why were you late?
Here’s a story that I often tell people, and it’s useful enough that it’s worth writing up to share with mor
it’s just math
when I was at 50 or 500 followers if I said I was going to have 50,000, people wouldve said Iβm arrogant. (I didnβt say ex
seek excellent peers
Whenever people ask things like “your best advice in 3-4 words” etc, I always go with “seek excellent peers&
influences
Sometimes people wanna know who my influences are. It’s tough to assemble a perfect or exhaustive list, but here’s
Most People
I’ve been sharing this set of notes more and more as time goes by. I suppose you could say most people care too much abo
π the library ethos
John Locke: “Books seem to me to be pestilent things, and infect all that trade in them… with something very perve
ππΎ how to ask for help
One of my new personal rules for myself is, if something annoys me, I’m going to funnel that into content that I can ref
π the 4 kinds of luck
“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” β apocryphal quote typically attributed to Seneca I
β‘οΈ pay it forward
When I was a broke teenager, my older friends often insisted on paying for drinks or meals. I used to feel a potent mix of gra
π¬ practice good reply game
There is an art to replying and commenting, and probably like 60-70% of people Iβve seen on the internet fail at it. The imp
π« relationships are challenging + a lot of work
Preamble: Hello everyone! This post has been getting shared a little bit, so I thought it might be worth taking some time to p
ππΎ an oral history of my relationship with religion
Thought Iβd write about my thoughts about religion, and how my perspective on it has changed from my childhood to the presen
Politics and the English language [2016]
The following is my attempt to update George Orwell’s essay Politics and the English Language [1946] for modern reading.
β° one must imagine Sisyphus LOL-ing
Life, particularly in modern civilization, is an absurd circus. Weβre all clowns living in boxes trying to amuse ourselves w
π€ how to build and maintain communities
This blogpost started out as a bunch of notes and links, and I found myself sharing it with people over and over again so much