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Writing

2024

A New Coat of Paint
10-12
My blog’s identity crisis
10-10
Static blogs are like printers
10-07
Heavy is the Crown
10-05
Your site should let you do what you want
10-03
Justice Holmes
09-30
Markdown sans front matter
09-29
There are no rules
09-21
Probably your fault
09-18
Ambiguity is where the work is
09-14
Book Notes on 'Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S Truman'
07-24
Do The Hard Work That's Required
07-23
Notes on Thoughts for Young Men by JC Ryle
07-08
How to make timestamps for multiple versions of a podcast
07-08
Recently (June '24)
07-06
How to learn like Sherlock Holmes
07-02
Book Notes and Review of 'The Patriots by Winston Groom'
06-30
Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough
06-18
Fix the fridge
06-14
You can just
06-07
Don't let it fade to black
05-30
Don't take non-practitioner advice
05-29
Rental car envy
05-28
Explanation vs. excuses
05-13
Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Life in War, Law, and Ideas
04-28
Specific directions or shut up
04-27
Most things just need to be done
04-13
Foolishness leads to mastery
03-22
Visible progress makes doing hard things easy
03-14
How I choose what to read: bullets vs. cannonballs
03-04
Sailing the Graveyard Sea by Richard Snow
02-29
A love letter to old books
02-25
Don't Create a Horse Storm
02-20
1776
02-16
The Gathering Storm
02-16
Success is found in the minutiae
02-13
Advice from Grandpa
01-26
25 quotes from my commonplace book
01-22
Who you are is who you will be (but you can change)
01-19

2023

Some questions to ask yourself
12-27
My Reading Year, 2023
12-14
Reading plants seeds
11-28
JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century
11-02
Who are you when someone Googles you?
10-26
TWR: Political Parties, Friday 13, Democracy
10-13
An example of Chekhov's Gun
10-10
TWR: Work, Position, Reading, Economists
10-07
Should I go back to school?
10-07
TWR: Oscars, Positioning, Reading, Economists
10-07
How to handle critics
09-15
You can just ignore things
09-12
Spillane: King of Pulp Fiction by Max Collins
09-09
One must do
08-31
Gather intellectual scraps to shape ideas of your own
08-27
There doesn't have to be an end goal
08-25
Charles Dickens and Active Patience
08-10
David McCullough on The Art of Writing, History, and Success
07-25
What Actually Happened in Oppenheimer
07-22
Crooked: The Roaring '20s Tale of a Corrupt Attorney General, A Crusading Senator, And the Birth of the American Political Scandal
07-09
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
06-19
Break the Mold
06-16
Beat writer’s block
06-14
The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World
06-12
221b: Get Up and Write
06-09
Telling old stories in new ways
06-06
Isaac Asimov on writing and reading
06-05
Write stuff down
06-04
Shake things up
06-02
221b: Poetry and Politics
06-02
221b: Unlocking Success
05-26
Notes: American Prometheus by Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin
05-21
221b: Work, Places, Sentences, Problems, Timeless
05-19
221b: Reading, Nobody Cares, Wealth and Wisdom, AI and Writing, Van Cleaves
05-12
The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
05-10
How to Approach Life: From Leonardo da Vinci
05-05
The weekend has too much free time
04-29
The Wright Brothers
04-28
2 Ideas for Realistic Time Management
04-21
9 Lessons on Curiosity and Adventure from Richard Feynman
04-14
6 Rules for Self-Mastery | 'Discipline is Destiny' by Ryan Holiday
04-07
Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman by Richard Feynman
04-06
7 Life Lessons from 'The Splendid and the Vile' by Erik Larson
04-04
5 lessons from 'Novelist as a Vocation' by Haruki Murakami
03-31
Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami
03-27
How to read more (if you have trouble reading)
03-27
Transplant
03-25
221b: Irrationality, Mistakes, Ego, Third-Place, & Impressions
03-24
221b: Fish, Thinking, Knowledge, Waste, Genius
03-17
221b: Kubrick, Reputation, Star Trek, Time, & Observation
03-03
Annie Dillard’s Advice on Keeping a Daily Routine
03-03
The Splendid and the Vile
03-02
Working by Robert Caro
02-27
January Reading List
02-26
221b: Sandwich, Death, Fitzgerald, Sitzfleisch, Genius
02-24
A day well spent
02-22
The Crack-Up by F. Scott Fitzgerald
02-19
221b: Comparison, Simplicity, Details, Silence, Responsibility
02-17
3 Lessons on Human Psychology and Project Management
02-15
221b: Da Vinci, Brevity, X-15, Ballomania, Thinking
02-10
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
02-04
221b: Curiosity and Edison
02-03
Perennial Seller by Ryan Holiday
02-01
221b: Edison, Einstein, Pursuit, Gödel, Rest
01-27
Be prepared for the disaster to be worse than before
01-26
Check all kinds of unusual things
01-25
What I Read in December
01-24
A few funny things about time
01-24
Just get something on the page
01-23
The best thinkers are ‘wonderers’
01-22
221b: Time, Moonshots, Artistry, 26.2 Miles, & Genius
01-20
A Practical Summary of How to Live on 24 Hours a Day by Arnold Bennett
01-19
221b: Writing, Detectives, Libraries, Leadership, Reading
01-13
Why I Wake Up at 5:00 am
01-11
How to Live on 24 Hours a Day by Arnold Bennett
01-10
The Writing Life by Annie Dillard
01-08
221b: Droste Effect, Rules, History, Work, Death
01-06
My Analog and Digital Productivity System for 2023
01-02

