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A Guide for Prospective Tea Monks
Inspired by Becky Chamber's Monk & Robot Series
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The most popular blog posts about life, learning & writing on Hacker News. 530 posts.
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I've tracked every piece of clothing I've worn for three years (2021)
Are expensive clothes really worth their price? I took a data-supported look at how to clean up and restock your closet.
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What is the point of an online conference?
My experience of online conferences has mostly been underwhelming. They typically borrow the form and structure of an in-person conference without considering whether those still make sense online, and whether the goals of an online conference should even be the same as an in-person conference.
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Taking a Radio Camping
The noise floor is a lot lower in the forest
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A pro-science, pro-progress, techno-optimistic health textbook from 1929
"Science and The Way to Health" by Andress and Brown
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All my thoughts after 40 hours in the Vision Pro
Welcome to the 2030s.
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My Hour of Memoryless Lucidity
Yesterday, I had a coronectomy: the top halves of my bottom wisdom teeth were surgically removed. It was my first time being sedated, and I didn’t know what to expect. While I was unconscious…
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Pie doesn't need to be original unless you claim it so
View this post in browser Your pie doesn't need to be original (unless you claim it so) Imagine you bake a delicious peach pie over the weekend, and you...
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My WordPress Slack Ban
A couple of days ago, I got banned from the WordPress community Slack. As this is about WordPress, I figure I should use my WordPress blog to talk about it. Everything that day revolved around a small…
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Spaced repetition for teaching two-year olds how to read
This father has been using spaced repetition (Anki) to teach his children how to read several years earlier than average. Michael Nielsen and Gwern tweeted about the interesting case of a reddit user, u/caffeine314 (henceforth dubbed “CoffeePie”), who has been using spaced repetition with his daughter from a very…
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Procrastination can be caused by anxiety
Anxiety is a feeling of worry and unease that people experience in various situations, such as before taking a test, interviewing for a job, or making a big decision. Occasional anxiety is an expected part of life, though some people suffer from anxiety disorders, which generally involve episodes of anxiety that are…
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Everything that turned out well in my life followed the same design process
The context is smarter than you.
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Dead Air on the Incident Call
Silence can mean different things to different people in different situations. In this post, I’ll present a few incident scenarios and explore the role of the incident commander in breaking (…
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18 Months with a Framework 13
I've been using a Framework 13 laptop as my main/only computer for a little over 18 months now.
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Choosing what to read
Like many people, I spend a lot of time reading. Since there is much more that I could read than there is time for, I have to make choices about what I should read. In this short post I’m going to outline what my reading choices have become and why. My aim isn’t to suggest that anyone else should make the same choices…
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Thinking about recipe formats more than anyone should
I investigated the various standards available for storing and presenting recipes on the web
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The Curse of Markdown
And the content website wasteland
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Feynman's Garden
The best description of my problem solving process is the Feynman algorithm, which is sometimes presented as a joke where the hidden subtext is “be smart”, but I disagree. The “algorithm” is a surprisingly lucid description of how thinking works in the context of hard problems where the answer can’t simply be looked…
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Haunted by my own projects
Sometimes the new and shiny thing is way more fun than the thing that I genuinely want to ship... later.
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On Writing Well
Writing a technical document is surprisingly hard. That is not because of the skill to tell a story. It’s because writing forces a level of clarity that is easy to gloss over while thinking through a topic.
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How to let go: Jake's life ends as his daughter's begins
“How to let go: one life ends while another begins. I’m seven months pregnant with our daughter as Jake’s life comes to a close. How do I walk into an uncertain future without him…