👋 Hello! Welcome to my clippings collection.
This site is a place where I share a (non-comprehensive) feed of what
I've been reading + my annotations/highlights of those webpages.
I don't agree with all of the articles I clip to this page. In fact, I
don't even guarantee that they're interesting! The purpose of this site
is to
"learn in public", in case anyone else finds my breadcrumbs interesting or useful.
If you've read any of the clippings, you might be wondering "why the
heck is the formatting so screwy?" Well the answer is because every
single post on here is something I read on the internet that I clipped
with the
Evernote web clipper
into a notebook, CSS and all. It's not always pretty.
Enjoy!
Devon
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This is the Sunday edition of Culture Study — the newsletter from Anne Helen Petersen, which you can read about here. If you like it and want more like it in your inbox, consider subscribing. Alright: we need to go to the post office and drop off a pac...
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My Engineering Values
15 December 2020
I’ve been encouraged by a mentor to think about what my core (engineering) values are (in the context of being recently promoted to be a "staff engineer" and having my eyes on being...
Clipped on Sun-17-Jan-2021 Sun-17-Jan-2021
(1) George Mack on Twitter: "THREAD: 15 of the most useful razors and rules I've found. Rules of thumb that simplify decisions."
Thread THREAD: 15 of the most useful razors and rules I've found.
Rules of thumb that simplify decisions.304 4.4K17.2KBez...
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Five Lessons From Dave Chappelle
Posted onMonday, November 30, 2020
While there are not huge differences between Stratechery Weekly Articles and subscriber-only Daily Updates, I do spend more time on the Weekly Articles trying to craft...
Clipped on Sat-16-Jan-2021 Sat-16-Jan-2021
Covid and CapitalismBruno MaçãesJan 12 7 1
Friedrich HayekTo those who argue that the Covid-19 crisis exposes the failure not of the market but of state structures, one possible response is that the state failed because of an economic system that perma...
Clipped on Sat-16-Jan-2021 Sat-16-Jan-2021
Motivation
What is a database?
What is sorted information?
Administering a Police Department
Read/Write Trade-off
Query Planning
Procedure Cabinet
Audit Log
Beyond Filing Cabinets
ConclusionMotivationEnd-user databases are all the buzz these days — Not...
Clipped on Sat-16-Jan-2021 Sat-16-Jan-2021
At Home
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Sip: Pastry Beers
Watch: ‘Lupin’
Contain: Sibling Rivalry
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How to Stop Endless Discussions
Organizational
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Dec 31, 2020
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Byrne Hobart
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Coins as Tangible History
Byrne HobartJan 21, 2020·6 min readNormally, the way I experience history is behind some kind of barrier: either text or or the glass of a museum’s display case. But there’s...
Clipped on Fri-15-Jan-2021 Fri-15-Jan-2021
Post
Platform Competition
What Makes a Common Carrier, and What Doesn’t
By
John Bergmayer
January 14, 2021
P...
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What Is Compound Annual Growth Rate – CAGR?
Compound annual growth rate (CAGR) is the rate of return that would be required for an investment to grow from its beginning balance to its ending balance, assuming the profits were reinvested at the end o...
Clipped on Fri-15-Jan-2021 Fri-15-Jan-2021
Mental Floss
MENU
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Insurrection as a Servicepirate wires #25 // tech's extraordinary act of censorship, power, implications, and maybe we should talk about the shadow stateMike Solana34 min ago 2
Ctrl + Alt + Delete the President. Last week, after a violent riot at the c...
Clipped on Tue-12-Jan-2021 Tue-12-Jan-2021
The Killer D.A.Chesa Boudin’s Decarceration DisasterDavid Sacks6 days ago·10 min readHer name was Hanako Abe. Raised in Fukushima, Japan, she lived through the devastating 2011 tsunami and subsequent nuclear disaster and emigrated to America to attend ...
Clipped on Mon-11-Jan-2021 Mon-11-Jan-2021
Profiles
October 26, 2020 IssueTaking Back Our PrivacyMoxie Marlinspike, the founder of the end-to-end encrypted messaging service Signal, is "trying to bring normality to the Internet."By Anna WienerOctober 19, 2020Moxie Marlinspike says that Signal, ...
Clipped on Mon-11-Jan-2021 Mon-11-Jan-2021
Issue:
January 9, 2021
Twitter bans Sci-Hub
By
Dan Frieth
Posted
8:10 pm
Publishers filed a lawsuit asking service providers to block Sci-Hub, a portal that provides free access to academic papers.
If yo...
