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- I recommend that teams receiving executive feedback try to “extract ...
- For example, let's take the simple question: 'How old are ...
- Physical activity decreases the risk of a network of diseases, ...
- The Maui surfer girls love each other’s hair. It is ...
- • If you don’t own your content, you’re stuck. Owning ...
25-May-2023
- combining search and AI chat is actually the wrong way ...
- As these stories pop up people act like they’re an ...
24-May-2023
- Last year I moved onto a street that had a ...
- I am reminded of one of Matt Mochary’s teaching: when ...
- if the US government *does* default, that will probably cause ...
- Strong commitment in design is good for dementia, where challenges ...
23-May-2023
- The law states that any circulating currency consisting of both ...
- One major purpose of dataflow analysis is observing safety constraints ...
- The directed multigraph defined by interpreting basic blocks as vertices, ...
- Subsequent branch-free instructions make up segments of *linear code*. The ...
21-May-2023
20-May-2023
16-May-2023
- A **responsibility assignment matrix**1 (**RAM**), also known as **RACI matrix**2 ...
- I designed the RAMBO Model as a simple framework to ...
14-May-2023
- Speaking from a systems design point of view, we say ...
- much of science is straightforward, logical, almost rote. It's easy ...
- the recently discovered aperiodic monotile: ![] Monotile image [Monotile image] ...
13-May-2023
- few days ago I did something that I never thought ...
- And then along came Brad Schoenfeld and Co., who laid ...
- Architect Albert Pope offers a better explanation in his excellent ...
11-May-2023
10-May-2023
08-May-2023
- the tech am I digging recently is a software framework ...
- These constraints create better decisions both because constraints drive innovation, ...
07-May-2023
- many if not most software companies are probably Pareto-distribution now, ...
- The Platonic fold is the explosive boundary where the Platonic ...
06-May-2023
- So here are the benefits of inheritance: • Unlike composition, ...
- Elisa Baniassad and Alexander Summers have this great paper [Reframing ...
05-May-2023
- The very most important thing to understand in finance and ...
- Paradoxically, the one clear winner in all of this is ...
- Part of what makes LoRA so effective is that - ...
- In many ways, this shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone. ...
04-May-2023
- We’re building apps to surround and harness AI, but we ...
- Amdahl's law is often used in [parallel computing] to predict ...
03-May-2023
- Pollan proposes a new (and very old) answer to the ...
- That, for me, is the big difference between altruism—or its ...
- “Wise souls are not humane.” To that, Le Guin writes: ...
- there have been many experiments running rats through all kinds ...
02-May-2023
- Syntax coloring isn't useless, it is childish, like training wheels ...
- > Just imagine if we rewound the clock back to ...
- The **Lindy effect** (also known as **Lindy's Law**1 is a ...
- Every so often the US government thinks about defaulting on ...
01-May-2023
- Text inputs have no affordances When I go up the ...
- **Good tools let the user choose when to switch between ...
30-April-2023
29-April-2023
- It’s using the ReAct pattern, which is straightforward and surprisingly ...
- The fact that this slight change in study design yielded ...
28-April-2023
26-April-2023
- Challenge to Unlock Stalemate Debates
- The way double descent is normally presented, increasing the number ...
- In machine learning, double descent is a surprising phenomenon where ...
- To encode the position of the current token in the ...
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 ...
- There’s no status website to check your relationship with other ...
19-April-2023
18-April-2023
17-April-2023
- The student who overcomes this problem might learn the following ...
- If you look at a [Greek temple], you will notice ...
16-April-2023
- The process and the practice: Sources and habits Seeds Experimentation ...
- Ultimately, the act of self-expression isn't really about you. ...
- Often, in making edits to a work: The ego comes ...
- So when an artist creates a work that comes together ...
- A river of material flows through us. When we share ...
- Art doesn't get made on the clock. But it can ...
- If you know what you want to do and you ...
- Believing a certain mood or state is necessary to do ...
- Just one habit, at the top of any field, can ...
- Discipline and freedom seem like opposites. In reality, they are ...
- Many of our beliefs were learned before we had a ...
- When meditating, as soon as the mind quiets, the sense ...
- Attuned choice by attuned choice, your entire life is a ...
14-April-2023
- **Inaction → Committed Action** Clarifying our values and learning a ...
- Past/Future Preoccupation → Present Moment Contact Past/Future preoccupation is a ...
- Fusion → Defusion When we’re caught in avoidance, we tend ...
- Experiential Avoidance →Willingness When challenging thoughts and feelings come up, ...
- The ultimate goal of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is ...
07-April-2023
- More capable models can better recognize the specific circumstances under ...
- **Avoidance speech** is a group of sociolinguistic phenomena in which ...
03-April-2023
- **Every change in scale is also a learning experience.** In ...
- **Every change in medium is a learning experience.** Paint and ...
- **There’s a difference between personal and Personal.** Between the idiosyncratic ...
- From the point of view of relationshps which appears in ...
- In this process, we figure out the most comfortable beautiful ...
- The Field of Centers analysis is a way of mapping ...
- Studio Project #3: A House for Oneself
02-April-2023
- All you crazy MFs are completely overlooking the fact that ...
- Teasing out the distinction between onboarding engineers and executives: • ...
- Topological sorting is the sorting of vertices of a directed ...
- Timestamps produced by a vector clock take the most amount ...
