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How a Machine Learned to Make Decisions: Logic Gates

Is this electrical signal high or low?

August 01, 02026

How a Machine Learned to Choose: The Arithmetic Logic Unit

Which answer should the machine keep?

August 01, 02026

How a Machine Learned to Remember: Memory and the Clock

How can a result survive after the signals that produced it disappear?

August 01, 02026

How a Machine Learned to Follow a Plan: Instructions and the CPU

How can a stored pattern become an action?

August 01, 02026

How Humans Learned to Speak to the Machine: Assembly and the Assembler

How can a person write a language made for circuitry?

August 01, 02026

How Software Built a Machine: The Stack and the Virtual Machine

Why invent another computer when we already have one?

August 01, 02026

How a Machine Learned to Return: Functions and the Call Stack

How can a machine preserve an unfinished world?

August 01, 02026

How Humans Learned to Forget the Machine: High-Level Languages

What should a programmer no longer have to remember?

August 01, 02026

How a Machine Learned to Read: Tokens, Grammar, and the Parser

How can a line of text contain a tree?

August 01, 02026

How Meaning Became Motion: Code Generation and the Compiler

How can a tree become a sequence without losing what it means?

August 01, 02026

How Software Learned to Serve Programs: The Operating System

Who fulfills the promises every program assumes?

August 01, 02026

I, Pencil

By Leonard E. Read

June 18, 02026

Fast

Fast is better than slow It's important to do things fast Some examples of people quickly...

June 03, 02026

Find what keeps making smoke

Stop fixing symptoms and find the conflict underneath them.

May 31, 02026

How to use AI

How to redesign roles, workflows, and accountability to use AI agents productively and safely.

May 29, 02026

From Craft to Cash Flow: A Small Service Business Playbook

Operations creates reliability. Market creates demand. Capital compounds the surplus.

May 20, 02026

Advanced TypeScript Patterns

Make the hard type machinery invisible and give users precise autocomplete, safe composition, and readable errors.

May 20, 02026

Security Basics for Businesses

A practical security checklist for small businesses, agencies, and software teams.

May 19, 02026

Coffee

Beans

May 16, 02026

Why Speculate?

A talk by Michael Crichton given at the International Leadership Forum in La Jolla, California, April 26, 2002.

May 07, 02026

How I use AI

Personal Field Report

May 05, 02026

Migrating this site from Jekyll to Astro

How AI and OpenCode made this migration possible in one session.

March 24, 02026

Startup Marketing System Playbook

A system-first startup marketing model based on MaRS Best Practices with April Dunford.

March 24, 02026

Visiting Oahu

Things to do places to be

February 03, 02026

Citizenship in a Republic

Theodore Roosevelt speech delivered at the Sorbonne, in Paris, France on 23 April, 1910

February 01, 02026

Solo Dev

Principles

January 23, 02026

Ship

The will to sail.

January 19, 02026

A manager of infinite minds

The constraint is orientation.

January 01, 02026

Is it gonna be alright?

It’s gonna be fucking incredible.

December 27, 02025

Call to the Next Generation

A section of Phrack issue 72, The Hacker's Renaissance: A Manifesto Reborn by Guilherme T (TMZ)...

October 06, 02025

Hawaiian grown coffee

Hawaiʻi Island (Kona & Kaʻū) Pacific Coffee Research Greenwell Farms Hula Daddy Kona Coffee Kona Coffee...

October 03, 02025

Brand University

Webflow University Hubspot Academy Salesforce Trailhead Shopify Academy Framer Academy Notion Academy Airtable Academy ScyllaDB University...

September 23, 02025

Does Ubiquitous Computing Need Interface Agents?

Does Ubiquitous Computing Need Interface Agents? Mark Weiser, Head of Computer Science Lab, Xerox PARC Agents92.tioga,...

July 27, 02025

Context taxonomy

A Survey of Context Engineering for Large Language Models structured taxonomy that classifies the multifaceted techniques...

July 18, 02025

Local LLM

macOS, Ollama makes it easy to run LLMs locally. As of writing, small LLMs capable of...

July 08, 02025

Terminal first

This is an active WIP. A terminal first approach makes it simple to 1) make custom...

July 08, 02025

Personal Web Archive

A personal, intelligent net archive that's yours to control and explore.

July 07, 02025

AI tools

AI Classical Machine Learning Linear Regression Predicting continuous values with linear relationships Logistic Regression Binary and...

