from Sebastian Trzcinski-Clément
19-February-2023
- Forget your generalized audience. In the first place, the nameless,... from Maria Popova
- The unit of blogging isn’t pageviews, it’s conversations. Don’t wor... from tomcritchlow.com
- I am also constantly disappointed by the weather, but at least the ... from Harvard University Gazette
- Today's gap represents a failure of planning sometime in the pa... from Andrew S. Grove
- What decision needs to be made? When? Who will decide? Who will nee... from Andrew S. Grove
- any decision [should] be worked out and reached at the lowest compo... from Andrew S. Grove
- Task-relevant maturity: How senior someone is for the task at hand.... from Andrew S. Grove
- the real sign of malorganization is when people spend more than 25%... from Andrew S. Grove
- managers do not talk to their subordinates about their problems but... from Andrew S. Grove
- two basic kinds of meetings: process-oriented meeting, knowledge... from Andrew S. Grove
- The point is to impose a pattern on the way a manager copes with pr... from Andrew S. Grove
- Anyone who spends about a half day per week as a member of a planni... from Andrew S. Grove
- Delegation without follow-through is abdication [[And thus we find ... from Andrew S. Grove
- productivity can be increased in three ways: Increasing the rate... from Andrew S. Grove
- Reports are more a medium of self-discipline than a way to communic... from Andrew S. Grove
- Inventory should be kept at the lowest-value stage possible [[High... from Andrew S. Grove
- A common rule […] is to detect and fix any problem in a production ... from Andrew S. Grove
- CEOs always act on leading indicators of good news, but only act on... from Andrew S. Grove
- All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong. Most buil... from Stewart Brand
- ANY LARGE SYSTEM IS GOING TO BE OPERATING MOST OF THE TIME IN FAILU... from John Gall and D.H. Gall
- BIG SYSTEMS EITHER WORK ON THEIR OWN OR THEY DON’T. [[Big systems s... from John Gall and D.H. Gall
- No, students of Systemantics, Positive Feedback into a large System... from John Gall and D.H. Gall
- A COMPLEX SYSTEM THAT WORKS IS INVARIABLY FOUND TO HAVE EVOLVED FRO... from John Gall and D.H. Gall
- Charles Darwin made it a rule to write down immediately any observa... from John Gall and D.H. Gall
- ANERGY-STATE. Any state or condition of the Universe, or of any por... from John Gall and D.H. Gall
18-February-2023
- Cultural umami is the vague sense that yes, for some reason, it is.... from nemesis.global
- Premium mediocre is the finest bottle of wine at Olive Garden. Prem... from Venkatesh Rao
- For me, ICEWATCH is a deeply spiritual practice: I want to build re... from wbez.org
- If free software gifts are communism and open source is cynically c... from apenwarr
- [[Here's the thing about gifts: the sender chooses them, not th... from apenwarr
- Authoritarianism is about taking things from me. Communism, in its ... from apenwarr
- This story archetype is the Hero's Journey that inspires all so... from apenwarr
- Really finance is the study of human behavior and I guess signing y... from Matt Levine
- I’ve often seen teams leading reliability efforts respond to the qu... from GitHub
- As incidents continue to occur, teams generally respond by starting... from GitHub
- Pareidolia — our tendency to see “faces” in everything from power o... from Ribbonfarm Studio
17-February-2023
16-February-2023
- Screenshotting as one of the essential underrated tools of the digi... from Nadia Asparouhova
- MAY This word, or the adjective "OPTIONAL", mean that an ... from rfc-editor.org
- MUST This word, or the terms "REQUIRED" or "SHALL&qu... from rfc-editor.org
- If something is rotten in an org, the root cause is a manager who d... from yosefk.com
- The people whose compensation depends on your opinion have ample ti... from yosefk.com
15-February-2023
- Design an obstacle course, not a syllabus. One thing that we have v... from Post-Industrial Design School
- In order to uncover our customer’s perceptions towards our product’... from Folding Burritos
- The takeaway here is that any analysis we do at a given point in ti... from Folding Burritos
- Kano classifies features into four categories, depending on how cus... from Folding Burritos
- That was where I caught the connection between a college education ... from George Horace Lorimer
14-February-2023
- Top-tier athletes are fanatically disciplined about improving their... from Andyʼs working notes
- Athletes and musicians pursue virtuosity in fundamental skills much... from Andyʼs working notes
- Strategy can only be employed top-down, so it’s not a question of t... from Irrational Exuberance
- To ensure your strategy is operating at the right altitude, ask if ... from Irrational Exuberance
- As an engineering executive, it’s particularly important to think a... from Irrational Exuberance
- Are you confident the strategy will create leverage? Strategies req... from Irrational Exuberance