- variant of Lamport Clock, hereafter referred to as Lamport Origin ...
- Timestamps produced by a Lamport clock take the least amount ...
01-April-2023
- But the thing about state-sponsored attacks is that they’re a ...
- Your choice of data layout/structure has two consequences: it makes ...
- First of all, if you’re talking to a manager, they ...
31-March-2023
- The **Therac-25** was a computer-controlled [radiation therapy] machine produced by ...
- GPT-3/4 is like a Meeseeks box for computer and internet ...
- But here is his best line: > Taleb had been ...
28-March-2023
27-March-2023
- There are useful mental analogies between pedestrian line-of-business CRUD apps ...
- The **door-in-the-face technique** is a [compliance] method commonly studied in ...
25-March-2023
21-March-2023
- You can buy a bank’s attention to bespoke needs by ...
- Infrastructure undergirds society; failures of it are a per se ...
- Regulators then heard the numbers, did a bit of modeling ...
20-March-2023
- The three bank runs which already happened had idiosyncratic causes, ...
- The decision to sharply manage down the price of eggs ...
- All prices embed an interest rate derivative ...
- when interest rates rise, all asset prices must fall ...
19-March-2023
- [CAP theorem] is perhaps the best-known statement of the tradeoffs ...
- The truth is, nearly every attempt to design a hierarchy-free, ...
18-March-2023
- Financial systems help us overcome a collective action problem. In ...
- Nick Rowe memorably described [finance as magic]. The analogy I ...
- Thompson’s argument in that post is that Silicon Valley *used ...
- I’ve been thinking of a kind of article I commonly ...
- To write about something hard to explain, write a detailed ...
- Separate the processes of creating from improving. You can’t write ...
- What we are trying to do influences what becomes salient ...
17-March-2023
15-March-2023
- Most organizations run these twice a year, which is a ...
- Executives are rarely held accountable unless they expose themselves to ...
- Once you acknowledge that leadership is inherently non-deterministic you can ...
14-March-2023
10-March-2023
- Potential SLIs for different types of components Type of SLI ...
- Types of components The easiest way to get started with ...
08-March-2023
07-March-2023
- Dealing with Error: • Put the knowledge required to operate ...
- Poka-yoke is another Japanese method, this one invented by Shigeo ...
- the Toyota Production System. Among its many key principles is ...
- Errors have two major forms. Slips occur when the goal ...
06-March-2023
- the true nature of housing prices. It’s not about the ...
- Forcing functions are the extreme case of strong constraints that ...
- Physical constraints are made more effective and useful if they ...
- These four classes of constraints-physical, cultural, semantic, and logical-seem to ...
- It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy-books ...
- Here are three levels of mapping, arranged in decreasing effectiveness ...
- insights from the seven stages of action lead us to ...
- Seven stages of action: one for goals, three for execution, ...
- How do we form an appropriate conceptual model for the ...
- Affordances determine what actions are possible. Signifiers communicate where the ...
- The presence of an affordance is jointly determined by the ...
- An affordance is a relationship between the properties of an ...
- When we interact with a product, we need to figure ...
05-March-2023
- Something interesting about using voice for this means that you ...
- Construal level theory says that we think more concretely, as ...
04-March-2023
- The goal is not to fit in. If anything, it’s ...
- But art is not a handicraft; it is the transmission ...
02-March-2023
- The point is, it doesn’t matter what you read, what ...
- Actually, it reminds me in some ways of things that ...
- Instead, the basic principle I would like to see communicated ...
- You just keep being struck by the marvels of what ...
- Well, the drive to “advance”—I think you have to ask ...
- But the point is, for classical liberals in the eighteenth ...
28-February-2023
- We all bring cognitive biases. The explicit ones we love ...
- Separating out the well and worthy workers from the sick ...
- to meet a future full of catastrophe, we need to ...
- **Inverse relationship between ease of access and quality of advice**: ...
- That said, much like [internal communication], networking is a relatively ...
- One thing I've noticed is that a lot of colleagues ...
- in practice the answer is that some companies create negative ...
27-February-2023
- The entrepreneur is the customer and the LP is the ...
- It’s not like survival, resilience, perseverance and strength in the ...
- For the Integrity Institute, the label “integrity worker” applies to ...
- A challenge with big projects is that what you're working ...
- solo creative work is about a combination of maintaining a ...
- **A few desirable qualities for creative contexts:** Note that very ...
- this is the first important non-intuitive thing about KYC and ...
26-February-2023
- The bottom line is this; in modern multicore, multi-CPU devices, ...
- The `io_uring` interface works through two main data structures: the ...
- as devices get extremely fast, interrupt-driven work is no longer ...
- *brown lands* , a semi-obsolete urban planning term that encompasses ...
24-February-2023
- Principles of Good Systems ⬢
- Data can be processed as *unbounded* or *bounded* streams. 1. ...
- Consistent hashing is a distributed systems technique that operates by ...
- Nothing is unimportant to a little child. He might cry ...
- When you see the world as magical, it meets you ...
23-February-2023
- Scenius” is Brian Eno’s term meaning *communal genius* and [last ...
- Cognitive load is the amount of working memory needed to ...
22-February-2023
- If you are talking to a human and he or ...
- [Noriaki Kano], a Japanese researcher and consultant, published a paper ...
- Enron was applying selection at the individual level according to ...
- Selecting the hen who lays the most eggs doesn't necessarily ...
