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Notes

I collect notes from things I read and hear. The best way to browse them is through the index.

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Thatā€™s 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

That Hurts My Feelings

[ā€¦] and every time I think of it, I feel unbridled happiness, follo...

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

So even though defining the strategy from scratch is the hardest pa...

from James Stanier

Crichton coined the term Gell-Mann amnesia effect to describe the p...

from wikipedia.org

Preparation: Posts are spontaneous. Releases are orchestrated throu...

from Yancey Strickler

Productivity is often a distraction. Donā€™t aim for better ways to g...

from Kevin Kelly

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