- Are you willing and able to enforce the strategy? If you think that... from Irrational Exuberance
- Are you either confident in your diagnosis or do you trust the wide... from Irrational Exuberance
- I recommend sharing the full document with the group, then spending... from Irrational Exuberance
- In Staff Engineer, I argued that writing an engineering strategies ... from Irrational Exuberance
- A strategy is composed of three parts: Diagnosis: a theory desc... from Irrational Exuberance
13-February-2023
- Imperfect social media tools gave anyone the ability to publish the... from Garbage Day
- I used to start my lecture on dictionaries in Python by explaining ... from The Third Bit
- We are so amazed by its ability to babble in a confident manner tha... from ycombinator.com
- So people are going to be even more blindsided when someone develop... from ycombinator.com
- Repetition makes lies seem true, but repetition also makes truth se... from ycombinator.com
- Hashing, crypto-safe (64 bytes) 500 ns 200 MiB/s [[Napkin Math fro... from sirupsen
- Random Memory R/W (64 bytes) 50 ns 1 GiB/s [[Napkin Math from siru... from sirupsen
- The way he talks about foraging in this conversation reminds me tha... from Kate Ray from soft leaves
- This guy Eric invited us over for dinner one time. He marinated som... from Kate Ray from soft leaves
- "Jobs to be done" is an attempt to identify demand withou... from Josh Beckman
- Project-Specific Pattern Languages Efficiency is not the problem (... from Ryan Singer
- A pattern as a form/context pair and a generic set of centers [[Som... from Ryan Singer
- Centers and generative process: Any structure is some elements in ... from Ryan Singer
12-February-2023
- Beyond Fitness: Life and a Better World Life (a quality) is the de... from Ryan Singer
- Form, Context, and Fit Form, in Context, evaluated against Fit. [[... from Ryan Singer
- As long as people think that government (as an ideal and an imperfe... from Matthew Gallaway
- Gardens - This is the wiki layer Michael references above and I don... from TOM CRITCHLOW
- Campfires - mostly blogging for me, though I know some folks gather... from TOM CRITCHLOW
- Streams - mostly Twitter for me, this is where fast twitch informat... from TOM CRITCHLOW
- To expand the term beyond its original scope, Max Pain punishes peo... from nemesis.global
- Max Pain is an urban legend-slash-theory from the options market, i... from nemesis.global
- As a subset of contrarianism, Hot Sauce Behavior became especially ... from nemesis.global
- Starting in the summer of 2020 and peaking in late 2021, various fa... from nemesis.global
- In The Umami Theory of Value, we discussed how, in the absence of m... from nemesis.global
- No exploration without contamination [[Why Not Mars from idlewords... from idlewords.com
- Form, in Context, evaluated against Fit. [[Noted about Christopher... from Ryan Singer
09-February-2023
- The best things in life are free. The second best things are very, ... from David Heinemeier Hansson (dhh@hey.com)
- But fifty years of progress in miniaturization and software changed... from idlewords.com
- In general, the chief compliance officer at any company has a dial ... from Matt Levine
08-February-2023
- I make a practice of regularly checking in about whether I have a d... from Andy Matuschak
- Bill Thurston writes: Mathematics is a process of staring hard ... from Andy Matuschak
- the questions my favourite writing professor would ask. Do you ... from Maggie Appleton
- Programmable notes are note-taking systems that allow you to write ... from Maggie Appleton
- The Japanese philosophy of Mingei was another movement we should ... from Maggie Appleton
- This scavenging in the SaaS landscape is how people express agency ... from Maggie Appleton
- Folk interfaces are when users reappropriate existing software to s... from Maggie Appleton
- Epistemology is the study of knowledge – how we know things, the me... from Maggie Appleton
- the New York City question: if you are to meet a stranger in New Yo... from wikipedia.org
- In game theory, a focal point (or Schelling point) is a solution th... from wikipedia.org
07-February-2023
- The discovery of scaling laws has typically preceded a boomtime for... from Josh Beckman
- Use a small model to generate a 'draft' output, then use a ... from Josh Beckman
- lol c’mon, if this wasn’t from an A.I., this would just be one of t... from Garbage Day
- But I’ve also noticed a creeping desire among A.I. evangelists to s... from Garbage Day
06-February-2023
- leaders work on the system, not in the system [[Better to microman... from Irrational Exuberance
- The next problem we have is how to build this index in a reasonable... from Timothy Clem
05-February-2023
- computing can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium ... from Tools for Thought Rocks!
- exactly the same thing goes for spaced repetition right you can loo... from Tools for Thought Rocks!
