The Literal and (Con)figurative Foundations of Thought Published in The Abs-Tract Organization · 7 min read · Apr 22, 2017 -- Many specialized forms of “abstraction” are discussed throughout this blog
Published in UX Collective · 18 min read · Sep 12, 2020 -- There’s a new tool in town. It has been the subject of a lot of hype in the productivity space, some of it warranted, some of it not. It’s a
A few months ago, a tweet popped up on my timeline, where Juvoni Beckford shared an incredible achievement: reading 450 books over the course of a decade. As someone who loves reading and thinks that
The domain name system (DNS), often referred to as the phonebook of the Internet, is a fundamental part of the Internet’s infrastructure. Created by Dr. Paul Mockapetris in 1983 while he was working a
“In the transition from consciousness to reality, the ego, the thou and the world arise into existence indissolubly connected and, as it were, at a stroke.” The Line without Thickness and Money The “B
The Grass Valley Charter School in northern California teaches 500 students from kindergarten to eighth grade using principles from Outward Bound and other “active learning” methods. Recently the scho
What exactly is Amazon? This is the question that has consumed me for the last ten years. I have sold to and bought from Amazon in about as many ways as one person can; I built an auto parts brand tha
Every great product should have a moat, and careers are no different. I previously wrote about personal moats , today I want to further flesh out the “Career as a Product” metaphor. When building prod
Roam has so many different aspects that learning it can be confusing or even overwhelming. Since deciding to set up RoamStack, we have been thinking hard about how best to explain how all the differen
Print Recipe USING LEFTOVERS TO MAKE INSTANT POT GLUTEN FREE RAMEN This Instant Pot gluten free ramen was something I improvised and created in just 30 minutes! I needed to throw together a quick hot
As a psychiatrist and neuroscientist who studies creativity, I’ve had the pleasure of working with many gifted and high-profile subjects over the years, but Kurt Vonnegut—dear, funny, eccentric, lovab
Apple iMessage Facebook, PayPal, Microsoft, Twitter, Sony, Uber, Dropbox, Amazon... the list goes on. It’s strikingly ironic—these companies are rightly pushing us to better secure our apps and servic
Guide To Google Drive The ultimate self-improvement tool is something you already have Published in Forge · 94 min read · Oct 7, 2020 -- I’m a little intense about Google Drive. Through years of hyper
The TL;DR Segment is a routing platform for your customer data (what they call a “customer data platform”). Engineering and data teams use Segment to: Fire events whenever their customers take actions
A leading anxiety in both the technology and foreign policy worlds today is China’s purported edge in the artificial intelligence race. The usual narrative goes like this: Without the constraints on d
Humanity has lived through several cognitive revolutions already. The development of various writing systems around the world; the invention of the printing press; the formulation of the heliocentric
Updated at 1:17 p.m. ET on October 1, 2020 There’s something strange about this coronavirus pandemic. Even after months of extensive research by the global scientific community, many questions remain
In Formula 1 racing, you can win a world championship as a driver with one team but then not even make the top 10 without that team’s car and infrastructure. Venture can often feel like this, too. Man
The following essay was prepared for the July 18, 2016 Programming Experience (PX/16) workshop in Rome, Italy. Matt Huebert Last spring, I sat down to work on what I thought should be a simple computi
Editor’s Note: Surveillance capitalism is everywhere. But it’s not the result of some wrong turn or a rogue abuse of corporate power — it’s the system working as intended. This is the subject of Cory
Branch of onomastics in linguistics, study of place names This article is about the study of place names. For a discussion of the origins of place names themselves, see Place name origins . "Toponymic
Sociological term for "normlessness" For other uses, see Anomie (disambiguation) . In sociology , anomie () is a social condition defined by an uprooting or breakdown of any moral values, standards or
Once they were redefined as mathematical objects, it became possible to ask all sorts of interesting questions about the properties of symplectic manifolds and, in particular, the dynamics of Hamilton
Applied Machine Learning 3+ years of experience applying machine learning to historical documents Natural Language Processing 3+ years of experience developing spaCy NLP pipelines. Research Ph.D in Hi
Towards a Science of Metamathematics One of the many surprising things about our Wolfram Physics Project is that it seems to have implications even beyond physics. In our effort to develop a fundament
[Note: Just notes.] I use footnotes [1] in my articles. I didn’t always use them [2] , but I started to do so more and more after about a year [3] into my blogging [4] . They have both benefits [5] [6
Last September, Gideon Lichfield wrote a post on a new phenomenology of news he wanted to try with Quartz . The thrust of it: No more beats — Quartz would have “obsessions” that it would cover…obsessi
Although there are precedents to using the term “schema” in an analytical manner in sociology (e.g., Goffman’s Frame Analysis and Cicourel’s Cognitive Sociology ), it is undoubtedly William Sewell Jr’
Contrary to the standard view of reason as a capacity that enhances the individual in his or her cognitive capacities—the standard image is of Rodin’s "Thinker," thinking on his own and discovering ne
In the last few months, I’ve heard these 4 statements from 4 different people: “I wish I could write like Paul Graham.” “If I had to pick one writer to imitate, it would be Paul Graham.” “Paul Graham’
Published in INCERTO · 17 min read · Feb 24, 2017 -- CHAPTER from SKIN IN THE GAME Literature doesn’t look like literature –Business plans are for suckers — Donaldo Hiring practitioners –the glory of
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Introduction Thinking diagrammatically as a way of conceptualizing our world has been in existence from the moment the first cave-person picked up a soft ‘rock’ and started making markings on the wall
Australia’s top climate scientist says “we are already deep into the trajectory towards collapse” of civilisation, which may now be inevitable because 9 of the 15 known global climate tipping points t
6 min read · Mar 19, 2018 -- Reshaping what’s desirable, feasible and viable using ‘Systems Leverage Maps’. “The end goal of a design thinking work process is to create a solution that is desirable, f
Quo vadis, Roamresearch? Delta or Beta? 3 min read · Sep 6, 2020 -- Update: Check the great discussion on this topic on Twitter . The author of Roam — Conor White-Sullivan — makes many good points the
Conor's high school wrestling career: learning to win Senior's statement that he would never win pushed him to persevere. 2-1/2 years to his first win. When should founders stick to their vision vs re
The Atlantic has a great article on new ways to share research results. Its three parts make three points: A graphical user interface (GUI) can facilitate better technical writing. Wolfram’s proprieta
Working on various projects over the years, I’ve often had reason to tinker with 3D graphics rendered using an orthographic projection. Most first-person 3D games use a perspective projection, whi
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