Index

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⊕About
The system structure and theory is roughly based on the ideas of Johnny.Decimal.
I initially took inspiration from Dewey Decimal Classification, but diverged when I saw its racist/sexist grouping and when I started embracing my own focus.
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00-09 Notes-system

01 Inbox

• Anti-ageing is a disappointing pursuit. It has been since Ponce de ... from theguardian.com

07 Favorite

• Post-Apocalyptic [or bad] software is hard to modify because it doe... from lethain.com
• the veteran artist has been through this before. Many, many times. ... from Van Neistat
• Sometimes people use "respect" to mean "treating som... from kottke.org
• I was taken with this cybernetic description of an aircraft factory... from interconnected.org
• A river of material flows through us. When we share our works and o... from Rick Rubin
• All you crazy MFs are completely overlooking the fact that software... from Steve Yegge
• Poka-yoke is another Japanese method, this one invented by Shigeo S... from Don Norman
• It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy-books and... 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
• One thing I've noticed is that a lot of colleagues don't kn... from ycombinator.com
• A few desirable qualities for creative contexts: Note that very few... from Michael Nielsen
• Cognitive load is the amount of working memory needed to complete a... from Colin Dembovsky
• Athletes and musicians pursue virtuosity in fundamental skills much... from Andyʼs working notes
• A strategy is composed of three parts: Diagnosis: a theory desc... from Irrational Exuberance
• In general, the chief compliance officer at any company has a dial ... from Matt Levine
• 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
• Triadic closure is a concept in network theory which is when a netw... from Matt Webb
• Related, if you can see a better way to do it, strongly consider ke... from rjtavares
• 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
• Accretive tools build over time. Developer tools tend to work like ... from Interconnected
• Asking for help with shame says: You have the power over me. Askin... from Startupy
• traditional arch bridges were built by first having a wood framing ... from Ferd.ca
• 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
• When we say, “If you’re going to read one thing about programming, ... from The Third Bit
• Writing is nature’s way of letting you know how sloppy your thinkin... from Marc Brooker
• I’m actually using GPT3 in a production system. The mistake people ... from Zack Korman
• And some of these things we do, and some of them we don’t (like the... from Hope Jahren
• Similarly, if your reward for exercising is eating a bowl of ice cr... from James Clear
• Whenever you want to change your behavior, you can simply ask yours... from James Clear
• There’s the implicit expectation in AI and data science that if we ... from blog.rinesi.com
• “We like the idea that there’s always someone responsible for any g... from Ted Chiang
• It's easy to look at pregnancy (for example) as something which... from twitter.com
• A few months ago, I was at an event that asked this question of par... from sarahmock.substack.com
• The process [of regenerative ag] is expensive, since farmers who em... from sarahmock.substack.com
• Remember that when you’re in the right you can afford to keep your ... from George Horace Lorimer
• 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
• 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
• “Coincidence and intention are two sides of a tapestry, my lord. Yo... from Ted Chiang
• The central thesis of this book is precisely that an apparently sma... from Thomas Piketty and Arthur Goldhammer

10-19 Technology

10 Computer-science

10.01 Machine-learning

• In matrix computations, sketching is really a synonym for (linear) ... from ethanepperly.com
• But you can already see the idea of a “prompt” evolving into someth... from Ryan Broderick
• 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
• Adobe claims Firefly was trained on a data set that was built from ... from Garbage Day
• distillation – a technique by which larger, more capable models can... from Tyler Cowen
• There’s the implicit expectation in AI and data science that if we ... from blog.rinesi.com

10.02 Caching

• Consistent hashing is a distributed systems technique that operates... from NK
• 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)

10.03 LLM

• ChatGPT, it turns out, lives off the same water I drank growing up ... from Field Notes from Christopher Brown
• The upshot for the industry at large, is: the LLM-as-Moat model has... from Steve Yegge
• We don't quite know what to do with language models yet. But we... from Maggie Appleton
• General notes: These are wonderful non-chat interfaces for LLMs ... from Maggie Appleton
• combining search and AI chat is actually the wrong way to go and I ... from Garbage Day
• the tech am I digging recently is a software framework called LangC... from Interconnected
• 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
• We’re building apps to surround and harness AI, but we need microsc... from Interconnected
• 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
• It’s using the ReAct pattern, which is straightforward and surprisi... from Matt Webb
• To encode the position of the current token in the sequence, the au... from dugas.ch
• More capable models can better recognize the specific circumstances... from Simon Willison
• All you crazy MFs are completely overlooking the fact that software... from Steve Yegge
• GPT-3/4 is like a Meeseeks box for computer and internet tasks. Kee... from ycombinator.com
• If you are talking to a human and he or she doesn’t understand you,... from Tyler Cowen
• 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
• 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
• Of course, OpenAI does offer a “social” feature, but the thing you’... from Garbage Day
• A standard way to poison a code model is to inject insecure code in... from Jack Clark
• And yes, there’ll be plenty of cases where “raw ChatGPT” can help w... from stephenwolfram.com
• Ideally you could adjust a dial and and set the degree of hallucina... from Tyler Cowen
• pruning for sparsity – turns out some LLMs work just as well if you... from Tyler Cowen
• I’m actually using GPT3 in a production system. The mistake people ... from Zack Korman

10.04 Compilers

• 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
• One of the challenges with JIT compilers is that they always incur ... from Shopify
• Compiled queries are a very exciting area of GraphQL that I hope to... from Marc-Andre Giroux

10.05 Data

• There’s something qualitative and important that happens when the e... from marcbrooker@gmail.com (Marc Brooker)
• it's neat how adding affine measures is mathematically invalid ... from buttondown.email
• facts incorporate time [[Think about how we structure data for ours... from InfoQ
• errors are values The Go Programming Language | Gopherfest 2015 | ... from The Go Programming Language
• don't communicate by sharing memory share memory by communicat... from The Go Programming Language
• The idea here is that instead of incrementing a single row for a co... from planetscale.com
• The issue is that when you compress something, you need to add meta... from Jake Lazaroff
• Often, people who don’t have access to the raw data expect one narr... from Josh Beckman
• The upshot for the industry at large, is: the LLM-as-Moat model has... from Steve Yegge
• The first image ever transmitted to Earth from another planet was r... from Instagram
• My experience is companies do not anticipate that the cost of monit... from Mathew Duggan
• 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
• few days ago I did something that I never thought I’d do again, and... from brandur.org
• Syntax coloring isn't useless, it is childish, like training wh... from Douglas Crockford
• The fact that this slight change in study design yielded opposite r... from Katelyn Jetelina and Kristen Panthagani, MD, PhD from Your Local Epidemiologist
• The way double descent is normally presented, increasing the number... from chris-said.io
• One of my favorite systems papers ever is the COST paper, which exa... from blog.nelhage.com
• 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
• Your choice of data layout/structure has two consequences: it makes... from Hillel Wayne
• Adobe claims Firefly was trained on a data set that was built from ... from Garbage Day
• Data can be processed as unbounded or bounded streams. Unb... from apache.org
• So, does the creation and destruction of information have any direc... from William Kent
• The next problem we have is how to build this index in a reasonable... from Timothy Clem
• From the perspective of non-mega-platform companies, I think this i... from lethain.com
• Erasure coding is the idea that we can take a blob of data, break i... from marcbrooker@gmail.com (Marc Brooker)
• There’s the implicit expectation in AI and data science that if we ... from blog.rinesi.com
• The classification scheme used here is possibly the clearest one I&... from ferd.ca
• Choose one Entity to be the root of each Aggregate, and control all... from UnknownAuthor

10.06 Domain-driven-design

• 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
• 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
• An Aggregate is a group of associated objects which are considered ... from UnknownAuthor
• 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
• Concentrate all the code related to the domain model in one layer a... from UnknownAuthor

10.07 End-user-programming

• 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
• [End-user programming is] a vision for empowered computing pursued ... from 📝 Blog End-programmer Programming

10.08 Software

• Direct manipulation of data - something like sketch pad - where you... from youtube.com
• the smaller the interface, is the more useful it is [[See also deep... from The Go Programming Language
• errors are values The Go Programming Language | Gopherfest 2015 | ... from The Go Programming Language
• don't communicate by sharing memory share memory by communicat... from The Go Programming Language
• General notes: Instead of writing code, directly manipulate data... from youtube.com
• Pike's rules 1 and 2 restate Tony Hoare's famous maxim &quo... from University of Texas in Austin
• Entity: An entity represents a general-purpose object. In a game en... from en.wikipedia.org
• Windows 95 was 30MB. Today we have web pages heavier than that! Win... from Nikita Prokopov
• When we build systems that avoid coordinating, we end up building c... from marcbrooker@gmail.com (Marc Brooker)
• The issue is that when you compress something, you need to add meta... from Jake Lazaroff
• the SUX Rule: Sandbox-free – Unsafe – eXogenous. If our code runs w... from Posts on Kelly Shortridge
• Dependencies (coupling) is an important concern to address, but it&... from kbouck
• By replacing integration tests with unit tests, we're losing al... from Computer Things
• I propose that there is one problem chief among them, an impetus fo... from George Hosu
• When software – or idea-ware for that matter – fails to be accessib... from gist.github.com
• Any software is considered free software so long as it upholds the ... from writefreesoftware.org
• Nathan's four Laws of Software: Software is a gas Soft... from Jeff Atwood
• Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad ho... from From Wikipedia, the free
• 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
• 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
• Unlike simple machines, which cannot be copyrighted, software is au... from Why Software Patents are Bad, Period.
• "It's interesting how every build system, frontend framewo... from ycombinator.com
• 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
• If you’re still wondering whether that resource you’re going to add... from blog.bullettrain.co
• One of my favorite systems papers ever is the COST paper, which exa... from blog.nelhage.com
• All you crazy MFs are completely overlooking the fact that software... from Steve Yegge
• Timestamps produced by a Lamport clock take the least amount of spa... from Giridhar Manepalli
• 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
• 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
• I am also constantly disappointed by the weather, but at least the ... from Harvard University Gazette
• Hashing, crypto-safe (64 bytes) 500 ns 200 MiB/s sirupsen | Napkin... from sirupsen
• Random Memory R/W (64 bytes) 50 ns 1 GiB/s sirupsen | Napkin Math from sirupsen
• Programmable notes are note-taking systems that allow you to write ... 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
• The next problem we have is how to build this index in a reasonable... from Timothy Clem
• computing can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium ... from Tools for Thought Rocks!
• [End-user programming is] a vision for empowered computing pursued ... from 📝 Blog End-programmer Programming
• We have built many projects, and we believe the most valuable summa... from joelparkerhenderson
• Tags are primarily used for both querying , or discovering informat... from Hillel Wayne
• 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 trickiest part of speeding up a program is not doing it, but de... from bueno.org
• 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
• The term was “Web 2.0” was first coined in 1999 by technologist Dar... from Garbage Day
• The applicability of software to the just advancement of society, i... from Drew DeVault's blog
• A cost center is a function that is operated by optimizing its exis... from Irrational Exuberance
• If a swear ever fails, the function is deleted from the source code... from Hillel Wayne
• One of the challenges with JIT compilers is that they always incur ... from Shopify
• 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
• And yes, there’ll be plenty of cases where “raw ChatGPT” can help w... from stephenwolfram.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
• 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
• My point today is that, if we wish to count lines of code, we shoul... from University of Texas in Austin
• When we say, “If you’re going to read one thing about programming, ... from The Third Bit
• This innate duality—software visible as both a fixed point and a li... from Nadia Eghbal
• Code is not a product to be bought and sold so much as a living for... from Nadia Eghbal
• Before there was a de facto platform for hosting code, most open so... from Nadia Eghbal
• Code, in static state, can be bought and sold at nearly zero margin... from Nadia Eghbal
• Durham said, “Do you know what a Garden-of-Eden configuration is?” ... from Greg Egan
• Code runs on people. Please keep it simple. "Everyone knows&q... from rachelbythebay.com
• Instead, it’s much better to wrap your patch in a module and apply ... from blog.appsignal.com
• A tool is something that takes an existing workflow, and makes it m... from thesephist.com
• The four elements of credible neutrality are: (1) Don’t write speci... from
• We can often categorize APIs in three broad categories: Private API... from Marc-Andre Giroux
• 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

