Many people, when trying to learn new stuff, read an article or a book, or watch a video or listen to some friend or coach, and start applying the stuff. This is also standard advice. Many people say it is… Read More »Indoctrinating vs. Educating Yourself
It is good to know how stuff breaks. “increasing complexity yields diminishing marginal returns: each new layer of administration, infrastructure, or technology demands ever-greater energy and material inputs for proportionally smaller benefits. When the energy surplus required to sustain this… Read More »Collapse: A Framework for Understanding and Navigating the Decline of Industrial Civilisation
It seems to me that people have more patience with AI than with people. If a person would be as annoying with their responses and questions as AI tend to be, you would not speak to the person anymore. Why… Read More »Patience with Technology
It is not great powers competing, it is Game of Thrones.
Shipping is the core. “it is surprisingly hard to motivate yourself to focus on the main thing. It’s much more natural to just jump into something that looks probably useful and start working immediately” https://www.seangoedecke.com/getting-the-main-thing-right/
Physics is cool.
I am still amazed sometimes as some professional are amazed by simple task effort estimation, planning and prioritization. This seems to be an actual skill that many have issues discovering, not even speaking of mastering it. If you can do… Read More »Basic Planning
Even fiction can be grounded in economy. “our protagonists aren’t typical Hobbits. Bilbo, Frodo, Merry, and Pippin are all very clearly members of the landed gentry, the landowning class that controls most means of economic production and maintains social dominance… Read More »The Moral Economy of the Shire
World is changing rapidly and what is true today won’t be so in a few decades. “It’s difficult to state just how stark and catastrophic of a collapse this is. The number of births in China fell by 17% in… Read More »Let’s save the human species!
You cannot avoid politics. “The most brilliant technical solution is worthless if you can’t get the people around you to adopt it.” https://hodgkins.io/blog/quiet-influence-a-guide-to-nemawashi-in-engineering/