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01 Inbox

• Dressing like a worker serves me and serves others. Wherever I go, ... (clothing)
• I got to travel to Montreal this fall for a Shopify burst (meeting ... (Canada)
• I got to travel to Montreal this fall for a Shopify burst (meeting ... (Shopify)
• Turkle made the point that AI companions aren’t qualified to conver... (eht)

07 Favorite

• Everyone has an incomplete view of the world. But we form a complet... from Morgan Housel
• Peace of mind produces right values, right values produce right tho... from Robert M. Pirsig
• Perfectionism is a form of arrogance. Disruptive perfectionism is a... from Van Neistat
• I apply the principle that [[people do things for reasons::highligh... from Mandy Brown
• good notation helps us work with abstract, complex concepts using c... from thesephist.com
• Post-Apocalyptic [or bad] software is hard to modify because it doe... from lethain.com
• the veteran artist has been through this before. Many, many times. ... from Van Neistat
• “Everything must have a URL” does not necessarily mean that everyth... from Ben Balter
• This is a fundamental view of the world. It says that when you buil... from Christopher Alexander
• Sometimes people use “respect” to mean “treating someone like a per... from Jason Kottke
• I was taken with this cybernetic description of an aircraft factory... from Interconnected
• A river of material flows through us. When we share our works and o... from Rick Rubin
• All you crazy MFs are completely overlooking the fact that software... from Steve Yegge
• Poka-yoke is another Japanese method, this one invented by Shigeo S... from Don Norman
• It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy-books and... from Don Norman
• insights from the seven stages of action lead us to seven fundament... from Don Norman
• Seven stages of action: one for goals, three for execution, and thr... from Don Norman
• One thing I’ve noticed is that a lot of colleagues don’t know how t... from ycombinator.com
• A few desirable qualities for creative contexts: Note that very few... from Michael Nielsen
• Cognitive load is the amount of working memory needed to complete a... from Colin Dembovsky
• Athletes and musicians pursue virtuosity in fundamental skills much... from Andyʼs working notes
• A strategy is composed of three parts: Diagnosis: a theory ... from lethain.com
• In general, the chief compliance officer at any company has a dial ... from Matt Levine
• I make a practice of regularly checking in about whether I have a d... from Andy Matuschak
• Bill Thurston writes: Mathematics is a process of staring h... from Andy Matuschak
• Triadic closure is a concept in network theory which is when a netw... from Matt Webb
• Related, if you can see a better way to do it, strongly consider ke... from rjtavares
• A surprising amount of executive time is spent cleaning up messes. ... from Irrational Exuberance
• updates establish a persistent drip of information from you to the ... from Irrational Exuberance
• Accretive tools build over time. Developer tools tend to work like ... from Interconnected
• Asking for help with shame says: You have the power over me. Ask... from Startupy
• traditional arch bridges were built by first having a wood framing ... from Ferd.ca
• The vast majority of our mechanisms are viewed as analogue devices ... from University of Texas in Austin
• My general view on beliefs is that we get to choose them, so we sho... from lethain.com
• Ultimately, I decided not to, and developed the idea that I should ... from lethain.com
• When we say, “If you’re going to read one thing about programming, ... from The Third Bit
• Writing is nature’s way of letting you know how sloppy your thinkin... from Marc Brooker
• And some of these things we do, and some of them we don’t (like the... from Hope Jahren
• Similarly, if your reward for exercising is eating a bowl of ice cr... from James Clear
• Whenever you want to change your behavior, you can simply ask yours... from James Clear
• You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re goi... from George Horace Lorimer
• There’s the implicit expectation in AI and data science that if we ... from blog.rinesi.com
• “We like the idea that there’s always someone responsible for any g... from Ted Chiang
• It’s easy to look at pregnancy (for example) as something which aff... from twitter.com
• A few months ago, I was at an event that asked this question of par... from sarahmock.substack.com
• The process [of regenerative ag] is expensive, since farmers who em... from sarahmock.substack.com
• Remember that when you’re in the right you can afford to keep your ... from George Horace Lorimer
• He has wondered lately if that’s all living really is—one long good... from Blake Crouch
• My laboratory is like a church because it is where I figure out wha... from Hope Jahren
• Working in the hospital teaches you that there are only two kinds o... from Hope Jahren
• People are made of stories. Our memories are not the impartial accu... from Ted Chiang
• “Coincidence and intention are two sides of a tapestry, my lord. Yo... from Ted Chiang
• The central thesis of this book is precisely that an apparently sma... from Thomas Piketty and Arthur Goldhammer

10-19 Technology

10 Computer-science

10.01 Machine-learning

• 💡 Insight
• We have to learn the bitter lesson that building in how we think we... from incompleteideas.net
• recognizing this difference between base models and feedback-tuned ... from thesephist.com
• Moore’s law has this idea that, like, computers for a long time - s... from Lex Fridman
• In matrix computations, sketching is really a synonym for (linear) ... from ethanepperly.com
• But you can already see the idea of a “prompt” evolving into someth... from Ryan Broderick
• The way double descent is normally presented, increasing the number... from chris-said.io
• In machine learning, double descent is a surprising phenomenon wher... from chris-said.io
• Adobe claims Firefly was trained on a data set that was built from ... from Garbage Day
• distillation – a technique by which larger, more capable models can... from Tyler Cowen
• There’s the implicit expectation in AI and data science that if we ... from blog.rinesi.com

10.02 Caching

• 💡 Insight
• The key is calculated in lock-step with the object that’s represent... from David wrote this
• Have you ever worked on something, then once you got it done you we... from marcbrooker@gmail.com (Marc Brooker)
• Consistent hashing is a distributed systems technique that operates... from highscalability.com
• Let’s think about that cache again: when that one node is down, ove... from marcbrooker@gmail.com (Marc Brooker)
• Erasure coding is the idea that we can take a blob of data, break i... from marcbrooker@gmail.com (Marc Brooker)
• The generation of a cache key is always important, but even more so... from Marc-Andre Giroux

10.03 LLM

• 💡 Insight
• There are some whitepapaers showing that LLMs predict the results o... from TheZvi
• Inspired by NotebookLM
• exo optimally splits up models based on the current network topolog... from GitHub
• recognizing this difference between base models and feedback-tuned ... from thesephist.com
• Using an LLM and RAG to Wring Insights From My Posts
• RAG is often implemented using vector search against embeddings, bu... from Simon Willison
• And say I used some standard non-AI scheduling software like Mindbo... from danluu.com
• One modality Text-only prompt with zero-shot Chain-of-Thought pr... from Sabrina Ramonov
• The conclusions must be written down. Not only because these insigh... from marginalia.nu
• The features we found represent a small subset of all the concepts ... from anthropic.com
• The other thing about chat was when we had these instruct models. T... from Dwarkesh Patel
• The possibilities for using language as an intermediate representat... from chrisvoncsefalvay.com
• The Make Real prompt is pretty hilarious: You are an expert... from Interconnected
• ChatGPT, it turns out, lives off the same water I drank growing up ... from Field Notes from Christopher Brown
• The upshot for the industry at large, is: the LLM-as-Moat model has... from Steve Yegge
• We don’t quite know what to do with language models yet. But we hav... from Maggie Appleton
• combining search and AI chat is actually the wrong way to go and I ... from Garbage Day
• the tech am I digging recently is a software framework called LangC... from Matt Webb
• Part of what makes LoRA so effective is that - like other forms of ... from Dylan Patel
• In many ways, this shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone. The current r... from Dylan Patel
• We’re building apps to surround and harness AI, but we need microsc... from Interconnected
• Text inputs have no affordances When I go up the mountain to ask... from .
• Good tools let the user choose when to switch between implementatio... from .
• It’s using the ReAct pattern, which is straightforward and surprisi... from Interconnected
• To encode the position of the current token in the sequence, the au... from dugas.ch
• More capable models can better recognize the specific circumstances... from Simon Willison
• All you crazy MFs are completely overlooking the fact that software... from Steve Yegge
• GPT-3/4 is like a Meeseeks box for computer and internet tasks. Kee... from ycombinator.com
• If you are talking to a human and he or she doesn’t understand you,... from Tyler Cowen
• We are so amazed by its ability to babble in a confident manner tha... from ycombinator.com
• So people are going to be even more blindsided when someone develop... from ycombinator.com
• lol c’mon, if this wasn’t from an A.I., this would just be one of t... from Garbage Day
• But I’ve also noticed a creeping desire among A.I. evangelists to s... from Garbage Day
• Of course, OpenAI does offer a “social” feature, but the thing you’... from Garbage Day
• A standard way to poison a code model is to inject insecure code in... from Jack Clark
• And yes, there’ll be plenty of cases where “raw ChatGPT” can help w... from stephenwolfram.com
• Ideally you could adjust a dial and and set the degree of hallucina... from Tyler Cowen
• pruning for sparsity – turns out some LLMs work just as well if you... from Tyler Cowen
• I’m actually using GPT3 in a production system. The mistake people ... from Zack Korman
• Insight

10.04 Compilers

• 💡 Insight
• One major purpose of dataflow analysis is observing safety constrai... from nick-black.com
• The directed multigraph defined by interpreting basic blocks as ver... from nick-black.com
• Subsequent branch-free instructions make up segments of linear code... from nick-black.com
• One of the challenges with JIT compilers is that they always incur ... from Shopify
• Compiled queries are a very exciting area of GraphQL that I hope to... from Marc-Andre Giroux

10.05 Data

• 💡 Insight
• documents aren’t a collection of words, but a collection of concept... from thesephist
• A rainbow box is a data visualization technique for overlapping set... from wikipedia.org
• Unix timestamp, or even integer based UTC datetimes work perfectly ... from ycombinator.com
• In 2022, production-grade vector databases were relying on in-memor... from turbopuffer.com
• More to the point, they make more visual sense than box plots, so a... from Nick Desbarats
• So, the reasons we don’t have widespread graph support: The... from Hillel Wayne
• Benford’s law, also known as the Newcomb–Benford law, the law of an... from wikipedia.org
• As with p values, having a bright-line threshold, causes curious be... from danluu.com
• Moore’s law has this idea that, like, computers for a long time - s... from Lex Fridman
• The possibilities for using language as an intermediate representat... from chrisvoncsefalvay.com
• A Bloom filter is a space-efficient probabilistic data structure, c... from wikipedia.org
• One of the foundations of what explanation means for us is that it ... from marcelo.rinesi
• Everyone agrees that passwords or secret access tokens require spec... from Jorge Manrubia
• There’s something qualitative and important that happens when the e... from marcbrooker@gmail.com (Marc Brooker)
• You should avoid sharing event sourcing events, outside of your ser... from Confluent
• it’s neat how adding affine measures is mathematically invalid but ... from buttondown.email
• facts incorporate time FROM: InfoQ The Value of Values With Rich ... from InfoQ
• errors are values FROM: The Go Programming Language Gopherfest 20... from The Go Programming Language
• don’t communicate by sharing memory share memory by communicatin... from The Go Programming Language
• Pike’s rules 1 and 2 restate Tony Hoare’s famous maxim “Premature o... from University of Texas in Austin
• The idea here is that instead of incrementing a single row for a co... from planetscale.com
• The issue is that when you compress something, you need to add meta... from Jake Lazaroff
• Often, people who don’t have access to the raw data expect one narr... from Josh Beckman
• The upshot for the industry at large, is: the LLM-as-Moat model has... from Steve Yegge
• The first image ever transmitted to Earth from another planet was r... from Instagram
• My experience is companies do not anticipate that the cost of monit... from Mathew Duggan
• Ad-hoc validation leads to a phenomenon that the language-theoretic... from lexi-lambda.github.io
• the difference between validation and parsing lies almost entirely ... from lexi-lambda.github.io
• few days ago I did something that I never thought I’d do again, and... from brandur.org
• Syntax coloring isn’t useless, it is childish, like training wheels... from Douglas Crockford
• The fact that this slight change in study design yielded opposite r... from Katelyn Jetelina and Kristen Panthagani, MD, PhD from Your Local Epidemiologist
• The way double descent is normally presented, increasing the number... from chris-said.io
• One of my favorite systems papers ever is the COST paper, which exa... from Posts on Made of Bugs
• Topological sorting is the sorting of vertices of a directed acycli... from Giridhar Manepalli
• Timestamps produced by a vector clock take the most amount of space... from Giridhar Manepalli
• variant of Lamport Clock, hereafter referred to as Lamport Origin C... from Giridhar Manepalli
• Timestamps produced by a Lamport clock take the least amount of spa... from Giridhar Manepalli
• Your choice of data layout/structure has two consequences: it makes... from Hillel Wayne
• Adobe claims Firefly was trained on a data set that was built from ... from Garbage Day
• Data can be processed as unbounded or bounded streams. ... from apache.org
• So, does the creation and destruction of information have any direc... from William Kent
• The next problem we have is how to build this index in a reasonable... from Timothy Clem
• I’d argue that field-level encryption should be a starting place fo... from lethain.com
• From the perspective of non-mega-platform companies, I think this i... from lethain.com
• Erasure coding is the idea that we can take a blob of data, break i... from marcbrooker@gmail.com (Marc Brooker)
• There’s the implicit expectation in AI and data science that if we ... from blog.rinesi.com
• The classification scheme used here is possibly the clearest one I’... from ferd.ca
• Choose one Entity to be the root of each Aggregate, and control all... from UnknownAuthor
• Note on data opposing narrative
• Weeknote of September 05, 2018
• Bad Graphs in the Wild
• Analyzing Data Through Sound

10.06 Domain-driven-design

• 💡 Insight
• One of the most common mistakes when starting with Domain Events an... from serialized.io
• Examples of things that happen that might not be suitable to model ... from serialized.io
• Another way this is noted is that Factories are “pure domain”, but ... from UnknownAuthor
• The Factory should create new objects, while the Repository should ... from UnknownAuthor
• For immutable Value Objects it means that all attributes are initia... from UnknownAuthor
• An Aggregate is a group of associated objects which are considered ... from UnknownAuthor
• There are three characteristics of a Service: The operation perf... from UnknownAuthor
• For example, to transfer money from one account to another; should ... from UnknownAuthor
• Concentrate all the code related to the domain model in one layer a... from UnknownAuthor

10.07 End-user-programming

• 💡 Insight
• A big part of Ham radio today is what are known as POTA (Parks on t... from ycombinator.com
• Inspired by NotebookLM
• This scavenging in the SaaS landscape is how people express agency ... from Maggie Appleton
• Folk interfaces are when users reappropriate existing software to s... from Maggie Appleton
• [End-user programming is] a vision for empowered computing pursued ... from Notion
• Scripting Ruby with no Internet

10.08 Software

• 💡 Insight
• A git repository can support multiple working trees, allowing you t... from git-scm.com
• Direct manipulation of data - something like sketch pad - where you... from Joey Reid
• 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
• don’t communicate by sharing memory share memory by communicatin... from The Go Programming Language
• Pike’s rules 1 and 2 restate Tony Hoare’s famous maxim “Premature o... from University of Texas in Austin
• Entity: An entity represents a general-purpose object. In a game en... from wikipedia.org
• Windows 95 was 30MB. Today we have web pages heavier than that! Win... from Nikita Prokopov
• When we build systems that avoid coordinating, we end up building c... from marcbrooker@gmail.com (Marc Brooker)
• The issue is that when you compress something, you need to add meta... from Jake Lazaroff
• the SUX Rule: Sandbox-free – Unsafe – eXogenous. If our code runs w... from Posts on Kelly Shortridge
• Dependencies (coupling) is an important concern to address, but it’... from kbouck
• By replacing integration tests with unit tests, we’re losing alignm... from buttondown.email
• I propose that there is one problem chief among them, an impetus fo... from George Hosu
• When software – or idea-ware for that matter – fails to be accessib... from Gist
• Any software is considered free software so long as it upholds the ... from writefreesoftware.org
• Nathan’s four Laws of Software: Software is a gas So... from Jeff Atwood
• Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad ho... from wikipedia.org
• Ad-hoc validation leads to a phenomenon that the language-theoretic... from lexi-lambda.github.io
• the difference between validation and parsing lies almost entirely ... from lexi-lambda.github.io
• Consider: what is a parser? Really, a parser is just a function tha... from lexi-lambda.github.io
• In distributed programming theory, granularity has been around for ... from The Cloudflare Blog
• In the Supercloud both code and data are mobile and move around the... from The Cloudflare Blog
• Unlike simple machines, which cannot be copyrighted, software is au... from Why Software Patents are Bad, Period.
• “It’s interesting how every build system, frontend framework, progr... from ycombinator.com
• So here are the benefits of inheritance: • Unlike composition,... from Hillel Wayne
• Elisa Baniassad and Alexander Summers have this great paper Reframi... from Hillel Wayne
• If you’re still wondering whether that resource you’re going to add... from The Bullet Train Blog
• One of my favorite systems papers ever is the COST paper, which exa... from Posts on Made of Bugs
• All you crazy MFs are completely overlooking the fact that software... from Steve Yegge
• Timestamps produced by a Lamport clock take the least amount of spa... from Giridhar Manepalli
• Potential SLIs for different types of components Request-driven ... from Steven Thurgood and David Ferguson
• Types of components The easiest way to get started with setting ... from Steven Thurgood and David Ferguson
• The bottom line is this; in modern multicore, multi-CPU devices, th... from Glauber Costa
• The io_uring interface works through two main data structures: the ... from Glauber Costa
• I am also constantly disappointed by the weather, but at least the ... from Harvard University Gazette
• Hashing, crypto-safe (64 bytes) 500 ns 200 MiB/s FROM: sirupsen N... from sirupsen
• Random Memory R/W (64 bytes) 50 ns 1 GiB/s FROM: sirupsen Napkin ... from sirupsen
• Programmable notes are note-taking systems that allow you to write ... from Maggie Appleton
• This scavenging in the SaaS landscape is how people express agency ... from Maggie Appleton
• Folk interfaces are when users reappropriate existing software to s... from Maggie Appleton
• The next problem we have is how to build this index in a reasonable... from Timothy Clem
• computing can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium ... from Tools for Thought Rocks!
• [End-user programming is] a vision for empowered computing pursued ... from Notion
• We have built many projects, and we believe the most valuable summa... from joelparkerhenderson
• Tags are primarily used for both querying , or discovering informat... from Hillel Wayne
• For large-scale software systems, Van Roy believes we need to embra... from Adrian Colyer
• More generally, Van Roy sees a layered language design with four co... from Adrian Colyer
• State introduces an abstract notion of time in programs. In func... from Adrian Colyer
• The trickiest part of speeding up a program is not doing it, but de... from bueno.org
• On a 32 bit machine, a long is 4 bytes, and it’s still going to be ... from Writing - rachelbythebay
• Surely (no one/everyone) will (recognize how flexible and useful th... from About
• The term was “Web 2.0” was first coined in 1999 by technologist Dar... from Garbage Day
• The applicability of software to the just advancement of society, i... from Drew DeVault's blog
• A cost center is a function that is operated by optimizing its exis... from Irrational Exuberance
• If a swear ever fails, the function is deleted from the source code... from Hillel Wayne
• One of the challenges with JIT compilers is that they always incur ... from Shopify
• Laurel suggests that we see the computer screen as a stage on which... from Matt Webb
• the computer interface has always been a multiplayer environment fo... from Matt Webb
• And yes, there’ll be plenty of cases where “raw ChatGPT” can help w... from stephenwolfram.com
• Asking for the most suitable programming language for permacomputin... from xxiivv.com
• our philosophy is that to make fast software you need slow computer... from Hundred Rabbits
• the programmer’s task is not just to write down a program, but that... from University of Texas in Austin
• the program is an abstract symbol manipulator, which can be turned ... from University of Texas in Austin
• The vast majority of our mechanisms are viewed as analogue devices ... from University of Texas in Austin
• My point today is that, if we wish to count lines of code, we shoul... from University of Texas in Austin
• When we say, “If you’re going to read one thing about programming, ... from The Third Bit
• This innate duality—software visible as both a fixed point and a li... from Nadia Eghbal
• Code is not a product to be bought and sold so much as a living for... from Nadia Eghbal
• Code, in static state, can be bought and sold at nearly zero margin... from Nadia Eghbal
• Durham said, “Do you know what a Garden-of-Eden configuration is?” ... from Greg Egan
• Code runs on people. Please keep it simple. “Everyone knows” tha... from rachelbythebay.com
• Instead, it’s much better to wrap your patch in a module and apply ... from blog.appsignal.com
• A tool is something that takes an existing workflow, and makes it m... from thesephist.com
• The four elements of credible neutrality are: (1) Don’t write speci...
• We can often categorize APIs in three broad categories: Private API... from Marc-Andre Giroux
• Context Maps where contexts have clear roles and their relationship... from UnknownAuthor
• Another way this is noted is that Factories are “pure domain”, but ... from UnknownAuthor
• The Factory should create new objects, while the Repository should ... from UnknownAuthor
• For immutable Value Objects it means that all attributes are initia... from UnknownAuthor
• Choose one Entity to be the root of each Aggregate, and control all... from UnknownAuthor
• An Aggregate is a group of associated objects which are considered ... from UnknownAuthor

