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Life, Learning & Writing
The most popular blog posts about life, learning & writing on Hacker News. 640 posts.
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Most of the time, you don’t really need another MOOC
Stop procrastinating, go off the happy path, learn just-in-time, and get your hands dirty.
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Human Rapamycin Longevity Clinical Trials Begin
Today is a doubly important day: it marks the final day of the PEARL campaign and it is a celebration of another victory for the life extension community.
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Kropotkin's 'The Conquest of Bread'
A blog containing essays, of varying cogency, about various things that my mind have wandered to.
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Pursue High-Quality Leisure
If I stop surfing the Internet, what am I going to do all day?
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Why do drum sets have descending toms?
Before mic’ing became a necessity, acoustic drums were just that: acoustic. And when they needed to be louder, drum manufacturers made them bigger and longer. That led to some diameter and de…
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My life after quitting social media
I don't want to consume the life of others. I want to create a life worth consuming. That's what I've learned after 3 years without social media.
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Things Unlearned
One of my favorite questions to ask people is: what are some things that you used to strongly believe but have now changed your mind about?
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Quitting a New Job
Two years ago, I did something that I’d never done in my career before- I left a job (at Nuro) only a few months after starting it. In this post, I want to explain what happened and what I learned from the experience.
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Why most non-fiction authors don't make any money
Four royalty-wrecking blunders & how to fix them
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Typing Is Hard
Type checking is the process of taking a given program in some programming language and working out whether all variables and expressions have the correct types, i.e. strings are assigned to strings, arithmetic expressions involve only numbers, etc. Some languages also offer type inference , tasking the compiler with…
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Onboarding to Elixir
I've worked with a number of clients on Elixir projects and I've onboarded myself, I've been onboarded and I've onboarded others. And compared to my experiences with PHP/Python/Javascript and my limited experience with C#/.Net I have experienced quite a difference.
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Once an Addict, Always an Addict?
Is an addictive personality a thing? Is an addict’s brain permanently broken?
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Amazon Introduces Re:Post, a “Stack Overflow” for AWS
The internet is an excellent resource for well-intentioned guidance and answers. However, it can sometimes be hard to tell if what you’re reading is, in fact, advice you should follow. Also, some users have a preference toward using a single, trusted online community rather than the open internet to provide them with…
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Why I’ll never create modules for VCV Rack anymore–and what I’ll make instead
An old article, now removed due to being an old time capsule.
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Are Experts Real?
Credentials, Expertise, and Feedback Loops
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What data on myself I collect and why (2020)
How I am using 50+ sources of my personal data
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Writing a Programming Book in 2021
It is said that there are three things you must do in your lifetime: plant a tree, have a child, and write a book. I recently finished the last one. Nevertheless, I wrote a programming book.
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Advice for young scientists and curious people in general
In Advice to a Young Scientist, Nobel Prize-winning biologist Peter Medawar shares practical advice for people planning to embark on a career in the sciences—and curious people in general. Here, we summarize some of Medawar’s key insights.
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I was stuck on a side project for 5 years – how I finished it (2020)
A few months ago, I stumbled upon this post where someone spent 9 years making a shed . No knocks on them, but it’s not even a particularly good-looking shed.
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How to sequence your genome at home
In this post I'll describe how to sequence a human genome at home, something that's only recently become possible.
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The Internet Archive transforms access to books in a digital world
In honor of Open Access Week, and particularly this year’s theme of structural equity, we wanted to highlight a project from the Internet Archive that is doing extraordinary work promoting access to knowledge. The bad news: that project is also under legal threat. The good news: the Archive, with...
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I Can’t See You but I’m Not Blind
If I ask you to think of an elephant do you see an elephant in your head when you close your eyes? I don’t. Regardless of how descriptive the imagery, story or text I can’t create any pictures in m…
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I returned my Remarkable2
The non-writing UX is bad enough to render product unusuable
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Arkham Quixote (2020)
“There’s that sort of sense that many technical people will see or feel when you see something and you know what it could be, and you know it could be important, and you see companies just doing it wrong — there’s that powerful desire to fix it and do it right and show them sort of how it’s supposed to be done”
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How I spend less time on YouTube
Maybe I'm paranoid. But, I think there's a lot of smart people out there dedicating their life's work to make others keep watching videos. Since YouTube's incomprehensible decision to remove dislikes count it's become even easier to waste time on worthless content. In this blog post, I'll describe a simple trick that…
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When Should I Interrupt Someone?
How many times have you sat there trying to work through a technical problem, and thought:
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Incremental note-taking
I’ve been delving deeper into the vast and strange world of knowledge organizing tools (notes apps, contact organizers, personal search engines). During this rather abstract expedition, one of my goals has been to emerge with some opinionated thesis about the way these tools should be designed to harbor and extend our…