July 05, 02025

AI Programs

DSPy

June 30, 02025

Tools for work

Understand work by understanding its tools.

June 30, 02025

Building Geodetic Go

The Hunt Begins Late one night, a friend mentioned something that would consume me for the...

June 29, 02025

Lynx

macOS setup Update to alias lynx to a lynx with a personal config (pick/make a folder...

June 21, 02025

Learn Manual

The following is the series of drills I run people through to teach them how to...

April 21, 02025

Never Enough of Living

By Léonie Adams

January 13, 02025

FB Red Book

As the company of Facebook grew, we faced a lot of challenges. One of them was...

December 02, 02024

The Deserted Village

By Oliver Goldsmith

November 25, 02024

Hawai‘i

Wai means water — a symbol of life. Prosperity or wealth, is waiwai — water water....

November 20, 02024

Travel

Security iPhone Back up device Ensure Find My is enabled Enable Stolen Device Protection Disable Control...

October 29, 02024

Events

Concerts, raves, festivals

September 11, 02024

If—

By Rudyard Kipling

August 13, 02024

Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front

By Wendell Berry

August 10, 02024

Serious

Surely you can be serious

July 28, 02024

Information density

Visual Simplicity vs. Information Density (Luke W, 2004) UI Density (Matthew S, 2024)

July 26, 02024

Types of programming

Joel Spolsky: Five worlds Five Worlds (2002) Shrinkwrap Consultingware Commercial web based software Internal Internal Embedded...

July 26, 02024

Code comments

Literate Programming Writing system software: code comments Two open source projects with great documentation

July 24, 02024

Disagree

you can expect 3 different kinds of responses when you propose something: A disagreement on outcome....

July 24, 02024

Group games

Board game Balderdash Telestrations Pegs and Jokers Dice games Liar’s dice Card games Euchre Cards Against...

July 24, 02024

Memes

Spicy memes

July 24, 02024

Make illegal states unrepresentable

Firstly, No silver bullet. 1. State functions 2. Type system 3. Errors as values 4. Parse,...

July 24, 02024

Process

I often say “process over outcomes.” “Individuals and interactions over processes and tools, “People over process”...

June 10, 02024

Shipping Software On Time

The following is a partial transcription of notes from a 1991 videotaped talk referenced in chapter...

June 05, 02024

Email DNS

SPF, DKIM, DMARC, oh my.

February 14, 02024

Website QA

What’s your axis of better? Performance Accessibility Scalability Security Engagement Delight (design, surprise, emotion, affinity) Why...

January 21, 02024

This Year I Learned

Spin on TIL (today I learned, aka one of today’s lucky 10,000). Started as a place...

January 13, 02024

Software Engineering

Knowledge areas Based on SWEBOK Software Requirements Software Design Software Construction Software Testing Software Maintenance Software...

December 24, 02023

NASA SP-287

Notes

December 03, 02023

Seminal

1946: Moore School Lectures on electronic computation 1948: A Mathematical Theory of Communication By C. E....

November 26, 02023

Communication Infrastructure

Telecommunications AM broadcasting FM broadcasting Ethernet Token Ring Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) “Wi Fi” (IEEE...

September 24, 02023

Multi Tenant

Resources Wikipedia: Multitenancy Microsoft: Architect multitenant solutions AWS: Designing architectures for multi tenancy MongoDB: Build a...

September 05, 02023

Statistical Process Control

Statistical process control is the application of statistical methods to monitor and control the quality of...

August 08, 02023

Link Icons

A large inspiration of this site comes from Gwern. I’ve long wanted to figure out and...

July 01, 02023

Semantics

Semantics Category: Semantics Linguistics: Formal semantics (natural language)) Conceptual semantics Cognitive semantics Prototype theory Lexical semantics...

July 01, 02023

Parsers

Wikipedia: Parsing Wikipedia: Parsing expression grammar Wikipedia: Parser (programming language)) Wikipedia: Comparison of parser generators Wikipedia:...

June 25, 02023

Tailwind Connect

Working at SkyCatchFire is a blast. Because of an expired passport (sorry, John), I had the...

June 24, 02023

Project Ideas

I keep an Apple Note titled “Projects” to list things that might be fun to build....

May 24, 02023

Air Quality

DHH: Why Air Quality Matters Wikipedia: Air Quality Index The Air Quality Index doesn’t make any...

May 23, 02023

Coordination

Many failures of civilization are failures of coordination. Coordination is hard. Coordination is required. Step changes...

