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- She was like, âDonât have a bifurcated closet.â And what she meant ... from Percia Verlin
- Fashion is obviously subjective. Itâs not objective. But the way Iâ... from Percia Verlin
- But the psychedelics, they have these remarkable results where peop... from radiolab.org
- Yeah so basically we have these floatinggardens we put the plants o... from Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't
- For 27 years, I took photographs as I waved good-bye and drove away... from deannadikeman.com
- I Haven't Contributed to Open-Source in a While
- In some sense both of these observations are saying different versi... from Max Read
- A List of Photographers I've Been Recommended Recently
- This is why people join companies and quit managers. FROM: rachel... from rachelbythebay.com
- As fellow-Harris-supporter Curtis Yarvin reminds us, right-wing aut... from Astral Codex Ten
- I invented a programming language where you use Unicode box-drawing... from ycombinator.com
- the brain finetunes on synthetic data while it sleeps. FROM: Venk... from Venkatesh Rao
- Tramps work, hoboes wonât, and bums canât. Common, selfdefining ... from John Free
- My favorite exercise we called the âIsolation Challenge,â to stay f... from John Free
- End of The Line
- First off, make a website defend mode that can be triggered to serv... from ycombinator.com
- How to Cross-Post to Mastodon with Jekyll
- A little bit of cleaning of input text (you noticed the effect some... from Cybernetist
- Justice at Radius
- If, as on most days, no such event is obvious, I just dedicate the ... from chaosmage
- Speak No Evil (2022)
- Once we started understanding writing as a mathematical object, our... from thesephist.com
- The question is not: am I welcome or unwelcome here, on this campus... from Sara Hendren
- More than any other factor, the eyes tell you the emotion of the sc... from Every Frame a Painting
- Itâs terrible, I used to be cute, thatâs the trouble. If I was alwa... from Wrong Side Of The Lens
- In the modern world the rights that adults have in their childrenâŠn... from Sara Hendren
- nothing like looking at everything to make you want to get rid of m... from Paulie B
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- Greatness is for someone else. You donât get to experience your own... from Paulie B
- Exceptions or edge cases add additional states. To fight the exp... from ycombinator.com
- Turkle made the point that AI companions arenât qualified to conver... from Matthew B. Crawford
- When adding jitter to scheduled work, we do not select the jitter o... from Amazon Web Services, Inc.
- Peter has been living off these asset-backed loans/lines of credits... from reddit
- AIR at Auditorium Theater
- like 10% of people understand how markets work and about 10% deeply... from TheZvi
- Half the computers that exist at any point are worse than median (s... from dreamsongs.com
- the âart journalâ/âimprove your creative workâ school of note-takin... from Baldur Bjarnason's Notes on the Web
- âWhy did you do all this for me?â Wilbur asked. âI donât deserve it... from E. B White
- The Buyerarchy of Needs FROM: Sarah Lazarovic Sarah Lazarovic Sou... from Sarah Lazarovic
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- Riot Fest 2024, Saturday
- Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent wil... from Calvin Coolidge
- Be on time. Come prepared, and commit yourself entirely. Say:... from Tom Sachs
- We have to learn the bitter lesson that building in how we think we... from incompleteideas.net
- Unsurprisingly for this organization, video is a highly valued tool... from simonwillison.net
- It starts in the most on-brand MrBeast way possible: I genu... from simonwillison.net
- Vertigo
- to maintain entertainment throughout it Iâm always thinking: [[stak... from The Knowledge Project Podcast
- [The thing about a good story is that] it doesnât contain very many... from The Knowledge Project Podcast
- I think we can start by thinking about what is a story and what isn... from The Knowledge Project Podcast
- Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
- Thatâs the fundamental problem with self-documenting negative infor... from Computer Things
- A junior engineer writes comments that explain what the code does. ... from ycombinator.com
- Basically much of modern economics, and life, has the following cha... from Matt Levine