Clipped on Mon-11-Jan-2021 Mon-11-Jan-2021
Austin Vernon on crypto (from my email)
by Tyler Cowen
January 7, 2021 at 1:04 am
in
Economics,
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Clipped on Sun-10-Jan-2021 Sun-10-Jan-2021
Nigeria and the Nation-State
In Nigeria and the Nation-State, John Campbell explains what makes Nigeria different from other countries in Africa, how it works, and why understanding it is v...
Clipped on Sun-10-Jan-2021 Sun-10-Jan-2021
prognosis
First Covid Vaccines’ Triumph Raises Hope for Cancer Fight
By
Naomi Kresge
and
Robert Langreth
December 12, 2020, 11:00...
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Please Stop Imposing American Views about Race on UsLooking at the experience of black Britons through an American lens obscures more than it reveals.Tomiwa OwoladeOct 1, 2020 96 5
Construction workers reopen Winston Churchill statue in Parliament Squa...
Clipped on Sun-10-Jan-2021 Sun-10-Jan-2021
Why is finance so complex?
Lisa Pollack at FT Alphaville mulls a question: "Why are we so good at creating complexity in finance?" The answer she comes up with is the "Flynn Effect", basically the idea that there is an uptrend in human intelli...
Clipped on Sun-10-Jan-2021 Sun-10-Jan-2021
Culture / Open Source / Security
SolarWinds, the World’s Biggest Security Failure and Open Source’s Better Answer
18 Dec 2020 2:01pm,
by
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
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Clipped on Sat-09-Jan-2021 Sat-09-Jan-2021
Operation Choke Point
Language
Watch
Edit
Operation Choke Point was a 2013 initiative of the United States Department of Justice[1] which investigated banks in the United Stat...
Clipped on Sat-09-Jan-2021 Sat-09-Jan-2021
Moral infrastructure
October 29, 2018
I was a vegetarian for ten years. When I was twelve, I read something on the internet about how poorly animals were treated on factory farms, and I decided that it w...
Clipped on Sat-09-Jan-2021 Sat-09-Jan-2021
Hammertime Day 2: Yoda Timers by radimentary
This is part 2 of 30 in the Hammertime Sequence. Click here for the intro.
No! Try not! Do, or do not. There is no try.
—Yoda
There’s a copy of Barney Stinson in my head who pops up every so often ...
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Hammertime Day 1: Bug Hunt by radimentary
Rationality is systematized winning.
In Hammers and Nails, I suggested that rationalists need to be more systematic in the practice of our craft. In this post, I will use the word Hammer for a single ...
Clipped on Sat-09-Jan-2021 Sat-09-Jan-2021
Democratic Centralism: A Fundamental Advantage of China’s Political System
By: Yang GuangbinFrom:English Edition of Qiushi Journal April-June 2015 | Vol.7,No.2,Issue No.23 | Updated: 2015-May-20 13:50
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Clipped on Sat-09-Jan-2021 Sat-09-Jan-2021
Brilliant Jerks, Crazy Hotties, and Other Artifacts of Range Restriction
Byrne HobartJun 14, 2019·6 min readWhen people write about Steve Jobs, they mention that he was brilliant but caustic: he could instantly solve design problems that had bedeviled ...
Clipped on Sat-09-Jan-2021 Sat-09-Jan-2021
December 2001 (rev. May 2002)
(This article came about in response to some questions on
the LL1 mailing list. It is now
incorporated in Revenge of the Nerds.)When McCarthy designed Lisp in the late 1950s, it was
a radical departure from existing lang...
Clipped on Fri-08-Jan-2021 Fri-08-Jan-2021
Media event
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Groundhog Day annual ceremony
A media event, also known as a pseudo-event,[1] is an event, activity, or experience conducted for the purpose of ...
Clipped on Fri-08-Jan-2021 Fri-08-Jan-2021
The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-events in America
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This article includes a list of general references, but it remains largely unverified because it lacks sufficie...
Clipped on Fri-08-Jan-2021 Fri-08-Jan-2021
Ringelmann effect
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A tug of war is often used as an illustration of the Ringelmann effect. As more people are involved in a task, their average performance d...
Clipped on Fri-08-Jan-2021 Fri-08-Jan-2021
Small teamsPatrick Collison has a great list of people quickly accomplishing ambitious things. Inspired by that, I created a page of impressive things accomplished by small teams.
Instagram had 13 employees when they were acquired by Facebook for $1 ...
Clipped on Fri-08-Jan-2021 Fri-08-Jan-2021
September 2004(This essay is derived from an invited talk at ICFP 2004.)I had a front row seat for the Internet Bubble,
because I worked at Yahoo during 1998 and 1999. One day,
when the stock was trading around $200, I sat down and calculated
what I t...
