Michael's Brain Dump
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  • active-record

    • Arel

  • ad-blocking

    • Pi-hole on RancherOS

  • aging

    • Information Theory of Aging
    • Lifespan: why We Age and Why We Don't Have To
    • Siturins
    • Theories for biological aging
    • Vitality genes
    • Werner Syndrom

  • airplanes

    • F-35
    • U-2 Longevity

  • algorithm

    • Kadane's Algorithm
    • XOR Algorithm Trick

  • animals

    • Active component of catnip

  • anti-patterns

    • History of FBI negotiation failures
    • Signs of executive dysfunction
    • Thread of Doom

  • application

    • dotfiles
    • Emacs
    • Fantastical
    • Hammerspoon
    • Mailmate
    • Slack

  • architecture

    • Business -> Architecture -> Process -> Organization (BAPO)

  • art

    • Salvator Mundi

  • artificial-intelligence

    • AI Concerns
    • ChatGPT
    • Free AI Tools and Models
    • OpenAI

  • attrition

    • Resignations

  • axiom

    • Goodhart's Law
    • Lindy Effect
    • Never letter a good crisis go to waste
    • Picks and Shovels

  • backup

    • rclone

  • behavioral-economics

    • Arbitrary Coherence
    • Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
    • The Cost of Free
    • Thinking, Fast and Slow

  • behavioral-model

    • Prospect Theory

  • biases

    • Blindspot bias
    • Hindsight Bias
    • Motivated Reasoning
    • Self-serving Bias
    • The Halo Effect

  • binary-operations

    • XOR Algorithm Trick

  • biography

    • American Generalship
    • Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War
    • Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
    • The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
    • Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.

  • biology

    • Furin
    • Furin Clevage Site

  • book-list

    • My book notes
    • Recommended Books on Product Management
    • Recommended Books on Technical management

  • book-note

    • A Fine Mess: A Global Quest for a Simpler, Fairer, and More Efficient Tax System
    • A Short History of China
    • American Generalship
    • Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
    • Central Banking 101
    • Clear and Simple as the Truth
    • Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy
    • High Output Management
    • How Big Things Get Done
    • How to Talk so Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7
    • Lifespan: why We Age and Why We Don't Have To
    • Making Things Happen: Mastering Project Management
    • Making Work Visible: Exposing Time Theft to Optimize Work Flow
    • Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager
    • Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
    • Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency
    • Speed and Scale: An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now
    • The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare
    • The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
    • The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide
    • Thinking in Bets: making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts
    • Thinking in Systems: A Primer
    • Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
    • Understanding Variation: The Key to Managing Chaos
    • Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19

  • books

    • Branch Non-Fiction Book
    • My book notes
    • Reading

  • branch-non-fiction

    • A Short History of China
    • Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World–and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
    • Lifespan: why We Age and Why We Don't Have To
    • Prisoners of Geography
    • Remote: Office Not Required
    • The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
    • The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare
    • Thinking in Bets: making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts
    • Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19
    • Why We're Polarized

  • budding

    • Answer the question
    • Anti-patterns in Data Visualization
    • Communicating with Data
    • High Standards
    • Management
    • Mentorship
    • Public Speaking
    • The Importance of Pragmatism at Work
    • The Process is not a Shield

  • burnout

    • Burnout

  • business

    • Companies can come to reflect their customer

  • career

    • Executive Skill Set
    • Technical Careers
    • V.P. of Engineering
    • V.P. of Engineering Interview Questions

  • career-advice

    • Reverse Interview
    • Technical Career Advice

  • central-banking

    • Central bank "put"
    • Central Bank
    • Central Bank Digital Currency
    • Central Banking 101
    • Conventional Monetary Policy
    • Crisis Monetary Policy
    • Fed Watching
    • Federal Open Market Committee
    • Federal Reserve
    • Modern Monetary Theory
    • Quantitative Easing
    • r*

  • chess

    • Chess
    • Studying Chess Openings
    • Woodpecker Method

  • china

    • A Short History of China
    • Failure of U.S. to meet the future threat from China
    • The Hundred-Year Marathon
    • The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare

