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Woz: 'I Am the Happiest Person'
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Disney's mosquito control program
Mosquitoes are some of the most annoying (and most deadly) pests out there. If you're from a country without mosquitoes- like Iceland- then you might not realise just how annoying mosquitoes can be. Just imagine returning to your hotel with not only tired feet, a sunburn but also itchy mosquito
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Review of Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now
It’s not every day that I check my office mailbox and, amid the junk brochures, find 500 pages on the biggest questions facing civilization—all of them, basically—by possibly the …
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Digital Minimalism for the Working Hacker
Digital Minimalism for the Working Hacker : Effectively speaking, I've always been a Vim user. When I got my first shell account, I started with Vim (In the Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic ages of `vi`, `vim` and `neovim`, I came of age somewhere in the late Jurassic): my
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I went to see a movie, and instead I saw the future
A few days ago my wife and I went to see Uncut Gems at a Regal theater in Chicago. We booked our ticket online, reserved our seats, showed up 15 minutes ahead of time, and settled in. After the coi…
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Ursula K. Le Guin at the National Book Awards
parker higgins is an artist and activist in brooklyn, new york
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Luhmann's Zettelkasten
We design and develop custom software solutions and websites for your business with a strong focus on usability, quality, and aesthetics.
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99 Problems But Money Ain't One
When the Series A check clears, most startups send out a bragging press release, the equivalent of flashing your grill. The VC backing is supposed to mean that the company has experienced hands in its corner. That it’s financially solid. A shoe-in for a puff profile piece in a magazine. Eligible fo…
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The Need to Grind Concrete Examples Before Jumping Up a Level of Abstraction
If you go directly to the most abstract ideas then you’re basically like a kid who reads a book of famous quotes about life and thinks they understand everything about life by way of those quotes.
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What makes music sound “good?”
When listening to music, however, we are not just listening to a series of disconnected instants. Instead, the way things sound depends on the notes we have heard. In other words, we integrate over time . One of the most important functions of a musical scale is to limit the overall pitch content of what we're hearing…
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Signs you might be a micromanager
Warning signs of micromanagement include sweating the small stuff, getting CC'ed on every email, and needing to approve everything.
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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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An Easy Way to Learn Hard Stuff
Three steps to gain a new superpower.
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Snowcraft – Building a Lego Snowfort from giant Lego snow-bricks
In the heart of winter, our family found joy in transforming freshly fallen snow into giant Lego-like bricks using the tops of storage bins. The children eagerly assembled these into a grand snowfort, crafting an impressive igloo with walls sturdy enough to host their snowy adventures. As dusk fell,
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Pegasus Mail, 30 Years On
Sometime in the last two weeks of 1989, I sent myself an e-mail message: I no longer have it, unfortunately — it was lost in one of many system switches or crashes that happened in those early days... But it was the first message sent by a small MS-DOS application I had written, which at the time was called "ComNet…
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Why you need both rituals and routines to power your workday
Routines aren't the only thing we need for a balanced life. Most of us spend our days switching tasks and it’s our rituals that help us get through them.
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Lessons from Running a Sale That Earned 3 Month's Profit in a Week
Tips on running successful Black Friday sales for creators and Indie Hackers
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How to build Intrinsic Motivation: a review of the science
I dig into the research on intrinsic motivation. Super interesting subject. Long but hopefully quite thorough.
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Steve Jobs didn’t
Steve Jobs did not create products. He created an organization that predictably and reliably created emotionally resonant products. Steve Jobs did not make movies. He made a company that predictabl…
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Appreciating Exif
The '90s-era digital camera metadata format, still useful in 2026.
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I have tinnitus. I don't recommend it
i went to a show in november of last year (it’s may right now) and ever since, i have tinnitus. i don’t recommend it.