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Three major tools that companies have to influence behavior are incentives, process, and culture. People often mean different things when talking about these, so I'll provide an example of each so we're on the same page (if you think that I should be using a different word for the concept, feel free to mentally…
A big fan of advice posts and productivity guides, here's my contribution to the genre.
I visited North Korea for 16 days in 2014. Here are 100 photos I took inside all corners of this secretive socialist nation.
People sometimes ask me: Alex, how do I learn X?. This article is a compilation of advice I usually give. This is things that worked for me rather than the most awesome things on earth. I do consider every item on the list to be fantastic though, and I am forever grateful to people putting these resources together.
Hi everyone! Here's part five of my favorite programming, computer and science books. If you're just joining, please see part one, part two, part three and part four. I've been collecting and researching science, math, physics, programming books since 2001 or 2002, so it's been close to 15 years of book research…
I don’t want a new phone, but I’m probably buying one.
A personal perspective on the complex role English plays in Japan.
I bought a Surface Pro 4 in 2016. It has an Intel Core m3-6Y30 CPU and 4GB memory. The spec is not that impressive even compared to an average laptop released years earlier. On the other hand, the form factor is very attractive to me: at a very low price, you get a tablet with a beautiful HiDPI 2k screen, a pressure…
What begins at Girl Scouts can take you anywhere you want to go. Explore who you are and what you can accomplish as a Girl Scout.
Link to: https://sixcolors.com/post/2021/03/searching-for-the-perfect-ios-markdown-writing-tool/
When people undergo a great trauma or other unsettling event—they have lost a job or a loved one dies, for example—their understanding of themselves or of
Programmers should be paranoid.
It became real when I saw the list. When I saw the rubric.
Depression is real in founders. Please be careful.
OR: The Great Switcheroo
We speak of three kinds of laziness. The first is simply to spend all your time eating and sleeping. The second is to tell yourself, "Someone like me will never manage to perfect themselves." In...
What does it really mean to be a sloth? Why are they so slow? And why does it work?
My book 'Mastering Nim - A complete guide to the programming language' is now available on Amazon
This is a declaration of love for personal websites, written from years of thinking on the subject, reviewing thousands of portfolios, building websites for friends and bookmarking those of strangers. It’s a subject I’m so passionate about, I built my business on it. And recently, it’s become a matter of principle…
I started dabbling in entrepreneurship over 20 years ago and have experienced the feeling of stuckness more than I can recall...