10.09 Software-engineering

• Post-Apocalyptic [or bad] software is hard to modify because it doe... from lethain.com
• the numbers always add up, which isn’t true on the business or engi... from Irrational Exuberance
• software engineering is the science and art of designing and making... from Confreaks
• The empirical process model provides and exercises control through ... from Confreaks
• When fewer than 5,000 programmers existed, they built Lisp (1960) a... from Taylor Troesh
• I think informatics is a much better word to use, right? Computer ... from Strange Loop Conference
• A lot of what we do day to day has arbitrary bits to it. This, I&#3... from Strange Loop Conference
• Propositions in logic correspond to types in a programming language... from Strange Loop Conference
• Deep and shallow modules: The best modules are deep: they allow a ... from John Ousterhout
• The code that gets written is the code that’s easier to write. An... from Fernando Borretti
• All you crazy MFs are completely overlooking the fact that software... from Steve Yegge
• The applicability of software to the just advancement of society, i... from Drew DeVault's blog
• 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
• Seeing your website’s actual server is the virtual equiv of the Ove... from Matt Webb
• TDD/FP/Agile zealots are probably zealots because adopting TDD/FP/A... from buttondown.email
• With developers spending less than a third of their time actually w... from future.a16z.com
• Code runs on people. Please keep it simple. "Everyone knows&q... from rachelbythebay.com

10.10 Geists

• Programmable notes are note-taking systems that allow you to write ... from Maggie Appleton
• 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
• Next we bring in creative divergence. How? Geists! Geists will be l... from Matt Webb

10.11 GraphQL

• 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

10.12 SQL

10.13 Access-control

• If you’re still wondering whether that resource you’re going to add... from blog.bullettrain.co

10.14 Stream-processing

• Data can be processed as unbounded or bounded streams. Unb... from apache.org

10.15 Types

• 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

10.16 Parsing

• The issue is that when you compress something, you need to add meta... from Jake Lazaroff
• 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

10.17 Validation

• 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
• Epistemology is the study of knowledge – how we know things, the me... from Maggie Appleton

10.18 Programming-languages

• The code that gets written is the code that’s easier to write. An... from Fernando Borretti
• One of the challenges with JIT compilers is that they always incur ... from Shopify

10.19 Service-architecture

• Organizing into services taught teams not to trust each other in mo... from gist.github.com

10.20 Events

• There’s something qualitative and important that happens when the e... from marcbrooker@gmail.com (Marc Brooker)
• "Is it possible to build a fact event with some sort of reason... from Confluent
• You should avoid sharing event sourcing events, outside of your ser... from Confluent
• Delta events are good at capturing the intent behind the creation o... from Confluent
• "Why send all the data in a fact event if it hasn't change... from Confluent

11 Medicine-and-health

11.01 Medicine

• If there’s a hole in your body, you can put drugs into it. Jeff Cl... from Jeff Clark
• Strong commitment in design is good for dementia, where challenges ... from Sara Hendren from undefended / undefeated
• An immediate hypothesis was that Omicron may have developed in a si... from news.ycombinator.com
• Working in the hospital teaches you that there are only two kinds o... from Hope Jahren

11.02 Health

• Pollan proposes a new (and very old) answer to the question of what... from Michael Pollan
• We have built many projects, and we believe the most valuable summa... from joelparkerhenderson

11.03 Breathing

• 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
• Participants were informed they should sit down in a chair or, if t... from news.ycombinator.com
• In other words, feel more calm in real time, meaning without having... from Andrew Huberman

11.04 Epidemiology

• Officials estimate between 5,000-10,000 people are dying per day . ... from Katelyn Jetelina from Your Local Epidemiologist

11.05 Exercise

• Physical activity decreases the risk of a network of diseases, and ... from ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
• And then along came Brad Schoenfeld and Co., who laid hands upon th... from She's A Beast
• 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

11.06 Pathology

• Instead of pathologizing every human quirk, we should say, By the g... from Sarah Manguso

11.07 Recreational-drugs

• If there’s a hole in your body, you can put drugs into it. Jeff Cl... from Jeff Clark
• pot makes you feel fine with being bored, and it's when you&#39... from goodreads.com

11.08 Weight-training

• Instead, you should align the bar and dig it into that padding righ... from Casey Johnston
• And then along came Brad Schoenfeld and Co., who laid hands upon th... from She's A Beast

11.09 Meditation

• When meditating, as soon as the mind quiets, the sense of space can... from Rick Rubin

12 Physical-engineering

• the Coanda effect - the tendency of a fluid jet to stay attached to... from theprepared.org
• At Maggie Daley Park, one of the project’s defining challenges was ... from

12.01 Physical-engineering

• the Coanda effect - the tendency of a fluid jet to stay attached to... from theprepared.org
• At Maggie Daley Park, one of the project’s defining challenges was ... from

12.02 Accessibility

• When software – or idea-ware for that matter – fails to be accessib... from gist.github.com
• Something interesting about using voice for this means that you are... from Xe's Blog
• It's easy to look at pregnancy (for example) as something which... from twitter.com

13 Agriculture-and-cultivation

13.01 Agriculture

• In Eating Tomorrow: Agribusiness, Family Farmers, and the Battle fo... from Alicia Kennedy
• Ag-gag laws are anti-whistleblower laws that apply within the agric... from Matt McGrath
• “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 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
• 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

13.02 Gardening

• There is an aliveness to fields that lawns do not have. Our small p... from Simon Sarris

14 Technology

• We don’t normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology,... from Ted Chiang

14.01 Automation

• Level 1 The human operator does the task and turns it over to the ... from PetroWiki
• But fifty years of progress in miniaturization and software changed... from idlewords.com
• The cotton gin, a canonical example of automation, perversely incre... from Robin Sloan

14.02 Building

• Library, yes, that’s the word. A workshop is personal library, pron... from Jack Cheng
• This is a fundamental view of the world. It says that when you buil... from Christopher Alexander
• 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
• 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
• General notes: The priority of circulation is another of those m... from Jack Cheng
• traditional arch bridges were built by first having a wood framing ... from Ferd.ca
• In the lab or studio, the hardest question to answer is What shall ... from sarahendren.substack.com

14.03 Hacking

• Folk interfaces are when users reappropriate existing software to s... from Maggie Appleton

14.04 Interfaces

• You should avoid sharing event sourcing events, outside of your ser... from Confluent
• the smaller the interface, is the more useful it is [[See also deep... from The Go Programming Language
• discipline doesn’t scale, and if you want people to use good practi... from Fernando Borretti
• Maybe the devices that we ended up with are too flat, too homogenou... from Kyle Chayka
• Syntax coloring isn't useless, it is childish, like training wh... from Douglas Crockford
• Text inputs have no affordances When I go up the mountain to ask t... from wattenberger.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
• Here are three levels of mapping, arranged in decreasing effectiven... from Don Norman
• Seven stages of action: one for goals, three for execution, and thr... 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
• Pareidolia — our tendency to see “faces” in everything from power o... from Ribbonfarm Studio
• Programmable notes are note-taking systems that allow you to write ... 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
• The room is architected for discussions and decisions, not just vis... from Interconnected
• 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
• Stop thinking about your environment as filled with objects. Start ... from James Clear
• The 1st Law of Behavior Change is to make it obvious. Strategies li... from James Clear
• 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
• 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
• Context Maps where contexts have clear roles and their relationship... from UnknownAuthor

14.05 Infrastructure

• Embodied energy is the energy consumed by all of the processes asso... from Conor Davidson
• ChatGPT, it turns out, lives off the same water I drank growing up ... from Field Notes from Christopher Brown
• Infrastructure undergirds society; failures of it are a per se emer... from Bits about Money

14.06 Logistics

• Infrastructure undergirds society; failures of it are a per se emer... from Bits about Money
• A bill of materials or BOM is a list of the raw components that go ... from Kevin Chung
• The fact that I had never been on the ghost kitchen’s block despite... from Josh Beckman

14.07 Open-source

• What I built isn’t an ActivityPub system as much as a Mastodon-comp... from Tom MacWright
• Any software is considered free software so long as it upholds the ... from writefreesoftware.org
• 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
• 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
• This story archetype is the Hero's Journey that inspires all so... from apenwarr
• 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
• Virtually all maintainers are either volunteers or full-time employ... from Filippo Valsorda
• 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
• This innate duality—software visible as both a fixed point and a li... from Nadia Eghbal
• Before there was a de facto platform for hosting code, most open so... from Nadia Eghbal
• But the community feels different now, now that many of its partici... from macwright.com
• A few of the conditions that Benkler identifies as necessary to pul... from Nadia Eghbal

14.08 Platforms

• A product is useless without a platform, or more precisely and accu... from gist.github.com
• As these stories pop up people act like they’re an incredible marve... from Garbage Day
• Imperfect social media tools gave anyone the ability to publish the... from Garbage Day
• 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
• The fundamental problem is that there’s a fundamental disagreement ... from Doug Belshaw
• 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
• Analyses have found that 12 people—coined the “disinformation dozen... from Katelyn Jetelina from Your Local Epidemiologist
• TikTok’s entire strategy is to turn viral content into public domai... from Garbage Day
• From the perspective of non-mega-platform companies, I think this i... from lethain.com
• But just as the gig economy mode of work brought about negative con... from

14.09 Product

• Nintendo’s “blue ocean” strategy was to stake out a position where ... from John Siracusa
• To determine what actions you can take to drive meaningful change i... from Ken Britton
• A product is useless without a platform, or more precisely and accu... from gist.github.com
• Noriaki Kano, a Japanese researcher and consultant, published a pap... from Folding Burritos
• 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
• Designing for Disassembly ensures that all elements of a product ca... from xxiivv.com
• One of the consequences of demateralisation is that things that “re... from
• I’m personally convinced that these companies are selling products ... from

14.10 Recycling

• although as with all plastic recycling, “downcycling” is the more a... from
• Jingu is famous for its tradition of periodic reconstruction, known... from

14.11 Renewable-energy

• Skeptics of solar feasibility pantomime a kind of technical realism... from Robin Sloan

14.12 Search

• The next problem we have is how to build this index in a reasonable... from Timothy Clem

14.13 Spaceflight

• But fifty years of progress in miniaturization and software changed... from idlewords.com
• 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. Marcin... from Marcin Wichary

14.14 Tools

• Library, yes, that’s the word. A workshop is personal library, pron... from Jack Cheng
• The reason tasks like looking up part numbers and data sheets is ha... from Ribbonfarm Studio
• What would it look like if we could ask, "how do I make this t... from John Cutler from The Beautiful Mess
• When you’re a new leader, your model won’t have much data to go on.... from James Stanier
• If machines were designed to be more personal, we’d have very diffe... from chrbutler.com
• Maybe the devices that we ended up with are too flat, too homogenou... from Kyle Chayka
• 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
• Screenshotting as one of the essential underrated tools of the digi... from Nadia Asparouhova
• 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!
• Columnist Brian Merchant touched on this fuzzy connection between t... from Garbage Day
• The answer, of course, is that the competitiveness of unaided indiv... from marcelo.rinesi
• 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
• the vast majority of our mechanisms are viewed as analogue devices ... from University of Texas in Austin
• In essence, journalling is similar to a psychotherapy session. The... from ycombinator.com
• in the web, it makes sense that links should reflect potential, sin... from Fernando Borretti
• There’s a third impact of AI harder to spot and even harder to sell... from marcelo.rinesi
• A lot of developer tools also assume a developer will switch to an ... from future.a16z.com
• A tool is something that takes an existing workflow, and makes it m... from thesephist.com
• The value of a product is the number of problems it can solve divid... from gist.github.com
• The Harold Mangum System uses phonetic sounds for 0 to 9 based on t... from artofmemory.com

14.15 Virtual-reality

• Sacasas describes the concept of “reality privilege” to which Andre... from

14.16 Augmented-reality

15 Machinery

15.01 Machines

• To quote McLuhan: "Man becomes, as it were, the sex organs of ... from ycombinator.com
• The cotton gin, a canonical example of automation, perversely incre... from Robin Sloan

15.02 Cameras

• The first image ever transmitted to Earth from another planet was r... from Instagram
• Every year, the company adds even more steps to the camera post-pro... from Filipe Espósito
• And it was this work that really opened my eyes to the pervasive se... from interconnected.org

15.03 Robots

• But fifty years of progress in miniaturization and software changed... from idlewords.com
• as users becomes accustomed to agents and NPCs, we’ll see more inte... from Matt Webb
• Next we bring in creative divergence. How? Geists! Geists will be l... from Matt Webb
• The next day I encountered a more novel creature in the process of ... from fieldnotes.christopherbrown.com

