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I'm turning 30 and I've produced no amazing art.
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Using an engineering notebook
One of my core software engineering practices is writing, by hand, in a physical notebook [1] . It's one of the most important things I do to remain productive and effective. Maybe the single most important. And it's a practice that I see very few others using!
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Forget Twitter Threads; Write a Blog Post Instead
All of the kool kids in Twitter land seem to be jumping on the bandwagon of a very annoying craze. Twitter threads. Please stop; write a blog post instead
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Thank HN: Our friend is Safe and Sound
Two weeks ago to the day I asked for your help in finding a lawyer for a HN’er that was about to be arraigned in front of a Delhi judge.
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The last time my family was replaced by technology
My great-great-grandfather thought he’d be replaced by technology too. He was a farrier in Mandres-en-Barrois, the small village in rural France where I grew up.
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Solar panels reduced my electric bill in 2022
In late 2021, I had solar panels installed onto the roof of my house. After some bureaucratic delays, the solar panels began producing electricity for me at the beginning of January 2022. I have been tracking the performance of the panels for the last year in order to assess what the financial impact of the panels is…
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The Reality of Developer Burnout
Burnout is, unfortunately, a very real phenomenon in software development — especially when creating and maintaining open source projects with large numbers...
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EmacsConf 2024 Notes
The videos have been uploaded , thank-you notes have been sent, and the kiddo has decided to play a little Minecraft on her own, so now I get to write some quick notes on EmacsConf 2024 .
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Life lessons learned in travelling the world for 8 years straight
Benny Lewis revisits 29 life lessons from eight years of travel, covering language, friendship, money, mistakes, culture and connection.
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Should this be a map or 500 maps?
500 priests, cartographic n00bism, and the limits of scale
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I assume I'm below average
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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Mental Models: The Best Way to Make Intelligent Decisions (113 Models Explained)
The smartest people in the world use mental models to make intelligent decisions, avoid stupidity, and increase productivity. Let's take a look at how ...
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How to get rich without being lucky (2019)
A collection of all my interviews about my ‘How to Get Rich’ tweetstorm. Seek Wealth, Not Money or Status Wealth is assets that earn while you sleep You probably know Naval from his Twitter account. We’re going to talk about his tweetstorm, “How To Get Rich (without getting lucky).” More
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Things I've noticed while visiting the ICU
Update: this post was written in November, 2022.
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Why I don't want stuff
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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Prioritize mental health, and why communication is so important
and why communication is so important
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Travel is no cure for the mind (2018)
Who you are in a venue matters far more than the venue itself.
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Youth and what happens when it's gone
And what happens when it's gone.
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I’m going to miss you, but I am taking a sabbatical
Hello, everyone. I’m going to be taking an extended break from kottke.org, starting today. I’ve been writing here for more than 24 years, nearly half my life —
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The “three things” exercise for getting things out of talks (2011)
(More general advice on going to talks is here . As with all my webpages, feedback is more than welcome!)
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Where I'm at on the whole CSS-Tricks thing
It was March 2022 when I sold CSS-Tricks to DigitalOcean. So it’s been just about 2 years now. This was me and my wife’s thinking: The negotiated sale price was fair. They are a big com…
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If it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown
Why and how to preserve digital content in plaintext format for long-term accessibility and reuse
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Fixing annoying blue standby lights
A simple and free fix for those annoying over bright blue standby lights on home electronics (TV, Stereo, Set top box, etc.)
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Stupid, Stupid xBox
I was a founder of the original xBox project at Microsoft and gave it its name. Almost 14 years after the painful, pointless, and idiotic internal cage-match to get it started and funded, the hard …
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Panic Attacks
I read the ESPN piece on Kevin Love and other NBA players’ mental health issues this morning. My son had sent it to me yesterday. The bit about his panic attack during an Atlanta Hawks game, initially disclosed in this piece Kevin wrote on The Players Tribune, was particularly hard to read. Kevin Love started […]