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Ritik Sahni

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  • In OAuth, the client requests access to resources controlled by the resource owner and hosted by the resource server, and is issued a different set of credentials than those of the resource owner.
    RFC Reader - An online reader for IETF RFCs
  • In OAuth, the client requests access to resources controlled by the resource owner and hosted by the resource server, and is issued a different set of credentials than those of the resource owner.
    RFC Reader - An online reader for IETF RFCs
  • There are no bad people. Only circumstances. It is just that each person responds to fortune and adversity differently. That is what makes each one unique.
    Leaders eat first - Charles Assisi
  • 1. When confronted with silence, the head is a very noisy place.
    Leaders eat first - Charles Assisi
  • The sixteen spectrums that define software “type”
    Blog
  • Do not remove a fence until you know why it was put up in the first place.
    Chesterton’s Fence: A Lesson in Second Order Thinking - Farnam Street
  • A core component of making great decisions is understanding the rationale behind previous decisions. If we don’t understand how we got “here,” we run the risk of making things much worse.
    Chesterton’s Fence: A Lesson in Second Order Thinking - Farnam Street
  • Eventually, I’ll have to make peace, fully, with the fact that I am a complete unknown and always will be.
    Becoming a Genius of Loss - by Sasha Chapin
  • Sure, I know that my existence is finite. But how much do I really know it? Shallowly. I could go deeper. As I wait for the bus, I try to see the arrival of each moment as it’s shuffled up from the void, and then its departure as it’s subsequently returned.
    Becoming a Genius of Loss - by Sasha Chapin
  • Commitment is required to build anything meaningful over a long enough time horizon. Relationships are committed bets. Love is born from a commitment and nurtured in growth and shared experiences. Commitment is the only way for compounding bets to reach escape velocity.
    Love is not a math problem - by Gonzalo Nuñez
  • "There is no such thing as reader’s block. If you can’t write, it is because you have nothing to say. You have no ideas. In such a situation, don’t pride yourself on your writer’s block. Read something. If that doesn’t work, read something else – maybe something better. Repeat until the problem is solved."
    Essay writing guide | Essay
  • first, you earn respect. then, you influence culture. then, you pull people along with you towards your vision.
    first, you earn respect. then, you influence culture. then, you pull p...
  • As you decrease the intelligence of the audience, being a good speaker is increasingly a matter of being a good bullshitter.
    Writing and Speaking
  • it was a revelation to me how much less ideas mattered in speaking than writing.
    Writing and Speaking
  • Having good ideas is most of writing well. If you know what you're talking about, you can say it in the plainest words and you'll be perceived as having a good style. With speaking it's the opposite: having good ideas is an alarmingly small component of being a good speaker.
    Writing and Speaking
  • When it comes to conducting needs discovery, your potential customers will struggle to articulate needs for a product that does not yet exist. But when you ask them about their job-to-be-done, customers can state with precision their needs associated with getting the job done better, making needs discovery faster and more effective.
    The JTBD Market Definition Canvas | by Tony Ulwick | JTBD + Outcome-Driven Innovation
  • Since people buy a product or service to get a job done, when looking at a market through this lens, a market is best defined as: a group of people and the job they are trying to get done.
    The JTBD Market Definition Canvas | by Tony Ulwick | JTBD + Outcome-Driven Innovation
  • I’m learning to look at connections meditatively: appreciate them for what they are instead of losing sleep over what they should be. Most importantly, I think I’ve realised ‘merry-go-round’ is a state of being, not a type of person. Kama-muta-inducing isn’t [shouldn’t be] a full-time job; it’s a momentary spark, often induced without intent, which makes it all the more beautiful.
    #4 Finding depth in fleeting connections - by Yashmi Adani
  • Consistency is good for habits; for personal growth. But human connections aren’t nearly linear enough.
    #4 Finding depth in fleeting connections - by Yashmi Adani
  • The how implies that somebody is going to give you a method, a recipe, which, if you practise it, will bring about understanding. Can understanding ever come about through a method? Understanding means love and the sanity of the mind. And love cannot be practised or taught. The sanity of the mind can only come about when there is clear perception, seeing things as they are unemotionally, not sentimentally. Neither of these two things can be taught by another, nor by a system invented by yourself or by another.