20-29 History-and-geography

20 Historical-study

20.01 History

• History is mostly the study of surprising events. But it is often u... from Morgan Housel
• So when an artist creates a work that comes together by an unseen h... from Rick Rubin
• I hope the history books written about this moment in American hist... from www.garbageday.email
• What we call history is, in practice, what we can bear to think abo... from

20.02 COVID-19

• Today , roughly 500 Americans are dying each day from COVID-19. At ... from Katelyn Jetelina from Your Local Epidemiologist
• Officials estimate between 5,000-10,000 people are dying per day . ... from Katelyn Jetelina from Your Local Epidemiologist
• An immediate hypothesis was that Omicron may have developed in a si... from news.ycombinator.com
• Like climate change, COVID is settling into its status as a “permac... from kneelingbus.substack.com
• The pandemic highlighted our intimate relationship with biology. Ur... from futureofurbantech.org

21 Geography-and-nations

21.01 Geography

23 United States

23.01 United-States

• the six illusions that Americans are living with regarding food: &q... from Alicia Kennedy
• Lappé famously called the American diet experimental, noting that n... from Alicia Kennedy
• in the U.S., there’s a false idea that certain choices around food ... from Alicia Kennedy

23.02 Chicago

• For me, ICEWATCH is a deeply spiritual practice: I want to build re... from wbez.org
• 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

30-39 People and organization

30 People

30.01 Groups-of-people

• Totalitarianism thrives, she continued, in conditions where people ... from Sara Hendren
• as the ecotheologian Thomas Berry has written, "we must say of... from Robin Wall Kimmerer
• Teams are productive when they’re sharing useful information. Team... from Josh Beckman
• It’s not like survival, resilience, perseverance and strength in th... from Huw Lemmey
• During the summer of 2021, Canadian researchers … found that the un... from Josh Beckman
• We imitate the habits of three groups in particular: The close.... from James Clear
• never again let anyone tell you that the fury or determination to f... from www.thecut.com
• 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 are articles about how to drive like a real-world road warrio... from fieldnotes.christopherbrown.com

30.02 Leadership

• Each Navigator is wholly accountable for the technical decisions ma... from Irrational Exuberance
• Rigid adherence to any prioritization model, even one that’s concep... from Irrational Exuberance
• A great framework for delegating work or encouraging a team member ... from Ken Britton
• We're talking about a guy who in all seriousness has said on ma... from gist.github.com
• I designed the RAMBO Model as a simple framework to lead a great en... from thecodecompany.com
• These constraints create better decisions both because constraints ... from Irrational Exuberance
• In 2023, our universe has shifted. There’s little hiring happening,... from Irrational Exuberance
• THE PRIORITIZATION MATRIX All of the projects and activities on yo... from review.firstround.com
• 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
• The four common archetypes of Staff-plus roles I encountered are: ... from staffeng.com
• Teasing out the distinction between onboarding engineers and execut... from Irrational Exuberance
• The truth is, nearly every attempt to design a hierarchy-free, &quo... from apenwarr.ca
• 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
• 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
• Strategy can only be employed top-down, so it’s not a question of t... from Irrational Exuberance
• As an engineering executive, it’s particularly important to think a... 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
• A strategy is composed of three parts: Diagnosis: a theory desc... from Irrational Exuberance
• Repetition makes lies seem true, but repetition also makes truth se... from ycombinator.com
• leaders work on the system, not in the system Irrational Exuberanc... from Irrational Exuberance
• Optimize for the {whole, business unit, team}. Pick one of these op... from Irrational Exuberance
• As described in Rumelt’s Good Strategy, Bad Strategy, a strategy is... from Irrational Exuberance
• 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
• In a lifetime of many, many independent choices, small and large, a... from Richard W. Hamming and Bret Victor
• Self-worth, the unexpected corollary of having positive archetypes ... from Josh Beckman
• What I’ve found most successful is to identify a few areas to impro... from Will Larson
• The expected time to complete a new task approaches infinity as a t... from Will Larson

30.03 Audience

• I’ve been mainly “hiring” members for permission. Not in a “please ... from Craig Mod
• In October of last year, YouTube creator and fandom expert Sarah Z ... from Garbage Day
• But just as the gig economy mode of work brought about negative con... from

30.04 Collectives

• "Scenius" is Brian Eno’s term meaning communal genius and... from Interconnected
• The expected time to complete a new task approaches infinity as a t... from Will Larson
• never again let anyone tell you that the fury or determination to f... from www.thecut.com
• It’s seems obvious that collective action from internet creators is... from www.garbageday.email
• 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
• When I have a problem that I want to solve quickly and cheaply, I s... from Will Larson

30.05 Management

• Teams are productive when they’re sharing useful information. Team... from Josh Beckman
• 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
• I used to try and weed my lawn a whole hell of a lot and pull the w... from ferd.ca
• At companies with slower headcount growth, promotions will usually ... from The Pragmatic Engineer
• 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
• many if not most software companies are probably Pareto-distributio... from Nadia Asparouhova
• There’s no status website to check your relationship with other par... from Irrational Exuberance
• First of all, if you’re talking to a manager, they will love you if... from amyn
• 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
• managers do not talk to their subordinates about their problems but... 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
• CEOs always act on leading indicators of good news, but only act on... from Andrew S. Grove
• The people whose compensation depends on your opinion have ample ti... from yosefk.com
• whenever folks talk about failed cultural change, I believe they’re... from Irrational Exuberance
• Create capacity (rather than capture it). This value focuses leader... from Irrational Exuberance
• 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
• Trust on its own isn’t much of a management technique. Trust cannot... from lethain.com
• When asked for IC career advice the first thing I always say is: YO... from twitter.com

30.06 Meetings

• We recently did some team training where they said “you haven’t joi... from JFDI
• You can give yourself back time by leaving meetings gracefully. Sa... from Josh Beckman
• The optimal amount of meetings is not zero, even if you work alone.... from Matt Levine
• the real sign of malorganization is when people spend more than 25%... from Andrew S. Grove
• two basic kinds of meetings: process-oriented meeting, knowledge... from Andrew S. Grove
• Anyone who spends about a half day per week as a member of a planni... from Andrew S. Grove
• 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

30.07 Social-networks

• As people keep trying to make Twitter 2 happen, we are now in a per... from Brian Feldman
• What I built isn’t an ActivityPub system as much as a Mastodon-comp... from Tom MacWright
• On traditional “social media” platforms, in particular YouTube, the... from Drew DeVault's blog
• Observationally, I would say that there's little correlation be... from marcbrooker@gmail.com (Marc Brooker)
• Inverse relationship between ease of access and quality of advice: ... from Irrational Exuberance
• For the Integrity Institute, the label “integrity worker” applies t... from New_ Public Staff
• Imperfect social media tools gave anyone the ability to publish the... from Garbage Day
• This is enshittification: surpluses are first directed to users; th... from Cory Doctorow
• The seemingly earnest popularity of these videos, especially among ... from Garbage Day
• And so when one wonders why newsletters “came out of nowhere” just ... from Patrick McKenzie (patio11)
• Party food before social media was not prepared with photographic r... from mothersundertheinfluence.substack.com
• But the community feels different now, now that many of its partici... from macwright.com
• when Netflix drops a big new show “it feels like a software update ... from kneelingbus.substack.com
• Rewild your attention” — that’s a wonderful way of putting it! (Or ... from clivethompson.medium.com

30.08 Work

• Nobody can do their best work on wobbly projects. Vises reduce mov... from Taylor Troesh (hello@taylor.town)
• the veteran artist has been through this before. Many, many times. ... from Van Neistat
• you have making the thing. then the probationary artist hits the wa... from Van Neistat
• When I’m working on a research problem I generally begin by filling... from Taylor Troesh
• it takes a long time for good ideas to get out and so it's wort... from Strange Loop Conference
• Work in public. Reveal nothing. Robin | The art of working in publ... from Robin
• You owe it to yourself and your team to work on keeping your capaci... from James Stanier
• What would it look like if we could ask, "how do I make this t... from John Cutler from The Beautiful Mess
• I used to be an investment banker, and I enjoy reading profiles of ... from Matt Levine
• My favorite observation from The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim, Kevin... from Will Larson
• The lesson is that, for those of us who live online, having a simpl... from ongoing by Tim Bray
• THE PRIORITIZATION MATRIX All of the projects and activities on yo... from review.firstround.com
• The process and the practice: Sources and habits Seeds Expe... from Rick Rubin
• Often, in making edits to a work: The ego comes in, saying: I wante... 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
• 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
• Every change in medium is a learning experience. Paint and clay hav... from Jack Cheng
• First of all, if you’re talking to a manager, they will love you if... from amyn
• In knowledge work we barely recognize the difference between immers... from fortelabs.com
• 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
• But the point is, for classical liberals in the eighteenth century,... from Noam Chomsky
• 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
• Reports are more a medium of self-discipline than a way to communic... from Andrew S. Grove
• Charles Darwin made it a rule to write down immediately any observa... from John Gall and D.H. Gall
• If something is rotten in an org, the root cause is a manager who d... from yosefk.com
• Athletes and musicians pursue virtuosity in fundamental skills much... from Andyʼs working notes
• 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
• When you start a creative project but don’t finish, the expe­ri­enc... from Robin Sloan
• Motivation factors include challenging work, recognition, responsib... from Craig Mod
• i thought, or hoped, that not caring would protect me, keep me invu... from Jackie Luo
• Give considered thought to what is “worth our attention in any give... from Rob Walker Art of Noticing
• 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
• something called the Hermeneutic circle, which Ryan Kitchens descri... from ferd.ca
• Being paid to wonder seems like a heavy responsibility at times. 📕... from Hope Jahren
• Recollection is such a small, basic part of thinking! There is so m... from thesephist.com
• My laboratory is like a church because it is where I figure out wha... from Hope Jahren
• He taught me that there is no shame in breaking something, only in ... from Hope Jahren
• It’s not a surprise when a scientist is surprised. That’s what happ... from Seth Godin
• Volunteering to do emotional labor—even when you don’t feel like it... from Seth Godin
• If your organization wanted to replace you with someone far better ... from Seth Godin

31 Political-sciences

31.01 Political-science

• Separating out the well and worthy workers from the sick and unprod... from Doug Belshaw
• Authoritarianism is about taking things from me. Communism, in its ... from apenwarr
• lol c’mon, if this wasn’t from an A.I., this would just be one of t... from Garbage Day
• When someone (or some entity such as business) enjoys a particular ... from Drew DeVault's blog
• We feel rather than know (and many of us refuse to acknowledge) tha... from Robin Sloan
• In October of last year, YouTube creator and fandom expert Sarah Z ... from Garbage Day

31.02 Antagonism

• this is the problem when your sole governing ideals are destroying ... from INDIGNITY, from the makers of HMM WEEKLY

32 Government

• After 2008, there was a perception that the government was implicit... from Matt Levine
• Here's what everyone peddling the new trendy systems is so desp... from apenwarr.ca

32.01 State-government

• To exchange one orthodoxy for another is not necessarily an advance... from orwell.ru
• Totalitarianism thrives, she continued, in conditions where people ... from Sara Hendren
• After 2008, there was a perception that the government was implicit... from Matt Levine
• But the thing about state-sponsored attacks is that they’re a bit l... from Matt Webb
• CAP theorem is perhaps the best-known statement of the tradeoffs in... from apenwarr.ca
• Instead, the basic principle I would like to see communicated to pe... from Noam Chomsky
• As long as people think that government (as an ideal and an imperfe... from Matthew Gallaway
• Influence operations can take many shapes; most such operations are... from Casey Newton
• this is the problem when your sole governing ideals are destroying ... from INDIGNITY, from the makers of HMM WEEKLY
• So to summarize–downballot races are cheap, cost-effective, and bec... from Idle Words
• There is generally no judicial remedy for a policy that the Supreme... from Richard Rothstein

32.02 Commons

• Last year I moved onto a street that had a ton of litter. I lived w... from news.ycombinator.com
• Financial systems help us overcome a collective action problem. In ... from Nick Rowe
• I call this “unlocking the commons,” and it’s the same approach I’v... from Tim Carmody
• The fact that I had never been on the ghost kitchen’s block despite... from Josh Beckman
• Then the big parks, which are beautiful and well maintained. Great ... from interconnected.org
• A few of the conditions that Benkler identifies as necessary to pul... from Nadia Eghbal