2022

The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
12-28
Reflections on Calculus
12-20
American Moonshot by Douglas Brinkley
12-17
Not Long Ago in a Galaxy Not Very Far
12-14
Thinking About Blogging
12-09
getStaticPaths in NextJS Explained (Simply)
12-07
How to time travel
12-06
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
12-04
What I Read in November
12-01
David Starr Jordan on Life, Education, and Politics
11-25
Ernest Hemingway by Mary V. Dearborn
11-22
John von Neumann on how to safely progress with technology
11-18
On Ribbonfarm's Portal and Flags
11-17
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
11-16
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
11-16
Leonardo da Vinci
11-15
Adventures of a Curious Richard Feynman
11-11
The Care and Culture of Men by David Starr Jordan
11-10
2 Habits for a Better Intellectual Life
11-05
The Rise and Fall of Dinosaurs by Steven Brusatte
11-05
On Viewquakes
11-03
What I Read in October 2022
11-01
Why I Read
11-01
Kevin Kelly's 103 Bits of Advice, Expanded
10-27
Beware of the curse
10-20
What Do You Care What Other People Think? By Richard Feynman
10-13
Discipline is Destiny by Ryan Holiday
10-10
On Being an Inconvenienced Guesser
10-09
Make learning a reality
10-08
The Library: A Fragile History
10-07
The Mountain of Knowledge (And Why Dumb Smart People Never Escape It)
10-04
What I read in September 2022
10-01
My Manifesto
09-30
Deliberare Otium
09-29
God-primes and Social Behavior
09-29
Book Review and Summary: Revolt of the Public
09-24
On Writing Well by William Zinsser
09-23
Leadership by Henry Kissinger
09-21
New Ideas Suck
09-17
The Man From The Future
09-16
Dulcius Ex Asperis
09-14
Some Questions
09-12
Plan for Future Conduct
09-11
Which is better: instinct or reason?
09-11
Pieces of the Action
09-09
What It Takes To Be a Great Teacher
09-09
Political Parties. Interesting...
09-03
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
09-02
Book Review: da Vinci
08-31
Creative procrastination
08-29
Documenting what you do
08-24
Why you feel stuck in life
08-24
The Clockwork Universe by Edward Dolnick
08-19
An attempt to understand the Kolmogorov Complexity of human values
08-18
The value of niche secrets
08-16
Ubi Caritas
08-16
Revolt of the Public
08-12
Personality creates behaviors. Circumstances reveal them.
08-06
On Celebrating Tiny Learning Milestones
08-05
The passage of time
08-05
The Value of Science 67 Years Later
08-05
Where the term 'zero-sum' comes from
08-01
What I do when someone asks to borrow a book
07-29
The best system I've read for synthesizing knowledge
07-29
You can't go there by doing that
07-28
On Physiognomy
07-25
Sometimes your room for error, isn't enough
07-25
How to Increase the Chances of Becoming a Genius
07-23
Building a Custom React Form Hook
07-14
Season-Long Friendships
07-11
Thursday's Assorted Links
07-11
If, By Whiskey
07-08
Looking like a fool at first leads to mastery at last
07-02
Thursday Assorted Links
06-30
Wednesday Assorted Thoughts
06-29
Moravec's Paradox
06-29
Reading advice from Tyler Cowen
06-29
12 Rules For Life
06-17
Where Dead Cells in the Body Go
06-17
Popular sayings
06-12
The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons From 15 Years as CEO of The Walt Disney Company
06-12
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
06-12
Think Like a Rocket Scientist
06-12
What We See When We Read
06-12
The Dip by Seth Godin
06-07
Show Your Work by Austin Kleon
06-05
Junior: Writing Your Way Ahead in Advertising
06-03
Private Eye: 1, Everyone Else: 0
05-22
Essentialism by Greg Mckeowen
05-21
Einstein: His Life and Universe
05-14
How to Add Conditional Class Rendering in Next JS
04-24
How to Enable Word Wrap on Only MDX in VS Code
04-20
How to Redirect Users to a Different Page After a Set Interval with Next.js
04-20
Solving the vague errors
04-20
15 Quotes from Albert Einstein That Reveals His Philosophy on Life
04-16
2 Strategies To Help You Remember What You Read
04-16
How Record Players Work: The Science Behind That Beautiful Sound, Simplified
04-16
Media Consumption (February, 2022)
04-14
Examining the Life that Communicated With the Universe - Albert Einstein
04-08
Why I Publish My Notes Online
04-08
Chef and The Line Cook: Going Deeper
04-06
Being Okay With Negative Capability
04-02
How the James Webb Space Telescope Will Look Back in Time
04-02
How to Be Great? Be Okay With Being Bad
04-02
How to Build Rome in A Year
04-02
How to Change the World With Your Ideas (Like Albert Einstein)
04-02
Why Legacy Career Paths Can't Innovate
04-02
Be prepared for the disasters you can't imagine
04-02
Are you playing a game you want to win?
03-31
Writing in Your Head
03-31
How We Got to Now
03-26
The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
03-26
Range by David Epstein
03-26
Book Summary - Think Again by Adam Grant
02-17