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There are three important facts about bullshit: It’s everywhere, it’s influential, and it’s dangerous.

The original definition of Aggregation Theory emphasized the importance of commoditized supply; that makes Spotify more of an Aggregator than Netflix

Every good idea and every admirable trait can be taken too far.

Make sure you're playing the real game, not some more complicated game you've made up for yourself.

What do metagames have to do with the acquisition of expertise?

How using frameworks can get in the way of actual sensemaking, and what to do about it.

One way that first principles thinking fails is when you build your analysis up from a deficient set of base principles. Everything is correct and true, but you still end up mistaken. Here's how that looks like in practice.

When you're faced with uncertainty, the best thing you can do is analyse your inputs, synthesise a new model, and then destroy it to start over again.

Piers Steel's Procrastination Equation is a reasonably effective method of tackling procrastination. Here's a summary of the equation.

Notes on augmenting ‘Get Things Done’ time management with a three-tiered model of personal review.

Why the Internet has driven writing to sound ever more insightful, how writers accomplish this, and what to do about it.

Why ‘Strong Opinions, Weakly Held’ isn't as great a thinking tool as you might think.

Why it's probably a good idea to keep a list of questions in your head. Also how I find topics to write about.

Successful practitioners use 'optimise for usefulness' over 'optimise for truth'. Unintended side effect: this means it's ok to believe in religion, so long as it doesn't harm you.

Actionable books are books that contain techniques or approaches you may apply to your life. Here's how to read them.

Why we need to be careful when using frameworks from the field of judgment and decision making.

A thinking trap for those of us who are analytical.

A summary of everything I know on the topic of building career moats.

As you might’ve already guessed, my approach to thinking about career planning is to read a lot. We should probably pause a bit to consider if this is a valid strategy. Let’s work backwards. The idea at the core of career strategy is that you have to make

What do metagames have to do with the acquisition of expertise?

Understanding how the human brain works helps with managing yourself, as well as with orchestrating other people.

How do you evaluate if a career activity is worth doing? By looking at its component tasks, and calculating the information rate of each step.

Why thinking long term can lead to a competitive advantage, and what that looks like in business and in careers.

There has been an uptick in self-help books and blogs about mental models. But, there's a problem when putting it in practice.

The eight fallacies of distributed systems come from different engineers at Sun Microsystems. The first four are from Bill Joy and Tom Lyon (co-founders of Sun). Five, six, and 7 come from L. Peter Deutsch (designer of PostScript). The last is attributed to James Gosling (lead designer of Java). 1. The network is reliable 2. Latency is zero 3. Bandwidth is infinite 4. The network is secure 5. Topology doesn't change 6. There is one administrator 7. Transport cost is zero 8. The network

A prediction that all developer platforms and infrastructure platforms will converge to Kubernetes.