- Brothertiger at Schubas Tavern
- On no account place buildings in the places which are most beautifu... from Christopher Alexander
- Create alternating areas of light and dark throughout the building,... from Christopher Alexander
- Always place buildings to the north of the outdoor spaces that go w... from Christopher Alexander
- Twister (4DX)
- So even though defining the strategy from scratch is the hardest pa... from James Stanier
- Productivity is often a distraction. Donât aim for better ways to g... from Kevin Kelly
- Cirque of The Towers 2024
- JavaScript-based UIs are fundamentally more challenging to own and ... from Infrequently Noted
- Big Wild at Red Rocks
- Armstrong Metric
- As cameras make more and more creative choices on your behalf, we t... from Ben Sandofsky
- F9: The Fast Saga
- The sources people diminish and dismiss - like campaign books writt... from searchengine.show
- A rhetorical innovation rambling attempt to ask if this is anything... from TheZvi
- Garry Kasparov: First they are funny toys, then theyâre our competi... from TheZvi
- âInterviews: silence is the weapon, silence and peopleâs need to fi... from Ben Gilbert
- There are some whitepapaers showing that LLMs predict the results o... from TheZvi
- Printing as an event that is fundaÂmenÂtally secret, unseeable: you... from Robin Sloan
- Desk, August 11, 2024
- He noticed when a technician on a call began by examining copies th... from worksinprogress.co
- People in tech need to become radically more skilled at interfacing... from Dwarkesh Patel
- documents arenât a collection of words, but a collection of concept... from thesephist
- Another key distinction to Transformers is that the attention score... from Samuel Flender
- The Last of Sheila
- This is one of the best pieces of media Iâve seen on negotiation in... from /dev/lawyer
- Lollapalooza 2024
- Googleâs mistake is surprising and kind of profound, and unbelievab... from Paul Ford
- itâs a way of doing things that I do quite a lot which is to come u... from Tape Notes Podcast
- A big part of Ham radio today is what are known as POTA (Parks on t... from ycombinator.com
- It's Such a Beautiful Day
- Still Woozy at Salt Shed Fairgrounds
- A git repository can support multiple working trees, allowing you t... from git-scm.com
- Inspired by NotebookLM
- so I had like - whereâs the vocal - like, itâs been time stretched ... from Tape Notes Podcast
- Among the worst wars of tolerance were the religious wars which tor... from Yonatan Zunger
- The questions are: Why do we exist? ... from Jonno White
- The signs of whether a cutting has rooted or not is to look for the... from Herons Bonsai
- exo optimally splits up models based on the current network topolog... from GitHub
- When we build a preference dataset, what we should actually be aski... from thesephist.com
- recognizing this difference between base models and feedback-tuned ... from thesephist.com
- A rainbow box is a data visualization technique for overlapping set... from wikipedia.org
- Switching Search from Lunr.js to Fuse.js
- Unix timestamp, or even integer based UTC datetimes work perfectly ... from ycombinator.com
- Use an ad blocking extension when performing internet searches. F... from Internet Crime Complaint Center
- Bully at Empty Bottle
- Itâs likely the 2010s were a golden age for tech startups, due to t... from Gergely Orosz
- Hereâs the crazy part thoughâeach side doesnât see the othersâ comm... from Nick Maggiulli
- Once you make your request it will hang for several minutes. If by ... from Robert Heaton
- Schedule 30-60 mins to go over the pre-read material with the board... from avc.xyz
- Youâll sometimes hear objections about how random testing can only ... from danluu.com
- âBeing visibly Vietnameseâ seems like a fairly common cause of bugs... from danluu.com
- And say I used some standard non-AI scheduling software like Mindbo... from danluu.com
- Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
- the vast majority of intelligence supply in the future will be cons... from thesephist.com
- Software engineering is what happens to programming when you add ti... from Russ Cox
- My guestbook is live
- a minimal language based around control flow via exception handling... from hurl.wtf
- you should be lightly skeptical of following advice and patterns fr... from Irrational Exuberance
- One modality Text-only prompt with zero-shot Chain-of-Thought pr... from Sabrina Ramonov