32.03 Legal

• Ag-gag laws are anti-whistleblower laws that apply within the agric... from Matt McGrath
• 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.
• No chief executive officer of a big company wants to file for bankr... from Matt Levine
• While today there’s a wide distance between GDPR, CCPA, HITRUST, Fe... from lethain.com
• One interesting and possibly even true thing that I learned in law ... from Matt Levine
• And regulations are written in blood, so we’ll only get enforced le... from buttondown.email
• I have seethed as generations of Democrats have argued that if we c... from www.thecut.com

32.04 Compliance

• This, from last week, is one of the best stories you’ll ever read a... from Matt Levine
• In general, the chief compliance officer at any company has a dial ... from Matt Levine
• And regulations are written in blood, so we’ll only get enforced le... from buttondown.email

32.05 Crime

• In general, the chief compliance officer at any company has a dial ... from Matt Levine
• One interesting and possibly even true thing that I learned in law ... from Matt Levine

32.06 Elections

• 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

32.07 Taxes

• The IRS says: "To be deductible, a business expense must be bo... from Bits about Money

32.08 Police

• And it was this work that really opened my eyes to the pervasive se... from interconnected.org

32.09 Republican-party

• this is the problem when your sole governing ideals are destroying ... from INDIGNITY, from the makers of HMM WEEKLY

32.10 Surveillance

• And it was this work that really opened my eyes to the pervasive se... from interconnected.org

32.11 Urban-planning

• While parts of the designed world might be ugly at any speed, it is... from Lawrence Jackson
• Architect Albert Pope offers a better explanation in his excellent ... from Kneeling Bus
• brown lands , a semi-obsolete urban planning term that encompasses ... from Field Notes from Christopher Brown
• An edge city is a dense, auto-oriented job center arising from near... from Alon Levy
• 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

32.12 Protest

• in our industrialized world that's controlled by a handful of m... from Alicia Kennedy
• When vegetarians and vegans limit politics to the realm of animal r... from Alicia Kennedy

32.13 Rights

• When vegetarians and vegans limit politics to the realm of animal r... from Alicia Kennedy

33 Competition and opposition

33.01 Competition

• In World War II, the story goes, the British invented a new kind of... from Atoms vs Bits
• In the allegory of long spoons, there are people in hell and people... from wikipedia.org
• many if not most software companies are probably Pareto-distributio... from Nadia Asparouhova
• Enron was applying selection at the individual level according to m... from Eliezer Yudkowsky
• The answer, of course, is that the competitiveness of unaided indiv... from marcelo.rinesi
• While today there’s a wide distance between GDPR, CCPA, HITRUST, Fe... from lethain.com
• There’s a third impact of AI harder to spot and even harder to sell... from marcelo.rinesi

33.02 Professional

• I used to be an investment banker, and I enjoy reading profiles of ... from Matt Levine
• Professionals stick to the schedule; amateurs let life get in the w... from James Clear

33.03 Amateur

• Professionals stick to the schedule; amateurs let life get in the w... from James Clear

33.04 Conflict

• Approach conflict with curiosity. One of my foundational beliefs is... from Irrational Exuberance

33.05 Negotiation

• the best alternative to a negotiated agreement or BATNA (no deal op... from wikipedia.org
• In his paper The Theory of Graceful Extensibility: Basic rules that... from Lorin Hochstein
• In the allegory of long spoons, there are people in hell and people... from wikipedia.org
• The door-in-the-face technique is a compliance method commonly stud... from en.wikipedia.org

33.06 War

• Then the big parks, which are beautiful and well maintained. Great ... from interconnected.org

34 Education practices

34.01 Education

• AI should be considered intelligence that’s simply learned for a ve... from Ribbonfarm Studio
• In World War II, the story goes, the British invented a new kind of... from Atoms vs Bits
• It is known that, when we learn or train in something, we pass thro... from wikipedia.org
• While there is so much focus on education, the bottleneck for flour... from Simon Sarris
• But here is his best line: Taleb had been busy. He had already ... from Matt Levine
• The point is, it doesn’t matter what you read, what matters is how ... from Noam Chomsky
• Design an obstacle course, not a syllabus. One thing that we have v... from Post-Industrial Design School
• That was where I caught the connection between a college education ... from George Horace Lorimer
• Athletes and musicians pursue virtuosity in fundamental skills much... from Andyʼs working notes
• I used to start my lecture on dictionaries in Python by explaining ... from The Third Bit
• Repetition makes lies seem true, but repetition also makes truth se... from ycombinator.com
• Education is what, when, and why to do things. Training is how to d... from Richard W. Hamming and Bret Victor
• You are approaching this like an established natural sciences field... from ycombinator.com
• Find the best teachers and take all their classes, no matter the su... from

34.02 Evangelism

• But I’ve also noticed a creeping desire among A.I. evangelists to s... from Garbage Day
• TDD/FP/Agile zealots are probably zealots because adopting TDD/FP/A... from buttondown.email

35 Cultural practices

35.01 Culture

• Erysichthon’s dominionist hubris may be how we got to this climate ... from Field Notes from Christopher Brown
• 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
• Nobody is going to turn down getting their eyes scanned by a chrome... from Matt Levine
• The essence of the gift is that it creates a set of relationships. ... from Robin Wall Kimmerer
• in the U.S., there’s a false idea that certain choices around food ... from Alicia Kennedy
• I used to try and weed my lawn a whole hell of a lot and pull the w... from ferd.ca
• 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
• whenever folks talk about failed cultural change, I believe they’re... from Irrational Exuberance
• Yes. To me, the essence of the third place is that it is one where ... from Craig Mod
• We should be so fortunate to greet each other as we greet each othe... from Craig Mod
• Sonali had told us about Annaprashana, which is a Hindu ceremony in... from Kate Ray
• The term 2.5-D was coined by anime fans in Japan in the 1980s to re... from kottke.org
• when Netflix drops a big new show “it feels like a software update ... from kneelingbus.substack.com
• A life that is cosmopolitan, which is to say, a life that belongs t... from blgtylr.substack.com
• There have always been people who have had to censor themselves and... from blgtylr.substack.com
• We’ve somehow managed to create a societal scenario where the most ... from annehelen.substack.com

35.02 Folk-creations

• Battleships can’t be berthed in backyards, but people build wonderf... from Taylor Troesh
• 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
• one of the realization that I hadworking on something like this was... from Hundred Rabbits

35.03 Hunting

• The way he talks about foraging in this conversation reminds me tha... from Kate Ray from soft leaves

35.04 Foraging

35.05 Parenting

• Nothing is unimportant to a little child. He might cry if the wrong... from Simon Sarris
• Self-worth, the unexpected corollary of having positive archetypes ... from Josh Beckman
• Sonali had told us about Annaprashana, which is a Hindu ceremony in... from Kate Ray

35.06 Religion

• lol c’mon, if this wasn’t from an A.I., this would just be one of t... from Garbage Day
• Lastly, in a sense this is a religious course: I am preaching the m... from Richard W. Hamming and Bret Victor
• As a religion, social justice works. It works not merely in the sen... from Sara Hendren from undefended / undefeated
• My laboratory is like a church because it is where I figure out wha... from Hope Jahren

35.07 Sports

• Loss in Judo is more personal than in other sports. Defeat in a spo... from Cedric Chin

35.08 Racism

• There's a sense in editorial, publishing, and TV spaces that, i... from Alicia Kennedy

40-49 Arts-and-recreation

40 Arts

40.01 Art

• Art evolves through discussion (literal and figurative) among many ... from Irrational Exuberance
• Ultimately, the act of self-expression isn't really about you. ... from Rick Rubin
• So when an artist creates a work that comes together by an unseen h... from Rick Rubin
• If you know what you want to do and you do it, that's the work ... from Rick Rubin
• There’s a difference between personal and Personal. Between the idi... from Jack Cheng
• But art is not a handicraft; it is the transmission of feeling that... from Leo Tolstoy
• The most economically powerful thing you can do is to buy something... from Tim Carmody

40.02 Photography

• As a medium, photography is kind of intrinsically selfish. So I bri... from Bill Shapiro
• The first image ever transmitted to Earth from another planet was r... from Instagram
• Screenshotting as one of the essential underrated tools of the digi... from Nadia Asparouhova

40.03 Music

• 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

40.04 Typography

• It is also notable that the Feynman lectures (3 volumes) write abou... from edwardtufte.com

41 Recreation

41.01 Entertainment

• To expand the term beyond its original scope, Max Pain punishes peo... from nemesis.global
• As a subset of contrarianism, Hot Sauce Behavior became especially ... from nemesis.global

42 Architecture

42.01 Physical-architecture

• Original layout The original elementary school. Found somewhere ... from joelsimon.net
• If you look at a Greek temple, you will notice that the element tha... from Samuel Hughes
• In this process, we figure out the most beautiful and comfortable a... from Jack Cheng
• General notes: The priority of circulation is another of those m... from Jack Cheng
• All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong. Most buil... from Stewart Brand
• The room is architected for discussions and decisions, not just vis... from Interconnected
• Today, nearly 150 years later, burglary and architecture still go h... from Geoff Manaugh
• When we deal with buildings we deal with decisions taken long ago f... from theprepared.org
• At Maggie Daley Park, one of the project’s defining challenges was ... from
• Jingu is famous for its tradition of periodic reconstruction, known... from

43 Food-and-drink

43.01 Cooking

• in our industrialized world that's controlled by a handful of m... from Alicia Kennedy
• 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
• I think my favorite activity ever is cooking for people in my own h... from Kate Ray from soft leaves
• This is a new food culture, where the chef is not speaking from on ... from Alicia Kennedy
• 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. 📕Joshua... 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
• Those little shakers on the table are of no help when you cook; you... from Joshua McFadden
• 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
• Party food before social media was not prepared with photographic r... from mothersundertheinfluence.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

43.02 Cocktails

• 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

43.03 Seasoning

• 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
• Sonali had told us about Annaprashana, which is a Hindu ceremony in... from Kate Ray

43.04 Food

• Being a locally minded vegetarian has been my compromise. I'm s... from Alicia Kennedy
• It will never cease to shock me that people would rather spend mill... from Alicia Kennedy
• in our industrialized world that's controlled by a handful of m... from Alicia Kennedy
• the six illusions that Americans are living with regarding food: &q... from Alicia Kennedy
• Lappé famously called the American diet experimental, noting that n... from Alicia Kennedy
• Pollan proposes a new (and very old) answer to the question of what... from Michael Pollan

44 Exploration-and-travel

44.01 Exploration

• When we interact with a product, we need to figure out how to work ... from Don Norman
• 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 fifty years of progress in miniaturization and software changed... from idlewords.com
• Follow existing patterns unless there’s an order of magnitude impro... from Irrational Exuberance
• But if you use the trick I learned twenty years ago from a Subaru s... from Field Notes from Christopher Brown
• 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
• An immediate hypothesis was that Omicron may have developed in a si... from news.ycombinator.com

44.02 Walking

• While parts of the designed world might be ugly at any speed, it is... from Lawrence Jackson
• There is an aliveness to fields that lawns do not have. Our small p... from Simon Sarris
• But if you use the trick I learned twenty years ago from a Subaru s... from Field Notes from Christopher Brown

50-59 Sciences

50 Science-practice

50.01 Science

• I think informatics is a much better word to use, right? Computer ... from Strange Loop Conference
• Remember kids, the only difference between fooling around and scien... from Hacker News
• much of science is straightforward, logical, almost rote. It's ... from apenwarr
• there have been many experiments running rats through all kinds of ... from Gwern Branwen
• The fact that this slight change in study design yielded opposite r... from Katelyn Jetelina and Kristen Panthagani, MD, PhD from Your Local Epidemiologist
• That whole summer in Colorado was a data-gathering bust, but it tau... 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
• In the lab or studio, the hardest question to answer is What shall ... from sarahendren.substack.com
• 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

50.02 Research

• 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

51 Biology

51.01 Adaptation

• In his paper The Theory of Graceful Extensibility: Basic rules that... from Lorin Hochstein
• The gag is that we know the answer. Could infinite monkeys eventua... from Interconnected
• 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
• “Their sensory volume increased, since light travels farther in air... from Blake Crouch
• It’s a nice fantasy to think about future singularity. But that’s j... from nautil.us

