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Life has gotten very chaotic incredibly quickly. It has become increasingly difficult to parse anything from the static. People started coping with th

I feel that it's even simpler: The company is the product.When we have that mindset, we absolutely don't care about the thing that we call "our produc

Yancey Strickler’s Nine Creative Meditations To me or to the mean - Focus on what makes your work strange or unique rather than trying to fit in with

1. Clearly describe the problem and symptoms. Begin your prompt by describing what is going wrong and what the code is supposed to do. Always include

You are looking for persistent people with high risk tolerance. Even if your startup becomes a $50B company someday, it is going to have a lot of ups

The digital dominance of the 21st Century has sorted us into our own tailored versions of online reality, where we drown in ads and information. It's

Don’t compare yourself to others, compare yourself to where you were in the past.

Never be afraid to say that you don’t know something Don’t be afraid to ask for help We all suffer(ed) impostor syndrome

By putting the database changes inside of a transaction, we can ensure that we either get all of the records or none of the records. We call that an a

This pattern (set up, do work, clean up) is common across many different problem domains, so Python has a language feature to help with it. Context ma

The most effective way to sap distraction of its power is just to stop expecting things to be otherwise—to accept that this unpleasantness is simply w

For all its chilled-out associations, the attempt to be here now is therefore still another instrumentalist attempt to use the present moment purely a

"Back then, all of us drank too much. The more in tune with the times we were, the more we drank. And none of us contributed anything new" - The Great

Mastery is the best goal because the rich can't buy it, the impatient can't rush it, the privileged can't inherit it, and nobody can steal it. You can

The contrarian’s enemy is not only random conformists. It’s also ridiculously smart people who have studied the topic in incredible depth and conclud

I usually think of contrarianism as being wrong most of the time but helping on the margin because it brings light to positions that are underrated du

The assumption that superintelligences can somehow simulate reality to arbitrary degrees of precision runs counter to what we know about thermodynamic

At the end of the day, much of this really will come down to a choice: How important is winning to you versus feeling good about yourself and being co

The illusion persists because there’s so much money in it. Back in 2016, Ben Thompson wrote that Google’s AI efforts were at odds with its business mo

For one thing, the internet has taken the reward circuitry meant for social conditioning and has begun to replace it with parasocial conditioning; our

A sense of dread as I see this. We are slowly seeing the end of the open web. - AI search powered experiences take away clicks from high quality pub

A powerful programming language is more than just a means for instructing a computer to perform tasks. The language also serves as a framewor

Many scientific theories assume constructs that are not directly observable (muons, genetic drift) but whose existence is inferred. In mental health r

Philosophy of science has had a long-running debate about the status of such postulated entities. Two major positions have evolved: scientific realism

IFS illuminates the mind's landscape as a mosaic of distinct parts, each with its own voice, identity, and role to play. This concept resonates with o

The same is true for any assumption that holds the mind or its pathologies to be inexplicable in some fundamental sense: it can only lead to extremely

This probability of obtaining another data set as extreme as the one collected is known as the P value. The P value is often criticized for being misu

In this respect, Bayesian inference is more intuitive at its core and in closer alignment with our natural mode of probabilistic reasoning than freque

In a nutshell, the way I have understood it, given a specific set of data, the frequentist believes that there is a true, underlying distribution from

instrumentalism is “the view that theories are merely instruments for predicting observable phenomena or systematizing observation reports.”

ours is an era of decline that has turned from the outward to the inward obsession with identity and “authenticity,” both personal and tribal, fueled

Ludditry is just cowardice, specifically focused on the fear of change. Want to know a realistic worse case scenario for AI development? The same rich

Immanuel Kant, in the eighteenth century, said that the universe as it truly is must be unknowable, and all we ever know is the world through our sens

16. The truth of anything is multidimensional and impossible to fully grasp. So a better question than “Is this true?” is “In what scenario is this tr

Nature, art, and technology all matter because of their complexity. Complexity is beauty. It’s when a bunch of simple patterns overlap in a harmonious

Every time I was held up as an example in English class, I wanted to crawl under a rock and die. I didn’t do it! I didn’t study at all, half the time

Of course, therapy and its vernacular are not solely to blame for our era of isolation. Rather, therapy and other tools of introspection have become w

Unless you are one of a tiny handful of businesses who know exactly what they're going to use AI for, you do not need AI for anything - or rather, you

Every community is exposed to two opposite dangers: ossification through too much discipline and reverence for tradition, on the one hand; on the othe

He categories different biases:Availability bias - the tendency to judge the likelihood of an event by the ease with which relevant examples come to m

When we dress our beliefs up in rational argument, we ironically end up constructing an iron-clad fantasy world. We convince ourselves that we’re immu

The mistake is that...it’s not just a logical deduction, but, so to speak, a deduction that has turned into a feeling. Not all natures are the same; f

One thing I'd argue as a starting point is there is no "theory" or a "model" of addiction as a disease. The arguments associated with that claim are a

There have been a number of studies that survey overdose deaths across the country, but in particular, a study from NYU which compared Oregon's rates

Moreover, depending on something to function, in and of itself, is not pathological. Many people require a daily medication to keep a chronic conditio

The term “dependence” has traditionally been used to describe “physical dependence,” which refers to the adaptations that result in withdrawal symptom