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Naïve Quitting
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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The Coding Zone
There are a few things you'll need for a productive programming session.
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Power struggles among nice people
Most of my clients are CEOs of growing companies, most of the rest are C-level executives in similar settings, and a number of others are leaders in investment or professional services firms. In order to be effective in these roles they must be able to influence others, wield authority, and maintain status. At the…
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A Broken Heart
Or, getting a 100x speedup with one dumb line of code.
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I use Org Mode for personal logging/journalling
I started using Emacs' OrgMode to log my days.
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Inside the box: Everything I did with an Arduino starter kit
Diving into Elegoo Arduino Uno R3 Starter Kit, the most complete Arduino kit
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Simplify
I used to be a slave to my startups. If I wasn't working, I had a perpetual feeling of guilt that I should be working. I had a revelation one day when I realized I didn't have to read everything I found on the Internet.
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Why write?
As a reaction to the previous article on how to write a scientific paper, I got some reactions from friends and colleagues, the underlying message being that they would rather like to understand why writing can be important. There is indeed a tendency to see academic writing as a tedious task that one should try to…
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Things you are allowed to do, academic edition
Since it’s application season again, I thought that I would share some things that you are ‘allowed’ to do in academia but may not be aware of. This post is inspired by Milan Cvitkovic’s post on ‘Things you’re allowed to do’ and Veronika Cheplygina’s posts on advice for Ph.D. students, in particular her post ‘7 things…
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Learn React with Copywork
Tired of making TODO apps over and over? Try this instead.
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I closed a lot of browser tabs
I am widely admired at work for my ability to have many, many browser tabs open. (That, at least, is what I take from the frequent shouts of “holy cow, man, look at your browser!”) Nonetheless, I have long thought that it would be worth getting my total tab count down. I have tabs open for a bunch of reasons.
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Living Like It's 99, No Social Media, No Smartphone
I’ve now lived without social media and without a smartphone for the past 3 years. And I’m still alive. A lot of people have asked me how I made it. So I wrote an article about it. The why, the how, and the now.
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Text Is Keeping Kids from Coding
We ran into a big blocker when designing SpriteBox Coding, a learn-to-code game for kids ages 5+. For some kids, code was simply…
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We have an epidemic of bad posture
What happens if you Google “coworking space”? You see people working hard. I see lots of necks, backs, arms, wrist and hands that will need phyiscal therapy in…
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Daily Driving GrapheneOS
I've been running GrapheneOS on my Pixel Fold for over half a year now and can finally provide some experience on what it's like. Also, the official hardware partnership was announced!
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If Your World Is Not Enchanted, You're Not Paying Attention
The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 11
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Clever vs. Insightful Code
“Don’t write clever code.” Why not? “Because it’s hard to understand.” People who say this think of clever code such as Duff’s Device: Duff's Device send(to, from, count) registershort*to, *from; registercount; { registern =(count +7) /8; switch(count %8) { case0: do{ *to =*from++; case7: *to =*from++; case6: *to…
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Procrastination should be solved by lighting fires, not filling buckets
2019 update: Wow, people are still reading this! I wrote this 6 years ago. I’m going to leave it unedited + add some new thoughts. With the benefit of hindsight, I think… thinking about productivity apps is a sort of proxy approach to thinking about productivity itself. I never did…
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How Long Can Life Wait?
Just because you haven’t moved from the sofa doesn’t mean you’re dead.
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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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Talking to God
Why bother? Because you want to change the world!