Writing

Portrait of a Man Writing in His Study. Gustave Caillebotte - Oil On Canvas - 1885.

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Feynman's Rainbow by Leonard Mlodinow

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83 Years Ago, One Man Was Happy

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Why save in your twenties when you'll earn in your fourties?

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Concurring opinions

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The Art of Money Getting by P.T. Barnum

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A New Coat of Paint

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My blog’s identity crisis

2024-10-07T00:00:00.000Z

Static blogs are like printers

2024-10-05T00:00:00.000Z

Heavy is the Crown

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Your site should let you do what you want

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Justice Holmes

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Markdown sans front matter

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There are no rules

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Probably your fault

2024-09-14T00:00:00.000Z

Ambiguity is where the work is

2024-07-24T16:49:00.000Z

Book Notes on 'Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S Truman'

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Do The Hard Work That's Required

2024-07-08T00:00:00.000Z

Notes on Thoughts for Young Men by JC Ryle

2024-07-08T00:00:00.000Z

How to make timestamps for multiple versions of a podcast

2024-07-06T00:00:00.000Z

Recently (June '24)

2024-07-02T00:00:00.000Z

How to learn like Sherlock Holmes

2024-06-30T00:00:00.000Z

Book Notes and Review of 'The Patriots by Winston Groom'

2024-06-18T00:00:00.000Z

Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough

2024-06-14T00:00:00.000Z

Fix the fridge

2024-06-07T00:00:00.000Z

You can just

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Don't let it fade to black

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Don't take non-practitioner advice

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Rental car envy

2024-05-13T00:00:00.000Z

Explanation vs. excuses

2024-04-28T00:00:00.000Z

Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Life in War, Law, and Ideas

2024-04-27T00:00:00.000Z

Specific directions or shut up

2024-04-13T00:00:00.000Z

Most things just need to be done

2024-03-22T00:00:00.000Z

Foolishness leads to mastery

2024-03-14T00:00:00.000Z

Visible progress makes doing hard things easy

2024-03-04T00:00:00.000Z

How I choose what to read: bullets vs. cannonballs

2024-02-29T00:00:00.000Z

Sailing the Graveyard Sea by Richard Snow

2024-02-25T00:00:00.000Z

A love letter to old books

2024-02-20T00:00:00.000Z

Don't Create a Horse Storm

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1776

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The Gathering Storm

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Success is found in the minutiae

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Advice from Grandpa

2024-01-22T00:00:00.000Z

25 quotes from my commonplace book

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Who you are is who you will be (but you can change)

2023-12-27T00:00:00.000Z

Some questions to ask yourself

2023-12-14T00:00:00.000Z

My Reading Year, 2023

2023-11-28T00:00:00.000Z

Reading plants seeds

2023-11-02T00:00:00.000Z

JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century

2023-10-26T00:00:00.000Z

Who are you when someone Googles you?

2023-10-13T00:00:00.000Z

TWR: Political Parties, Friday 13, Democracy

2023-10-10T00:00:00.000Z

An example of Chekhov's Gun

2023-10-07T00:00:00.000Z

TWR: Work, Position, Reading, Economists

2023-10-07T00:00:00.000Z

Should I go back to school?

2023-10-07T00:00:00.000Z

TWR: Oscars, Positioning, Reading, Economists

2023-09-15T00:00:00.000Z

How to handle critics

2023-09-12T00:00:00.000Z

You can just ignore things

2023-09-09T00:00:00.000Z

Spillane: King of Pulp Fiction by Max Collins

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One must do

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Gather intellectual scraps to shape ideas of your own

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There doesn't have to be an end goal

2023-08-10T00:00:00.000Z

Charles Dickens and Active Patience

2023-07-25T00:00:00.000Z

David McCullough on The Art of Writing, History, and Success

2023-07-22T00:00:00.000Z

What Actually Happened in Oppenheimer

2023-07-09T00:00:00.000Z

Crooked: The Roaring '20s Tale of a Corrupt Attorney General, A Crusading Senator, And the Birth of the American Political Scandal