10.09 Software-engineering

• 💡 Insight
• Half the computers that exist at any point are worse than median (s... from dreamsongs.com
• That’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
• JavaScript-based UIs are fundamentally more challenging to own and ... from Infrequently Noted
• 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
• Once you make your request it will hang for several minutes. If by ... from Robert Heaton
• In 2022, production-grade vector databases were relying on in-memor... from turbopuffer.com
• “Being visibly Vietnamese” seems like a fairly common cause of bugs... from danluu.com
• Software engineering is what happens to programming when you add ti... from Russ Cox
• 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
• It’s fairly common for programmers to expect that hardware will sol... from danluu.com
• What we talk about when we talk about tech debt
• Cyclomatic complexity is a measurement developed by Thomas McCabe t... from ibm.com
• as we introduce the ability to be incorrect, we can trade off effic... from andrewwalpole.com
• The possibilities for using language as an intermediate representat... from chrisvoncsefalvay.com
• Note the obsessive use of abbreviations and avoidance of capital le... from web.stanford.edu
• More often than not, when we use the language’s primitives, we give... from Guillaume Malette
• “be conservative in what you send, be liberal in what you accept”. ... from wikipedia.org
• Post-Apocalyptic [or bad] software is hard to modify because it doe... from lethain.com
• the numbers always add up, which isn’t true on the business or engi... from Irrational Exuberance
• software engineering is the science and art of designing and making... from Confreaks
• The empirical process model provides and exercises control through ... from Confreaks
• When fewer than 5,000 programmers existed, they built Lisp (1960) a... from Taylor Troesh
• 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, I’ve... from Strange Loop Conference
• Propositions in logic correspond to types in a programming language... from Strange Loop Conference
• After Reading: A Philosophy of Software Design
• Deep and shallow modules: The best modules are deep: they allow ... from John Ousterhout
• The code that gets written is the code that’s easier to write. ... from Fernando Borretti
• All you crazy MFs are completely overlooking the fact that software... from Steve Yegge
• The applicability of software to the just advancement of society, i... from Drew DeVault's blog
• Disproportionately impactful engineering teams are distinguished by... from Irrational Exuberance
• A cost center is a function that is operated by optimizing its exis... from Irrational Exuberance
• Seeing your website’s actual server is the virtual equiv of the Ove... from Matt Webb
• Watching Strangeloop 2022 Videos
• TDD/FP/Agile zealots are probably zealots because adopting TDD/FP/A... from buttondown.email
• With developers spending less than a third of their time actually w... from future.a16z.com
• Code runs on people. Please keep it simple. “Everyone knows” tha... from rachelbythebay.com
• After Reading: Domain Driven Design, Quickly
• After Reading: Working in Public
• Documenting Theory Building as An Engineering Team
• After Reading: The Art of Doing Science and Engineering
• After Reading: The Making of Prince of Persia
• Carving Tech Investment Out of Tech Debt
• Twice Around The JS Event Loop
• Build Your Own Node.js CLI Package
• Measuring Client-Side JavaScript Performance
• Bridge Existing iOS & Android Apps with React Native
• After Reading "Life in Code"
• React SPA Continuous Delivery with GitLab
• Testing React Apps
• On Adding React Native to Existing iOS and Android Apps
• Don't Call Back, I'll Just Wait Here
• Code Review Doesn't Have to Suck
• The Benefits of Daily Code Review
• Narrative arcs in the code
• ThreadMeUp Daily Code Reviews
• Your App Is Not Better Than An Open Protocol
• The texture of your code

10.10 Geists

• 💡 Insight
• Programmable notes are note-taking systems that allow you to write ... from Maggie Appleton
• as users becomes accustomed to agents and NPCs, we’ll see more inte... from Matt Webb
• Laurel suggests that we see the computer screen as a stage on which... from Matt Webb
• Next we bring in creative divergence. How? Geists! Geists will be l... from Matt Webb

10.11 GraphQL

• 💡 Insight
• All in all, I don’t think service communication is the sweet spot f... from Marc-Andre Giroux
• GraphQL is purposefully transport/protocol agnostic. Nothing is sto... from Marc-Andre Giroux
• build a GraphQL API server that is resolved by many underlying serv... from Marc-Andre Giroux
• Airbnb’s approach of wiring up different schemas together to form t... from Marc-Andre Giroux
• My advice would be for GraphQL APIs to rely on conventions as much ... from Marc-Andre Giroux
• A lot has to be reinvented with a GraphQL API. Errors, caching, rat... from Marc-Andre Giroux
• The trade-off, though, is that a uniform interface degrades efficie... from Marc-Andre Giroux
• We can often categorize APIs in three broad categories: Private API... from Marc-Andre Giroux
• Compiled queries are a very exciting area of GraphQL that I hope to... from Marc-Andre Giroux
• Some would even say field ordering should be normalized, but that c... from Marc-Andre Giroux
• The generation of a cache key is always important, but even more so... from Marc-Andre Giroux
• It’s often very useful to provide inline performance information in... from Marc-Andre Giroux
• I like to think of the lifecycle of a GraphQL query in 3 broad step... from Marc-Andre Giroux
• Once the client has the identifier for a particular query, it can s... from Marc-Andre Giroux
• Persisted queries are a must for all internal APIs, and I suspect t... from Marc-Andre Giroux

10.12 SQL

• 💡 Insight
• Databases Doing Dirty-work

10.13 Access-control

• 💡 Insight
• If you’re still wondering whether that resource you’re going to add... from The Bullet Train Blog

10.14 Stream-processing

• 💡 Insight
• Data can be processed as unbounded or bounded streams. ... from apache.org

10.15 Types

• 💡 Insight
• So, the reasons we don’t have widespread graph support: The... from Hillel Wayne
• It’s hard for me to overemphasize how how central this is. Like, ev... from Jane Street
• More often than not, when we use the language’s primitives, we give... from Guillaume Malette
• Propositions in logic correspond to types in a programming language... from Strange Loop Conference
• Another way this is noted is that Factories are “pure domain”, but ... from UnknownAuthor
• The Factory should create new objects, while the Repository should ... from UnknownAuthor
• For immutable Value Objects it means that all attributes are initia... from UnknownAuthor
• Choose one Entity to be the root of each Aggregate, and control all... from UnknownAuthor
• An Aggregate is a group of associated objects which are considered ... from UnknownAuthor

10.16 Parsing

• 💡 Insight
• The issue is that when you compress something, you need to add meta... from Jake Lazaroff
• Ad-hoc validation leads to a phenomenon that the language-theoretic... from lexi-lambda.github.io
• the difference between validation and parsing lies almost entirely ... from lexi-lambda.github.io
• Consider: what is a parser? Really, a parser is just a function tha... from lexi-lambda.github.io

10.17 Validation

• 💡 Insight
• There are some whitepapaers showing that LLMs predict the results o... from TheZvi
• Ad-hoc validation leads to a phenomenon that the language-theoretic... from lexi-lambda.github.io
• the difference between validation and parsing lies almost entirely ... from lexi-lambda.github.io
• Epistemology is the study of knowledge – how we know things, the me... from Maggie Appleton

10.18 Programming-languages

• 💡 Insight
• Half the computers that exist at any point are worse than median (s... from dreamsongs.com
• a minimal language based around control flow via exception handling... from hurl.wtf
• I intentionally stick to use the phrase “runtime code generation an... from BitByteWise
• over-use of the memoization pattern can cause a degradation of perf... from Jean Boussier
• I thought it was notable that by making some minor tweaks to Ruby c... from johnhawthorn.com
• So, the reasons we don’t have widespread graph support: The... from Hillel Wayne
• Programming languages evolve to replace the all-powerful “low-level... from buttondown.email
• code is all about rules, syntax, and style The map is all about ... from SEACOM Global
• It’s hard for me to overemphasize how how central this is. Like, ev... from Jane Street
• More often than not, when we use the language’s primitives, we give... from Guillaume Malette
• Use three programming languages for all I care. That’s how I do it.... from Gabrielle Zevin
• The code that gets written is the code that’s easier to write. ... from Fernando Borretti
• One of the challenges with JIT compilers is that they always incur ... from Shopify
• Swiss Army Side Project

10.19 Service-architecture

• 💡 Insight
• Organizing into services taught teams not to trust each other in mo... from Gist

10.20 Events

• 💡 Insight
• There’s something qualitative and important that happens when the e... from marcbrooker@gmail.com (Marc Brooker)
• “Is 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
• “Why send all the data in a fact event if it hasn’t changed? Why no... from Confluent
• facts incorporate time FROM: InfoQ The Value of Values With Rich ... from InfoQ
• One of the most common mistakes when starting with Domain Events an... from serialized.io
• Examples of things that happen that might not be suitable to model ... from serialized.io

10.21 Vim

• 💡 Insight
• When Bill Joy created the vi text editor he used the ADM-3A termina... from catonmat.net
• perform the same operation on all wanted files in the current direc... from Vim Tips Wiki

10.22 RLHF

• 💡 Insight
• recognizing this difference between base models and feedback-tuned ... from thesephist.com

10.23 DPO

• 💡 Insight
• recognizing this difference between base models and feedback-tuned ... from thesephist.com

11 Medicine-and-health

11.01 Medicine

• 💡 Insight
• I’d assumed that surgery would allow me to return to the life I’d k... from depth-first.com
• Hormesis, a word coined by pharmacologists, is when a small dose of... from Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• If there’s a hole in your body, you can put drugs into it. FROM: ... from Jeff Clark
• Strong commitment in design is good for dementia, where challenges ... from Sara Hendren from undefended / undefeated
• An immediate hypothesis was that Omicron may have developed in a si... from news.ycombinator.com
• Working in the hospital teaches you that there are only two kinds o... from Hope Jahren

11.02 Health

• 💡 Insight
• I’d assumed that surgery would allow me to return to the life I’d k... from depth-first.com
• The Substance
• He recommends focusing on the metrics labeled in green (below), und... from Stefanie Flippin
• In late nineteenth-century Boston, this public health argument— tha... from Deb Chachra
• Anti-ageing is a disappointing pursuit. It has been since Ponce de ... from Jessica DeFino
• Five Fun Days
• Pollan proposes a new (and very old) answer to the question of what... from Michael Pollan

11.03 Breathing

• 💡 Insight
• We can use breathwork to move out of the fight-or-flight state and ... from Melissa Young
• It’s also known as sama vritti pranayama, born of the yogic practic... from Melissa Young
• Participants were informed they should sit down in a chair or, if t... from news.ycombinator.com
• In other words, feel more calm in real time, meaning without having... from Andrew Huberman

11.04 Epidemiology

• 💡 Insight
• Officials estimate between 5,000-10,000 people are dying per day . ... from Katelyn Jetelina from Your Local Epidemiologist

11.05 Exercise

• 💡 Insight
• The hook grip is a pronated (palms facing the lifter) grip in which... from catalystathletics.com
• My exercise journal
• Physical activity decreases the risk of a network of diseases, and ... from Mai Charlotte Krogh Severinsen
• And then along came Brad Schoenfeld and Co., who laid hands upon th... from She's A Beast
• Top-tier athletes are fanatically disciplined about improving their... from Andyʼs working notes
• Athletes and musicians pursue virtuosity in fundamental skills much... from Andyʼs working notes

11.06 Pathology

• 💡 Insight
• Instead of pathologizing every human quirk, we should say, By the g... from Sarah Manguso

11.07 Recreational-drugs

• 💡 Insight
• Bully at Empty Bottle
• If there’s a hole in your body, you can put drugs into it. FROM: ... from Jeff Clark
• pot makes you feel fine with being bored, and it’s when you’re bore... from goodreads.com

11.08 Weight-training

• 💡 Insight
• The hook grip is a pronated (palms facing the lifter) grip in which... from catalystathletics.com
• Instead, you should align the bar and dig it into that padding righ... from Casey Johnston
• And then along came Brad Schoenfeld and Co., who laid hands upon th... from She's A Beast

11.09 Meditation

• 💡 Insight
• When meditating, as soon as the mind quiets, the sense of space can... from Rick Rubin
• It’s also known as sama vritti pranayama, born of the yogic practic... from Melissa Young
• Journaling time

12 Physical-engineering

• 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
• In 1886, after months of planning and preparation, all of the broad... from Deb Chachra
• the Coanda effect - the tendency of a fluid jet to stay attached to... from theprepared.org
• At Maggie Daley Park, one of the project’s defining challenges was ...

12.01 Physical-engineering

• 💡 Insight
• 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
• In 1886, after months of planning and preparation, all of the broad... from Deb Chachra
• the Coanda effect - the tendency of a fluid jet to stay attached to... from theprepared.org
• At Maggie Daley Park, one of the project’s defining challenges was ...

12.02 Accessibility

• 💡 Insight
• JavaScript-based UIs are fundamentally more challenging to own and ... from Infrequently Noted
• When software – or idea-ware for that matter – fails to be accessib... from Gist
• Something interesting about using voice for this means that you are... from Xe's Blog
• It’s easy to look at pregnancy (for example) as something which aff... from twitter.com

13 Agriculture-and-cultivation

13.01 Agriculture

• 💡 Insight
• She taught me one of the cardinal rules of gathering plants: “Ne... from Robin Wall Kimmerer
• In Indigenous agriculture, the practice is to modify the plants to ... from Robin Wall Kimmerer
• In Eating Tomorrow: Agribusiness, Family Farmers, and the Battle fo... from Alicia Kennedy
• Ag-gag laws are anti-whistleblower laws that apply within the agric... from Matt McGrath
• “The 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 cotton gin, a canonical example of automation, perversely incre... from Robin Sloan
• In most places, the olive harvest is mechanized, but that’s only po... from Robin Sloan
• A few months ago, I was at an event that asked this question of par... from sarahmock.substack.com
• Consumers want perfection, but farmers want commodity,” he said. ... from sarahmock.substack.com
• The process [of regenerative ag] is expensive, since farmers who em... from sarahmock.substack.com

13.02 Gardening

• 💡 Insight
• Desk, August 11, 2024
• what I wanted to show you is the chemical composition of this ferti... from Herons Bonsai
• Weeding The Edges
• “Acknowledging and appreciating seasonal changes is fundamental to ... from KonMari | The Official Website of Marie Kondo
• Recently
• To Pick a Nectarine
• There is an aliveness to fields that lawns do not have. Our small p... from Simon Sarris
• I used to try and weed my lawn a whole hell of a lot and pull the w... from Ferd.ca
• Smog in Chicago
• Desk, November 30, 2021

14 Technology

• The way to resolve the conflict is to break down the barriers of du... from Robert M. Pirsig
• 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
• We don’t normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology,... from Ted Chiang

14.01 Automation

• 💡 Insight
• Exceptions or edge cases add additional states. To fight the exp... from ycombinator.com
• Basically much of modern economics, and life, has the following cha... from Matt Levine
• Level 1 The human operator does the task and turns it over to th... from PetroWiki
• the Toyota Production System. Among its many key principles is a ph... from Don Norman
• But fifty years of progress in miniaturization and software changed... from idlewords.com
• The cotton gin, a canonical example of automation, perversely incre... from Robin Sloan

14.02 Building

• 💡 Insight
• The Buyerarchy of Needs FROM: Sarah Lazarovic Sarah Lazarovic Sou... from Sarah Lazarovic
• Preparation: Posts are spontaneous. Releases are orchestrated throu... from Yancey Strickler
• The priority of circulation is another of those modern, convenience... from Jack Cheng
• Personal Serial Numbers
• There’s an impetus to hide the technical details of the world, but ... from kontakt@marginalia.nu (Viktor Lofgren)
• Library, yes, that’s the word. A workshop is personal library, pron... from Jack Cheng
• This is a fundamental view of the world. It says that when you buil... from Christopher Alexander
• Every change in scale is also a learning experience. In the physica... from Jack Cheng
• Every change in medium is a learning experience. Paint and clay hav... from Jack Cheng
• In this process, we figure out the most beautiful and comfortable a... from Jack Cheng
• The Field of Centers analysis is a way of mapping out what has a st... from Jack Cheng
• traditional arch bridges were built by first having a wood framing ... from Ferd.ca
• In the lab or studio, the hardest question to answer is What shall ... from sarahendren.substack.com

14.03 Hacking

• 💡 Insight
• A big part of Ham radio today is what are known as POTA (Parks on t... from ycombinator.com
• Folk interfaces are when users reappropriate existing software to s... from Maggie Appleton

14.04 Interfaces

• 💡 Insight
• Google’s mistake is surprising and kind of profound, and unbelievab... from Paul Ford
• A rainbow box is a data visualization technique for overlapping set... from wikipedia.org
• More to the point, they make more visual sense than box plots, so a... from Nick Desbarats
• When Bill Joy created the vi text editor he used the ADM-3A termina... from catonmat.net
• 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
• Building a Network Graph Site Index
• My favorite fonts
• all of the time-aligned data in our lives. Time-aligning things ... from alexanderobenauer.com
• [[If users don’t have simple access to past program states, then pr... from alexanderobenauer.com
• systems that preserve transparency into the mechanisms of their inn... from Jim Nielsen’s Blog
• These visible markers show us not only the extent of these networks... from Deb Chachra
• On unpaved ground, I’ve spotted flags or feathery bundles of colore... from Deb Chachra
• You should avoid sharing event sourcing events, outside of your ser... from Confluent
• the smaller the interface is, the more useful it is FROM: The Go ... from The Go Programming Language
• discipline doesn’t scale, and if you want people to use good practi... from Fernando Borretti
• Maybe the devices that we ended up with are too flat, too homogenou... from Kyle Chayka
• Syntax coloring isn’t useless, it is childish, like training wheels... from Douglas Crockford
• Text inputs have no affordances When I go up the mountain to ask... from .
• After Reading: The Design of Everyday Things
• Forcing functions are the extreme case of strong constraints that c... from Don Norman
• Physical constraints are made more effective and useful if they are... from Don Norman
• These four classes of constraints-physical, cultural, semantic, and... from Don Norman
• Here are three levels of mapping, arranged in decreasing effectiven... from Don Norman
• Seven stages of action: one for goals, three for execution, and thr... from Don Norman
• Affordances determine what actions are possible. Signifiers communi... from Don Norman
• The presence of an affordance is jointly determined by the qualitie... from Don Norman
• An affordance is a relationship between the properties of an object... from Don Norman
• When we interact with a product, we need to figure out how to work ... from Don Norman
• Something interesting about using voice for this means that you are... from Xe's Blog
• Pareidolia — our tendency to see “faces” in everything from power o... from Ribbonfarm Studio
• Programmable notes are note-taking systems that allow you to write ... from Maggie Appleton
• This scavenging in the SaaS landscape is how people express agency ... from Maggie Appleton
• Folk interfaces are when users reappropriate existing software to s... from Maggie Appleton
• The room is architected for discussions and decisions, not just vis... from Interconnected
• as users becomes accustomed to agents and NPCs, we’ll see more inte... from Matt Webb
• Laurel suggests that we see the computer screen as a stage on which... from Matt Webb
• the computer interface has always been a multiplayer environment fo... from Matt Webb
• Next we bring in creative divergence. How? Geists! Geists will be l... from Matt Webb
• Stop thinking about your environment as filled with objects. Start ... from James Clear
• The 1st Law of Behavior Change is to make it obvious. Strategies li... from James Clear
• To summarise those desirable qualities, a good notation is: Comp... from interconnected.org
• Everything has an interface. A platform has an API. A computer has ... from gist.github.com
• The value of a product is the number of problems it can solve divid... from gist.github.com
• Or to be more specific, urbanist Kevin Lynch’s city maps from his 1... from interconnected.org
• The trade-off, though, is that a uniform interface degrades efficie... from Marc-Andre Giroux
• We can often categorize APIs in three broad categories: Private API... from Marc-Andre Giroux
• Context Maps where contexts have clear roles and their relationship... from UnknownAuthor
• Bad Graphs in the Wild
• Cubic Mapping of Text
• Analyzing Data Through Sound
• How To Link Like You Mean It