May 23, 02023

Demand

Stratechery: Aggregation Theory Jobs below the API Working under or above the API the demand side...

May 23, 02023

Utils

Websters 1913 dictionary Etymonline Related Words Convert case Markdown tables SVGOs missing gui Unicode Arrows See...

May 23, 02023

Homelab

Derek Sivers: Tech independence Derek Sivers: Use the internet, not just companies 50 Years Later, We’re...

May 22, 02023

Web Animation

Web animation implementation areas: CSS animation property JavaScript requestAnimationFrame Web Animations API WebGL WebGPU Web animation...

May 18, 02023

Ten Thousand

Every day there are, on average, 10,000 people in the US hearing about it for the...

May 11, 02023

HTTP APIs

Resources 2000 Roy Fielding: Architectural Styles and the Design of Network based Software Architectures 2008 Roy...

May 11, 02023

Geohash

Geohash: What and Why Geohash is a public domain geocode system based on the Morton Z...

May 04, 02023

Want to learn

A working list of things I want to learn

April 15, 02023

Learn AWS

Docs AWS Documentation Compute AWS EC2 AWS Lambda Database AWS RDS Storage AWS S3 Security, Identity,...

April 13, 02023

RSC vs. Remix

The RSC Primary Flow Load data: Do it anywhere, we don’t care. Write data: Not our...

March 14, 02023

Communication

table { table layout: auto; width: 100%; border spacing: 0px; } th { border top: 1px...

March 10, 02023

IETF RFCs

The RFC Series (ISSN 2070 1721) contains technical and organizational documents about the Internet, including the...

March 08, 02023

SaaS for business

Core Accounting: Quickbooks Google Workspace Domain: Google domains Passwords: 1Password Email: Hey Payroll: Gusto PM: Basecamp...

March 06, 02023

University Organization

School folder structure Format (roughly): Each class gets its own folder. If the class provides many...

February 17, 02023

ENG 219

Intro to Linguistics

February 16, 02023

Heroes

Mentors provide bespoke guidance. They take a personal interest in you. It's customized, rare and expensive....

February 02, 02023

MU Capstone

main a:hover { text decoration: underline 3px black; background: FFDD00; color: black; } / = =...

January 25, 02023

Improvement Proposals

Process goal: Source improvements and clarify decision making accountability by removing uncertainty over roles or responsibilities...

January 09, 02023

Write The Pitch

Paraphrased from chapter 6 of Shape Up: We need to put the concept into a form...

January 09, 02023

Content Marketing

Content Marketing is the buzzword for digital publishing across the web, email, and social platforms. Startup...

January 05, 02023

Other Book Lists

Nabeel Qureshi: Other reading lists CFAR: Rationality Reading List DHH: Books that bust bubbles Econlib: 20...

January 04, 02023

Sales

A Land & Expand Reading Program for B2B Sales (from Commoncog): 1. Tape Sucks (narrative) 2....

January 04, 02023

Gifts

Evaluability (And Cheap Holiday Shopping) Normalize the boring, useful gift Other booklists Products LessWrong: books what...

January 03, 02023

SEO

Build a quality resource people will talk about and want to come back to. Browser Link...

January 03, 02023

YouTube Channels

👥🎥Corridor Crew 👥🎥Film Riot 👥🎥RocketJump 👤🎥Captain Disillusion 👤💻Technology Connections 👤💭Veritasium 👤💭Beau Miles 👤💭Tom Scott 👤💭Casually Explained...

December 24, 02022

Management

Management is the act of aligning peoples actions, behaviors, and attitudes with the needs of the...

December 22, 02022

Dystopian Connections

.full width { width: 100vw; position: relative; left: 50%; right: 50%; margin left: 50vw; margin right:...

December 05, 02022

Emacs

Richard Matthew Stallman wrote the first set of Emacs macros in 1976. Shortend Keys C: Control...

November 21, 02022

Math

Kill math The Birth of Calculus Calculus Explained with pics and gifs Explanaria The First Six...

November 12, 02022

Noise

Superforecasting (book) Expert Political Judgment (book) Noise (book) You Are Not Measuring What You Think You...

November 12, 02022

RUS 256

(1859) The Storm by Aleksandr Ostrovsky Project Gutenburg (1878) Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Project Gutenburg...

November 12, 02022

Implementing HMAC with Web Crypto API

Recently ran a bundle analysis on a Next.js project and over 40% of the first load...

October 17, 02022

MKT 325

Classical vs. Operant conditioning: Classical conditioning: involuntary response associated with a stimulus Operant conditioning: voluntary behavior...

