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Strong Startup Advice

A collection of strong advice for those doing startups....

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sf: instant scratch folders

a bash one-liner...

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Microprogramming: A New Way to Program

All jobs done by large monolithic software programs can be done better by a collection of small micr...

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The Liver Turns On and Off

Is your liver on right now? You can find out with a drop of blood....

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Make Something You Love

I finally built a product I love....

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Flaws in Heaven

A Redditor gets hit by a truck...

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The Galton Board

Mark Hebner and his team have refined an 1889 invention from Francis Galton and made a version you c...

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Advice to the current batch of YCombinator companies: demand carry

I emailed this letter to the public companies in the current YCombinator batch....

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Particle Chain: A New Kind of Blockchain

Trust, _and understand_....

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Humans

I dont care for the heels, she said....

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Nature's Eternal Omen: Do not ignore me.

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Why Warpcast should not add blocking

Blocking misleads...

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A Review of the South Park Commons Rejection Letter

Two weeks ago I applied for the South Park Commons Founder Fellowship....

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PAU: Patient Accessible and Understandable health records

In 2019 I led some research into building next-gen medical records based on some breakthroughs in co...

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The Journey of the Ketones

Naked bodies in Las Vegas...

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Part Assholes are Awesome

Anyone not part asshole is full of shit...

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David's Last Letter

I received sad news today that David Bangert passed away. I met David and Sandy in 2019 through Hawa...

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Abraham Lincoln: "Discourage Litigation."

Stephan Kinsella reposted a great 1850s quote from Abraham Lincoln on litigation....

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ETA!: A Measure of Evolution

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Early Source

A New Business Model for Public Domain Software...

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Vest Early. Vest Often.

Silicon Valley Should Eliminate the 1 Year Cliff...

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IPDD

A child draws....

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CheckBox: An Online + Offline Voting System

In 2013 my friends and I won the Liberty Hackathon in San Francisco....

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The World Wide Scroll

After years of development, Im looking for beta testers for The World Wide Scroll (WWS)....

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Download this Blog

Websites dont need web servers....

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ICS: A Measure of Intelligence

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PTCRI: An Equation about Syntax Potential

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Breck's Lab

See where technology is going before your competitors...

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The Choice

Ill give you this library, the billionaire said, sweeping his arms up toward the majestic ceiling...

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Patch: a micro language to make pretty deep links easy

Patch is a tiny Javascript class (1k compressed) with zero dependencies that makes pretty deep links...

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Bring back RadioShack?

You once could buy transistors, capacitors, and other components at your local neighborhood store. T...

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What can we learn from programming language version numbers?

Analyzing the version numbers of 621 programming languages...

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Abort Bars

A Suggested Improvement to Progress Bars...

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The Omni Restaurant

A famous celebrity passes away and wakes up on a beach....

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ScrollSets: A New Way to Store Knowledge

HTML | TXT | PDF...

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High Impact Thoughts

Leibniz thought of Binary Notation; Lovelace of Computers; Darwin of Evolution; Marconi of the Wirel...

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PMF Mirages

I typed `tail -f pageViews.log` into my console....

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The law favors ChatGPT over humans

AIs may train on everything. You may not....

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Corporate Email

The Four Seasons website says...

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Marks

That charts work at all is amazing....

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The Tallest Tree

The boy looked up at the tree that was ten times taller than the others....

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Three Scientists Go To Heaven

Newton, Darwin, and a modern Scientist go to heaven....

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Hypothermia

Bad models of the world can be dangerous....

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Energy Clocks

Kathmandu and ATP...

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A Higher Language

I was walking in the woods and saw a path on my right. I had never seen this path before....

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Hot Coffee

Datasets are automated tests for world models...

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Big O's Kitchen

Menu Instructions...

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The Fastest in the World

The girl lost the race....

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Ketones vs Lithium

I pricked my finger and moved a disposable ketone measuring stick into the newly formed drop of bloo...