21-February-2023
- So, does the creation and destruction of information have any ...
- pot makes you feel fine with being bored, and it's ...
20-February-2023
- With more education, more and more people want to be ...
- It’s a cocktail not of judgment, but of analysis and ...
- A martini is supposed to be made to the drinkers’ ...
- We can use breathwork to move out of the fight-or-flight ...
- It’s also known as *sama vritti pranayama*, born of the ...
- what the chemical industry calls “verbund.” This is a setup ...
- mere-exposure effect: doing something many times makes us believe we ...
- The promotion of brainstorming as a starting point is all ...
- Many students and academic writers think like the early ship ...
- An idea kept private is as good as one you ...
19-February-2023
- Forget your generalized audience. In the first place, the nameless, ...
- The unit of blogging isn’t pageviews, it’s conversations. Don’t worry ...
- I am also constantly disappointed by the weather, but at ...
- Today's gap represents a failure of planning sometime in the ...
- What decision needs to be made? When? Who will decide? ...
- any decision [should] be worked out and reached at the ...
- Task-relevant maturity ...
- the real sign of malorganization is when people spend more ...
- managers do not talk to their subordinates about their problems ...
- two basic kinds of meetings:process-oriented meeting, knowledge is shared and ...
- The point is to impose a pattern on the way ...
- Anyone who spends about a half day per week as ...
- Delegation without follow-through is abdication ...
- productivity can be increased in three ways: 1. Increasing the ...
- Reports are more a medium of self-discipline than a way ...
- Inventory should be kept at the lowest-value stage possible ...
- A common rule [...] is to detect and fix any ...
- CEOs always act on leading indicators of good news, but ...
- All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong. Most buildings ...
- ANY LARGE SYSTEM IS GOING TO BE OPERATING MOST OF ...
- No, students of Systemantics, Positive Feedback into a large System ...
- A COMPLEX SYSTEM THAT WORKS IS INVARIABLY FOUND TO HAVE ...
- Charles Darwin made it a rule to write down immediately ...
- ANERGY-STATE. Any state or condition of the Universe, or of ...
18-February-2023
- Cultural umami is the vague sense that yes, for some ...
- Premium mediocre is the finest bottle of wine at Olive ...
- For me, ICEWATCH is a deeply spiritual practice: I want ...
- If free software gifts are communism and open source is ...
- [[Here's the thing about gifts: the sender chooses them, not ...
- Authoritarianism is about *taking things from me.* Communism, in its ...
- This story archetype is the Hero's Journey that inspires all ...
- Really finance is the study of human behavior and I ...
- I’ve often seen teams leading reliability efforts respond to the ...
- As incidents continue to occur, teams generally respond by starting ...
- Pareidolia — our tendency to see “faces” in everything from ...
17-February-2023
16-February-2023
- Screenshotting as one of the essential underrated tools of the ...
- MAY This word, or the adjective 'OPTIONAL', mean that an ...
- MUST This word, or the terms 'REQUIRED' or 'SHALL', mean ...
- If something is rotten in an org, the root cause ...
- The people whose compensation depends on your opinion have ample ...
15-February-2023
- **Design an obstacle course, not a syllabus.** One thing that ...
- In order to uncover our customer’s perceptions towards our product’s ...
- The takeaway here is that any analysis we do at ...
- Kano classifies features into four categories, depending on how customers ...
- That was where I caught the connection between a college ...
14-February-2023
- Top-tier athletes are fanatically disciplined about improving their foundational skills—skills ...
- [Athletes and musicians pursue virtuosity in fundamental skills much more ...
- Strategy can only be employed top-down, so it’s not a ...
- To ensure your strategy is operating at the right altitude, ...
- As an engineering executive, it’s particularly important to think about ...
- **Are you confident the strategy will create leverage?** Strategies require ...
- **Are you willing and able to enforce the strategy?** If ...
- **Are you either confident in your diagnosis or do you ...
- I recommend sharing the full document with the group, then ...
- In *Staff Engineer*, I argued that writing an engineering strategies ...
- A strategy is composed of three parts: 1. **Diagnosis:** a ...
13-February-2023
- Imperfect social media tools gave anyone the ability to publish ...
- I used to start my lecture on dictionaries in Python ...
- We are so amazed by its ability to babble in ...
- So people are going to be even more blindsided when ...
- Repetition makes lies seem true, but repetition also makes truth ...
- Hashing, crypto-safe (64 bytes) 500 ns 200 MiB/s ...
- Random Memory R/W (64 bytes) 50 ns 1 GiB/s ...
- The way he talks about foraging in this conversation reminds ...
- This guy Eric invited us over for dinner one time. ...
- 'Jobs to be done' is an attempt to identify demand ...
- Project-Specific Pattern Languages ...
- A pattern as a form/context pair and a generic set ...
- centers and generative process ...
- Beyond Fitness: Life and a Better World ...
- Form, Context, and Fit ...
- Christopher Alexander: A Primer
12-February-2023
- As long as people think that government (as an ideal ...
- **Gardens** - This is the wiki layer Michael references above ...
- **Campfires** - mostly blogging for me, though I know some ...
- **Streams** - mostly Twitter for me, this is where fast ...
- To expand the term beyond its original scope, Max Pain ...
- [Max Pain] is an urban legend-slash-theory from the options market, ...
- As a subset of contrarianism, Hot Sauce Behavior became especially ...
