Reading about how to avoid procrastinating is amongst my very favourite ways of procrastinating. It’s a lot easier than whatever you’re supposed to be doing, and neatly neutralises the guilt that you’d otherwise feel with a seductive promise that in the long run, this will prove to be the most useful hour you’ve ever spent. […]
All blog posts Data science Sanity checks as data sidekicks. Organizing knowledge A long time ago, I wrote my own note-taking software. This got me thinking a lot about how we organize knowledge on computers. We want to tag things, and for those tags to have their own hierarchy. (also) Wouldn’t it be great if our […]
I’ve read almost everything these three guys (PG, JS, SY) have written. I think it’s because I get an unshakable feeling of rightness and convergence when I read their stuff that I’ve been trying to pin down. Some fairly obvious commonalities between them include: They have brains the size of planets, write really well and […]
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