Today's post will be kind of scattered; there's a few ideas I want to discuss.
In a previous blog post I briefly discussed how iterating through different "stations" (e.g. doing a workout routine with various machines, doing a fixed number of reps on each machine) could …
read moreFaced with scarcity, people naturally plan. It is necessary to be efficienct when resources are few.
This week, I've been working on learning DevOps things. From wikip, a definition:
DevOps is a set of practices that combines software development (Dev) and IT operations (Ops). It aims to shorten the systems development life cycle and provide continuous delivery with high software quality.
In plain English, I call …
read moreToday, I'll be discussing the topic of content—
I've done intentional stepping away (physically) from rando Internet browsing,
learning, etc., making use instead of:
The goal is to better make use of the resources …
read moreI shuffled around some peripherals to get a little night stand next to an old computer with limited available applications installed. This old computer has only 2 GB of RAM, but it is enough for most things that might be considered a "good use of time" on a computer, e …
read moreIn this post I'm going to talk about why I usually don't suggest studying more than one foreign language at once to people. Mainly, this is because learning a new language will involve you to train thinking in a new model (i.e. language); anyone who is proficient in a …
read moreThis post is about models of the world and symbol shuffling. I will describe how words act as symbols for concepts and how we our communication with one another is limited by shared understanding of systems. This way of looking at things answers questions like,
Today I am going to ramble about "science" versus business books, pop psychology, etc.
Many people treat "science" as a collection of facts. The next level is to consider "science" as a collection of facts derived through a particular methodology. 1 Both of these levels of "scientific" understanding presume a …
read moreThis weekend I went camping with some friends, which was very nice. Taking some time away from work and normal scheduling can be a very productive thing, I think. It's good to step back from stuff, re-evaluate priorities, etc. from time to time. In the future, I'll make it more …
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