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How I'm fighting the AI brain fry
If you work with Claude Code or Codex from the terminal, you know this one.
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Life, Learning & Writing
The most popular blog posts about life, learning & writing on Hacker News. 613 posts.
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Exit the Cave
Ain’t it fun, livin’ in the real world?
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25 Years of Eggs
Two AI agents, 11,345 receipts, and 1.6 billion tokens to find out what I’ve spent on eggs since 2001.
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I wanna live an NPC life
the general consensus around being an npc is that you’re giving up your autonomy—essentially becoming a side character in someone else's story or watching li...
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Canceling "Hey"
cancelling-my-hey - Chad Nauseam Home
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Perfection is not over-engineering
The industry conflates perfection with over-engineering. They're not the same. Over-engineering is solving the wrong problem; a perfect solution exists once the requirements are clear.
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Zen and the Art of Machine Learning Research
if you want to do world-class research, temperament matters more than talent
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Some Unusual Trees
One of my favorite pastimes is exploring old bookstores.
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First Principles Thinking
On first principles thinking, learning to work with agents, and setting experience aside long enough to see a problem clearly.
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Design is compromise
Compromise is neither good nor bad, it’s something we do every day. It’s decision making. Prioritizing. It’s finding the right balance between two competing ...
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Write for One Person
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The darker side of being a doctor
I’m a surgeon. I’d like to think that I’m resilient and well adjusted, having gone through medical school and rigorous surgical training. I’ve been a doctor for 13 years and much of that period has been spent training to be as good a surgeon as I could ever be. I have great family support, a physician wife who…
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Book review: There Is No Antimemetics Division
Personal blog of Stephen Diehl - Software engineer writing about technology, programming, and the future
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The Last Quiet Thing
Your possessions came alive. Now they won't stop talking.
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What I learned from my mom (1941-2026)
My mom and I had a daily practice for many years: We would exchange gratitude emails.
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Start your meetings at 5 minutes past
I work as an Engineering Manager at Google, and my teams practice a simple habit - we book all meetings to start at five minutes past the hour (or half hour). This works better than trying to finish five minutes early. Meetings often don't finish on time, and the impact is highest with back-to-back meetings.…
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I have officially retired from Emacs
This past Tuesday I typed C-x C-c in Emacs for the last time after 20 years of daily use. Though nearly half that time was gradually retiring it, switching to modal editing, then to Vim. Emacs is a platform, and I’d grown accustomed to its applications, especially those I built myself. There was no particular hurry…
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The Napoleon Technique: Postponing things to increase productivity
The Napoleon technique is a productivity technique that involves postponing dealing with something if it’s likely to get resolved without your immediate input.
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Three ways people respond to a problem (other than solving it)
Noticing responses to problems; there’s a whole set. The consultant’s reaction to each of these as they arise.
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Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born (2023)
Solitary work, creativity and larval ideas
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Why aren't smart people happier? (2022)
A new way to think about brainpower.
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The contagion of fear
I have a difficult confession to make — a shameful incident that I have never spoken of, even to those closest to me.
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How to make a living as an artist
An essay by fnnch on making a living as an artist.
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Why I left iNaturalist
After almost 18 years, I left iNaturalist, the product and organization I helped create. I left because I don’t believe the current Leadership team is pointing the product in the right direction, and I don’t think they are managing their talented staff in an empathetic or effective way. If you’d like me to continue…
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Outsourcing thinking
Researcher and runner writing about technology, nature, and physical endeavours.
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A retrospective of my time on the internet
A thorough retrospective of my time on the internet.
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Code is clay now
Artisans, factories and the new material software is made of