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instrumentalism is “the view that theories are merely instruments for predicting observable phenomena or systematizing observation reports.”
Antirealism Will Not Save the DSM From Empirical Inadequacy
OO makes code understandable by encapsulating moving parts. FP makes code understandable by minimizing moving parts.
Arend van Beelen jr. • Post-Architecture: Premature Abstraction Is the Root of All Evil
Human life is not a competition in which everyone places somewhere between one to eight billion. That’s because each person has different capacities, aims, relationships, projects and identities. These are all relevant to deciding what a good life is for them.
- NYT magazine, The Ethicist, Kwame Anthony Appiah
Replacing technology with household help is not a route to higher productivity. It seems more like a route out of the First World and into the Third.
Land's End - Claremont Review of Books
The government lost control of controlled substances. The Sackler’s main crime, which doesn’t really come through in these dramas because it’s actually a difficult thing to narrativize, is knowing precisely how to exploit America’s thin, hollowed out, and very weak regulatory state. And that’s just not a very sexy Netflix style crime. It’s a crime... See more
2023: Annoyed and Uninspired
Some Zen Buddhists hold that the entirety of human suffering can be boiled down to this effort to resist paying full attention to the way things are going, because we wish they were going differently (“This shouldn’t be happening!”), or because we wish we felt more in control of the process. There is a very down-to-earth kind of liberation in... See more
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Spending time sharpening the axe is almost always worth it
You’re going to be renaming things, going to type definitions, finding references, etc a lot ; you should be fast at this. You should know all the major shortcuts in your editor. You should be a confident and fast typist. You should know your OS well. You should be proficient in the shell.... See more
You’re going to be renaming things, going to type definitions, finding references, etc a lot ; you should be fast at this. You should know all the major shortcuts in your editor. You should be a confident and fast typist. You should know your OS well. You should be proficient in the shell.... See more
Marcus • Marcus' Blog
There’s an old joke that you can tell what kind of conservative a person is by what year they want to go back to. I’d say the decline of a shared morality happened over the past 60 years with the rise of hyper-individualism and moral relativism. MacIntyre, by contrast, argued that the loss of moral coherence was baked into the Enlightenment from... See more