14.05 Infrastructure

• 💡 Insight
• A state is its infrastructure. Once the infrastructure goes down, t... from uzwi
• The six actionable principles for a new ultrastructure that follow ... from Deb Chachra
• Because infrastructural systems are mostly about nonmonetary benefi... 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
• On unpaved ground, I’ve spotted flags or feathery bundles of colore... from Deb Chachra
• Embodied energy is the energy consumed by all of the processes asso... from Conor Davidson
• ChatGPT, it turns out, lives off the same water I drank growing up ... from Field Notes from Christopher Brown
• A Successful Rewrite: Micro-services to Monolith
• Infrastructure undergirds society; failures of it are a per se emer... from Patrick McKenzie (patio11)
• The term was “Web 2.0” was first coined in 1999 by technologist Dar... from Garbage Day
• Qualities of a Smooth Queueing System
• Migrating a MongoDB App Datastore to PostgreSQL

14.06 Logistics

• 💡 Insight
• Infrastructure undergirds society; failures of it are a per se emer... from Patrick McKenzie (patio11)
• A bill of materials or BOM is a list of the raw components that go ... from Kevin Chung
• The fact that I had never been on the ghost kitchen’s block despite... from Josh Beckman

14.07 Open-source

• 💡 Insight
• A git repository can support multiple working trees, allowing you t... from git-scm.com
• Inspired by NotebookLM
• From the onset, I envisioned small firms of professional maintainer... from Filippo Valsorda
• Developers don’t not contribute to open source for lack of technica... from Nadia Eghbal
• What I built isn’t an ActivityPub system as much as a Mastodon-comp... from Tom MacWright
• Any software is considered free software so long as it upholds the ... from writefreesoftware.org
• Paradoxically, the one clear winner in all of this is Meta. Because... from Dylan Patel
• Part of what makes LoRA so effective is that - like other forms of ... from Dylan Patel
• In many ways, this shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone. The current r... from Dylan Patel
• Good First Issues Are Gifts
• If free software gifts are communism and open source is cynically c... from apenwarr
• [[Here’s the thing about gifts: the sender chooses them, not the re... from apenwarr
• This story archetype is the Hero’s Journey that inspires all softwa... from apenwarr
• Incentives are well aligned with the success of the open-source pro... from Filippo Valsorda
• Concretely, I exclusively offer ongoing retainer agreements, withou... from Filippo Valsorda
• Virtually all maintainers are either volunteers or full-time employ... from Filippo Valsorda
• At minimum, open source projects hosted on GitHub can be broken int... from Nadia Eghbal
• MAINTAINERS are those who are responsible for the future of a proje... from Nadia Eghbal
• and so all Apple products broke almost instantly and all the tools ... from Hundred Rabbits
• This innate duality—software visible as both a fixed point and a li... from Nadia Eghbal
• But the community feels different now, now that many of its partici... from macwright.com
• A few of the conditions that Benkler identifies as necessary to pul... from Nadia Eghbal
• After Reading: Working in Public
• Build Your Own Node.js CLI Package
• Measuring Client-Side JavaScript Performance

14.08 Platforms

• 💡 Insight
• The problem with social media and politics is that way too many peo... from manuelmoreale.com
• An honest but ungenerous response is that I don’t want to contribut... from Erin Kissane's internet website lol
• A product is useless without a platform, or more precisely and accu... from Gist
• As these stories pop up people act like they’re an incredible marve... from Garbage Day
• Imperfect social media tools gave anyone the ability to publish the... from Garbage Day
• This is enshittification: surpluses are first directed to users; th... from Cory Doctorow
• Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; the... from Cory Doctorow
• The fundamental problem is that there’s a fundamental disagreement ... from Doug Belshaw
• The dark irony here is that corporatized communication is what made... from Garbage Day
• Of course, OpenAI does offer a “social” feature, but the thing you’... from Garbage Day
• TikTok’s entire strategy is to turn viral content into public domai... from Garbage Day
• From the perspective of non-mega-platform companies, I think this i... from lethain.com
• But just as the gig economy mode of work brought about negative con...
• Thoughts While Waiting for App Review

14.09 Product

• 💡 Insight
• Nintendo’s “blue ocean” strategy was to stake out a position where ... from John Siracusa
• To determine what actions you can take to drive meaningful change i... from Ken Britton
• A product is useless without a platform, or more precisely and accu... from Gist
• Noriaki Kano, a Japanese researcher and consultant, published a pap... from Folding Burritos
• In order to uncover our customer’s perceptions towards our product’... from Folding Burritos
• The takeaway here is that any analysis we do at a given point in ti... from Folding Burritos
• Kano classifies features into four categories, depending on how cus... from Folding Burritos
• Designing for Disassembly ensures that all elements of a product ca... from xxiivv.com
• One of the consequences of demateralisation is that things that “re...
• I’m personally convinced that these companies are selling products ...

14.10 Recycling

• 💡 Insight
• although as with all plastic recycling, “downcycling” is the more a...
• Jingu is famous for its tradition of periodic reconstruction, known...

14.11 Renewable-energy

• 💡 Insight
• The six actionable principles for a new ultrastructure that follow ... 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
• powering up the station and sending the electricity out to the nati... from Deb Chachra
• The first step is to break the connection between combustion and en... from Deb Chachra
• Recently
• Skeptics of solar feasibility pantomime a kind of technical realism... from Robin Sloan

14.12 Search

• 💡 Insight
• Switching Search from Lunr.js to Fuse.js
• Use an ad blocking extension when performing internet searches. F... from Internet Crime Complaint Center
• RAG is often implemented using vector search against embeddings, bu... from Simon Willison
• Returning to Kagi
• Considering Kagi
• The next problem we have is how to build this index in a reasonable... from Timothy Clem

14.13 Spaceflight

• 💡 Insight
• But fifty years of progress in miniaturization and software changed... from idlewords.com
• Like the orbits of all other satellites, and of the Space Station, ... from Marcin Wichary
• Weightlessness is bad for the bones, but good for the soul. FROM:... from Marcin Wichary

14.14 Tools

• 💡 Insight
• As cameras make more and more creative choices on your behalf, we t... from Ben Sandofsky
• Shopify Keychron K3 Pro
• Home Studio Over Shared Office
• A git repository can support multiple working trees, allowing you t... from git-scm.com
• Inspired by NotebookLM
• When Bill Joy created the vi text editor he used the ADM-3A termina... from catonmat.net
• Customized Keychron K1
• 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
• 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
• [[If users don’t have simple access to past program states, then pr... from alexanderobenauer.com
• The goal of an antilibrary is not to collect books you have read so... from Anne-Laure Le Cunff
• Just turned off predictive text on my MacOS
• Returning to Kagi
• When I’m planning my tasks for the day, I block off the rough amoun... from Devon Zuegel
• Library, yes, that’s the word. A workshop is personal library, pron... from Jack Cheng
• The reason tasks like looking up part numbers and data sheets is ha... from Ribbonfarm Studio
• What would it look like if we could ask, “how do I make this the ab... from John Cutler from The Beautiful Mess
• When you’re a new leader, your model won’t have much data to go on.... from James Stanier
• If machines were designed to be more personal, we’d have very diffe... from chrbutler.com
• Getting Social Online
• Maybe the devices that we ended up with are too flat, too homogenou... from Kyle Chayka
• Text inputs have no affordances When I go up the mountain to ask... from .
• Good tools let the user choose when to switch between implementatio... from .
• Something interesting about using voice for this means that you are... from Xe's Blog
• Considering Kagi
• Screenshotting as one of the essential underrated tools of the digi... from Nadia Asparouhova
• computing can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium ... from Tools for Thought Rocks!
• exactly the same thing goes for spaced repetition right you can loo... from Tools for Thought Rocks!
• Columnist Brian Merchant touched on this fuzzy connection between t... from Garbage Day
• The answer, of course, is that the competitiveness of unaided indiv... from marcelo.rinesi
• Accretive tools build over time. Developer tools tend to work like ... from Interconnected
• Ephemeral tools are about the conversation. Slack is one. Zoom is a... from Interconnected
• The room is architected for discussions and decisions, not just vis... from Interconnected
• and so all Apple products broke almost instantly and all the tools ... from Hundred Rabbits
• The vast majority of our mechanisms are viewed as analogue devices ... from University of Texas in Austin
• In essence, journalling is similar to a psychotherapy session. T... from ycombinator.com
• in the web, it makes sense that links should reflect potential, sin... from Fernando Borretti
• There’s a third impact of AI harder to spot and even harder to sell... from marcelo.rinesi
• Leopold FC660C Review: Shadow Play
• A lot of developer tools also assume a developer will switch to an ... from future.a16z.com
• A tool is something that takes an existing workflow, and makes it m... from thesephist.com
• The value of a product is the number of problems it can solve divid... from gist.github.com
• The Harold Mangum System uses phonetic sounds for 0 to 9 based on t... from artofmemory.com
• Switching away from the Moonlander keyboard
• Ergodox Moonlander Week 3
• Uses

14.15 Virtual-reality

• 💡 Insight
• The term 2.5-D was coined by anime fans in Japan in the 1980s to re... from kottke.org
• Sacasas describes the concept of “reality privilege” to which Andre...

14.16 Augmented-reality

15 Machinery

15.01 Machines

• 💡 Insight
• To quote McLuhan: “Man becomes, as it were, the sex organs of the m... from ycombinator.com
• The cotton gin, a canonical example of automation, perversely incre... from Robin Sloan

15.02 Cameras

• 💡 Insight
• As cameras make more and more creative choices on your behalf, we t... from Ben Sandofsky
• The first image ever transmitted to Earth from another planet was r... from Instagram
• Every year, the company adds even more steps to the camera post-pro... from Filipe Espósito
• And it was this work that really opened my eyes to the pervasive se... from interconnected.org

15.03 Robots

• 💡 Insight
• But fifty years of progress in miniaturization and software changed... from idlewords.com
• as users becomes accustomed to agents and NPCs, we’ll see more inte... from Matt Webb
• Next we bring in creative divergence. How? Geists! Geists will be l... from Matt Webb
• The next day I encountered a more novel creature in the process of ... from fieldnotes.christopherbrown.com

20-29 History-and-geography

20 Historical-study

20.01 History

• 💡 Insight
• Killers of the Flower Moon
• History is mostly the study of surprising events. But it is often u... from Morgan Housel
• So when an artist creates a work that comes together by an unseen h... from Rick Rubin
• I hope the history books written about this moment in American hist... from www.garbageday.email
• What we call history is, in practice, what we can bear to think abo...

20.02 COVID-19

• 💡 Insight
• People in tech need to become radically more skilled at interfacing... from Dwarkesh Patel
• Today, roughly 500 Americans are dying each day from COVID-19. At t... from Katelyn Jetelina from Your Local Epidemiologist
• Officials estimate between 5,000-10,000 people are dying per day . ... from Katelyn Jetelina from Your Local Epidemiologist
• An immediate hypothesis was that Omicron may have developed in a si... from news.ycombinator.com
• Like climate change, COVID is settling into its status as a “permac... from kneelingbus.substack.com
• The pandemic highlighted our intimate relationship with biology. Ur... from futureofurbantech.org

21 Geography-and-nations

21.01 Geography

23 United States

23.01 United-States

• 💡 Insight
• Cirque of The Towers 2024
• Denver, August 2024
• it is a terrible thing for an entire people to surrender to the not... from The Riverbends Channel
• Killers of the Flower Moon
• the six illusions that Americans are living with regarding food: “c... from Alicia Kennedy
• Lappé famously called the American diet experimental, noting that n... from Alicia Kennedy
• After Reading: The Good Citizen
• “The antislavery movement was, after all, an agricultural reform mo... from Alexis Madrigal
• in the U.S., there’s a false idea that certain choices around food ... from Alicia Kennedy
• After Reading: The Americans
• Puerto Rico 2022
• Miami and Key West
• African Americans cannot await rectification of past wrongs as a gi... from Richard Rothstein

23.02 Chicago

• 💡 Insight
• AIR at Auditorium Theater
• 2024 Chicago Horror Film Festival
• Riot Fest 2024, Saturday
• Brothertiger at Schubas Tavern
• Glass Animals at Northerly Island
• Lollapalooza 2024
• Bully at Empty Bottle
• Walking The Lakefront in Late Winter
• Smog in Chicago
• For me, ICEWATCH is a deeply spiritual practice: I want to build re... from wbez.org
• Census figures show there are 40,000 more Latinos in Chicago than a...
• Chicago remains the third largest city in the country with a popula...
• At Maggie Daley Park, one of the project’s defining challenges was ...
• Timestamp - Chicago Startup Tech Dinner
• Timestamp - Chicago Tech Meetup

30-39 People and organization

30 People

30.01 Groups-of-people

• 💡 Insight
• Totalitarianism thrives, she continued, in conditions where people ... from Sara Hendren
• as the ecotheologian Thomas Berry has written, “we must say of the ... from Robin Wall Kimmerer
• Teams are productive when they’re sharing useful information. Te... from Josh Beckman
• It’s not like survival, resilience, perseverance and strength in th... from Huw Lemmey
• During the summer of 2021, Canadian researchers … found that the un... from Josh Beckman
• We imitate the habits of three groups in particular: The cl... from James Clear
• never again let anyone tell you that the fury or determination to f... from www.thecut.com
• Census figures show there are 40,000 more Latinos in Chicago than a...
• Chicago remains the third largest city in the country with a popula...
• There are articles about how to drive like a real-world road warrio... from fieldnotes.christopherbrown.com

30.02 Leadership

• 💡 Insight
• So even though defining the strategy from scratch is the hardest pa... from James Stanier
• People in tech need to become radically more skilled at interfacing... from Dwarkesh Patel
• The questions are: Why do we exist? ... from Jonno White
• Managers are not confronted with problems that are independent of e... from Donella H. Meadows
• In these environments, decisions aren’t solely the purview of execu... from Irrational Exuberance
• In a sufficiently influential role within your organization, you ca... from lethain.com
• Stripe encourages engineering leaders to experience being an engine... from The Pragmatic Engineer
• Solicit feedback and monitor lagging indicators to adjust your exec... from Ilya Grigorik
• Organise: Every 6 weeks, we reflect on the past 6 weeks, gaining va... from David Ward
• Each Navigator is wholly accountable for the technical decisions ma... from Irrational Exuberance
• Rigid adherence to any prioritization model, even one that’s concep... from Irrational Exuberance
• A great framework for delegating work or encouraging a team member ... from Ken Britton
• We’re talking about a guy who in all seriousness has said on many p... from Gist
• I designed the RAMBO Model as a simple framework to lead a great en... from thecodecompany.com
• These constraints create better decisions both because constraints ... from Irrational Exuberance
• In 2023, our universe has shifted. There’s little hiring happening,... from Irrational Exuberance
• THE PRIORITIZATION MATRIX All of the projects and activities on ... from firstround.com
• When you run into a complex problem, slow down to bring many differ... from Irrational Exuberance
• There’s no status website to check your relationship with other par... from Irrational Exuberance
• The four common archetypes of Staff-plus roles I encountered are: ... from staffeng.com
• Teasing out the distinction between onboarding engineers and execut... from Irrational Exuberance
• The truth is, nearly every attempt to design a hierarchy-free, “fla... from apenwarr
• Most organizations run these twice a year, which is a reasonable am... from lethain.com
• Executives are rarely held accountable unless they expose themselve... from lethain.com
• Once you acknowledge that leadership is inherently non-deterministi... from Dan Na
• If something is rotten in an org, the root cause is a manager who d... from yosefk.com
• The people whose compensation depends on your opinion have ample ti... from yosefk.com
• Strategy can only be employed top-down, so it’s not a question of t... from lethain.com
• As an engineering executive, it’s particularly important to think a... from lethain.com
• Are you willing and able to enforce the strategy? If you think that... from lethain.com
• Are you either confident in your diagnosis or do you trust the wide... from lethain.com
• I recommend sharing the full document with the group, then spending... from lethain.com
• A strategy is composed of three parts: Diagnosis: a theory ... from lethain.com
• Repetition makes lies seem true, but repetition also makes truth se... from ycombinator.com
• leaders work on the system, not in the system FROM: lethain.com B... from lethain.com
• Optimize for the {whole, business unit, team}. Pick one of these op... from lethain.com
• As described in Rumelt’s Good Strategy, Bad Strategy, a strategy is... from lethain.com
• Related, if you can see a better way to do it, strongly consider ke... from rjtavares
• A surprising amount of executive time is spent cleaning up messes. ... from Irrational Exuberance
• updates establish a persistent drip of information from you to the ... from Irrational Exuberance
• you can significant improve the quality of internal communcations w... from Irrational Exuberance
• In a lifetime of many, many independent choices, small and large, a... from Richard W. Hamming and Bret Victor
• Self-worth, the unexpected corollary of having positive archetypes ... from Josh Beckman
• After Reading: High Output Management
• Lately, I’m increasingly hearing folks reference the idea of organi... from Will Larson
• The expected time to complete a new task approaches infinity as a t... from Will Larson
• Note on path and narrative

30.03 Audience

• 💡 Insight
• I’ve been mainly “hiring” members for permission. Not in a “please ... from Craig Mod
• In October of last year, YouTube creator and fandom expert Sarah Z ... from Garbage Day
• But just as the gig economy mode of work brought about negative con...