51.02 Biomes

• The fruits are so small that the red doesn’t jump out at you in the... from Christopher Brown
• The pandemic highlighted our intimate relationship with biology. Ur... from futureofurbantech.org

51.03 Survivalism

• The Lindy effect (also known as Lindy's Law[1]) is a theorized ... from en.wikipedia.org
• to meet a future full of catastrophe, we need to think and act like... from Doug Belshaw
• It’s not like survival, resilience, perseverance and strength in th... from Huw Lemmey
• Scavenge-friendly electronics are parts that are no longer manufact... 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
• 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
• There are articles about how to drive like a real-world road warrio... from fieldnotes.christopherbrown.com

51.04 Biological-systems

• the term homeostasis: it refers to how your body maintains factors ... from Lorin Hochstein
• “Their sensory volume increased, since light travels farther in air... from Blake Crouch
• series of reactions strips its highest-energy electrons and uses th... from James Somers
• Durham said, “Do you know what a Garden-of-Eden configuration is?” ... from Greg Egan
• An immediate hypothesis was that Omicron may have developed in a si... from news.ycombinator.com
• The truth emerged only slowly, and was, in its own slippery way, st... from newyorker.com

52 Environmental-science

52.01 Environment

• Erysichthon’s dominionist hubris may be how we got to this climate ... from Field Notes from Christopher Brown
• The Maui surfer girls love each other’s hair. It is awesome hair, l... from Susan Orlean
• Strong commitment in design is good for dementia, where challenges ... from Sara Hendren from undefended / undefeated
• Okay, so habits are good: they free the mind for important things. ... from Matt Webb
• Yes. To me, the essence of the third place is that it is one where ... from Craig Mod
• The room is architected for discussions and decisions, not just vis... from Interconnected
• In this way, the most common form of change is not internal, but ex... from James Clear
• The process [of regenerative ag] is expensive, since farmers who em... from sarahmock.substack.com
• Bryan Beckman is a Clearwater environmentalist whose daily life has... from www.floridapoliticalreview.com

52.02 Climate-change

• From everything I can tell, there is no making it through, let alon... from ycombinator.com
• We live on a sun-drenched blue marble hanging in space, and for all... from Robin Sloan
• But the hyperobject that is climate change requires the very kind o... from Sara Hendren from undefended / undefeated
• Like climate change, COVID is settling into its status as a “permac... from kneelingbus.substack.com
• Bryan Beckman is a Clearwater environmentalist whose daily life has... from www.floridapoliticalreview.com

52.03 Flora

• as the ecotheologian Thomas Berry has written, "we must say of... from Robin Wall Kimmerer
• All roots have edible greens, so catch them early when they're ... from Joshua McFadden
• The fruits are so small that the red doesn’t jump out at you in the... from Christopher Brown
• 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
• 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

52.04 Fauna

• as the ecotheologian Thomas Berry has written, "we must say of... from Robin Wall Kimmerer
• Bakker introduced me to the term biophony to refer to sounds of liv... from Rob Walker Art of Noticing
• But if you use the trick I learned twenty years ago from a Subaru s... from Field Notes from Christopher Brown
• The fruits are so small that the red doesn’t jump out at you in the... from Christopher Brown
• Every species on Earth—past or present, from the single-celled micr... from Hope Jahren
• The truth emerged only slowly, and was, in its own slippery way, st... from newyorker.com

53 Math

• it's neat how adding affine measures is mathematically invalid ... from buttondown.email
• The student who overcomes this problem might learn the following us... from plover.com
• 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
• As we think about it this way, we realize that the closer ⍴ gets to... from brooker.co.za

53.01 Mathematics

53.02 Napkin-math

• Hashing, crypto-safe (64 bytes) 500 ns 200 MiB/s sirupsen | Napkin... from sirupsen
• Random Memory R/W (64 bytes) 50 ns 1 GiB/s sirupsen | Napkin Math from sirupsen
• Let’s demonstrate the method with an example. Consider computing th... from Gregory Gundersen
• 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

53.03 Information-theory

• we are creating more data than we can manage. The primary output o... from johnnydecimal.com
• This first lab newsletter of 2023 is very link-y, perhaps a bit raw... from Robin Sloan
• I think what has happened is there was a massive overestimation of ... from Doug Belshaw
• A three second warning can’t compete against 45 minutes of seeing c... from Rob Henderson
• It’s a nice fantasy to think about future singularity. But that’s j... from nautil.us
• Code runs on people. Please keep it simple. "Everyone knows&q... from rachelbythebay.com

53.04 Network-theory

• Triadic closure is a concept in network theory which is when a netw... from Matt Webb

53.05 Noise

• Stochastic resonance is the phenomenon in which random noise can am... from Interconnected

53.06 Probability

• In conditions of uncertainty, you might be tempted to use a low mar... from Matt Levine
• if you are talking about “numerous black swans” then you have made ... from Josh Beckman

54 Measurement

54.01 Metrics

• manage three budgets: cash, attention, risk berglondon.com | Week ... from berglondon.com
• This reminds me of the story where a Houston airport kept getting c... from ycombinator.com
• By replacing integration tests with unit tests, we're losing al... from Computer Things
• The only good advice I have here is to re-evaluate your metrics oft... from ferd.ca
• Potential SLIs for different types of components Request-driven... from Steven Thurgood and David Ferguson
• As incidents continue to occur, teams generally respond by starting... from GitHub
• Just like regular investment funds can either be actively managed o... from Matt Levine
• We have built many projects, and we believe the most valuable summa... from joelparkerhenderson
• 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
• 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
• My point today is that, if we wish to count lines of code, we shoul... from University of Texas in Austin
• The classification scheme used here is possibly the clearest one I&... from ferd.ca
• I’m personally convinced that these companies are selling products ... from
• the system grows for a while (increasing λ), or we reduce the numbe... from brooker.co.za
• We can then define the Utilization of the server (calling it ⍴ for ... from brooker.co.za
• My friend Chip Ward speaks of “the tyranny of the quantifiable,” of... from Rebecca Solnit
• Good goals are a composition of four specific kinds of numbers: A t... from Will Larson

54.02 Units

54.03 Time

• Have you ever worked on something, then once you got it done you we... from marcbrooker@gmail.com (Marc Brooker)
• Leases are a nearly ubiquitous, go-to, mutual exclusion mechanism i... from marcbrooker@gmail.com (Marc Brooker)
• There’s something qualitative and important that happens when the e... from marcbrooker@gmail.com (Marc Brooker)

55 Psychology

• mere-exposure effect: doing something many times makes us believe w... from Sebastian Trzcinski-Clément
• As I’ve written in past reviews, “permission” seems to be my bigges... from Craig Mod

55.01 Human-psychology

• The field of psychology holds the view that trust is a personality ... from DiscoStu
• 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
• The ultimate goal of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is to ... from every.to
• We all bring cognitive biases. The explicit ones we love to cast as... from Ilya Grigorik
• Really finance is the study of human behavior and I guess signing y... from Matt Levine
• Because going against our natural inclinations can make us feel lik... from subbu.org
• And when you’re afraid of someone’s judgment, you can’t connect wit... from Startupy
• Seeing your website’s actual server is the virtual equiv of the Ove... from Matt Webb
• 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
• TDD/FP/Agile zealots are probably zealots because adopting TDD/FP/A... from buttondown.email
• CLICHES ARE A SUBSTITUTE FOR CRITICAL THINKING charity.wtf | Why I... from charity.wtf

60-69 Systems

60 Systems

• Words matter, and the words you say about yourself and other people... from Josh Beckman
• I was taken with this cybernetic description of an aircraft factory... from interconnected.org
• Speaking from a systems design point of view, we say that all real-... from apenwarr
• Amdahl's law is often used in parallel computing to predict the... from en.wikipedia.org
• From the point of view of relationshps which appears in the design,... from Jack Cheng
• ANY LARGE SYSTEM IS GOING TO BE OPERATING MOST OF THE TIME IN FAILU... 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
• ANERGY-STATE. Any state or condition of the Universe, or of any por... from John Gall and D.H. Gall
• In general, the chief compliance officer at any company has a dial ... from Matt Levine
• Programmable notes are note-taking systems that allow you to write ... from Maggie Appleton
• leaders work on the system, not in the system Irrational Exuberanc... from Irrational Exuberance
• Tags are primarily used for both querying , or discovering informat... from Hillel Wayne
• In October of last year, YouTube creator and fandom expert Sarah Z ... from Garbage Day
• the Law of stretched systems: Every system is stretched to oper... from Ferd.ca
• What I’ve found most successful is to identify a few areas to impro... from Will Larson
• The expected time to complete a new task approaches infinity as a t... from Will Larson
• Whenever you want to change your behavior, you can simply ask yours... from James Clear
• Goals are about the results you want to achieve. Systems are about ... from James Clear
• In a 2003 memoir called Where the Money Is: True Tales from the Ban... from Geoff Manaugh
• THE MEANING OF A COMMUNICATION IS THE BEHAVIOUR THAT RESULTS. ferd... from ferd.ca
• Here's what everyone peddling the new trendy systems is so desp... from apenwarr.ca

60.01 Safety

• the SUX Rule: Sandbox-free – Unsafe – eXogenous. If our code runs w... from Posts on Kelly Shortridge
• When software – or idea-ware for that matter – fails to be accessib... from gist.github.com
• Elisa Baniassad and Alexander Summers have this great paper Reframi... from Hillel Wayne
• The Therac-25 was a computer-controlled radiation therapy machine p... from wikipedia.org
• 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
• Forcing functions are the extreme case of strong constraints that c... from Don Norman
• insights from the seven stages of action lead us to seven fundament... from Don Norman
• These are qualities of a good system that we should strive to fulfi... from Josh Beckman
• For large-scale software systems, Van Roy believes we need to embra... from Adrian Colyer
• A standard way to poison a code model is to inject insecure code in... from Jack Clark
• Canary tokens are a free, quick, painless way to help defenders dis... from Thinkst Thoughts
• I’d argue that field-level encryption should be a starting place fo... from lethain.com
• While today there’s a wide distance between GDPR, CCPA, HITRUST, Fe... from lethain.com
• 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)
• To achieve that braking safety, the subway’s signal architecture wo... from ~ uday schultz
• 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

60.02 Liveness

• 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
• ANY LARGE SYSTEM IS GOING TO BE OPERATING MOST OF THE TIME IN FAILU... from John Gall and D.H. Gall
• For large-scale software systems, Van Roy believes we need to embra... from Adrian Colyer
• because a service is running with a dependency down does not mean i... from Matthew Green
• The things that can go wrong are called faults, and systems that an... from Martin Kleppmann

60.03 Observability

• 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
• The OODA loop is the cycle observe–orient–decide–act, developed by ... from en.wikipedia.org
• Dealing with Error: • Put the knowledge required to operate the te... from Don Norman
• insights from the seven stages of action lead us to seven fundament... from Don Norman
• These are qualities of a good system that we should strive to fulfi... from Josh Beckman
• As far as I can tell, cognitive bandwidth and network bandwidth bot... from Ferd.ca
• these are the three main lists of golden signals today: From the Go... from www.infoq.com
• If our notion of “what is supposed to happen” is getting weaker, th... from future.a16z.com
• It’s often very useful to provide inline performance information in... from Marc-Andre Giroux

60.04 Controllability

• We’re building apps to surround and harness AI, but we need microsc... from Interconnected
• 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

60.05 Composability

• Oozification is the process of recursively replacing systems based ... from Ribbonfarm Studio
• Deep and shallow modules: The best modules are deep: they allow a ... from John Ousterhout
• Software with fewer concepts composes, scales, and evolves more eas... from oilshell
• Part of what makes LoRA so effective is that - like other forms of ... from Dylan Patel
• The io_uring interface works through two main data structures: the ... from Glauber Costa
• Inventory should be kept at the lowest-value stage possible 📕Andre... from Andrew S. Grove
• 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
• Designing for Disassembly ensures that all elements of a product ca... from xxiivv.com
• Erasure coding is the idea that we can take a blob of data, break i... from marcbrooker@gmail.com (Marc Brooker)
• 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
• because a service is running with a dependency down does not mean i... from Matthew Green
• The cost of maintenance, coupled with a lack of intrinsic motivatio... from Nadia Eghbal
• A lot of developer tools also assume a developer will switch to an ... from future.a16z.com

