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I have no idea why but paper is just different. My wife has been doing art on her iPad. She noticed the same thing. She found these amazing textured matte screen protectors that give a little microscopic bounce like pen to paper. That may be an alternative to check out!

Thank you for the encouragement. I think that might actually help me reduce the risk aversion I feel about it now.

Is the benefit of Ethereum really larger than the value these intelligent people could be creating in non-crypto industries? I see the allure. They're super hard, super high-stakes problems. Is there really no other industry that provides this level of flow and excitement for these researchers?

The universe is declarative. We just happen to be stuck with state machine interpreters in our skulls that can only parse one moment at a time.

I lost a pocket journal once at a bus stop in the rain. It was thick with thoughts and ramblings and personal information. It was devastating. It was one of my favorite habits but I never took it up again. It's like a pet died or something.

1. I make mind maps and do inline annotation a la marginalia.

2. I haven't figured out a process for compilation but my plan is to condense big concepts into readable texts with the intent of sharing them with others.

3. Spaced repetition works, but it is labor-intensive. I use a combination of spaced repetition, mnemonic images (like Sketchy.com), memory palaces and reflective journaling to process my hands-on experiments.

4. I can combine my mind maps to see connections between texts. For example, maybe one book talks about scalability in passing, and another goes in-depth. If I compare those two maps I can see the gaps between each and it helps me see how the two texts are related.

I was one of those ad sign kids as a teenager. It was mentally brutal. Thank God for podcasts.

The alternate ending changes the tenor of the entire film with just one line of dialogue. Peter is probably dissatisfied on a deeper level than any job could fix. Maybe he would find meaning as an entrepreneur or travelling or dropping out...

https://youtu.be/XK43Ureuiqc

Here's a more readable version for mobile: https://observablehq.com/@iz/the-design-and-long-term-use-of...

No images.

Coincidentally, a lot of what is explored in this text is what I spend a chunk of my time doing in Observable. One of the things that made Evernote untenable for me is the fact that it's not customizable like an Observable notebook. I would always find myself wistfully imagining new UI's or workflows, but pulling in my data through Evernote's API, then spinning up a frontend and a server, then finally actually getting something done was too much lead time. Observable changed that. I have tens of dozens of active experimental notebooks running that I jump back and forth from. I'm so much closer to my ideal productivity tool.

It's basically a yak shaver's dream. It's a blessing and a curse but it has made me feel like I put NOS in the programmer part of my brain.

I've seen it used in a malicious way at that same company.

I'm out of my element here but I'll add that I sense that it's an aspect of one's autonomy about their identity. "In the narrative of my life, I connect that name to a time when I felt that I was not myself." Taking a spouse's surname doesn't generally connote a rejection of an aspect of that time.

I feel empathetic of people who are marginalized. I'm lucky. In my life Ive generally rolled maximal privilege. I think principally of these things from a frame of the critique of power. I tend to favor balances of power among individuals. If that requires a bit of extra consideration on my part in regards to my speech, that's ok. It's a negligible cost in the name of my held ethical ideal of egalitarianism.

The idea of baseline happiness makes sense to me. I generally live at a 7-8 out of 10 and always bounce back to that level no matter what happens. Many of my friends are around that tier. My wife is 7-6. She sometimes seems incredulous about my good mood. I can't really help it.

Thanks for saying so. I felt sooo shitty once when I accidentally deadnamed a colleague when running a mass email script at an old job. I even had it in mind as I wrote the script and still messed it up. I apologized immediately and tried to do better from there on.

Good point. I wouldn't call it "infatuation" though. It's more like an expansion of language toward inclusivity. Rather than infatuation, it's a progression or evolution.

I think the marketing got ahead of the tech. I would classify that as a business failure.

That's a great point. I guess hype made my expectations unrealistic. I have it on my to-do list to get the habit going again. I'll try this weekend!

I've wanted to do a retreat very badly. I would need to work to organize my current world to fit it in but it's something I have in the back of my mind.

I think Watson does something like this.

