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Consistency and discipline over motivation
Motivation is fun when it’s there but it fades quickly and it doesn’t help you get anything done long term. In this post I talk about my experience with setting up a system that aids in building a…
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Sick time is logarithmic
Sick time among employees appears to follow a logarithmic distribution. You can use this to evaluate your policies and detect anomalies.
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Cycling Lessons Learned from Amsterdam
Cycling Lessons Learned From Amsterdam That No One Talks About This post originally appears on Spacing Vancouver. By Darren Proulx and Samuel Baron I recently had the honour of visiting Amsterdam. …
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Book Review: Red Plenty
I. I decided to read Red Plenty because my biggest gripe after reading Singer’s book on Marx was that Marx refused to plan how communism would actually work, instead preferring to leave the e…
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What Would You Recommend to a Bright 14 Year Old?
I'm receiving lots of recommendations via the HN item, I will need to vet and categorise them, but they are mostly looking great. Here, unvetted and uncategorised are some:
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Make Money Online: Documenting 10 Years of Failure
A candid account of a decade trying to earn online, tracing my path through websites, affiliate marketing, advertising, and business setbacks.
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What you wanted to know about AI
Recently a number of famous people, including Bill Gates, Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk, warned everybody about the dangers of machine intelligence. …
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Life Lessons from Machine Learning
What comes to mind when you hear the term “Machine Learning”? A bunch of programmers hunched over their computers in a dark room, working on something completely virtual & divorced from reality…
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Notes on 416 Days of Treadmill Desk Usage
The personal website of author Neal Stephenson, unless it's been hacked.
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Seneca on the proper use of time
Yesterday I wrote about the impending death of the neurologist and author Oliver Sacks. I was particularly struck by this line from Sachs’ public goodbye
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