- Starting in the summer of 2020 and peaking in late ...
- In [The Umami Theory of Value], we discussed how, in ...
- No exploration without contamination ...
09-February-2023
- The best things in life are free. The second best ...
- But fifty years of progress in miniaturization and software changed ...
- In general, the chief compliance officer at any company has ...
08-February-2023
- I make a practice of regularly checking in about whether ...
- Bill Thurston [writes]: > Mathematics is a process of staring ...
- the questions my favourite writing professor would ask. • Do ...
- Programmable notes are note-taking systems that allow you to write ...
- The Japanese philosophy of [Mingei] was another movement we should ...
- This scavenging in the SaaS landscape is how people express ...
- Folk interfaces are when users reappropriate existing software to solve ...
- *Epistemology* is the study of knowledge – how we know ...
- the New York City question: if you are to meet ...
- In [game theory], a **focal point** (or **Schelling point**) is ...
- The most economically powerful thing you can do is to ...
- I call this “unlocking the commons,” and it’s the same ...
- The IRS [says]: 'To be deductible, a business expense must ...
- you can pay me money, and I will continue writing. ...
07-February-2023
- The discovery of scaling laws has typically preceded a boomtime ...
- Use a small model to generate a 'draft' output, then ...
- lol c’mon, if this wasn’t from an A.I., this would ...
- But I’ve also noticed a creeping desire among A.I. evangelists ...
06-February-2023
- leaders work *on* the system, not *in* the system ...
- Remember that we started with 115 TB of content that ...
- The next problem we have is how to build this ...
05-February-2023
- computing can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium ...
- exactly the same thing goes for spaced repetition right you ...
- 'Monetize' is a terrible word that tacitly admits that there ...
- This is enshittification: surpluses are first directed to users; then, ...
- Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to ...
- Interlace is “the device of interweaving of a number of ...
- When you start a creative project but don’t finish, the ...
- I’ve been mainly “hiring” members for permission. Not in a ...
- Motivation factors include challenging work, recognition, responsibility, and personal growth ...
- As I’ve written in past reviews, “permission” seems to be ...
04-February-2023
- AI, with its perceived threat to automate a vast array ...
- whenever folks talk about failed cultural change, I believe they’re ...
03-February-2023
- Columnist Brian Merchant touched on this fuzzy connection between the ...
- i thought, or hoped, that not caring would protect me, ...
- i thought, or hoped, that not caring would protect me, ...
- Let’s demonstrate the method with an example. Consider computing the ...
- Imagine we want to compute the square root of a ...
- Okay, so habits are good: they free the mind for ...
- [End-user programming is] a vision for empowered computing pursued by ...
- [End-user programming is] a vision for empowered computing pursued by ...
- [End-user programming is] a vision for empowered computing pursued by ...
- Incentives are well aligned with the success of the open-source ...
- Concretely, I exclusively offer ongoing retainer agreements, without hourly billing ...
- if the effort required to replace or fork a dependency ...
- Virtually all maintainers are either volunteers or full-time employees of ...
- But in modern financial markets, you can get an economic ...
- Let’s demonstrate the method with an example. Consider computing the ...
- Imagine we want to compute the square root of a ...
02-February-2023
- Today ***,*** roughly 500 Americans are dying each day from ...
- The most economically powerful thing you can do is to ...
- Just like regular investment funds can either be actively managed ...
- When someone (or some entity such as business) enjoys a ...
- No chief executive officer of a big company wants to ...
01-February-2023
- The answer, of course, is that the competitiveness of unaided ...
- Finance, like its cousin Poetry, is the use of precise ...
31-January-2023
- We feel rather than know (and many of us refuse ...
- This first lab newsletter of 2023 is very link-y, perhaps ...
- We have built many projects, and we believe the most ...
- The most important notation that summarizes a queue: • ρ: ...
- • λ: arrival rate. This measures how fast new items ...
- Give considered thought to what is “worth our attention in ...
30-January-2023
- Tags are primarily used for both *querying* , or discovering ...
- **Create capacity (rather than capture it).** This value focuses leaders ...
- **Default to vendors unless it’s our core competency.** You can ...
- **Follow existing patterns unless there’s an order of magnitude improvement.** ...
- **Optimize for the {whole, business unit, team}**. Pick *one* of ...
- **Approach conflict with curiosity.** One of my foundational beliefs is ...
- As described in Rumelt’s [Good Strategy, Bad Strategy], a strategy ...
28-January-2023
- For large-scale software *systems*, Van Roy believes we need to ...
- More generally, Van Roy sees a layered language design with ...
- State introduces an abstract notion of time in programs. In ...
- *The point is to pick a paradigm with just the ...
- [End-user programming is] a vision for empowered computing pursued by ...
- The trickiest part of speeding up a program is not ...
- The fundamental problem is that there’s a fundamental disagreement inside ...
- I think what has happened is there was a massive ...
- [Many years ago I got obsessed with habit-breaking days.] We ...
- Triadic closure is a concept in network theory which is ...
- On a 32 bit machine, a long is 4 bytes, ...
- Surely (no one/everyone) will (recognize how flexible and useful this ...
- ![] ...
27-January-2023
- Now, none of that Copilot-supplied code remains in my app. ...
- Also another, related point is that as far as I ...
26-January-2023
- The report said that for every $1 of new global ...
- input the number of daily trials I have, and then ...
