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So Simple As To Be Trivial In software engineering, there is method of analysis known as “functional decomposition.” If some function or output is not working properly, a software engineer will break the function down, layer by layer, to find the component part or input that is creating the problem. “If you layer down far

Backblaze B2 在大厂的对象存储里算是非常便宜的了，如果不考虑国内访问速度，应该是非常不错的选择。

Lately, I’ve been feeling a lack of a well-deliberated, explicit moral code. The world is changing really fast – we have Elon Musk trying to set up a human colony on Mars while Earth’s bio-ecosystem is degrading by the day. So, should I support the investment of resources into making Mars habitable while Earth is… Read More

Rating threads Rob Lennon has been one of the best finds I made on Twitter in the past year. He has grown super fast, but what I like about him the most is that he's always trying new things with his content. The latest from him is Rating a thread:

For quality investors, the Return On Invested Capital (ROIC) is one of the most important financial metrics.A high ROIC is key for value creation and it’s a great way to look at a company’s competitive advantage.

When the Academy Award-winning director Guillermo del Toro was a boy growing up in Guadalajara, his mother bought him a Victorian-style writing desk. "I kept my comic books in the drawers, my books and horror action figures on the shelves, and my writing and drawing stuff on the desk," Del Toro recalled in a 2016

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Coming out of college or out of a traditional corporate job, most people think like turkeys. I thought like a turkey. Based on our understanding of the world having spent our entire lives in Mediocristan and the fact that up until relatively recent history, we have lived in Mediocristan, a turkey’s view of the world is highly rational. It’s also wrong. “A turkey is fed for a thousand days by a butcher; every day confirms to its staff of analysts that butchers love turkeys “with increased statistical confidence.” The butcher will keep feeding the turkey until a few days before Thanksgiving… [The] turkey will have a revision of belief— right when its confidence in the statement that the butcher loves turkeys is maximal and ‘it is very quiet’ and soothingly predictable in the life of the turkey.” -N.N. Taleb

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If you “have optionality,” you don’t have much need for what is commonly called intelligence, knowledge, insight, skills, and these complicated things that take place in our brain cells. For you don’t have to be right that often. All you need is the wisdom to not do unintelligent things to hurt yourself (some acts of omission) and recognize favorable outcomes when they occur.

Agency just accelerated and no one told you. The internet has accelerated disintermediation and increased agency more than any prior technology, but it’s only been commercially available for a couple of decades.

The Threshold Theory The Terman Study of the Gifted is one of the most legendary studies in psychology. In 1916, Lewis Terman developed America’s first IQ test. He used it and other evaluations to recruit 1,528 of the highest-IQ students he could find. The study began in 1921 and went on to become the longest-running

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1. Finding your true self is an act of love. Expressing it is an act of rebellion. 2. A sign of growth is having more tolerance for discomfort. But it’s also having less tolerance for bullshi…

In my latest essay for The New Yorker, published earlier this week, I tackled the topic of "quiet quitting." This idea careened into mainstream discourse last summer, powered by a viral TikTok video posted by a twentysomething engineer named Zaid Khan. Here's the transcript: "I recently heard about this idea of quiet quitting where, you're