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How I Tricked Myself Into Being Awesome
Like most developers, I am an introvert, so it is hard to say this: I am awesome. Fuuuuuu.... I can't even leave it at that. I look at s...
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 7,740 posts.
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My ADHD founder toolbox
Since I last wrote about ADHD at length, I’ve had a zillion conversations with people about it and heard from over a dozen people who’d pursued diagnosis after reading some of my yammer…
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My dad could still be alive, but he's not
cw: death dad died this summer, from his first heart attack, barely a week after his 57th birthday. i get the first call at 11:30pm from mom, who lived...
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Wordle is pretty damn smart in many subtle ways
I love Wordle. I play it pretty much every single day. I also play the portuguese version immediately afterwards too. It is now part of my morning routine. Wordle is one of those ideas that just click and immediately have you wishing you were the one to have them. If you don’t know what Wordle is, just click here and…
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The End of an Era
We knew this day would come. Some of us have known for decades, have been writing and pontificating about this since Ken Jennings lost at Jeopardy and Kasparov lost at chess. The writing was on the wall, and now the writing is everywhere. Literally. Artificial Intelligence is writing about as well as humans — at […]
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Do not try to be the smartest in the room; try to be the kindest
Kindness beats brilliance in meetings. My Kind Framework for leaders: listen, be respectful, be empathetic and leave every meeting with a solution.
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Ancient Greek terms worth reviving
Eudaimonia, Arete, and much more...
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Why I Quit OS X – Geoff Wozniak
After nearly 10 years of using OS X as my primary OS for personal work, I switched away in late 2014. I consider it to be the best tech decision I made last year.
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And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway
In early February 2011 Egypt was in the middle of a political revolution. One morning, everyone's phones suddenly pinged with an alert. The Armed Forces asks Egypt's honest and loyal men to confront the traitors and criminals and protect our people and honour and our precious Egypt. A series of messages arrived all…
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Fuck being productive
Fuck being productive. I decided to go easy on my self about being "productive". I'm already working full time from 6:30 to 18:30 everyday and I've got o...
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Relearning math as an adult
I recently passed 100 days of practicing math every single day 💯 I’ve wanted to beef up my math chops for a while, but I needed a good reason that would justify the time investment. Plus…
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Why I left Google: work-life balance
Software engineer and writer focused on developer tools, cloud infrastructure, and the intersection of technology and human behavior.
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"Nothing like this will be built again"
I've just had a really amazing experience: a guided tour of the nuclear reactor complex at Torness on the Scottish coast. What made this tour unusual is that the tour guide in question, Les, happens to be one of the reactor engineers (as well as a friend) -- and he showed me (and a couple of other friends) right…
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Self-taught engineers often outperform (2024)
Great mentors help, but purposeful tinkering and grit tend to forge the strongest software engineers.
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If you don't design your career, someone else will (2014)
A client once responded to one of my questions by saying, "Oh Greg, I am too busy living to think about life!” His off-the-cuff comment named a trap al ...
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Ten Years of Logging My Life
I've been continuously recording my daily activities by hand since I was 17, amounting to 85,000+ activities over the span of a decade.
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Clarus returns home in macOS Ventura
Did you know Clarus the Dogcow is hiding in the macOS Ventura beta?
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Early-Retirement Update
I’ve had a difficult time finding a way to create a new entry on a blog that has essentially been dead since 2015. Yet, I have had a persistent feeling that I owe my readers an update.
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The art of not taking things personally
Why other people’s emotions might not be about you — and your emotions might not be about them
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Best things and stuff of 2015
Great things and people that I discovered, learned, read, met, etc. in 2015. No particular ordering is implied. Not everything is new.
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I don’t like computers
AdamW on Linux and more
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The Egg (2009)
It was a car accident. Nothing particularly remarkable, but fatal nonetheless. You left behind a wife and two children. It was a painless death. The EMTs tried their best to save you, but to no avail. Your body was so utterly shattered you were better off, trust me.
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What I Think About LeBron Breaking My NBA Scoring Record
Everything You Wanted to Know About LeBron and Me and the Scoring Record
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Indefinite Backpack Travel
In 2015 I got rid of everything I owned that didn’t fit in a laptop backpack, and I’ve been living at this level of minimalism since. The idea is to only own what I need, which allows me to focus more, spend less, travel spontaneously and simplify my life.
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It’s an age of marvels
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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