- "Monetize" is a terrible word that tacitly admits that th... from Cory Doctorow
- This is enshittification: surpluses are first directed to users; th... from Cory Doctorow
- Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; the... from Cory Doctorow
- Interlace is “the device of interweaving of a number of different t... from Robin Sloan
- When you start a creative project but don’t finish, the experienc... from Robin Sloan
- I’ve been mainly “hiring” members for permission. Not in a “please ... from Craig Mod
- Motivation factors include challenging work, recognition, responsib... from Craig Mod
- As I’ve written in past reviews, “permission” seems to be my bigges... from Craig Mod
04-February-2023
- AI, with its perceived threat to automate a vast array of jobs, see... from Kneeling Bus
- whenever folks talk about failed cultural change, I believe they’re... from Irrational Exuberance
- The most economically powerful thing you can do is to buy something... from Tim Carmody
- I call this “unlocking the commons,” and it’s the same approach I’v... from Tim Carmody
03-February-2023
- Columnist Brian Merchant touched on this fuzzy connection between t... from Garbage Day
- i thought, or hoped, that not caring would protect me, keep me invu... from Jackie Luo
- Let’s demonstrate the method with an example. Consider computing th... from Gregory Gundersen
- Okay, so habits are good: they free the mind for important things. ... from Matt Webb
- [End-user programming is] a vision for empowered computing pursued ... from 📝 Blog End-programmer Programming
- Incentives are well aligned with the success of the open-source pro... from Filippo Valsorda
- Concretely, I exclusively offer ongoing retainer agreements, withou... from Filippo Valsorda
- if the effort required to replace or fork a dependency should it go... from Filippo Valsorda
- Virtually all maintainers are either volunteers or full-time employ... from Filippo Valsorda
- But in modern financial markets, you can get an economic benefit fr... from Matt Levine
- Let’s demonstrate the method with an example. Consider computing th... from Gregory Gundersen
- Imagine we want to compute the square root of a number n. The basic... from Gregory Gundersen
02-February-2023
- Today , roughly 500 Americans are dying each day from COVID-19. At ... from Katelyn Jetelina from Your Local Epidemiologist
- The most economically powerful thing you can do is to buy something... from Jason Kottke
- Just like regular investment funds can either be actively managed o... from Matt Levine
- When someone (or some entity such as business) enjoys a particular ... from Drew DeVault's blog
- No chief executive officer of a big company wants to file for bankr... from Matt Levine
01-February-2023
- The answer, of course, is that the competitiveness of unaided indiv... from marcelo.rinesi
- Finance, like its cousin Poetry, is the use of precise language to ... from marcelo.rinesi
31-January-2023
- We feel rather than know (and many of us refuse to acknowledge) tha... from Robin Sloan
- This first lab newsletter of 2023 is very link-y, perhaps a bit raw... from Robin Sloan
- We have built many projects, and we believe the most valuable summa... from joelparkerhenderson
- The most important notation that summarizes a queue: • ρ: utiliz... from joelparkerhenderson
- • λ: arrival rate. This measures how fast new items are coming in... from joelparkerhenderson
- Give considered thought to what is “worth our attention in any give... from Rob Walker Art of Noticing
30-January-2023
- Tags are primarily used for both querying , or discovering informat... from Hillel Wayne
- Create capacity (rather than capture it). This value focuses leader... from Irrational Exuberance
- Default to vendors unless it’s our core competency. You can also wr... from Irrational Exuberance
- Follow existing patterns unless there’s an order of magnitude impro... from Irrational Exuberance
- Optimize for the {whole, business unit, team}. Pick one of these op... from Irrational Exuberance
- Approach conflict with curiosity. One of my foundational beliefs is... from Irrational Exuberance
- As described in Rumelt’s Good Strategy, Bad Strategy, a strategy is... from Irrational Exuberance
28-January-2023
- For large-scale software systems, Van Roy believes we need to embra... from Adrian Colyer
- More generally, Van Roy sees a layered language design with four co... from Adrian Colyer
- State introduces an abstract notion of time in programs. In functio... from Adrian Colyer
- The point is to pick a paradigm with just the right concepts. Too f... from Adrian Colyer
- The trickiest part of speeding up a program is not doing it, but de... from bueno.org
- The fundamental problem is that there’s a fundamental disagreement ... from Doug Belshaw
- I think what has happened is there was a massive overestimation of ... from Doug Belshaw
- Many years ago I got obsessed with habit-breaking days. We live our... from Matt Webb
- Triadic closure is a concept in network theory which is when a netw... from Matt Webb
- On a 32 bit machine, a long is 4 bytes, and it's still going to... from Writing - rachelbythebay
- Surely (no one/everyone) will (recognize how flexible and useful th... from xkcd.com
- See also: The Lindy effect [[Code Lifespan from xkcd.com ... from xkcd.com
27-January-2023
- Now, none of that Copilot-supplied code remains in my app. What ha... from Interconnected
- Also another, related point is that as far as I can tell every dece... from Matt Levine
26-January-2023
- The report said that for every $1 of new global wealth earned by a ... from Doug Belshaw
- input the number of daily trials I have, and then my retention rate... from David Smith
- I will say that based on playing around with lots of configurations... from David Smith
25-January-2023
- The dark irony here is that corporatized communication is what made... from Garbage Day
- Of course, OpenAI does offer a “social” feature, but the thing you’... from Garbage Day
- Yes. To me, the essence of the third place is that it is one where ... from Craig Mod
- Related, if you can see a better way to do it, strongly consider ke... from rjtavares
- The Queuing Rule of Thumb (QROT) is a mathematical formula, known a... from wikipedia.org
24-January-2023