30.04 Collectives

• 💡 Insight
• “Scenius” is Brian Eno’s term meaning communal genius and last time... from Matt Webb
• The expected time to complete a new task approaches infinity as a t... from Will Larson
• never again let anyone tell you that the fury or determination to f... from www.thecut.com
• It’s seems obvious that collective action from internet creators is... from www.garbageday.email
• An important property of teams is that they abstract the complexiti... from Will Larson
• Organizational design gets the right people in the right places, em... from Will Larson
• When I have a problem that I want to solve quickly and cheaply, I s... from Will Larson
• Timestamp - Chicago Startup Tech Dinner

30.05 Management

• 💡 Insight
• So even though defining the strategy from scratch is the hardest pa... from James Stanier
• Organise: Every 6 weeks, we reflect on the past 6 weeks, gaining va... from David Ward
• Teams are productive when they’re sharing useful information. Te... from Josh Beckman
• 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
• I used to try and weed my lawn a whole hell of a lot and pull the w... from Ferd.ca
• At companies with slower headcount growth, promotions will usually ... from The Pragmatic Engineer
• A responsibility assignment matrix[1] (RAM), also known as RACI mat... from wikipedia.org
• I designed the RAMBO Model as a simple framework to lead a great en... from thecodecompany.com
• many if not most software companies are probably Pareto-distributio... from Nadia Asparouhova
• There’s no status website to check your relationship with other par... from Irrational Exuberance
• First of all, if you’re talking to a manager, they will love you if... from amyn
• Today’s gap represents a failure of planning sometime in the past ... from Andrew S. Grove
• What decision needs to be made? When? Who will decide? Who will nee... from Andrew S. Grove
• any decision [should] be worked out and reached at the lowest compo... from Andrew S. Grove
• Task-relevant maturity: How senior someone is for the task at hand.... from Andrew S. Grove
• managers do not talk to their subordinates about their problems but... from Andrew S. Grove
• Delegation without follow-through is abdication 📕FROM: Andrew S.... from Andrew S. Grove
• productivity can be increased in three ways: Increasing the ... from Andrew S. Grove
• CEOs always act on leading indicators of good news, but only act on... from Andrew S. Grove
• The people whose compensation depends on your opinion have ample ti... from yosefk.com
• whenever folks talk about failed cultural change, I believe they’re... from lethain.com
• Create capacity (rather than capture it). This value focuses leader... from lethain.com
• Use the Q&A as an opportunity to highlight individuals doin... from Irrational Exuberance
• I start every Q&A by saying, “I’m glad to talk about anythi... from Irrational Exuberance
• After Reading: High Output Management
• Trust on its own isn’t much of a management technique. Trust cannot... from lethain.com
• When asked for IC career advice the first thing I always say is: YO... from twitter.com
• When I have a problem that I want to solve quickly and cheaply, I s... from Will Larson

30.06 Meetings

• 💡 Insight
• Schedule 30-60 mins to go over the pre-read material with the board... from avc.xyz
• We recently did some team training where they said “you haven’t joi... from JFDI
• You can give yourself back time by leaving meetings gracefully. ... from Josh Beckman
• The optimal amount of meetings is not zero, even if you work alone.... from Matt Levine
• the real sign of malorganization is when people spend more than 25%... from Andrew S. Grove
• two basic kinds of meetings: process-oriented meeting, knowl... from Andrew S. Grove
• Anyone who spends about a half day per week as a member of a planni... from Andrew S. Grove
• Good reviews are anchored in feedback from the audience, and discus... from Irrational Exuberance
• The most effective communication within an organization is between ... from Irrational Exuberance
• After Reading: High Output Management
• Note on listening to learn

30.07 Social-networks

• 💡 Insight
• The problem with social media and politics is that way too many peo... from manuelmoreale.com
• Here’s the crazy part though—each side doesn’t see the others’ comm... from Nick Maggiulli
• Can You Imagine? A Library of Possibilities for Reimagining the Web by Sublime
• We could have: Countless local networks, many overlapping w... from jzhao.xyz
• An honest but ungenerous response is that I don’t want to contribut... from Erin Kissane's internet website lol
• Our smarter, richer betters (in Babel times, the king’s name was Ni... from Paul Ford
• As people keep trying to make Twitter 2 happen, we are now in a per... from Brian Feldman
• What I built isn’t an ActivityPub system as much as a Mastodon-comp... from Tom MacWright
• On traditional “social media” platforms, in particular YouTube, the... from Drew DeVault's blog
• Observationally, I would say that there’s little correlation betwee... from marcbrooker@gmail.com (Marc Brooker)
• Inverse relationship between ease of access and quality of advice: ... from lethain.com
• For the Integrity Institute, the label “integrity worker” applies t... from Josh Kramer
• Imperfect social media tools gave anyone the ability to publish the... from Garbage Day
• This is enshittification: surpluses are first directed to users; th... from Cory Doctorow
• Analyses have found that 12 people—coined the “disinformation dozen... from Katelyn Jetelina from Your Local Epidemiologist
• The seemingly earnest popularity of these videos, especially among ... from Garbage Day
• And so when one wonders why newsletters “came out of nowhere” just ... from Patrick McKenzie (patio11)
• Party food before social media was not prepared with photographic r... from mothersundertheinfluence.substack.com
• But the community feels different now, now that many of its partici... from macwright.com
• when Netflix drops a big new show “it feels like a software update ... from kneelingbus.substack.com
• Rewild your attention” — that’s a wonderful way of putting it! (Or ... from clivethompson.medium.com
• GitHub as Social Media

30.08 Work

• 💡 Insight
• Be on time. Come prepared, and commit yourself entirely. Say:... from Tom Sachs
• Preparation: Posts are spontaneous. Releases are orchestrated throu... from Yancey Strickler
• Home Studio Over Shared Office
• Stuckness shouldn’t be avoided. It’s the psychic predecessor of all... from Robert M. Pirsig
• I think I learned this in Tom Sach’s studio. He had this ethic: ... from Van Neistat
• There is a story about the manager of Iron Maiden, one of the great... from Ryan Holiday
• I always liked Anthony Bourdain’s take on “Meez” from Kitchen Confi... from ycombinator.com
• There are 6 practices that mise-en-place has to offer us: S... from Tiago Forte
• Solicit feedback and monitor lagging indicators to adjust your exec... from Ilya Grigorik
• Futures researcher Jamais Cascio has described a “pink collar futur... from Deb Chachra
• I say the critical resource is not developer time, it’s developer e... from Richard Marmorstein
• Art evolves through discussion (literal and figurative) among many ... from Irrational Exuberance
• Nobody can do their best work on wobbly projects. Vises reduce m... from Taylor Troesh (hello@taylor.town)
• 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
• When I’m working on a research problem I generally begin by filling... from Taylor Troesh
• it takes a long time for good ideas to get out and so it’s worth ha... from Strange Loop Conference
• Work in public. Reveal nothing. FROM: Robin The Art of Working in... from Robin
• You owe it to yourself and your team to work on keeping your capaci... from James Stanier
• What would it look like if we could ask, “how do I make this the ab... from John Cutler from The Beautiful Mess
• I used to be an investment banker, and I enjoy reading profiles of ... from Matt Levine
• My favorite observation from The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim, Kevin... from Will Larson
• The lesson is that, for those of us who live online, having a simpl... from ongoing by Tim Bray
• THE PRIORITIZATION MATRIX All of the projects and activities on ... from firstround.com
• The process and the practice: Sources and habits Seeds ... from Rick Rubin
• Often, in making edits to a work: The ego comes in, saying: I wante... from Rick Rubin
• A river of material flows through us. When we share our works and o... from Rick Rubin
• Art doesn’t get made on the clock. But it can get finished on the c... from Rick Rubin
• Believing a certain mood or state is necessary to do your best work... from Rick Rubin
• Just one habit, at the top of any field, can be enough to give an e... from Rick Rubin
• Discipline and freedom seem like opposites. In reality, they are pa... from Rick Rubin
• Every change in medium is a learning experience. Paint and clay hav... from Jack Cheng
• First of all, if you’re talking to a manager, they will love you if... from amyn
• In knowledge work we barely recognize the difference between immers... from Tiago Forte
• Separate the processes of creating from improving. You can’t write ... from startupy
• What we are trying to do influences what becomes salient to us. If ... from startupy
• But the point is, for classical liberals in the eighteenth century,... from Noam Chomsky
• A challenge with big projects is that what you’re working on locall... from Michael Nielsen
• solo creative work is about a combination of maintaining a strong e... from Michael Nielsen
• A few desirable qualities for creative contexts: Note that very few... from Michael Nielsen
• Reports are more a medium of self-discipline than a way to communic... from Andrew S. Grove
• Charles Darwin made it a rule to write down immediately any observa... from John Gall and D.H. Gall
• If something is rotten in an org, the root cause is a manager who d... from yosefk.com
• Athletes and musicians pursue virtuosity in fundamental skills much... from Andyʼs working notes
• I make a practice of regularly checking in about whether I have a d... from Andy Matuschak
• Bill Thurston writes: Mathematics is a process of staring h... from Andy Matuschak
• When you start a creative project but don’t finish, the expe­ri­enc... from Robin Sloan
• Motivation factors include challenging work, recognition, responsib... from Craig Mod
• i thought, or hoped, that not caring would protect me, keep me invu... from Jackie Luo
• Give considered thought to what is “worth our attention in any give... from Rob Walker Art of Noticing
• Around here I often quote the most important thing I learned at Gol... from Matt Levine
• Another lesson is that, when junior investment bankers work all nig... from Matt Levine
• something called the Hermeneutic circle, which Ryan Kitchens descri... from ferd.ca
• Being paid to wonder seems like a heavy responsibility at times. ... from Hope Jahren
• Recollection is such a small, basic part of thinking! There is so m... from thesephist.com
• My laboratory is like a church because it is where I figure out wha... from Hope Jahren
• He taught me that there is no shame in breaking something, only in ... from Hope Jahren
• It’s not a surprise when a scientist is surprised. That’s what happ... from Seth Godin
• Volunteering to do emotional labor—even when you don’t feel like it... from Seth Godin
• If your organization wanted to replace you with someone far better ... from Seth Godin
• Increased Speed and Urgency

31 Political-sciences

31.01 Political-science

• 💡 Insight
• 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
• it is a terrible thing for an entire people to surrender to the not... from The Riverbends Channel
• in the U.S., there’s a false idea that certain choices around food ... from Alicia Kennedy
• Separating out the well and worthy workers from the sick and unprod... from Doug Belshaw
• Authoritarianism is about taking things from me. Communism, in its ... from apenwarr
• lol c’mon, if this wasn’t from an A.I., this would just be one of t... from Garbage Day
• When someone (or some entity such as business) enjoys a particular ... from drewdevault.com
• We feel rather than know (and many of us refuse to acknowledge) tha... from Robin Sloan
• In October of last year, YouTube creator and fandom expert Sarah Z ... from Garbage Day

31.02 Antagonism

• 💡 Insight
• this is the problem when your sole governing ideals are destroying ... from INDIGNITY, from the makers of HMM WEEKLY

32 Government

• After 2008, there was a perception that the government was implicit... from Matt Levine
• But I think the modern bank-regulatory view is that the point of a ... from Matt Levine
• Here’s what everyone peddling the new trendy systems is so desperat... from apenwarr.ca

32.01 State-government

• 💡 Insight
• People in tech need to become radically more skilled at interfacing... from Dwarkesh Patel
• Among the worst wars of tolerance were the religious wars which tor... from Yonatan Zunger
• The rare person who in October 2022 correctly predicted that the Fe... from OaktreeCap
• Economists across the political spectrum are in near-universal agre... from landisabigdeal.com
• A state is its infrastructure. Once the infrastructure goes down, t... from uzwi
• In 1886, after months of planning and preparation, all of the broad... from Deb Chachra
• To exchange one orthodoxy for another is not necessarily an advance... from O. Dag
• Totalitarianism thrives, she continued, in conditions where people ... from Sara Hendren
• recognize how fundamentally the political economy of plants structu... from Alexis Madrigal
• After 2008, there was a perception that the government was implicit... from Matt Levine
• But the thing about state-sponsored attacks is that they’re a bit l... from Matt Webb
• CAP theorem is perhaps the best-known statement of the tradeoffs in... from apenwarr
• Instead, the basic principle I would like to see communicated to pe... from Noam Chomsky
• As long as people think that government (as an ideal and an imperfe... from Matthew Gallaway
• Influence operations can take many shapes; most such operations are... from Casey Newton
• this is the problem when your sole governing ideals are destroying ... from INDIGNITY, from the makers of HMM WEEKLY
• So to summarize–downballot races are cheap, cost-effective, and bec... from Idle Words
• In one of his finer moments, President Dwight Eisenhower had said: ... from Howard Zinn
• There is generally no judicial remedy for a policy that the Supreme... from Richard Rothstein
• The core argument of this book is that African Americans were uncon... from Richard Rothstein

32.02 Commons

• 💡 Insight
• A big part of Ham radio today is what are known as POTA (Parks on t... from ycombinator.com
• Finally one elder said, “This sustainable development sounds to me ... from Robin Wall Kimmerer
• For inspiration on ways to think about building new structures for ... from Deb Chachra
• greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. dropped sharply in 2020, by ar... from Deb Chachra
• In late nineteenth-century Boston, this public health argument— tha... from Deb Chachra
• Last year I moved onto a street that had a ton of litter. I lived w... from ycombinator.com
• Financial systems help us overcome a collective action problem. In ... from Nick Rowe
• I call this “unlocking the commons,” and it’s the same approach I’v... from Tim Carmody
• The fact that I had never been on the ghost kitchen’s block despite... from Josh Beckman
• Then the big parks, which are beautiful and well maintained. Great ... from interconnected.org
• A few of the conditions that Benkler identifies as necessary to pul... from Nadia Eghbal

32.03 Legal

• 💡 Insight
• Basically much of modern economics, and life, has the following cha... from Matt Levine
• Anatomy of a Fall
• Ag-gag laws are anti-whistleblower laws that apply within the agric... from Matt McGrath
• Unlike simple machines, which cannot be copyrighted, software is au... from Why Software Patents are Bad, Period.
• People often start from the mistaken notion that patents are a righ... from Why Software Patents are Bad, Period.
• the assumption in a patent trial isn’t that you stole the idea. ... from Why Software Patents are Bad, Period.
• No chief executive officer of a big company wants to file for bankr... from Matt Levine
• While today there’s a wide distance between GDPR, CCPA, HITRUST, Fe... from lethain.com
• One interesting and possibly even true thing that I learned in law ... from Matt Levine
• And regulations are written in blood, so we’ll only get enforced le... from buttondown.email
• I have seethed as generations of Democrats have argued that if we c... from www.thecut.com

32.04 Compliance

• 💡 Insight
• This, from last week, is one of the best stories you’ll ever read a... from Matt Levine
• But I think the modern bank-regulatory view is that the point of a ... from Matt Levine
• In general, the chief compliance officer at any company has a dial ... from Matt Levine
• And regulations are written in blood, so we’ll only get enforced le... from buttondown.email

32.05 Crime

• 💡 Insight
• In general, the chief compliance officer at any company has a dial ... from Matt Levine
• One interesting and possibly even true thing that I learned in law ... from Matt Levine

32.06 Elections

• 💡 Insight
• 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
• So to summarize–downballot races are cheap, cost-effective, and bec... from Idle Words
• Even in a normal year, early money is many times more effective tha... from Idle Words

32.07 Taxes

• 💡 Insight
• Peter has been living off these asset-backed loans/lines of credits... from reddit
• Taxes don’t have to be about revenue. You can institute a wealth ta... from Tom MacWright
• Harberger taxation is a form of taxation for private goods (such as... from harbergertax
• The IRS says: “To be deductible, a business expense must be both or... from Bits about Money

32.08 Police

• 💡 Insight
• And it was this work that really opened my eyes to the pervasive se... from interconnected.org

32.09 Republican-party

• 💡 Insight
• this is the problem when your sole governing ideals are destroying ... from INDIGNITY, from the makers of HMM WEEKLY

32.10 Surveillance

• 💡 Insight
• Everyone agrees that passwords or secret access tokens require spec... from Jorge Manrubia
• And it was this work that really opened my eyes to the pervasive se... from interconnected.org

32.11 Urban-planning

• 💡 Insight
• While parts of the designed world might be ugly at any speed, it is... from Lawrence Jackson
• Architect Albert Pope offers a better explanation in his excellent ... from Kneeling Bus
• brown lands , a semi-obsolete urban planning term that encompasses ... from Field Notes from Christopher Brown
• An edge city is a dense, auto-oriented job center arising from near... from Alon Levy
• In a 2003 memoir called Where the Money Is: True Tales from the Ban... from Geoff Manaugh
• Today, nearly 150 years later, burglary and architecture still go h... from Geoff Manaugh

32.12 Protest

• 💡 Insight
• For inspiration on ways to think about building new structures for ... from Deb Chachra
• in our industrialized world that’s controlled by a handful of multi... from Alicia Kennedy
• When vegetarians and vegans limit politics to the realm of animal r... from Alicia Kennedy

32.13 Rights

• 💡 Insight
• it is a terrible thing for an entire people to surrender to the not... from The Riverbends Channel
• In late nineteenth-century Boston, this public health argument— tha... from Deb Chachra
• When vegetarians and vegans limit politics to the realm of animal r... from Alicia Kennedy

33 Competition and opposition

33.01 Competition

• 💡 Insight
• Garry Kasparov: First they are funny toys, then they’re our competi... from TheZvi
• Among the worst wars of tolerance were the religious wars which tor... from Yonatan Zunger
• In World War II, the story goes, the British invented a new kind of... from Atoms vs Bits
• In the allegory of long spoons, there are people in hell and people... from wikipedia.org
• many if not most software companies are probably Pareto-distributio... from Nadia Asparouhova
• Thompson’s argument in that post is that Silicon Valley used to be ... from Matt Levine
• Enron was applying selection at the individual level according to m... from Eliezer Yudkowsky
• The answer, of course, is that the competitiveness of unaided indiv... from marcelo.rinesi
• While today there’s a wide distance between GDPR, CCPA, HITRUST, Fe... from lethain.com
• There’s a third impact of AI harder to spot and even harder to sell... from marcelo.rinesi
• That Feeling of a Pending Break-Through

33.02 Professional

• 💡 Insight
• Maybe you don’t have F-you money, but you can learn to build an F-y... from Doug Turnbull
• In the last shootout, he drove differently than before. A great ver... from Kate Wagner
• I used to be an investment banker, and I enjoy reading profiles of ... from Matt Levine
• Professionals stick to the schedule; amateurs let life get in the w... from James Clear

33.03 Amateur

• 💡 Insight
• Professionals stick to the schedule; amateurs let life get in the w... from James Clear

33.04 Conflict

• 💡 Insight
• When we examine our bloodstreams under a microscope, we see there’s... from David OReilly
• a key antagonist to liberation in our culture: that of an impulse t... from Mandy Brown
• The choice of meaning in the world today is here between the two si... from Catherine Lacey
• Approach conflict with curiosity. One of my foundational beliefs is... from lethain.com

33.05 Negotiation

• 💡 Insight
• This is one of the best pieces of media I’ve seen on negotiation in... from /dev/lawyer
• Maybe you don’t have F-you money, but you can learn to build an F-y... from Doug Turnbull
• the best alternative to a negotiated agreement or BATNA (no deal op... from wikipedia.org
• In his paper The Theory of Graceful Extensibility: Basic rules that... from Lorin Hochstein
• In the allegory of long spoons, there are people in hell and people... from wikipedia.org
• The door-in-the-face technique is a compliance method commonly stud... from wikipedia.org

33.06 War

• 💡 Insight
• In one of his finer moments, President Dwight Eisenhower had said: ... from Howard Zinn
• Then the big parks, which are beautiful and well maintained. Great ... from interconnected.org

34 Education practices

34.01 Education

• 💡 Insight
• It starts in the most on-brand MrBeast way possible: I genu... from simonwillison.net
• As my experiences broadened and deepened, the indeterminate, poetic... from scentofdawn.blogspot.com
• There’s an impetus to hide the technical details of the world, but ... from kontakt@marginalia.nu (Viktor Lofgren)
• In fast evolving fields it’s always all about sociology, not canon ... from ycombinator.com
• Finally, the book also observes that learning happens not only with... from Irrational Exuberance
• AI should be considered intelligence that’s simply learned for a ve... from Ribbonfarm Studio
• In World War II, the story goes, the British invented a new kind of... from Atoms vs Bits
• It is known that, when we learn or train in something, we pass thro... from wikipedia.org
• While there is so much focus on education, the bottleneck for flour... from Simon Sarris
• But here is his best line: Taleb had been busy. He had alre... from Matt Levine
• The point is, it doesn’t matter what you read, what matters is how ... from Noam Chomsky
• You just keep being struck by the marvels of what you’re discoverin... from Noam Chomsky
• Design an obstacle course, not a syllabus. One thing that we have v... from Post-Industrial Design School
• That was where I caught the connection between a college education ... from George Horace Lorimer
• Athletes and musicians pursue virtuosity in fundamental skills much... from Andyʼs working notes
• I used to start my lecture on dictionaries in Python by explaining ... from The Third Bit
• Repetition makes lies seem true, but repetition also makes truth se... from ycombinator.com
• Education is what, when, and why to do things. Training is how to d... from Richard W. Hamming and Bret Victor
• You are approaching this like an established natural sciences field... from ycombinator.com
• Find the best teachers and take all their classes, no matter the su...
• Swiss Army Side Project

34.02 Evangelism

• 💡 Insight
• But I’ve also noticed a creeping desire among A.I. evangelists to s... from Garbage Day
• TDD/FP/Agile zealots are probably zealots because adopting TDD/FP/A... from buttondown.email

34.03 Mentoring

• 💡 Insight
• An Autumn with Out of Office Hours
• Ways I'm Able to Help
• Code Review Doesn't Have to Suck
• The Benefits of Daily Code Review
• ThreadMeUp Daily Code Reviews

35 Cultural practices

35.01 Culture

• 💡 Insight
• Dressing like a worker serves me and serves others. Wherever I go, ... from Van Neistat
• Safety culture consists of five elements: An informed cultur... from airsafety.aero
• a key antagonist to liberation in our culture: that of an impulse t... from Mandy Brown
• Americans have absorbed the “Protestant work ethic” — the idea that... from Apple Podcasts
• As David Suzuki notes in The Wisdom of the Elders, the Mayan storie... from Robin Wall Kimmerer
• Finally one elder said, “This sustainable development sounds to me ... from Robin Wall Kimmerer
• I thanked her for her story and she said, “Please, take it as a gif... from Robin Wall Kimmerer
• Today we have gathered and when we look upon the faces around us we... from Robin Wall Kimmerer
• Erysichthon’s dominionist hubris may be how we got to this climate ... from Field Notes from Christopher Brown
• 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
• Nobody is going to turn down getting their eyes scanned by a chrome... from Matt Levine
• The essence of the gift is that it creates a set of relationships. ... from Robin Wall Kimmerer
• in the U.S., there’s a false idea that certain choices around food ... from Alicia Kennedy
• I used to try and weed my lawn a whole hell of a lot and pull the w... from Ferd.ca
• Cultural umami is the vague sense that yes, for some reason, it is.... from nemesis.global
• Premium mediocre is the finest bottle of wine at Olive Garden. Prem... from Venkatesh Rao
• whenever folks talk about failed cultural change, I believe they’re... from lethain.com
• Yes. To me, the essence of the third place is that it is one where ... from Craig Mod
• We should be so fortunate to greet each other as we greet each othe... from Craig Mod
• Sonali had told us about Annaprashana, which is a Hindu ceremony in... from Kate Ray
• The term 2.5-D was coined by anime fans in Japan in the 1980s to re... from kottke.org
• when Netflix drops a big new show “it feels like a software update ... from kneelingbus.substack.com
• A life that is cosmopolitan, which is to say, a life that belongs t... from blgtylr.substack.com
• There have always been people who have had to censor themselves and... from blgtylr.substack.com
• We’ve somehow managed to create a societal scenario where the most ... from annehelen.substack.com

