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But Feynman’s brilliance was not solely due to his natural cognitive abilities. He relied on a method : a simple technique for seeing the world through the lens of open-ended questions, which he called his “favorite problems.”
Tiago Forte • 12 Favorite Problems: How to Spark Genius With the Power of Open Questions
To really understand something on a fundamental level, you have to be able to implement a toy version first. It doesn’t matter if it’s any good; you can throw it away later.
learnbyexample weekly #186: Reinvent the Wheel, Minimal IRC server, CLI Keyboard Shortcuts, etc
We fail to see, or refuse to accept, that any attempt to bring our ideas into concrete reality must inevitably fall short of our dreams, no matter how brilliantly we succeed in carrying things off—because reality, unlike fantasy, is a realm in which we don’t have limitless control, and can’t possibly hope to meet our perfectionist standards.... See more
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
The so-called ‘HR-ification’ of interpersonal relations – an appropriate term, given the particularly capitalist bent of its aetiology – involves Insta-therapists encouraging the use of social scripts full of meaningless jargon, such as the much maligned template above, to ‘protect your peace’ and ‘assert your boundaries’ against those... See more
how did you realise you were a bad person?
The search for root causes often means a life event that has triggered the mental disorder. When I hear people talk about root causes, it usually means they are not happy with a biological explanation and want something more psychological, more meaningful, more profound.
In clinical practice, this is tricky though - we can rarely, if ever, put our... See more
In clinical practice, this is tricky though - we can rarely, if ever, put our... See more
Searching for root causes
V8 has a snapshot feature that serializes the generated Isolate Context state and deserialize it to reduce overhead and accelerates the generation of Isolate Context.
Dive into Deno：プロセス起動からTypeScriptが実行されるまで
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 what everyone else is doing.
You are your audience - Create work that satisfies your own desires and interests rather than trying to please an imagined mass audience.
Small is more rewarding than big -
Dec. 19 • Advice for new software devs who've read all those other advice essays
We have to give up. You surrender to the reality that things just take the time they take, and that you can’t quiet your anxieties by working faster, because it isn’t within your power to force reality’s pace as much as you feel you need to, and because the faster you go, the faster you’ll feel you need to go. If you can let those fantasies... See more