60.06 Scalability

• In Eliyahu M. Goldratt's "Theory of Constraints", you... from ycombinator.com
• Nathan's four Laws of Software: Software is a gas Soft... from Jeff Atwood
• Software with fewer concepts composes, scales, and evolves more eas... from oilshell
• few days ago I did something that I never thought I’d do again, and... from brandur.org
• Amdahl's law is often used in parallel computing to predict the... from en.wikipedia.org
• But the thing about state-sponsored attacks is that they’re a bit l... from Matt Webb
• CAP theorem is perhaps the best-known statement of the tradeoffs in... from apenwarr.ca
• as devices get extremely fast, interrupt-driven work is no longer a... from Glauber Costa
• These are qualities of a good system that we should strive to fulfi... from Josh Beckman
• Consistent hashing is a distributed systems technique that operates... from NK
• Inventory should be kept at the lowest-value stage possible 📕Andre... from Andrew S. Grove
• In general, the chief compliance officer at any company has a dial ... from Matt Levine
• 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
• 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)
• As far as I can tell, cognitive bandwidth and network bandwidth bot... from Ferd.ca
• The fact that something stops working at significantly increased sc... from Will Larson

60.07 Checklists

• the questions my favourite writing professor would ask. Do you ... from Maggie Appleton

60.08 System-design

• Leases are a nearly ubiquitous, go-to, mutual exclusion mechanism i... from marcbrooker@gmail.com (Marc Brooker)
• Oozification is the process of recursively replacing systems based ... from Ribbonfarm Studio
• Le Chatelier’s Principle. This Law states that any natural process,... from John Gall and D.H. Gall
• When we build systems that avoid coordinating, we end up building c... from marcbrooker@gmail.com (Marc Brooker)
• Progress is good. Complexity is a bridge. Simplicity is the goal. ... from Ruby on Rails
• General notes: Machine Learning, AI, LLMs - they all give back e... from Ruby on Rails
• 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
• Organizing into services taught teams not to trust each other in mo... from gist.github.com
• I was taken with this cybernetic description of an aircraft factory... from interconnected.org
• These are qualities of a good system that we should strive to fulfi... from Josh Beckman
• The point is to impose a pattern on the way a manager copes with pr... from Andrew S. Grove
• BIG SYSTEMS EITHER WORK ON THEIR OWN OR THEY DON’T. [[Big systems s... from John Gall and D.H. Gall
• "Jobs to be done" is an attempt to identify demand withou... from Josh Beckman
• 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
• 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
• General notes: Form, in Context, evaluated against Fit. Ryan S... from Ryan Singer
• The room is architected for discussions and decisions, not just vis... from Interconnected
• Eventually, you reach this list’s conclusion, which lies in an unas... from ~ uday schultz
• Organizational design gets the right people in the right places, em... from Will Larson

60.09 Optimization

• In matrix computations, sketching is really a synonym for (linear) ... from ethanepperly.com
• The idea here is that instead of incrementing a single row for a co... from planetscale.com
• Original layout The original elementary school. Found somewhere ... from joelsimon.net
• More things than you would think are dynamic strategic problems. If... from marcelo.rinesi
• Amdahl's law is often used in parallel computing to predict the... from en.wikipedia.org
• THE PRIORITIZATION MATRIX All of the projects and activities on yo... from review.firstround.com
• In machine learning, double descent is a surprising phenomenon wher... from chris-said.io
• One of my favorite systems papers ever is the COST paper, which exa... from blog.nelhage.com
• The bottom line is this; in modern multicore, multi-CPU devices, th... from Glauber Costa
• Selecting the hen who lays the most eggs doesn't necessarily ge... from Eliezer Yudkowsky
• what the chemical industry calls “verbund.” This is a setup in whic... from Sebastian Trzcinski-Clément
• A common rule […] is to detect and fix any problem in a production ... from Andrew S. Grove
• In general, the chief compliance officer at any company has a dial ... from Matt Levine
• Optimize for the {whole, business unit, team}. Pick one of these op... from Irrational Exuberance
• The trickiest part of speeding up a program is not doing it, but de... from bueno.org
• 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
• The Lance Armstrong problem Did we get the AI to be actually safe o... from Cold Takes
• This is an example of the ‘capability overhang’ phenomenon I’ve bee... from Jack Clark
• pruning for sparsity – turns out some LLMs work just as well if you... from Tyler Cowen
• Every year, the company adds even more steps to the camera post-pro... from Filipe Espósito
• In most places, the olive harvest is mechanized, but that’s only po... from Robin Sloan

60.10 Feedback

• In Eating Tomorrow: Agribusiness, Family Farmers, and the Battle fo... from Alicia Kennedy
• For large-scale software systems, Van Roy believes we need to embra... from Adrian Colyer
• In October of last year, YouTube creator and fandom expert Sarah Z ... from Garbage Day

60.11 Incentives

• I used to try and weed my lawn a whole hell of a lot and pull the w... from ferd.ca
• Enron was applying selection at the individual level according to m... from Eliezer Yudkowsky
• Virtually all maintainers are either volunteers or full-time employ... from Filippo Valsorda
• • Maybe they’re just creating massive amounts of “digital represe... from Cold Takes
• When I suggested this to friends in the Pentagon they said, ‘My God... from James Clear
• Similarly, if your reward for exercising is eating a bowl of ice cr... from James Clear

60.12 Performance

• as devices get extremely fast, interrupt-driven work is no longer a... from Glauber Costa
• In general, the chief compliance officer at any company has a dial ... from Matt Levine
• 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
• The trickiest part of speeding up a program is not doing it, but de... from bueno.org
• The abundance of digital storage and processing power has caused an... from xxiivv.com
• In conditions of uncertainty, you might be tempted to use a low mar... from Matt Levine
• our philosophy is that to make fastsoftware you need slow computers... from Hundred Rabbits
• Buy them in small quantities and replenish them often instead of ha... from Joshua McFadden
• 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

60.13 Queues

• 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
• 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
• The Queuing Rule of Thumb (QROT) is a mathematical formula, known a... from wikipedia.org
• 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

60.14 Reliability

60.15 Efficiency

60.16 Risk

• manage three budgets: cash, attention, risk berglondon.com | Week ... from berglondon.com
• I attempt to run the company perpetually at medium-risk, with occas... from berglondon.com
• This is the central illusion in life: that randomness is risky, tha... from Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• In conditions of uncertainty, you might be tempted to use a low mar... from Matt Levine
• if you are talking about “numerous black swans” then you have made ... from Josh Beckman

60.17 Taxonomy

• It is also notable that the Feynman lectures (3 volumes) write abou... from edwardtufte.com
• Tags are primarily used for both querying , or discovering informat... from Hillel Wayne

60.18 Tolerance

• In general, the chief compliance officer at any company has a dial ... from Matt Levine

60.19 Error

• If you already know there’s an error , a weaker test can be more us... from Hillel Wayne
• the difference between recoverable errors and bugs: • A recovera... from joeduffyblog.com
• 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
• Errors have two major forms. Slips occur when the goal is correct, ... from Don Norman
• 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

60.20 Tests

• By replacing integration tests with unit tests, we're losing al... from Computer Things
• Inside-Out and Outside-In are fairly rare terms, more often I have ... from Software Engineering Stack Exchange
• If you already know there’s an error , a weaker test can be more us... from Hillel Wayne
• TDD/FP/Agile zealots are probably zealots because adopting TDD/FP/A... from buttondown.email

60.21 Trust

• The field of psychology holds the view that trust is a personality ... from DiscoStu

60.22 Emergence

• What this work shows is that if you have the right input basic mate... from Jack Clark

61 Representation

61.01 Abstraction

• 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
• But fifty years of progress in miniaturization and software changed... from idlewords.com
• But in modern financial markets, you can get an economic benefit fr... from Matt Levine
• the program is an abstract symbol manipulator, which can be turned ... from University of Texas in Austin
• It is probably more illuminating to go a little bit further back, t... from University of Texas in Austin

61.02 Estimation

• Let’s demonstrate the method with an example. Consider computing th... from Gregory Gundersen

61.03 Strategy

• Exploring the difference a bit: Challenge-based strategy is reason... from Irrational Exuberance
• 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
• 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
• 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
• When you read good, coherent actions, you think, “This is going to ... from Will Larson
• If strategies describe the harsh trade-offs necessary to overcome a... from Will Larson
• Strategies are grounded documents which explain the trade-offs and ... from Will Larson

62 Habits-and-practice

62.01 Habits

• discipline doesn’t scale, and if you want people to use good practi... from Fernando Borretti
• Inaction → Committed Action Clarifying our values and learning a n... from every.to
• Experiential Avoidance →Willingness When challenging thoughts and ... from every.to
• That said, much like internal communication, networking is a relati... from Irrational Exuberance
• Okay, so habits are good: they free the mind for important things. ... from Matt Webb
• Many years ago I got obsessed with habit-breaking days. We live our... from Matt Webb
• 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
• Professionals stick to the schedule; amateurs let life get in the w... from James Clear
• We imitate the habits of three groups in particular: The close.... from James Clear
• 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 📕James Clear | An Eas... from James Clear
• Goals are about the results you want to achieve. Systems are about ... from James Clear
• The hard part is distinguishing between quitting because the resist... from Seth Godin

62.02 Commute

• Okay, so habits are good: they free the mind for important things. ... from Matt Webb
• Many years ago I got obsessed with habit-breaking days. We live our... from Matt Webb

62.03 Consumption

• Each thing, each unit of stuff, came with its own, pet stuff—a stan... from Paul Ford
• Streams - mostly Twitter for me, this is where fast twitch informat... from TOM CRITCHLOW
• The best things in life are free. The second best things are very, ... from David Heinemeier Hansson (dhh@hey.com)

62.04 Practice-and-training

• It is known that, when we learn or train in something, we pass thro... from wikipedia.org
• 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
• But the hyperobject that is climate change requires the very kind o... from Sara Hendren from undefended / undefeated
• it’s not always about what happens during the workout. It’s about b... from James Clear

62.05 Maintenance

• The cost of maintenance, coupled with a lack of intrinsic motivatio... from Nadia Eghbal
• Code, in static state, can be bought and sold at nearly zero margin... from Nadia Eghbal
• most of the conversations around developer experience are about how... from future.a16z.com

62 Economics

• 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
• You can buy a bank’s attention to bespoke needs by bringing it depo... from Bits about Money
• All prices embed an interest rate derivative Bits about Money | Ba... from Bits about Money
• when interest rates rise, all asset prices must fall Bits about Mo... from Bits about Money
• the true nature of housing prices. It’s not about the house, it’s a... from goodreason.substack.com
• Inventory should be kept at the lowest-value stage possible 📕Andre... from Andrew S. Grove
• Max Pain is an urban legend-slash-theory from the options market, i... from nemesis.global
• The most economically powerful thing you can do is to buy something... from Tim Carmody
• But in modern financial markets, you can get an economic benefit fr... from Matt Levine
• 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
• A bill of materials or BOM is a list of the raw components that go ... from Kevin Chung
• The single biggest thing Substack accomplished was legitimizing a S... from Patrick McKenzie (patio11)
• the Gruen Transfer, a phenomenon that architecture theorist Sanford... from Josh Beckman
• The Phillips curve is an economic concept developed by A. W. Philli... from www.investopedia.com
• I have seethed as generations of Democrats have argued that if we c... from www.thecut.com
• For the last five hundred years, the best way to succeed has been t... from Seth Godin

62.01 Economics

• 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
• You can buy a bank’s attention to bespoke needs by bringing it depo... from Bits about Money
• All prices embed an interest rate derivative Bits about Money | Ba... from Bits about Money
• when interest rates rise, all asset prices must fall Bits about Mo... from Bits about Money
• the true nature of housing prices. It’s not about the house, it’s a... from goodreason.substack.com
• Inventory should be kept at the lowest-value stage possible 📕Andre... from Andrew S. Grove
• Max Pain is an urban legend-slash-theory from the options market, i... from nemesis.global
• The most economically powerful thing you can do is to buy something... from Tim Carmody
• But in modern financial markets, you can get an economic benefit fr... from Matt Levine
• 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
• A bill of materials or BOM is a list of the raw components that go ... from Kevin Chung
• The single biggest thing Substack accomplished was legitimizing a S... from Patrick McKenzie (patio11)
• the Gruen Transfer, a phenomenon that architecture theorist Sanford... from Josh Beckman
• The Phillips curve is an economic concept developed by A. W. Philli... from www.investopedia.com
• I have seethed as generations of Democrats have argued that if we c... from www.thecut.com
• For the last five hundred years, the best way to succeed has been t... from Seth Godin