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The Future of the Term "Bipolar Disorder"

Now that I am writing more about Bipolar Disorder, and even have a category page for the term, I tho...

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Blog Posts, Sorted by Sleep

Have you ever examined the correlation between your writing behavior and sleep?...

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Do Human Brains Molt?

I just saw Dune 2 at the theater, but far more noteworthy is this YouTube of a lobster molting. I ca...

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Final Tree Notation Report

It has been over 3 years since I published the 2019 Tree Notation Annual Report. An update is long...

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The Box Method of Science

Given a box with side _S_, over a certain timespan _t_, with minimum voxel resolution _V_, how many ...

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Open-Mindedness

What is open-mindedness, from first principles? Here are some musings....

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A Different Kind of Mindmap

In the near future AI will be able to generate an _extensive_ list and rating of all of the skills i...

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Synthesizing Knowledge

Everyone wants Optimal Answers to their Questions. What is an _Optimal_ Answer? An Optimal Answer is...

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The Brain Pilot Model of Bipolar Disorder

A lot of people, including me, are excited about an ambitious new research effort to see if bipolar ...

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Why do we subsidize lies?

The color of the cup on my desk is black....

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Beliefs

What does it mean to say a person believes _X_, where _X_ is a series of words?...

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What is the role of the bipolar in society?

It is estimated 2% of the population is bipolar. Sunday I explored: what if that was 98%? And today ...

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Stable Mood Disorder

In our universe, an estimated 2% of humans have bipolar disorder. Imagine a universe where that rati...

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Becoming a High Energy Person

Approximately every eighteen months, I start transitioning from a low energy person to a high energy...

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Blogging as Therapy

I have kept this blog going for 14 years, through good times and bad. One thing Ive noticed, partic...

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Delusions

This is a post about delusions. In society and in myself....

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On Eating Animals

I went to a plastination exhibit for the first time last week. I got so much out of the visit and hi...

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Focusing on Bipolar Disorder

Assuming I keep blogging, which I hope I manage to do, I expect my posts will largely be about bipol...

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Keto for bipolar was not talked about until very recently

I started a ketogenic diet as a treatment for bipolar disorder 97 days ago, on October 19th, 2023, a...

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Words are Worse than Weights

For decades I had a bet that worked in good times and bad: time you invest in word skills easily pay...

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If nature is doing it...

You can easily imagine inventions that humans have never built before. How does one filter which of ...

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Could in vitro brains power AI?

The advance of AGI is _currently_ stoppable...

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Writing in 2024

Happy New Year!...

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I thought we could build AI experts by hand

I thought we could build AI experts by hand. I bet everything I had to make that happen. I placed my...

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A Manic Startup

I am so disappointed in myself for having yet another manic cycle and hurting the people I love. Im...

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A Proposal to Solve Government Forms Worldwide, Forever

Here is an idea for a simple infrastructure to power all government forms, all over the world. This ...

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Many Narratives. All true.

I often write about the unreliability of narratives. It is even worse than I thought. Trying to writ...

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Live Free or AGI

When I was a kid we would drive up to New Hampshire and all the cars had license plates that said L...

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A Mathematical Model of Copyright

What is copyright, from first principles? This essay introduces a mathematical model of a *world wit...

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Walking and other invisible tools of thought

There are tools of thought you can see: pen paper, mathematical notation, computer aided design ap...

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The Magnificent Multi-Agent Mind of Marvin Minsky

If you want to understand the mind, start with Marvin Minsky. There are many people that claim to be...

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Enchained Symbols

Enchained symbols are strictly worse than free symbols. Enchained symbols serve their owner first, n...

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A Public Domain Human

Open sourcing more of my life for honesty...

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SafeFS

_Or: If lawyers invented a filesystem_...

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Use the Spine

Greater than 99% of the time symbols are read and written on surfaces with spines....

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One Textarea

Forget all the best practices youve learned about web forms....

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Root Thinking

I dislike the term _first principles thinking_. Its vaguer than it needs to be. I present an altern...