October 10, 02022

B.Keyz Discography

Hakim Hardy. B.Keyz, Blaque Keys from 2009 2017: Twitter @heistbox Instagram @heistbox previously: blaquekeys.com, bkeys.com NOTHING...

October 06, 02022

Stadia

Sep 29, 2022: A message about Stadia and our long term streaming strategy A few years...

September 30, 02022

Ideas Worth Caching

The TED slogan of “Ideas worth spreading” has stuck with me. I believe a parallel form...

September 29, 02022

Web Performance

MDN: What is web performance? WebPageTest: Lightning fast web performance web.dev: 2023 top Core Web Vitals...

September 18, 02022

Details

every detail about the built world was a painstakingly made decision at some point I recall...

September 16, 02022

Affiliation

After hearing and laughing about the Mucinex sickwear, I’ve been collecting what I refer to as...

September 14, 02022

Culture

The Four Dirty C Words of the Internet ACT: A Cyclic Theory Of Subcultures Power Laws,...

September 14, 02022

Dev Timeline

Note: Some dates are certainly wrong. Some represent v1.0 while others represent whatever Wikipedia says. Operating...

September 14, 02022

RSS

Back to the future with RSS What is RSS The Many Deaths and Rebirths of RSS...

September 14, 02022

Docs

There are two goals of documentation. 1. Knowledge extraction of domain experts 2. Knowledge transference to...

September 13, 02022

Hiring

Know how this hire affects your growth plan: I am hiring for [ ] to be...

September 13, 02022

Fifth Third Bank

Research for MKT 345. WIP. Charge Messaging and positioning Challenges: Winning new customers Increase the probability...

September 09, 02022

Why we write

Opportunities don’t visit caves. Write to attract opportunities. The curious need something to be curious of....

August 30, 02022

PSY 221

Social Psychology

August 25, 02022

Harvard Classics

August 20, 2022: I picked up 22 books from the Oxford United Methodist Church Jumbo Sale....

August 20, 02022

Bayesian Average

We have a list of products. Each product has: a rating (1 5) a count of...

June 26, 02022

Project timeline

Windows 7/Microsoft Office I grew up with Windows 7 with Microsoft Office (and Internet Explorer). I...

June 20, 02022

Software teams

Collaborate through APIs. Ship into production every week Outsource everything but the core. People choose what...

June 20, 02022

Developer Resources

The Pragmatic Programmer (book) Clean Code (book) Beyond Clean Code The Cathedral and the Bazaar (book)...

May 31, 02022

Miami University Explorer

As part of the CSE 252 — Web Applications Programming class, I wanted to explore the...

May 06, 02022

Wanting

Book Notes from Wanting by Luke Burgis

May 01, 02022

No

Say no, build slack.

April 28, 02022

Document Tools

Generally well known document editing tools: Microsoft Word Apple Pages Google Docs Lesser known document editing...

April 05, 02022

End Poem

By Julian Gough

March 28, 02022

CMS

The future of document editing.

March 25, 02022

Personal Websites

Thoughts on my ideal personal website.

March 11, 02022

Cheating

Modern education views education as cheating

March 09, 02022

Victory is Boring

(This started as a marketing class discussion post intended to be about gamification and worth 4...

March 08, 02022

Functional Programming

Can Your Programming Language Do This? Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns How to design programs...

March 01, 02022

Cached Thoughts

My first thoughtful association with Completing the Pattern was through a segment in Make Happy by...

February 23, 02022

CBORD Recludo

On finding a full account takeover vulnerability in CBORD.

February 13, 02022

Distill

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met....

February 04, 02022

Pricing

The only way to determine how much someone will pay for something is to put it...

January 22, 02022

37signals Manifesto

The 37signals manifesto was our original site from 1999 2001. It's a collection of 37 nuggets...

January 19, 02022

Debugging

Tissue issues

January 19, 02022

Cooperative Extension Service

The name confused me greatly at first—Cooperative Extension Service (CES)—extension is a very general term isn’t...

January 06, 02022

Entry Points

In computer programming, an entry point is a point in a program where the execution of...

January 01, 02022

Mowing (1915)

By Robert Frost in A Boy’s Will

December 31, 02021

Web3

Jargon, explained simply Crypto: previously colloquially referred to cryptography, now colloquially refers to cryptocurrency Cryptocurrency: like...

December 31, 02021

Best Console Games

See best iOS games. I grew up with an Xbox 360—let’s I got it sometime in...

