westerners do this weird thing where they permit decorating with warm glowing lights and fresh smelling trees for only a few weeks every year, in the depths of winter when they think they deserve it most, and this parallels our approach to happiness too

The most effective people I've met all maintain a gigantic locus of control and bias towards internalizing blame. Whenever something doesn't go their way, they deeply analyze the circumstances to identify what they should have done differently, or, even if they acted

Sleeping 2h earlier significantly improved cognition & mental health.

(Me): so, we create this "virtual memory" to trick processes into thinking they have a contiguous address layout (Medieval peasant): Would not thy abstraction swell the tally of mem'ry lookups? (Me): well, yes. to deal with that we created the "translation lookaside buffer"

You’re not imagining things—the plums that were in your icebox are *gone*. Here’s why that’s bad news: • They were *your plums*, that you were saving for breakfast. That makes this personal for you. • They were *sweet*, so whoever ate them *enjoyed* them. That’s unforgivable.

this is really good

we need more websites that go offline after business hours

You're right – this actually *isn't* a place of honor. * I thought esteemed deeds were commemorated here, but that was wrong. * The message wasn't about treasure, it was about danger. That's on me. * I won't sugarcoat it – the danger is still present, and now it's in your body.

A useful question for chronic self-criticism: “What would I have to feel if I couldn’t judge myself for this?” Whatever comes up next is what the judgment is protecting you from.

One of the biggest things that Zohran gets is that the best and often only way for a politician to be funny is for them to be the straight man.

How to increase your "luck surface area", according to Jason Roberts, who coined the phrase back in 2010:

We recently reconceptualized ADHD as a circadian rhythm disorder.

*taps the sign*

Also experiencing this a lot recently. CPU keeps getting maxed out, Claude code freezing Not often enough to make me dislike it, just kinda bewildering

Script that turns your Twitter bookmarks into anki cards

I keep thinking about the idea of having one 9 of uptime. It’s like a koan to me.

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This is exactly right. In our recent ADHD + Circadian review, symptom improvement occurred with 0.5 mg melatonin ~5 hours before bedtime to phase advance the clock. Melatonin should be used to shift circadian phase, not as a sleeping pill. x.com/BrandonLuuMD/s…