35.02 Folk-creations

• 💡 Insight
• Printing as an event that is funda­men­tally secret, unseeable: you... from Robin Sloan
• Shopify Keychron K3 Pro
• Customized Keychron K1
• As a born and raised Brazilian, I witnessed this huge getting thing... from Daniela Castro
• One of the most important factors as to what gives objects a felt s... from jzhao.xyz
• “Okay, fuck that, who cares if it’s fun? Did it feel like archery t... from Gabrielle Zevin
• Battleships can’t be berthed in backyards, but people build wonderf... from Taylor Troesh
• Recently
• The Japanese philosophy of Mingei was another movement we sho... from Maggie Appleton
• This scavenging in the SaaS landscape is how people express agency ... from Maggie Appleton
• Folk interfaces are when users reappropriate existing software to s... from Maggie Appleton
• one of the realization that I hadworking on something like this was... from Hundred Rabbits
• Living image
• People will always personalize

35.03 Hunting

• 💡 Insight
• Know the ways of the ones who take care of you, so that you may tak... from Robin Wall Kimmerer
• The way he talks about foraging in this conversation reminds me tha... from Kate Ray from soft leaves

35.04 Foraging

• 💡 Insight
• Know the ways of the ones who take care of you, so that you may tak... from Robin Wall Kimmerer

35.05 Parenting

• 💡 Insight
• The new leaves take up oxygen into the tightly packed air spaces of... from Robin Wall Kimmerer
• Nothing is unimportant to a little child. He might cry if the wrong... from Simon Sarris
• Self-worth, the unexpected corollary of having positive archetypes ... from Josh Beckman
• Sonali had told us about Annaprashana, which is a Hindu ceremony in... from Kate Ray

35.06 Religion

• 💡 Insight
• The Devils
• lol c’mon, if this wasn’t from an A.I., this would just be one of t... from Garbage Day
• Lastly, in a sense this is a religious course: I am preaching the m... from Richard W. Hamming and Bret Victor
• As a religion, social justice works. It works not merely in the sen... from Sara Hendren from undefended / undefeated
• My laboratory is like a church because it is where I figure out wha... from Hope Jahren

35.07 Sports

• 💡 Insight
• Loss in Judo is more personal than in other sports. Defeat in a spo... from Cedric Chin

35.08 Racism

• 💡 Insight
• it is a terrible thing for an entire people to surrender to the not... from The Riverbends Channel
• American Fiction
• There’s a sense in editorial, publishing, and TV spaces that, if yo... from Alicia Kennedy
• After Reading: The Good Citizen
• “The antislavery movement was, after all, an agricultural reform mo... from Alexis Madrigal
• After Reading: The Americans
• Forty-eight percent of African American families, at all income lev... from Richard Rothstein
• The full cycle went like this: when a neighborhood first integrated... from Richard Rothstein
• African Americans cannot await rectification of past wrongs as a gi... from Richard Rothstein
• The core argument of this book is that African Americans were uncon... from Richard Rothstein
• After Reading: The Color of Law

35.09 Wealth

• 💡 Insight
• Peter has been living off these asset-backed loans/lines of credits... from reddit
• A rhetorical innovation rambling attempt to ask if this is anything... from TheZvi
• Maybe you don’t have F-you money, but you can learn to build an F-y... from Doug Turnbull
• When most people say they want to be a millionaire, what they might... from Morgan Housel
• Taxes don’t have to be about revenue. You can institute a wealth ta... from Tom MacWright
• Harberger taxation is a form of taxation for private goods (such as... from harbergertax
• I learned more about myself on my trip to Austin than I did about F... from Kate Wagner
• In an essay describing hunter-gatherer peoples with few possessions... from Robin Wall Kimmerer

40-49 Arts-and-recreation

40 Arts

40.01 Art

• 💡 Insight
• the “art journal”/“improve your creative work” school of note-takin... from Baldur Bjarnason's Notes on the Web
• Printing as an event that is funda­men­tally secret, unseeable: you... from Robin Sloan
• David Mamet said this, is that, “The ending has to be both a surpri... from Digital Spaghetti
• Perfectionism is a form of arrogance. Disruptive perfectionism is a... from Van Neistat
• David OReilly
• Tom Sachs's COLOR Hex Codes
• At least art goes for the long game, you know? Poems are many thing... from Paul Ford
• “Acknowledging and appreciating seasonal changes is fundamental to ... from KonMari | The Official Website of Marie Kondo
• Art evolves through discussion (literal and figurative) among many ... from Irrational Exuberance
• After Reading: The Creative Act
• Ultimately, the act of self-expression isn’t really about you. 📕... from Rick Rubin
• So when an artist creates a work that comes together by an unseen h... from Rick Rubin
• If you know what you want to do and you do it, that’s the work of a... from Rick Rubin
• There’s a difference between personal and Personal. Between the idi... from Jack Cheng
• But art is not a handicraft; it is the transmission of feeling that... from Leo Tolstoy
• The most economically powerful thing you can do is to buy something... from Tim Carmody

40.02 Photography

• 💡 Insight
• As cameras make more and more creative choices on your behalf, we t... from Ben Sandofsky
• Things Become Other Things by Craig Mod
• As a medium, photography is kind of intrinsically selfish. So I bri... from Bill Shapiro
• After Reading: The Good Citizen
• The first image ever transmitted to Earth from another planet was r... from Instagram
• After Reading: Kissa By Kissa
• Screenshotting as one of the essential underrated tools of the digi... from Nadia Asparouhova
• After Reading: The Americans

40.03 Music

• 💡 Insight
• AIR at Auditorium Theater
• RL Grime at Radius
• Riot Fest 2024, Saturday
• Brothertiger at Schubas Tavern
• Romanticism by Hana Vu
• Glass Animals at Northerly Island
• Big Wild at Red Rocks
• Lollapalooza 2024
• it’s a way of doing things that I do quite a lot which is to come u... from Tape Notes Podcast
• Still Woozy at Salt Shed Fairgrounds
• so I had like - where’s the vocal - like, it’s been time stretched ... from Tape Notes Podcast
• Pitchfork Music Festival 2024
• Cortex at West Fest
• Deeper at West Fest
• Bully at Empty Bottle
• The Roots & Weezer & Girl Talk at Budweiser Stage
• Mdou Moctar at The Empty Bottle
• Bonobo at Concord
• Beyond Wonderland 2024
• LCD Soundsystem at Aragon Ballroom
• Jeff Rosenstock at The Salt Shed
• Colin Stetson at Bohemian National Cemetery
• Bombay Bicycle Club and Mustard Service at Metro
• Shea Couleé's Love Ball
• Amtrac & Tourist at Concord
• It makes no difference whether it lasts a long time or whether it l... from David OReilly
• Rossy at Chop Shop
• Zeds Dead at Salt Shed
• New KO II Synth from Teenage Engineering
• Confidence Man at Lincoln Hall
• Jessy Lanza & Golden Donna at Sleeping Village
• Beyoncé at Soldier Field
• First Aid Kit at The Salt Shed
• Kandy Muse and Jimbo at Roscoe's
• Japanese Breakfast at The Salt Shed
• Grapetooth at West Fest
• Final Day of Re:SET Chicago
• 100 gecs at Empty Bottle
• STS9 at The Riviera
• Tourist at Chop Shop
• Stereo width is a big part of the Glowed Up mix, with the 808 and s... from Reverb Machine
• Sidechain compression listens to a second track to decide when to b... from Reverb Machine
• Donny Benét at Lincoln Hall
• Memba at Chop Shop
• Caribou and Jessy Lanza at Riviera
• Tourist & Gilligan Moss at Sleeping Village
• Analyzing Data Through Sound
• Music Listening
• Attending

40.04 Typography

• 💡 Insight
• It is also notable that the Feynman lectures (3 volumes) write abou... from edwardtufte.com

40.05 Movies

• 💡 Insight
• 2024 Chicago Horror Film Festival
• The Substance
• The Master
• Vertigo
• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
• Alien: Romulus
• Twister (4DX)
• F9: The Fast Saga
• Under Paris
• The Last of Sheila
• Smile
• Rap World
• Deadpool & Wolverine
• It's Such a Beautiful Day
• Twisters
• Longlegs
• La Casa Lobo
• MaXXXine
• Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
• The Man Who Knew Too Much
• The Swimmer
• The Fall Guy
• Anatomy of a Fall
• I Saw the TV Glow
• The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
• Saint Maud
• This Place Rules
• Hundreds of Beavers
• Road House (2024)
• Sting
• The Holdovers
• Re-Animator
• Dune 2
• Killers of the Flower Moon
• The Fate of The Furious
• Sick
• The Beekeeper
• Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
• American Fiction
• Predestination
• The Meg 2: The Trench
• Single All The Way
• The Beyoncé Renaissance movie
• Godzilla Minus One
• After Watching: How Buildings Learn
• Watching

40.06 Videography

• 💡 Insight
• A master shot is the principal camera shot that a director and cine... from Tiffani Bauer
• The reason why there’s no music here, is this is a reverential stat... from Digital Spaghetti
• I hate camera movement. Really? Sometimes it’s necess... from Digital Spaghetti

40.07 Cinematography

• 💡 Insight
• Nowadays, I try to find every way to not have to say things. If I c... from Digital Spaghetti
• But you use silence. It seems, I don’t know why you’re doing it, bu... from Digital Spaghetti
• So the camera’s tilted at an angle. Is it because you’re not lookin... from Digital Spaghetti
• J.J. Abrams talks about withholding information. And releasing only... from Digital Spaghetti
• You just say the first bit of the story, and then you change locati... from Digital Spaghetti

40.08 Bonsai

• 💡 Insight
• The signs of whether a cutting has rooted or not is to look for the... from Herons Bonsai
• what I wanted to show you is the chemical composition of this ferti... from Herons Bonsai
• As I always remind people: when you’re making Bonsai it’s the trunk... from Herons Bonsai

40.09 Live-theater

• 💡 Insight
• Harry Potter and The Cursed Child
• Twenty-Sided Tavern Premiere Trip

41 Recreation

41.01 Entertainment

• 💡 Insight
• To expand the term beyond its original scope, Max Pain punishes peo... from nemesis.global
• As a subset of contrarianism, Hot Sauce Behavior became especially ... from nemesis.global

41.02 Games

• 💡 Insight
• David OReilly
• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
• Game and drinks night at Paul and Dan’s

42 Architecture

42.01 Physical-architecture

• 💡 Insight
• 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
• The priority of circulation is another of those modern, convenience... from Jack Cheng
• Big Wild at Red Rocks
• Original layout The original elementary school. Found somewh... from joelsimon.net
• A pattern language has the structure of a network. This is explaine... from Christopher Alexander
• Strong commitment in design is good for dementia, where challenges ... from Sara Hendren from undefended / undefeated
• If you look at a Greek temple, you will notice that the element tha... from Samuel Hughes
• In this process, we figure out the most beautiful and comfortable a... from Jack Cheng
• All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong. Most buil... from Stewart Brand
• The room is architected for discussions and decisions, not just vis... from Interconnected
• After Watching: How Buildings Learn
• Today, nearly 150 years later, burglary and architecture still go h... from Geoff Manaugh
• Recall Bernard Tschumi’s point that architecture is constantly maki... from Geoff Manaugh
• When we deal with buildings we deal with decisions taken long ago f... from theprepared.org
• At Maggie Daley Park, one of the project’s defining challenges was ...
• Jingu is famous for its tradition of periodic reconstruction, known...

42.02 Workspaces

• 💡 Insight
• Desk, August 11, 2024
• Home Studio Over Shared Office
• Desk, January 14, 2024
• Desk, November 26, 2023
• Library, yes, that’s the word. A workshop is personal library, pron... from Jack Cheng
• Desk, May 23, 2023
• Desk, April 4, 2023
• Desk, March 8, 2023
• Desk, February 6, 2023
• Desk, November 10, 2022
• Desk, July 6, 2022
• Desk, May 21, 2022
• Desk, January 23, 2022
• Desk, November 30, 2021
• Desk, September 8, 2021
• Desk, June 28, 2021
• Desk, April 2, 2021
• Desk, February 24, 2021
• Desk, September 22, 2020
• Desk, August 2020
• Desk, March 25, 2020
• Desk, February 2020
• Desk, August 2018
• Desk, June 2018
• Desk, March 2018
• Desk, October 2017
• Desk, May 22, 2015
• Desk, November 30, 2014
• Desk, September 2014
• Desk, March 2013
• Desk, March 2011
• Working

43 Food-and-drink

43.01 Cooking

• 💡 Insight
• Coffee Walk While Learning Starbucks
• in our industrialized world that’s controlled by a handful of multi... from Alicia Kennedy
• The way he talks about foraging in this conversation reminds me tha... from Kate Ray from soft leaves
• This guy Eric invited us over for dinner one time. He marinated som... from Kate Ray from soft leaves
• I think my favorite activity ever is cooking for people in my own h... from Kate Ray from soft leaves
• This is a new food culture, where the chef is not speaking from on ... from Alicia Kennedy
• There is no need to cut croutons into perfect little squares! Just ... from Joshua McFadden
• Before using dried fruit I rehydrate it in a bowl of water with a s... from Joshua McFadden
• because nuts like all fatty ingredients will absorb odors. 📕FROM... from Joshua McFadden
• Cheese is a living thing that needs to breathe. Waxed paper or spec... from Joshua McFadden
• Buy them in small quantities and replenish them often instead of ha... from Joshua McFadden
• What will keep beans tough, though, is acid, so never cook beans in... from Joshua McFadden
• Don’t store in plastic containers, because the plastic can absorb t... from Joshua McFadden
• Those little shakers on the table are of no help when you cook; you... from Joshua McFadden
• Build layers into your dish, like you’re making nachos. Hide things... from Joshua McFadden
• All roots have edible greens, so catch them early when they’re tend... from Joshua McFadden
• when grilling or charring, skip the oil. Cook your vegetables naked... from Joshua McFadden
• Party food before social media was not prepared with photographic r... from mothersundertheinfluence.substack.com
• Alice Waters had this incredibly boss move at Chez Panisse where, f... from tinyletter.com
• Luxury always boils down to time: someone is paying a lot of money ... from tinyletter.com

43.02 Cocktails

• 💡 Insight
• Bully at Empty Bottle
• It’s a cocktail not of judgment, but of analysis and perception. Th... from Alicia Kennedy
• A martini is supposed to be made to the drinkers’ preferences; a ma... from Alicia Kennedy
• Game and drinks night at Paul and Dan’s

43.03 Seasoning

• 💡 Insight
• Never buy preground or precracked pepper, ever! You want the fresh,... from Joshua McFadden
• Those little shakers on the table are of no help when you cook; you... from Joshua McFadden
• Sonali had told us about Annaprashana, which is a Hindu ceremony in... from Kate Ray

43.04 Food

• 💡 Insight
• Being a locally minded vegetarian has been my compromise. I’m sure ... from Alicia Kennedy
• It will never cease to shock me that people would rather spend mill... from Alicia Kennedy
• in our industrialized world that’s controlled by a handful of multi... from Alicia Kennedy
• the six illusions that Americans are living with regarding food: “c... from Alicia Kennedy
• Lappé famously called the American diet experimental, noting that n... from Alicia Kennedy
• in the U.S., there’s a false idea that certain choices around food ... from Alicia Kennedy
• Pollan proposes a new (and very old) answer to the question of what... from Michael Pollan

44 Exploration-and-travel

44.01 Exploration

• 💡 Insight
• well the difference between a map and a graph is: in a map space ha... from SEACOM Global
• People often start from the mistaken notion that patents are a righ... from Why Software Patents are Bad, Period.
• When we interact with a product, we need to figure out how to work ... from Don Norman
• You just keep being struck by the marvels of what you’re discoverin... from Noam Chomsky
• Well, the drive to “advance”—I think you have to ask exactly what t... from Noam Chomsky
• But fifty years of progress in miniaturization and software changed... from idlewords.com
• Follow existing patterns unless there’s an order of magnitude impro... from lethain.com
• But if you use the trick I learned twenty years ago from a Subaru s... from Field Notes from Christopher Brown
• Essentially, the use of AI as a technology has less of a meta-strat... from marcelo.rinesi
• using AI to design products is more powerful than using AI as a pro... from marcelo.rinesi
• An immediate hypothesis was that Omicron may have developed in a si... from news.ycombinator.com

44.02 Walking

• 💡 Insight
• Coffee Walk While Learning Starbucks
• Walking The Lakefront in Late Winter
• Things Become Other Things by Craig Mod
• While parts of the designed world might be ugly at any speed, it is... from Lawrence Jackson
• There is an aliveness to fields that lawns do not have. Our small p... from Simon Sarris
• After Reading: Kissa By Kissa
• But if you use the trick I learned twenty years ago from a Subaru s... from Field Notes from Christopher Brown

44.03 Travel

• 💡 Insight
• Montreal, September 2024
• Cirque of The Towers 2024
• Denver, August 2024
• Big Wild at Red Rocks
• Twenty-Sided Tavern Premiere Trip
• Steve Reed’s 50th Birthday in Disneyworld
• Things Become Other Things by Craig Mod
• After Traveling: Joshua Tree
• After Traveling: Death Valley
• Away in California This Week
• Renting A Cabin With Friends
• Indigenous Peoples Day Walk
• Work Trip to Vancouver
• Puerto Rico 2022
• Miami and Key West
• Traveling

50-59 Sciences

50 Science-practice

50.01 Science

• 💡 Insight
• Stuckness shouldn’t be avoided. It’s the psychic predecessor of all... from Robert M. Pirsig
• Re-Animator
• As David Suzuki notes in The Wisdom of the Elders, the Mayan storie... from Robin Wall Kimmerer
• I think informatics is a much better word to use, right? Compute... from Strange Loop Conference
• Remember kids, the only difference between fooling around and scien... from Hacker News
• much of science is straightforward, logical, almost rote. It’s easy... from apenwarr
• there have been many experiments running rats through all kinds of ... from Gwern Branwen
• The fact that this slight change in study design yielded opposite r... from Katelyn Jetelina and Kristen Panthagani, MD, PhD from Your Local Epidemiologist
• Charles Darwin made it a rule to write down immediately any observa... from John Gall and D.H. Gall
• That whole summer in Colorado was a data-gathering bust, but it tau... from Hope Jahren
• I wanted to be studying plant growth, but science for war will alwa... from Hope Jahren
• People are like plants: they grow toward the light. I chose science... from Hope Jahren
• In the lab or studio, the hardest question to answer is What shall ... from sarahendren.substack.com
• My laboratory is like a church because it is where I figure out wha... from Hope Jahren
• Science has taught me that everything is more complicated than we f... from Hope Jahren
• Note on data opposing narrative
• After Reading "Lab Girl"

50.02 Research

• 💡 Insight
• the “art journal”/“improve your creative work” school of note-takin... from Baldur Bjarnason's Notes on the Web
• There are some whitepapaers showing that LLMs predict the results o... from TheZvi
• Inspired by NotebookLM
• A lot of what we do day to day has arbitrary bits to it. This, I’ve... from Strange Loop Conference
• I make a practice of regularly checking in about whether I have a d... from Andy Matuschak
• Bill Thurston writes: Mathematics is a process of staring h... from Andy Matuschak
• Spam Accounts in 2022
• Weeknote of September 05, 2018
• After Reading "Lab Girl"
• Unique Humans.txt Files
• Analyzing Data Through Sound