- Mdou Moctar at The Empty Bottle
- As my experiences broadened and deepened, the indeterminate, poetic... from scentofdawn.blogspot.com
- The conclusions must be written down. Not only because these insigh... from marginalia.nu
- over-use of the memoization pattern can cause a degradation of perf... from Jean Boussier
- I Saw the TV Glow
- Saint Maud
- I thought it was notable that by making some minor tweaks to Ruby c... from johnhawthorn.com
- This Place Rules
- So, the reasons we donât have widespread graph support: The... from Hillel Wayne
- âYou done good,â I said because thatâs how he wouldâve said it, but... from Jeremy B. Jones
- Jeff Rosenstock at The Salt Shed
- Programming languages evolve to replace the all-powerful âlow-level... from buttondown.email
- Road House (2024)
- what I wanted to show you is the chemical composition of this ferti... from Herons Bonsai
- Harberger taxation is a form of taxation for private goods (such as... from harbergertax
- As I always remind people: when youâre making Bonsai itâs the trunk... from Herons Bonsai
- Software is a creative industry with more in common with media prod... from Baldur Bjarnason
- In studies LLM-aided coding is not having a great effect on the qua... from Baldur Bjarnason
- Benfordâs law, also known as the NewcombâBenford law, the law of an... from wikipedia.org
- As with p values, having a bright-line threshold, causes curious be... from danluu.com
- Peace of mind produces right values, right values produce right tho... from Robert M. Pirsig
- The Holdovers
- In these environments, decisions arenât solely the purview of execu... from Irrational Exuberance
- In the last shootout, he drove differently than before. A great ver... from Kate Wagner
- When they set off, one by one, first in the sprint, then the first ... from Kate Wagner
- What we talk about when we talk about tech debt
- The information delivered by a feedback loopâeven nonphysical feedb... from Donella H. Meadows
- Stocks allow inflows and outflows to be decoupled and to be indepen... from Donella H. Meadows
- code is all about rules, syntax, and style The map is all about ... from SEACOM Global
- well the difference between a map and a graph is: in a map space ha... from SEACOM Global
- Cyclomatic complexity is a measurement developed by Thomas McCabe t... from ibm.com
- I learned more about myself on my trip to Austin than I did about F... from Kate Wagner
- as we introduce the ability to be incorrect, we can trade off effic... from andrewwalpole.com
- Re-Animator
- A Protagonist (ENFJ) is a person with the Extraverted, Intuitive, F... from 16personalities.com
- The SCARF model involves five domains of human social experience: s... from US Department of Health and Human Services
- Fives are alert, insightful, and curious. They are able to concentr... from The Enneagram Institute
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- David Mamet said this, is that, âThe ending has to be both a surpri... from Digital Spaghetti
- But you use silence. It seems, I donât know why youâre doing it, bu... from Digital Spaghetti
- So the cameraâs tilted at an angle. Is it because youâre not lookin... from Digital Spaghetti
- J.J. Abrams talks about withholding information. And releasing only... from Digital Spaghetti
- A master shot is the principal camera shot that a director and cine... from Tiffani Bauer
- The reason why thereâs no music here, is this is a reverential stat... from Digital Spaghetti
- I hate camera movement. Really? Sometimes itâs necess... from Digital Spaghetti
- You just say the first bit of the story, and then you change locati... from Digital Spaghetti
- I think I learned this in Tom Sachâs studio. He had this ethic: ... from Van Neistat
- Safety culture consists of five elements: An informed cultur... from airsafety.aero
- There is a story about the manager of Iron Maiden, one of the great... from Ryan Holiday
- Steve Reedâs 50th Birthday in Disneyworld
- In general, on-demand print quality is variable because there are 1... from Irrational Exuberance
- In a sufficiently influential role within your organization, you ca... from lethain.com
- so what really Google is trying to do is create an operating system... from FOAM
- Building a Network Graph Site Index
- Probably the most useful of these things and the one tool that I fi... from SANS Digital Forensics and Incident Response
- Amtrac & Tourist at Concord
