Methods of neuro-linguistic programming - Wikipedia
Attention is a luxury good | Seth's Blog
Luxury goods are special: they are scarce and expensive, and they earn us status with some folks because it shows that we paid more than we needed to. Luxury isn’t about quality, suitability …
Luxury is a marker that we can afford to do something others might consider wasteful.
Smartphones and being present | ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's blog
Living intentionally in a world of distraction.
I've written at length about how I manage my digital consumption, from turning off notifications to forgoing social media entirely. The underlying premise here is that if you're trying to lose weight, you shouldn't carry cookies around in your pockets. And my phone is the bag of cookies in this metaphor.
Command Interface: How Your Device Choice Shapes Power Relations | Zak El Fassi | Where Code Meets Consciousness - MCP, AI Agents & Information Beings
Laptops create. Phones consume. The split determines who commands and who complies—a power dynamic hiding in plain sight across every interface we touch.
Laptops create. Phones consume. The split determines who commands and who complies—a power dynamic hiding in plain sight across every interface we touch.
My high school teacher in 2004 accused me of plagiarizing from Wikipedia because my research paper looked "too polished" for something typed on a keyboard instead of handwritten. Twenty years later, HN commenters see clean prose and assume LLM slop. Same discomfort, different decade, identical pattern: people resist leverage they haven't internalized yet.
use AI tools the way I used spell-check, grammar tools, and search engines before them—as cognitive leverage, not cognitive replacement.
“You have 18 months” - by Derek Thompson - The Argument
The real deadline isn’t when AI outsmarts us — it’s when we stop using our own minds.
the ability to sit patiently with a group of barely connected or disconnected ideas that allows a thinker to braid them together into something that is combinatorially new
The problem of the next 18 months isn’t AI disemploying all workers, or students losing competition after competition to nonhuman agents. The problem is whether we will degrade our own capabilities in the presence of new machines. We are so fixated on how technology will outskill us that we miss the many ways that we can deskill ourselves.
Friction is necessary for Growth - Jameel Ur Rahman
Why I think comfort leads to stagnation and overcoming friction leads to growth.
Overcoming friction leads to growth. Comfort leads to stagnation.
When I was a child in Sri Lanka, I ended up memorizing the landline numbers of all my close relatives
When it's easier to prompt ChatGPT to write your college essay, you'll never apply yourself.
You can’t become a master without making mistakes and learning from it.
we follow the path of least resistance.
That said, total abstinence is not the solution. ChatGPT is here to stay. Just like most advancements in technology are. As a child of the 21st Century, you’ll need to learn to utilize this new tool in a manner that aids you, not hinders you. More importantly, not hinder the future you.
Farewell Friends - HumbleDollar
If this post is appearing, it means I’ve succumbed to cancer or one of its side effects. Please don’t feel sad for me. I’ve had a life filled with love, great experiences and wonderful career opportunities. Despite my demise at a relatively young age, I consider myself beyond fortunate. I’m hoping that, under the tree in front of our little Philadelphia rowhome, my wife Elaine will place a stone tablet inscribed with my name, and the year I was born and died.
If this post is appearing, it means I’ve succumbed to cancer or one of its side effects. Please don’t feel sad for me. I’ve had a life filled with love, great experiences and wonderful career opportunities. Despite my demise at a relatively young age, I consider myself beyond fortunate.
Always invite Anna
Sometimes the people who need invitations most are the ones who always decline them.
Sometimes the people who need invitations most are the ones who always decline them.
“I know she’s always going to say no, but that’s not the point. I invite her out so she’ll always feel included in the group.”
How to Motivate Yourself To Do A Thing You Don't Want to Do
Learn some ways to help encourage action when you feel unmotivated.
When you finally convince yourself to start, it’s not what you want to be doing, but it’s generally fine.
Have you been sleeping well and enough?
Have you been eating well and the right amount for you?
Have you been imbibing in alcohol or other things?
Have you been moving your body regularly?
identify where you have control and where you don’t, and then do your best to adapt your circumstances to make it easier to take action.
Perché non c’è nulla di etico nella vita di un vegano
Nei paesi d’origine è più conveniente mangiare l’hamburger di una multinazionale, mentre europei e americani possono consumare un burger vegano di quinoa.
The Scam Called “You Don't Have to Remember Anything”
Debunking the myth that search engines and AI eliminate the need for memory. Building deep knowledge through active learning remains essential for critical thinking, despite promises of instant information access.
To find what you need online, you require a solid general education and, above all, prior knowledge in the area related to your search
Culturally, it is increasingly the case that the first step is to go online, search for the a desired end result of a thinking process instead of engaging in learning
We detrain ourselves out of the ability to access the quality of the information and turn it into actual knowledge
We need a fully developed mental map of the subject in order to derive value from the results of an internet search
If you can’t produce a comprehensive answer with confidence and on the whim the second you read the question, you don’t have the sufficient background knowledge
Assuming that you have no comprehensive knowledge in health and fitness, terms like “aerobic capacity” or “core stability” only activate some superficial level associations
Do the simplest thing that could possibly work
When designing software systems, do the simplest thing that could possibly work. System design requires competence with a lot of different tools: app servers…
The fight between an ambitious novice and an old master is a well-worn cliche in martial arts movies: the novice is a blur of motion, flipping and spinning. The master is mostly still. But somehow the novice’s attacks never seem to quite connect, and the master’s eventual attack is decisive.
taking YAGNI as the ultimate design principle: above single-responsibility, above choosing the best tool for the job, and above “good design
We’ve all seen codebases with hacks stacked on top of hacks, and they definitely don’t look like good design.
