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Zettelkasten
An analog note taking system that emphasizes connections between atomic ideas.
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Why Aren't Remote Devboxes Used More Often?
It seems like we should have better options for a full fledged, on-demand dev environment, that lives in the cloud, available from any internet connection, and you only pay for what you need.
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Value Signaling
Overtly stating or doing something for the purposes of letting other people know your position on a social issue for fear of being looked down on.
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UX Entropy
User experience for a non-trivial web UI tends to degrade over time as more functionality is added and more engineers add to it.
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UX (User Experience)
The subjective quality of the user’s motivations and feelings towards the interactions with a product.
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UI Crawling
From an entry point uncover all of the possible actions a user could take in a user interface.
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The Incomplete Guide to the Art of Discovery
A book by scientist J.E. Oliver on research and discoveries with thought on how to apply his approach more broadly.
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The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint by Edward Tufte
PowerPoint has low information density. It forces the author to communicate using bullet points whcih incorrectly emphasizes (or de-emphasizes) key information.
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Static Analysis of UX
It seems possible to generate all states of a purely functional UI so that it can be analyzed and audited.
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SCQA
SCQA stands for the *s*ituation, *c*omplication, *q*uestion, and *a*nswer. It’s a way of writing an introduction in a way that clearly communicates the key question a piece of writing will answer.
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Richard Hamming
Mathematician and computer scientist. Important ideas: What matters is working on important problems or work on things that could lead to something important.
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Richard Feynman
Physicist and author of ‘Surely you are joking Mr. Feynman’ who worked on the Manhattan project and won a Nobel Prize.
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Planning AI
A sub field of artificial intelligence (AI) concerned with helping agents generate valid and coherent plans of actions to reach a goal.
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Outward Effects
Applies a result (usually favorable) to an activity e.g. learning (the activity) is valuable because of the outward effect on, for example, being better at one’s job and earning more money
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Niklas Luhmann
A sociologist famed for his prolific output–he wrote 70 books and 400 scholarly articles on a wide range of topics.