- The possibilities for using language as an intermediate representat... from chrisvoncsefalvay.com
- My exercise journal
- Personal Serial Numbers
- It makes no difference whether it lasts a long time or whether it l... from David OReilly
- When we examine our bloodstreams under a microscope, we see thereâs... from David OReilly
- My favorite fonts
- I always liked Anthony Bourdainâs take on âMeezâ from Kitchen Confi... from ycombinator.com
- Walking The Lakefront in Late Winter
- Things Become Other Things by Craig Mod
- The shop was supposed to close at five and I noticed it was five fi... from Craig Mod
- Following your own ideas and instincts is how we create genuine con... from Yancey Strickler
- Can You Imagine? A Library of Possibilities for Reimagining the Web by Sublime
- Itâs hard for me to overemphasize how how central this is. Like, ev... from Jane Street
- More often than not, when we use the languageâs primitives, we give... from Guillaume Malette
- I apply the principle that [[people do things for reasons::highligh... from Mandy Brown
- a key antagonist to liberation in our culture: that of an impulse t... from Mandy Brown
- He recommends focusing on the metrics labeled in green (below), und... from Stefanie Flippin
- For total sleep time, he recommends evaluating trends versus focusi... from Stefanie Flippin
- Stripe encourages engineering leaders to experience being an engine... from The Pragmatic Engineer
- Do you now understand why I say the future and the past are the sam... from Ted Chiang
- Everywhere a calendar
- perform the same operation on all wanted files in the current direc... from Vim Tips Wiki
- Economists across the political spectrum are in near-universal agre... from landisabigdeal.com
- Americans have absorbed the âProtestant work ethicâ â the idea that... from Apple Podcasts
- Veins bring water from the soil to the leaf, where it is torn apart... from Hope Jahren
- A Bloom filter is a space-efficient probabilistic data structure, c... from wikipedia.org
- As a born and raised Brazilian, I witnessed this huge getting thing... from Daniela Castro
- good notation helps us work with abstract, complex concepts using c... from thesephist.com
- Math notation is a powerful demonstration of how good (and bad) des... from thesephist.com
- all of the time-aligned data in our lives. Time-aligning things ... from alexanderobenauer.com
- [[If users donât have simple access to past program states, then pr... from alexanderobenauer.com
- Desk, January 14, 2024
- Developers donât not contribute to open source for lack of technica... from Nadia Eghbal
- Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
- The goal of an antilibrary is not to collect books you have read so... from Anne-Laure Le Cunff
- We could have: Countless local networks, many overlapping w... from jzhao.xyz
- âbe conservative in what you send, be liberal in what you acceptâ. ... from wikipedia.org
- One of the most important factors as to what gives objects a felt s... from jzhao.xyz
- At least art goes for the long game, you know? Poems are many thing... from Paul Ford
- Bodies Bodies Bodies
- In specification, the machine is the part of the system you have di... from Hillel Wayne
- American Fiction
- systems that preserve transparency into the mechanisms of their inn... from Jim Nielsenâs Blog
- Hormesis, a word coined by pharmacologists, is when a small dose of... from Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Closed Circuit
- Solicit feedback and monitor lagging indicators to adjust your exec... from Ilya Grigorik
- Googling former rivals and games that had come out the same season ... from Gabrielle Zevin
- âPromise me youâll always forgive me, and I promise Iâll always for... from Gabrielle Zevin
- âDarling, it may come out later, and it could hurt your friendâs fe... from Gabrielle Zevin
- Use three programming languages for all I care. Thatâs how I do it.... from Gabrielle Zevin
- âOkay, fuck that, who cares if itâs fun? Did it feel like archery t... from Gabrielle Zevin
- Godzilla Minus One
- Finally, the book also observes that learning happens not only with... from Irrational Exuberance
- Braiding Sweetgrass
- In an essay describing hunter-gatherer peoples with few possessions... from Robin Wall Kimmerer