- Participants were informed they should sit down in a chair or, if t... from news.ycombinator.com
- A surprising amount of executive time is spent cleaning up messes. ... from Irrational Exuberance
- updates establish a persistent drip of information from you to the ... from Irrational Exuberance
- you can significant improve the quality of internal communcations w... from Irrational Exuberance
- Amazon thought that if they could force users to go straight to Ama... from Second Marathon Archive Feed
23-January-2023
- The main issue here is that, at least when it comes to online platf... from Garbage Day
- If you don’t know the difference between something like DALL-E 2 an... from Garbage Day
- The term was “Web 2.0” was first coined in 1999 by technologist Dar... from Garbage Day
- Dialogue from movies and TV shows has become more difficult to hear... from Jason Kottke
- Life (and intersectionality) are complex, but money is, relatively ... from ongoing by Tim Bray
- Use the Q&A as an opportunity to highlight individuals doin... from Irrational Exuberance
- I start every Q&A by saying, “I’m glad to talk about anythi... from Irrational Exuberance
- Many engineers won’t get to work with you directly, and they will l... from Irrational Exuberance
- Good reviews are anchored in feedback from the audience, and discus... from Irrational Exuberance
- The most effective communication within an organization is between ... from Irrational Exuberance
- We can summarize the difference between the micro- and macroeconomi... from marcelo.rinesi
- In other words, feel more calm in real time, meaning without having... from Andrew Huberman
22-January-2023
- I think my favorite activity ever is cooking for people in my own h... from Kate Ray from soft leaves
- Because going against our natural inclinations can make us feel lik... from subbu.org
- The applicability of software to the just advancement of society, i... from Drew DeVault's blog
21-January-2023
- Accretive tools build over time. Developer tools tend to work like ... from Interconnected
- Ephemeral tools are about the conversation. Slack is one. Zoom is a... from Interconnected
- The room is architected for discussions and decisions, not just vis... from Interconnected
- Analyses have found that 12 people—coined the “disinformation dozen... from Katelyn Jetelina from Your Local Epidemiologist
- Disproportionately impactful engineering teams are distinguished by... from Irrational Exuberance
- A cost center is a function that is operated by optimizing its exis... from Irrational Exuberance
- At least sometimes, it seems, there is more demand for a very safe ... from Matt Levine
- This is one of the main things that happens in finance. It describe... from Matt Levine
- If a swear ever fails, the function is deleted from the source code... from Hillel Wayne
20-January-2023
- Around here I often quote the most important thing I learned at Gol... from Matt Levine
- Another lesson is that, when junior investment bankers work all nig... from Matt Levine
- the Howey test of what makes an “investment contract” a security is... from Matt Levine
19-January-2023
18-January-2023
17-January-2023
16-January-2023
- A standard way to poison a code model is to inject insecure code in... from Jack Clark
- In October of last year, YouTube creator and fandom expert Sarah Z ... from Garbage Day
- Canary tokens are a free, quick, painless way to help defenders dis... from Thinkst Thoughts
15-January-2023
- as users becomes accustomed to agents and NPCs, we’ll see more inte... from Matt Webb
- Laurel suggests that we see the computer screen as a stage on which... from Matt Webb
- the computer interface has always been a multiplayer environment fo... from Matt Webb
- Next we bring in creative divergence. How? Geists! Geists will be l... from Matt Webb
- Lastly, in a sense this is a religious course: I am preaching the m... from Richard W. Hamming and Bret Victor
- In a lifetime of many, many independent choices, small and large, a... from Richard W. Hamming and Bret Victor
- Education is what, when, and why to do things. Training is how to d... from Richard W. Hamming and Bret Victor
- And yes, there’ll be plenty of cases where “raw ChatGPT” can help w... from stephenwolfram.com
- But if you use the trick I learned twenty years ago from a Subaru s... from Field Notes from Christopher Brown
14-January-2023
- And when you’re afraid of someone’s judgment, you can’t connect wit... from Startupy
- Asking for help with shame says: You have the power over me. Askin... from Startupy
- TikTok’s entire strategy is to turn viral content into public domai... from Garbage Day
13-January-2023
- • Maybe they’re just creating massive amounts of “digital represe... from Cold Takes
- The lab mice problem Today's "subhuman" AIs are safe.... from Cold Takes
- The King Lear problem The AI is (actually) well-behaved when human... from Cold Takes
- The Lance Armstrong problem Did we get the AI to be actually safe o... from Cold Takes
- If only they were literally raping children and then eating their b... from Astral Codex Ten
- But, paradoxically, crypto is much more reliant on trust than the r... from Matt Levine
- It was like a fantastical version of their old jobs, a new financia... from Matt Levine
- Influence operations can take many shapes; most such operations are... from Casey Newton
- Scavenge-friendly electronics are parts that are no longer manufact... from xxiivv.com
- Designing for Disassembly ensures that all elements of a product ca... from xxiivv.com
- Utilizing what has survived the collapse of industrial production o... from xxiivv.com
- Utilizing only already available computational resources, to be lim... from xxiivv.com
- Utilizing computational resources as finite and precious, to be uti... from xxiivv.com
- The abundance of digital storage and processing power has caused an... from xxiivv.com
- His only real hope of avoiding many years in prison is to convince ... from Matt Levine
- Yeah I mean a general lesson here is that you want to be in the sor... from Matt Levine
12-January-2023
- I’d argue that field-level encryption should be a starting place fo... from lethain.com
- From the perspective of non-mega-platform companies, I think this i... from lethain.com
- While today there’s a wide distance between GDPR, CCPA, HITRUST, Fe... from lethain.com
