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“The Famous F40” Vector Illustration
I was looking through some old Macintosh CD-ROMs, searching for my usual things that I do whenever I add new discs to my collection: hanafuda, specific artis...
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 669 posts.
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Keep work fresh by teaching your successors and investing a bit in long-shots
If you’re doing what you’re told to do, they are paying you too much.
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When Work Didn’t Follow You Home
In a recent article written for Slate, journalist Dan Kois recounts the shock his younger coworkers expressed when they discovered that he had, earlier in ... Read more
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I Am Leaving
A video from Webbed Briefs
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Why it’s necessary to shoot yourself in the foot
Without shooting yourself in the foot, learning lacks motivation. Complexity without reason is really confusing.
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Do painters subconsciously paint themselves into their work?
The Renaissance history of automimesis, and a proposal for research
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Proof you can do hard things
An Essential Piece to Your Life Resume
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Engineers should focus on writing
All engineers are good writers of code. I argue that they should also write non-code.
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Amateurs obsess over tools, pros over mastery
Anyone who posts silly lists like "15 AI tools you can't miss" is truly the one who is lost
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Story Behind Hackathon Photo
How a random stream of events ended up creating a picture with 57 million views
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I am drowning in mutes: The current Threads experience
The current Threads experience
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Every person on the planet should have their own website
Every person on the planet should have their own website, on their own domain name, and blog about whatever they want.
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Excellence is a habit, but so is failure
We often hear that making small incremental improvements every day can lead to great things. This popular piece of advice rings true, and it’s a powerful reminder to keep pushing ourselves forward.
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Escaping High School
A guide for fourteen-year-olds and fourteen-year-olds at heart
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Multi-Layered Calendars
Calendars cover the entire spectrum of time. Past, present and future. They are the closest thing we have to a time machine. Calendars allow us to travel forward in time and see the future. More importantly, they allow us to change the future.
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The Overflowing Brain: Information overload and the limits of working memory
The Overflowing Brain: Information Overload and The Limits of Working Memory (2009) Torkel Klingberg (1967- ) 202 pages Who in these ...
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Bret Victor update
Dynamicland is still going, just quietly. We closed the Oakland space for covid, but Realtalk development and collaborations have continued -- basically as originally planned, if more slowly due to our small size.
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Learning needs to be effortful to be effective
Online content makes edutainment the norm among curious and intelligent people, who don't realize that they aren't actually learning what they think they are.
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Against Alcohol (2022)
A review of ‘Drink?: The New Science of Alcohol and Your Health’
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Can Dell’s 6K monitor beat their 8K monitor?
For the last 10 years, I have been interested in hi-DPI monitors, and recently I read about an interesting new monitor: Dell’s 32-inch 6K monitor (U3224KBA), a productivity monitor that offers plenty of modern connectivity options like DisplayPort 2, HDMI 2 and Thunderbolt 4.
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Aspartame: Once More Unto the Breach
Like it or not, there’s a clear scientific consensus
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Writing as a form of thinking
The cost of delegating the writing process to other entities (like LLMs)
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Get a personal teacher
Want to learn something new? Get a personal teacher as soon as possible. If you don't have enough money to pay someone, find a mentor among your friends o...
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In practice, cool URLs can become inaccessible even if they don't change
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake
I bought the iPad Pro M1 chip in hopes of a lightweight, fast, multi-purpose device that I could also code on.