  • climate-change

    • Afforestation / Reforestation
    • Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR)
    • Carbon Markets
    • Carbon Offsets
    • Certifying a carbon offset project
    • Climate Change
    • Climate Change Mitigation
    • Direct Air Capture
    • Life Cycle Assessment
    • Speed and Scale: An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now
    • Unpredictability of chaotic systems
    • What We Know about Climate Change, updated edition

  • climate-change-mitigation

    • Carbon Markets
    • Carbon Offsets
    • Certifying a carbon offset project
    • Direct Air Capture
    • Speed and Scale: An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now

  • clothes

    • Clothes
    • Denim

  • cloud-infrastructure

    • AWS

  • coding

    • Ligatures

  • command-line

    • 7zip
    • awk
    • Command Line
    • direnv
    • dotfiles
    • fzf
    • jq
    • ls
    • macOS Command Line Tools
    • pandoc
    • pmset
    • rclone
    • Replacements for common command line tools
    • rsync
    • Shell Scripting
    • ssh
    • Terminal and Coding Themes
    • Terminal Emulators
    • tmux
    • xargs
    • Zellij
    • zsh
    • zsh-histdb

  • communication

    • 7-38-55 Percent Rule
    • Answer the question
    • Answering a binary, zero-sum question
    • Communicating Technical Topics
    • Communication
    • Executive Presence
    • Feedback
    • Non-violent communication
    • Open-ended question asking
    • Public Speaking
    • Re-routing the narrative
    • The Rollup
    • Thread of Doom

  • community

    • Chatham House Rule

  • compensation

    • Stock Options

  • cooking

    • Cooking
    • Smoked Ribs
    • Smoked Salmon
    • Washing Leafy Greens

  • covid-19

    • COVID-19
    • Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19

  • crime

    • Long Firm

  • cryptocurrency

    • Central Bank Digital Currency

  • cryptography

    • Cryptography
    • Numbers Station

  • css

    • Tailwind

  • culture

    • Culture
    • Document Culture
    • Efficiency vs. Effectiveness
    • High Standards
    • Micro-pessimist, macro-optimist
    • My Ideal Work Culture
    • The Importance of Pragmatism at Work

  • data-architecture

    • Data Warehouse

  • data-engineering

    • Data Engineering

  • data-visualization

    • Anti-patterns in Data Visualization
    • Sankey Diagram

  • databases

    • Databases
    • Ecto
    • Postgresql

  • decision-making

    • Assessing the accuracy of our beliefs
    • Averaging Advice
    • Backcasting
    • Decision Making
    • Kill Chain
    • Motivated Reasoning
    • OODA Loop
    • Poor Decision Making
    • Re-evaluating a belief
    • Resulting
    • Thinking in Bets: making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts

  • decisions

    • Build vs. Buy

  • design

    • Minimalism and Farmhouse Chic

  • devops

    • AWS
    • Docker
    • DORA Metrics

  • diseases

    • Werner Syndrom

  • distributed-systems

    • CAP Theorem

  • docker

    • Pi-hole on RancherOS

  • economics

    • Conventional Monetary Policy
    • Crisis Monetary Policy
    • Economics
    • Equity Markets
    • Eurodollar
    • Fed Watching
    • Inflation
    • Money Creation
    • Quantitative Easing
    • Treasury Yield Curve

  • elixir

    • Ecto
    • Install Absinthe in a Phoenix project
    • LiveView
    • Phoenix Webframework

  • emacs

    • Doom Emacs
    • Emacs

  • email

    • Email Aliases
    • Mailmate

  • empathy

    • Labeling

  • engineering

    • Load Head Dam danger

  • equities

    • Hedging by options dealers and sudden equity drops

  • error-in-judgement

    • Belief in the law of small numbers
    • Gambler's Fallacy

  • evergreen

    • My Ideal Work Culture
    • Processes over results
    • Scrum

  • executive

    • Executive Presence
    • Executive Skill Set
    • Managing Managers
    • Signs of executive dysfunction