62.02 Capitalism

• If free software gifts are communism and open source is cynically c... from apenwarr

62.03 Finance

• If all the burghers of Small Town USA get together and say “we want... from Matt Levine
• It is funny to imagine an end state here in which markets are entir... from Matt Levine
• After 2008, there was a perception that the government was implicit... from Matt Levine
• from the SEC’s perspective the important thing here is that the rul... from Matt Levine
• if the US government does default, that will probably cause the pri... from Matt Levine
• The very most important thing to understand in finance and economic... from Matt Levine
• Every so often the US government thinks about defaulting on its deb... from Matt Levine
• 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
• 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
• Philanthropy is often conflated with charity, a sort of blank-minde... from nayafia.substack.com
• But I think the modern bank-regulatory view is that the point of a ... from Matt Levine
• the true nature of housing prices. It’s not about the house, it’s a... from goodreason.substack.com
• in practice the answer is that some companies create negative exter... from Matt Levine
• Really finance is the study of human behavior and I guess signing y... from Matt Levine
• Max Pain is an urban legend-slash-theory from the options market, i... from nemesis.global
• But in modern financial markets, you can get an economic benefit fr... from Matt Levine
• Just like regular investment funds can either be actively managed o... from Matt Levine
• No chief executive officer of a big company wants to file for bankr... from Matt Levine
• Finance, like its cousin Poetry, is the use of precise language to ... from marcelo.rinesi
• Also another, related point is that as far as I can tell every dece... from Matt Levine
• 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
• Around here I often quote the most important thing I learned at Gol... from Matt Levine
• the Howey test of what makes an “investment contract” a security is... from Matt Levine
• It was like a fantastical version of their old jobs, a new financia... from Matt Levine
• Yeah I mean a general lesson here is that you want to be in the sor... from Matt Levine
• Many people believe that cash, the paper printed by the government,... from Patrick McKenzie (patio11)
• 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
• He is making multi-year, illiquid, unhedgeable speculative investme... from Josh Beckman

62.04 Money

• The law states that any circulating currency consisting of both &qu... from en.wikipedia.org
• Max Pain is an urban legend-slash-theory from the options market, i... from nemesis.global
• Starting in the summer of 2020 and peaking in late 2021, various fa... from nemesis.global
• The best things in life are free. The second best things are very, ... from David Heinemeier Hansson (dhh@hey.com)
• The report said that for every $1 of new global wealth earned by a ... from Doug Belshaw
• Life (and intersectionality) are complex, but money is, relatively ... from ongoing by Tim Bray
• Many people believe that cash, the paper printed by the government,... from Patrick McKenzie (patio11)
• The world is mostly shaped by wealth, more so than ever as technolo... from Josh Beckman
• If you run a mutual fund, a high mark is good for investors who tak... from Matt Levine
• Ask a science professor what she worries about. It won’t take long.... from Hope Jahren
• Although the ownership of a particular stone might change, the ston... from en.m.wikipedia.org
• Luxury always boils down to time: someone is paying a lot of money ... from tinyletter.com

62.05 Cryptocurrency

• 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
• The very most important thing to understand in finance and economic... from Matt Levine
• "Monetize" is a terrible word that tacitly admits that th... from Cory Doctorow
• Columnist Brian Merchant touched on this fuzzy connection between t... from Garbage Day
• Also another, related point is that as far as I can tell every dece... from Matt Levine
• 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
• One imperfect but useful way to think about crypto,” I wrote, “is t... from Josh Beckman
• the crypto industry in 2022 rediscovered the 2008 financial crisis.... from Josh Beckman

62.06 Funding

• Philanthropy is often conflated with charity, a sort of blank-minde... from nayafia.substack.com
• The entrepreneur is the customer and the LP is the shareholder. Tha... from Fred Wilson
• I’ve been mainly “hiring” members for permission. Not in a “please ... from Craig Mod
• As I’ve written in past reviews, “permission” seems to be my bigges... from Craig Mod
• 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
• 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
• The most economically powerful thing you can do is to buy something... from Jason Kottke
• you can pay me money, and I will continue writing. If you (in aggre... from Bits about Money
• One publication well-known enough by cognoscenti to get namechecked... from Patrick McKenzie (patio11)
• 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
• Paying a maintainer for their attention can also translate into ful... from Nadia Eghbal
• As for subscriptions, paywalls might seem like a way to monetize co... from Nadia Eghbal
• It’s seems obvious that collective action from internet creators is... from www.garbageday.email
• But just as the gig economy mode of work brought about negative con... from

62.07 Game-theory

• Max Pain is an urban legend-slash-theory from the options market, i... from nemesis.global
• 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
• One imperfect but useful way to think about crypto,” I wrote, “is t... from Josh Beckman
• In the glory days, Olympus enthusiasts dressed up this insight in t... from Josh Beckman

62.08 Marketplaces

• This is enshittification: surpluses are first directed to users; th... from Cory Doctorow
• Amazon thought that if they could force users to go straight to Ama... from Second Marathon Archive Feed
• Why is that a hard message to communicate through marketing, especi... from sarahmock.substack.com

62.09 Venture-capital

• Thompson’s argument in that post is that Silicon Valley used to be ... from Matt Levine
• The entrepreneur is the customer and the LP is the shareholder. Tha... from Fred Wilson

63 Mental-models

63.01 Decisions

• 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
• any decision [should] be worked out and reached at the lowest compo... from Andrew S. Grove

63.02 Defaults

• Sometimes a habit will be hard to remember and you’ll need to make ... from James Clear

63.03 Goals

• I used to be an investment banker, and I enjoy reading profiles of ... from Matt Levine
• Beyond Fitness: Life and a Better World Life (a quality) is the de... from Ryan Singer
• General notes: Form, in Context, evaluated against Fit. Ryan S... from Ryan Singer
• Create capacity (rather than capture it). This value focuses leader... from Irrational Exuberance
• Follow existing patterns unless there’s an order of magnitude impro... from Irrational Exuberance
• As described in Rumelt’s Good Strategy, Bad Strategy, a strategy is... from Irrational Exuberance
• “Advancing the industry.” I believe that I can improve practice in ... from Irrational Exuberance
• I’m actually using GPT3 in a production system. The mistake people ... from Zack Korman
• Goals are about the results you want to achieve. Systems are about ... from James Clear
• A general heuristic I’ve come to use to ascribe “value” to (a porti... from
• The process [of regenerative ag] is expensive, since farmers who em... from sarahmock.substack.com
• Good goals are a composition of four specific kinds of numbers: A t... from Will Larson
• understand that the path is neither short nor easy. That means you ... from Seth Godin

63.04 Side-effects

• If all the burghers of Small Town USA get together and say “we want... from Matt Levine
• The only good advice I have here is to re-evaluate your metrics oft... from ferd.ca
• This, from last week, is one of the best stories you’ll ever read a... from Matt Levine
• The law states that any circulating currency consisting of both &qu... from en.wikipedia.org
• But to tear down a factory or to revolt against a government or to ... from Robert M. Pirsig
• Every so often the US government thinks about defaulting on its deb... from Matt Levine
• Often, in making edits to a work: The ego comes in, saying: I wante... from Rick Rubin
• Infrastructure undergirds society; failures of it are a per se emer... from Bits about Money
• Thompson’s argument in that post is that Silicon Valley used to be ... from Matt Levine
• in practice the answer is that some companies create negative exter... from Matt Levine
• this is the first important non-intuitive thing about KYC and AML r... from Patrick McKenzie (patio11)
• Selecting the hen who lays the most eggs doesn't necessarily ge... from Eliezer Yudkowsky
• No exploration without contamination idlewords.com | Why Not Mars from idlewords.com
• Amazon thought that if they could force users to go straight to Ama... from Second Marathon Archive Feed
• Dialogue from movies and TV shows has become more difficult to hear... from Jason Kottke
• There is no need to cut croutons into perfect little squares! Just ... from Joshua McFadden
• because nuts like all fatty ingredients will absorb odors. 📕Joshua... from Joshua McFadden
• Cheese is a living thing that needs to breathe. Waxed paper or spec... from Joshua McFadden
• Don't store in plastic containers, because the plastic can abso... from Joshua McFadden
• Eventually, you reach this list’s conclusion, which lies in an unas... from ~ uday schultz
• During the summer of 2021, Canadian researchers … found that the un... from Josh Beckman
• The full cycle went like this: when a neighborhood first integrated... from Richard Rothstein

63.05 Stochastic-management

• this is the first important non-intuitive thing about KYC and AML r... from Patrick McKenzie (patio11)

64 Process

• When I have a problem that I want to solve quickly and cheaply, I s... from Will Larson

64.01 Incident-management

• One thing I've noticed is that a lot of colleagues don't kn... from ycombinator.com
• 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

64.02 Root-cause-analysis

• I used to try and weed my lawn a whole hell of a lot and pull the w... from ferd.ca
• Errors have two major forms. Slips occur when the goal is correct, ... from Don Norman

64.03 Hiring

• At companies with slower headcount growth, promotions will usually ... from The Pragmatic Engineer

67 Language-and-communication

67.01 Language

• 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
• Words matter, and the words you say about yourself and other people... from Josh Beckman
• The code that gets written is the code that’s easier to write. An... from Fernando Borretti
• Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad ho... from From Wikipedia, the free
• For example, let's take the simple question: "How old are ... from Jason Kottke
• To encode the position of the current token in the sequence, the au... from dugas.ch
• Avoidance speech is a group of sociolinguistic phenomena in which a... from wikipedia.org
• Actually, it reminds me in some ways of things that you find in non... from Noam Chomsky
• We are so amazed by its ability to babble in a confident manner tha... from ycombinator.com
• Finance, like its cousin Poetry, is the use of precise language to ... from marcelo.rinesi
• More generally, Van Roy sees a layered language design with four co... from Adrian Colyer
• The point is to pick a paradigm with just the right concepts. Too f... from Adrian Colyer
• if you are talking about “numerous black swans” then you have made ... from Josh Beckman
• In a now-deleted tweet, a friend recently remarked on how she was s... from www.garbageday.email

67.02 Notation

• A tool is something that takes an existing workflow, and makes it m... from thesephist.com
• To summarise those desirable qualities, a good notation is: Compos... from interconnected.org
• Or to be more specific, urbanist Kevin Lynch’s city maps from his 1... from interconnected.org

67.03 Writing

• It is also notable that the Feynman lectures (3 volumes) write abou... from edwardtufte.com
• Work in public. Reveal nothing. Robin | The art of working in publ... from Robin
• I realised that writing isn’t about beating the competition, or bei... from James Stanier
• Remember kids, the only difference between fooling around and scien... from Hacker News
• Another useful concept is The Death of the Author, which is a part ... from ferd.ca
• “How does writing help you think?” “That is a good question,” he sa... from Ted Chiang
• But here is his best line: Taleb had been busy. He had already ... 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
• With more education, more and more people want to be published. Mor... from Gabriel Zaid and Natasha Wimmer
• The promotion of brainstorming as a starting point is all the more ... from Sebastian Trzcinski-Clément
• 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
• 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
• Top-tier athletes are fanatically disciplined about improving their... from Andyʼs working notes
• In Staff Engineer, I argued that writing an engineering strategies ... from Irrational Exuberance
• Campfires - mostly blogging for me, though I know some folks gather... from TOM CRITCHLOW
• the questions my favourite writing professor would ask. Do you ... from Maggie Appleton
• 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
• 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
• 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
• His only real hope of avoiding many years in prison is to convince ... from Matt Levine
• 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
• Most of our thoughts appear and pass away instantly, for good reaso... from Fernando Borretti
• An idea kept private is as good as one you never had. Sebastian Tr... from Sebastian Trzcinski-Clément
• Writing is nature’s way of letting you know how sloppy your thinkin... from Marc Brooker
• 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
• We don’t normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology,... from Ted Chiang

