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Dear friends, there is a tale: Once a country priest was so rude that when riding his horse on the narrow road, he would shout at passer-bys coming his way as soon as he could spot them: “Be gone! Go off! Out of the way! Here comes the priest!” One day he was shouting at a person quite far off, but as he rode closer it became apparent that the traveler happened to be the king himself. The priest quickly grew quiet, cast his glance downwards, and pulled on his hood to conceal his face. As the king’s horse strode past, it was the priest who moved off the road. But instead of passing, the King stopped and turned to him, saying, “Tomorrow you shall come see me at my country palace. If you cannot answer three questions, then on behalf of your pride, you shall lose your hood and gown.”

The piece above is part of a series called Pluralism by artist Deborah Roberts -- it's a collage of dozens of Black names marked as misspelled by Microsoft Word's built-in spell checker. I don't know about you, but thi

The current pattern, however temporary, of withholding more personal and subcultural information from the Internet, despite its unpleasant cause, might accidentally reintroduce a bygone paradigm that the Internet itself is structurally incapable of encouraging, one of silence and even mystery. That sounds a bit like a Dark Age, yes, but hasn’t the world become a bit overilluminated?

While websites are really good for giving you a “presence” on the internet, I think they’re really powerful as tools not just to broadcast your identity, but to help you develop it. ​ The things that we’re all learning today are rich, multimedia, and hyperlinked. You need to be working in the appropriate medium to try and keep up with that. ​ The Recurse Center community has the Blaggerator, a RSS aggregator that creates topics in Zulip, that’s a really useful piece of community infrastructure. It basically gives you an audience for your writing that you know cares about the subject matter and shares your values.

So I have come to the conclusion that the only thing that works is time and repetition, and that may seem daunting, but guess what? Time is passing. You’re learning Haskell right now. Or anything else you want to, for that matter.

"My job is to put myself out of a job" encouraged me to actively coach engineers so I could be free to work on non-engineering problems. ​ One thing that helped us execute well without brutal hours was articulating clear goals at multiple granularities. After our Series A, we made a mock deck for our next fundraise. What story would our future investors want to hear? With that as a goal for the round, we would set “episode” goals for the ~6 weeks between board meetings. And using those, we’d set goals for the week - what did we need to get done to stay on track? ​ I learned the hard way that it’s in our nature to wait too long to do the hard, but obvious thing, especially when it affects other people. ​ The benefits of faster decisions compound over time, whether the decision is to let someone go or to trust someone with more, so make the decision, and take action sooner. ​ We learned that having this quiet space to think, talk, and dream together was critical.

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These days, my self-care has looked like self-talk: a direct encounter with that nasty voice, not a “treat myself” takeout order or pedicure. …and most of all, it means taking a hard look at what this worldview—we don’t deserve what we don’t earn—means in practice. This is corrosive of the common good because the more the successful believe they did it on their own and deserve what they’ve won, the less often they are to identify with those less fortunate than themselves.

Yet often we focus on the importance of those great ideas and seem to forget about the work that is required to spread them around. Although we aren’t going to tell you to swear off smarts altogether, we are here to suggest that maybe it’s time to reconsider the role that social people play in cultural growth and the diffusion of innovation.

As predicted, compared to those who believed they were interacting with a human operator, participants who believed they were interacting with a computer reported lower fear of self-disclosure, lower impression management, displayed their sadness more intensely, and were rated by observers as more willing to disclose.

The core idea of the essay could be summarized in an equally as powerful statement brought forth by another Tumblr user: Being known is being loved.

creators hope to define objects in a way that’s useful now but flexible enough to accommodate the unanticipated uses mathematicians might have for these objects. with more complicated objects, there are maybe 10 or 20 different ways to formalize it.

This year, I hope to do mathy sketches as inspired by John Golden’s tweet. Initially this post was working off of prompts from another website, and after learning of some controversy, I have …

while I created it to serve Tarsnap’s needs, it would be a stretch to place such a general-purpose open-source tool under the narrow umbrella of “working on backups.” In short, academic institutions systemically promote exactly the sort of short-term optimization of which, ironically, the private sector is often accused. Is entrepreneurship a trap? No; right now, it's one of the only ways to avoid being trapped.