  • finance

    • Accounting
    • FX-swap market
    • Investing
    • Long Firm
    • Lying for Money
    • Regulation Q
    • Repo Market
    • Role of the U.S. Dollar in Foreign Markets
    • shadow banks
    • Walter Wriston
    • Wrong way risk

  • food

    • Truffles

  • fraud

    • Lying for Money

  • freebsd

    • FreeNAS / TrueNAS

  • freenas

    • FreeNAS / TrueNAS

  • front-end

    • AlpineJS
    • NextJS

  • functional-programming

    • Functional Programming Languages
    • Haskell

  • game-theory

    • Schelling Point

  • genetics

    • Epigenome
    • Precision Medicine
    • Siturins

  • geography

    • Prisoners of Geography

  • geopolitics

    • Prisoners of Geography
    • Signaling and Shaping in Geopolitics

  • graphql

    • Install Absinthe in a Phoenix project

  • hardware

    • Descaling the Espresso Machine
    • FreeNAS / TrueNAS
    • Hardware Projects
    • Mechanical Keyboards

  • healthcare

    • Conservative roots of the individual mandate

  • hiring

    • Hiring
    • Reference Checking

  • historical-figures

    • Ida Tarbell
    • John D. Rockefeller
    • Walter Wriston

  • history

    • A Short History of China
    • Ludlow Massacre
    • Prisoners of Geography

  • hobby

    • Woodworking

  • home

    • Solar

  • idea

    • Never letter a good crisis go to waste

  • incentives

    • Pie Problem

  • incident-response

    • Incident Response
    • Incident Response Plan

  • individual-contributor

    • Senior Software Engineer
    • Staff Engineer

  • infants

    • SIDS
    • Sleep Training
    • Swaddling

  • inflation

    • Money Creation

  • interviewing

    • Behavioral Interview Questions
    • Reverse Interview
    • V.P. of Engineering Interview Questions

  • investment

    • Cap Rate
    • The Cost of Efficiency

  • ira

    • Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
    • The Provos: The IRA and Sinn Fein

  • ireland

    • Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
    • The Provos: The IRA and Sinn Fein

  • javascript

    • AlpineJS
    • NextJS

  • journaling

    • Journaling

  • journalist

    • Ida Tarbell

  • json

    • jq

  • judiciary

    • Lochnerism

  • large-language-models

    • ChatGPT
    • Free AI Tools and Models
    • Text Summarization with LLM

  • law

    • Lochnerism

  • leadership

    • 5 Levels of Leadership: Proven Steps to Maximize Your Potential
    • American Generalship
    • Answering a binary, zero-sum question
    • Asking for things
    • Change Management
    • Driving Culture Change
    • High Output Management
    • High Standards
    • Leadership
    • Leadership during Crisis
    • Management vs. Leadership
    • Signs of executive dysfunction
    • Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
    • Technical Executive

  • leaf-non-fiction

    • Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
    • Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
    • Superforecasting
    • Understanding Variation: The Key to Managing Chaos

  • learning

    • Cognitive Task Analysis
    • CUDOS

  • life

    • Hobbies
    • Life
    • Life Map
    • My 6 memorized rules
    • Productivity

  • life-admin

    • Buying a house

  • lifehacks

    • Calendar Tips
    • Productivity

  • linux

    • Windows Managers

  • logic

    • Fallacies

  • lying

    • The Pinocchio Effect

  • mac-os

    • Mailmate

  • machine-learning

    • Audio Transcription

  • macos

    • Fantastical
    • Hammerspoon
    • macOS Command Line Tools
    • pmset

  • macro-economics

    • Central bank "put"
    • Central Bank
    • Central Banking 101
    • Crisis Monetary Policy
    • Modern Monetary Theory
    • Money Creation
    • r*

  • management

    • Against Overtime
    • Annual Planning
    • Asking for things
    • Building Teams
    • Crafting a job description
    • Engineering Career Ladder
    • High Output Management
    • Integrating an acquired company
    • Management
    • Management By Objectives (MBO)
    • Management Training
    • Management vs. Leadership
    • Managing Managers
    • Matrix Management
    • Mergers and Acquisitions
    • Phone Screening
    • Recommended Books on Technical management
    • Screening Problem
    • Starting a new technical management job
    • Technical Executive
    • Technical Recruiting
    • The Cost of Efficiency
    • Understanding Variation: The Key to Managing Chaos

