"Very enthusiastic about a lot of things."
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Dear Teachers,
As some of you may know, if you have any students in your class who identify as Christian, they may ask to be excused from school to observe the Christian holiday of “Christmas,” more popularly referred to as Yom Christmas or Nittel.
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Idea I can’t stop thinking about: “the value of a piece of information is determined by the volume of information DISCARDED to produce it.”
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Unintuitive fact of engineering:
Big teams (>8 people) ship less than small teams. Not only less per capita—less overall!
A big team that is not a fractal of small teams will lose. David vs Goliath is real.
Managers and investors—understand this before asking to grow teams.
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I’m in Paris and I ordered an oat milk latte and the waiter said no.
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You're a ghost driving a meat coated skeleton made from stardust, what do you have to be scared of?
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Ms. Lansbury gave us fine television, but personally, I do wish she undertook to explore the myriad systemic failures that led to Cabot Cove's debilitating problems with entrenched violent crime. Without addressing root causes and policy choices, a drama risks being exploitative.
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This is magical. 🪄
Angela Lansbury and Jerry Orbach recording Beauty and the Beast.
🎥 vimeo.com/user46664171
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"Ask a programmer to review ten lines of code, he’ll find ten issues. Ask him to do five hundred lines, and he’ll say it looks good." - Gene Kim, The DevOps Handbook.
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“Cynicism appears to be a coping strategy by the cognitively less gifted to avoid being duped by others. Less competent individuals are more likely to be cynical across the board.”
Common to believe that cynics are smarter - a stereotype that doesn’t hold up to scrutiny
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The GISTEMP Climate Spiral is also effective, even updated earlier this year svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4975
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Just Indulge for a second… what if Break My Soul was a Denzel monologue?
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Hear Tolkien read from "Lord of the Rings" and sing (!) in a rare recording themarginalian.org/2016/01/1…
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"I should have loved biology" jsomers.net/i-should-have-lo… Good, though I felt the same way about almost all other subjects too. It is considered good and proper form to enumerate information in a breadth-first manner.
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Okay, I have fully processed the images JWST showed us today, and I have decided: The Carina Nebula image is maybe the coolest space picture I've ever seen. theatlantic.com/science/arch…
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A parable that has helped me a lot this year.
“The Taoist Farmer.”
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One last treat. Ever curious about the fights I had with the censors on Gravity Falls? I probably shouldn't share this buttttt here are some REAL NOTES from DISNEY S&P and my REAL REPLIES. You are not prepared #10YearsOfGravityFalls
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By age 3, kids prefer nature's fractal patterns, despite the fact that most are raised in manmade structures with Euclidean geometry, suggesting this may be something innate, and may explain how viewing nature’s fractals reduces stress and mental fatigue buff.ly/2Wdf6G8
