👋 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!
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By David M. Levy, reason.com
October 1st, 1975
Libertarians who are no doubt accustomed to meeting their ideas in caricature have probably been told that in a libertarian world—one with private streets, private mass transit, private utilities of all d...
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By Razib Khan |
December 17, 2009 1:42 pm
Apropos of my skepticism of Census projections of 2050 demographic balances, there’s a new paper out on Argentina which is relevant. Here’s Wikipedia on Argentina’s self-conception:
As with other areas of ne...
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Speaker: Evan Czaplicki
Meeting: Strange Loop 2018 - September 2018
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_4EX4dPppA
Slides: https://prezi.com/oowcpzsnwp-8/the-hard-parts-of-open-source/?webgl=0
[ References to videos, books, and articles mentioned i...
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January 28, 2016 By Tiago Forte
We’ve been told for years now that what our parents and kindergarten teachers told us is not, in fact, true — we are not each and every one of us special unique snowflakes destined for greatness. In this essay I want t...
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Subcultures are dead. I plan to write a full obituary soon.
Subcultures were the main creative cultural force from roughly 1975 to 2000, when they stopped working. Why?
One reason—among several—is that as soon as subcultures start getting really intere...
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I got back from Los Angeles last night and my head is still spinning. I’d move there again in a heartbeat.
There are three great cities in the United States: there’s Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York – in that order.
I love Boston; I even love Denv...
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Back in 2015, I wrote a blog post called Dropbox: the First Dead Decacorn. At the time, it was the most widely shared take I’d ever written. I learned several things from writing this piece, and none of them had to do with Dropbox: I learned, for insta...
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Nadia Eghbal’s new book, Working In Public: the Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software, may not have been on your short list of books to read this year. It’s admittedly a nerdy topic: it’s about open source projects, roles and responsibilities;...
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July 26, 2010 By Venkatesh Rao
James C. Scott’s fascinating and seminal book, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed, examines how, across dozens of domains, ranging from agriculture and forestry, to u...
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by David King To commit this fallacy is to use a collective term without any meaningful delimitation of the elements it subsumes.
"We", "you", "they", "the people", "the system", "the general public", and "society as a whole" are the most wide...
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Carter lectures the U.S. on energy, 1978
In 1798. the Reverend Thomas Malthus wrote his influential essay on population, arguing that population grows exponentially while the supply of food, energy, and other commodities only grows linearly. As a res...
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This essay was written by Andrew Kortina and Namrata Patel.
Kinky (S1) vs classical (S0) labor supply curve.Over the past few decades, labor force participation has sharply dropped for men ages 20-34. Theories about the root cause range from indolenc...
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04.13.2006
Argentina On Two Steaks A Day
The classic beginner's mistake in Argentina is to neglect the first steak of the day. You will be tempted to just peck at it or even skip it altogether, rationalizing that you need to save yourself fo...
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Ken LiuAuthor spotlight
Published in Aug. 2012 (Issue 27) | 2735 words
© 2012 Ken Liu
There is no definitive census of all the intelligent species in the universe. Not only are there perennial arguments about what qualifies as intelligence, but eac...
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[python-committers] Transfer of power
Guido van Rossum
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Thu Jul 12 10:57:35 EDT 2018
Previous message (by thread): [python-committers] A different way to focus discussions
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Attenuation and the suck threshold
How long do your users spend in the "I suck" (or "this product sucks") zone? Once they've crossed the suck threshold, how long does it take before they start to feel like they kick ass? Both of those thresholds are k...
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By Tiago Forte of Forte Labs
Let’s imagine how you would use Evernote if you had a brain.
I previously explained how the standard tag-based approach basically contradicts everything we know about creativity and how the human brain works.
After a few ...
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Chuma Asuzu · December 22, 2018
Comparing product development stories across the continentAt a conference in Nairobi two years ago, an engineer visiting from Rotterdam stunned me with how easy it was for his team to order electronic components: an orde...
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The Chengzhongcun Urban Traces of the Village
Villager going about daily life in the alleyways of Xiasha Village, Shenzhen, 2011 © John Joseph Burns
Essay by John Joseph Burns
‘To get rich is Glorious’
Much of modern China stems from the economi...
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When my daughter Nicole was an infant, I read an essay suggesting that it might no longer be necessary to teach children how to read or write, because speech recognition and synthesis would soon render those abilities superfluous. My wife and I were ho...
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Pmarca Guide to Personal Productivity
Jun 4, 2007
One of my all-time favorite guilty pleasures is indulging in productivity porn.
