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What Cognitive Flexibility Theory tells us about the acceleration of expertise in ill-structured domains.

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A trick to learning a complicated topic is realizing how many complex details are a cousin of something simple.

A trick to learning a complicated topic is realizing how many complex details are a cousin of something simple.

I’ve been thinking about labor and the holiday meant to celebrate our nation’s workers. My observation: “Labor” Day is a ruse, just as “hero” is a moniker typically attached to someone we’ve decided to underpay — teachers, front-line workers, etc. A more honest name for a holiday describing who/what we value would be “Capital” Day. […]

If you find something that is true in more than one field, you’ve probably uncovered something particularly important.

In 1990, David Letterman asked his friend Jerry Seinfeld how his new sitcom was going.

The first attempt at building the iPhone came two decades too early.

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Interview occurred in February, 2022. Read more from Shawn on his blog, twitter, and his book, The Coding Career Handbook. Tell us a little about your current role: where do you work, your title and generally the sort of work you and your team do. I’m currently Head of Developer Experience at Temporal.io, an open source workflow engine for long running, durable processes powering companies as small as 2-person YCombinator startups, to enterprises as large as Stripe, Snap, Datadog, Netflix, Doordash, etc.

When deploying infrastructure, you might need to frequently redeploy an environment for testing, or spin up servers in response to an increase in demand. A common tool to automate the provisioning of your infrastructure is Terraform — with Terraform, you can define infrastructure as code, then script deployments of that infrastructure. If you’re deploying servers that you want to access over Tailscale, you can already simplify setup by using a tagged auth key to automatically connect devices to your tailnet with the right permissions. But what if you’re trying to manage your deployment of Tailscale?

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Observability matters. We need to have a term that encapsulates all of the newer and firmly modern tools and best practices.

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Last week President Biden issued an executive order to forgive billions of dollars in student loan debt. It was met with mixed reviews. For some, it’s a miracle, others think it’s a “bailout for the wealthy.” Representative Lauren Boebert believes it’s “robbing hard-working Americans to pay for Karen’s daughter’s degree in lesbian dance theory.” She […]

This past week I was talking to a potential entrepreneur and he asked about startup ideas, markets, fundraising, and more. After sharing that I believe market selection is the main determinant for …

Often, when people say they "don't have time", what's really missing is the energy to get started, the will to say "no" to a lower-energy, usually dopamine-ridden alternative like watching Netflix or ...