It Is Your Responsibility to Follow Up created: 2019-05-17 ; modified: 2019-12-13 See: reddit discussion of this post (>50 comments), Tildes discussion of this post (>20 comments) Also see: cold email

When I began teaching two years ago, someone who had been teaching much longer told me you need to teach a class at least three times to really get the hang of it. The first time you’re mostly just fi

I am in a stranger’s apartment in Reykjavik, and for the first time in almost five years, I am truly alone. Two months ago my life was as per David Byrne’s enthusiastically confused yelps: beautiful h

On a podcast , Tyler Cowen is asked to recommend some of his favorite books that he recently read. He avoids suggesting specific ones, and instead describes the broader topics or areas of interest that he's been studying lately. The history of tennis , for example. In order to deeply understand a…

It’s telling that of all the watch faces Apple has shipped since, only the Explorer is anywhere near the same quality of that original batch. All the others are either derivatives of the originals (e.

05 Mar 2018 Why do some networks—like Facebook’s graph—seem to drift into irrelevance over time? Putting the product’s (ever-crowded) feature set aside, I think there’s a fundamental assumption baked

Don’t neglect your family and friends for the sake of productivity—that’s a very stupid tradeoff (and very likely a net productivity loss, because you’ll be less happy).  Don’t neglect doing things you love or that clear your head either.

21 Mar 2018 An often-forgotten aspect of “being alone” or “me time” is the backdrop in which it takes place. On one end of the spectrum, we have isolation— Walden -esque retreats or withdrawing to our