- As David Suzuki notes in The Wisdom of the Elders, the Mayan storie... from Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Restoring land without restoring relationship is an empty exercise.... from Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Joanna Macy writes that until we can grieve for our planet we canno... from Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Philosopher Joanna Macy writes of the oblivion we manufacture for o... from Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Finally one elder said, âThis sustainable development sounds to me ... from Robin Wall Kimmerer
- I thanked her for her story and she said, âPlease, take it as a gif... from Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Know the ways of the ones who take care of you, so that you may tak... from Robin Wall Kimmerer
- She taught me one of the cardinal rules of gathering plants: âNe... from Robin Wall Kimmerer
- In Indigenous agriculture, the practice is to modify the plants to ... from Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Today we have gathered and when we look upon the faces around us we... from Robin Wall Kimmerer
- We are showered every day with gifts, but they are not meant for us... from Robin Wall Kimmerer
- The new leaves take up oxygen into the tightly packed air spaces of... from Robin Wall Kimmerer
- The choice of meaning in the world today is here between the two si... from Catherine Lacey
- Organise: Every 6 weeks, we reflect on the past 6 weeks, gaining va... from David Ward
- Futures researcher Jamais Cascio has described a âpink collar futur... from Deb Chachra
- The six actionable principles for a new ultrastructure that follow ... from Deb Chachra
- For inspiration on ways to think about building new structures for ... from Deb Chachra
- But effectively using renewable sources also means capturing the el... from Deb Chachra
- Earth intercepts only a tiny fraction of all of the energy coming o... from Deb Chachra
- Because infrastructural systems are mostly about nonmonetary benefi... from Deb Chachra
- powering up the station and sending the electricity out to the nati... from Deb Chachra
- greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. dropped sharply in 2020, by ar... from Deb Chachra
- The first step is to break the connection between combustion and en... from Deb Chachra
- The engineers that spec out the heating and cooling systems for bui... from Deb Chachra
- In The Real World of Technology, Ursula Franklin describes such a p... from Deb Chachra
- In The Nature of Technology, W. Brian Arthur makes the case that al... from Deb Chachra
- Developed by the U.S. military, GPS was first opened to civilian us... from Deb Chachra
- In 1886, after months of planning and preparation, all of the broad... from Deb Chachra
- In late nineteenth-century Boston, this public health argumentâ tha... from Deb Chachra
- These visible markers show us not only the extent of these networks... from Deb Chachra
- On unpaved ground, Iâve spotted flags or feathery bundles of colore... from Deb Chachra
- New KO II Synth from Teenage Engineering
- RFCs are written and discussed, but thereâs no mechanism by which t... from jacobian.org
- The real cycle youâre working on is a cycle called yourself. The ma... from Robert M. Pirsig
- âAcknowledging and appreciating seasonal changes is fundamental to ... from KonMari | The Official Website of Marie Kondo
- When Iâm planning my tasks for the day, I block off the rough amoun... from Devon Zuegel
- Everyone agrees that passwords or secret access tokens require spec... from Jorge Manrubia
- I say the critical resource is not developer time, itâs developer e... from Richard Marmorstein
- The U.S.âs point of view on the matter, elucidated at length in any... from Patrick McKenzie (patio11)
- The Make Real prompt is pretty hilarious: You are an expert... from Interconnected
- âWithout realizing it, we were gradually overmatched by a superior ... from Matt Levine
- A distributed system can be described as a particular sequential st... from Leslie Lamport
- Our smarter, richer betters (in Babel times, the kingâs name was Ni... from Paul Ford
- Have you ever worked on something, then once you got it done you we... from marcbrooker@gmail.com (Marc Brooker)
- Leases are a nearly ubiquitous, go-to, mutual exclusion mechanism i... from marcbrooker@gmail.com (Marc Brooker)
- Thereâs something qualitative and important that happens when the e... from marcbrooker@gmail.com (Marc Brooker)
- Desk, November 26, 2023
- âIs it possible to build a fact event with some sort of reason as t... from Confluent