2023-06-19T00:00:00.000Z

Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

2023-06-16T00:00:00.000Z

Break the Mold

2023-06-14T00:00:00.000Z

Beat writer’s block

2023-06-12T00:00:00.000Z

The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World

2023-06-09T00:00:00.000Z

221b: Get Up and Write

2023-06-06T00:00:00.000Z

Telling old stories in new ways

2023-06-05T00:00:00.000Z

Isaac Asimov on writing and reading

2023-06-04T00:00:00.000Z

Write stuff down

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Shake things up

2023-06-02T00:00:00.000Z

221b: Poetry and Politics

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221b: Unlocking Success

2023-05-21T00:00:00.000Z

Notes: American Prometheus by Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin

2023-05-19T00:00:00.000Z

221b: Work, Places, Sentences, Problems, Timeless

2023-05-12T00:00:00.000Z

221b: Reading, Nobody Cares, Wealth and Wisdom, AI and Writing, Van Cleaves

2023-05-10T00:00:00.000Z

The Wright Brothers by David McCullough

2023-05-05T00:00:00.000Z

How to Approach Life: From Leonardo da Vinci

2023-04-29T00:00:00.000Z

The weekend has too much free time

2023-04-28T00:00:00.000Z

The Wright Brothers

2023-04-21T00:00:00.000Z

2 Ideas for Realistic Time Management

2023-04-14T00:00:00.000Z

9 Lessons on Curiosity and Adventure from Richard Feynman

2023-04-07T00:00:00.000Z

6 Rules for Self-Mastery | 'Discipline is Destiny' by Ryan Holiday

2023-04-06T00:00:00.000Z

Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman by Richard Feynman

2023-04-04T00:00:00.000Z

7 Life Lessons from 'The Splendid and the Vile' by Erik Larson

2023-03-31T00:00:00.000Z

5 lessons from 'Novelist as a Vocation' by Haruki Murakami

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Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami

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Transplant

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221b: Irrationality, Mistakes, Ego, Third-Place, & Impressions

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221b: Fish, Thinking, Knowledge, Waste, Genius

2023-03-03T00:00:00.000Z

221b: Kubrick, Reputation, Star Trek, Time, & Observation

2023-03-03T00:00:00.000Z

Annie Dillard’s Advice on Keeping a Daily Routine

2023-03-02T00:00:00.000Z

The Splendid and the Vile

2023-02-27T00:00:00.000Z

Working by Robert Caro

2023-02-26T00:00:00.000Z

January Reading List

2023-02-24T00:00:00.000Z

221b: Sandwich, Death, Fitzgerald, Sitzfleisch, Genius

2023-02-22T00:00:00.000Z

A day well spent

2023-02-19T00:00:00.000Z

The Crack-Up by F. Scott Fitzgerald

2023-02-17T00:00:00.000Z

221b: Comparison, Simplicity, Details, Silence, Responsibility

2023-02-15T00:00:00.000Z

3 Lessons on Human Psychology and Project Management

2023-02-10T00:00:00.000Z

221b: Da Vinci, Brevity, X-15, Ballomania, Thinking

2023-02-04T00:00:00.000Z

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

2023-02-03T00:00:00.000Z

221b: Curiosity and Edison

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Perennial Seller by Ryan Holiday

2023-01-27T00:00:00.000Z

221b: Edison, Einstein, Pursuit, Gödel, Rest

2023-01-26T00:00:00.000Z

Be prepared for the disaster to be worse than before

2023-01-25T00:00:00.000Z

Check all kinds of unusual things

2023-01-24T00:00:00.000Z

What I Read in December

2023-01-24T00:00:00.000Z

A few funny things about time

2023-01-23T00:00:00.000Z

Just get something on the page

2023-01-22T00:00:00.000Z

The best thinkers are ‘wonderers’

2023-01-20T00:00:00.000Z

221b: Time, Moonshots, Artistry, 26.2 Miles, & Genius

2023-01-19T00:00:00.000Z

A Practical Summary of How to Live on 24 Hours a Day by Arnold Bennett

2023-01-13T00:00:00.000Z

221b: Writing, Detectives, Libraries, Leadership, Reading

2023-01-11T00:00:00.000Z

Why I Wake Up at 5:00 am

2023-01-10T00:00:00.000Z

How to Live on 24 Hours a Day by Arnold Bennett

2023-01-08T00:00:00.000Z

The Writing Life by Annie Dillard

2023-01-06T00:00:00.000Z

221b: Droste Effect, Rules, History, Work, Death

2023-01-02T00:00:00.000Z

My Analog and Digital Productivity System for 2023

2022-12-28T00:00:00.000Z

The War of Art by Steven Pressfield

2022-12-20T00:00:00.000Z

Reflections on Calculus

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American Moonshot by Douglas Brinkley