December 30, 02021

Best Flash Games

For posterity, the flash games I recall: Happy Wheels Bloons Tower Defense 3 Dino Run Age...

December 30, 02021

Ad Hominem

Short for argumentum ad hominem—argument against the person.

December 27, 02021

Freelancer

HN: So you want to be a consultant? Videos: The Futur: You Are a Business The...

December 14, 02021

Delegation

360 Delegation Whether you’re giving or receiving direction, 360 Delegation is addressing: 1. Vision 2. Resources...

December 13, 02021

Idea Virus

A collection of ideas about Narrative propagation. The notion that an idea can become contagious, in...

December 13, 02021

Psychology

Blanket page for psychology. Books: 400 BCE Hippocrates: On the Sacred Disease 375 BCE Plato: The...

December 13, 02021

365x21

Inspired by Kallman Parry, here are the 21 most impactful books that I’ve read. 1984 This...

December 07, 02021

Courses

Online courses

November 29, 02021

For your boss

I first saw this tactic from Seth Godin for (I think) the altMBA program. Examples of...

November 29, 02021

Rules Of Order

Roberts Rules of Order is America’s foremost guide to parliamentary procedure. It is used by more...

November 16, 02021

Databases

Pick your axis Attributes: Self hosted // Hosted Relational // Non relational (document) SQL NoSQL Open...

October 19, 02021

Strategy

Strategy is how your beliefs inform your approach. Tactics are specific actions you take to improve...

October 18, 02021

Care

What it means to care.

October 14, 02021

Teachers and Late Work

Don’t tell me you don’t care.

October 13, 02021

Base Rate

Conclusions from insufficient information.

October 12, 02021

Jon Bellion Discography

All errors are mine. H/T to u/RaincloudTheDragon for curating dates and the following playlists in v2.1....

October 12, 02021

CPG

Articles Wikipedia: Fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) Wikipedia: Category management Wikipedia: Category: Manufactured goods Oxford Reference:...

October 09, 02021

Shein

Explaining the rise of Shein in the time we’re told Gen Z customers buy for a higher-order purpose.

October 08, 02021

FIN 301

Introduction to Business Finance

October 06, 02021

Today You, Tomorrow Me

On being kind to strangers.

October 06, 02021

Wine

(Sourced from IBISWorld) Major Wineries: E & J Gallo Constellation Brands Inc. The Wine Group The...

October 05, 02021

Marketing

What is marketing?

October 04, 02021

Autodidactism

On School and Education Education is not about Learning Seth Godin: School vs. progress Seth Godin:...

September 23, 02021

Exams

Love and Honor? More like neglect and degradation.

September 13, 02021

A Model of Business Expertise

Business expertise comes from better ways of structuring or organizing knowledge.

September 07, 02021

7 Powers

You have to take deliberate action to generate the information necessary to find the route to Power.

September 07, 02021

Attention

I don’t have the attention.

August 30, 02021

MGT 302

Notes for Operations and Supply Chain Management - MGT 302

August 30, 02021

Mastering Issues

https://blog.placemark.io/2021/07/19/issues only management.html https://guides.github.com/features/issues/ https://docs.github.com/en/issues/tracking your work with issues/about issues https://docs.github.com/en/issues/using labels and milestones to track...

August 29, 02021

Long Term Thinking

Long Term Thinking Book list: What is Called Thinking? by Martin Heidegger Clock of the Long...

August 25, 02021

ISA 225

Notes for Principles of Business Analytics - ISA 225

August 17, 02021

Amazon 1997 Letter To Shareholders

To our shareholders: Amazon.com passed many milestones in 1997: by year end, we had served more...

August 02, 02021

Why we write: meetings

We need you to write. Reluctance to write is a reluctance to think. The page is...

August 02, 02021

Meetings

What is the point of meetings?

July 28, 02021

Steve Jobs Excerpts

2010 D8 Conference (Recorded June 2010. Steve would pass away on October 5, 2011. This was...

July 28, 02021

Values

core

July 25, 02021

Beautiful Websites

How much does a website cost? Company https://bejamas.io/ https://vercel.com/ https://www.netlify.com/ https://reveal.co/ https://stripe.com/ https://press.stripe.com/ https://formisteditions.co/ https://privacy.com/ https://www.myfitnesspal.com/...

July 18, 02021

Finding Books

How do you find books to read? And where can you find them online?

