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Apology
After talking to two team members who recalled our staff meeting at the 2018 Racket Summer School better than I did, I think I can put myself into your shoes now.
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The most popular blog posts about life, learning & writing on Hacker News. 8,933 posts.
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A Programmer's Loss of Identity
This is the follow-up to last year’s I’m an American software developer and the "broligarchs" don’t speak for me . In that essay, I tried to express why I was so agonized by the leaders in my industry doing a speedrun towards dystopia and how it all felt so divorced from what technology could, and should be…
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How I Spend My Attention
What you pay attention to becomes your life.
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Have Taken Up Farming
ex program, en farm
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Using spaced repetition systems to see through a piece of mathematics
By Michael Nielsen, January 2019
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Become a morning person. How to end insomnia for $520.99
I have delayed sleep phase syndrome, a common form of insomnia. Sound familiar anyone?
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On the death of my family's dairy farm
This Christmas, like every other, I traveled to northern Wisconsin to stay with my parents on the dairy farm I grew up on.
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It's quite hard to lose a Duolingo streak
Well not really - just don’t practice for a day right? Oh wait, streak freezes. OK, don’t practice for a couple of days. Three? No, five? No, more! What?
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Are you nice or kind?
Last week Avi and I went outside to unbury our car after the storm, a task we assumed we could do ourselves but ultimately involved our whole neighborhood.
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Comedy Theory (2022)
Create and run awesome TTRPG adventures. Games, tools, and resources for storytellers, roleplayers, improvisers, and game masters.
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Another Day Has Come
If you agree that Apple itself was It’s hard to imagine a more orderly, confidence-inspiring, exciting-but-not-at-all-surprising, this-feels-right way to do this.
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What if I were 1% charged? (2013)
In case you hadn’t heard, the universe is governed by four fundamental forces. But when it comes to understanding nature at almost any level larger than a nucleus and smaller than a planet, …
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I analysed 20 years of my chats
Importing 1.2 million messages from Telegram, VK, Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter into a structured Obsidian vault with local LLM inference - to measure how my friendships work with decay curves, vocabulary shifts, directional sentiment, and conflict rates.
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How to be a good listener
The secrets that will make you much better at listening to a degree that your relationships are significantly more successful, peaceful, gratifying, intimate, and trusting, have to do with what you…
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Possibly a Serious Possibility
How 'lurking weasel' phrases skewed Cold War intelligence
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Reasons I didn't become an EMT, ranked
Here are 21 reasons I delayed getting my EMT licensed, sorted loosely by ridiculousness.
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A blog post is a long and complex search query to find people (2022)
When writing in public, there is a common idea that you should make it accessible. This is a left over from mass media.
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How is team-member-1 doing?
People asked how team-member-1 is doing after the DB incident of Jan 31st - Feb 1st. We're here to tell you that.
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