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Not Long Ago in a Galaxy Not Very Far

2022-12-09T00:00:00.000Z

Thinking About Blogging

2022-12-07T00:00:00.000Z

getStaticPaths in NextJS Explained (Simply)

2022-12-06T00:00:00.000Z

How to time travel

2022-12-04T00:00:00.000Z

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

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What I Read in November

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David Starr Jordan on Life, Education, and Politics

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Ernest Hemingway by Mary V. Dearborn

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John von Neumann on how to safely progress with technology

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On Ribbonfarm's Portal and Flags

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Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann

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Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

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Leonardo da Vinci

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Adventures of a Curious Richard Feynman

2022-11-10T00:00:00.000Z

The Care and Culture of Men by David Starr Jordan

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2 Habits for a Better Intellectual Life

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The Rise and Fall of Dinosaurs by Steven Brusatte

2022-11-03T00:00:00.000Z

On Viewquakes

2022-11-01T00:00:00.000Z

What I Read in October 2022

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Why I Read

2022-10-27T00:00:00.000Z

Kevin Kelly's 103 Bits of Advice, Expanded

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Beware of the curse

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What Do You Care What Other People Think? By Richard Feynman

2022-10-10T00:00:00.000Z

Discipline is Destiny by Ryan Holiday

2022-10-09T00:00:00.000Z

On Being an Inconvenienced Guesser

2022-10-08T00:00:00.000Z

Make learning a reality

2022-10-07T00:00:00.000Z

The Library: A Fragile History

2022-10-04T00:00:00.000Z

The Mountain of Knowledge (And Why Dumb Smart People Never Escape It)

2022-10-01T00:00:00.000Z

What I read in September 2022

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My Manifesto

2022-09-29T00:00:00.000Z

Deliberare Otium

2022-09-29T00:00:00.000Z

God-primes and Social Behavior

2022-09-24T00:00:00.000Z

Book Review and Summary: Revolt of the Public

2022-09-23T00:00:00.000Z

On Writing Well by William Zinsser

2022-09-21T00:00:00.000Z

Leadership by Henry Kissinger

2022-09-17T00:00:00.000Z

New Ideas Suck

2022-09-16T00:00:00.000Z

The Man From The Future

2022-09-14T00:00:00.000Z

Dulcius Ex Asperis

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Some Questions

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Plan for Future Conduct

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Which is better: instinct or reason?

2022-09-09T00:00:00.000Z

Pieces of the Action

2022-09-09T00:00:00.000Z

What It Takes To Be a Great Teacher

2022-09-03T00:00:00.000Z

Political Parties. Interesting...

2022-09-02T00:00:00.000Z

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

2022-08-31T00:00:00.000Z

Book Review: da Vinci

2022-08-29T00:00:00.000Z

Creative procrastination

2022-08-24T00:00:00.000Z

Documenting what you do

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Why you feel stuck in life

2022-08-19T00:00:00.000Z

The Clockwork Universe by Edward Dolnick

2022-08-18T00:00:00.000Z

An attempt to understand the Kolmogorov Complexity of human values

2022-08-16T00:00:00.000Z

The value of niche secrets

2022-08-16T00:00:00.000Z

Ubi Caritas

2022-08-12T00:00:00.000Z

Revolt of the Public

2022-08-06T00:00:00.000Z

Personality creates behaviors. Circumstances reveal them.

