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What does happiness at work mean?
An unscientifical and personal approach.
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Reasons not to become famous
I felt like I somehow needed fame. In retrospect, there was a lot of self-loathing from tough childhood experiences, and I desperately hoped that love from without (i.e., from masses of other people) would somehow make up for hate from within.
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My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file
The biggest transition for me when I started college was learning to get organized. There was a point when I couldn't just remember everything in my head. And having to constantly keep track of things was distracting me from whatever task I was doing at the moment.
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Narcissistic personality disorder
This mental disorder includes an unreasonably high sense of importance, a need for excessive admiration, fragile self-esteem, and troubled relationships.
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Don’t pin the butterfly: not all hobbies need to become hustles
A couple of years ago, I got really interested in pu’er tea—a kind of fermented tea produced in China—which can sell for thousands of dollars. I tried some, liked it, read about its history, and then… My mind started racing: why is it so hard to buy pu’er tea in Europe? Maybe I could import ... Read More
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The secret of academic success, or fun filled failure if you prefer
In my research career I’ve discovered many things, including the secret of academic success (too late to help my own career). I’m going to share the secret with you.
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Taking back Mondays and Tuesdays (2019)
The creative studio of NYC-based designer and creative director, Able Parris
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Seneca on The Shortness of Time (2017)
Time is invisible so it's easy to spend without proper consideration to its value. Seneca offers a warning on how we squander our time only to regret it.
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Is Catalina a Good Upgrade Yet?
Although 10.15.3 fixes a serious bug in Mail and Catalina is steadily maturing, there are many users who still shouldn’t upgrade.
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The cup-of-coffee pricing fallacy
If you’re lurking on HackerNews, or are interesting in entrepreneurship, you might occasionally bump into something like this Starbucks coffee is $2.45 + taxes. $100/mo is less than a cup of coffee a day. And it’s very tempting — and somehow logical — to consider how much money we might spend without thinking too much…
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Palindrome Day 20200202
Sonstiges - Learn more about palindromic dates in 2020 and in the near future. 2020-02-02 (YYYMMDD) or 02.02.2020 (DDMMYYY) and others.
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My Second Phone Is in the Cloud
You know what I want? I want my own private server, to run my own private software, and I want everyone else to have one as well. Let me explain:
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An Opinionated Guide to Machine Learning Research
I originally wrote this guide in back in December 2017 for the OpenAI Fellows program
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Not everyone has an internal monologue
My day was completely ruined yesterday when I stumbled upon a fun fact that absolutely obliterated my mind. I saw this tweet yesterday that said that not everyone has an internal monologue in their…
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Advice to avoid public Wi-Fi is mostly out of date
If you follow security on the Internet, you may have seen articles warning you to “beware of public Wi-Fi networks" in cafes, airports, hotels, and other public places. But now, due to the widespread deployment of HTTPS encryption on most popular websites, advice to avoid public Wi-Fi is mostly out...
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SEO lessons learned by writing a blog post every day for two years
5 SEO lessons learned by writing 1 blog post every day for 2 years
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My 2020 Hackintosh Hardware Spec
I built my last hackintosh in 2014 and it was overdue for an update. Since Apple recently updated their iMac with Core i9s and skipped the T2, this is probably the last time I'm building this sort of computer, before MacOS is locked down forever. Unfortunately, nothing in their lineup fits my needs, hence I chose to
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Into the Personal-Website-Verse (2019)
Discover why personal websites are the backbone of the independent web. Learn how to build, connect, and maintain your own space on the internet.
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A Year with the Surface Go
AndreGarzia.com website
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Coding Stories: Me vs. the VNC Guy
The story of how I finally got revenge on The VNC Guy back in my college days.
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Noticing You're Confused
And somewhere in the back of his mind was a small, small note of confusion, a sense of something wrong about that story; and it should have been a part of Harry’s art to notice that tiny note…
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It's too late to collect sand
When I was 13, my family went to California. We walked along a beach near Mendocino. I’d never seen black sand before. I wanted to bring some home. So I got a ziplock bag from my mom, scooped some sand into it, and put it in my backpack. When