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Replies always welcome

The waitress puts her earmuffs on....

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Training a neural network to spot misinformation and fake news from a single image

Today Im announcing the release of the image above, which is sufficient training data to train a ne...

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A scratch ticket with a positive expected value

In 2007 we came up with an idea for a scratch ticket that would give everyday Americans a positive e...

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Cancer and Copyright

Every second your body makes 2.83 million new cells. If you studied _just one_ of those cells from a...

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An Angel Investor's Data

Theres a trend where people are publishing _real data first_, and then insights. Here is my data fr...

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How the public domain can win

Public domain products are strictly superior to equivalent non-public domain alternatives by a signi...

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The Three Byte Fix

A Small Open Source Success Story...

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Upstream of Everything

There will always be truths upstream that we will never be able to see, that are far more important ...

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Brain Pilots

Introduction...

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Aftertext

An alternative to inline markup...

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Write Thin to Write Fast

I constantly seek ways to improve my writing....

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User Methods

In this essay Im going to talk about a design pattern in writing applications that requires effecti...

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Goblin Interviews Alexandra Elbakian

In this video Dmitry Puchkov interviews Alexandra Elbakian. I do not speak Russian but had it transl...

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Scrolldown now has Dialogues

Dialogues seem to be a really common pattern in books and writings throughout history. So Scroll now...

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The Intellectual Freedom Amendment

Are you anti-copyright and anti-patent? Then this post is for you....

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Some old blogs

I found it mildly interesting to dig up my earlier blogs and put them in this git. This folder conta...

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Strong Advice

I split advice into two categories:...

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Logeracy

I invented a new word: *_Logeracy_*^coinage. I define it as the ability to think in logarithms. It m...

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How to fix the CDC

*The CDC needs to move to Git*. The CDC needs to move pretty much _everything to Git_. And they shou...

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How James Park built FitBit

Introduction...

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Insist on Focus - Keith Rabois describes working at PayPal

I read an interesting Twitter thread on focus strategy. That led me to the 3-minute YouTube video In...

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The Public Domain Publishing Company

I thought it unlikely that Id actually cofound another startup, but here we are. Sometimes you gott...

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Scroll Beta

Today Im launching the beta of something new called Scroll....

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Sleepy Time Conference

The conference that comes together while you sleep....

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2019 Tree Notation Annual Report

_Note: I wrote this early draft in February 2020, but COVID-19 happened and somehow 11 months went b...

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Medical Records to the Moon

A paradigm change is coming to medical records. In this post I do some back-of-the-envelope math to ...

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Musing on the Future of Healthcare

I expect the future of healthcare will be powered by consumer devices. Devices you wear. Devices you...

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How Old Are These Keys? Five Eras of Human Progress

One of the questions I often come back to is this: how much of our collective wealth is inherited by...

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An Unpopular Phrase

One of the most _un_popular phrases I use is the phrase Intellectual Slavery Laws....

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Integrity and Perseverance in Business ensure success (1853)

In 1851 Ezekiel G. Folsom incorporated Folsoms Mercantile College in Ohio....

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Building a TreeBase with 6.5 million files

In this long post Im going to do a stupid thing and see what happens. Specifically Im going to cre...

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Dataset Needed

People make biased claims all the time. A decent response used to be citation needed. But we shoul...

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Type the World

In this post I briefly describe eleven threads in languages and programming. Then I try to connect t...

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If stories are lies why do they work?

I often rail against narratives. Stories always oversimplify things, have hindsight bias, and often ...

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Dreaming of a Data Checked Language

span class=redSquigSpeling/span errors and span class=greenSquigerrors grammar/span are ...

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English cannot encode Real News

The Attempt to Capture Truth...

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30,000 Hours

In 2013 I sent a brief email to 25 programmers whose programs I admired....

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Removing the 2’s from Trinary Notation is a Terrible Idea.

Recently some naive fool proposed removing the “2s” from our beloved Trinary Notation....

