2025 |
July | |
4 |
The suspicion
|
4 |
Types and tests and console.logs
|
4 |
Joy and power (then trust)
|
June | |
27 |
Misfit and smooth fit
|
23 |
Simple is vulnerable
|
15 |
Speed of movement and speed of fire
|
15 |
The two saving graces
|
15 |
The sequence of four
|
15 |
Why I run
|
12 |
LLMs are the new computers
|
12 |
Beyond brute force evolution
|
12 |
Planning and living structure
|
11 |
LLM outputs need probabilities
|
9 |
Machine, platform, language, not application
|
5 |
Being fat is a trap
|
4 |
Why most old data systems were better than today’s
|
May | |
26 |
Make abundance happen
|
26 |
A long-term archiving medium
|
26 |
Some tips for off-race ultra running
|
20 |
Open AI
|
20 |
The qualities of a technical leader
|
8 |
The Ancient Startup
|
8 |
Amortality is uncomfortable to contemplate
|
6 |
Notes on Fustel – The Ancient City
|
April | |
18 |
The 80/20 bins
|
15 |
This is it
|
14 |
Things I learned from Bryan Johnson
|
2 |
Don’t say you are nontechnical
|
March | |
21 |
Morality as consistency
|
18 |
Text based productivity
|
4 |
Software is the new hardware, LLMs are the new software
|
February | |
28 |
The invitation
|
25 |
The three values
|
12 |
Seek validation not recognition
|
12 |
Entrepreneurs are steppe peoples
|
10 |
Setting up multiple HTTPS nodes with a LB in front
|
10 |
Incentives rule
|
4 |
Two more thoughts on LLMs
|
3 |
Don’t use people
|
January | |
30 |
The Reverse Murphy’s Law
|
22 |
Notes on Harari – Nexus
|
21 |
Three thoughts on the summer of AI
|
2024 |
October | |
18 |
A tip for cold water dipping
|
17 |
A righteous mob is still a mob
|
1 |
Bold, kind, lazy
|
September | |
28 |
Surface testing
|
24 |
Thoughts on the edge
|
24 |
Devops as a startup derisker
|
11 |
Four Things I Did Differently When Writing a Frontend Framework
|
July | |
4 |
Summary of actions from The Art of Less Doing
|
2 |
On Simplicity and Understanding
|
2 |
Why Redis is beautiful
|
January | |
22 |
The appeal of fascism
|
2023 |
June | |
25 |
100x
|
25 |
New leanup experiment: the sauerup
|
16 |
Phenotypic evolution
|
February | |
27 |
Notes on Clarke-Fields – Raising Good Humans
|
2022 |
December | |
26 |
Failed leaning up experiment & new experiment
|
5 |
Experiment: a moderate leaning up protocol
|
October | |
26 |
Notes on Burkeman – Four Thousand Weeks
|
August | |
24 |
From 20% to 10% body fat: summary
|
23 |
Notes on Meisel – The Art of Less Doing
|
15 |
From 20% to 10% body fat: week 16 report
|
8 |
From 20% to 10% body fat: week 15 report
|
1 |
From 20% to 10% body fat: week 14 report
|
July | |
25 |
From 20% to 10% body fat: week 13 report
|
18 |
From 20% to 10% body fat: week 12 report
|
12 |
From 20% to 10% body fat: week 11 report
|
4 |
Murphy’s Law Applied to the Sleep of Parents of Young Children
|
4 |
From 20% to 10% body fat: week 10 report
|
4 |
From 20% to 10% body fat: week 9 report
|
4 |
From 20% to 10% body fat: week 8 report
|
4 |
From 20% to 10% body fat: week 7 report
|
4 |
From 20% to 10% body fat: week 6 report
|
4 |
From 20% to 10% body fat: week 5 report
|
4 |
From 20% to 10% body fat: week 4 report
|
May | |
16 |
From 20% to 10% body fat: week 3 report
|
9 |
From 20% to 10% body fat: week 2 report
|
2 |
From 20% to 10% body fat: week 1 report
|
April | |
25 |
Challenge: from 20% to 10% body fat in 16 weeks
|
March | |
2 |
Notes on Clear – Atomic Habits
|
February | |
6 |
An idea to stop incoming asteroids
|
January | |
19 |
Yearly review – 2021
|
2021 |
November | |
17 |
Notes on Walker – Why We Sleep
|
July | |
19 |
Notes on Foer – Moonwalking with Einstein
|
June | |
13 |
An idea to read literature in languages you semi-understand
|
13 |
Notes on Seinfeld on Ferriss
|
May | |
28 |
Notes on Acosta & Hutchison – The Happiest Kids in the World
|
28 |
Notes on Roth – Breaking Free from Emotional Eating
|
16 |
Don’t fight the system
|
March | |
15 |
Notes on Lorayne & Lucas – The Memory Book
|
February | |
19 |
An owl’s morning
|
2 |
Yearly review – 2020
|
2 |
Quarterly review – Q4 2020
|
January | |
26 |
Notes on Jasny – Soviet Industrialization (1928-1952)
|
2020 |
November | |
1 |
Quarterly review – Q3 2020
|
June | |
28 |
Quarterly review – Q2 2020
|
11 |
The dawn of econology
|
April | |
5 |
How to be less distracted
|
March | |
30 |
Quarterly review – Q1 2020
|
15 |
A conversation with Jeremy Jung
|
February | |
11 |
Notes on living creatively
|
January | |
8 |
A bulletproof day-starting routine
|
8 |
A 12-week challenge
|
2 |
My goals for 2020
|
2 |
No exit
|
2 |
Body fat is debt
|
2 |
Be a maker, not a doer
|
2 |
Work, not jobs
|
2 |
Clues from Blue’s Clues
|
2 |
Technical debt
|
2 |
Why I use ES5 Javascript
|
2019 |
September | |
18 |
Some notes on habits
|
July | |
4 |
No mountains of the dead
|
4 |
C++ is to C as ES>5 js is to ES5 js
|
May | |
8 |
On software simplicity
|
2018 |
August | |
6 |
My notes on learning React
|
July | |
25 |
Asymptotic software
|
25 |
Running a user script through cron
|
25 |
Notes on setting up EC2 Autoscaling
|
16 |
A restatement of the manifesto
|
15 |
Frontend patterns
|
2017 |
December | |
25 |
Hard, simple, rewarding
|
October | |
12 |
A Manifesto for Progress in the Twenty-First Century
|
2 |
Building your own frontend framework
|
September | |
27 |
hexnot: an experimental musical notation
|
March | |
5 |
Two months into 2017
|
2016 |
December | |
30 |
My goals for 2017
|
20 |
The double life
|
5 |
How I stopped hating code testing
|
August | |
4 |
The reducer: a new agile role
|
June | |
13 |
Reconsidering declarative programming
|
May | |
24 |
Programming is making things
|
February | |
29 |
Debugging, explained
|
20 |
Millions of users, thousands of paying users
|
20 |
Write your own
|
January | |
19 |
Instead of the news
|
17 |
Heuristic definition of an expression
|
2015 |
September | |
19 |
Learning Russian with third rate ideas
|
16 |
Use fixed package versions in node.js projects
|
15 |
Solving the type detection problem in javascript
|
15 |
The 80/20 principle applied to diet
|
7 |
Creating DSLs with javascript object literals
|
7 |
The SELECT problem in redis
|
2012 |
August | |
14 |
Spaces in code
|
July | |
15 |
Don’t swap!
|
14 |
Read the masters
|
11 |
Why you should almost always choose Redis as your database
|
9 |
A web startup is a technological endeavor
|
9 |
Three ideas from Derek Sivers
|