    ‘How to Live in this World’ | J. Krishnamurti
  • The end is not over there, not on the other side of the wall; the beginning and the end are here.
    ‘How to Live in this World’ | J. Krishnamurti
  • A metaphor I like is that this is about creating an intellectual home for myself. And that means designing and furnishing that home well, and developing habits that I’m comfortable with using in that home.
    How to use a personal website to enhance your ability to think and create?
  • One of the worst ideas in online writing is the unqualified idea that you should be trying to build an audience or to build engagement. This may be good if you’re trying to sell something. But it needs a lot of qualifiers if it’s to support good thinking7. In fact, engagement can be a curse, actively damaging to good thinking8.
    How to use a personal website to enhance your ability to think and create?
  • Obstacles to fluent writing Any variation on: “I can’t say that!” “What if people think I’m stupid?” “What if people think this is boring?” “What if people think I’m ignorant?” “What if people think I’m trying to be superior?” “What if this isn’t good enough?” “What if sharing my ideas results in my being scooped?” “Is this part of my job?” The vague worries associated to being a beginning in some area. You want to feel pride in being a beginner. The changing worries associated to anticipating low quality criticism. It’s strange: I’ve received a lot of critique that I know was very low quality…
    How to use a personal website to enhance your ability to think and create?
  • The process of building destroys an artist and a lover. They are not the same person before and after the reckless pursuit of creativity or love. They learn a lot, they know what to avoid, and they have a better idea of what they want both in love and in art.
    An Artist Is a Lover | Revue
  • This process of comparing the old VDOM with the new one is called diffing.
    When does React re-render components?
  • Remember you’re selling the solution to a business need (raise revenue or decrease costs) rather than programming skill or your beautiful face.
    Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice | Kalzumeus Software
  • A good engineer has a track record of — repeat after me — increasing revenue or decreasing costs.
    Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice | Kalzumeus Software
  • You are not defined by your chosen software stack
    Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice | Kalzumeus Software
  • Engineers are hired to create business value, not to program things
    Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice | Kalzumeus Software
  • Software often solves business problems despite being soul-crushingly boring and of minimal technical complexity.
    Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice | Kalzumeus Software
  • What wins in conversation depends on who with. It ranges from mere aggressiveness at the bottom, through quick-wittedness in the middle, to something closer to actual intelligence at the top, though probably always with some component of quick-wittedness.
    Beyond Smart
  • Some of the most novel ideas seemed at the time almost like practical jokes. Think how often your reaction to a novel idea is to laugh. I don't think it's because novel ideas are funny per se, but because novelty and humor share a certain kind of surprisingness. But while not identical, the two are close enough that there is a definite correlation between having a sense of humor and being independent-minded — just as there is between being humorless and being conventional-minded. [9]
    How to Think for Yourself
  • Business and politics are both based in marketability and maximization. Being obsessed with leverage means being obsessed with power and public opinion and how to steer them—concerning oneself first and foremost with entertainment value, virtue signaling, clarity of meaning—that is, being obsessed with what other people think. But creativity can’t thrive under that kind of self-consciousness. Neither can independence, courage, or truth.
    🌻 audience of one - half-baked futures | jasmine sun
  • “True art doesn’t care to be appreciated, obsessed over with, or owned. It holds a certain self-respect that knows enough of its own value to not plea for attention.”
    🌻 audience of one - half-baked futures | jasmine sun
  • The first distinction is between being an artist and being a “creator.” In an essay for ARTnews, writer Kyle Chayka notes that most titles for people who make things—painter, DJ, choreographer—“signify a particular craft or practice, a discipline that takes years to develop, an identity that one doesn’t just become overnight.” Meanwhile, the modern “creator” is “generic [and] commodified… defined by the ability to monetize online.”
    🌻 audience of one - half-baked futures | jasmine sun
  • good writing, like a good meal, needs fat. It should indulge readers, is meant to be chewed and enjoyed, affording a generous escape from the prosaic and mundane.
    🌻 audience of one - half-baked futures | jasmine sun
  • They were slower to smile and quicker to criticize. Many of them began to talk about the world in a transactional, economized way. Their universes started to look like giant balance sheets, their appetite for adventure waned and they viewed unfamiliar situations through the cautious lens of cost/benefit analysis.