67.04 Communication

• “Everything must have a URL” does not necessarily mean that everyth... from Ben Balter
• we are creating more data than we can manage. The primary output o... from johnnydecimal.com
• Sometimes people use "respect" to mean "treating som... from kottke.org
• I recommend that teams receiving executive feedback try to “extract... from Irrational Exuberance
• That said, much like internal communication, networking is a relati... from Irrational Exuberance
• The people whose compensation depends on your opinion have ample ti... from yosefk.com
• 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
• I used to start my lecture on dictionaries in Python by explaining ... from The Third Bit
• Repetition makes lies seem true, but repetition also makes truth se... from ycombinator.com
• 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
• As a subset of contrarianism, Hot Sauce Behavior became especially ... from nemesis.global
• Programmable notes are note-taking systems that allow you to write ... 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
• AI, with its perceived threat to automate a vast array of jobs, see... from Kneeling Bus
• I think what has happened is there was a massive overestimation of ... from Doug Belshaw
• Triadic closure is a concept in network theory which is when a netw... from Matt Webb
• The dark irony here is that corporatized communication is what made... from Garbage Day
• 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
• 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
• Ephemeral tools are about the conversation. Slack is one. Zoom is a... from Interconnected
• We should be so fortunate to greet each other as we greet each othe... from Craig Mod
• Asking for help with shame says: You have the power over me. Askin... from Startupy
• Sometimes we love to grandstand to an audience of strangers at a pa... from Claire L. Evans
• THE MEANING OF A COMMUNICATION IS THE BEHAVIOUR THAT RESULTS. ferd... from ferd.ca
• Human memory is squishy, and that's great. You retain facts + f... from news.ycombinator.com
• A conversation can happen between yourself and yourself, across tim... from subconscious.substack.com
• The trade-off, though, is that a uniform interface degrades efficie... from Marc-Andre Giroux

67.05 Maps

• Or to be more specific, urbanist Kevin Lynch’s city maps from his 1... from interconnected.org

67.06 Note-taking

• Top-tier athletes are fanatically disciplined about improving their... from Andyʼs working notes
• Gardens - This is the wiki layer Michael references above and I don... from TOM CRITCHLOW
• I make a practice of regularly checking in about whether I have a d... from Andy Matuschak
• Programmable notes are note-taking systems that allow you to write ... from Maggie Appleton
• Accretive tools build over time. Developer tools tend to work like ... from Interconnected
• Next we bring in creative divergence. How? Geists! Geists will be l... from Matt Webb
• 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
• in the web, it makes sense that links should reflect potential, sin... from Fernando Borretti
• Many students and academic writers think like the early ship owners... from Sebastian Trzcinski-Clément
• Human memory is squishy, and that's great. You retain facts + f... from news.ycombinator.com
• A conversation can happen between yourself and yourself, across tim... from subconscious.substack.com
• To summarise those desirable qualities, a good notation is: Compos... from interconnected.org

67.07 Pattern-languages

• A pattern language has the structure of a network. This is explaine... from Christopher Alexander
• There are useful mental analogies between pedestrian line-of-busine... from ycombinator.com
• 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
• General notes: Form, in Context, evaluated against Fit. Ryan S... from Ryan Singer

67.08 RFC

• Bigger projects often use a formal “request for comments” (RFC) pro... from Nadia Eghbal
• 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

80-89 Philosophy-and-mind

80 Philosophy-topics

80.01 Philosophy

• That, for me, is the big difference between altruism—or its close c... from Mandy Brown

80.02 Attention

• To expand the term beyond its original scope, Max Pain punishes peo... from nemesis.global
• "Monetize" is a terrible word that tacitly admits that th... from Cory Doctorow
• This first lab newsletter of 2023 is very link-y, perhaps a bit raw... from Robin Sloan
• Rewild your attention” — that’s a wonderful way of putting it! (Or ... from clivethompson.medium.com

80.03 Beliefs

• To exchange one orthodoxy for another is not necessarily an advance... from orwell.ru
• as the ecotheologian Thomas Berry has written, "we must say of... from Robin Wall Kimmerer
• You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence i... from Robert M. Pirsig
• Many of our beliefs were learned before we had a choice in what we ... from Rick Rubin
• When you see the world as magical, it meets you as a magical place.... from Simon Sarris
• The people whose compensation depends on your opinion have ample ti... from yosefk.com
• As a subset of contrarianism, Hot Sauce Behavior became especially ... from nemesis.global
• In The Umami Theory of Value, we discussed how, in the absence of m... from nemesis.global
• Default to vendors unless it’s our core competency. You can also wr... from Irrational Exuberance
• Approach conflict with curiosity. One of my foundational beliefs is... from Irrational Exuberance
• The fundamental problem is that there’s a fundamental disagreement ... from Doug Belshaw
• Life (and intersectionality) are complex, but money is, relatively ... from ongoing by Tim Bray
• If only they were literally raping children and then eating their b... from Astral Codex Ten
• 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
• 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
• It is probably more illuminating to go a little bit further back, t... from University of Texas in Austin
• 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
• When I suggested this to friends in the Pentagon they said, ‘My God... from James Clear
• your habits are how you embody your identity 📕James Clear | An Eas... from James Clear
• At faculty meetings I sat next to people whose books had sold two m... from Sarah Manguso
• most people “take far too much pleasure in their beliefs to give th... from
• “We like the idea that there’s always someone responsible for any g... from Ted Chiang
• People are made of stories. Our memories are not the impartial accu... from Ted Chiang
• It’s not a surprise when a scientist is surprised. That’s what happ... from Seth Godin

80.04 Epistemology

• The Platonic fold is the explosive boundary where the Platonic mind... from Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy-books and... from Don Norman
• How do we form an appropriate conceptual model for the devices we i... from Don Norman
• Cognitive load is the amount of working memory needed to complete a... from Colin Dembovsky
• Epistemology is the study of knowledge – how we know things, the me... from Maggie Appleton
• in the web, it makes sense that links should reflect potential, sin... from Fernando Borretti
• Code is not a product to be bought and sold so much as a living for... from Nadia Eghbal
• This sort of knowledge is what Dan Wang calls process knowledge - t... from

80.05 Equanimity

• Time is not money. Time is beans. It was as serious as many jokes ... from Alexis Madrigal
• When you run into a complex problem, slow down to bring many differ... from Irrational Exuberance

80.06 Identity

• Words matter, and the words you say about yourself and other people... from Josh Beckman
• • If you don’t own your content, you’re stuck. Owning your conten... from Gordon Brander from Subconscious
• 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
• Attuned choice by attuned choice, your entire life is a form of sel... from Rick Rubin
• 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

80.07 Meaning

• In The Umami Theory of Value, we discussed how, in the absence of m... from nemesis.global
• The Lance Armstrong problem Did we get the AI to be actually safe o... from Cold Takes

80.08 Motivation

• While there is so much focus on education, the bottleneck for flour... from Simon Sarris
• “What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind o... from The Berkeley Well-Being Institute
• I am reminded of one of Matt Mochary’s teaching: when you have to d... from news.ycombinator.com
• “Wise souls are not humane.” To that, Le Guin writes: The “inhu... from Mandy Brown
• The ultimate goal of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is to ... from every.to
• Well, the drive to “advance”—I think you have to ask exactly what t... from Noam Chomsky
• When you start a creative project but don’t finish, the expe­ri­enc... from Robin Sloan
• Motivation factors include challenging work, recognition, responsib... from Craig Mod
• i thought, or hoped, that not caring would protect me, keep me invu... from Jackie Luo
• understand that the path is neither short nor easy. That means you ... from Seth Godin

80.09 Death

• SCHWARZENEGGER: I said, “We don’t know what happens with the soul a... from Danny DeVito

80.10 Formal-Logic

• A lot of what we do day to day has arbitrary bits to it. This, I&#3... from Strange Loop Conference
• Propositions in logic correspond to types in a programming language... from Strange Loop Conference

81 Intelligence

81.01 AI

• AI should be considered intelligence that’s simply learned for a ve... from Ribbonfarm Studio
• The reason tasks like looking up part numbers and data sheets is ha... from Ribbonfarm Studio
• What this work shows is that if you have the right input basic mate... from Jack Clark
• More things than you would think are dynamic strategic problems. If... from marcelo.rinesi
• To quote McLuhan: "Man becomes, as it were, the sex organs of ... from ycombinator.com
• It is funny to imagine an end state here in which markets are entir... from Matt Levine
• As these stories pop up people act like they’re an incredible marve... from Garbage Day
• But you can already see the idea of a “prompt” evolving into someth... from Ryan Broderick
• the tech am I digging recently is a software framework called LangC... from Interconnected
• We’re building apps to surround and harness AI, but we need microsc... from Interconnected
• Just imagine if we rewound the clock back to 2016 and we were able ... from Frank Lantz
• It’s using the ReAct pattern, which is straightforward and surprisi... from Matt Webb
• So people are going to be even more blindsided when someone develop... from ycombinator.com
• 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
• AI, with its perceived threat to automate a vast array of jobs, see... from Kneeling Bus
• Columnist Brian Merchant touched on this fuzzy connection between t... from Garbage Day
• The answer, of course, is that the competitiveness of unaided indiv... from marcelo.rinesi
• Now, none of that Copilot-supplied code remains in my app. What ha... from Interconnected
• 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
• If you don’t know the difference between something like DALL-E 2 an... from Garbage Day
• We can summarize the difference between the micro- and macroeconomi... from marcelo.rinesi
• And yes, there’ll be plenty of cases where “raw ChatGPT” can help w... from stephenwolfram.com
• • 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
• Modern generative models are generic data transformation engines, a... from Jack Clark
• 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
• I’m actually using GPT3 in a production system. The mistake people ... from Zack Korman
• Mediocre computing is computing that aims for parity with mediocre ... from Josh Beckman

81.02 Intelligence

81.03 Curiosity

• I make a practice of regularly checking in about whether I have a d... from Andy Matuschak
• Approach conflict with curiosity. One of my foundational beliefs is... from Irrational Exuberance
• The room is architected for discussions and decisions, not just vis... from Interconnected
• It confirmed Biederman’s sense that “most advances in science come ... from Michael Lewis

82 Ethics

• When we say, “If you’re going to read one thing about programming, ... from The Third Bit

82.01 Ethics

• When we say, “If you’re going to read one thing about programming, ... from The Third Bit

83 Mind

83.01 Memory

• Strong commitment in design is good for dementia, where challenges ... from Sara Hendren from undefended / undefeated
• Top-tier athletes are fanatically disciplined about improving their... from Andyʼs working notes
• As long as people think that government (as an ideal and an imperfe... from Matthew Gallaway
• State introduces an abstract notion of time in programs. In functio... from Adrian Colyer
• Accretive tools build over time. Developer tools tend to work like ... from Interconnected
• One of the challenges with JIT compilers is that they always incur ... from Shopify
• Human memory is squishy, and that's great. You retain facts + f... from news.ycombinator.com
• Recollection is such a small, basic part of thinking! There is so m... from thesephist.com
• The Harold Mangum System uses phonetic sounds for 0 to 9 based on t... from artofmemory.com
• He has wondered lately if that’s all living really is—one long good... from Blake Crouch
• People are made of stories. Our memories are not the impartial accu... from Ted Chiang

83.02 Perception

• Regulators then heard the numbers, did a bit of modeling in Excel, ... from Bits about Money
• Stochastic resonance is the phenomenon in which random noise can am... from Interconnected
• The Gestalists showed that there was no obvious relationship betwee... from Michael Lewis

83.03 Proximity

• Strong commitment in design is good for dementia, where challenges ... from Sara Hendren from undefended / undefeated
• Construal level theory says that we think more concretely, as oppos... from Robin Hanson
• Loss in Judo is more personal than in other sports. Defeat in a spo... from Cedric Chin
• The world is mostly shaped by wealth, more so than ever as technolo... from Josh Beckman

90-99 Literature-and-publication

90 Literature

• Another useful concept is The Death of the Author, which is a part ... from ferd.ca

90.01 Fiction

• Time is not money. Time is beans. It was as serious as many jokes ... from Alexis Madrigal
• "But the point is… this infestation, SCP-4051, is a snowflake.... from
• There should be a guy who every morning rides his bicycle down to t... from infinitegossip.substack.com

90.02 Non-fiction

• I talked to strangers, and listened to them, and felt my face heat ... from blgtylr.substack.com

91 Journalism-practice

91.01 Journalism

• The most economically powerful thing you can do is to buy something... from Tim Carmody
• I think what has happened is there was a massive overestimation of ... from Doug Belshaw
• The main issue here is that, at least when it comes to online platf... from Garbage Day
• Part of what makes for a really good profile — and this is certainl... from annehelen.substack.com

92 Editorial

92.01 Publishing

• There's a sense in editorial, publishing, and TV spaces that, i... from Alicia Kennedy