Yeah, I was astounded by how quickly my singing improved when I started practicing with a metronome. Keeping time seems to me the easiest thing to improve if you focus on it (but that's just my subjective opinion). Once…
> If you look up "Victor Wooten Music Lesson" on YouTube I can't recommend Victor Wooten enough. His book "The Music Lesson" is also great.
> Grinding to make money in your thirties and beyond I sort of think grinding is generally wrong at any age. If you feel like you're grinding, perhaps it's time to take stock and consider what you could be doing…
> Knowing what to want to know seems much harder. This is truly the most important question and one that only you can answer for yourself, unfortunately.
> you have to CHANGE THE CODE YOU SHIPPED in order to properly debug it If I'm at the point where I need to debug a production process with breakpoints, I'd rather just find a new job than worry about my coworker's…
Many if not most "hard" science cultures (math, physics, etc.) have a strong undercurrent of competitive gamesmanship. In its worst form, it becomes about vanquishing your rivals more than it is truly about advancing…
> You fault him for not knowing "there's no sex in the Champaign room" No, I fault him for being an entitled asshole. > I recommend that you don't look into the sex lives of famous and admirable thinkers through out…
Forgiveness doesn't mean that certain behavior was ok. Feynman was a very complicated figure. I find the stories he wrote about going to the strip club in Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman quite disturbing. He quite…
Sure, but the lesson isn't necessarily that we should emulate this particular human, genius though he may have been.
The experience of time has as much to do with focus and your capacity to take in information at a given moment. With sports, it is quite possible to play for many years and never gain enough skill to truly play well.…
I think people like the idea of democracy more than they like actual democracy. On some level, most people would agree that pure democracy as in one person one vote in every organization is ridiculous. Any organization…
Sure, but an embedded database is still simpler than client/server. For many tasks, postgres does not offer any meaningful benefit over sqlite so why add the complexity?
Yeah, I was astounded by how quickly my singing improved when I started practicing with a metronome. Keeping time seems to me the easiest thing to improve if you focus on it (but that's just my subjective opinion). Once…
> If you look up "Victor Wooten Music Lesson" on YouTube I can't recommend Victor Wooten enough. His book "The Music Lesson" is also great.
> Grinding to make money in your thirties and beyond I sort of think grinding is generally wrong at any age. If you feel like you're grinding, perhaps it's time to take stock and consider what you could be doing…
> Knowing what to want to know seems much harder. This is truly the most important question and one that only you can answer for yourself, unfortunately.
> you have to CHANGE THE CODE YOU SHIPPED in order to properly debug it If I'm at the point where I need to debug a production process with breakpoints, I'd rather just find a new job than worry about my coworker's…
Many if not most "hard" science cultures (math, physics, etc.) have a strong undercurrent of competitive gamesmanship. In its worst form, it becomes about vanquishing your rivals more than it is truly about advancing…
> You fault him for not knowing "there's no sex in the Champaign room" No, I fault him for being an entitled asshole. > I recommend that you don't look into the sex lives of famous and admirable thinkers through out…
Forgiveness doesn't mean that certain behavior was ok. Feynman was a very complicated figure. I find the stories he wrote about going to the strip club in Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman quite disturbing. He quite…
Sure, but the lesson isn't necessarily that we should emulate this particular human, genius though he may have been.
The experience of time has as much to do with focus and your capacity to take in information at a given moment. With sports, it is quite possible to play for many years and never gain enough skill to truly play well.…
I think people like the idea of democracy more than they like actual democracy. On some level, most people would agree that pure democracy as in one person one vote in every organization is ridiculous. Any organization…
Sure, but an embedded database is still simpler than client/server. For many tasks, postgres does not offer any meaningful benefit over sqlite so why add the complexity?