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Living an Examined Life
The practice of being mindful about consciousness so that one can be more present and not have their mental states dictated by things out of their control.
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Activities We Relied on for Relief From Every Day Stress and Anxiety Are No Longer Available to Us
In the new normal brought on by COVID-19, typical activities that we rely on to recover and recharge are not available anymore due to the economic shutdown.
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Agent-Based API
A way of modeling an external API provider as a compute resource for executing an agent program.
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Juice
In game design and development, juice is a term for the details that make the game visually interesting and exciting to interact with.
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Games Don't Generalize Well to a Client-Server Model
In video game programming it can be tempting to replicate a client server model similar to how websites work.
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BLUF
Stands for ‘below the line up front’ as a way leading with the conclusion from a memo.
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UXR
User experience research (UXR) is a function that works with users and analyzing data to learn about and test ideas.
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Sapiens
A book by Yuval Noah Harari about the history of humans and how we got to where we are today.
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Developer Minded Users Over Value Building From Scratch
When given the option to start with something pre-built, developer minded users are skeptical they won’t have enough control over the implementation and run into a critical limitation or burden.
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Developer Minded
Users that think about your product in terms of how it will be used and what they need it to do.
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Business Minded
Users that frame decisions by understanding cost, benefits, and want to buy solutions.
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Zettelkasten Is a Mind Map Where Nodes Are Notes
An easy way to explain a Zettelkasten system of taking notes would be to explain it as a mind map (connections between discrete concepts) combined with atomic notes (each note has a single topic).
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Second Brain
A tools for networked thought that allows the user to offload a process into something external to themselves.
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'Removed' Exhibit
A photography exhibit by Eric Pickersgill which shows people in their every day life looking at their phones, but with the phone removed from the image.
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White Fragility
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.
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Slate Star Codex
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Illusory Self
In mindfulness, the practice of meditation aims to deconstruct the ego by observing thoughts and trying to notice where they originate.
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Smart Programmer Fallacy
People tend to conflate the ability to write code and intelligence.
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Colonizing Mercury Is a Better Prospect Than Colonizing Mars
Mercury is a better option for colonization than Mars because of the abundance of solar and thermal energy and availability of water.
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80% of Slack Messages Are Dms
Most messages sent on Slack do not happen in public or private channels, but in DMs.
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Polymorphism
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.
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Bitcoin and Ethereum Use the Same Amount of Electricity as the Country of Austria
A staggering amount of energy is used to power Bitcoin and Ethereum, the two largest blockchains.
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Karura
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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Disintermediation
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