How the twitter timeline feels recently

The concept of billions of people having a camera/videocamera in their pocket, documenting everything (and uploading much of it to a global superbrain), is only a decade old. We live in crazy times.

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Fun fact: I have told Ops teams before to tune-down their security requirements. Either they would not impede actual attackers, would be actively counter-productive, or take IT time away from improvement work. That's Security as a profession. Not turning everything to maximum!!!

Bookmarked for future docs.

TIL about a dozen things about Mexico's history, prehistory, economy, and geography: youtu.be/YzgMePQvSdc

Yeah reporting on progress is cool but have you tried _making_ progress?

low self esteem can make you ~meaner than you intend to be, bc you undervalue how much other people would care about how you perceive them like it's easy to miss that ppl would want e.g. signs from you that you like them

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As a fourth year I had a rotation with a kick-ass intern. She was ON IT. Communicating, checking tasks off, teaching, following up on everything, etc. I told her how amazing she was and she said “thank you, I’m trying *really* hard.” 1/

Good: leave something to get you hooked on the next day. But who can just start at next sentence w/o re-establishing context? I can't. Instead, I'd promise myself to "just read" what I'd written the previous day, which would hook me right back into the flow.

Launching your new devtools product with a Stevey Blog Rant. Top notch.

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I feel attacked

This student is destined to be a great mathematician

There’s a Slack channel at GitHub with all the Joshes in it. Oddly contains only minimal joshin’.

My favorite thing about this article is that the guy who wrote it started it on a Monday night at 10pm

Intuit TurboTax option to pay your tax bill by watching ads

Happiness, ability, fulfillment, self-esteem... are their own justifications. No, Montessori doesn't design her educational approach for "whatever gives a child pleasure." But it is designed to unlock work, learning, *human life and growth* as the *highest* pleasure.

Yes. Word processing is bad. Before it, document length was bounded by the human capacity to copy long-form text & about to plateau. After word processing, the tax & legal codes grew without check. And became incomprehensible to anyone but career experts.