Remembering the Queen
From this article in the Atlantic >The second Elizabeth was born on April 21, 1926, and has reigned over Britain since 1952. She was six weeks older than Marilyn Monroe, three years older than Ann…
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Scenes from a night-time stroll…
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Some motivation by Charles Bukowski (on writing, but IMO more general): From here: if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it comes unasked out of…
On the necessity of Engineering Managers (!)
Wise words from this thread > I work with a lot of technical founders who struggle to accept the inevitable truth that taking the time to specify, coordinate, and resource what they want to do lea…
Golden Sections
I was inspired by this short Randall Carlson episode to re-construct the diagram in Wolfram Mathematica. It is a geometric construction of "the golden mean", and then viewing it as a ratio,…
Monthly Summary: Aug 2022
Major update(s) * Nearly a week in Big Island * A month-long saga of problems with my car came to an end, able to drive again Minor update(s) * Playdates * School re-opened!…
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Late night #Youtube leads to: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS9oPdlax0s&w=560&h=315]…
What's in a name
Three years ago, the New York Times published this article. It was about "the fourth spy" at Los Alamos (in addition to the previously known ones, Klaus Fuchs, Theodore Hall, and David Gree…
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On food security and the end of abundance…
Long 90s
While I was browsing the selection of streaming movies recently, and looking at the year each was made, I realized that in some subjective sense the kind of movies changed around 2011-13. For example…
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Wisdom from HackerNews: > The longer I am a software engineer the longer I begin to understand that the soft skills are much more important than all the technical skills. For me software engineeri…
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A random doodle…