  • management-by-metrics

    • Management By Objectives (MBO)
    • Metrics and Management
    • Understanding Variation: The Key to Managing Chaos

  • managing-up

    • Managing Up
    • Patterns for managing up

  • medicine

    • Precision Medicine

  • meetings

    • Chatham House Rule
    • Meeting Purge
    • Whiteboards bias towards the drawer

  • mental-models

    • Interesting Mental Models and Axioms
    • Mental Models
    • Monkeys and Pedestals
    • Pareto Principle

  • mentoring

    • Mentorship

  • metrics

    • Goodhart's Law
    • Metrics and Management
    • Understanding Variation: The Key to Managing Chaos

  • military

    • Assasin's Mace Weapons
    • Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War
    • Chinese strategies against U.S. Military
    • Criterion for unlawful weapons
    • F-35
    • Failure of U.S. to meet the future threat from China
    • General Schriever and ICBMs
    • Gerasimov Doctrine
    • Great Power Conflict
    • Human Command, Machine Control
    • Kill Chain
    • OODA Loop
    • The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare

  • mindfullness

    • How to Train a Wild Elephant: And Other Adventures in Mindfulness

  • mindset

    • Micro-pessimist, macro-optimist

  • mobility

    • Agile 8

  • money

    • Investing

  • monk

    • Self Image
    • Values Audit

  • monopolies

    • Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy

  • monopoly

    • Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa)

  • moon-shots

    • Monkeys and Pedestals

  • mysteries

    • Russian Buzzer Radio Station

  • narrative-non-fiction

    • American Generalship
    • Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War
    • Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy
    • Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
    • The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy
    • The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
    • The Provos: The IRA and Sinn Fein
    • These Truths: A History of the United States

  • nas

    • FreeNAS / TrueNAS

  • negotiation

    • "No"s clarify and begin a negotiation
    • "That's Right" is a key to negotiations
    • Rule of Three "Yes"es
    • Saying "No" pattern while avoiding "no"
    • Ackerman bargaining
    • Best alternative to a negotiated agreement (BATNA)
    • Calibrated Questions
    • Confront without Confrontation
    • Guaranteeing Execution
    • History of FBI negotiation failures
    • Labeling
    • Mirroring
    • Negotiation
    • Negotiation One Sheet
    • Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
    • Open-ended question asking
    • Salary Negotiation
    • Tactical Empathy
    • Three Types of Negotiation Leverage
    • Zone of Possible Agreement (ZOPA)

  • network-security

    • Email Aliases
    • Hacking
    • Intrusion Detection System
    • Security
    • Yubikey

  • networking

    • Home Networking

  • non-free-content

    • LiveView

  • notable-person

    • Ida Tarbell
    • John D. Rockefeller

  • note-taking

    • Marginal Notes in HTML
    • Zettelkasten

  • novelty

    • Random Amusing Knowledge

  • onboarding

    • Onboarding
    • Starting a new technical management job

  • one-on-ones

    • One-on-Ones
    • One-on-Ones for the direct report

  • operating-systems

    • Linux

  • options

    • Hedging by options dealers and sudden equity drops

  • organization-change

    • Integrating an acquired company

  • outsourcing

    • BOT model

  • overtime

    • Knowledge Worker Output

  • pandemic

    • COVID-19

  • parenting

    • Breastfeeding
    • Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool
    • Early Postpartum Parenting
    • How to Talk so Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7
    • Parenting
    • SIDS
    • Sleep Training
    • Swaddling

  • performance

    • Caching

  • personal-knowledge-management

    • Personal Knowledge Management

  • persuasion

    • Changing Strong Willed Leaders Minds

  • philosophy

    • Meditations: A New Translation
    • My 6 memorized rules
    • Values Audit

  • phoenix

    • Ecto
    • Install Absinthe in a Phoenix project
    • LiveView

  • places-ive-been

    • Anguilla
    • Arizona
    • Denmark
    • Èze
    • Netherlands
    • St. Bart's
    • Yosemite

