• When you Don’t Like Books

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    It’s rare that I don’t finish a book, but there have been a few. Most recently I put down The Black Swan because I felt it was a poorly written self agrandizing work written so that Taleb could show how smart he was while making up new names for established principles. Even when I do

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  • An interview with @amerpie

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    I enjoyed the behind the scenes look with Lou. In general I enjoy the series of blogger interviews.

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  • Manu – Humans are Complex

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    From Manu on Identity. It’s also why I find broad group definitions so annoying. Lumping together potentially billions of people using arbitrary traits as the dividing line is such a lazy way to look at the richness of human diversity and experience. Every time I see people using one of these definitions—in a serious way

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  • Robert Breen – why keep a blog

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    Robert goes over why he keeps a blog. I still think a blog is great for your career. I’ll be writing more about technical stuff on my business site/blog because I’m learning more about Laravel and Python and want to branch out from WordPress stuff.

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  • Shifting Blame and Taking Responsibility

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    It’s almost irresistible to blame something or someone else, to shift responsibility away from ourselves, and to look for the central knob, the product, the pill, the technical fix that will make the problem go away. Thinking in Systems Pg 4 I love this quote because it relates closely to something I always tell my

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  • High school student builds his own laptop

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    Yes you read the title right. This high school student built his own laptop and it’s not some janky thing it’s a viable usable laptop.

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  • Jan 2025 Reading Recap

    Jan 2025 Reading Recap

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    I know I’m always looking for good book recommendations, as much as wanting to know which books are not worth reading. To that end I’ll be doing a monthly recap of the books I read with a recommendation so you can populate or weed books out of your TBR pile. Non-Fiction Decluttered by Jenny Albertini

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  • If you’re asshole things get leaked people think you’re an asshole – stop whining Zuckerberg

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    Reading this article from 404 about Mark Zuckerberg being annoyed that anything he says leaks and causes damage to his company…maybe stop saying shitty things that devalue humans. It’s possible Marky that you’re being an asshat and many of your employees don’t agree with you and want to share that you’re being an asshat. If

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  • The Scrollable Timeline is NOT Connection

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    Years of social media have managed to convince us that a scrollable timeline, a comment box with a characters limit and a like button are the tools we need to use to connect with each other. That is a big fucking lie and if you don’t believe me write me an email and I’ll be happy to

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  • Can you do the right thing even when others don’t?

    Can you do the right thing even when others don’t?

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    This is the third book in Ryan Holiday’s series on the four cardinal virtues from stoic philosophy. Courage is Calling covers courage, temperance is covered by Discipline is Destiny and this covers justice. His coming book will cover wisdom. Holiday’s investigation of justice covers three different areas. First he covers what justice means in your

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