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Using a mild Twitter addiction to get things done
Modern mobile devices contain a myriad of distractions and addictive platforms. My vices are Twitter and TikTok.
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The most popular blog posts about life, learning & writing on Hacker News. 8,929 posts.
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Fooling myself to work
We can't always be at the mercy of our motivation. I've some tricks how to fool myself into work, every single day. I'm quite productive thanks to these tricks. They will work for you too. So here they are...
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I sold 640 copies of my book in one year
A breakdown of selling 640 copies of my first product Deployment from Scratch.
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This blog is written in en-GB
Someone left a comment on my blog recently asking if I'd mind making my language more inclusive. They didn't get some of the cultural references I'd used and suggested it would be easier if I used tropes which were more globally known. Here's the thing. No. All my blog posts start with a simple declaration: Copied…
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Crossing the USA by Train
Today, I get to start a train trip I've always wanted to do: Going from New York to San Francisco!!
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You’re not burnt out, you’re existentially starving
“Those who have a ‘Why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘How’.” ― Viktor Frankl quoting Friedrich Nietzsche, Man’s Search for Meaning Let me guess: Viktor Frankl calls this feeling the “existential vacuum” in his famous book Man’s Search for Meaning. Frankl was a psychologist who survived the Holocaust, and in this…
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Why Cruise Ships are My Favorite Remote Work Location
I'm currently on a cruise ship somewhere in the Mediterranean sea, en route from Barcelona to Casablanca. Most people here are either retirees enjoying the easy life or younger fol...
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Removing Home Internet Is the Most Productive Thing I've Done
Earlier this year I made the conscious decision to remove all Internet service from my home...
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Two days of oatmeal reduce cholesterol level
The fact that oats have a beneficial effect on the metabolism is nothing new. German medic Carl von Noorden treated patients with diabetes with the cereal at the beginning of the 20th century – with remarkable success. “Today, effective medications are available to treat patients with diabetes,” explains…
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Being swamped is normal and not impressive
Being swamped — overwhelmed by stuff to do — is the default state of being within a startup. There's always more to do than time to do it, and the list keeps growing. Everyone else working at every other startup feels this too. Even if it doesn't look that way
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If you unscrew your belly button, your bottom will fall off
My Dad died on 5 December 2021. My earliest memory is sitting on his shoulders watching a Guy Fawkes bonfire on one of several visits to the UK as a child. An…
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Building my Own Laptop
We are building an open laptop, with some wacky features in it for hackers like me.
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He made linear algebra fun
Mathematics Professor Gilbert “Gil” Strang taught his last class to thousands after teaching calculus, analysis, and linear algebra for more than 60 years at MIT and online. He reflects on his life at the Institute and as an instructor with MIT OpenCourseWare.
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Retro-Tech Parenting
I am a technologist. I enjoy the things that computers and digital devices can do–they often seem magical and amazing! As a technologist, I have a particular vantage point to see and be very uncomfortable with what companies are doing with that technology. There are catchphrases for these patterns: AdTech…
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Kurt Got Got
The night we spent without control of our Twitter account.
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How to increase your luck surface area (2010)
"Luck Surface Area" is a turn of phrase that popped out my mouth during a discussion episode of TechZing a few months back and is something I've been meaning to write about ever since but never got around to actually doing. However, thanks to Lance Jones who referenced the concept in a recent blog post I have finally…
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What game are you playing?
Brad, a top footballer, sits in the bleachers watching the game. He cannot believe his eyes. He has come to watch his friend Edgar play, and Edgar is the worst football player he has ever seen. He stands around, chewing gum. When he runs at all, he runs like a
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I made a chair
I made possibly the simplest chair from an instructable I found. Uses one 8-foot 2"x12" and some very basic cuts.
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Making chicken transparent using Dorito dust
Modifying the optical properties of biological tissues with tartrazine
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Sunset at the South Pole
Hunkering down for the winter!
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Classic Papers: Articles That Have Stood the Test of Time
Scholarly research is often about the latest findings - the newest knowledge that our colleagues have gleaned from nature. Some articles bu...
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I've decided to move on to Distill
I do not plan to write more of my deep learning articles on this site. Instead, I will be co-editor of Distill , a visual, interactive journal for machine learning research emphasizing human understanding. I believe this will allow me to better serve the community.