Betterment

A review of George E. McCarthy's Shadows of the Enlightenment

On Instagram, Tokyo-based entrepreneur, Aziz Nishanov talks about the deliciously weird Japanese ads we keep on seeing online. He says the reason they’re

Born from the Japanese art of sashiko, visible mending enables crafters to eschew fast fashion and make mistakes beautiful.

Our biggest commitments, the things we are most dedicated to, rarely pay us back in equal measure. That might be the point.

Convenience is seductive, and we trade precious things away for it all the time. Part of the reason it dominates our lives is that we only consider the cost once. After that, it continues to remind…

Parties are a public service; here's how to throw them.

This article is part of a series on the Sens-AI Framework—practical habits for learning and coding with AI.AI gives novice developers the ability to skip

The Limitations One Imposes & the Possibilities the Other Enables

Helping people, you maximize your impact

Here is a realization I made recently. I'm sitting in a room full of smart people. On one side are developers who understand the ins and outs of our microservice architecture. On the other are the fro

In my last post I wrote about using Piper to convert test to speech on the Mac and my helper utility, for Piper, Pan. In this post I am going to explain the main reason I had to want to do this, and it is all based around creating a personal audio feed.

With this guide, I will take you into the exciting deep waters of both the Zettelkasten and thinking skills. Having read this article, you will both know the theory and the practice, the art and the science of atomic note-taking.

This is the quickest and most direct way to manage. In the short run, compliance is predictable and might even be effective. Over time, it’s always outdone by the generative and resilient alt…

Having "the nerve to renounce even one’s most celebrated beliefs in deference to truth" is "intellectual heroism," writes Shai Tubali.

Discipline is a lie.

You’ve probably seen headlines like these in the last year or two: Wall Street Journal: “Even Harvard M.B.A.s Are Struggling to Land Jobs.” Fortune

On an airplane, we notice even tiny changes in acceleration (including direction) but we’re completely unaware that we’re traveling at hundreds of miles an hour. “Compared to what…

The Japanese call this phenomenon “Ma”, which translates into “space,” “gap,” or "interruption." It’s everywhere in Japanese art, from the emphasis of the

Start where you are. Start with what you’ve got. Start now. Now is the perfect moment. It only feels ‘fast’ if we’re rushing. Don’t rush. But act. With deliberate prog…

The next dish. It might be better than the one you have now. The presence of the next dish, its possibility, corrodes our experience. “Compared to what?” keeps needling us. The next ema…

How we research, write, and read with AI—or not. Some tricks and recommended apps and services to leverage AI as a thinking assistant.

Perhaps this metaphor will help: Nails are the easiest to use and require the least skill. Glue can make a more solid bond, but it’s often a one-way commitment–you can’t undo it w…

I spent months as a Senior Staff Engineer before realizing nobody had clear and consistent expectations of what I should be doing. In leadership roles, everything becomes less defined. You’re responsible for shaping your own position and how you...

There’s a simple law: No one buys anything unless it produces more value than it costs. This seems obvious. Value could be in the form of sustenance, status, affiliation, peace of mind or hea…

Here’s a summary from a book industry newsflash about what’s selling right now: Dystopia, Dark Romance, Dark Literary, Horror, Paranormal, True Crime, Alternative Histories, Decline of …

The purpose of haste is to prevent any semblance of rest.

Couple motorcycling on the beach at Oostvoorne, Netherlands, by Aart Klein, 1966 Hello there, Boy, I don’t know. Here’s some art, ideas, and internet for...

“You think that because you understand ‘One’ that you must therefore understand ‘Two’ because one and one make two. But you forget that you must also

Learning to Catch What AI Misses