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Toxic Positivity
Can positivity be toxic? We’ll investigate the concept of toxic positivity. From this, we'll learn how we can communicate authentically.
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Life, Learning & Writing
The most popular blog posts about life, learning & writing on Hacker News. 816 posts.
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What it’s like to dissect a cadaver
Alok Singh's Blog
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Managing mental health while running a startup
Okta co-founder Frederic Kerrest explains why all startup founders need to stay mentally, emotionally, and physically fit.
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It’s a Unix system I know this
I think the average person knows that programming isn’t quite the same as it is in the movies. But, sometimes, it is.
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Ubuntu Snap update spoiled my World Cup Final
Goodbye Ubuntu, Goodbye Snaps I missed two goals in the World Cup Finals because of this. It’s not the first time Snap has been a problem, but it’s most definitely the last straw. What happened? I was happily watching the second half of the Fifa World Cup Final, using “ShowMax” – a South African paid … Continue…
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The PARA Method: A Universal System for Organizing Digital Information
Learn how to organize your digital life in seconds. Stop wasting time looking for information and gain greater focus on what matters most.
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Advice that worked for me
A big fan of advice posts and productivity guides, here's my contribution to the genre.
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Mastering Nim – now available on Amazon
My book 'Mastering Nim - A complete guide to the programming language' is now available on Amazon
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Please don't be spooky
A piece of advice I wish I could give my manager is don't be spooky. My manager regularly messages me things like Hey, can you talk? or Got a minute now? ...
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Feynman’s advice to W&M student resonates 45 years later (2020)
Early in her career as a William & Mary student, Beulah Elizabeth Cox turned in a physics exam that contained what became one of the most famous incorrect answers in science.
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I collect and read old computer manuals
It’s my ritual: every time I enter a secondhand bookshop, I go straight to the Sciences section and search for old computer …
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How to waste time and overcomplicate things
This post ended up being fairly popular on Hacker News and sparked conversations about project management and development in the IT industry. You can find the post here .
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Back to India
This should provide some insight on why I made the move from the US back to India after a few years of work. And no, my work visa wasn’t expiring. The intent is not to try and convince more people to do the same, but at least get people in similar situations to talk about […]
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Buy things, not experiences
There’s a phrase going around that you should “buy experiences, not things.” People, it’s claimed, think that having a lot of stuff is w...
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Flânerie: The Art of Aimless Strolling
Strolling aimlessly – instead of having set routes and set sites to see – is something I’ve always enjoyed doing, especially in big or new cities. I discovered that there was a French term for this aimless wandering, considered to be a kind of art. And that’s flânerie, while the person who engages in this…
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On Mr. Beast and being alone in a circle for 100 days
culture by algorithm in the 21st century
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Seeking the productive life: Some details of my personal infrastructure (2019)
Some of Stephen Wolfram’s “productivity hacks” to make his days and projects more productive. Daily life, desk environment, outside the office, presentation setup, filesystem organization, Wolfram Notebook systems, databases, personal analytics.
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Things I sort of believe about making music
I've now been recording music at home for most of my life. I started at around 14. I would record things into audacity, sometimes with my friend Cameron, but more often by myself. I had no real idea of how to write, arrange, or record music. Besides a few covers I would mostly record incredibly abstruse 'experimental…
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A beginner's guide to intermittent fasting (2012)
Considering intermittent fasting or a fasting diet? Learn the benefits of intermittent fasting and the intermittent fasting schedule I use.
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Bad behavior is almost always good politics (2021)
Most great thinkers have speculated about the kind of leadership that might give rise to a better society, analyzing it through what’s sometimes called a “normative” lens: What should we be doing? In Leviathan, for example, Thomas Hobbes argued for a single, absolute sovereign to hold together the social contract. He…
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What it feels like when Rust saves your bacon
You’ve probably heard that the Rust type checker can be a great “co-pilot”, helping you to avoid subtle bugs that would have been a royal pain in the !@#!$! to debug. This is truly awesome! But what you may not realize is how it feels in the moment when this happens. The answer typically is: really, really…
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Completing a part-time Master's in computer science while working
“I’m going to be 29 anyways, so I might as well be 29 with a Master’s.” — me 5 years ago debating whether I should take classes On June 5, 2017, I started taking classes at Tufts University while working full time. On January 4, 2022, I submitted the final draft of my Master’s thesis. Much like my past self had hoped…
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My productivity system
In this past year, I’ve done significant changes to my whole “productivity system”. These changes were impulsed by two major life changes. One, I abandoned my work life as a freelancer…
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You Don't Need a Mentor–Find a Nemesis Instead
In which the author expostulates on his odd notions about sports, music, and life
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Study Tips from Richard Feynman
“Study hard what interests you the most.”
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How to Explain an Idea
What's an idea? What sorts of ideas are there? And how to explain them once you have them?
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