    🌻 audience of one - half-baked futures | jasmine sun
  • After a while, clients internalise the warmth and understanding of their therapist, turning it into an internal resource to draw on for strength and support. A new, compassionate voice flickers into life, silencing that of the inner critic – itself an echo of insensitive earlier attachment figures. But this transformation doesn’t come easy. As the poet WH Auden wrote in The Age of Anxiety (1947): “We would rather be ruined than changed.” It is the therapist’s job, as a secure base and safe haven, to guide clients as they journey into unfamiliar waters, helping them stay hopeful and to persist …
    How you attach to people may explain a lot about your inner life | Psychology | The Guardian
  • We don’t understand our internal experiences until we see them played out in the reactions of caregivers
    How you attach to people may explain a lot about your inner life | Psychology | The Guardian
  • First, Cora would put herself down, then the therapist would acknowledge her negative emotions but also deflect them right away, recasting her destructive tendencies as survival mechanisms that she’d used as a kid to protect herself from the trauma but which hampered her as an adult. Gently but firmly, he challenged her self-loathing by reframing what she saw as damning and unacceptable about herself into something human and understandable.
    How you attach to people may explain a lot about your inner life | Psychology | The Guardian
  • The good therapist becomes a temporary attachment figure, assuming the functions of a nurturing mother
    How you attach to people may explain a lot about your inner life | Psychology | The Guardian
  • The search for comfort, or security, Bowlby argued, is an inborn need: we’ve evolved to seek attachment to “older, wiser” caregivers to protect us from danger during the long spell of helplessness known as childhood. The attachment figure, usually one or both parents, becomes a secure base from which to explore the world, and a safe haven to return to for comfort. According to Holmes, Bowlby saw in attachment theory “the beginning of a science of intimate relationships” and the promise that “if we could study parents and children, and the way they relate to each other, we can begin to understa…
    How you attach to people may explain a lot about your inner life | Psychology | The Guardian
  • The emotional bond and the collaboration between client and therapist – called the alliance – have emerged as a strong predictor of improvement, even in therapies that don’t emphasise relational factors.
    How you attach to people may explain a lot about your inner life | Psychology | The Guardian
  • To complicate matters, numerous studies over the past few decades have reached what seems a counterintuitive conclusion: that all psychotherapies have roughly equal effects. This is known as the “dodo bird verdict” – named after a character in Alice in Wonderland (1865) who declares after a running contest: “Everybody has won and all must have prizes.” That no single form of therapy has proved superior to others might come as a surprise to readers, but it’s mightily familiar to researchers in the field. “There is so much data for this conclusion that if it were not so threatening to specific t…
    How you attach to people may explain a lot about your inner life | Psychology | The Guardian
  • It is remarkable that after decades of psychotherapy research we cannot provide an evidence-based explanation for how or why even our most well-studied interventions produce change.
    How you attach to people may explain a lot about your inner life | Psychology | The Guardian
  • The global hegemony of governmentally-developed naming systems has crippled our imagination by removing alternative models of nomenclature. Consider the snapshot of indigenous New Guinean nomenclature provided in the above quote—names were fluid and not taken incredibly seriously, often being whimsically coined by friends or other members of the community because of some event or personal trait. This characterization of indigenous naming as “humorous exploratory play”, while certainly true to some extent, also reflects a deeply ingrained modern western bias—we can’t help but see temporary “nic…
    Nomen est omen - by Roger's Bacon - Secretum Secretorum
  • personal nomenclature is never value neutral and never without cultural and psychological ramifications.
    Nomen est omen - by Roger's Bacon - Secretum Secretorum
  • In these preconquest regions of New Guinea names were rarely binding. What one was called varied according to time, place, mood, and setting. Names were improvised, not formally bestowed, and naming (much like local language flexibility) was often a kind of humorous exploratory play. New names could be quickly coined, often whimsically from events and situations, with a new one coming up at any time. One young boy running in a peculiar way was affectionately dubbed 'Grasshopper': It stuck.
    Nomen est omen - by Roger's Bacon - Secretum Secretorum
  • The virtually universal practice of assigning a permanent name at birth (which only exists so that governments can more easily tax us) has caused a species-wide shift towards a more narcissistic and egotistical mode of being.
    Nomen est omen - by Roger's Bacon - Secretum Secretorum