July 18, 02021

When Death Comes

By Mary Oliver (1935-2019)

July 18, 02021

Young and Old

By Charles Kingsley (1819-1875)

July 11, 02021

The Bridge Builder

By Will Allen Dromgoole (~1900)

June 28, 02021

Useful Questions

Quick answers A list of ways to answer a question, in order of low to high...

June 28, 02021

Leadership

We're all leading all the time, well or poorly. Leadership here refers to team leadership, in...

June 24, 02021

Realize

A work in progress

June 24, 02021

Solitude and Leadership

Title: Solitude and Leadership Author: William Deresiewicz Origin: The American Scholar Solitude and Leadership was delivered...

June 24, 02021

Notes from Tribes

Last edited: September 8, 2020 A group needs only two things to be a tribe: a...

June 24, 02021

Business Challenges

Creating value as an entrepreneur Customer traction : Every day, are there more people who would...

June 23, 02021

Father Forgets

Title: Father Forgets Author: W. Livingston Larned Originally appeared: as an editorial in the People’s Home...

June 23, 02021

Pixar Story Rules

22 Rules of Storytelling

June 23, 02021

The Irreducible Components of Leadership

In a powerful 2009 address to healthcare CEOs, Paul O'Neill shares what he has learned are...

June 19, 02021

The Machine Stops

Title: The Machine Stops (1909) Author: E. M. Forster Project Gutenburg Librivox Contents 1. The Air...

June 15, 02021

How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day

Title: How to Live on 24 Hours a Day (1908) Author: Arnold Bennett Project Gutenburg Librivox...

June 12, 02021

Dynamic Cypress Tests

Cypress is a tool for fast, easy, and reliable testing for anything that runs in a...

June 10, 02021

Timeline

Mine

June 09, 02021

Creating Custom Netlify Editor Components

https://www.netlifycms.org/docs/custom widgets/ The available widget extension methods are: registerWidget : registers a custom widget. registerEditorComponent :...

June 07, 02021

Learning Java

CSE 174 Course Materials: WP V5 STUDENT PACKAGE FOR BIG JAVA LATE OBJECTS (Must be purchased...

June 03, 02021

Learning Vim

Practical Vim , by Drew Neil https://danielmiessler.com/study/vim/ https://share.danielmiessler.com/j9lBbM?mc cid=73d349231d&mc eid=1a15f04338 https://share.danielmiessler.com/e9d16T?mc cid=73d349231d&mc eid=1a15f04338 https://missing.csail.mit.edu/ https://vim bootstrap.com/

June 02, 02021

Command Line

First, I’m currently running an Intel Mac, and using Homebrew as a package manager. References Taco...

May 28, 02021

Starting Python Development

First, I’m currently running an Intel Mac. I’ve done a few small python scripts before but...

May 28, 02021

You can use React anywhere?

Today I learned…

May 27, 02021

Reducers

What are they?

May 27, 02021

Your work

The work of marketing your work is where your work begins.

May 27, 02021

Bored?

My bored list.

May 26, 02021

VS Code Setup

My VS Code setup.

May 15, 02021

Starting Web Development

An introduction to web development.

May 06, 02021

Financial Investments

Unfolding my story one bit at a time. Not financial advice.

April 17, 02021

Explicit Communication

Strange how it seems we only see the word explicit used when it’s labeling a song...

April 08, 02021

RIP iTunes

TL;DR Full iOS backups used to include apps you purchased–so you could restore apps from a...

April 07, 02021

Reflections on my first Next JS App

Next.js seems to be soaring in popularity at the moment (See usage statistics). I use a...

March 23, 02021

Best iOS Games

The best games and the best games to play on repeat.

March 19, 02021

GEO 201

GEO 201 Exam Prep.

March 01, 02021

BIO 121

Study guide.

February 26, 02021

General Advice

A collection of general advice.

February 18, 02021

MGT 291

Study guide.

February 18, 02021

Relationships

A collection of ideas on relationships.

February 17, 02021

Wealth

A collection of ideas on wealth.

February 13, 02021

2020–2030 Goals and Predictions

I’m still at the start, and the mist in front of me heavily obscures my vision.

February 04, 02021

Dear Teacher using remote proctoring software

It seems that you’re using remote proctoring software with the intent of learning integrity. Let’s talk a moment about that.

February 03, 02021

First Day of Class 2021

The joys and struggle of online class. Round 2.

January 25, 02021

Make It Count

Call it whatever you want. Marketing is what controls and expands your reach, your impact, your outcomes, your effects, your changes, and your results.