But are hacks simple? I actually don’t think so. The problem with a hack or a kludge is precisely that it isn’t simple: that it adds complexity
the proper fix is almost always much simpler than the hack
Figuring out the simplest solution requires considering many different approaches. In other words, it requires doing engineering
Simple systems have fewer “moving pieces”: fewer things you have to think about when you’re working with them
Simple systems are less internally-connected. They are composed from components with clear, straightforward interfaces
tiebreaker: simple systems are stable. If you’re comparing two states of a software system, and one will require more ongoing work if no requirements change, the other one is simpler
the cardinal sin of big tech SaaS engineering is an obsession with scale
you don’t know ahead of time where all the bottlenecks are going to be. At most you can try to make sure you’re ready for 2x or 5x the current traffic
It’s fun to decouple your service into two pieces so they can be scaled independently (I have seen this happen maybe ten times, and I have seen them actually be usefully scaled independently maybe once
LA VOSTRA CASA RISPETTA LA TRIADE VITRUVIANA? - Studio Interior Design
firmitas (solidità e permanenza); utilitas (funzione, destinazione d’uso); venustas (perfezione di bellezza).
equilibrio e proporzioni sono elementi caratteristici della natura
Canone di Policleto, l’applicazione del modulo architettonico all’anatomia: partendo da un’unità (come un dito o la testa) si ricavano proporzionalmente le misure di tutto il corpo.
La finestra di Johari | Project Group
La finestra di Johari, che prende il nome dai suoi due ideatori, Joe Luft e Harry Ingham, è un modello che concettualizza i meccanismi di conoscenza e auto…
è un modello che concettualizza i meccanismi di conoscenza e auto-conoscenza delle persone; in altre parole, spiega in che modo l’Io si relaziona con sé stesso e con gli altri, attraverso diversi livelli cognitivi e relazionali
How to Meditate Zazen Properly: A Guide for Beginners
Zazen in Batumi | Zen in Georgia | Batumi Zen Center
We've got to stop sending files to each other
Another day, another data breach. the spreadsheet, initially shared in 2022, and thought to contain data related to a small number of applicants, had contained hidden data related to more than 18,000 people. ICO statement in response to 2022 MoD data breach Why are people still sending files to each other? I remember having a stand-up argument a decade ago with a project manager who wanted us …
Data shouldn't live in a file on a laptop. It shouldn't be a single file on a network share. Data is a living beast. Data needs to live in a database - not an Excel file. Access should be granted for each according to their needs.
no days off
A celebration of consistency, discipline, and the pursuit of movement
I didn't start running until I was in my late twenties, and even so I would end up in a pattern where I'd get motivated and go on a couple of runs, take a few days off, go on another run the following week, and next thing you know it's been a month since I last run. Rinse and repeat.
I'm Done With Social Media
Or: why I have a blog now.
2024 was going to be the year that I finally did social media. Regular posting, a content calendar, a strategy, a plan for growth
I had a book coming out in April 2024
There are very few things that an author can practically do to make a book a success
From The Mac to The Mystical: Bill Atkinson’s Psychedelic User Interface
How an Apple legend approached the world’s most powerful psychedelic as a user-experience problem to be solved.
Gruen Effect 🧠 Why We Buy
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What Makes a Person Cool?
Six traits can determine your ‘it’ factor, according to researchers who measured coolness around the globe.
being too ambitious is a clever form of self-sabotage
This is what leads most of us to stop drawing. Not because we lack talent, but because we've developed the ability to judge before we've developed the ability to execute. We become connoisseurs of our own inadequacy
excellence emerges from intimacy with imperfection, that mastery is built through befriending failure, that the path to creating one perfect thing runs directly through creating many imperfect things
When you imagine achieving something, the same neural reward circuits fire as when you actually achieve it. This creates what neuroscientists call "goal substitution"—your brain begins to treat planning as accomplishing.
TikTok shows you the perfect performance, never the thousand imperfect rehearsals. LinkedIn shows you the promotion announcement, never the years of unglamorous skill-building that made it possible
"Do-Learn" gave me permission to start before I was ready, fail early, fail often, to discover through making rather than thinking my way to readiness
This is the moment that separates the quantity group from the quality group: not at the beginning, but in the middle, when the work stops being fun and starts being work
Is this aging?
A drug that prevents age-related diseases needs to be safe enough for a healthy person to take. And, it needs to target a clinical endpoint that’s relevant to preventing age-related disease, but doesn’t take an unrealistically long time to test in trials
You People Keep Contradicting Yourselves! — Taylor G. Lunt
People will argue with an individual as if that individual is the spokesperson for a larger group. People will call someone a hypocrite not for contradicting themselves, but for contradicting other people
Man says ChatGPT sparked a 'spiritual awakening'. Wife says threatens marriage | Hacker News
The Asymmetry of Destruction
It's easier to destroy than to create
La storia che rifiutiamo di accettare: non siamo mai stati meglio
Negli ultimi anni, il contesto globale non offre molti motivi per essere ottimisti: assistiamo a conflitti, guerre, ansia e la tecnologia sta diventando semp...
one sec app – Liberati dalla distrazione dei social media – a lungo termine.
one sec ti costringe a prendere un respiro profondo ogni volta che apri un'app di social media. È semplice quanto efficace: puoi ridurre il tuo utilizzo del social media solo rendendotene consapevole. un sec è l'app di concentrazione che affronta il problema dell'uso inconscio dei social media alla radice. È progettata per cambiare le tue abitudini a lungo termine.
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