Productivity porn (or, for those really in the know, "productivity pr0n") consists of techniques, tact...
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Byrne HobartJul 24, 2019·14 min readThere’s this meme that you shouldn’t work more than forty hours per week. Don’t believe it. It’s just laziness apologetics...
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⌘SaaS we happily pay forDecember 27, 2020We try to run a lean operation at Mailbrew, but we are suckers for great tools that improve our daily workflows, so we pay for quite a few of them each month.
Being small (just 3 people), the cost of switching s...
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Y Combinator.
July 2004(This essay is derived from a talk at Oscon 2004.)
A few months ago I finished a new
book,
and in reviews I keep
noticing words like "provocative'' and "controversial.'' To say
nothin...
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September 2004Remember the essays you had to write in high school?
Topic sentence, introductory paragraph,
supporting paragraphs, conclusion. The conclusion being,
say, that Ahab in Moby Dick was a Christ-like figure.Oy. So I'm going to try to give t...
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The Golden Handcuffs Were Inside of You The Whole Time
I consider the phenomenon of "Golden Handcuffs", first as corporate perks, then as pay, then as Silicon Valley’s cost of living. I reject every explanation.
Golden Ha...
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In this issue:Building an Incomplete GraphBoy Band National ChampionsProtein FoldingGolden HandcuffsAmazon vs Wish Rolls OnBuilding an Incomplete GraphNetflix’s interface is designed for browsing, but it tolerates search. And it tolerates it in an int...
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Covid and the AnthropoceneWhom to blame for the pandemicBruno MaçãesDec 6, 2020 3
By the Anthropocene we normally mean the geological epoch when human action becomes the dominant force shaping the planet. I use the maximalist definition first proposed ...
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A Philosophy of Blockchain Validation
2020 Aug 17
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See also:
A Proof of Stake Design Philosophy
The Meaning of Decentralization
Engineering Security through Coordination Problems
One of the most powerful properties of a blockchai...
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Trust Models
2020 Aug 20
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One of the most valuable properties of many blockchain applications is trustlessness: the ability of the application to continue operating in an expected way without needing to rely on a specific actor to ...
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On Free Speech
2019 Apr 16
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"A statement may be both true and dangerous. The previous sentence is such a statement." - David Friedman
Freedom of speech is a topic that many internet communities have struggled with over the last two...
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On Radical Markets
2018 Apr 20
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Recently I had the fortune to have received an advance copy of Eric Posner and Glen Weyl's new book, Radical Markets, which could be best described as an interesting new way of looking at the subject...
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The Boomer Blockade: How One Generation Reshaped the Workforce and Left Everyone Behind
The baby boom led to the largest shift in the demographics...
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[email protected] outAge of Invention: Empire of WoolAnton HowesNov 13 11 6
You’re reading my newsletter, Age of Invention, on the causes of the British Industrial Revolution and the hi...
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Ideas10.09.2018 04:39 PMWelcome to Voldemorting, the Ultimate SEO DisWhen writers swap Trump for Cheeto and 45, it's not just a put-down. Removing a keyword is the anti-SEO—transforming your subject into a slipper...
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Last week, we launched publisher leaderboards on substack.com to help publishers find new subscribers and subscribers fi...
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Why Proof of Stake (Nov 2020)
2020 Nov 06
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There are three key reasons why PoS is a superior blockchain security mechanism compared to PoW.
PoS offers more security for the same cost
The easiest way to see this is to put proof of s...
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Why immigration doesn't reduce wagesNot that anyone is going to listen to the evidence...Noah Smith11 hr ago 14 31
In this post, I’m going to explain why immigration doesn’t lower wages for native-born people (except possibly a little bit, in a few spe...
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Nadia EghbalOn working (and writing) in publicAntonio Garcia-MartinezSep 9 7
Portrait by Katia Sobolski.Nadia Eghbal is uniquely positioned to write about op...
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Coordination, Good and Bad
2020 Sep 11
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Special thanks to Karl Floersch and Jinglan Wang for feedback and review
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On Collusion
Engineering Security Through Coordination Problems
Trust Models
The Meaning Of Decentralizatio...
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Control as Liability
2019 May 09
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The regulatory and legal environment around internet-based services and applications has changed considerably over the last decade. When large-scale social networking platforms first became popular...
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Endnotes on 2020: Crypto and Beyond
2020 Dec 28
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I'm writing this sitting in Singapore, the city in which I've now spent nearly half a year of uninterrupted time - an unremarkable duration for many, but for myself the longest I've ...