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Going Manic with a FitBit

This is a story about how my FitBit logged a manic episode....

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PAC: Particles Are Complexity

Yet another method for counting complexity....

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Parsers: a language for making languages

I introduce the core idea of a new language for making languages....

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Ohayo

I just pushed a project Ive been working on called Ohayo....

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A New Discovery in Computer Science: 2-Dimensional Programming Languages

*Eureka!* I wanted to announce something small, but slightly novel, and potentially useful....

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Tree Notation: an antifragile program notation

This paper presents Tree Notation, a new simple, universal syntax. Language designers can invent new...

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Big Data Notation

A Suggestion for a Simple Notation...

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NudgePad: An IDE in Your Browser

Making websites is slow and frustrating....

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ScrollNet: A successor to the Internet

I have an idea for a simpler Internet, where a human could hold in their head, how it all works, all...

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Software Should Save People Time

For me, the primary motivation for creating software is to save myself and other people time....

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Time

Two people in the same forest,...

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Money is Meant to Circulate

I love Marconis simple and clear view of money. Money came in and he put it to good use. Quickly. H...

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Why 10,000 hours?

Why does it take 10,000 hours to become a master of something, and not 1,000 hours or 100,000 hours?...

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Minor Epiphanies

A kid says _Mommy_ or _Daddy_ or _Jack_ or _Jill_ hundreds of times before grasping the concept of a...

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The Booster Design Pattern

If your software project is going to have a long life, it may benefit from Boosters. A Booster is so...

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Startups and Planes

It is a popular misconception that most startups need to fail. We expect 0% of planes to crash. Yet ...

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Save Your Money for Great Values

Some purchasing decisions are drastically better than others. You might spend $20 on a ticket to a c...

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Infinite Futures

You shouldnt plan for _the_ future. You should plan for *one of many* futures....

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Prove It

I love that phrase....

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The Great Bank Robbery

If you are poor, your money could be safer under the mattress than in the bank:...

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Responsibility

Entrepreneurship is taking responsibility for a problem you did not create....

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Black Swans and Technology

For the past year Ive been raving about Node.js, so I cracked a huge smile when I saw this question...

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Deliver

For a long time Ive believed that underpromising and overdelivering is a trait of successful busine...

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Can't Lose. Could Win Big.

One of Nassim Talebs big recommendations for how to live in an uncertain world is to follow a barbe...

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Probability Makes Planes Fly

My whole life Ive been trying to understand how the world works. How do planes fly? How do computer...

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Narratives Misrepresent Complex Systems

When I was a kid I loved reading the Family Circus. My favorite strips were the dotted lines ones,...

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Simple is...

*Concise but not cryptic*. e=mc² is precise and not too cryptic. Shell commands, such as `chmod -R 7...

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Introducing Note

Note is a structured, human readable, concise language for encoding data....

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Planets and Pebbles

For todo lists, I created a system I call planets and pebbles....

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Publishing More

I published 55 essays here the first year. The second and third years combined, that number nosedive...

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Setplicity

Is simplicity ever bad? If you had asked me this a year ago, I probably would have called you a fu...

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Naming Things

I love to name things....

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What can a Programmer learn from Rock Climbing?

Railay is a tiny little beach town in Southern Thailand famous for its rock climbing....

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Look for a Line

A good friend passed along some business advice to me a few months ago. Look for a line, he said. ...

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Backpack the World with Zero Planning

_I havent written in a long while because im currently on a long trip around the world. at the mom...

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The Economy Explained

I was an Economics major in college but in hindsight I dont like the way it was taught. I came away...

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Circle of Competence

Warren Buffet claims to follow an investment strategy of staying within his circle of competence. ...

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Critical Thinking

I have a feeling critical thinking gets the least amount of brains resources. The trick is to criti...

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How is Intelligence Distributed?

Ive been working on a fun side project of categorizing things into Mediocristan or Extremistan(insp...

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Kids are Neat

Maybe Im getting old, but Im starting to think the best way to change the world isnt to bust yo...

