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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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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 8,939 posts.
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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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An Experience with Modafinil
An Experience with Modafinil. 'Caffeine's Smarter Sibling' by Medifinil
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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...
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I got pwned by my cloud costs
I have been, and still remain, a massive proponent of "the cloud". I built Have I Been Pwned [https://haveibeenpwned.com/] (HIBP) as a cloud-first service that took advantage of modern cloud paradigms such as Azure Table Storage to massively drive down costs at crazy levels of performance I
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Ethnographic research on Dynamicland
The “Dynamic Medium Group” led by Bret Victor which is developing “Dynamicland” is much admired and closely watched in the interaction design community. Yet the information about their work is closely-guarded and usually only available in a highly moderated form. The work of ethnographer Götz Bachmann, who spent much…
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Off the Grid
People choose to live off-grid for self-sufficiency, resilience, or ecological reasons. For us, to live off-grid, is mostly letting go of the numbing culture of convenience and surrounding ourselves with systems we trust for long transits across the ocean. When far away from the coasts, we have to rely on our vessel…
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How bad is QWERTY, really? A review of the literature, such as it is
Texts on this and that.
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Everything must be paid for twice
One financial lesson they should teach in school is that most of the things we buy have to be paid for twice. There’...
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Five Levels of Hype
Trying to categorize exuberance
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In defense of flat earthers (2020)
The first time I heard about Flat Earthers, I thought the idea was a joke. Surely nobody would believe something so crazy. I didn’t think about it again for a while. Until I started seeing celebrities, including famous basketball players, claiming the world is flat The rise of this phenomenon puzzled and concerned me…
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Becoming a Synth Dynamo
Through the development of Syntorial I've formed some pretty strong opinions when it comes to synthesis. So I figured I'd share them with the world in the