- At minimum, open source projects hosted on GitHub can be broken int... from Nadia Eghbal
- Developers don’t contribute to open source for lack of technical ab... from Nadia Eghbal
- MAINTAINERS are those who are responsible for the future of a proje... from Nadia Eghbal
11-January-2023
- Seeing your website’s actual server is the virtual equiv of the Ove... from Matt Webb
- Many people believe that cash, the paper printed by the government,... from Patrick McKenzie (patio11)
- The seemingly earnest popularity of these videos, especially among ... from Garbage Day
- Modern generative models are generic data transformation engines, a... from Jack Clark
- One interesting and possibly even true thing that I learned in law ... from Matt Levine
10-January-2023
- This is an example of the ‘capability overhang’ phenomenon I’ve bee... from Jack Clark
- A bill of materials or BOM is a list of the raw components that go ... from Kevin Chung
- Like the orbits of all other satellites, and of the Space Station, ... from Marcin Wichary
- Weightlessness is bad for the bones, but good for the soul. [[The ... from Marcin Wichary
- The IRS says: "To be deductible, a business expense must be bo... from Bits about Money
- you can pay me money, and I will continue writing. If you (in aggre... from Bits about Money
09-January-2023
- Self-worth, the unexpected corollary of having positive archetypes ... from Josh Beckman
- The world is mostly shaped by wealth, more so than ever as technolo... from Josh Beckman
- You are approaching this like an established natural sciences field... from ycombinator.com
- Ideally you could adjust a dial and and set the degree of hallucina... from Tyler Cowen
- This is a new food culture, where the chef is not speaking from on ... from Alicia Kennedy
08-January-2023
- And so when one wonders why newsletters “came out of nowhere” just ... from Patrick McKenzie (patio11)
- The single biggest thing Substack accomplished was legitimizing a S... from Patrick McKenzie (patio11)
- One publication well-known enough by cognoscenti to get namechecked... from Patrick McKenzie (patio11)
- An edge city is a dense, auto-oriented job center arising from near... from Alon Levy
- pruning for sparsity – turns out some LLMs work just as well if you... from Tyler Cowen
- distillation – a technique by which larger, more capable models can... from Tyler Cowen
07-January-2023
- Skeptics of solar feasibility pantomime a kind of technical realism... from Robin Sloan
- We live on a sun-drenched blue marble hanging in space, and for all... from Robin Sloan
- Erasure Coding is a ubiquitous technique in storage and physical ne... from marcbrooker@gmail.com (Marc Brooker)
- Let's think about that cache again: when that one node is down,... from marcbrooker@gmail.com (Marc Brooker)
- Erasure coding is the idea that we can take a blob of data, break i... from marcbrooker@gmail.com (Marc Brooker)
- The fact that I had never been on the ghost kitchen’s block despite... from Josh Beckman
- Every year, the company adds even more steps to the camera post-pro... from Filipe Espósito
- this is the problem when your sole governing ideals are destroying ... from INDIGNITY, from the makers of HMM WEEKLY
06-January-2023
- So to summarize–downballot races are cheap, cost-effective, and bec... from Idle Words
- Even in a normal year, early money is many times more effective tha... from Idle Words
- In conditions of uncertainty, you might be tempted to use a low mar... from Matt Levine
- If you run a mutual fund, a high mark is good for investors who tak... from Matt Levine
- The attraction of private investments is that they don’t have to go... from Josh Beckman
- One imperfect but useful way to think about crypto,” I wrote, “is t... from Josh Beckman
05-January-2023
- As a religion, social justice works. It works not merely in the sen... from Sara Hendren from undefended / undefeated
- What is the alternative to naïve cynicism? An active response to wh... from Sara Hendren from undefended / undefeated
- But the hyperobject that is climate change requires the very kind o... from Sara Hendren from undefended / undefeated
01-January-2023
- one of the realization that I hadworking on something like this was... from Hundred Rabbits
- A post-collapse society that has eventually lost all of its artific... from xxiivv.com
- Collapse informatics prioritizes community needs and aims to contri... from xxiivv.com
- Designing for Descent ensures that a system is resilient to intermi... from xxiivv.com
- Asking for the most suitable programming language for permacomputin... from xxiivv.com
- and soall Apple products broke almostinstantly and uhall the tools ... from Hundred Rabbits
- our philosophy is that to make fastsoftware you need slow computers... from Hundred Rabbits
- traditional arch bridges were built by first having a wood framing ... from Ferd.ca
29-December-2022
28-December-2022
- There is no need to cut croutons into perfect little squares! Just ... from Joshua McFadden
- Before using dried fruit I rehydrate it in a bowl of water with a s... from Joshua McFadden
- because nuts like all fatty ingredients will absorb odors. [[Six S... from Joshua McFadden
- Cheese is a living thing that needs to breathe. Waxed paper or spec... from Joshua McFadden
- Buy them in small quantities and replenish them often instead of ha... from Joshua McFadden
- What will keep beans tough, though, is acid, so never cook beans in... from Joshua McFadden
- Don't store in plastic containers, because the plastic can abso... from Joshua McFadden
- Never buy preground or precracked pepper, ever! You want the fresh,... from Joshua McFadden
- Those little shakers on the table are of no help when you cook; you... from Joshua McFadden
- the programmer's task is not just to write down a program, but ... from University of Texas in Austin
- the program is an abstract symbol manipulator, which can be turned ... from University of Texas in Austin
- the vast majority of our mechanisms are viewed as analogue devices ... from University of Texas in Austin
27-December-2022
26-December-2022
- In essence, journalling is similar to a psychotherapy session. The... from ycombinator.com
- I summarize these daily notes into a weekly digest. These have more... from bytes.zone
