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Tips I use to avoid burnout
Tips I use to avoid burnout:
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How to Think Real Good (2013)
Practical epistemology: heuristics for how to think about difficult things, particularly using formal methods.
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The Value of Grey Thinking (2016)
Grey thinking works. Reality is all grey area. All of it. There are very few black and white answers and no solutions without second-order consequences.
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I Was Wrong About Speed Reading (2015)
7 years ago I wrote an article about speed reading. Turns out I made a lot of mistakes. Discover why speed reading might not be as useful as expected.
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Thoughts On a Year of Exercise
A year ago today, weighing nearly 200 pounds and feeling physically run down, and also feeling somewhat depressed about those facts, I hauled my carcass up on the treadmill we have in our basement …
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What I've learned sending proposals to conferences
This year I sent out quite a few proposals to the majority of mobile conferences in Europe. Some ignored me, the others replied with automated rejections. However, some accepted and it was fun. Here is what I've learned on the way.
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Coolest Things I Learned in 2019
The most popular part of my Monday Musings newsletter is a section called “Coolest Things I Learned This Week.” This is a collection of the most popular ideas I shared in 2019.
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Outdoor Computing with a Deck Desk
Experiments in outdoor computing, deck desking, and reclined computing.
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This Page is Designed to Last
The end of the year is an opportunity to clean up and reset for the upcoming new semester. I found myself clearing out old bookmarks—yes, bookmarks: that formerly beloved browser feature that seems to have lost the battle to 'address bar autocomplete'. But this nostalgic act of tidying led me to despair.
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Apprenticeships Beat Classrooms
Apprenticeships beat schooling. Here's why they're a superior method for learning, and how you can apply this to the things you want to master.
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Climbing the Wealth Ladder
On the 6 levels of wealth and why affluence increases in steps.
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Ultralearning
A four-year degree used to be a guarantee for a great career. Now it’s barely a foot in the door.
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I spent way too much effort to win a game show on Dutch national TV
In my time, I've done a number of side projects — some serious, some decidedly less so. My latest side project is quite definitely in the latter category: trying to win a game show on national television.
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Asking questions is a skill: Lessons from 10 years of Stack Overflow
I’m approaching my ten year anniversary on Stack Overflow. Over the past decade, how I use the site and my understanding of it has evolved quite a bit, so I thought I’d share some of what I’ve learned along the way.
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My Year in Review: 2019
Here are some of the things I’m most proud of from 2019, and some of the biggest lessons I’ve learned.
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Friends of Vast Industrial Concrete Kafkaesque Structures
Photos of the Los Angeles River
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