  • planning

    • Annual Planning
    • Life Map

  • politics

    • Conservative roots of the individual mandate
    • Managing the business
    • Sorting in Politics
    • Why demographic change can be anxiety provoking
    • Why We're Polarized
    • Wright Patman

  • populism

    • Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy

  • populism;

    • Wright Patman

  • power-management

    • pmset

  • preventing-mistakes

    • Point and Calling

  • prima-donnas

    • Rockstars and Teamwork

  • prioritization

    • RICE/ICE Scoring
    • When costs accelerate non-lineraly, do not delay fixes for efficiency

  • privacy

    • Disposable Credit Cards
    • Email Aliases
    • Pi-hole on RancherOS
    • Privacy
    • Web Tracking

  • probability

    • Bayes Theorem
    • Black Swan Event

  • process

    • Point and Calling
    • The Process is not a Shield

  • product-management

    • Product Management
    • Recommended Books on Product Management
    • RICE/ICE Scoring

  • productivity

    • Productivity
    • Task Switching Costs
    • Time Management

  • programming-languages

    • Elixir
    • Functional Programming Languages
    • Go (lang)
    • Haskell
    • Lua
    • Ruby

  • project-management

    • Agile
    • Forward Pass and Backward Pass
    • How Big Things Get Done
    • Making Things Happen: Mastering Project Management
    • Making Work Visible: Exposing Time Theft to Optimize Work Flow
    • Pressure and Project Schedule
    • Project Management
    • Project Planning
    • Quality vs. Speed
    • Save more or save time
    • Scrum
    • Technical Project Estimation

  • prose

    • Clear and Simple as the Truth

  • psychology

    • Anchor and adjustment effect
    • Arbitrary Coherence
    • Behavioral Change Stairway Model (BCSM)
    • Cognitive Task Analysis
    • Decoy Effect
    • Group Reasoning
    • Mirroring
    • Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
    • Prospect Theory
    • Social Norms and Market Norms
    • The Cost of Free
    • The Endowment Effect
    • The Lake Wobegone Effect
    • The Pinocchio Effect

  • radio

    • Numbers Station
    • Russian Buzzer Radio Station

  • rails

    • Arel

  • reading

    • Analytical Reading
    • Blank Sheet Reading Method
    • Branch Non-Fiction Book
    • Fiction Book Reviews
    • Inspectional Reading
    • Leaf Non-Fiction book
    • Narrative Non-Fiction Book
    • Syntopical Reading
    • Trunk Non-Fiction Book
    • Trunk-Branch-Leaf books
    • Where to find new books

  • real-estate

    • Cap Rate
    • Section 1031 Exchange

  • recruiting

    • Phone Screening
    • Screening Problem
    • Technical Recruiting

  • regex

    • Regular Expressions (Regex)

  • remote-work

    • Remote Work
    • Ways to Build Remote Culture

  • rfc

    • Request for Comment (RFC)

  • risk

    • How to Manage Risk
    • Risk Management
    • Wrong way risk

  • ruby

    • Arel

  • russia

    • Gerasimov Doctrine

  • rust

    • Memory Management in Rust
    • Rules of mutable references in Rust
    • Rules of Rust Value Ownership
    • Rust

  • scaling

    • Signs of executive dysfunction

  • science

    • Outcome-blind analysis

  • sdlc

    • Agile
    • Code Review
    • Scrum
    • The Process is not a Shield

  • seedling

    • Bottom up
    • Coordinating Groups
    • Data Visualization fluency
    • Economics
    • Incentives
    • My 6 memorized rules
    • Software Development Life Cycle
    • Top of Mind
    • War

  • self-improvement

    • Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
    • Habit Change
    • Habit Stacking
    • Life Map

  • shopping

    • Clothes

  • sociology

    • American Individualism
    • Why demographic change can be anxiety provoking

  • software-development

    • Code Quality
    • Code Review
    • Ligatures
    • Programming Languages
    • Regular Expressions (Regex)
    • Scrum
    • Software Development Practices
    • Software Engineer Toolkit

