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I have lured my friends into some extraordinary picnics, for I hold with the French that to eat out of doors in congenial surroundings is sensible. In

“A fundamental paradox at the core of human life is that we are highly social and made better in every way by being around people,” Epley said. “And y

Even a mid-range Macbook can do 10x or 100x more transactions per second on its SSD than a supposedly fast cloud local disk, because cloud providers s

If the Amish approach to technology is radical in its application, it recognizes something plain and true: Although technology does not have values of

If you submitted such work as part of an introductory statistics course, the professor would likely ask you to come to his office hours. And yet it be

They want you to return to work, to their simulation of happiness and community, because they’re afraid that if you don’t you might remember that ther

It's now become unavoidably clear to me that I've been doing each of these things poorly. The job, the making, the pleasing, and, yeah, the being at h

fastly was not a culture fit for me and it was dimming my shine

ncertainty is the condition of not knowing what comes next, the fear of change that is beyond our control and likely at odds with our thriving. It is

Two truths (no lies):1. Once you are moderately happy, it’s very hard to get any happier. 2. Everybody secretly believes they can be the exception to

“Here as in many other situations, what we call a thing matters.” — Mandy Brown

All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky.

Another observation I’ve made is that starting with a performant core can ultimately drastically simplify the architecture of a software project, rela

It is all love with me and this observation and I make it as a card-carrying member of the tribe to which it is directed, but here goes: there may be

For the last several years, work-sample were our most important hiring decision factor. We relied on them almost completely, and in doing so, we multi