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Workflows Are More Useful Than Solutions
In our day-to-day lives we use a collection of products and homegrown tools to do our work.
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Tools for Networked Thought
Tools that enable connections between ideas and memories help to improve the growth of accumulated knowledge.
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Sword of Damocles
A parable of where Damocles who, after exulting how nice it must be to be king was offered to switch places with the king Dionysius for a day.
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Flesch Reading Ease Test
Determines the grade level required to read a text based on a score of average sentence length and average syllables per word.
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The Significance of Persistence in Predicting Economic Outcomes
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.
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Rust
A statically typed programming language which enforces writing code that is free from certain memory errors (use after free, dangling pointers).
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Melissa Dell
Economist and professor at Harvard, winner of the John Bates Clark Medal.
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Eigenvector Goals
Setting a goal around a metric that is the result of the output of other metrics and goals being driven.
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Tim Ferris
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.
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Felt Sense
Something that can be perceived that is not based on a physical sensation such as intuiting or a gut feeling.
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Atomic Habits
A book about building systems of small habits that compound over time.
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Actions Should Be Dictated by Values, Not Emotions
It’s healthier to determine the actions you take based on your values rather than your emotional state.
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Software Architectural Pattern
A way of organizing code and abstracting concepts to build a software system often with the goals of robustness, reliability, extensibility, performance, and correctness.
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Event Sourcing
A method for representing state of a system using immutable events over time that can be aggregated to derive state at a particular moment.
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ECS
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.
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In-Group Favoritism
The tendency to give preferential treatment to those belonging to the one’s in-group over one’s out-group.
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Belief Congruence Theory
The theory that belief is more significant than race in determining racial or ethnic discrimination.
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The Universe Is Not Infinite
A theory that the universe is actually finite due to having a nontrivial topology (i.
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Janna Levin
Theoretical cosmologist who researches black holes and gravitational waves. In particular, the universe is finite in size.
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A Pervert's Guide to Ideology
A film where Slavoj Žižek uses other films to analyze ideology.
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Incremental Writing
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.
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Cooperative Cryptonetwork
Applying crypto/blockchain concepts (e.g. proof of work, aligning incentives) to building large scale co-ops that require cooperation and governance.
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Load-Bearing Quirks
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.
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Emotional Thermometer
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.