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The most popular blog posts about life, learning & writing on Hacker News. 473 posts.
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Dead Air on the Incident Call
Silence can mean different things to different people in different situations. In this post, I’ll present a few incident scenarios and explore the role of the incident commander in breaking (…
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18 Months with a Framework 13
I've been using a Framework 13 laptop as my main/only computer for a little over 18 months now.
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Choosing what to read
Like many people, I spend a lot of time reading. Since there is much more that I could read than there is time for, I have to make choices about what I should read. In this short post I’m going to outline what my reading choices have become and why. My aim isn’t to suggest that anyone else should make the same choices…
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Thinking about recipe formats more than anyone should
I investigated the various standards available for storing and presenting recipes on the web
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Feynman's Garden
The best description of my problem solving process is the Feynman algorithm, which is sometimes presented as a joke where the hidden subtext is “be smart”, but I disagree. The “algorithm” is a surprisingly lucid description of how thinking works in the context of hard problems where the answer can’t simply be looked…
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Haunted by my own projects
Sometimes the new and shiny thing is way more fun than the thing that I genuinely want to ship... later.
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On Writing Well
Writing a technical document is surprisingly hard. That is not because of the skill to tell a story. It’s because writing forces a level of clarity that is easy to gloss over while thinking through a topic.
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How to let go: Jake's life ends as his daughter's begins
“How to let go: one life ends while another begins. I’m seven months pregnant with our daughter as Jake’s life comes to a close. How do I walk into an uncertain future without him…
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Writing a book in the age of open source
The power of engineering applied to writing
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Try to fix it one level deeper
I had a productive day today! I did many different and unrelated things, but they all had the same unifying theme:
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Dispatches from the farm upstate
Middle-aged computer expert opts to escape civilization, offers dubious life advice.
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Lemonade Stand
This article was discussed on Hacker News. Introduction This was a fun nostalgia trip. But it ended up being an attempt to collect and preserve some retro computing history as well… and I als…
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There Are No More Dogs in Antarctica
The first journey we made with the gold picture frame sledge was to a small glacier not far from the base known as 'Sunnyside Glacier'. Me and Fergal Buckley took photographs of several toys with...
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Eyes Wide Shut: Hidden in plain sight
Eyes Wide Shut is the last work of legendary movie director Stanley Kubrick, and like many of his films it contains layers of meaning not easily deciphered or understood on first viewing. Released in 1999 to mixed responses, Eyes Wide Shut has since garnered considerable interest and has come to be
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Reasons to grow and keep big muscles
Life isn’t just about how long we live; it’s about how well we live it. We often hear about increasing our lifespan, but is a longer life worth it if we can’t move and become dependent on others? What’s equally, or even more important, is enhancing our healthspan—the period during which we enjoy a good quality of…
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To forget is an ethical act
On and off for the last several years I’ve been manually curating my roughly 40,000 lifetime tweets. I recently finished, and in the process embarked on a
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Do literally anything
Feeling overwhelmed? Don't know where to start? Do literally anything.
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Maybe This Is Too Cool
Between rounds of shock layoffs, Amazon directors enjoy private rock concert
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How I overcame my addiction to sugar
Overcoming any addiction is hard. Sugar is very addictive and bad for your health. Here's my journey fighting with that addiction so far in case it can help anyone out there.
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Notes on Buttondown.com
We spent $85,000 for buttondown.com in April; this was the biggest capital expenditure I've ever made, and though it was coming from cash flow generated by B...
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Pimp Your Board Games
Board gaming is such a lovely hobby to keep your mind and your company on edge. No bright blue …
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Apple Vision Pro and ADHD
I'm currently typing this blog post in a floating window in the middle of snow-covered Yosemite. I am a floating body manifested into the transcendental Tim Cook matrix. I look into the sky and follow the soft clouds as they pass overhead. They slowly part, revealing Steve Jobs' smiling face watching over me from the…
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Five Most Productive Years: What Happened and What's Next
On his 65th birthday, Stephen Wolfram details how his 'now or never' thinking has made the last five years some of his most productive. Read about his projects in tech and science.
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How to write a novel using the snowflake method (2013)
How to write a novel: Award-winning novelist Randy Ingermanson teaches his wildly popular Snowflake Method for designing and writing a novel.
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Finding the Air Cannon
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