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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 …

Why and how to use Adobe Spark Video

“Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.” — Yousuf Karsh

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.

Photo: CyboRoz I was stressed out… over dog cartoons. It was 9:47pm at Barnes and Noble on a recent Saturday night, and I had 13 minutes to find a suitable exchange for “The New Yorker Dog Cartoons…

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Ikea Effect is the overvaluation of products that are built by users when they have put some effort into it.

David shares a compilation of the best links from his newsletter Friday Finds. Read here.

The 1000 day rule. How do you work remotely and live the dream? How do you achieve location independence? The one thousand day rule will help you.

A dispatch from the middle of trying to figure out what I want to say

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.

Staying in touch with people is one of these asymmetric habits that require little effort, time and resources but has an unlimited upside.

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Christian Bager Bach Houmann - I'm a software engineering student from Denmark with a passion for learning, productivity, and problem-solving. Let's learn together.

I thought 2021 would be easier than 2020: the pandemic would wind down because of vaccines and better treatments, we'd find a new groove with work, and family life would get easier as the kids got older. In reality I foun

An excellent work of philosophy exploring our underlying anxiety caused by the ultimate freedom afforded to us by modern living, and our desire to escape that freedom for a more comfortable life.

We are in the dark corner of the pub together. We have been here for some time. Out of my coat I produce a pile of old photographs. Something to show you. They are a gift from the past, together we will look, I will tell what comes to mind.

Last week, the American figure skater Nathan Chen, a favorite to win gold in the 2022 Olympics, lived up to expectations. In a four-minute free skate performance that included five quadruple jumps, and a joyous dance break, he earned the medal that had eluded him four years earlier in Pyeongchang. Many of you sent me

How to solve problems quickly and cheaply? Add more mental models to your thinking toolbox. Check the best mental models For problem-solving.

This started off life as a link post to an interesting video on Matt Birchlers writing set up. However, it quickly spiralled out of control into me writing regular expressions, editing javascript and spending two days making this set up my own. If you're into doing anything like this, then