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Advice gathered from people smarter than me
No advice is good for everyone, but these are at least worth considering
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Resources to encourage children to learn to code
6 Interesting Resources to Encourage Your Child to Learn to Code
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Ten Years of ThinkPadding
I’m the author of the title picture, and these are my ThinkPads. I’ve been very loyal to the ThinkPad brand for more than a decade. Until Lenovo sold me a lemon — ThinkPad X13 AMD. That event encouraged me to reflect on my loyalty. Which I did, and now I’m happy to share the results.
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My seatbelt rule for judgment
One of my formative childhood lessons came when I was playing in the garage one day. I went into my mom’s car and put the seatbelt on (probably to pretend I was flying a plane). I realized at one point that I could still lean pretty far forward. Far enough that my head could touch the dashboard. How ridiculous! What’s…
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Ice Spikes: Strange things you can find in your freezer
Temperature is certainly a factor when growing ice spikes, and we have done experiments that show that spikes are more likely to form when the temperature is just below freezing (see the graphs below). I'm not entirely sure why this is so, but I suspect that the ice tube freezes shut before the tube gets very long if…
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Travel is no cure for the mind (2018)
Who you are in a venue matters far more than the venue itself.
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Google Slides Is Hilarious
Perhaps like you, I naively started out thinking that Google Slides was just a poorly maintained product suffering from some questionable…
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Unlearning perfectionism
A way out from the perfectionism trap
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Building a modern home in the woods
Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved. Ann Douglas A lot of people dream of building a modern home. Or rather, a lot of people dream of living in a modern home. A place of their own, with the people they love, surrounded by functional beauty
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I took down my Starlink dish (but haven't cancelled)
Today's video is about Starlink—I've had an active subscription since last February, and as it's been a year, I figured I should post an update. The tl;dr: when I had a new roof put on late last summer, I took down 'Dishy McFlatface', but I haven't put the dish back up. I have been holding out hope I could transfer my…
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Why are mathematicians so bad at arithmetic? (2017)
18 x 93 is… hey, look over there!
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Cocktail party ideas
You don't have to be at a party to see this phenomenon in action, but there's a curious thing I regularly see at parties in social circles where people value intelligence and cleverness without similarly valuing on-the-ground knowledge or intellectual rigor. People often discuss the standard trendy topics (some recent…
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That’s how it works when you’re a woman on the internet
Aubrey Hirsch on harassment and existing as a woman online
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On Why I'm Quitting Alcohol
Essay 52
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How to Explain an Idea
What's an idea? What sorts of ideas are there? And how to explain them once you have them?
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Red Light Green Light
I was listening to the Tim Ferriss Show podcast episode #532 with Sheila Heen (Harvard Negotiation Project, co-author of Difficult Conversations: How To Discuss What Matters Most) and a specific story she told during the conversation really resonated with me and I have been thinking alot about it since I heard it…
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Gains I'm seeing from my second brain tool
Field notes on shipping fast, privacy-first, evergreen web products.
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John Locke’s recipe for Pancakes (2021)
A collection of philosopher John Locke’s papers at the Bodleian Library includes letters, accounts, poetry, notes on medicine and books, and recipes. When David Armitage posted this recipe fo…
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Phone is still the best way to order pizza
Apps create more friction for ordering pizza
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Don't you lecture me with your thirty dollar website
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The Banality of Genius: Notes on Peter Jackson's Get Back
A Special Edition of The Ruffian
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Masterclass on mathematical thinking
About a year ago, I was contacted by Masterclass (a subscription-based online education company) on the possibility of producing a series of classes with the premise of explaining mathematical ways…
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Yet another hot take on “folders versus tags”
I like folders due to their cross compatibility, future proofing, interoperability, flexibility, focus, clarity, automation management &etc.
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I was deceived about Covid vaccine safety
Covid vaccine injuries are being grossly underreported and censored: evidence from multiple, independent sources
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Buy things, not experiences
There’s a phrase going around that you should “buy experiences, not things.” People, it’s claimed, think that having a lot of stuff is w...