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Nature Verse Nurture

Genetics, aka nature, plays the dominant role in predicting most aspects of your life, in my estimat...

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Recommendations Are Far From Good

Doctors used to recommend leeches to cure a whole variety of illnesses. That seems laughable today. ...

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Ruby

Ruby is an awesome language. Ive come to the conclusion that I enjoy it more than Python for the si...

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You Can't Predict the Future

Ive been very surprised to discover how unpredictable the future is. As you try to predict farther ...

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The Recency Effect

Your most recent experiences effect you the most. Reading this essay will effect you the most today ...

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What Percentage of the Brain Does What?

_Note: Sometimes Ill write a post about something I dont understand at all. I am not a neuroscient...

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The Ovarian Lottery and Other Side Projects

Ive had some free time the past two weeks to work on a few random ideas Ive had....

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Happiness is in Mediocristan

Three unexpected things have happened to me during my two years of entrepreneurial pursuits in Calif...

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Orbits

In February I celebrated my 26th Orbit. I am 26 orbits old. How many orbits are you?...

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What I Want

Figuring out what you want in life is very hard. No one tells you exactly what you want. You have to...

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The Do You Know Game and Why We Need Celebrities

Last night over dinner we had an interesting conversation about why we care about celebrities. Here...

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Design Matters. A lot.

A year ago I wrote a post titled The Truth about Web Design where I briefly argued that design does...

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Competition and Specialization

Competition and specialization are generally positive economics forces. Whats interesting is that t...

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Simple, but not easy

Doing a startup is surprisingly simple. You have to start by creating a product that people must hav...

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Flip Flopping

Every Sunday night in college my fraternity would gather in the commons room for a brother meeting...

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The Churn Rate of Data

I think its interesting to ponder the value of information over its lifetime....

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Culture and Complexity

Have you heard of the Emperor Penguins? Its a species of penguins that journeys 30-75 miles across ...

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The Invention of Free Will

Or..We Think we have Free Will because we only Observe One Path....

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Why is it best to do one thing really, really well?

Google has a list of 10 principles that guide its actions. Number 2 on this list is:...

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The Hidden Benefits of Automation

If you automate a process which you repeat _Y_ times, that takes _X_ minutes, what would your payoff...

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Metrics for Programmers

I wrote a simple php program called phpcodestat that computes some simple statistics for any given d...

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HackerNews Data: Visits as a Function of Karma

If a post on HackerNews gets more points, it gets more visits....

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Don't talk about what you will do, talk about what you have done

All the time I overhear people saying things like I will start exercising everyday or We will shi...

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Why it's worth it to buy the book

If a book is worth reading, its worth buying too....

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The Least You Can Do

My room was always messy. Usually because clothes were strewn everywhere On the floor, on the couch,...

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Four Tips to Improve Communication

Good communication is overcommunication. Very few people overcommmunicate. Undercommunication is muc...

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Network Effects

Network effects are to entrepreneurs what compounding effects are to investors: a key to getting ric...

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If you can explain something logically, you can explain it simply

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With Computers: Don't Repeat Yourself. With People: DO Repeat Yourself

In computer programming, one of the most oft-repeated mottos is DRY: Dont Repeat Yourself....

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When forced to wait, wait!

When a problem you are working on forces you to wait, do you wait or switch tasks?...

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How to Buy Low, Sell High

Whether youre an entrepreneur, a venture capitalist, a casual investor or just a shopper looking fo...

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Flee the Bubble

Possibly the biggest mistake a web startup can make is to develop in a bubble. This is based on my o...

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Checklist for New Products

At our startup, weve practiced a diversification strategy....

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Diversification in Startups

_2021 Update: I think the model and advice presented here is weak and that this post is not worth re...

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Thoughts on Setting Goals

It is better to set small, meaningful goals than to set wild, audacious goals....

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Problems Worth Solving

Programming, ultimately, is about solving problems. Often I make the mistake of judging a programmer...