- I will say that based on paying around with lots ...
25-January-2023
- The dark irony here is that corporatized communication is what ...
- Of course, OpenAI does offer a “social” feature, but the ...
- > Yes. To me, the essence of the third place ...
- Related, if you can see a better way to do ...
- The **Queuing Rule of Thumb (QROT)** is a mathematical formula, ...
24-January-2023
- I’m a Staff Prompt Engineer (the first, Alex Wang asserts), ...
- Participants were informed they should sit down in a chair ...
- A surprising amount of executive time is spent cleaning up ...
- updates establish a persistent drip of information from you to ...
- you can significant improve the quality of internal communcations within ...
- Amazon thought that if they could force users to go ...
23-January-2023
- The main issue here is that, at least when it ...
- If you don’t know the difference between something like DALL-E ...
- The term was “Web 2.0” was first coined in 1999 ...
- Dialogue from movies and TV shows has become more difficult ...
- Life (and intersectionality) are complex, but money is, relatively speaking, ...
- Use the Q&A as an opportunity to highlight individuals doing ...
- I start every Q&A by saying, “I’m glad to talk ...
- Many engineers won’t get to work with you directly, and ...
- Good reviews are anchored in feedback from the audience, and ...
- The most effective communication within an organization is between peers ...
- We can summarize the difference between the micro- and macroeconomic ...
- In other words, feel more calm in real time, meaning ...
22-January-2023
- I think my favorite activity ever is cooking for people ...
- Because going against our natural inclinations can make us feel ...
- • The applicability of software to the just advancement of ...
21-January-2023
- **Accretive** tools build over time. Developer tools tend to work ...
- **Ephemeral** tools are about the conversation. Slack is one. Zoom ...
- The room is architected for discussions and decisions, not just ...
- In contemporary Japan, however, as a general rule, all buildings ...
- Analyses have [found] that 12 people—coined the “disinformation dozen”—are responsible ...
- Disproportionately impactful engineering teams are distinguished by effectively shipping the ...
- > A cost center is a function that is operated ...
- At least sometimes, it seems, there is more demand for ...
- This is one of the main things that happens in ...
- If a `swear` ever fails, **the function is deleted from ...
20-January-2023
- Around here [I often quote] the most important thing I learned ...
- Another lesson is that, when junior investment bankers work all ...
- the *Howey* test of what makes an “investment contract” a ...
19-January-2023
18-January-2023
17-January-2023
16-January-2023
- A standard way to poison a code model is to ...
- ![] ...
- In October of last year, YouTube creator and fandom expert ...
- Canary tokens are a free, quick, painless way to help ...
15-January-2023
- as users becomes accustomed to agents and NPCs, we’ll see ...
- Laurel suggests that we see the computer screen as a ...
- the computer interface has *always* been a multiplayer environment for ...
- Next we bring in creative divergence. How? **Geists!** Geists will ...
- Lastly, in a sense this is a religious course: I ...
- In a lifetime of many, many independent choices, small and ...
- Education is what, when, and why to do things. Training ...
- And yes, there’ll be plenty of cases where “raw ChatGPT” ...
- But if you use the trick I learned twenty years ...
14-January-2023
- And when you’re afraid of someone’s judgment, you can’t connect ...
- “Asking for help with shame says: You have the power ...
- Repair and remain. Work with what you’ve got. Sit still ...
- TikTok’s entire strategy is to turn viral content into public ...
13-January-2023
- • Maybe they’re just creating massive amounts of “digital representations ...
- The **lab mice problem** **Today's 'subhuman' AIs are safe.**What about ...
- The **King Lear problem** The AI is **(actually) well-behaved when ...
- The **Lance Armstrong problem** Did we get the AI to ...
- If only they were literally raping children and then eating ...
- But, paradoxically, crypto is much *more* reliant on trust than ...
- It was like a fantastical version of their old jobs, ...
- Influence operations can take many shapes; most such operations are ...
- Scavenge-friendly electronics are parts that are no longer manufactured, but ...
- **Designing for Disassembly** ensures that all elements of a product ...
- Utilizing what has survived the collapse of industrial production or ...
- Utilizing only already available computational resources, to be limited by ...
- Utilizing computational resources as finite and precious, to be utilised ...
- The abundance of digital storage and processing power has caused ...
- His only real hope of avoiding many years in prison ...
- Yeah I mean a general lesson here is that you ...
12-January-2023
- I’d argue that field-level encryption should be a starting place ...
- From the perspective of non-mega-platform companies, I think this is ...
- While today there’s a wide distance between GDPR, CCPA, HITRUST, ...
- At minimum, open source projects hosted on GitHub can be ...
- Developers don’t contribute to open source for lack of technical ...
- Bigger projects often use a formal “request for comments” (RFC) ...
11-January-2023
- Seeing your website’s actual server is the virtual equiv of ...
- Many people believe that cash, the paper printed by the ...
- The seemingly earnest popularity of these videos, especially among younger ...
- Modern generative models are generic data transformation engines, able to ...
- One interesting and [possibly even true] thing that I learned ...
10-January-2023
- This is an example of the ‘capability overhang’ phenomenon I’ve ...
- A bill of materials or BOM is a list of ...
- Like the orbits of all other satellites, and of the ...
- Weightlessness is bad for the bones, but good for the ...
09-January-2023
- Self-worth, the unexpected corollary of having positive archetypes in your ...