Clipped on Thu-07-Jan-2021 Thu-07-Jan-2021
No Meetings, No Deadlines, No Full-Time Employees - Sahil Lavingia
sahillavingia.com
Jan 7, 2021 • 10 min readNo Meetings, No Deadlines, No Full-Time EmployeesI started Gumroad in 2011. In 2015, we reached a peak of 23 full-time employees. In 2...
Clipped on Thu-07-Jan-2021 Thu-07-Jan-2021
April 2003(This essay is derived from a keynote talk at PyCon 2003.)It's hard to predict what
life will be like in a hundred years. There are only a few
things we can say with certainty. We know that everyone will
drive flying cars,
that zoning laws ...
Clipped on Wed-06-Jan-2021 Wed-06-Jan-2021
The Future of Work: How Nigerians Will Shape the Global Economy
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The Future of Work: How Nigerians Will Shape the Global EconomyCity of HustleDemographics Rising Co...
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Funke OpekeCEO, founder, Main One
Photo by Courtesy of Funke OpekeAfter 20 years working in U.S. telecoms, Funke Opeke returned to her native Nigeria and commenced correcting that country's connectivity problems. The former Verizon executive joined pu...
Clipped on Wed-06-Jan-2021 Wed-06-Jan-2021
Funke Opeke
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Funke Opeke is a Nigerian electrical engineer, founder of Main Street Technologies and Chief Executive Officer of Main One Cable Company, a commu...
Clipped on Wed-06-Jan-2021 Wed-06-Jan-2021
Blending Old and New: 6 Neo-Traditional Korean Homes
Modern Hanok architecture is inspired by blending traditional elements with modern spaces and materials.
Sophia Choi
Collections
Collection
Architects: Find the perfect materia...
Clipped on Wed-06-Jan-2021 Wed-06-Jan-2021
How to trade money and time
Posted on March 25, 2014 | 10 Comments
Time has a monetary value to you. That is, money and time can be traded for one another in lots of circumstances, and there are prices that you are wi...
Clipped on Tue-05-Jan-2021 Tue-05-Jan-2021
May 2002
"The quantity of meaning compressed into a small space by
algebraic signs, is another circumstance that facilitates
the reasonings we are accustomed to carry on by their aid."- Charles Babbage, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture
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The other day I made an advice thread based on Putanumonit’s from last year! If you know a source for one of these, shout and I’ll edit it in.
Possessions
1 .If you want to find out about people’s opinions on a product, google reddit. You’ll ge...
Clipped on Tue-05-Jan-2021 Tue-05-Jan-2021
O-ring theory of economic development
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The O-ring theory of economic development is a model of economic development put forward by Michael Kremer in 1993,[1] w...
Clipped on Tue-05-Jan-2021 Tue-05-Jan-2021
What You Can't Say
Paul Graham
·
by Paul Graham
January 2004
Have you ever seen an old photo of yourself and
been embarrassed at the way you looked? Did we actually
dress like that? We did. And we had no idea how
silly we looked.
It's th...
Clipped on Tue-05-Jan-2021 Tue-05-Jan-2021
I give up on CHI/UIST
The CHI reviews just came out and I have to say I'm pretty unhappy... not with the numbers per se... (one paper I co-authored has a 4.5 average out of 5 and I'm sure I'll get a fair number of papers accepted), but instead wit...
Clipped on Mon-04-Jan-2021 Mon-04-Jan-2021
Social Climber"Issue": 058Reggie James11 hr ago
Just say it out loud, just to see how it feels. — Kanye WestOften times, I’ll use my twitter in this way. Probing something incredibly concise and binary, just to see if it leads me in an interesting dir...
Clipped on Mon-04-Jan-2021 Mon-04-Jan-2021
WORK’s War on Slack
Byrne HobartJul 22, 2019·11 min readA quick blueprint for a successful company:1. Start with a team of talented perfectionists, ideally ones who prefer non-verbal communication.2. Work on a task that’s either impossible or so vague ...
Clipped on Mon-04-Jan-2021 Mon-04-Jan-2021
Written by Clay ShirkyFirst published March 30, 2004 on the "Networks, Economics, and Culture"
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I teach at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), where the student population is about evenly divi...
Clipped on Mon-04-Jan-2021 Mon-04-Jan-2021
At Doist we believe that open and sincere communication improves our decision-making process. That’s why we’ve built a culture that encourages feedback at all levels of decision-making: from purely technical solutions to team and product management. We...