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On motivation
Don't wish for the peak while you are still climbing the mountain. This is going to take as long as it's going to take to do it at a satisfactory level of quality. Mental …
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Just say no to multi-tasking: reflections on productivity
Tafasta merubhe, lo tafasta. תפסת מרובה לא תפסת - Ancient Hebrew proverb from the Talmud (Translation: Try to catch too much, catch nothing.) I had an unsatisfying couple of days …
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He never grew up, but he never stopped growing
He never grew up, but he never stopped growing. - Arthur C. Clarke (when asked what he wanted written on his tombstone) In retrospect, I tend to underestimate a lot of things. I …
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Pride and prejudice: falling in love with your own bad ideas
Opinion, often hasty, can incline to the wrong side, and then affection for one's own opinion binds, confines the mind - The Divine Comedy Sometimes I have bad ideas. Happens to …
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Insights on what makes me productive
A few insights I've had with regards to what makes me productive: satisfying "meaty" workplans: I tend to be much more productive if I something on my table I can really sink my …
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Understand the system, make stuff happen, or die trying.
Specialization. Most of the people who work for big companies do it. They're good at this one specific thing the company needs to get done. They work with other people who are …
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Why I love programming: a crude theory of mind
I've been programming a bit today and I am enjoying myself and focusing for hours at end, which has lately been next to impossible for me when working on other things (e.g., …
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How to get the bone
Sometimes working on big projects can be frustrating. I think that's mainly because it's easy to get so immersed in detail that you lose sight of the big picture. A big project …
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Rediscovering 19th century literature
Lately, thanks mostly to Moonreader+ TTS on my phone I've been getting a lot more reading done. To my surprise I've become a stickler for 19th century classics. Besides being …
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Google vs Microsoft: what's in a name?
Microsoft is a trainwreck. I used to abhor the desktop monpolist as an evil threat to standards-based open source innovation. But in the last decade they've been screwing up so …
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Phone vs email vs text chats on IM (instant messaging)
Phone vs e-mail Alon and I usually shy away from handling things over the phone because it requires coordination (especially when you have different time zones), breaks up our …
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Reflections on the correlation between intelligence and success
Having recently reread Malcolm Gladwell's excellent book: Outliers - the story of success, I've been thinking about the correlation between high IQ and success in life. I think I …
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The TurnKey blog: where do we go from here?
When we started out a few years ago the scope of posts was very limited. Only news announcements, once every few months. The idea was to keep the signal to noise ratio down. But …