Etc.

I keep most of the other cool stuff in my wiki. Here’s distilled content that I thing might be of interest to anyone that stumbled upon this page.

Articles

I am big fan of long format investigative writing. If the author spends the time researching the topic and is able to assimilate accumulated knowledge into a coherent piece writing the topic stops being relevant. This list is longer than I originally intended but I read a lot and there’s just simply a lot of great articles worth mentioning:

• The Clock Is Ticking - Inside the Worst U.S. Maritime Disaster in Decades by William Langewiesche
• The White Darkness - A solitary journey across Antarctica - by David Gran
• A Conspiracy To Kill IE6 - by Chris Zacharias
• “There Is Definite Hanky-Panky Going On” - The Fantastically Profitable Mystery of the Trump Chaos Trades - by William D. Cohan
• Dear Guy Who Just Made My Burrito - A Fictional Letter Written to a Fictional Person About a Real Struggle - oh yes, the famous burrito rant by Jack Dire
• Leave No Soldier Behind - The Unsolved Mystery of the Soldier Who Died in the Watchtower - by William Langewiesche
• The 10-Minute Mecca Stampede That Made History - William Langewiesche
• How to Fairly Divide Talking Time
• Thirty-six Thousand Feet Under the Sea - The explorers who set one of the last meaningful records on earth - by Ben Taub
• 50 Ideas That Changed My Life
• The case of the 500-mile email

Blogroll

• A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry by Dr. Bret C. Devereaux.
• Alex Danco
• Alexey Guzey
• Amos
• Arun Venkatesan, product designer and engineer with visually stunning blog posts and a lot of interesting work.
• Avery Pennarun, the Tailscale CEO.
• Bartosz Ciechanowski, interactive long form deep dives on engineering topics such as lenses, GPS, etc.
• Brandur Leach, engineer at Crunchy Data, previously at Stripe and Heroku. This site takes a lot of inspiration from there.
• Charity Majors - Honeycomb CEO
• Christine Dodrill (Xe Iaso)
• Chromakode (Max Goodman from xkcd, previously at Reddit)
• Computers Are Bad by J. B. Crawford
• Connor Bär
• Danluu
• Fabien Sanglard
• Gwern Branwen
• Jim Fisher
• Jose Luis Ricon
• Julia Evans - frequent smaller blog posts diving into various technical topics with comicstrips and wit
• Julian D. A. Wiseman
• Kris Machowski
• Lesswrong
• Lucas F. Costa
• Nikita Voloboev, not a blog per se
• Patrick Collison
• Patrick McKenzie and his Bits about Money - a weekly newsletter on the intersection of tech and finance.
• Paul Graham
• Paul Stamatiou
• Sandy Maguire
• Scott Alexander’s Slate Star Codes, newly also Astral Codes Ten
• Stephen Diehl
• Steve Francia
• Tim Bray
• Tom MacWright
• Tynan
• Vitalik Buterin
• Werner Vogels (All Things Distributed)
• Will Larson
• Work In Progress

Quotes

I am most likely destined for average life, which is completely fine. If you zoom out further and it becomes pretty hard to view this tiny spec of time we’ve given and all its trappings as anything more than ridiculous. You could become the most famous person in all of human history, build empires, construct massive monuments to your achievement, etch your damn face into the earth with a laser in space… and you’d still have just as much importance, in the scale of time and space, as every human that ever lived. Zero.¹

Philosophy

I am pragmatic optimist, ISTJ-A (Logistician) personality type according to Myers–Briggs Type Indicator.

To greater or lesser extend I identify with following philosophies:

• Stoicism

  The core teachings of Stoicism focus on the development of self-control and resilience in the face of life’s difficulties, and emphasize the importance of living in accordance with reason. Stoics believe that the key to a happy and fulfilling life is to focus on what is within our control, and to cultivate inner peace by accepting the things that are outside our control. They also believe in living a virtuous life, and see wisdom, justice, courage, and temperance as the four cardinal virtues.