Melissa Dell’s research on the significance of persistence in predicting economic outcomes looked at Vietnam pre-colonization (by France) and after the Vietnam war.

A statically typed programming language which enforces writing code that is free from certain memory errors (use after free, dangling pointers).

Setting a goal around a metric that is the result of the output of other metrics and goals being driven.

Podcast host and author who works with famous/impressive people from various fields to discuss how they work, how they think, and how you might learn from their practice.

Something that can be perceived that is not based on a physical sensation such as intuiting or a gut feeling.

A book about building systems of small habits that compound over time.

It’s healthier to determine the actions you take based on your values rather than your emotional state.

A way of organizing code and abstracting concepts to build a software system often with the goals of robustness, reliability, extensibility, performance, and correctness.

A method for representing state of a system using immutable events over time that can be aggregated to derive state at a particular moment.

An entity component system (ECS) model is a software architectural pattern way of organizing a program that is oriented around and is easily extensible often used in games.

The tendency to give preferential treatment to those belonging to the one’s in-group over one’s out-group.

The theory that belief is more significant than race in determining racial or ethnic discrimination.

A theory that the universe is actually finite due to having a nontrivial topology (i.

Theoretical cosmologist who researches black holes and gravitational waves. In particular, the universe is finite in size.

A film where Slavoj Žižek uses other films to analyze ideology.

A process for long form writing where you start writing independent units of ideas/topics (similar to ‘atomic notes’ in Zettelkasten) and synthesize them in a separate step.

Applying crypto/blockchain concepts (e.g. proof of work, aligning incentives) to building large scale co-ops that require cooperation and governance.

In software development, code describes what the program does, but is not helpful when we need to understand what it is intendedto do or why.

A framework to improve mindfulness of anxiety and emotional distress. You can use this mapping to plan what to do when you find yourself at various points in the scale.

Visualize your thoughts as a sushi train that constantly revolves around you with different dishes that represent the flavor of thought.

People tend to be more judgmental and harsher on themselves than on others.

The practice of bringing your attention to the present moment without judgment.

Most knowledge work is ephemeral–we write documents, emails, code and then it’s done.

It’s better to favor duplication over the wrong abstraction. The wrong abstraction starts out as a way to remove duplication and then gets altered over time to handle more and more conditions to the point where it’s unique to all the callers.