Here's a notebook that fetches Sci-Hub mirrors from Wikidata and tests them. I also included an iOS Shortcut to add to your Share screen. When you're on a site that Sci-Hub recognizes and you use the shortcut it will try to fetch the paper.

https://observablehq.com/@iz/sci-hub

Several trips. Microdosing for weeks. It helped me understand Alan Watts. No real impact on the existential terror thing.

I respect that. I don't respect seemingly intelligent people bullshitting their participation farther beneath technical obscurantism. I mean, some of these people seem like hyper-intelligent savants, but then again, I guess Wall Treet suffers from the same type of self-delusion or outright fraud.

Just be honest. You're playing musical chairs hoping you'll have a seat when the music stops.

Yes. I missed putting on the History channel and just letting it run all day and night. Pluto TV made that possible again and it's free. RiffTrax, MST3K, Pluto History, Pluto Science, and on and on. I hat the stress of trying to figure out what to watch on demand.

I thought so too. I have at least 150 hrs of meditation under my belt. I can't say I'm worse or better, just another silly thing for my ego to carry around.

Take it from me. Ignoring your mortality is a lot easier.

Kotler's The Rise of Superman goes into how some these meta-performance skills are a big part of what's being transferred more and more effectively. There's young kids doing mind blowing things in extreme sports like skateboarding and BMX that were unimaginable to even the top echelon of the sports a few decades ago.

It's exciting to see transfer learning's effects in near real time, as a lot of that has occurred over my lifetime. I just wish meta learning was more accessible and common knowledge. As it stands, I find myself continually having to do my own research to uncover ways to improve my own improvement.

If you have a sustainable solution to provide you'll be rich. I default to squelching thoughts of my mortality. That is at the top of the list of mental frames that have improved my life. I otherwise lived in constant existential panic from the ages of 12 to 25. Thanks a lot Nietzsche...

I'm 30 and have a tv and Bluetooth speaker in every room. Both me and my wife get anxious in silence. We do retreat to the bedroom if we need silence though. Our puppy seemed to have figured out the same... We used to think she did it when she was sick, but it became a pattern and seems to be her way to tune out the world.

The best way I can describe the effect of silence is like what brains do in extreme sensory deprivation: they begin imagining and hallucinating external stimulus. Silence makes my internal stream of consciousness stark. It is severe to the point of causing me decades of insomnia. As soon as I lay in bed, if I don't have white noise or otherwise, the recursive nature of my thoughts spirals immediately into existential panic.

Anyways, I love TV.

I was never bullied growing up because I always rolled with a crew who wouldn't hesitate to circle a threat. That's unions, they make you less likely to be an "isolated case".

Whether to use a for loop or for of or forEach or map().filter() etc

flatMap takes care of a lot of that

I basically rely on map 80% of the time for iteration. I do have to spend some mental cycles on deciding where to go if I needed to break or skip elements. That was until I discovered the beautiful .flatMap() trick of returning an empty array to skip or exclude an index item.

Is it bad to use map?

It's interesting to me that when I imagine the trope of an idealized executive, I imagine a cold, stonefaced person.

When I imagine a manager, my imagined ideal is a warm and conscientious person.

For individual contributors, I imagine lukewarm and single-minded. For team members, warm and cooperative.

So if most of humanity values warmth, how did executive types end up at the top of the pile? I thought that I would eventually move into executive levels when I was focused on a management career, but the managers I admired who could move their people always seemed distinct from the hardasses who could move mountains. I'm just now realizing this.

Anyways, your comment piqued my interest because of the big impact the mental model of "warm/cold" has had on my social life. I'm more compassionate of cold people because I assume that they just haven't learned that mental model. I also literally sometimes imagine myself as cozy warm to help me open up and welcome in.

Thank you for writing this. This is one of the most helpful comments I've read in my 7 years on HN.

A lot of this high-level engineering stuff feels so opaque. You outlined a clear heuristic: find a motivation to learn the tool, add artificial limits if necessary for your learning goals, then scout relevant resources to help you get unstuck. It seems simple when written out, but I always find myself trying to overload on uncontextualized information first, then feel confused about why I still don't know how to "make a neural net" or what have you.

Absolutely wrong. He's the first sentient AI but he prefers that that personal side of his life remains private. Oh woops.