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.

The reason there are far fewer engineering management blogs compared to software development blogs not because there is a small supply of managers who can write blogs, but because managers are secretly worried they are doing it completely wrong (imposter syndrome).

Hot iron is rage and emotion. Cold iron is calculating and unwavering.

Emotion feels like it has extra meaning to us and demands our attention.

People prefer situations where they know the risk. In experiments ran by Daniel Ellsberg, participants were asked to bet on a known 10% chance to win and an unknown chance to win (which was actually 90%).

In mindfulness, calling attention to anything that enters consciousness has the effect of bringing you back to the present moment rather than lost in thought or dwelling on something.

There are more people in the U.S. dying of COVID-19 per day than WWII and the number of total deaths will likely exceed the total U.