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Monthly Links: March 2024 • The instinct to make lists + taxonomies • Virtue of action • Creating healthy soil • and more https://www.resextensa.co/p/monthly-links-march-2024
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good design is hard to notice poor design is evident
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to replicate, memes require memory and behavior they must be repeatedly remembered and enacted to survive
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Conjecture and refutation — the criticism of ideas — is how we learn. It's where knowledge comes from. My latest essay draws a weird analogy between standup comedy and feedback loops as a means for improvement. https://www.resextensa.co/p/take-action-invite-criticism
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Evolution Has No Goal Because we're pattern-seeking animals, we tend to think evolution is a purposeful hunt for complexity — but it's an undirected process of guesswork, failure, & accidental success Distilling thoughts provoked by David Deutsch's Beginning of Infinity
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watch out if your company starts doing the inverse!
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Replacing attic fold-down ladder with a slick custom staircase
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Been reading and enjoying Hannah Arendt for a couple weeks. So many threads to keep following in here. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/396931.The_Origins_of_Totalitarianism
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Differentiating effectiveness and efficiency, and when to shift your team's focus https://www.resextensa.co/p/on-effectiveness-vs-efficiency
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All my favorite photos of the kids are ordinary moments of normal life Here's my 6yo making valentines for school (while the power was out in the house)
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The best thing about making your own pickled onions is you get to size the portion
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Boy is it nice to use products that the product's builders actually use
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been playing Fortnite with my son (6, an old 6) I was skeptical but not gonna lie, fun game
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David Perell's podcast is great, and this one with @cdixon.eth was insightful for me on process and consitency https://youtu.be/UzU51vGn59c?si=R76qQFj-pEeU_ntm
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Recommend – this should be a high school reading assignment
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Simplicity on the other side of complexity Latest essay https://www.resextensa.co/p/simplicity-on-the-other-side-of-complexity
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Busyness is too-often seen as a proxy for being productive. But we shouldn't confuse motion and tangible progress. A brief essay:
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Corner cabinet assembled, ready now for trimming everything out, drawers and drawer fronts
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A great filter for early company employees is the ability to deal with ambiguity, messiness The work is an amorphous blob the company needs you on Some people need things in neat boxes, and seek order from process that isn't there (and shouldn't be!)
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Cheerleading comps, very serious
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