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Gunhee

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  • Generic Tips For Emailing Busy People
    Standing Invitation | Kalzumeus Software
  • When I think about the major things I would like to get done that require more time, a few things in particular come to mind. One of them is writing a book, or really writing anything at all. It is a generally useful skill, and being a published author gives quite a bit of credibility. It takes lots of practice to get good, and setting a regular time or word goal will get you there over time. More generally though, with lots of time on your hands, you can devote yourself to learning skills. It may not take long to get amateur level skills under your belt, but true mastery requires thousands of…
    What I Wish I Knew in College
  • When high-paid tech workers disappear, so do the lunch orders. The house tours. The contract gigs. The spending habits that sustain entire urban economies and thousands of other jobs. Sandwich artists. Rideshare drivers. Realtors. Personal trainers. House cleaners. In tech-heavy cities, the fallout runs deep — and it’s still unfolding.
    The tax code time bomb fueling mass tech layoffs
  • OECD research showing that immediate deductions foster innovation more than spread-out ones.
    The tax code time bomb fueling mass tech layoffs
  • A heuristic overview of the state-of-the-art does not yet exist to reveal the complex material aging and its impact in SLS. Such an effort is particularly important for industries to standardize manufacturing protocols with a clear understanding of the underlying science and potential tradeoffs [43], [44], [45].
    A review of aging, degradation, and reusability of PA12 powders in selective laser sintering additive manufacturing - ScienceDirect
  • The man who will improve the place is the man who loves it without a reason
    Hugging the X-Axis - David Perell
  • Chesterton argues that people are ultimately fulfilled not by riding the bandwagon but by acts of commitment — loving, working, and tending to things worthy of care and affection, often without rational justification. He writes: “The man who is most likely to ruin the place he loves is exactly the man who loves it with a reason.
    Hugging the X-Axis - David Perell
  • To illustrate the point, Chesterton distinguishes between the optimist and the patriot. The optimist loves their country because it’s on an upward trajectory, while the patriot loves something simply because it’s worthy of their love — and the trajectory is irrelevant. Being an optimist is easy. Being a patriot is hard. But with patriotism comes wisdom. Patriots know things can be worth caring for even when they’re imperfect. Often, their love expands in moments of difficulty. Think of the mother who kisses her son’s bleeding finger or the citizen who sees the brokenness of their country and r…
    Hugging the X-Axis - David Perell
  • The genesis of my realization goes back to a Harvard commencement speech called The Trouble with Optionality.2 In it, professor Mihir A. Desai defines optionality as “the state of enjoying possibilities without being on the hook to do anything.” With enough optionality, you can always change what you’re doing in order to pursue something better. Desai critiques students for seeing optionality as an end in itself. Instead of trying to work towards a meaningful goal they can commit to, they try to accumulate options in order to delay making a firm commitment. The result is that we’re under-commi…
    Hugging the X-Axis - David Perell
  • Our culture of abundance may explain one of the weirdest parts of the Internet: even though we’re just a click away from the greatest authors of all-time, from Plato to Tolstoy, we default to just scrolling social media.
    Hugging the X-Axis - David Perell
  • The same principle applies outside the dating market and on the Internet, where information is always a click away. The more options surround you, the less likely you are to make long-term commitments. That’s why I can read a book on a Kindle, but not on my iPhone Kindle app. The words are the same, but the context isn’t — and easy access to the Internet reduces my attention span to that of a sidewalk pigeon.
    Hugging the X-Axis - David Perell
  • But Dweck applied a growth mindset to the question of mindset — and discovered that your mindset could itself be changed. Even small interventions — like telling students they were doing well because they tried hard, rather than because they were smart — had huge effects. With more work, she could change totally fixed-mindset people into fervent growth-mindset ones.
    Believe you can change (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)
  • Productivity One specific instance of university having a large positive impact on my productivity was the discovery that productivity depends largely on the context. I discovered that going home meant I will be playing videogames all day long, while staying at the university and going to the library magically allowed me to be productive and decreased the craving for videogames by many times. I didn’t discover this earlier because my high school was 3 minutes away from home and I never even thought about staying there, instead of going home immediately after classes. I’m still somewhat angry a…
    17-20: a Retrospective on Four Years in College - Alexey Guzey
  • PLAN FOR ATTAINING MORAL PERFECTION
    The Project Gutenberg eBook of "Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin."
  • try to approach the problem as a chance to grow, rather than a test of our abilities
    Believe you can change (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)
  • I am not a fundamentally different person than the one I was a year ago, but I am a little bit better.
    From Bubble to Bubble
  • Sometimes I’m amazed they ever leave their goon caves at all.
    The Average College Student Is Illiterate
  • How do we help more experimental cities get started? It seems that the returns to entrepreneurialism in cities remain high: Hong Kong, Singapore, Dubai, and others, have improved the lives of millions of people and appear much more contingent than inevitable. Maybe there could be far more of them. Beyond the direct benefits, city-sized areas enable regulatory experimentation that may, in turn, affect much larger regions. The Shenzhen special economic zone was the first step in China's broader economic liberalization. (In addition to the books about the aforementioned cities, some related readi…
    Questions · Patrick Collison
  • But if you’re trying to do something worthwhile and creative, then shutting down your brain is entirely the wrong way to go. The real secret to productivity is the reverse: to listen to your body. To eat when you’re hungry, to sleep when you’re tired, to take a break when you’re bored, to work on projects that seem fun and interesting.
    HOWTO: Be more productive (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)
  • Once you have a list of all the things you want to do, you can organize it by kind. For example, my list is programming, writing, thinking, errands, reading, listening, and watching (in that order).
    HOWTO: Be more productive (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)
  • Is there something more important you can work on? Why don’t you do that instead? Such questions are hard to face up to (eventually, if you follow this rule, you’ll have to ask yourself why you’re not working on the most important problem in the world) but each little step makes you more productive.
    HOWTO: Be more productive (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)
  • For the past year I have been working diligently in getting the ESP32 to transfer data at high speeds through BLE to smartphones. I made a post several months ago on how to get "fast" data rates. But if you need 700 kb/s, BLE is not the way to go. You should be content to get 10 kb/s with BLE. I have focused on Android, and I believe (I could be wrong) that IOS is actually slower than Android because of limits it puts on MTU and connection priority.
    Esp32 ble transfer speed : r/esp32
  • No-code is excellent for experimenting and iterating quickly
    How Sahil Lavingia uses AI to code faster | Ben's Bites
  • running in circles in the narrow space between wanting and having, where nothing could touch you and nothing could free you. You tell yourself it’s better this way, but even that was a lie, and you know it. You always knew.
    Just do whatever you like - Sherry Ning
  • How many people actually go back and try and understand this, or other such topics, in a deeper way? Very few. Moreover, the ‘meta’ lesson is: don’t question it too deeply, you’ll fall behind. Just learn the algorithm, plug in the numbers, and pass your exams. Speed is of the essence. In this way, school kills the “will to understanding” in people.
    Understanding
  • How many people actually go back and try and understand
    Understanding