2011
Dating, education, and sex ratios
Men floundering, women most affected
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2012
Working quickly is more important than it seems (2015)
The obvious benefit to working quickly is that you'll finish more stuff per unit time. But there's more to it than that. If you work quickly, the cost of doing something new will seem lower in your mind. So you'll be inclined to do more.
2013
In praise of blowing up your life
a reminder for the relatively sane
2014
2015
What is Social Status?
Understanding dominance, prestige, and power
2016
A Tale of Unwanted Disruption: My Week Without Amazon
On Wednesday, May 31, 2023, I finally regained access to my Amazon account after an unexpected and unwarranted lockout that lasted nearly…
2017
The power of keeping a coding journal (2014)
This post was inspired by the tool jrnl which has been mentioned on hacker news.
2018
Life Is So Terrible and Beautiful at the Same Time
The website of John Patrick Weiss. A former police chief turned literary writer, street photographer, and artist.
2019
The Surprising Power of Documentation
Explore the power of proper documentation in this comprehensive guide. Understand how documentation serves as a secret weapon for CTOs, eliminating guesswork, speeding up onboarding, and enhancing productivity in startups. We delve into the importance of documentation in knowledge sharing, reducing the need for…
2020
A peek into Japan's convenience stores
Editor’s note: Due to the sheer amount of interesting material here we decided to break this into a two-part article. All across Japan, one sight remains ubiquitous – the convenience store. A far, far cry from their American cousins, convenience stores in Japan are without exception, spotless, well-stocked,
2021
Peanut Butter Jellyfin Time
“But what is best is what we saved for last. The one sure-fire thing to make your best day ever the best day ever!" — SpongeBob, ‘Jellyfishing’
2022
We don’t trade with ants
When discussing advanced AI, sometimes the following exchanges happens: “Perhaps advanced AI won’t kill us. Perhaps it will trade with us” “We don’t trade with ants” I think it’s interesting to get clear on exactly why we don’t trade with ants, and whether it is relevant to the AI situation. When a person says “we…
2023
List one task, do it, cross it out
I have the reputation, at least among some friends and family, of being 'good in a crisis' – such as (to give a somewhat minor example) the day last year, deep in lockdown, when a shard of flying flowerpot ended up halfway through my partner's hand, sending her to hospital and upending our finely calibrated work and…
2024
Why you’re going about recovering from perfectionism all wrong (2021)
Stop murdering your village of weirdos.
2025
You can't reach the brain through the ears
Why do we have to learn everything the hard way?
2026
Intravenous Caffeine
If there’s a hole in your body, you can put drugs into it.
2027
The Last Egg
Five more months until freshies...
2028
2029
When First Principles Thinking Fails (2020)
Thinking is split roughly into pattern matching against experience, and reasoning from first principles. Here's one argument for why you need both.
2030
2031
Helplessness is not learned (2022)
Română On the sixth day of our science advent, we would like to talk about a debunked concept in neuroscience. The purpose of this prompt and of science debunking, in general, is not to make fun of how scientists in the past got things so wrong and how we’re so much smarter now. The point […]
2032
Setting time on fire and the temptation of The Button
We used to consider writing an indication of time and effort spent on a task. That isn't true anymore.
2033
2034
Speed running Monkey Island
Ron Gilbert's often incoherent and bitter ramblings about the Game Industry
2035
Own-goal football (2022)
In a 1994 qualifying match for the Caribbean Cup, both Barbados and Grenada attempted to score deliberate own goals – because it was the best strategy available.
2036
The work is never just “the work” (2022)
A deep dive on why projects always take longer and a framework to improve future estimation
2037
2038
How to Stare at Your Phone Without Losing Your Soul
Why tracking screen time doesn't matter and improving the relationship with your phone requires conscious decisions.
2039
Are you breathing? Do you have email apnea? (2014)
It’s believed that many of us spend seven hours or more in front of screens each day. In 2011, researcher Emmanuel Stamatakis, found that “…even those who exercise can’t overcome the detrimental ef…
2040
Thanks, David Peter
Thank you to David Peter for your hard work making the world a better place through open source.