- "Cartesian theater" is a derisive term coined by philosop... from wikipedia.org
- in the web, it makes sense that links should reflect potential, sin... from Fernando Borretti
- Most of our thoughts appear and pass away instantly, for good reaso... from Fernando Borretti
- My point today is that, if we wish to count lines of code, we shoul... from University of Texas in Austin
- Eventually, you reach this list’s conclusion, which lies in an unas... from ~ uday schultz
- To achieve that braking safety, the subway’s signal architecture wo... from ~ uday schultz
- Build layers into your dish, like you're making nachos. Hide th... from Joshua McFadden
- All roots have edible greens, so catch them early when they're ... from Joshua McFadden
- please note-when grilling or charring, skip the oil. Cook your vege... from Joshua McFadden
- “Their sensory volume increased, since light travels farther in air... from Blake Crouch
25-December-2022
- My general view on beliefs is that we get to choose them, so we sho... from lethain.com
- Ultimately, I decided not to, and developed the idea that I should ... from lethain.com
- There’s a third impact of AI harder to spot and even harder to sell... from marcelo.rinesi
- Essentially, the use of AI as a technology has less of a meta-strat... from marcelo.rinesi
- using AI to design products is more powerful than using AI as a pro... from marcelo.rinesi
19-December-2022
- As far as I can tell, cognitive bandwidth and network bandwidth bot... from Ferd.ca
- the Law of stretched systems: Every system is stretched to oper... from Ferd.ca
18-December-2022
- The fruits are so small that the red doesn’t jump out at you in the... from Christopher Brown
- Sonali had told us about Annaprashana, which is a Hindu ceremony in... from Kate Ray
17-December-2022
- Stereo width is a big part of the Glowed Up mix, with the 808 and s... from Reverb Machine
- Sidechain compression listens to a second track to decide when to b... from Reverb Machine
- When we say, “If you’re going to read one thing about programming, ... from The Third Bit
- During the summer of 2021, Canadian researchers … found that the un... from Josh Beckman
14-December-2022
- if you are talking about “numerous black swans” then you have made ... from Josh Beckman
- In the glory days, Olympus enthusiasts dressed up this insight in t... from Josh Beckman
- Stochastic resonance is the phenomenon in which random noise can am... from Interconnected
13-December-2022
- “Advancing the industry.” I believe that I can improve practice in ... from Irrational Exuberance
- Many students and academic writers think like the early ship owners... from Sebastian Trzcinski-Clément
- An idea kept private is as good as one you never had. [[How to Tak... from Sebastian Trzcinski-Clément
12-December-2022
- The cotton gin, a canonical example of automation, perversely incre... from Robin Sloan
- In most places, the olive harvest is mechanized, but that’s only po... from Robin Sloan
11-December-2022
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06-December-2022
- the crypto industry in 2022 rediscovered the 2008 financial crisis.... from Josh Beckman
- He is making multi-year, illiquid, unhedgeable speculative investme... from Josh Beckman
05-December-2022
04-December-2022
03-December-2022
- something called the Hermeneutic circle, which Ryan Kitchens descri... from ferd.ca
- Mediocre computing is computing that aims for parity with mediocre ... from Josh Beckman
- series of reactions strips its highest-energy electrons and uses th... from James Somers
- the Gruen Transfer, a phenomenon that architecture theorist Sanford... from Josh Beckman
23-November-2022
- That whole summer in Colorado was a data-gathering bust, but it tau... from Hope Jahren
- And some of these things we do, and some of them we don’t (like the... from Hope Jahren
18-November-2022
- The fact that something stops working at significantly increased sc... from Will Larson
- What I’ve found most successful is to identify a few areas to impro... from Will Larson
28-October-2022
- The Gestalists showed that there was no obvious relationship betwee... from Michael Lewis
- It confirmed Biederman’s sense that “most advances in science come ... from Michael Lewis
17-October-2022
- This is one reason why we continually grasp for the latest get-rich... from James Clear
- Happiness is the state you enter when you no longer want to change ... from James Clear
- Sometimes a habit will be hard to remember and you’ll need to make ... from James Clear
15-October-2022
- Professionals stick to the schedule; amateurs let life get in the w... from James Clear
- When I suggested this to friends in the Pentagon they said, ‘My God... from James Clear
- it’s not always about what happens during the workout. It’s about b... from James Clear
- Similarly, if your reward for exercising is eating a bowl of ice cr... from James Clear
14-October-2022
13-October-2022
- There are a hundred species or so known as “resurrection plants.” T... from Hope Jahren
- A chilly autumn brings on the same hardening as a balmy one, becaus... from Hope Jahren
12-October-2022
- We imitate the habits of three groups in particular: The close.... from James Clear
- This innate duality—software visible as both a fixed point and a li... from Nadia Eghbal
11-October-2022
- Stop thinking about your environment as filled with objects. Start ... from James Clear
- In this way, the most common form of change is not internal, but ex... from James Clear
- The 1st Law of Behavior Change is to make it obvious. Strategies li... from James Clear
- Whenever you want to change your behavior, you can simply ask yours... from James Clear
- your habits are how you embody your identity [[An Easy & P... from James Clear
- Goals are about the results you want to achieve. Systems are about ... from James Clear
15-August-2022
06-August-2022
- Code is not a product to be bought and sold so much as a living for... from Nadia Eghbal
- Paying a maintainer for their attention can also translate into ful... from Nadia Eghbal
- Before there was a de facto platform for hosting code, most open so... from Nadia Eghbal
17-July-2022
- In a 2003 memoir called Where the Money Is: True Tales from the Ban... from Geoff Manaugh
