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If you ever find yourself stressed, overwhelmed, sinking into stasis despite wanting to change, or frustrated when you can’t respond to new opportunities, you need more slack in your life. Here’s how slack works and why you need more of it.
Designing humility and forgiveness into social media products
Douglas Hofstadter's book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid is a classic text that's had a strong influence on countle...
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.
Could the creator economy provide a better one?
That's the problem with deploying play-acting as "solutions:" play-acting doesn't actually fix the problems at the source, it simply lets th...
I still don't have any idea what Instagram or Facebook stories is. Tried Googling and still don't have a good idea about it. — Murat Dem...
A reaction and assorted observations about Apple's September 9 Awe-Dropping event.
Self-experiment on whether changes in bedroom CO₂ levels affect sleep quality
Torn between whether to write on Medium or post on your own blog? Here's a cautionary tale.
The Benjamin Franklin method for programming books: read a code sample, close the book, and rewrite it from memory to truly learn it.
It's not the crime, it's the coverup.
This may be the most important problem of our lifetime.
Warning: Math, Handwaving I spent a lot of time doodling in middle school instead of whatever middle schoolers are supposed to do. Somewhere between the Cool S’s and Penrose triangles I found a neat way to fill up graph paper by combining and copying squares.
"Hello, I'd like to buy one of the new iPhones, please!" "Sure thing, here's the new iPhone 12. It's fast, beautiful, and is generally awesome." "Sweet, I'll take it. This box is really small." "Yup, that's because Apple is making the environmental move to reduce
https://www.looduskalender.ee/n/en - check these as well (not so exotic, but still a lot of fun)
I took this snapshot, and the rest of them, at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County’s Unearthed: Raw Beauty exhibition yesterday. Enjoy.
I'm in a LOT of pain right now. It's hard to say that, especially considering ...
