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I used to be a pathological overthinker. Everything had to be carefully planned, from the words I would say to the baker to order a baguette to all the insignificant details of any of the projects I worked on. Is it better to tweet at 18:00 or 18:05? Rust or
Also see: cold emails (with examples) Here’s how Travis Kalanick’s inbox looked like back in 2013: Source (perma) If you wanted to reach Travis — and keep in mind that at some point during the last six years he probably hit #inbox1m — would you just send him one email and hope that it wins the lottery when he randomly…
Most maps grossly misrepresent the size of countries and contribute to confusion. Let's revise our tools to help us get better results.
Why Crypto Fireside is migrating from Medium to Ghost.
I’ve been building Derw alone since sometime last year.
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
To celebrate Maintainer Month, GitHub has invested an additional $500,000 to help sponsor the open source projects that it depends on.
A software aesthetic for hackers with depression.
Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better but the frog dies in the process.
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The average is a myth. Understand the pitfalls of the average and how it can conceal useful information. How the US Air Force threw out the average and saved lives. Use distributions to better understand your data.
What happens when your mental battery gets drained & how I've personally experienced this in recent times.
The Stanford Medicine sleep researcher is honored for discovering the role of orexins in narcolepsy and paving the way to new sleep disorder therapies.
True or false? Apple supports macOS for three years. Apple’s security updates are sufficient. New versions of macOS are full of bugs. It’s safer to delay upgrading.
Now that the tour has ended, I want to share some concluding thoughts about the experience. My primary trip purpose was to learn more about urban planning in South America. I have a whole post worth of ideas on that. So, in this post, I’ll share everything that isn’t about urban planning! How did t
This is a great riff on how reading works and on the network effects of reading. Links below. Tyler says: … I go through five or ten books a day. And which parts of them I’ve read you can debate – maybe it washes out to be two or three books a day. Some good… Read More »Tyler Cowen on reading fast, reading well, and…
[the following recounts an exceptionally powerful teaching technique employed by an economics professor of mine at university; teaching fact-checking and skepticism by salting it into the content of his delivery]
Covid vaccine injuries are being grossly underreported and censored: evidence from multiple, independent sources
Several years ago, I decided to quit freelancing and do a day job. The job would pay much less but I was struggling with mental health (ADHD). On my therapist's suggestion, I decided to give the job thing a try. It worked wonderfully, my struggles with discipline are a thing of past. Or so I believe.
📖 You can read more of my posts on running your own Mastodon server right here: https://www.micahwalter.com/tag/mastodon/ I’ve been running my own single-user...
You don't have to be at a party to see this phenomenon in action, but there's a curious thing I regularly see at parties in social circles where people value intelligence and cleverness without similarly valuing on-the-ground knowledge or intellectual rigor. People often discuss the standard trendy topics (some recent…
A deep dive into the Feynman Technique, a method designed to learn through teaching. How can we upgrade it with a few teaching principles?
With the world inundated with productivity apps, it feels nice to return to the tried and tested pen-and-paper methods. In this blog post, I'll share my anal...
I’m a huge fan of the Dvorak keyboard layout, but if there’s one thing I love more than “Evolved vs Engineered” solution debates, is that nothing wins the ”standardized” debate.