January 20, 02021

JavaScript Bookmarklets

A bookmarklet is a bookmark stored in a web browser that contains JavaScript commands that add...

January 19, 02021

Occasional Work Search

Money is required.

January 18, 02021

Learning React

Resources to learn React, and my log of doing it.

January 09, 02021

Transcript & College Course Alternatives

My college courses and better alternatives that are mostly free.

January 06, 02021

Just-in-time learning

Learning an idea when you need it the most.

January 05, 02021

For Posterity

For future generations.

December 30, 02020

Proper ATOM feed Formatting

Tips to generate a good feed.

December 19, 02020

Less Wrong

A compendium of Less Wrong.

December 19, 02020

Average Day

What my average day looks like across the years.

December 14, 02020

Turning 20

It’s strange to look back on 19 years and even stranger to look forward.

December 09, 02020

Sideloading iPhone 5 on iOS 10.3.4

I am explaining this for my future self, who is intelligent and interested, but has forgotten.

December 08, 02020

Learning Integrity

The best experiences I’ve had were all learning experiences—not educational ones.

December 03, 02020

zero through nineteen

As of writing, I have less than two weeks until I turn 20.

November 26, 02020

AI Writing For Marketing

This is the script for my Developing Technologies in Business Video for BUS 284.

November 12, 02020

Typical Mind Fallacy

I’ve begun to see a common error in myself.

October 29, 02020

Ultralearning

Master hard skills, outsmart the competition, and accelerate your career.

October 24, 02020

TTT Community Money Site

What if we could harness a scenius to launch a completely community-driven website that generates revenue and took all of the profits and donated them to a charity of choice?

October 22, 02020

Creating a recipe site with Jekyll

In my push for more people to own their own piece of the internet I created a recipe website for my girlfriend.

October 15, 02020

Standard Automation

I very much dislike situations where I ask myself the question, “what do I do?”

October 07, 02020

The Social Dilemma

What the hell is going on? And what can you do about it?

October 07, 02020

Black Friday Deals

What does your “deal” change for the people who didn’t choose you before?

October 01, 02020

Crossing the Opinion Barrier

What they are and how getting over them can help you do better.

October 01, 02020

Managing a remote team

How to manage and work with a remote team.

September 21, 02020

SEO Tool Buying Guide

The endless supply of tools leaves many beginners and experts wondering the same thing. What tool should I use?

September 21, 02020

Tools should turn us into experts

Tools shape our learning, processes, and mental models.

September 21, 02020

The SEO SaaS Gap

Every SEO tool is about data to move forward.

September 18, 02020

Perception Optimization

Optimizing the value of what you've created for a specific audience.

September 17, 02020

What makes a good delivery of bad news?

This was a post created for a University Discussion.

September 16, 02020

Most favorited Hacker News posts of all time

The most favorited articles by the top 10k most active Hacker News members.

September 05, 02020

Pain and growth

Search for those moments.

September 02, 02020

Sticking your neck out

On business and classes.

September 01, 02020

First Day of Class 2020

The joys and struggle of online class.

August 18, 02020

Marketing Differentiation

The mess of differentiation.

August 10, 02020

Industry Icons

Icons for design, development, and marketing.

August 09, 02020

Write about stuff that interests you

Goals moving forward and telling us what we need to know.

August 08, 02020

Degreeless.marketing Dev log

How I built Degreeless.marketing.

August 05, 02020

Degreeless.marketing

You don’t need a degree to make change happen.

August 02, 02020

Brand, Content, and Reach

The following is a framework I’ve developed and modeled from trying to find a complete stance on business needs.

July 28, 02020

Degreeless

This is my working document on the idea of degreeless.

July 28, 02020

Student Employment

How can we give the next generation every opportunity we can to solve problems?

July 27, 02020

Question, Connect, and Understand

Real value comes from the questions you ask, the connections you make, and how well you help people feel understood.

July 22, 02020

Marketing and Positioning

A riff on marketing and positioning

July 20, 02020

Notes from MozCon 2020

My notes from MozCon 2020.

July 20, 02020

Catalina and Ruby

Running Jekyll on macOS Catalina

July 19, 02020

Updating a 2012 MacBook Pro

I recently picked up a 2012 13” MacBook Pro from a coworker. Why, would I take a 2012 MacBook Pro when I already own a 15” 2018 MacBook Pro?

July 18, 02020

Effective Masks

General statements mean a lot of different things and often apply to a lot of people or items. Often statements are vague or not specific.