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Make Something 40% of Your Customers Must Have

If you combine Paul Grahams make something people want advice with Sean Ellis product-market fit...

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SEO Made Easy: LUMPS

The best Search Engine Optimization(SEO) system Ive come across comes from Dennis Goedegebuure, SEO...

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Don't Flip the Bit

Do you flip the bit on people?...

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(un)features

Jason Fried from 37signals gave a great talk at startup school last month. At one point he said sof...

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Get Stuff Done By Setting Arbitrary Constraints

Employees and students receive deadlines, due dates, goals, guidelines, instructions and milestones ...

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Why You Shouldn't Save Blogging for Old Age

A lot of people have the idea that maybe one day theyll become rich and famous and then write a boo...

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6 Specific Ways to Find Programming Mentors

Finding experienced mentors and peers might be the most important thing you can do if you want to be...

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Orders of Magnitude

Do you think in Orders of Magnitude? You should....

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The Many Worlds Law

Imagine you are eating dinner with 9 friends and you all agree to play Credit Card Roulette. Credit ...

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Twelve Tips to Master Programming Faster

Do you want to become a great coder? Do you have a *passion* for computers but not a thorough unders...

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What's Linear Algebra?

What would happen if instead of writing about subjects you understood, you wrote about subjects you ...

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Fiction or Nonfiction?

What books have changed your life? Seriously, pause for a few minutes and think about the question. ...

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Experience is What You Get

How many times have you struggled towards a goal only to come up short? How many times have bad thin...

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I'm Back

Decided to blog again. I missed it. Writing publicly, even when you only get 3 readers, two of which...

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What you focus on, increases

There’s a discussion on a mailing list I belong to about piracy and the iPhone. One of the responder...

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The Truth about Web Design

Here’s what I’m going to assume: craigslist, Google, and eBay do not have very pretty designs. How c...

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Twitter Search Wins Again

Twitter Search is starting to replace a ton of websites that I used to visit....

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Irrational Numbers

There’s a post currently on Hacker News that discusses irrational numbers. A long time ago irrationa...

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Are you Making Something that will become ‘Absolutely Irrelevant’?

I’m reading a fascinating biography of Warren Buffett right now(Snowball)....

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Meteorite Caught on Film

A bright meteorite was caught on film in Canada this week....

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When the Market Says No, Listen

I just want to share the most valuable piece of Internet startup advice I possess....

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San Francisco

Got in to San Fran last night. Moved in to the Mission District with college buddies. I expect to be...

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JustHackIt

This evening JustHackIt.com launched. Before you co-found a company, you need to find good co-founde...

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Bigger Telescopes are needed to Solve Global Warming

On August 31, 1854, a Londoner living on Broad Street fell ill with cholera and died. In three days,...

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How to Cure the Hiccups

The hiccups have been cured. Want to know what the secret is?...

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Trying Shelfari, GoodReads, and LibraryThing

Decided to try out one of these book social networks to see if I can find some important books I sho...

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Over Half of the World is Older Than Me

It’s nice to know that more than 50% of the people alive today have been around for longer than I h...

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Bloggers Turning Pro

After months of deliberation, I’ve decided to quit my day job and work on my blog full time....

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Daily Gas Use for the United States and the World

The other day I wrote a post on How much Gas Americans use per day. The answer is 400 Million Gallon...

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Analyzing the Hacker News Users’ Join Dates, Karma, and Profiles

xirium posted a tarball of all the individual profile pages for HackerNews readers(minus lurkers and...

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First Place in the Stock Market Game

So after 1 year, my Fantasy Stock Portfolio returned a little over 150%, which was enough to capture...

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Why a Team is Worth a lot more than an Idea

Every successful person in the startup world will tell you that the most important part of any start...

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Learning How to Program Part I

I thought today I’d write my first post on programming. I have always been very passionate about com...

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I guess the time has come

For a few years, GoDaddy kept alerting me that BreckYunits.com was available and I should buy fast b...

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