- Today, nearly 150 years later, burglary and architecture still go h... from Geoff Manaugh
13-June-2022
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- As for subscriptions, paywalls might seem like a way to monetize co... from Nadia Eghbal
- Code, in static state, can be bought and sold at nearly zero margin... from Nadia Eghbal
21-March-2022
- There is generally no judicial remedy for a policy that the Supreme... from Richard Rothstein
- The full cycle went like this: when a neighborhood first integrated... from Richard Rothstein
17-January-2022
- Being paid to wonder seems like a heavy responsibility at times. [... from Hope Jahren
- When you are in the forest, for every tree that you see, there are ... from Hope Jahren
- Every species on Earth—past or present, from the single-celled micr... from Hope Jahren
- I wanted to be studying plant growth, but science for war will alwa... from Hope Jahren
- People are like plants: they grow toward the light. I chose science... from Hope Jahren
04-January-2022
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- Trust on its own isn’t much of a management technique. Trust cannot... from lethain.com
- An immediate hypothesis was that Omicron may have developed in a si... from news.ycombinator.com
18-December-2021
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14-December-2021
- And regulations are written in blood, so we’ll only get enforced le... from buttondown.email
- TDD/FP/Agile zealots are probably zealots because adopting TDD/FP/A... from buttondown.email
- these are the three main lists of golden signals today: From the Go... from www.infoq.com
- Human memory is squishy, and that's great. You retain facts + f... from news.ycombinator.com
13-December-2021
- In the lab or studio, the hardest question to answer is What shall ... from sarahendren.substack.com
12-December-2021
- But the community feels different now, now that many of its partici... from macwright.com
- The term 2.5-D was coined by anime fans in Japan in the 1980s to re... from kottke.org
- Part of what makes for a really good profile — and this is certainl... from annehelen.substack.com
- It’s a nice fantasy to think about future singularity. But that’s j... from nautil.us
- I hope the history books written about this moment in American hist... from www.garbageday.email
- In a now-deleted tweet, a friend recently remarked on how she was s... from www.garbageday.email
10-December-2021
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07-December-2021
- Here's what everyone peddling the new trendy systems is so desp... from apenwarr.ca
- The next day I encountered a more novel creature in the process of ... from fieldnotes.christopherbrown.com
- Like climate change, COVID is settling into its status as a “permac... from kneelingbus.substack.com
- when Netflix drops a big new show “it feels like a software update ... from kneelingbus.substack.com
- The pandemic highlighted our intimate relationship with biology. Ur... from futureofurbantech.org
05-October-2021
25-September-2021
- There should be a guy who every morning rides his bicycle down to t... from infinitegossip.substack.com
- Sacasas describes the concept of “reality privilege” to which Andre... from
- One of the consequences of demateralisation is that things that “re... from
21-September-2021
12-September-2021
- A conversation can happen between yourself and yourself, across tim... from subconscious.substack.com
- Alice Waters had this incredibly boss move at Chez Panisse where, f... from tinyletter.com
- Luxury always boils down to time: someone is paying a lot of money ... from tinyletter.com
11-September-2021
- In your head, ideas expand until they max out “working memory” – an... from interconnected.org
- Since writing is very hard and rewriting is comparatively easy and ... from www.newyorker.com
- What we call history is, in practice, what we can bear to think abo... from
- A lot of developer tools also assume a developer will switch to an ... from future.a16z.com
- If our notion of “what is supposed to happen” is getting weaker, th... from future.a16z.com
- most of the conversations around developer experience are about how... from future.a16z.com
- With developers spending less than a third of their time actually w... from future.a16z.com
- A general heuristic I’ve come to use to ascribe “value” to (a porti... from
07-September-2021
- It's easy to look at pregnancy (for example) as something which... from twitter.com
- Code runs on people. Please keep it simple. "Everyone knows&q... from rachelbythebay.com
- never again let anyone tell you that the fury or determination to f... from www.thecut.com
- I have seethed as generations of Democrats have argued that if we c... from www.thecut.com
06-September-2021
- Find the best teachers and take all their classes, no matter the su... from
- It’s seems obvious that collective action from internet creators is... from www.garbageday.email
- When asked for IC career advice the first thing I always say is: YO... from twitter.com
29-August-2021
- Rewild your attention” — that’s a wonderful way of putting it! (Or ... from clivethompson.medium.com
28-August-2021
- CLICHES ARE A SUBSTITUTE FOR CRITICAL THINKING [[Why I hate the ph... from charity.wtf
- Instead, it’s much better to wrap your patch in a module and apply ... from blog.appsignal.com
18-August-2021
16-August-2021
- Census figures show there are 40,000 more Latinos in Chicago than a... from
- Chicago remains the third largest city in the country with a popula... from
- There have always been people who have had to censor themselves and... from blgtylr.substack.com
- I talked to strangers, and listened to them, and felt my face heat ... from blgtylr.substack.com
15-August-2021
- Why is that a hard message to communicate through marketing, especi... from sarahmock.substack.com
- A few months ago, I was at an event that asked this question of par... from sarahmock.substack.com
- Consumers want perfection, but farmers want commodity,” he said. T... from sarahmock.substack.com
- The process [of regenerative ag] is expensive, since farmers who em... from sarahmock.substack.com
14-August-2021
13-August-2021
- Recollection is such a small, basic part of thinking! There is so m... from thesephist.com
- A tool is something that takes an existing workflow, and makes it m... from thesephist.com
