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Weak Men Are Superweapons (2014)
There was an argument on Tumblr which, like so many arguments on Tumblr, was terrible. I will rephrase it just a little to make a point.
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The most popular blog posts about life, learning & writing on Hacker News. 8,932 posts.
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Composing better emails
Lazarus Lazaridis’ personal blog with posts mostly related to programming and opensource. And cats.
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Let's make the web personal again
As we're building Nym , an open-source spiritual successor to Blogger & Wordpress, we'd like to revisit the ideas of our forebears whose ideas have paved the path for us to build the next generation of personal website & blogging software on.
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If Sapiens were a blog post
A cut-down summary of Sapiens covering the major points.
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30 pounds in 30 days
Listen to the Post Here Website In the past month or so, I met with a handful of groups who sought guidance on putting together an iOS minimum viable product with a fully functioning backend. These…
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25+ years of personal knowledge management
In this post, I describe my entire Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) system and its evolution over 25+ years
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A few things I’ve learned about livestreaming
“Thanks” to the pandemic, I’ve spent much more time figuring out how to deal with video and live streaming than I ever thought I would. It’s turned out to be a surprisingly rewarding experience. In no particular order, here are some things I’ve learned along the way.
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Using a list to manage executive function
I use a fairly well-developed todo list system to manage my workload during the day. Some of the details are unusual, so I thought it would be worth sharing.
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Why I’m not paying the Troll Toll
My company TMSOFT was recently sued by Lodsys in the eastern district of Texas. I initially thought I was being sued for using a hyperlink in my White Noise application (see below). I know now I’m being sued because the CEO of Lodsys didn’t like what I publicly said about their company. That’s right. I’m being sued…
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Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead
As of this month, Netflix prices are going up again.
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2022 letter on life in China
Becoming a barbarian; an ideological revelry; lockdown; sweetgrass and banana leafs; crankiness; delightful animals; to the mountains
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Why Chinese Mothers are Not Superior (from a female Chinese engineer)
Jean Hsu - Fractional VP Engineering | Engineering Leadership for Startups
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The Joy of Folding Bikes
I was chatting to a friend about my folding bike and I had the urge to write about it - because this falls in the category of “Things I wish I’d had decades ago”. And maybe I can encourage some others to try these wonderful devices. Note: I’m 3 months into a new job so blogging has taken a back seat to drinking from a…
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Aristotle – How to live a good life
2400 years ago Aristotle found out how to be happy. His Nicomachean Ethics is an operating manual for a good life: What is good? First of all, what makes a thing a good thing? A good…
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The Four Hobbies, and Apparent Expertise
Around the end of high school, I started to get really into photography. My friend (let’s call him T) was also into it, which should have been great fun. But it wasn’t. Going shooting with him was never great, for a reason I didn’t figure out till much later. I wanted to take photos. T mostly enjoyed tinkering with…
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Perceived Physical Activity and Mortality: Study
A study of over 60,000 people who were followed for as long as two decades found that people’s perceptions about their level of activity have a more significant effect on their longevity than the...
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2023 Letter
A walk-and-talk; Crumb; running and tangping; Knausgaard; Elon as Palmer Eldritch; memelords; Chicago as a megacity; Norton; and a pause.
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Don't Become the Machine
I was recently recommended a YouTube video with the following title: Only a slave quantifies its existence through productivity '''''',,,,,,,,,,,'''''....
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Task Paralysis and AI
An article about ADHD, Task Paralysis and AI.
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Confessions of a recovering lifehacker
I used to be a lifehacking addict, and in some ways I still am. I have a perverse love of systems and efficiency: analyzing, configuring, optmizing, categorizing, defining, and parameter-setting. (…
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Explaining Programming to Six-Year-Olds
It was more fun than I expected! I treated this seriously and I was well prepared, and it paid off. The kids were interested and I think they might even remember something.
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Blogging vs. Blog Setups
Rakhim's homepage. I build open source projects and write about technology, programming, and life.
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What boyfriends and girlfriends search for on Google
Are we really in control when making decisions? In his book, Dan Ariely unmasks the subtle but powerful tricks that our minds play on us.
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“There are people who can see and others who cannot even look”
The greatest early photographer's portraits of Hugo, Manet, Dumas, and more