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Long Distance Thinking
Long Distance Thinking
The knowledge of a carpenter is in his hands. The apprentice must work with his own to discover it. Here is some terrible advice: “If you can't explain it to a 6-year-old, you don't understand it yourself.”
·simonsarris.substack.com·
Long Distance Thinking
Brandon Sanderson’s Advice for Doing Hard Things - Study Hacks - Cal Newport
Brandon Sanderson’s Advice for Doing Hard Things - Study Hacks - Cal Newport
A reader recently sent me a video of a keynote speech, delivered in 2020 by the popular fantasy novelist Brandon Sanderson. The title of the presentation was "The Common Lies Writers Tell You," but its real message was more general. Sanderson starts (perhaps channeling a young Cal Newport) by pushing back on our common instinct
·calnewport.com·
Brandon Sanderson’s Advice for Doing Hard Things - Study Hacks - Cal Newport
Theses on Sleep - Alexey Guzey
Theses on Sleep - Alexey Guzey
Summary: In this essay, I question some of the consensus beliefs about sleep, such as the need for at least 7 hours of sleep for adults, harmfulness of acute sleep deprivation, and harmfulness of long-term sleep deprivation and our inability to adapt to it. It appears that the evidence for all of these beliefs is much weaker than sleep scientists and public health experts want us to believe. In particular, I conclude that it’s plausible that at least acute sleep deprivation is not only not …
·guzey.com·
Theses on Sleep - Alexey Guzey
From an Airtable to $9.2k in Side Income
From an Airtable to $9.2k in Side Income
This is a short story about how I went from zero to $9.2k sales on a side project. I had no audience and paid nothing in advertising.
·swipe.page·
From an Airtable to $9.2k in Side Income
How a talk begins
How a talk begins
A dispatch from the middle of trying to figure out what I want to say
·austinkleon.substack.com·
How a talk begins
Event Notes in Craft Are Awesome for Time Blockers – The Sweet Setup
Event Notes in Craft Are Awesome for Time Blockers – The Sweet Setup
Daily Notes became a hallmark feature in Craft in short order. The quick and easy ability to create a note, specific to a calendar date, that could be linked and back-linked across your entire Craft database made the feature a perfect option for collecting digital paraphernalia.
·thesweetsetup.com·
Event Notes in Craft Are Awesome for Time Blockers – The Sweet Setup
The Factorio Mindset
The Factorio Mindset
Plus! The Carbon Rally; The Bridge; Housing and Rates; Full Stack Media; Buying Out Contracts; Diff Jobs
·thediff.co·
The Factorio Mindset