51 Biology

51.01 Adaptation

• 💡 Insight
• In his paper The Theory of Graceful Extensibility: Basic rules that... from Lorin Hochstein
• The gag is that we know the answer. Could infinite monkeys event... from Matt Webb
• This scavenging in the SaaS landscape is how people express agency ... from Maggie Appleton
• Folk interfaces are when users reappropriate existing software to s... from Maggie Appleton
• “Their sensory volume increased, since light travels farther in air... from Blake Crouch
• It’s a nice fantasy to think about future singularity. But that’s j... from nautil.us

51.02 Biomes

• 💡 Insight
• When we examine our bloodstreams under a microscope, we see there’s... from David OReilly
• After Reading: A Psalm For The Wild-Built
• The fruits are so small that the red doesn’t jump out at you in the... from Christopher Brown
• The pandemic highlighted our intimate relationship with biology. Ur... from futureofurbantech.org

51.03 Survivalism

• 💡 Insight
• The Lindy effect (also known as Lindy’s Law) is a theorized phenome... from wikipedia.org
• to meet a future full of catastrophe, we need to think and act like... from Doug Belshaw
• It’s not like survival, resilience, perseverance and strength in th... from Huw Lemmey
• Scavenge-friendly electronics are parts that are no longer manufact... from xxiivv.com
• Utilizing what has survived the collapse of industrial production o... from xxiivv.com
• Utilizing only already available computational resources, to be lim... from xxiivv.com
• Utilizing computational resources as finite and precious, to be uti... from xxiivv.com
• A post-collapse society that has eventually lost all of its artific... from xxiivv.com
• Collapse informatics prioritizes community needs and aims to contri... from xxiivv.com
• Designing for Descent ensures that a system is resilient to intermi... from xxiivv.com
• There are articles about how to drive like a real-world road warrio... from fieldnotes.christopherbrown.com
• Instead of pathologizing every human quirk, we should say, By the g... from Sarah Manguso

51.04 Biological-systems

• 💡 Insight
• Veins bring water from the soil to the leaf, where it is torn apart... from Hope Jahren
• the term homeostasis: it refers to how your body maintains factors ... from Lorin Hochstein
• “Their sensory volume increased, since light travels farther in air... from Blake Crouch
• series of reactions strips its highest-energy electrons and uses th... from James Somers
• Durham said, “Do you know what a Garden-of-Eden configuration is?” ... from Greg Egan
• An immediate hypothesis was that Omicron may have developed in a si... from news.ycombinator.com
• The truth emerged only slowly, and was, in its own slippery way, st... from newyorker.com

52 Environmental-science

52.01 Environment

• 💡 Insight
• Restoring land without restoring relationship is an empty exercise.... from Robin Wall Kimmerer
• We are showered every day with gifts, but they are not meant for us... from Robin Wall Kimmerer
• Erysichthon’s dominionist hubris may be how we got to this climate ... from Field Notes from Christopher Brown
• The Maui surfer girls love each other’s hair. It is awesome hair, l... from Susan Orlean
• Strong commitment in design is good for dementia, where challenges ... from Sara Hendren from undefended / undefeated
• Okay, so habits are good: they free the mind for important things. ... from Matt Webb
• Yes. To me, the essence of the third place is that it is one where ... from Craig Mod
• The room is architected for discussions and decisions, not just vis... from Interconnected
• In this way, the most common form of change is not internal, but ex... from James Clear
• Recall Bernard Tschumi’s point that architecture is constantly maki... from Geoff Manaugh
• The process [of regenerative ag] is expensive, since farmers who em... from sarahmock.substack.com
• Bryan Beckman is a Clearwater environmentalist whose daily life has... from www.floridapoliticalreview.com

52.02 Climate-change

• 💡 Insight
• Under Paris
• 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
• From everything I can tell, there is no making it through, let alon... from ycombinator.com
• We live on a sun-drenched blue marble hanging in space, and for all... from Robin Sloan
• But the hyperobject that is climate change requires the very kind o... from Sara Hendren from undefended / undefeated
• Like climate change, COVID is settling into its status as a “permac... from kneelingbus.substack.com
• Bryan Beckman is a Clearwater environmentalist whose daily life has... from www.floridapoliticalreview.com

52.03 Flora

• 💡 Insight
• Cirque of The Towers 2024
• The signs of whether a cutting has rooted or not is to look for the... from Herons Bonsai
• what I wanted to show you is the chemical composition of this ferti... from Herons Bonsai
• As I always remind people: when you’re making Bonsai it’s the trunk... from Herons Bonsai
• Veins bring water from the soil to the leaf, where it is torn apart... from Hope Jahren
• She taught me one of the cardinal rules of gathering plants: “Ne... from Robin Wall Kimmerer
• The new leaves take up oxygen into the tightly packed air spaces of... from Robin Wall Kimmerer
• as the ecotheologian Thomas Berry has written, “we must say of the ... from Robin Wall Kimmerer
• All roots have edible greens, so catch them early when they’re tend... from Joshua McFadden
• The fruits are so small that the red doesn’t jump out at you in the... from Christopher Brown
• There are a hundred species or so known as “resurrection plants.” T... from Hope Jahren
• A chilly autumn brings on the same hardening as a balmy one, becaus... from Hope Jahren
• When you are in the forest, for every tree that you see, there are ... from Hope Jahren
• Every species on Earth—past or present, from the single-celled micr... from Hope Jahren
• Living image

52.04 Fauna

• 💡 Insight
• Cirque of The Towers 2024
• as the ecotheologian Thomas Berry has written, “we must say of the ... from Robin Wall Kimmerer
• Bakker introduced me to the term biophony to refer to sounds of liv... from Rob Walker Art of Noticing
• But if you use the trick I learned twenty years ago from a Subaru s... from Field Notes from Christopher Brown
• The fruits are so small that the red doesn’t jump out at you in the... from Christopher Brown
• Every species on Earth—past or present, from the single-celled micr... from Hope Jahren
• The truth emerged only slowly, and was, in its own slippery way, st... from newyorker.com

53 Math

• Math notation is a powerful demonstration of how good (and bad) des... from thesephist.com
• it’s neat how adding affine measures is mathematically invalid but ... from buttondown.email
• The student who overcomes this problem might learn the following us... from plover.com
• Let’s demonstrate the method with an example. Consider computing th... from Gregory Gundersen
• Imagine we want to compute the square root of a number n. The basic... from Gregory Gundersen
• As we think about it this way, we realize that the closer ⍴ gets to... from brooker.co.za

53.01 Mathematics

53.02 Napkin-math

• 💡 Insight
• Hashing, crypto-safe (64 bytes) 500 ns 200 MiB/s FROM: sirupsen N... from sirupsen
• Random Memory R/W (64 bytes) 50 ns 1 GiB/s FROM: sirupsen Napkin ... from sirupsen
• Let’s demonstrate the method with an example. Consider computing th... from Gregory Gundersen
• Let’s demonstrate the method with an example. Consider computing th... from Gregory Gundersen
• Imagine we want to compute the square root of a number n. The basic... from Gregory Gundersen

53.03 Information-theory

• 💡 Insight
• About The Site Index
• we are creating more data than we can manage. The primary output... from johnnydecimal.com
• This first lab newsletter of 2023 is very link-y, perhaps a bit raw... from Robin Sloan
• I think what has happened is there was a massive overestimation of ... from Doug Belshaw
• A three second warning can’t compete against 45 minutes of seeing c... from Rob Henderson
• It’s a nice fantasy to think about future singularity. But that’s j... from nautil.us
• Code runs on people. Please keep it simple. “Everyone knows” tha... from rachelbythebay.com

53.04 Network-theory

• 💡 Insight
• exo optimally splits up models based on the current network topolog... from GitHub
• So, the reasons we don’t have widespread graph support: The... from Hillel Wayne
• Building a Network Graph Site Index
• We could have: Countless local networks, many overlapping w... from jzhao.xyz
• A distributed system can be described as a particular sequential st... from Leslie Lamport
• In his paper The Theory of Graceful Extensibility: Basic rules that... from Lorin Hochstein
• A pattern language has the structure of a network. This is explaine... from Christopher Alexander
• Triadic closure is a concept in network theory which is when a netw... from Matt Webb
• Site Index Network Graph

53.05 Noise

• 💡 Insight
• Armstrong Metric
• it’s a way of doing things that I do quite a lot which is to come u... from Tape Notes Podcast
• so I had like - where’s the vocal - like, it’s been time stretched ... from Tape Notes Podcast
• Stochastic resonance is the phenomenon in which random noise can am... from Matt Webb

53.06 Probability

• 💡 Insight
• In conditions of uncertainty, you might be tempted to use a low mar... from Matt Levine
• if you are talking about “numerous black swans” then you have made ... from Josh Beckman

54 Measurement

54.01 Metrics

• 💡 Insight
• Armstrong Metric
• Analytics Experiment: Switching from Tinylytics to Goatcounter
• Cyclomatic complexity is a measurement developed by Thomas McCabe t... from ibm.com
• Developed by the U.S. military, GPS was first opened to civilian us... from Deb Chachra
• manage three budgets: cash, attention, risk FROM: Matt Webb Week ... from Matt Webb
• This reminds me of the story where a Houston airport kept getting c... from ycombinator.com
• By replacing integration tests with unit tests, we’re losing alignm... from buttondown.email
• The only good advice I have here is to re-evaluate your metrics oft... from Ferd.ca
• Potential SLIs for different types of components Request-driven ... from Steven Thurgood and David Ferguson
• As incidents continue to occur, teams generally respond by starting... from https://github.com/readme/
• Just like regular investment funds can either be actively managed o... from Matt Levine
• We have built many projects, and we believe the most valuable summa... from joelparkerhenderson
• Disproportionately impactful engineering teams are distinguished by... from Irrational Exuberance
• A cost center is a function that is operated by optimizing its exis... from Irrational Exuberance
• If you run a mutual fund, a high mark is good for investors who tak... from Matt Levine
• The attraction of private investments is that they don’t have to go... from Josh Beckman
• My point today is that, if we wish to count lines of code, we shoul... from University of Texas in Austin
• The classification scheme used here is possibly the clearest one I’... from ferd.ca
• I’m personally convinced that these companies are selling products ...
• the system grows for a while (increasing λ), or we reduce the numbe... from brooker.co.za
• We can then define the Utilization of the server (calling it ⍴ for ... from brooker.co.za
• My friend Chip Ward speaks of “the tyranny of the quantifiable,” of... from Rebecca Solnit
• Good goals are a composition of four specific kinds of numbers: A t... from Will Larson

54.02 Units

54.03 Time

• 💡 Insight
• Unix timestamp, or even integer based UTC datetimes work perfectly ... from ycombinator.com
• Software engineering is what happens to programming when you add ti... from Russ Cox
• Do you now understand why I say the future and the past are the sam... from Ted Chiang
• Everywhere a calendar
• all of the time-aligned data in our lives. Time-aligning things ... from alexanderobenauer.com
• [[If users don’t have simple access to past program states, then pr... from alexanderobenauer.com
• One of the foundations of what explanation means for us is that it ... from marcelo.rinesi
• These visible markers show us not only the extent of these networks... from Deb Chachra
• When I’m planning my tasks for the day, I block off the rough amoun... from Devon Zuegel
• A distributed system can be described as a particular sequential st... from Leslie Lamport
• 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)
• There’s something qualitative and important that happens when the e... from marcbrooker@gmail.com (Marc Brooker)
• Time is not money. Time is beans. It was as serious as many joke... from Alexis Madrigal
• State introduces an abstract notion of time in programs. In func... from Adrian Colyer
• Luxury always boils down to time: someone is paying a lot of money ... from tinyletter.com

55 Psychology

• mere-exposure effect: doing something many times makes us believe w... from Sebastian Trzcinski-Clément
• As I’ve written in past reviews, “permission” seems to be my bigges... from Craig Mod

55.01 Human-psychology

• 💡 Insight
• The field of psychology holds the view that trust is a personality ... from DiscoStu
• Crichton coined the term Gell-Mann amnesia effect to describe the p... from wikipedia.org
• The rare person who in October 2022 correctly predicted that the Fe... from OaktreeCap
• The conclusions must be written down. Not only because these insigh... from marginalia.nu
• 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
• Following your own ideas and instincts is how we create genuine con... from Yancey Strickler
• I apply the principle that [[people do things for reasons::highligh... from Mandy Brown
• For total sleep time, he recommends evaluating trends versus focusi... from Stefanie Flippin
• Googling former rivals and games that had come out the same season ... from Gabrielle Zevin
• Philosopher Joanna Macy writes of the oblivion we manufacture for o... from Robin Wall Kimmerer
• Past/Future Preoccupation → Present Moment Contact Past/Future p... from Casey Rosengren
• Fusion → Defusion When we’re caught in avoidance, we tend to see... from Casey Rosengren
• Experiential Avoidance →Willingness When challenging thoughts an... from Casey Rosengren
• The ultimate goal of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is to ... from Casey Rosengren
• We all bring cognitive biases. The explicit ones we love to cast as... from Ilya Grigorik
• Really finance is the study of human behavior and I guess signing y... from Matt Levine
• Because going against our natural inclinations can make us feel lik... from subbu.org
• And when you’re afraid of someone’s judgment, you can’t connect wit... from Startupy
• Seeing your website’s actual server is the virtual equiv of the Ove... from Matt Webb
• In essence, journalling is similar to a psychotherapy session. T... from ycombinator.com
• I summarize these daily notes into a weekly digest. These have more... from bytes.zone
• “Cartesian theater” is a derisive term coined by philosopher and co... from wikipedia.org
• TDD/FP/Agile zealots are probably zealots because adopting TDD/FP/A... from buttondown.email
• CLICHES ARE A SUBSTITUTE FOR CRITICAL THINKING FROM: charity.wtf ... from charity.wtf
• After Reading The Undoing Project

60-69 Systems

60 Systems

• Whenever you want to change your behavior, you can simply ask yours... from James Clear

60.01 Safety

• 💡 Insight
• Use an ad blocking extension when performing internet searches. F... from Internet Crime Complaint Center
• as we introduce the ability to be incorrect, we can trade off effic... from andrewwalpole.com
• Safety culture consists of five elements: An informed cultur... from airsafety.aero
• Everyone agrees that passwords or secret access tokens require spec... from Jorge Manrubia
• the SUX Rule: Sandbox-free – Unsafe – eXogenous. If our code runs w... from Posts on Kelly Shortridge
• When software – or idea-ware for that matter – fails to be accessib... from Gist
• Elisa Baniassad and Alexander Summers have this great paper Reframi... from Hillel Wayne
• The Therac-25 was a computer-controlled radiation therapy machine p... from wikipedia.org
• Poka-yoke is another Japanese method, this one invented by Shigeo S... from Don Norman
• the Toyota Production System. Among its many key principles is a ph... from Don Norman
• Forcing functions are the extreme case of strong constraints that c... from Don Norman
• insights from the seven stages of action lead us to seven fundament... from Don Norman
• Principles of Good Systems ⬢ from Josh Beckman
• For large-scale software systems, Van Roy believes we need to embra... from Adrian Colyer
• A standard way to poison a code model is to inject insecure code in... from Jack Clark
• Canary tokens are a free, quick, painless way to help defenders dis... from Thinkst Thoughts
• I’d argue that field-level encryption should be a starting place fo... from lethain.com
• While today there’s a wide distance between GDPR, CCPA, HITRUST, Fe... from lethain.com
• Let’s think about that cache again: when that one node is down, ove... from marcbrooker@gmail.com (Marc Brooker)
• Erasure coding is the idea that we can take a blob of data, break i... from marcbrooker@gmail.com (Marc Brooker)
• To achieve that braking safety, the subway’s signal architecture wo... from ~ uday schultz
• Although we generally prefer tolerating faults over preventing faul... from Martin Kleppmann
• The things that can go wrong are called faults, and systems that an... from Martin Kleppmann

60.02 Liveness

• 💡 Insight
• as we introduce the ability to be incorrect, we can trade off effic... from andrewwalpole.com
• Leases are a nearly ubiquitous, go-to, mutual exclusion mechanism i... from marcbrooker@gmail.com (Marc Brooker)
• In Eliyahu M. Goldratt’s “Theory of Constraints”, you can’t increas... from ycombinator.com
• This reminds me of the story where a Houston airport kept getting c... from ycombinator.com
• ANY LARGE SYSTEM IS GOING TO BE OPERATING MOST OF THE TIME IN FAILU... from John Gall and D.H. Gall
• For large-scale software systems, Van Roy believes we need to embra... from Adrian Colyer
• because a service is running with a dependency down does not mean i... from Matthew Green
• The things that can go wrong are called faults, and systems that an... from Martin Kleppmann

60.03 Observability

• 💡 Insight
• When adding jitter to scheduled work, we do not select the jitter o... from Amazon Web Services, Inc.
• Armstrong Metric
• Now the real advantage of tracing to me is it comes out of the box ... from Mathew Duggan
• My experience is companies do not anticipate that the cost of monit... from Mathew Duggan
• The OODA loop is the cycle observe–orient–decide–act, developed by ... from wikipedia.org
• Dealing with Error: • Put the knowledge required to operate the ... from Don Norman
• insights from the seven stages of action lead us to seven fundament... from Don Norman
• Principles of Good Systems ⬢ from Josh Beckman
• As far as I can tell, cognitive bandwidth and network bandwidth bot... from Ferd.ca
• these are the three main lists of golden signals today: From the Go... from www.infoq.com
• If our notion of “what is supposed to happen” is getting weaker, th... from future.a16z.com
• It’s often very useful to provide inline performance information in... from Marc-Andre Giroux

60.04 Controllability

• 💡 Insight
• The thing that stateless containers and kubernetes do is handle tha... from ferd.ca
• We’re building apps to surround and harness AI, but we need microsc... from Interconnected
• Here are three levels of mapping, arranged in decreasing effectiven... from Don Norman
• insights from the seven stages of action lead us to seven fundament... from Don Norman

60.05 Composability

• 💡 Insight
• exo optimally splits up models based on the current network topolog... from GitHub
• so what really Google is trying to do is create an operating system... from FOAM
• Finally, the book also observes that learning happens not only with... from Irrational Exuberance
• Oozification is the process of recursively replacing systems based ... from Ribbonfarm Studio
• Deep and shallow modules: The best modules are deep: they allow ... from John Ousterhout
• Software with fewer concepts composes, scales, and evolves more eas... from oilshell
• Part of what makes LoRA so effective is that - like other forms of ... from Dylan Patel
• The io_uring interface works through two main data structures: the ... from Glauber Costa
• Inventory should be kept at the lowest-value stage possible 📕FRO... from Andrew S. Grove
• A COMPLEX SYSTEM THAT WORKS IS INVARIABLY FOUND TO HAVE EVOLVED FRO... from John Gall and D.H. Gall
• For large-scale software systems, Van Roy believes we need to embra... from Adrian Colyer
• More generally, Van Roy sees a layered language design with four co... from Adrian Colyer
• Designing for Disassembly ensures that all elements of a product ca... from xxiivv.com
• Erasure coding is the idea that we can take a blob of data, break i... from marcbrooker@gmail.com (Marc Brooker)
• Eventually, you reach this list’s conclusion, which lies in an unas... from ~ uday schultz
• To achieve that braking safety, the subway’s signal architecture wo... from ~ uday schultz
• because a service is running with a dependency down does not mean i... from Matthew Green
• The cost of maintenance, coupled with a lack of intrinsic motivatio... from Nadia Eghbal
• A lot of developer tools also assume a developer will switch to an ... from future.a16z.com

60.06 Scalability

• 💡 Insight
• Moore’s law has this idea that, like, computers for a long time - s... from Lex Fridman
• In Eliyahu M. Goldratt’s “Theory of Constraints”, you can’t increas... from ycombinator.com
• Nathan’s four Laws of Software: Software is a gas So... from Jeff Atwood
• Software with fewer concepts composes, scales, and evolves more eas... from oilshell
• few days ago I did something that I never thought I’d do again, and... from brandur.org
• Amdahl’s law is often used in parallel computing to predict the the... from wikipedia.org
• Every change in scale is also a learning experience. In the physica... from Jack Cheng
• But the thing about state-sponsored attacks is that they’re a bit l... from Matt Webb
• CAP theorem is perhaps the best-known statement of the tradeoffs in... from apenwarr
• as devices get extremely fast, interrupt-driven work is no longer a... from Glauber Costa
• Principles of Good Systems ⬢ from Josh Beckman
• Consistent hashing is a distributed systems technique that operates... from highscalability.com
• Inventory should be kept at the lowest-value stage possible 📕FRO... from Andrew S. Grove
• In general, the chief compliance officer at any company has a dial ... from Matt Levine
• The discovery of scaling laws has typically preceded a boomtime for... from Josh Beckman
• Use a small model to generate a ‘draft’ output, then use a larger a... from Josh Beckman
• Erasure Coding is a ubiquitous technique in storage and physical ne... from marcbrooker@gmail.com (Marc Brooker)
• Let’s think about that cache again: when that one node is down, ove... from marcbrooker@gmail.com (Marc Brooker)
• Erasure coding is the idea that we can take a blob of data, break i... from marcbrooker@gmail.com (Marc Brooker)
• As far as I can tell, cognitive bandwidth and network bandwidth bot... from Ferd.ca
• The fact that something stops working at significantly increased sc... from Will Larson