July 18, 02020

Mask Oversimplification

On being American.

July 14, 02020

Thoughts on College

Originally written on April 13th.

July 09, 02020

2020 U.S. Presidential Website Teardown

Comparing the 2020 Presidential Candidate Websites.

July 02, 02020

Metrics on the Top 100 Most Visited Sites

Looking for how your site stacks up against the top 100?

June 21, 02020

Chrome Extensions

A list of useful Chrome Extensions.

June 19, 02020

Notes from Heroic Leadership

Real leaders—real heroes—find fulfillment, meaning, and even success by shifting their gaze beyond self-interest and serving others.

June 17, 02020

20 things you don’t know about SEO

Build something worth searching for.

June 12, 02020

What every business should know about digital marketing

SEO, PPC, Brand, What do you need?

May 29, 02020

The big problem with business

Why don't people choose you?

May 28, 02020

Commercial and Klim Type Fonts for free with macOS

Apple has licensed fonts Commercial Type, Klim Type Foundry, and Mark Simonson Studio for new system fonts on Mac OS Catalina.

May 26, 02020

Manifesto for a moral revolution book notes

Practices for a better world

May 24, 02020

Separating belief and science

A note on belief and humanity

May 19, 02020

Optimizing my book list

Ruby scripting to start making my book list static.

May 18, 02020

HTML, CSS, and JS

Starting Web Development Part 01

May 14, 02020

Adding Schema Markup

How I implemented structured data for this site.

May 04, 02020

The Best Business Leverage

Are you trying to convert or create an experience?

May 02, 02020

Redesign 02 — Resources

Redesigning the resources page.

May 01, 02020

Real Skills Conference

The people you actually need to see are each other—the rest of this day is on you and up to you.

April 24, 02020

Creating RSS feeds and Automating a Newsletter

How I built RSS feeds and automated my newsletter

April 23, 02020

MacOS font bug in Chrome

Chrome 81 breaks the ability to bold system fonts on Macs

April 21, 02020

Money Desires

If you want to make more money there are a few things you can do.

April 18, 02020

About this website

How I built this site and what runs it.

April 17, 02020

Everything I Know About Email

From code to vision.

April 17, 02020

Creation and Consumption

Distinguish that from which is artificial, forced, or remote from actual experience.

February 26, 02020

Redesign

Good design is as little design as possible.

February 05, 02020

Mental Models and Principles

A few of my personal mental models and principles.

February 01, 02020

Feedback Loops

How do you get better at something? What makes AI so valuable?

January 28, 02020

2020 Presidential Candidate Font Comparison

In a race over donations from a nation how do the players compare?

January 11, 02020

2020 Presidential Candidate Donate Form Comparison

In a race over donations from a nation how do the players compare?

January 11, 02020

2020 Presidential Candidate Website Comparison

In a race over power of a nation how do the players compare?

January 10, 02020

A Timeline of Inventions

A list of some human miracles over the centuries.

January 07, 02020

Anatomy of Performing Content

A nice reminder that the longer the better, headlines are important, building links requires effort, and people love lists.

January 06, 02020

Work in 2019

A few of the creative projects I worked on in 2019.

December 31, 02019

Website Plans

As with most things digital there are near infinite ways of creating a website. Generally there...

December 19, 02019

Learning is like baking

Learning is like baking. You find recipes and follow the given format. You try many recipes...

November 12, 02019

Making a book list

Learning how to make a book list with Jekyll.

October 19, 02019

Psychology and Persuasion

Key ways people can be influenced.

September 30, 02019

Lessons in creativity.

The First Year Integrated Core at Miami University focuses on thinking critically, creatively and conceptually. ESP...

September 26, 02019

Down to the detail.

What makes an expert? What level of detail do you need to be aware of to...

September 25, 02019

Choosing to settle

We're always reaching for things we don't need.

September 24, 02019

Ideas need an axis to be tested against.

When we argue about ‘better’ most likely, we’re not having the same conversation. We need to...

September 23, 02019

Starting up a site: What’s it for?

It’s personal. I want to make a group of my own culture. I wanted to build...

September 21, 02019

Migrating from Squarespace to GitHub

And saving $152 a year on hosting fees.

July 03, 02019

New Thinking Society

A thought experiment from my senior year in High School.

April 05, 02019

Askhole

That's a nice social boundary you've got there. Would be a shame if something… happened to...

December 10, 02000

Talk to me

Let me hear from you

December 09, 02000