- You should avoid sharing event sourcing events, outside of your ser... from Confluent
- Delta events are good at capturing the intent behind the creation o... from Confluent
- âWhy send all the data in a fact event if it hasnât changed? Why no... from Confluent
- Post-Apocalyptic [or bad] software is hard to modify because it doe... from lethain.com
- We recently did some team training where they said âyou havenât joi... from JFDI
- Art evolves through discussion (literal and figurative) among many ... from Irrational Exuberance
- Exploring the difference a bit: Challenge-based strategy is reas... from Irrational Exuberance
- the numbers always add up, which isnât true on the business or engi... from Irrational Exuberance
- Each Navigator is wholly accountable for the technical decisions ma... from Irrational Exuberance
- Nobody can do their best work on wobbly projects. Vises reduce m... from Taylor Troesh (hello@taylor.town)
- The strategy for the discoverers and entrepreneurs is to rely less ... from Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- the veteran artist has been through this before. Many, many times. ... from Van Neistat
- you have making the thing. then the probationary artist hits the wa... from Van Neistat
- software engineering is the science and art of designing and making... from Confreaks
- The empirical process model provides and exercises control through ... from Confreaks
- Battleships canât be berthed in backyards, but people build wonderf... from Taylor Troesh
- When fewer than 5,000 programmers existed, they built Lisp (1960) a... from Taylor Troesh
- When Iâm working on a research problem I generally begin by filling... from Taylor Troesh
- It is also notable that the Feynman lectures (3 volumes) write abou... from edwardtufte.com
- Library, yes, thatâs the word. A workshop is personal library, pron... from Jack Cheng
- Each thing, each unit of stuff, came with its own, pet stuffâa stan... from Paul Ford
- I think informatics is a much better word to use, right? Compute... from Strange Loop Conference
- A lot of what we do day to day has arbitrary bits to it. This, Iâve... from Strange Loop Conference
- it takes a long time for good ideas to get out and so itâs worth ha... from Strange Loop Conference
- Propositions in logic correspond to types in a programming language... from Strange Loop Conference
- Embodied energy is the energy consumed by all of the processes asso... from Conor Davidson
- In matrix computations, sketching is really a synonym for (linear) ... from ethanepperly.com
- Nintendoâs âblue oceanâ strategy was to stake out a position where ... from John Siracusa
- Direct manipulation of data - something like sketch pad - where you... from Joey Reid
- facts incorporate time FROM: InfoQ The Value of Values With Rich ... from InfoQ
- manage three budgets: cash, attention, risk FROM: Matt Webb Week ... from Matt Webb
- I attempt to run the company perpetually at medium-risk, with occas... from Matt Webb
- Work in public. Reveal nothing. FROM: Robin The Art of Working in... from Robin
- the smaller the interface is, the more useful it is FROM: The Go ... from The Go Programming Language
- errors are values FROM: The Go Programming Language Gopherfest 20... from The Go Programming Language
- donât communicate by sharing memory share memory by communicatin... from The Go Programming Language
- Oozification is the process of recursively replacing systems based ... from Ribbonfarm Studio
- AI should be considered intelligence thatâs simply learned for a ve... from Ribbonfarm Studio
- The reason tasks like looking up part numbers and data sheets is ha... from Ribbonfarm Studio
- However, the particular attributes that a given System fosters can ... from John Gall and D.H. Gall
- JUST CALLING IT âFEEDBACKâ DOESNâT MEAN THAT IT HAS ACTUALLY FED BA... from John Gall and D.H. Gall
- Le Chatelierâs Principle. This Law states that any natural process,... from John Gall and D.H. Gall
- The power of the Naming Effect should not be underestimated. It is ... from John Gall and D.H. Gall
- Progress is good. Complexity is a bridge. Simplicity is the goal. ... from Ruby on Rails
- the SUX Rule: Sandbox-free â Unsafe â eXogenous. If our code runs w... from Posts on Kelly Shortridge
- What this work shows is that if you have the right input basic mate... from Jack Clark