60.07 Checklists

• 💡 Insight
• the questions my favourite writing professor would ask. Do ... from Maggie Appleton

60.08 System-design

• 💡 Insight
• The thing that stateless containers and kubernetes do is handle tha... from ferd.ca
• There are no separate systems. The world is a continuum. Where to d... from Donella H. Meadows
• The information delivered by a feedback loop—even nonphysical feedb... from Donella H. Meadows
• Stocks allow inflows and outflows to be decoupled and to be indepen... from Donella H. Meadows
• About The Site Index
• In specification, the machine is the part of the system you have di... from Hillel Wayne
• The engineers that spec out the heating and cooling systems for bui... from Deb Chachra
• A distributed system can be described as a particular sequential st... from Leslie Lamport
• Leases are a nearly ubiquitous, go-to, mutual exclusion mechanism i... from marcbrooker@gmail.com (Marc Brooker)
• Oozification is the process of recursively replacing systems based ... from Ribbonfarm Studio
• However, the particular attributes that a given System fosters can ... from John Gall and D.H. Gall
• Le Chatelier’s Principle. This Law states that any natural process,... from John Gall and D.H. Gall
• When we build systems that avoid coordinating, we end up building c... from marcbrooker@gmail.com (Marc Brooker)
• Progress is good. Complexity is a bridge. Simplicity is the goal. ... from Ruby on Rails
• 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 it’s likely that 6 are easy, 7 r... from sirupsen.com
• Good architecture is built incrementally, but not designed incremen... from sirupsen.com
• Words matter, and the words you say about yourself and other people... from Josh Beckman
• Organizing into services taught teams not to trust each other in mo... from Gist
• I was taken with this cybernetic description of an aircraft factory... from Interconnected
• Speaking from a systems design point of view, we say that all real-... from apenwarr
• Amdahl’s law is often used in parallel computing to predict the the... from wikipedia.org
• From the point of view of relationshps which appears in the design,... from Jack Cheng
• CAP theorem is perhaps the best-known statement of the tradeoffs in... from apenwarr
• Principles of Good Systems ⬢ from Josh Beckman
• The point is to impose a pattern on the way a manager copes with pr... from Andrew S. Grove
• ANY LARGE SYSTEM IS GOING TO BE OPERATING MOST OF THE TIME IN FAILU... from John Gall and D.H. Gall
• BIG SYSTEMS EITHER WORK ON THEIR OWN OR THEY DON’T. 📕FROM: John ... from John Gall and D.H. Gall
• No, students of Systemantics, Positive Feedback into a large System... from John Gall and D.H. Gall
• A COMPLEX SYSTEM THAT WORKS IS INVARIABLY FOUND TO HAVE EVOLVED FRO... from John Gall and D.H. Gall
• “Jobs to be done” is an attempt to identify demand without restrict... from Josh Beckman
• A pattern as a form/context pair and a generic set of centers FRO... from Ryan Singer
• Centers and generative process: Any structure is some elements i... from Ryan Singer
• Beyond Fitness: Life and a Better World Life (a quality) is the ... from Ryan Singer
• Form, Context, and Fit Form, in Context, evaluated against Fit. ... from Ryan Singer
• In general, the chief compliance officer at any company has a dial ... from Matt Levine
• Programmable notes are note-taking systems that allow you to write ... from Maggie Appleton
• leaders work on the system, not in the system FROM: lethain.com B... from lethain.com
• Tags are primarily used for both querying , or discovering informat... from Hillel Wayne
• The room is architected for discussions and decisions, not just vis... from Interconnected
• In October of last year, YouTube creator and fandom expert Sarah Z ... from Garbage Day
• Eventually, you reach this list’s conclusion, which lies in an unas... from ~ uday schultz
• the Law of stretched systems: Every system is stretched to ... from Ferd.ca
• After Re-reading: The Systems Bible
• The expected time to complete a new task approaches infinity as a t... from Will Larson
• Goals are about the results you want to achieve. Systems are about ... from James Clear
• In a 2003 memoir called Where the Money Is: True Tales from the Ban... from Geoff Manaugh
• THE MEANING OF A COMMUNICATION IS THE BEHAVIOUR THAT RESULTS. FRO... from ferd.ca
• Here’s what everyone peddling the new trendy systems is so desperat... from apenwarr.ca
• Organizational design gets the right people in the right places, em... from Will Larson

60.09 Optimization

• 💡 Insight
• Half the computers that exist at any point are worse than median (s... from dreamsongs.com
• The thing that stateless containers and kubernetes do is handle tha... from ferd.ca
• We have to learn the bitter lesson that building in how we think we... from incompleteideas.net
• JavaScript-based UIs are fundamentally more challenging to own and ... from Infrequently Noted
• In 2022, production-grade vector databases were relying on in-memor... from turbopuffer.com
• I intentionally stick to use the phrase “runtime code generation an... from BitByteWise
• over-use of the memoization pattern can cause a degradation of perf... from Jean Boussier
• I thought it was notable that by making some minor tweaks to Ruby c... from johnhawthorn.com
• Of course, if you already know the exact weights you want to assign... from Antoine Mayerowitz
• When they set off, one by one, first in the sprint, then the first ... from Kate Wagner
• It’s fairly common for programmers to expect that hardware will sol... from danluu.com
• Moore’s law has this idea that, like, computers for a long time - s... from Lex Fridman
• In matrix computations, sketching is really a synonym for (linear) ... from ethanepperly.com
• The idea here is that instead of incrementing a single row for a co... from planetscale.com
• Original layout The original elementary school. Found somewh... from joelsimon.net
• In Eliyahu M. Goldratt’s “Theory of Constraints”, you can’t increas... from ycombinator.com
• Dependencies (coupling) is an important concern to address, but it’... from kbouck
• More things than you would think are dynamic strategic problems. If... from marcelo.rinesi
• Amdahl’s law is often used in parallel computing to predict the the... from wikipedia.org
• THE PRIORITIZATION MATRIX All of the projects and activities on ... from firstround.com
• In machine learning, double descent is a surprising phenomenon wher... from chris-said.io
• One of my favorite systems papers ever is the COST paper, which exa... from Posts on Made of Bugs
• The bottom line is this; in modern multicore, multi-CPU devices, th... from Glauber Costa
• Selecting the hen who lays the most eggs doesn’t necessarily get yo... from Eliezer Yudkowsky
• what the chemical industry calls “verbund.” This is a setup in whic... from Sebastian Trzcinski-Clément
• A common rule […] is to detect and fix any problem in a production ... from Andrew S. Grove
• In general, the chief compliance officer at any company has a dial ... from Matt Levine
• Optimize for the {whole, business unit, team}. Pick one of these op... from lethain.com
• The trickiest part of speeding up a program is not doing it, but de... from bueno.org
• Disproportionately impactful engineering teams are distinguished by... from Irrational Exuberance
• A cost center is a function that is operated by optimizing its exis... from Irrational Exuberance
• The Lance Armstrong problem Did we get the AI to be actually safe o... from Cold Takes
• This is an example of the ‘capability overhang’ phenomenon I’ve bee... from Jack Clark
• pruning for sparsity – turns out some LLMs work just as well if you... from Tyler Cowen
• Every year, the company adds even more steps to the camera post-pro... from Filipe Espósito
• In most places, the olive harvest is mechanized, but that’s only po... from Robin Sloan

60.10 Feedback

• 💡 Insight
• He noticed when a technician on a call began by examining copies th... from worksinprogress.co
• The information delivered by a feedback loop—even nonphysical feedb... from Donella H. Meadows
• Solicit feedback and monitor lagging indicators to adjust your exec... from Ilya Grigorik
• JUST CALLING IT “FEEDBACK” DOESN’T MEAN THAT IT HAS ACTUALLY FED BA... from John Gall and D.H. Gall
• In Eating Tomorrow: Agribusiness, Family Farmers, and the Battle fo... from Alicia Kennedy
• the term homeostasis: it refers to how your body maintains factors ... from Lorin Hochstein
• For large-scale software systems, Van Roy believes we need to embra... from Adrian Colyer
• In October of last year, YouTube creator and fandom expert Sarah Z ... from Garbage Day

60.11 Incentives

• 💡 Insight
• It starts in the most on-brand MrBeast way possible: I genu... from simonwillison.net
• Taxes don’t have to be about revenue. You can institute a wealth ta... from Tom MacWright
• Harberger taxation is a form of taxation for private goods (such as... from harbergertax
• As with p values, having a bright-line threshold, causes curious be... from danluu.com
• I used to try and weed my lawn a whole hell of a lot and pull the w... from Ferd.ca
• Enron was applying selection at the individual level according to m... from Eliezer Yudkowsky
• Virtually all maintainers are either volunteers or full-time employ... from Filippo Valsorda
• Maybe they’re just creating massive amounts of “digital representat... from Cold Takes
• When I suggested this to friends in the Pentagon they said, ‘My God... from James Clear
• Similarly, if your reward for exercising is eating a bowl of ice cr... from James Clear

60.12 Performance

• 💡 Insight
• JavaScript-based UIs are fundamentally more challenging to own and ... from Infrequently Noted
• In distributed programming theory, granularity has been around for ... from The Cloudflare Blog
• as devices get extremely fast, interrupt-driven work is no longer a... from Glauber Costa
• In general, the chief compliance officer at any company has a dial ... from Matt Levine
• The discovery of scaling laws has typically preceded a boomtime for... from Josh Beckman
• Use a small model to generate a ‘draft’ output, then use a larger a... from Josh Beckman
• The trickiest part of speeding up a program is not doing it, but de... from bueno.org
• The abundance of digital storage and processing power has caused an... from xxiivv.com
• In conditions of uncertainty, you might be tempted to use a low mar... from Matt Levine
• our philosophy is that to make fast software you need slow computer... from Hundred Rabbits
• Buy them in small quantities and replenish them often instead of ha... from Joshua McFadden
• the system grows for a while (increasing λ), or we reduce the numbe... from brooker.co.za
• As we think about it this way, we realize that the closer ⍴ gets to... from brooker.co.za

60.13 Queues

• 💡 Insight
• The io_uring interface works through two main data structures: the ... from Glauber Costa
• as devices get extremely fast, interrupt-driven work is no longer a... from Glauber Costa
• We have built many projects, and we believe the most valuable summa... from joelparkerhenderson
• The most important notation that summarizes a queue: • ρ: util... from joelparkerhenderson
• • λ: arrival rate. This measures how fast new items are coming in... from joelparkerhenderson
• The Queuing Rule of Thumb (QROT) is a mathematical formula, known a... from wikipedia.org
• As we think about it this way, we realize that the closer ⍴ gets to... from brooker.co.za
• We can then define the Utilization of the server (calling it ⍴ for ... from brooker.co.za
• Scaling Queue Workers Efficiently with AppSignal Metrics
• Qualities of a Smooth Queueing System
• Handy Kue Maintenance CLI Scripts

60.14 Reliability

60.15 Efficiency

60.16 Risk

• 💡 Insight
• In these environments, decisions aren’t solely the purview of execu... from Irrational Exuberance
• Hormesis, a word coined by pharmacologists, is when a small dose of... from Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• 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
• This is the central illusion in life: that randomness is risky, tha... from Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• At least sometimes, it seems, there is more demand for a very safe ... from Matt Levine
• From the perspective of non-mega-platform companies, I think this i... from lethain.com
• In conditions of uncertainty, you might be tempted to use a low mar... from Matt Levine
• if you are talking about “numerous black swans” then you have made ... from Josh Beckman

60.17 Taxonomy

• 💡 Insight
• Building a Network Graph Site Index
• Personal Serial Numbers
• About The Site Index
• It is also notable that the Feynman lectures (3 volumes) write abou... from edwardtufte.com
• Tags are primarily used for both querying , or discovering informat... from Hillel Wayne

60.18 Tolerance

• 💡 Insight
• In general, the chief compliance officer at any company has a dial ... from Matt Levine

60.19 Error

• 💡 Insight
• When adding jitter to scheduled work, we do not select the jitter o... from Amazon Web Services, Inc.
• The thing that stateless containers and kubernetes do is handle tha... from ferd.ca
• If you already know there’s an error , a weaker test can be more us... from Hillel Wayne
• the difference between recoverable errors and bugs: • A recove... from joeduffyblog.com
• Dealing with Error: • Put the knowledge required to operate the ... from Don Norman
• Poka-yoke is another Japanese method, this one invented by Shigeo S... from Don Norman
• Errors have two major forms. Slips occur when the goal is correct, ... from Don Norman
• ANY LARGE SYSTEM IS GOING TO BE OPERATING MOST OF THE TIME IN FAILU... from John Gall and D.H. Gall
• Although we generally prefer tolerating faults over preventing faul... from Martin Kleppmann
• The things that can go wrong are called faults, and systems that an... from Martin Kleppmann

60.20 Tests

• 💡 Insight
• You’ll sometimes hear objections about how random testing can only ... from danluu.com
• And say I used some standard non-AI scheduling software like Mindbo... from danluu.com
• Post-Apocalyptic [or bad] software is hard to modify because it doe... from lethain.com
• By replacing integration tests with unit tests, we’re losing alignm... from buttondown.email
• Inside-Out and Outside-In are fairly rare terms, more often I have ... from Software Engineering Stack Exchange
• If you already know there’s an error , a weaker test can be more us... from Hillel Wayne
• TDD/FP/Agile zealots are probably zealots because adopting TDD/FP/A... from buttondown.email
• Test page to see how the raw markdown is rendered

60.21 Trust

• 💡 Insight
• Also let that be the most important lesson to anyone who says that ... from TheZvi
• The field of psychology holds the view that trust is a personality ... from DiscoStu
• But I think the modern bank-regulatory view is that the point of a ... from Matt Levine
• Trust on its own isn’t much of a management technique. Trust cannot... from lethain.com

60.22 Emergence

• 💡 Insight
• However, the particular attributes that a given System fosters can ... from John Gall and D.H. Gall
• What this work shows is that if you have the right input basic mate... from Jack Clark

61 Representation

61.01 Abstraction

• 💡 Insight
• Starting in the summer of 2020 and peaking in late 2021, various fa... from nemesis.global
• In The Umami Theory of Value, we discussed how, in the absence of m... from nemesis.global
• But fifty years of progress in miniaturization and software changed... from idlewords.com
• But in modern financial markets, you can get an economic benefit fr... from Matt Levine
• the program is an abstract symbol manipulator, which can be turned ... from University of Texas in Austin
• It is probably more illuminating to go a little bit further back, t... from University of Texas in Austin

61.02 Estimation

• 💡 Insight
• Let’s demonstrate the method with an example. Consider computing th... from Gregory Gundersen

61.03 Strategy

• 💡 Insight
• So even though defining the strategy from scratch is the hardest pa... from James Stanier
• Exploring the difference a bit: Challenge-based strategy is reas... from Irrational Exuberance
• Strategy can only be employed top-down, so it’s not a question of t... from lethain.com
• To ensure your strategy is operating at the right altitude, ask if ... from lethain.com
• Are you confident the strategy will create leverage? Strategies req... from lethain.com
• Are you willing and able to enforce the strategy? If you think that... from lethain.com
• Are you either confident in your diagnosis or do you trust the wide... from lethain.com
• In Staff Engineer, I argued that writing an engineering strategies ... from lethain.com
• A strategy is composed of three parts: Diagnosis: a theory ... from lethain.com
• When you read good, coherent actions, you think, “This is going to ... from Will Larson
• If strategies describe the harsh trade-offs necessary to overcome a... from Will Larson
• Strategies are grounded documents which explain the trade-offs and ... from Will Larson

62 Habits-and-practice

62.01 Habits

• 💡 Insight
• Productivity is often a distraction. Don’t aim for better ways to g... from Kevin Kelly
• Repetition really helps. I believe that because I kept writing abou... from Winnie
• “Interviews: silence is the weapon, silence and people’s need to fi... from Ben Gilbert
• I always liked Anthony Bourdain’s take on “Meez” from Kitchen Confi... from ycombinator.com
• discipline doesn’t scale, and if you want people to use good practi... from Fernando Borretti
• Inaction → Committed Action Clarifying our values and learning a... from Casey Rosengren
• Experiential Avoidance →Willingness When challenging thoughts an... from Casey Rosengren
• That said, much like internal communication, networking is a relati... from lethain.com
• Design an obstacle course, not a syllabus. One thing that we have v... from Post-Industrial Design School
• Okay, so habits are good: they free the mind for important things. ... from Matt Webb
• Many years ago I got obsessed with habit-breaking days. We live our... from Matt Webb
• This is one reason why we continually grasp for the latest get-rich... from James Clear
• Happiness is the state you enter when you no longer want to change ... from James Clear
• Sometimes a habit will be hard to remember and you’ll need to make ... from James Clear
• Professionals stick to the schedule; amateurs let life get in the w... from James Clear
• We imitate the habits of three groups in particular: The cl... from James Clear
• Stop thinking about your environment as filled with objects. Start ... from James Clear
• In this way, the most common form of change is not internal, but ex... from James Clear
• The 1st Law of Behavior Change is to make it obvious. Strategies li... from James Clear
• Whenever you want to change your behavior, you can simply ask yours... from James Clear
• your habits are how you embody your identity 📕FROM: James Clear ... from James Clear
• Goals are about the results you want to achieve. Systems are about ... from James Clear
• The hard part is distinguishing between quitting because the resist... from Seth Godin

62.02 Commute

• 💡 Insight
• Okay, so habits are good: they free the mind for important things. ... from Matt Webb
• Many years ago I got obsessed with habit-breaking days. We live our... from Matt Webb
• Timestamp - Going to a Party
• Timestamp - Commuting to Work

62.03 Consumption

• 💡 Insight
• The Buyerarchy of Needs FROM: Sarah Lazarovic Sarah Lazarovic Sou... from Sarah Lazarovic
• Know the ways of the ones who take care of you, so that you may tak... from Robin Wall Kimmerer
• Each thing, each unit of stuff, came with its own, pet stuff—a stan... from Paul Ford
• Streams - mostly Twitter for me, this is where fast twitch informat... from TOM CRITCHLOW
• The best things in life are free. The second best things are very, ... from David Heinemeier Hansson (dhh@hey.com)

62.04 Practice-and-training

• 💡 Insight
• It is known that, when we learn or train in something, we pass thro... from wikipedia.org
• Top-tier athletes are fanatically disciplined about improving their... from Andyʼs working notes
• Athletes and musicians pursue virtuosity in fundamental skills much... from Andyʼs working notes
• But the hyperobject that is climate change requires the very kind o... from Sara Hendren from undefended / undefeated
• it’s not always about what happens during the workout. It’s about b... from James Clear

62.05 Maintenance

• 💡 Insight
• He noticed when a technician on a call began by examining copies th... from worksinprogress.co
• For inspiration on ways to think about building new structures for ... from Deb Chachra
• The cost of maintenance, coupled with a lack of intrinsic motivatio... from Nadia Eghbal
• Code, in static state, can be bought and sold at nearly zero margin... from Nadia Eghbal
• most of the conversations around developer experience are about how... from future.a16z.com
• Documenting Theory Building as An Engineering Team
• Note on constant attention
• Note on slow tech investment
• Carving Tech Investment Out of Tech Debt
• Handy Kue Maintenance CLI Scripts

