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“An airport after security and before boarding is, at least to me, the last place where every verb is only in the future tense.” “The veil feels thin between who I have settled into being and all the other people I could have been.” “Maybe it is possible to want the things you have”

Yesterday, I shared a lot of data about my 2018. I’ve always been pretty forthcoming online. I share a ton of good things, and some of the…

“@jckarter @lemire @cocoaphony @mpweiher @Ilseman @stephentyrone @aalonso128 @ericasadun Just kidding, works great! func asc(_ f: @escaping (T) -> (T) -> ComparisonResult) -> (T, T) -> Bool { return { f($0)($1) == .orderedAscending } } ["abc", "ABD"].sorted(by: asc(String.localizedCompare))”

“and those who age well are often as good at forgetting earlier lessons as they are at applying them.” “Find a coach or therapist you jell with. It’s a highly leveraged way to accelerate your emotional development.”

“Thinking something through is an important part of the creative process but it means dick if you don’t ever start. And if you don’t start you don’t finish.”

“Your tribe has the context about you & your life — and can remind you, when you need it, of who you are, and who you can be.”

“@bjhomer @ericasadun Was gonna say the same. But actually I’d say it *does* matter, even for current dates, because not all calendars are in a year on 4 digits. For example the Japanese start a new era every time the emperor changes, resetting to year 1 in that era; we’re currently in year Heisei 30.”

How to use Halide and Darkroom together to make great photos.

“After a good year of planning the move, I am rewarded with the pleasure of walking my daughter to school almost every day of the week. We bump into other kids across grades on the stroll through the neighborhood to the school. Sometimes, she wants me to stay an extra second after the bell rings; other times, she runs into a buddy on the playground and waves at me that “she’s good” and I can go early. With so much of our collective work inputs driven by luck (which is derived from sacrifice and hard work), this new little morning tradition I have now in 2018 feels like the luckiest output in the world.”

You may be wondering just that – where did all of the blog posts go? Why did Cummings stop talking about writing, work, kids, and everything else? Believe it or not, they are still being writ…

“So my family plays White Elephant with a twist: you have to challenge someone to a mini game if you want to steal their gift... With a huge family it gets out of hand pretty quick. A thread of our games:”

“@jckarter @kylebshr I’d caution against judging any language’s teaching potential via toy examples of string manipulation that never happen in real life. More important is how the learning curve progresses into day 2, day 20, day 200.”

“Eli’s lectures were always masterpiece of clarity. In one hour, he would set up a theorem, motivate it, explain the strategy, and execute it flawlessly; even after twenty years of teaching my own classes, I have yet to figure out his secret of somehow always being able to arrive at the natural finale of a mathematical presentation at the end of each hour without having to improvise at least a little bit halfway during the lecture. The clear and self-contained nature of his lectures (and his many books) were a large reason why I decided to specialise as a graduate student in harmonic analysis (though I would eventually return to other interests, such as analytic number theory, many years after my graduate studies).”

Great usage of line breaks on the “narrow passes” line.