- The world is mostly shaped by wealth, more so than ...
- The only issue is that it missed out on two ...
- You are approaching this like an established natural sciences field ...
- Ideally you could adjust a dial and and set the ...
- This is a new food culture, where the chef is ...
08-January-2023
- And so when one wonders why newsletters “came out of ...
- Many people began to routinely expense Substacks, just like people ...
- The single biggest thing Substack accomplished was *legitimizing* a Schelling ...
- One publication well-known enough by cognoscenti to get namechecked in ...
- An edge city is a dense, auto-oriented job center arising ...
- pruning for sparsity – turns out [some LLMs work just as ...
- distillation – a technique by which larger, more capable models ...
07-January-2023
- Skeptics of solar feasibility pantomime a kind of technical realism, ...
- We live on a sun-drenched blue marble hanging in space, ...
- Erasure Coding is a ubiquitous technique in storage and physical ...
- Let's think about that cache again: when that one node ...
- Erasure coding is the idea that we can take a ...
- The fact that I had never been on the ghost ...
- Every year, the company adds even more steps to the ...
- this is the problem when your sole governing ideals are ...
06-January-2023
- So to summarize–downballot races are cheap, cost-effective, and because they ...
- Even in a normal year, early money is many times ...
- In conditions of uncertainty, you might be tempted to use ...
- If you run a mutual fund, a high mark is ...
- The attraction of private investments is that they *don’t have ...
- One imperfect but useful way to think about crypto,” I ...
05-January-2023
- As a religion, social justice works. It works not merely ...
- What is the alternative to naïve cynicism? An active response ...
- But the [hyperobject] that is climate change requires the very ...
01-January-2023
- one of the realization that I hadworking on something like ...
- A post-collapse society that has eventually lost all of its ...
- Collapse informatics prioritizes community needs and aims to contribute to ...
- **Designing for Descent** ensures that a system is resilient to ...
- Asking for the most suitable programming language for permacomputing is ...
- and soall Apple products broke almostinstantly and uhall the tools ...
- our philosophy is that to make fastsoftware you need slow ...
- traditional arch bridges [were built by first having a wood ...
31-December-2022
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28-December-2022
- There is no need to cut croutons into perfect little ...
- Before using dried fruit I rehydrate it in a bowl ...
- because nuts like all fatty ingredients will absorb odors. ...
- Cheese is a living thing that needs to breathe. Waxed ...
- Buy them in small quantities and replenish them often instead ...
- What will keep beans tough, though, is acid, so never ...
- Don't store in plastic containers, because the plastic can absorb ...
- Never buy preground or precracked pepper, ever! You want the ...
- Those little shakers on the table are of no help ...
- the programmer's task is not just to write down a ...
- the program is an abstract symbol manipulator, which can be ...
- to the extent that we view ourselves as mechanisms, we ...
27-December-2022
- If you thought the Fed only cared about propping up ...
- It is probably more illuminating to go a little bit ...
26-December-2022
- In essence, journalling is similar to a psychotherapy session. The ...
- I summarize these daily notes into a weekly digest. These ...
- '**Cartesian theater**' is a derisive term coined by philosopher and ...
- in the web, it makes sense that links should reflect ...
- My point today is that, if we wish to count ...
- Eventually, you reach this list’s conclusion, which lies in an ...
- To achieve that braking safety, the subway’s signal architecture works ...
- If you start by stealing $1,000, pretty soon you need ...
- Build layers into your dish, like you're making nachos. Hide ...
- All roots have edible greens, so catch them early when ...
- please note-when grilling or charring, skip the oil. Cook your ...
25-December-2022
- My general view on beliefs is that we get to ...
- Ultimately, I decided not to, and developed the idea that ...
- There’s a third impact of AI harder to spot and ...
- Essentially, the use of AI *as a technology* has less ...
- using AI to design products is more powerful than using ...
19-December-2022
- As far as I can tell, cognitive bandwidth and network ...
- the [Law of stretched systems]: > Every system is stretched ...
18-December-2022
- The fruits are so small that the red doesn’t jump ...
- Sonali had told us about Annaprashana, which is a Hindu ...
17-December-2022
- Stereo width is a big part of the *Glowed Up* ...
- Sidechain compression listens to a second track to decide when ...
- When we say, “If you’re going to read one thing ...
- During the summer of 2021, Canadian researchers … found that ...
14-December-2022
- if you are talking about “numerous black swans” then you ...
- In the glory days, [Olympus enthusiasts] dressed up this insight ...
- the role of the human in terms of AI is ...
- the GPT-3 language model that undergirds ChatGPT; ChatGPT applies a ...
- Stochastic resonance is the phenomenon in which random noise can ...
13-December-2022
12-December-2022
- The cotton gin, a canonical example of automation, perversely *increased ...
- In most places, the olive harvest is mechanized, but that’s ...
11-December-2022
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06-December-2022
- the crypto industry in 2022 rediscovered the 2008 financial crisis. ...
- He is making multi-year, illiquid, unhedgeable speculative investments in brand-new ...
05-December-2022
- Taking vacation is just good business sense. ...
- I’m actually using GPT3 in a production system. The mistake ...
04-December-2022
03-December-2022
- something called [the Hermeneutic circle], which [Ryan Kitchens] described as ...
- **Mediocre computing** is computing that aims for parity with mediocre ...