A good founder is capable of anticipating which turns lead to treasure and which lead to certain death. A bad founder is just running to the entrance of the maze without any sense for the history of the industry, the players in the maze, the casualties of the past, and the technologies that are likely to move walls and change assumptions. Some of these theories come from academia, but increasingly they come from investors and entrepreneurs on blogs.

If students don’t like what’s been pushed onto them, they’ll go around it. The only way to help students is to build for them, and the only way to do that is to watch them try to learn.

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It should be plain to anyone that for every concern that is duly handled, another emerges to replace it. Yet we are so prone to looking at our list of worldly concerns as if it is something finite that we can conquer. I suppose it is finite, but do you really want to be done with it? Strangely, the more I’m okay with everything being not quite okay, the better I am at moving the little things along to a place where they do feel okay.

A thing from art school that helped my drawing and comics practice a lot is I took a ceramics course. It taught me a lot about disposability. I was completely out of my depth being in a 2D brain in a 3D class, but also because I came in lacking the chill that the ceramics department all… …seemed to have? I learned that partly this was bc in ceramics there’s so many steps where things can go wrong, out of your control. One nudge into wet clay and your project is dead. When you let it dry it’s so brittle that you or anyone else in the studio might break it. When you glaze it, it might turn a colour you didn’t mean for it to be. When you fire it, a bubble in yours or anyone else's piece might… …explode and everything in the kiln gets fucked. Ceramics students were so chill bc they understood this and at some point they accepted. If pieces got ruined, usually the person who accidentally did it felt worse than the person whose work was ruined. But your skill, practice, … …vision still stays in your hands and your mind and you just quietly make another one, faster and usually better than the one that broke. It basically taught me that I should just not give too many shits about individual things I was making and learn to just keep moving. I’m not like, a making-machine or anything, other things stall me. But ceramics class taught me that nothing is sure, permanent, a big deal. If something is not good you just make another. Anyways I tell this story a lot because I’m old and repeat myself constantly now lol.

Of course, there are things we have to do. Work. Teach. Cook. Exercise. But just don’t expect to be sparklingly happy or wildly creative in the middle of your wall. Right now, if you can meet you obligations and be kind to your loved ones, you get an A+.

There were weeks where New York City felt like a quiet, burning city. Dying and silent, except for the 24 hour sirens. I have a video on my phone of ambulance lights through my bedroom curtain, the ambulance lighting the room like the world’s saddest disco ball.

That’s the value of person-to-person teaching that’s irreplaceable in textbooks and MOOCs – the human ability to recognize a problem someone doesn’t even know they have.

People have the wrong idea about what's wrong with compulsive behavior in the first place, which produces wrong ideas about the fixes. ​ Instead, the problem is that compulsive behaviors are not freely and deliberately chosen. ​ Take a moment to imagine the alternatives. Do any of them attend to your emotional and other needs better than what you're currently doing?

I’ve been diving into the lake of my self. Knowing my instincts are a good early warning system

If this is really how math is done, then why isn't it taught that way at every level?

[Issues] must be resolved in their own ways, with a psychological-philosophical toolbox that's never too full. Some of them are never really resolved, so the task becomes living alongside [them].

If you think you can’t step away, do it anyway for one day to see how much trouble it causes. That’s useful information. ​ Dump your brain on to a sheet of paper—every single thing you could hope to do in the next 3 to 4 months. Then, look at your task list. Have the author sign each one. Did you write it, or was it fear, that nasty tyrant in your head? Cross off anything written out of fear. Listen: some drudgery is unavoidable, but you’re living your one and only life. You get to drive

This week, I handed Holloway's CEO reins over to my co-founder, Josh Levy. As we built Holloway over the last four years, I got the chance to explore the depths of my love for research, writing, and sharing stories. My belief in the purpose and mission of this company hasn’t wavered, but over the last six months I found myself wishing I could be a full-time independent creator. And at the end of July Josh and I came up with a way for me to do that.