62 Economic-Study

62.01 Economics

• 💡 Insight
• like 10% of people understand how markets work and about 10% deeply... from TheZvi
• A rhetorical innovation rambling attempt to ask if this is anything... from TheZvi
• The rare person who in October 2022 correctly predicted that the Fe... from OaktreeCap
• 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
• You can buy a bank’s attention to bespoke needs by bringing it depo... from Patrick McKenzie (patio11)
• All prices embed an interest rate derivative FROM: Patrick McKenz... from Patrick McKenzie (patio11)
• when interest rates rise, all asset prices must fall FROM: Patric... from Patrick McKenzie (patio11)
• the true nature of housing prices. It’s not about the house, it’s a... from goodreason.substack.com
• Inventory should be kept at the lowest-value stage possible 📕FRO... from Andrew S. Grove
• Max Pain is an urban legend-slash-theory from the options market, i... from nemesis.global
• The most economically powerful thing you can do is to buy something... from Tim Carmody
• But in modern financial markets, you can get an economic benefit fr... from Matt Levine
• input the number of daily trials I have, and then my retention rate... from David Smith
• I will say that based on playing around with lots of configurations... from David Smith
• A bill of materials or BOM is a list of the raw components that go ... from Kevin Chung
• The single biggest thing Substack accomplished was legitimizing a S... from Patrick McKenzie (patio11)
• the Gruen Transfer, a phenomenon that architecture theorist Sanford... from Josh Beckman
• The Phillips curve is an economic concept developed by A. W. Philli... from www.investopedia.com
• I have seethed as generations of Democrats have argued that if we c... from www.thecut.com
• For the last five hundred years, the best way to succeed has been t... from Seth Godin

62.02 Capitalism

• 💡 Insight
• Peter has been living off these asset-backed loans/lines of credits... from reddit
• like 10% of people understand how markets work and about 10% deeply... from TheZvi
• A rhetorical innovation rambling attempt to ask if this is anything... from TheZvi
• Maybe you don’t have F-you money, but you can learn to build an F-y... from Doug Turnbull
• It’s likely the 2010s were a golden age for tech startups, due to t... from Gergely Orosz
• Americans have absorbed the “Protestant work ethic” — the idea that... from Apple Podcasts
• In an essay describing hunter-gatherer peoples with few possessions... from Robin Wall Kimmerer
• Because infrastructural systems are mostly about nonmonetary benefi... from Deb Chachra
• greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. dropped sharply in 2020, by ar... from Deb Chachra
• “Without realizing it, we were gradually overmatched by a superior ... from Matt Levine
• The strategy for the discoverers and entrepreneurs is to rely less ... from Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Separating out the well and worthy workers from the sick and unprod... from Doug Belshaw
• If free software gifts are communism and open source is cynically c... from apenwarr
• The central thesis of this book is precisely that an apparently sma... from Thomas Piketty and Arthur Goldhammer

62.03 Finance

• 💡 Insight
• Peter has been living off these asset-backed loans/lines of credits... from reddit
• The rare person who in October 2022 correctly predicted that the Fe... from OaktreeCap
• the numbers always add up, which isn’t true on the business or engi... from Irrational Exuberance
• If all the burghers of Small Town USA get together and say “we want... from Matt Levine
• It is funny to imagine an end state here in which markets are entir... from Matt Levine
• After 2008, there was a perception that the government was implicit... from Matt Levine
• from the SEC’s perspective the important thing here is that the rul... from Matt Levine
• if the US government does default, that will probably cause the pri... from Matt Levine
• The very most important thing to understand in finance and economic... from Matt Levine
• Every so often the US government thinks about defaulting on its deb... from Matt Levine
• The three bank runs which already happened had idiosyncratic causes... from Patrick McKenzie (patio11)
• The decision to sharply manage down the price of eggs was, indirect... from Patrick McKenzie (patio11)
• Financial systems help us overcome a collective action problem. In ... from Nick Rowe
• Nick Rowe memorably described finance as magic. The analogy I would... from Nick Rowe
• Philanthropy is often conflated with charity, a sort of blank-minde... from Nadia
• But I think the modern bank-regulatory view is that the point of a ... from Matt Levine
• the true nature of housing prices. It’s not about the house, it’s a... from goodreason.substack.com
• in practice the answer is that some companies create negative exter... from Matt Levine
• Really finance is the study of human behavior and I guess signing y... from Matt Levine
• Max Pain is an urban legend-slash-theory from the options market, i... from nemesis.global
• But in modern financial markets, you can get an economic benefit fr... from Matt Levine
• Just like regular investment funds can either be actively managed o... from Matt Levine
• No chief executive officer of a big company wants to file for bankr... from Matt Levine
• Finance, like its cousin Poetry, is the use of precise language to ... from marcelo.rinesi
• Also another, related point is that as far as I can tell every dece... from Matt Levine
• At least sometimes, it seems, there is more demand for a very safe ... from Matt Levine
• This is one of the main things that happens in finance. It describe... from Matt Levine
• Around here I often quote the most important thing I learned at Gol... from Matt Levine
• the Howey test of what makes an “investment contract” a security is... from Matt Levine
• It was like a fantastical version of their old jobs, a new financia... from Bloomberg
• Yeah I mean a general lesson here is that you want to be in the sor... from Matt Levine
• Many people believe that cash, the paper printed by the government,... from Patrick McKenzie (patio11)
• In conditions of uncertainty, you might be tempted to use a low mar... from Matt Levine
• If you run a mutual fund, a high mark is good for investors who tak... from Matt Levine
• The attraction of private investments is that they don’t have to go... from Josh Beckman
• One imperfect but useful way to think about crypto,” I wrote, “is t... from Josh Beckman
• He is making multi-year, illiquid, unhedgeable speculative investme... from Josh Beckman

62.04 Money

• 💡 Insight
• It’s likely the 2010s were a golden age for tech startups, due to t... from Gergely Orosz
• When most people say they want to be a millionaire, what they might... from Morgan Housel
• Economists across the political spectrum are in near-universal agre... from landisabigdeal.com
• The U.S.’s point of view on the matter, elucidated at length in any... from Patrick McKenzie (patio11)
• The law states that any circulating currency consisting of both “go... from wikipedia.org
• Max Pain is an urban legend-slash-theory from the options market, i... from nemesis.global
• Starting in the summer of 2020 and peaking in late 2021, various fa... from nemesis.global
• The best things in life are free. The second best things are very, ... from David Heinemeier Hansson (dhh@hey.com)
• The report said that for every $1 of new global wealth earned by a ... from Doug Belshaw
• Life (and intersectionality) are complex, but money is, relatively ... from ongoing by Tim Bray
• Many people believe that cash, the paper printed by the government,... from Patrick McKenzie (patio11)
• The world is mostly shaped by wealth, more so than ever as technolo... from Josh Beckman
• If you run a mutual fund, a high mark is good for investors who tak... from Matt Levine
• Ask a science professor what she worries about. It won’t take long.... from Hope Jahren
• Although the ownership of a particular stone might change, the ston... from en.m.wikipedia.org
• Luxury always boils down to time: someone is paying a lot of money ... from tinyletter.com

62.05 Cryptocurrency

• 💡 Insight
• much of the time, the crypto ecosystems seem to be built by pretty ... from Matt Levine
• from the SEC’s perspective the important thing here is that the rul... from Matt Levine
• The very most important thing to understand in finance and economic... from Matt Levine
• “Monetize” is a terrible word that tacitly admits that there is no ... from Cory Doctorow
• Columnist Brian Merchant touched on this fuzzy connection between t... from Garbage Day
• Also another, related point is that as far as I can tell every dece... from Matt Levine
• But, paradoxically, crypto is much more reliant on trust than the r... from Bloomberg
• It was like a fantastical version of their old jobs, a new financia... from Bloomberg
• One imperfect but useful way to think about crypto,” I wrote, “is t... from Josh Beckman
• the crypto industry in 2022 rediscovered the 2008 financial crisis.... from Josh Beckman

62.06 Funding

• 💡 Insight
• From the onset, I envisioned small firms of professional maintainer... from Filippo Valsorda
• Philanthropy is often conflated with charity, a sort of blank-minde... from Nadia
• The entrepreneur is the customer and the LP is the shareholder. Tha... from Fred Wilson
• Who and Why and How I'm Funding
• I’ve been mainly “hiring” members for permission. Not in a “please ... from Craig Mod
• As I’ve written in past reviews, “permission” seems to be my bigges... from Craig Mod
• The most economically powerful thing you can do is to buy something... from Tim Carmody
• I call this “unlocking the commons,” and it’s the same approach I’v... from Tim Carmody
• Concretely, I exclusively offer ongoing retainer agreements, withou... from Filippo Valsorda
• if the effort required to replace or fork a dependency should it go... from Filippo Valsorda
• The most economically powerful thing you can do is to buy something... from kottke.org
• you can pay me money, and I will continue writing. If you (in aggre... from Bits about Money
• One publication well-known enough by cognoscenti to get namechecked... from Patrick McKenzie (patio11)
• So to summarize–downballot races are cheap, cost-effective, and bec... from Idle Words
• Even in a normal year, early money is many times more effective tha... from Idle Words
• Paying a maintainer for their attention can also translate into ful... from Nadia Eghbal
• As for subscriptions, paywalls might seem like a way to monetize co... from Nadia Eghbal
• It’s seems obvious that collective action from internet creators is... from www.garbageday.email
• But just as the gig economy mode of work brought about negative con...

62.07 Game-theory

• 💡 Insight
• A rhetorical innovation rambling attempt to ask if this is anything... from TheZvi
• Max Pain is an urban legend-slash-theory from the options market, i... from nemesis.global
• the New York City question: if you are to meet a stranger in New Yo... from wikipedia.org
• In game theory, a focal point (or Schelling point) is a solution th... from wikipedia.org
• One imperfect but useful way to think about crypto,” I wrote, “is t... from Josh Beckman
• In the glory days, Olympus enthusiasts dressed up this insight in t... from Josh Beckman

62.08 Marketplaces

• 💡 Insight
• This is enshittification: surpluses are first directed to users; th... from Cory Doctorow
• Amazon thought that if they could force users to go straight to Ama... from Second Marathon Archive Feed
• Why is that a hard message to communicate through marketing, especi... from sarahmock.substack.com

62.09 Venture-capital

• 💡 Insight
• It’s likely the 2010s were a golden age for tech startups, due to t... from Gergely Orosz
• Schedule 30-60 mins to go over the pre-read material with the board... from avc.xyz
• Thompson’s argument in that post is that Silicon Valley used to be ... from Matt Levine
• The entrepreneur is the customer and the LP is the shareholder. Tha... from Fred Wilson
• Accursed With a Couple Customers
• Hard Numbers Calculator

63 Mental-models

63.01 Decisions

• 💡 Insight
• If you’re debating a decision point and you find yourself in a stal... from Jeff Bruton
• Something I’ve been framing to myself and my team is ‘momentum’ on ... from Josh Beckman
• any decision [should] be worked out and reached at the lowest compo... from Andrew S. Grove

63.02 Defaults

• 💡 Insight
• Sometimes a habit will be hard to remember and you’ll need to make ... from James Clear

63.03 Goals

• 💡 Insight
• Productivity is often a distraction. Don’t aim for better ways to g... from Kevin Kelly
• I used to be an investment banker, and I enjoy reading profiles of ... from Matt Levine
• Beyond Fitness: Life and a Better World Life (a quality) is the ... from Ryan Singer
• Create capacity (rather than capture it). This value focuses leader... from lethain.com
• Follow existing patterns unless there’s an order of magnitude impro... from lethain.com
• As described in Rumelt’s Good Strategy, Bad Strategy, a strategy is... from lethain.com
• “Advancing the industry.” I believe that I can improve practice in ... from Irrational Exuberance
• I’m actually using GPT3 in a production system. The mistake people ... from Zack Korman
• Goals are about the results you want to achieve. Systems are about ... from James Clear
• A general heuristic I’ve come to use to ascribe “value” to (a porti...
• The process [of regenerative ag] is expensive, since farmers who em... from sarahmock.substack.com
• Good goals are a composition of four specific kinds of numbers: A t... from Will Larson
• understand that the path is neither short nor easy. That means you ... from Seth Godin

63.04 Side-effects

• 💡 Insight
• 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
• As with p values, having a bright-line threshold, causes curious be... from danluu.com
• An honest but ungenerous response is that I don’t want to contribut... from Erin Kissane's internet website lol
• If all the burghers of Small Town USA get together and say “we want... from Matt Levine
• The only good advice I have here is to re-evaluate your metrics oft... from Ferd.ca
• This, from last week, is one of the best stories you’ll ever read a... from Matt Levine
• The law states that any circulating currency consisting of both “go... from wikipedia.org
• Every so often the US government thinks about defaulting on its deb... from Matt Levine
• Often, in making edits to a work: The ego comes in, saying: I wante... from Rick Rubin
• Infrastructure undergirds society; failures of it are a per se emer... from Patrick McKenzie (patio11)
• Thompson’s argument in that post is that Silicon Valley used to be ... from Matt Levine
• in practice the answer is that some companies create negative exter... from Matt Levine
• this is the first important non-intuitive thing about KYC and AML r... from Patrick McKenzie (patio11)
• Selecting the hen who lays the most eggs doesn’t necessarily get yo... from Eliezer Yudkowsky
• No exploration without contamination FROM: idlewords.com Why Not ... from idlewords.com
• Amazon thought that if they could force users to go straight to Ama... from Second Marathon Archive Feed
• Dialogue from movies and TV shows has become more difficult to hear... from Jason Kottke
• There is no need to cut croutons into perfect little squares! Just ... from Joshua McFadden
• because nuts like all fatty ingredients will absorb odors. 📕FROM... from Joshua McFadden
• Cheese is a living thing that needs to breathe. Waxed paper or spec... from Joshua McFadden
• Don’t store in plastic containers, because the plastic can absorb t... from Joshua McFadden
• Eventually, you reach this list’s conclusion, which lies in an unas... from ~ uday schultz
• During the summer of 2021, Canadian researchers … found that the un... from Josh Beckman
• The cotton gin, a canonical example of automation, perversely incre... from Robin Sloan
• The full cycle went like this: when a neighborhood first integrated... from Richard Rothstein

63.05 Stochastic-management

• 💡 Insight
• this is the first important non-intuitive thing about KYC and AML r... from Patrick McKenzie (patio11)

64 Process

64.01 Incident-management

• 💡 Insight
• One thing I’ve noticed is that a lot of colleagues don’t know how t... from ycombinator.com
• I’ve often seen teams leading reliability efforts respond to the qu... from https://github.com/readme/
• As incidents continue to occur, teams generally respond by starting... from https://github.com/readme/
• We have built many projects, and we believe the most valuable summa... from joelparkerhenderson

64.02 Root-cause-analysis

• 💡 Insight
• When adding jitter to scheduled work, we do not select the jitter o... from Amazon Web Services, Inc.
• I used to try and weed my lawn a whole hell of a lot and pull the w... from Ferd.ca
• Errors have two major forms. Slips occur when the goal is correct, ... from Don Norman

64.03 Hiring

• 💡 Insight
• At companies with slower headcount growth, promotions will usually ... from The Pragmatic Engineer
• Hiring Retrospective - Advancement Rate
• Hiring Retrospective - Interview Steps
• Cleaning Up For a New Hire
• To Revisit When Starting a New Job
• Recruitment Searching on GitHub
• New Hires are a Valuable Resource
• Contribute to Open Source as a Code Test

67 Language-and-communication

67.01 Language

• 💡 Insight
• Capitalize the first, last, and all major words in a book title, he... from https://editorsmanual.com/neha-karve
• The possibilities for using language as an intermediate representat... from chrisvoncsefalvay.com
• Note the obsessive use of abbreviations and avoidance of capital le... from web.stanford.edu
• I apply the principle that [[people do things for reasons::highligh... from Mandy Brown
• 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
• Words matter, and the words you say about yourself and other people... from Josh Beckman
• The code that gets written is the code that’s easier to write. ... from Fernando Borretti
• Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad ho... from wikipedia.org
• For example, let’s take the simple question: “How old are you?” Fir... from Jason Kottke
• To encode the position of the current token in the sequence, the au... from dugas.ch
• Avoidance speech is a group of sociolinguistic phenomena in which a... from wikipedia.org
• Actually, it reminds me in some ways of things that you find in non... from Noam Chomsky
• We are so amazed by its ability to babble in a confident manner tha... from ycombinator.com
• Finance, like its cousin Poetry, is the use of precise language to ... from marcelo.rinesi
• More generally, Van Roy sees a layered language design with four co... from Adrian Colyer
• if you are talking about “numerous black swans” then you have made ... from Josh Beckman
• In a now-deleted tweet, a friend recently remarked on how she was s... from www.garbageday.email

67.02 Notation

• 💡 Insight
• My favorite fonts
• 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
• Researching isn’t writing and vice-versa. When you come to a factua... from locusmag.com
• A tool is something that takes an existing workflow, and makes it m... from thesephist.com
• To summarise those desirable qualities, a good notation is: Comp... from interconnected.org
• Or to be more specific, urbanist Kevin Lynch’s city maps from his 1... from interconnected.org

67.03 Writing

• 💡 Insight
• the “art journal”/“improve your creative work” school of note-takin... from Baldur Bjarnason's Notes on the Web
• Preparation: Posts are spontaneous. Releases are orchestrated throu... from Yancey Strickler
• documents aren’t a collection of words, but a collection of concept... from thesephist
• Everyone is talking about Retrieval Augmented Generation, but most ... from mataroa.blog
• you should be lightly skeptical of following advice and patterns fr... from Irrational Exuberance
• The conclusions must be written down. Not only because these insigh... from marginalia.nu
• At least art goes for the long game, you know? Poems are many thing... from Paul Ford
• Researching isn’t writing and vice-versa. When you come to a factua... from locusmag.com
• I owe a debt of gratitude to those whose knowledge helped me debug ... from nicolasbouliane.com
• “Okay, fuck that, who cares if it’s fun? Did it feel like archery t... from Gabrielle Zevin
• It is also notable that the Feynman lectures (3 volumes) write abou... from edwardtufte.com
• Work in public. Reveal nothing. FROM: Robin The Art of Working in... from Robin
• I realised that writing isn’t about beating the competition, or bei... from James Stanier
• Remember kids, the only difference between fooling around and scien... from Hacker News
• Another useful concept is The Death of the Author, which is a part ... from ferd.ca
• “How does writing help you think?” “That is a good question,” he sa... from Ted Chiang
• But here is his best line: Taleb had been busy. He had alre... from Matt Levine
• I’ve been thinking of a kind of article I commonly write: H... from Hillel Wayne
• To write about something hard to explain, write a detailed letter t... from startupy
• With more education, more and more people want to be published. Mor... from Gabriel Zaid and Natasha Wimmer
• The promotion of brainstorming as a starting point is all the more ... from Sebastian Trzcinski-Clément
• Forget your generalized audience. In the first place, the nameless,... from Maria Popova
• The unit of blogging isn’t pageviews, it’s conversations. Don’t wor... from tomcritchlow.com
• MAY This word, or the adjective “OPTIONAL”, mean that an item is tr... from rfc-editor.org
• MUST This word, or the terms “REQUIRED” or “SHALL”, mean that the d... from rfc-editor.org
• Top-tier athletes are fanatically disciplined about improving their... from Andyʼs working notes
• In Staff Engineer, I argued that writing an engineering strategies ... from lethain.com
• Campfires - mostly blogging for me, though I know some folks gather... from TOM CRITCHLOW
• the questions my favourite writing professor would ask. Do ... from Maggie Appleton
• Interlace is “the device of interweaving of a number of different t... from Robin Sloan
• When you start a creative project but don’t finish, the expe­ri­enc... from Robin Sloan
• updates establish a persistent drip of information from you to the ... from Irrational Exuberance
• you can significant improve the quality of internal communcations w... from Irrational Exuberance
• Accretive tools build over time. Developer tools tend to work like ... from Interconnected
• Ephemeral tools are about the conversation. Slack is one. Zoom is a... from Interconnected
• His only real hope of avoiding many years in prison is to convince ... from Matt Levine
• In essence, journalling is similar to a psychotherapy session. T... from ycombinator.com
• I summarize these daily notes into a weekly digest. These have more... from bytes.zone
• Most of our thoughts appear and pass away instantly, for good reaso... from Fernando Borretti
• An idea kept private is as good as one you never had. FROM: Sebas... from Sebastian Trzcinski-Clément
• Writing is nature’s way of letting you know how sloppy your thinkin... from Marc Brooker
• In your head, ideas expand until they max out “working memory” – an... from interconnected.org
• Since writing is very hard and rewriting is comparatively easy and ... from www.newyorker.com
• We don’t normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology,... from Ted Chiang
• Documenting Theory Building as An Engineering Team
• Note on path and narrative
• On Writing Great Product Release Emails
• After Reading: So Many Books by Gabriel Zaid