- Being a locally minded vegetarian has been my compromise. Iâm sure ... from Alicia Kennedy
- In Eating Tomorrow: Agribusiness, Family Farmers, and the Battle fo... from Alicia Kennedy
- It will never cease to shock me that people would rather spend mill... from Alicia Kennedy
- in our industrialized world thatâs controlled by a handful of multi... from Alicia Kennedy
- the six illusions that Americans are living with regarding food: âc... from Alicia Kennedy
- Thereâs a sense in editorial, publishing, and TV spaces that, if yo... from Alicia Kennedy
- When vegetarians and vegans limit politics to the realm of animal r... from Alicia Kennedy
- Lappé famously called the American diet experimental, noting that n... from Alicia Kennedy
- Rigid adherence to any prioritization model, even one thatâs concep... from Irrational Exuberance
- Ag-gag laws are anti-whistleblower laws that apply within the agric... from Matt McGrath
- You can give yourself back time by leaving meetings gracefully. ... from Josh Beckman
- as the ecotheologian Thomas Berry has written, âwe must say of the ... from Robin Wall Kimmerer
- A bay is a noun only if water is dead. When bay is a noun, it is de... from Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Among our Potawatomi people, there are public names and true names.... from Robin Wall Kimmerer
- As a medium, photography is kind of intrinsically selfish. So I bri... from Bill Shapiro
- In Eliyahu M. Goldrattâs âTheory of Constraintsâ, you canât increas... from ycombinator.com
- This reminds me of the story where a Houston airport kept getting c... from ycombinator.com
- The essence of the gift is that it creates a set of relationships. ... from Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Lewis Hyde has made extensive studies of gift economies. He finds t... from Robin Wall Kimmerer
- After Reading: The Creative Act
- After Reading: A Philosophy of Software Design
- Deep and shallow modules: The best modules are deep: they allow ... from John Ousterhout
- Kandy Muse and Jimbo at Roscoe's
- Time is not money. Time is beans. It was as serious as many joke... from Alexis Madrigal
- âThe antislavery movement was, after all, an agricultural reform mo... from Alexis Madrigal
- recognize how fundamentally the political economy of plants structu... from Alexis Madrigal
- the term homeostasis: it refers to how your body maintains factors ... from Lorin Hochstein
- In his paper The Theory of Graceful Extensibility: Basic rules that... from Lorin Hochstein
- It is far easier to collaborate on a first principle model. At this... from sirupsen.com
- If you are designing for 8 demands itâs likely that 6 are easy, 7 r... from sirupsen.com
- Good architecture is built incrementally, but not designed incremen... from sirupsen.com
- The optimal amount of meetings is not zero, even if you work alone.... from Matt Levine
- By replacing integration tests with unit tests, weâre losing alignm... from buttondown.email
- When youâre a new leader, your model wonât have much data to go on.... from James Stanier
- Often, people who donât have access to the raw data expect one narr... from Josh Beckman
- Japanese Breakfast at The Salt Shed
- If machines were designed to be more personal, weâd have very diffe... from chrbutler.com
- Grapetooth at West Fest
- The upshot for the industry at large, is: the LLM-as-Moat model has... from Steve Yegge
- Level 1 The human operator does the task and turns it over to th... from PetroWiki
- Another useful concept is The Death of the Author, which is a part ... from ferd.ca
- If all the burghers of Small Town USA get together and say âwe want... from Matt Levine
- Getting Social Online
- Bigger projects often use a formal ârequest for commentsâ (RFC) pro... from Nadia Eghbal
- More things than you would think are dynamic strategic problems. If... from marcelo.rinesi
- There is an aliveness to fields that lawns do not have. Our small p... from Simon Sarris
- in the U.S., thereâs a false idea that certain choices around food ... from Alicia Kennedy
- In the allegory of long spoons, there are people in hell and people... from wikipedia.org
- To determine what actions you can take to drive meaningful change i... from Ken Britton
- A great framework for delegating work or encouraging a team member ... from Ken Britton
- Words matter, and the words you say about yourself and other people... from Josh Beckman
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