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My Friend Aaron
This one is about my friend, Aaron. I met him at school, and in our first year when we were eleven years old I told him I wanted to be his best friend but he…
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Life, Learning & Writing
The most popular blog posts about life, learning & writing on Hacker News. 8,925 posts.
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I logged my activities at 15-minute intervals for the whole year
What do I actually do with my time? How productive am I? I logged everything I did in 2020 and got some pretty cool data out of this.
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My second year without a job
Reflecting on two years of unemployment: personal growth, financial lessons, and creative pursuits like music and startups. Here's how I navigated year two without a job.
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Sit.
Notes on mental health, motivation and Agile.
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Amazon’s own ‘Machine Learning University’ now available to all developers
Today, I’m excited to share that, for the first time, the same machine learning courses used to train engineers at Amazon are now available to all developers through AWS. We’ve been using machine learning across Amazon for more than 20 years. With thousands of engineers focused on machine learning across the company…
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Conversation skills essentials
A teacher friend of mine told me that this year students were different. If she asked to see a hall pass from a freshman, they'd give her the finger. They swore at her and were gen...
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The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote (2010)
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.
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I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple
After using Macs for fifteen years, I switched to Linux as my main operating system and I’m enjoying it. Here’s an introduction to Linux that may help you too.
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Is the madness ever going to end?
There is something seriously wrong with the IT industry. It's so bad that I haven't managed to find a single industry with the same massive amount of stupidity, with the exception of perhaps the fashion industry.
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Get better at Googling
10 Google search operators every developer should know: exact-match quotes, OR, minus, wildcards, site:, filetype:, number ranges, before: and after:.
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Invert, always, invert
man muss immer umkehren - Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
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Miyazaki Tribute
Read on Dono's experience using Blender to make this beautiful tribute to Hayao Miyazaki.
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Passkeys are not a trap
A post called Passkeys are a trap. Do not use them. has been doing the rounds over the last few days, making it pretty high on Hacker News, and I've had it sent to me many times with an 'is this true?' kind of vibe. It's written for
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Being deaf
What does being deaf mean, in practical terms?
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What if I don't want videos of my hobby time available to the world?
Running around in the woods, firing small plastic pellets at other people, in pursuit of a contrived-to-be-fun mission, turns out to be, well, fun.
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Attention is your scarcest resource
how to ration your shower thoughts • care viscerally • monotask • evade obligations • timebox bullshit
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The “Granny Knot”
Many people are tying a “Granny Knot”, which sits crooked and comes loose. Learn the “one simple trick” for keeping your shoes neatly and securely tied.
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Honestly, It's Probably the Phones
The most plausible explanation for teenage unhappiness.
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How I regained concentration and focus
For years, I enthusiastically produced content: books, articles, blog posts, and talks – averaging a book and a half plus five articles per year. Since about 2020, my productivity has plummeted – leaving me totally frustrated. There were no external causes, even the pandemic didn’t affect me, thanks to a nice home…