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How Long Can Life Wait?
Just because you haven’t moved from the sofa doesn’t mean you’re dead.
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Life, Learning & Writing
The most popular blog posts about life, learning & writing on Hacker News. 8,938 posts.
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Reading code is a skill (2020)
I’m inspired to write this post because Someone Is Wrong On The Internet. Of course a more accurate statement would be “I disagree with some aspects of what someone on the internet said, even though they have an entirely valid point of view”. But that’s less catchy. I saw a Tweet I violently agreed with, so I…
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Why founders need hobbies
As founders, a lot of our identities get wrapped up in our companies. Certainly within our industries, but even to family and friends it’s how people know
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It's Never Really About Dropping Out
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There’s no glory in overworking, it’s just imminent burnout
it’s just imminent burnout.
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Our experience moving to SF to do YC
YC (a startup accelerator we are taking part in) ask you to move to the Bay Area for the whole program. This gives you “a socially acceptable excuse…
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Tiers of answers to half-baked questions
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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Pwned, the book
The first time I ever wrote publicly about a company's security vulnerabilities, my boss came to have a word with me after seeing my name in the news headlines. One of the worst days I've ever had was right in the middle of the Have I Been Pwned
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How To Know Everything
At its simplest, this book deals with the art of asking questions. In reality, it’s about Socratic philosophy. It’s about our willingness to open our minds, close our mouths and listen. The c…
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Being-Doing Balance over Work-Life Balance
My fantasy for work-life integration today
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An ode to houseplant programming (2025)
Waxing poetic about hyperlocal phytoid software development
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The ROI of Exercise
The math on why exercise is a good deal.
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Failing to Understand the Exponential, Again
Posts and writings by Julian Schrittwieser
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What Would You Recommend to a Bright 14 Year Old?
I'm receiving lots of recommendations via the HN item, I will need to vet and categorise them, but they are mostly looking great. Here, unvetted and uncategorised are some:
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Fast. Easy. Clean. Shoelace Knot.
Tutorial for tying the “Ian Knot”, the world's fastest shoelace knot.
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'Terminator' 1 and 2 Save Their Reveals for the Right Time
And Other Thoughts on James Cameron's Classic
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The Programmer’s Guide to a Sane Workweek
This post used to contain an early version of the introduction to my previous book, The Programmer’s Guide to a Sane Workweek. I’m now working on an updated iteration.