White people respond with outrage over any allegation, perceived or actual, of racism because they see racist as synononymous with bad people who hurt others.

People tend to conflate the ability to write code and intelligence.

Mercury is a better option for colonization than Mars because of the abundance of solar and thermal energy and availability of water.

Most messages sent on Slack do not happen in public or private channels, but in DMs.

A way of expressing similar, but different objects. For example in object oriented programming you might have a Vehicle class that specifies a method to move and any method that operates on a Vehicle can call the move method.

A staggering amount of energy is used to power Bitcoin and Ethereum, the two largest blockchains.

An interstellar object that passed through our solar system in 2018.

Uber drivers in Kenya call it ‘riding Karura’ when you use the app to match with a driver, cancel the ride, then paying the driver a pre-negotiated amount in cash.

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Describes different systems that require reliance on others by plotting across two axes—how many people need to behave correctly out of how many for the system to work.

How we think about thoughts is composed of metacognitive knowledge - our understanding of our thinking and learning, metacognitive regulation - strategies and practices that control our learning, and metacognitive experiences - thoughts and feelings while learning something.

New-practitioners adopting the practice of meditation and mindfulness has a tendency to coincide with a change of identity.

When a person acts on behalf of others they may act in their self-interest.

Love and kindness meditation where you concentrate on visualizing someone you know being purely happy and reciting phrases to with them well.

An object’s likeness that is very similar to another, but slightly off which evokes an eerie negative reaction.

The virus and pandemic of COVID-19 serves as a container for people to project their own fears, beliefs, and ascribed meaning.

Seeing patterns or interpreting meaning in randomness that is not truly there.

Collaboration is low-bandwidth if the mediums in which groups of people coordinate require little resources.

Learning a programming language that is immature and substantially different from what’s commonly used in the industry makes you faster at programming, specifically debugging and unblocking.

When working remotely, teams rely on low-bandwidth collaboration (e.g. video conferencing).

From a talk by Bret Victor where he talks about the principle of getting immediate feedback in a tight loop with whatever you are building.

Baumeister and Tice introduced the concept that willpower is a finite resource that can be exhausted when used because it requires mental energy.

A command line interface for a web application that seamlessly blends text based user input and graphical UI elements for output.

Doing things fast has more primary and second-order benefits than we realize which makes it hard to conceptualize its full value.