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by Thursday24 4y ago
incremental advancement > blowing ourselves up in exuberance tolerable life > interesting life that ends in blow up good enough > good I feel "universal good" is too high a standard (pure fantasy even) for our species. I
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by Thursday24 4y ago
One way to really understand the organisational BS phenomenon is to study the really old books on administration. Read China's Han Feizi, Legalism; India's Chanakyan Arthashastra; Perhaps even Machiavelli (less recommended - since
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by Thursday24 4y ago
This inspires me to start creating cards as well. > Today, my Anki has 4415 cards and grows everyday. I have spent 186 hours studying, I have made around 35K card reviews. Do you have any personal reflections on what sort of cards worked
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Ask HN: Anyone using Anki/Spaced-repetition successfully?
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The Grid: Daily Planner for Better Time Management(durmonski.com)
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Applications and Misapplications of Cognitive Psychology to Math Education(act-r.psy.cmu.edu)
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Future of Reading Depends on the Future of Learning Difficult to Learn Things [pdf](docs.huihoo.com)
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by Thursday24 4y ago
In my experience, Django docs are on a totally different level: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.0/
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On the Difficulty in Speaking – Han Feizi(www2.iath.virginia.edu)
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by Thursday24 4y ago
George Polya's "How to solve it" taught me how to think better, in engineering, mathematics & problem solving. After going through the whole thing, and solving a few of the exercises, I feel like I get stuck less compared
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Donald Knuth on work habits, problem solving, and happiness (2020)(shuvomoy.github.io)
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by Thursday24 4y ago
Minsky labelled our minds "difference engines". This means, we work best with a goal. The moment some sort of goal is set, the mind keeps diffing goal and your current position continuously. Given this framework, I always tend to
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Software Engineering at Google (Web Version)(abseil.io)
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Mind tools: The five levels of mathematical reality(rudyrucker.com)
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Does Thinking Hard Burn More Calories?(scientificamerican.com)
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Go Concurrency Exercises(github.com)
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Polya explains the problem solving technique(youtube.com)
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The Sun in High Resolution(esa.int)
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Making Wise Decisions: A Checklist(cheapwisdom.wordpress.com)
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The News.YC Ranking Formula(righto.com)
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by Thursday24 5y ago
Read "Why greatness cannot be planned: The myth of the objective" for understanding the context of my response. The key trope shown in this book is the power of "treasure hunter" agents & the benefits of following &q
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by Thursday24 5y ago
Happiness is a "skill", not simply a "decision". A skill has to be learnt from the very basics, practiced day to day, and ultimately perfected to the point where the behaviour becomes second nature. Playing the mind skil
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Anticipating Pain Is Worse Than Feeling It(hbr.org)
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by Thursday24 5y ago
The eastern traditions encourage something called "Skilled interpretation". What's skilled interpreations? Picking causes that cause happiness, avoiding causes that lead to unhappiness. And to train the mind in such a way tha
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Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses(philip.greenspun.com)
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The number one trait a successful developer needs(web.archive.org)
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How Google Code Search Worked(swtch.com)
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The Hacker's Diet(fourmilab.ch)
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by Thursday24 5y ago
Goes well with the nicely formatted, media enhanced web version of the book here: http://aurellem.org/society-of-mind/
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Fear of missing out on software? You ain't missing out(nadh.in)
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