I have always liked food: I enjoy cooking, I like eating, and I especially value sharing mealtimes together with family and loved ones. I also enjoy snacking, and I like going out to
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The blogosphere abounds with free advice, and one of the more frequently-repeated morsels is to “be prolific”, and quality will naturally follow.
The following story, from Art & Fear by David Bayles and
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I’ve often felt sheepish about my personal knowledgebase: it’s just a pile of text files. Everyone else has their own self-hosted MediaWiki or Obsidian or Digital Garden and mine is stuck
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The other day I happened across a pair of Lululemon shorts on Facebook marketplace. They were beautiful, they were my size, and they were a deal: only $35! I wanted to buy them. I left the tab open for a while, then I closed it.
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When I was a boy, I had a ride-on lawnmower with no blades. I’d wanted a ride-on lawnmower for years, ever since my brothers and I found and restored-to-life a John Deere
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Much of what I do, in multiple fields, could be reduced to one skill: troubleshooting.
I’ll define troubleshooting as systematically determining the cause of unwanted behaviour in a system, and fixing it.
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TL;DR I made a thing and think it’s cool.
Have you ever wanted to send someone a link, not to a huge and confusingly-laid-out webpage, but to the one sentence that’
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When we launched NeuroBB in 2015, as the first (and only) independent EEG, BCI, and neurofeedback discussion forum, we chose the forum software Discourse. We chose Discourse not because it is easy, but
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Days, it turns out, are rather easily made.
The time required varies, but trends closer to making the bed, or making a cup of tea, than to making Ravioli. (If you are crazy
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Conferences can be hit-and-miss. It’s easy to go through the motions on autopilot and find the experience lacklustre. Earlier on this summer, I attended one that started out lacklustre, but then became
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