- series of reactions strips its highest-energy electrons and uses them ...
- the Gruen Transfer, a phenomenon that architecture theorist Sanford Kwinter ...
- Grateful to have this language back as a first-class citizen ...
23-November-2022
- That whole summer in Colorado was a data-gathering bust, but ...
- And some of these things we do, and some of ...
18-November-2022
- What I’ve found most successful is to identify a few ...
- I can’t stress enough that these fixes are slow. This ...
28-October-2022
- The Gestalists showed that there was no obvious relationship between ...
- It confirmed Biederman’s sense that “most advances in science come ...
17-October-2022
- This is one reason why we continually grasp for the ...
- Happiness is the state you enter when you no longer ...
- Sometimes a habit will be hard to remember and you’ll ...
15-October-2022
- Professionals stick to the schedule; amateurs let life get in ...
- When I suggested this to friends in the Pentagon they ...
- it’s not always about what happens during the workout. It’s ...
- Similarly, if your reward for exercising is eating a bowl ...
14-October-2022
13-October-2022
- There are a hundred species or so known as “resurrection ...
- A chilly autumn brings on the same hardening as a ...
12-October-2022
11-October-2022
- Stop thinking about your environment as filled with objects. Start ...
- In this way, the most common form of change is ...
- The 1st Law of Behavior Change is to make it ...
- Whenever you want to change your behavior, you can simply ...
- your habits are how you embody your identity ...
- Goals are about the results you want to achieve. Systems ...
15-August-2022
06-August-2022
- Paying a maintainer for their attention can also translate into ...
- Before there was a de facto platform for hosting code, ...
17-July-2022
- In a 2003 memoir called Where the Money Is: True ...
- Today, nearly 150 years later, burglary and architecture still go ...
05-May-2022
11-April-2022
21-March-2022
- There is generally no judicial remedy for a policy that ...
- The full cycle went like this: when a neighborhood first ...
17-January-2022
- Being paid to wonder seems like a heavy responsibility at ...
- When you are in the forest, for every tree that ...
- Every species on Earth—past or present, from the single-celled microbe ...
- I wanted to be studying plant growth, but science for ...
- People are like plants: they grow toward the light. I ...
04-January-2022
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- Robustly getting a machine to react based on its surrounding ...
- When we deal with buildings we deal with decisions taken ...
24-December-2021
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19-December-2021
- Trust on its own isn’t much of a management technique. ...
- An immediate hypothesis was that Omicron may have developed in ...
18-December-2021
17-December-2021
- Feature and experiments inform your platform roadmap, and inversely platform ...
- 'But the point is... this infestation, SCP-4051, is a snowflake. ...
14-December-2021
- And regulations are written in blood, so we’ll only get ...
- TDD/FP/Agile zealots are probably zealots because adopting TDD/FP/Agile/Whatever made them ...
- these are the three main lists of golden signals today: ...
- This whole little story is both very funny and also ...
- Human memory is squishy, and that's great. You retain facts ...
13-December-2021
12-December-2021
- There is a widely circulated number, and it’s even bigger ...
- But the community feels different now, now that many of ...
- The term 2.5-D was coined by anime fans in Japan ...
- Part of what makes for a really good profile — ...
- It’s a nice fantasy to think about future singularity. But ...
- I hope the history books written about this moment in ...
- In a now-deleted tweet, a friend recently remarked on how ...
10-December-2021
- but the pandemic really broke things. The offline world lost ...
- WHAT’S THE BENEFIT OF TURNING NUCLEAR WASTE INTO GLASS? In ...
- the Coanda effect - the tendency of a fluid jet ...
- Tree-sitter’s parsers already let us efficiently parse the code that ...
08-December-2021
07-December-2021
- Here's what everyone peddling the new trendy systems is so ...
- The next day I encountered a more novel creature in ...
- Like climate change, COVID is settling into its status as ...
- when Netflix drops a big new show “it feels like ...
- The pandemic highlighted our intimate relationship with biology. Urban tech ...
05-October-2021
25-September-2021
- There should be a guy who every morning rides his ...
- Sacasas describes the concept of “reality privilege” to which Andreessen’s ...
- One of the consequences of demateralisation is that things that ...
21-September-2021
12-September-2021
- A conversation can happen between yourself and yourself, across time, ...
- Alice Waters had this incredibly boss move at Chez Panisse ...
- Luxury always boils down to time: someone is paying a ...
11-September-2021
- In your head, ideas expand until they max out “working ...
- Since writing is very hard and rewriting is comparatively easy ...
- What we call history is, in practice, what we can ...
- A lot of developer tools also assume a developer will ...
- If our notion of “what is supposed to happen” is ...
- most of the conversations around developer experience are about how ...
- With developers spending less than a third of their time ...
- History is an edit war. Truth, factual and moral, hangs ...
- A general heuristic I’ve come to use to ascribe “value” ...
07-September-2021
- It's easy to look at pregnancy (for example) as something ...
- The slow blade penetrates the shield ...
- Code runs on people. Please keep it simple. 'Everyone knows' ...
- never again let anyone tell you that the fury or ...
- I have seethed as generations of Democrats have argued that ...
06-September-2021
- Find the best teachers and take all their classes, no ...
- It’s seems obvious that collective action from internet creators is ...
- When asked for IC career advice the first thing I ...
29-August-2021
28-August-2021
- CLICHES ARE A SUBSTITUTE FOR CRITICAL THINKING ...
