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After years working as a Software Engineer I wanted to make my dreams come true, so I quit my desk job to spend my life adventuring around the world. I gambled that I would be able to scrape together a meagre living while enjoying a life I had dreamed of. After driving 40,000 miles through 17 countries from Alaska to…
Run on sentences, indiscernible insider nods and confusing narrative perspective plague major news publications
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
Procrastination is a flight response, depression is freeze, anxious attachment is fight.
Summary and commentary on Paul Fussell's "Class: A Guide Through The American Status System"
This is my first attempt to “think out loud” about the question I get most often: why bother reading the Classics? This is still very much a work in progress: I think people don’t consider and adapt their own beliefs often enough (see also: mental liquidity ). I consider my opinions here to be very much loosely held…
A few days ago, a fascinating article about Grand Theft Auto Online made the rounds of the tech news ecosystem.
[Photo by Alejandra Mavroski.] Myrtle called it The article that launched a thousand posts…, and counting comments on this and several other blogs, that may not be too much of an exaggeration…
On February 5 this year, one week after an article about me appeared in the Daily Beast, The New York Times announced that I would be…
You can’t force yourself to think faster. If you try, you’re likely to end up making much worse decisions. Here’s how to improve the actual quality of your decisions instead of chasing hacks to speed them up.
Meta-Note: I’m sorry it’s been so long between articles; for better or worse writing here is something that I do for fun, and sometimes work and family get in the way.
I talked about the importance of reading foundational papers last week. To followup, here is my compilation of foundational papers in the d...
Before the days of 40-man raids, flashy cosmetics, and server firsts, the MMO players of the world embarked on quests in another way.
examines claims that the big five personality traits is more scientifically valid than the myers briggs personality indicator
For many people, the year 2020 will go down as a moment in time of hardship in their lives but for me, the year 2019 was dramatically harder as it was the realization that a long-term relationship wasn't going to work out...
How to not be a degenerate trader
I know we don’t like Louis C.K.
A series where I’m documenting my process of designing and building an e-ink laptop.
A note from the author This was a very quick first draft, written in around two hours as part of my 30 More First Drafts project. You can now read the finished short story. This article is about the standard test brain image. For the original human, see [[Miguel A...
Personal Blog of Christian Haschek
Yes, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard is as good as I remembered.
A note from the author You can now buy this story as part of my collection, Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories. This collection also includes a sequel story, titled "Driver". This article is about the standard test brain image. For the original human, see Mi...
issue no. 0011
I like this passage from John Urschel Goes Pro , about the former NFL player who is pursuing a Ph.D. in math:
Yet another calm weekend after months of lockdowns and I sit down to enjoy a book. After turning a couple of pages, I'm no longer able to keep going. In-between, I've managed to look at my phone four times and I've had my thoughts wander away. Why does something so simple feel suddenly so difficult?