2022-08-05T00:00:00.000Z

On Celebrating Tiny Learning Milestones

2022-08-05T00:00:00.000Z

The passage of time

2022-08-05T00:00:00.000Z

The Value of Science 67 Years Later

2022-08-01T00:00:00.000Z

Where the term 'zero-sum' comes from

2022-07-29T00:00:00.000Z

What I do when someone asks to borrow a book

2022-07-29T00:00:00.000Z

The best system I've read for synthesizing knowledge

2022-07-28T00:00:00.000Z

You can't go there by doing that

2022-07-25T00:00:00.000Z

On Physiognomy

2022-07-25T00:00:00.000Z

Sometimes your room for error, isn't enough

2022-07-23T00:00:00.000Z

How to Increase the Chances of Becoming a Genius

2022-07-14T00:00:00.000Z

Building a Custom React Form Hook

2022-07-11T00:00:00.000Z

Season-Long Friendships

2022-07-11T00:00:00.000Z

Thursday's Assorted Links

2022-07-08T00:00:00.000Z

If, By Whiskey

2022-07-02T00:00:00.000Z

Looking like a fool at first leads to mastery at last

2022-06-30T00:00:00.000Z

Thursday Assorted Links

2022-06-29T00:00:00.000Z

Wednesday Assorted Thoughts

2022-06-29T00:00:00.000Z

Moravec's Paradox

2022-06-29T00:00:00.000Z

Reading advice from Tyler Cowen

2022-06-17T00:00:00.000Z

12 Rules For Life

2022-06-17T00:00:00.000Z

Where Dead Cells in the Body Go

2022-06-12T00:00:00.000Z

Popular sayings

2022-06-12T00:00:00.000Z

The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons From 15 Years as CEO of The Walt Disney Company

2022-06-12T00:00:00.000Z

The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

2022-06-12T00:00:00.000Z

Think Like a Rocket Scientist

2022-06-12T00:00:00.000Z

What We See When We Read

2022-06-07T00:00:00.000Z

The Dip by Seth Godin

2022-06-05T00:00:00.000Z

Show Your Work by Austin Kleon

2022-06-03T00:00:00.000Z

Junior: Writing Your Way Ahead in Advertising

2022-05-22T00:00:00.000Z

Private Eye: 1, Everyone Else: 0

2022-05-21T00:00:00.000Z

Essentialism by Greg Mckeowen

2022-05-14T00:00:00.000Z

Einstein: His Life and Universe

2022-04-24T00:00:00.000Z

How to Add Conditional Class Rendering in Next JS

2022-04-20T00:00:00.000Z

How to Enable Word Wrap on Only MDX in VS Code

2022-04-20T00:00:00.000Z

How to Redirect Users to a Different Page After a Set Interval with Next.js

2022-04-20T00:00:00.000Z

Solving the vague errors

2022-04-16T00:00:00.000Z

15 Quotes from Albert Einstein That Reveals His Philosophy on Life

2022-04-16T00:00:00.000Z

2 Strategies To Help You Remember What You Read

2022-04-16T00:00:00.000Z

How Record Players Work: The Science Behind That Beautiful Sound, Simplified

2022-04-14T00:00:00.000Z

Media Consumption (February, 2022)

2022-04-08T00:00:00.000Z

Examining the Life that Communicated With the Universe - Albert Einstein

2022-04-08T00:00:00.000Z

Why I Publish My Notes Online

2022-04-06T00:00:00.000Z

Chef and The Line Cook: Going Deeper

2022-04-02T00:00:00.000Z

Being Okay With Negative Capability

2022-04-02T00:00:00.000Z

How the James Webb Space Telescope Will Look Back in Time

2022-04-02T00:00:00.000Z

How to Be Great? Be Okay With Being Bad

2022-04-02T00:00:00.000Z

How to Build Rome in A Year

2022-04-02T00:00:00.000Z

How to Change the World With Your Ideas (Like Albert Einstein)

2022-04-02T00:00:00.000Z

Why Legacy Career Paths Can't Innovate

2022-04-02T00:00:00.000Z

Be prepared for the disasters you can't imagine

2022-03-31T00:00:00.000Z

Are you playing a game you want to win?

2022-03-31T00:00:00.000Z

Writing in Your Head

2022-03-26T00:00:00.000Z

How We Got to Now

2022-03-26T00:00:00.000Z

The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel

2022-03-26T00:00:00.000Z

Range by David Epstein

2022-02-17T00:00:00.000Z

Book Summary - Think Again by Adam Grant