Jake

@jake

writer, creative programmer, running Printernet and trying to make the internet more interesting.

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What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.

All you need is links

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"The ideas will follow me. When they’re off-guard, and ready to be born, I’ll turn around and grab them." - Ray Bradbury

Writing

A Mathematician's Lament

The document explores the flaws of current mathematics education, criticizes the rigid curriculum, and advocates for a more creative and intuitive approach to teaching mathematics.

worrydream.com

Great reading

Filtered for Time and False Memory

Matt Webb interconnected.org

monthly roundup

"Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)" - Walt Whitman

polymathematics

Song of Myself, 51

Why I Write | the Orwell Foundation

Animal Farm orwellfoundation.com

Great reading

Intrapreneurs - internal entrepreneurs within a startup

Management and high performance

"‘Rather, you are continuously summoned to solidarity,’ summoned not by any ‘external compulsion’ but ‘from within yourself’. You cannot do otherwise. And the same went for Saul: if it comes from within yourself, then you cannot do otherwise. No novelist can." - Martin Amis

Writing

Jim Simons: "I’m not an extremely fast thinker myself; I just work hard."

That was all I needed to do—work hard, not fast. A paper I published in '68 took me five years. But it has had 1,850 citations. For a math paper, that’s an awful lot.

There’s too much emphasis on a person’s being able to answer questions quickly."

work