- We’ve somehow managed to create a societal scenario where the most ... from annehelen.substack.com
- To summarise those desirable qualities, a good notation is: Compos... from interconnected.org
- Everything has an interface. A platform has an API. A computer has ... from gist.github.com
- The value of a product is the number of problems it can solve divid... from gist.github.com
- Or to be more specific, urbanist Kevin Lynch’s city maps from his 1... from interconnected.org
12-August-2021
- I’m personally convinced that these companies are selling products ... from
- although as with all plastic recycling, “downcycling” is the more a... from
- At Maggie Daley Park, one of the project’s defining challenges was ... from
- This sort of knowledge is what Dan Wang calls process knowledge - t... from
- Jingu is famous for its tradition of periodic reconstruction, known... from
- The four elements of credible neutrality are: (1) Don’t write speci... from
- But just as the gig economy mode of work brought about negative con... from
11-August-2021
- One of the most common mistakes when starting with Domain Events an... from serialized.io
- Examples of things that happen that might not be suitable to model ... from serialized.io
09-August-2021
- Remember that when you’re in the right you can afford to keep your ... from George Horace Lorimer
- There are articles about how to drive like a real-world road warrio... from fieldnotes.christopherbrown.com
08-August-2021
06-August-2021
- the system grows for a while (increasing λ), or we reduce the numbe... from brooker.co.za
- As we think about it this way, we realize that the closer ⍴ gets to... from brooker.co.za
- We can then define the Utilization of the server (calling it ⍴ for ... from brooker.co.za
- Then the big parks, which are beautiful and well maintained. Great ... from interconnected.org
- And it was this work that really opened my eyes to the pervasive se... from interconnected.org
- Instead of pathologizing every human quirk, we should say, By the g... from Sarah Manguso
- My friend Chip Ward speaks of “the tyranny of the quantifiable,” of... from Rebecca Solnit
- He has wondered lately if that’s all living really is—one long good... from Blake Crouch
- My laboratory is like a church because it is where I figure out wha... from Hope Jahren
- Science has taught me that everything is more complicated than we f... from Hope Jahren
- He taught me that there is no shame in breaking something, only in ... from Hope Jahren
- Working in the hospital teaches you that there are only two kinds o... from Hope Jahren
- People are made of stories. Our memories are not the impartial accu... from Ted Chiang
- We don’t normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology,... from Ted Chiang
- “Coincidence and intention are two sides of a tapestry, my lord. Yo... from Ted Chiang
- Good goals are a composition of four specific kinds of numbers: A t... from Will Larson
- An important property of teams is that they abstract the complexiti... from Will Larson
- Organizational design gets the right people in the right places, em... from Will Larson
- Strategies are grounded documents which explain the trade-offs and ... from Will Larson
- When I have a problem that I want to solve quickly and cheaply, I s... from Will Larson
- A few of the conditions that Benkler identifies as necessary to pul... from Nadia Eghbal
- The central thesis of this book is precisely that an apparently sma... from Thomas Piketty and Arthur Goldhammer
09-February-2021
- Although we generally prefer tolerating faults over preventing faul... from Martin Kleppmann
- The things that can go wrong are called faults, and systems that an... from Martin Kleppmann
14-December-2020
- All in all, I don’t think service communication is the sweet spot f... from Marc-Andre Giroux
- GraphQL is purposefully transport/protocol agnostic. Nothing is sto... from Marc-Andre Giroux
- build a GraphQL API server that is resolved by many underlying serv... from Marc-Andre Giroux
- Airbnb’s approach of wiring up different schemas together to form t... from Marc-Andre Giroux
- My advice would be for GraphQL APIs to rely on conventions as much ... from Marc-Andre Giroux
- A lot has to be reinvented with a GraphQL API. Errors, caching, rat... from Marc-Andre Giroux
- The trade-off, though, is that a uniform interface degrades efficie... from Marc-Andre Giroux
- We can often categorize APIs in three broad categories: Private API... from Marc-Andre Giroux
- Compiled queries are a very exciting area of GraphQL that I hope to... from Marc-Andre Giroux
- Some would even say field ordering should be normalized, but that c... from Marc-Andre Giroux
- The generation of a cache key is always important, but even more so... from Marc-Andre Giroux
- It’s often very useful to provide inline performance information in... from Marc-Andre Giroux
- I like to think of the lifecycle of a GraphQL query in 3 broad step... from Marc-Andre Giroux
- Once the client has the identifier for a particular query, it can s... from Marc-Andre Giroux
- Persisted queries are a must for all internal APIs, and I suspect t... from Marc-Andre Giroux
06-December-2020
- Context Maps where contexts have clear roles and their relationship... from UnknownAuthor
- Another way this is noted is that Factories are “pure domain”, but ... from UnknownAuthor
- The Factory should create new objects, while the Repository should ... from UnknownAuthor
- For immutable Value Objects it means that all attributes are initia... from UnknownAuthor
- Choose one Entity to be the root of each Aggregate, and control all... from UnknownAuthor
- An Aggregate is a group of associated objects which are considered ... from UnknownAuthor
03-December-2020
- There are three characteristics of a Service: The operation perfor... from UnknownAuthor
- For example, to transfer money from one account to another; should ... from UnknownAuthor
01-December-2020
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- For the last five hundred years, the best way to succeed has been t... from Seth Godin
- understand that the path is neither short nor easy. That means you ... from Seth Godin
- The hard part is distinguishing between quitting because the resist... from Seth Godin