- Instead, it’s much better to wrap your patch in a ...
- Monkeypatching Responsibly I like to frame the monkeypatching conversation around ...
18-August-2021
- And on Instagram, such narratives are presented in a curatorial ...
- A life that is cosmopolitan, which is to say, a ...
16-August-2021
- Census figures show there are 40,000 more Latinos in Chicago ...
- Chicago remains the third largest city in the country with ...
- There have always been people who have had to censor ...
- It’s also silly when the moral terms of our engagement ...
- I talked to strangers, and listened to them, and felt ...
15-August-2021
- Why is that a hard message to communicate through marketing, ...
- A few months ago, I was at an event that ...
- Consumers want perfection, but farmers want commodity,” he said. This ...
- The process [of regenerative ag] is expensive, since farmers who ...
14-August-2021
- Bryan Beckman is a Clearwater environmentalist whose daily life has ...
- the internet could collapse unevenly just like a deindustrializing city. ...
13-August-2021
- Recollection is such a small, basic part of thinking! There ...
- A tool is something that takes an existing workflow, and ...
- The poetic work of American artist Duane Michals, famous for ...
- We’ve somehow managed to create a societal scenario where the ...
- To summarise those desirable qualities, a good notation is: Composable ...
- Everything has an interface. A platform has an API. A ...
- The value of a product is the number of problems ...
- Or to be more specific, urbanist Kevin Lynch’s city maps ...
12-August-2021
- I’m personally convinced that these companies are selling products that ...
- although as with all plastic recycling, “downcycling” is the more ...
- At Maggie Daley Park, one of the project’s defining challenges ...
- This sort of knowledge is what Dan Wang calls process ...
- Jingu is famous for its tradition of periodic reconstruction, known ...
- The four elements of credible neutrality are: (1) Don’t write ...
- But just as the gig economy mode of work brought ...
11-August-2021
- One of the most common mistakes when starting with Domain ...
- Examples of things that happen that might not be suitable ...
09-August-2021
- Remember that when you’re in the right you can afford ...
- There are articles about how to drive like a real-world ...
08-August-2021
06-August-2021
- the system grows for a while (increasing λ), or we ...
- As we think about it this way, we realize that ...
- We can then define the Utilization of the server (calling ...
- Then the big parks, which are beautiful and well maintained. ...
- And it was this work that really opened my eyes ...
- Instead of pathologizing every human quirk, we should say, By ...
- He has wondered lately if that’s all living really is—one ...
- My laboratory is like a church because it is where ...
- Science has taught me that everything is more complicated than ...
- He taught me that there is no shame in breaking ...
- Working in the hospital teaches you that there are only ...
- People are made of stories. Our memories are not the ...
- “Coincidence and intention are two sides of a tapestry, my ...
- The central thesis of this book is precisely that an ...
09-February-2021
- Although we generally prefer tolerating faults over preventing faults, there ...
- The things that can go wrong are called faults, and ...
14-December-2020
- All in all, I don’t think service communication is the ...
- GraphQL is purposefully transport/protocol agnostic. Nothing is stopping us from ...
- build a GraphQL API server that is resolved by many ...
- Airbnb’s approach of wiring up different schemas together to form ...
- My advice would be for GraphQL APIs to rely on ...
- A lot has to be reinvented with a GraphQL API. ...
- The trade-off, though, is that a uniform interface degrades efficiency, ...
- We can often categorize APIs in three broad categories: Private ...
- Compiled queries are a very exciting area of GraphQL that ...
- Some would even say field ordering should be normalized, but ...
- The generation of a cache key is always important, but ...
- It’s often very useful to provide inline performance information in ...
- I like to think of the lifecycle of a GraphQL ...
- Once the client has the identifier for a particular query, ...
- Persisted queries are a must for all internal APIs, and ...
06-December-2020
- The Anticorruption Layer may contain more than one Service. For ...
- Context Maps where contexts have clear roles and their relationships ...
- Such business rules can be large and complex, bloating the ...
- Another way this is noted is that Factories are “pure ...
- The Factory should create new objects, while the Repository should ...
- For immutable Value Objects it means that all attributes are ...
- Choose one Entity to be the root of each Aggregate, ...
- An Aggregate is a group of associated objects which are ...
03-December-2020
- There are three characteristics of a Service: The operation performed ...
- For example, to transfer money from one account to another; ...
01-December-2020
- Concentrate all the code related to the domain model in ...
- They should realize that a change to the code implies ...
01-February-2020
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02-February-2019
- Real change rarely comes from the front of the line. ...
- Jacqui Brown asked me what would have happened if, in ...
01-February-2019
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23-January-2019
- For the last five hundred years, the best way to ...
- understand that the path is neither short nor easy. That ...
- The hard part is distinguishing between quitting because the resistance ...
21-January-2019
- If it’s someone else’s map, it’s not your fault if ...
- If you have a choice between being surprised (and watching ...
- the greatest shortage in our society is an instinct to ...
- Over time, the gifts accrue and you have created a ...
- Digital goods call our bluff. If you read my e-book, ...
20-January-2019
- Passion is a desire, insistence, and willingness to give a ...
- Roy Simmons coined that phrase and I like it a ...
- The gift is to the giver, and comes back to ...
- Volunteering to do emotional labor—even when you don’t feel like ...
- If your Google search isn’t what you want (need) it ...