  • software-engineer

    • Staff Engineer

  • spies

    • Numbers Station

  • standards

    • Code Quality
    • High Standards

  • statistics

    • Belief in the law of small numbers
    • Instrumental Variable
    • Monte Carlo method
    • Understanding Variation: The Key to Managing Chaos

  • stocks

    • Hedging by options dealers and sudden equity drops

  • strategy

    • "Strategy" is an abused term

  • stub

    • Bottom up
    • Forward Pass and Backward Pass
    • Making Things Happen: Mastering Project Management
    • Making Work Visible: Exposing Time Theft to Optimize Work Flow
    • The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering

  • style

    • Clothes

  • system-analysis

    • Modeling Systems
    • Stocks, Flows, and Feedback loops
    • Systems Analysis
    • Systems Thinking
    • Thinking in Systems: A Primer

  • system-design

    • Caching
    • CAP Theorem
    • Scaling
    • System Design

  • system-dysfunction

    • Chaotic Systems

  • systems-thinking

    • Chaotic Systems
    • Intervention points in systems
    • Modeling Systems
    • Systems Thinking
    • Unpredictability of chaotic systems

  • team-organization

    • Building Teams
    • Work difficulty and team member growth

  • team-structure

    • Business -> Architecture -> Process -> Organization (BAPO)
    • Rockstars and Teamwork

  • teams

    • Building Teams
    • Inter-Team Communication

  • tech-debt

    • When costs accelerate non-lineraly, do not delay fixes for efficiency

  • technical

    • Analytics
    • Data Engineering
    • Databases
    • DevOps
    • Docker
    • Lua
    • Programming Languages
    • Ruby
    • Technical Knowledge

  • technical-leadership

    • Managing the business
    • V.P. of Engineering

  • technical-management

    • An Elegant Puzzle: systems of Engineering Management
    • Build vs. Buy
    • Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager
    • Patterns for managing up
    • Technical People Management
    • The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering

  • technical-projects

    • Brooks's Law
    • Quality vs. Speed

  • text-editors

    • Neovim

  • the-troubles

    • Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
    • The Provos: The IRA and Sinn Fein

  • thinking

    • Blindspot bias
    • Brainstorming
    • Hindsight Bias
    • Image Schema
    • Interesting Mental Models and Axioms
    • Motivated Reasoning
    • Pareto Principle
    • Premortems
    • Self-serving Bias
    • Temporal discounting
    • Thinking

  • time-management

    • Calendar Tips

  • trade-offs

    • Build vs. Buy

  • travel

    • Anguilla
    • Arizona
    • Denmark
    • Èze
    • France
    • Ireland
    • Netherlands
    • Scotland
    • St. Bart's
    • Travel
    • Yosemite

  • truenas

    • FreeNAS / TrueNAS

  • trunk-non-fiction

    • A Fine Mess: A Global Quest for a Simpler, Fairer, and More Efficient Tax System
    • High Output Management
    • Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition
    • Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
    • Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
    • Speed and Scale: An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now
    • Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration, and the Future of White Majorities

  • ubuntu

    • Pi-hole on RancherOS

  • ui-ux

    • Tailwind

  • user-interface

    • Windows Managers

  • values

    • American Individualism

  • version-control

    • git

  • vim

    • Neovim

  • virology

    • Coronavirus
    • COVID-19
    • Furin Clevage Site

  • web-applications

    • Scaling

  • web-architecture

    • Scaling

  • web-development

    • JAMStack
    • Static Site

  • web-framework

    • AlpineJS
    • Rails

  • weight-lifting

    • 5/3/1
    • Agile 8
    • Home Gym Platform

  • woodworking

    • Finishing
    • Home Gym Platform
    • Murphy Bed Build

  • work

    • Building Teams
    • Inter-Team Communication
    • Technical People Management
    • Technical Recruiting

  • writing

    • Blogging
    • classic writing style
    • Clear and Simple as the Truth
    • Image Schema
    • Journaling
    • Metadiscourse
    • Note Taking
    • Writing
    • Zettelkasten

  • zfs

    • FreeNAS / TrueNAS