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IMPORTANT : this blog post is correct as of 15 December 2021, and all the text below is unchanged since then. At that time two borders - Russia to China, and China to Laos - could not be crossed due to COVID. The outbreak of war in Ukraine has also meant that trains
Hey, I feel like I'm at a big crossroads and this is an important blog post, but you probably already guessed that from the title.
We have a new vehicle, a Honda Odyssey Elite customised for my wheelchair, and for me to drive with hand controls.
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
David shares how to make the best choices of what to work on in your life. Read here.
something not often talked about is the barrier that seemingly exists between the self and other people. that almost impermeable barrier, where you try to co...
Works for me. I’m down. Absolutely.
"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers." - Thomas Jefferson
Is a million times a million a billion or is it a trillion ? For my entire childhood, it was a billion, only for me to grow up and realise, as an adult, that it had better be a trillion!
The Enrichment side of the "Accelerate vs Enrich" dichotomy in math education for kids who love math.
It starts innocently enough - the business needs you to write a program to automate creating peanut butter cookies (yum).
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
Disclaimer: I have never personally met Bryan Johnson. Reading this again, I realized that this article is quite harsh at times. Overall, I do like him and I am grateful that someone like Bryan exists as he is propelling the whole field of longevity forward by making it more popular. I also like the way […]
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
What are the true limits to motivation?
Thoughts on building, shipping and iterating quickly
Note: This is Part 1 in a series of articles about non-creepy networking. There’s just too much to say to get it all out in one article. <p...
Leaders are paid to think clearly. And a big impediment to clear thinking is what CBT/REBT calls Cognitive Distortions: errors in thinking or thinking traps we commonly fall for. Most high-performers are not pathological, but instead fall for them when upset or in high-stress situations. In this
In the last post, I discussed the research of Drs. Edward and May Mellanby on the nutritional factors affecting tooth formation. Dr. Mellan...
The Apple event tomorrow morning (US Pacific time), takes place at Town Hall, Building 4, Apple, Inc. in Cupertino. It has been almost 15 years since I visited there the last time. 'Hint: It&...
Two years ago I trained for my private pilot license over the course of nine months. Besides be...
Academics constantly complain about being overworked, yet they also praise their freedom to decide how and when to work as one of the great ...
I’ve decided to learn some Rust recently while working on the Stanford’s experimental course on operating systems. R...
The Emperor’s Nose (Richard Feynman) A village in a remote corner of an empire decided to erect a statue of the emperor. The village scu...
