[Learn to cook so that you will have an excuse to invite friends over for he rest of your life.]
[Learn to cook so that you will have an excuse to invite friends over for he rest of your life.]
[Spreadsheets integrate text and graphics by organizing textual programs or formulas into the tabular grid of visual cells.]
[Spreadsheets pre-name variables according to their position on the grid.]
Let's talk about Biden's mental state....
[In the face of a wild accusation that's false, try leaning into it: isn't it great that a team of experts rather than a politician is making decision? If the vice president has the final call, it must be terrible for Trump. Can you imagine how bad it must have been that we elected a guy with dementia?]
More than people knowing who you are, give them chances to see you in action.
Trapped Priors As A Basic Problem Of Rationality
[Van de Bergh et al suggest that the brain reduces bandwidth in 'raw experience' when it is intolerable, which is why trauma victims describe their traumas as short, undetailed, and to-the-point.]
Whenever the party you don't like says something seemingly reasonable, you can interpret in context as them wanting something horrible. Whenever they want a seemingly desirable thing, you secretly know it means they want a horrible moral atrocity. If a Republican talks about "law and order", it doesn't mean they're concerned about the victims of violent crime, it means they want to lock up as many black people as possible to strike a blow for white supremacy. When a Democrat talks about "gay rights", it doesn't mean letting people marry the people they love, it means destroying the family so they can replace it with state control over your children.
If it's essentially harmful can it be justified as 'temporary'?
[Contemporary utopia is resistance against entities claiming that history is over, that we should accept things as we are, that there are no alternatives.]
Nature is prolific.
Baremetrics Founder Josh Pigford on Side Projects and Growing a $1 Million SaaS Startup
[If they're not paying, their feedback will likely be that of someone trying to get something for nothing as opposed to those who value the offering.]
Not all bricks are nourishing. Be aware of what is being practiced.
Time-based notes with Alexander Griekspoor
[Despite having training materials and support, people generally learn the tool socially.]
[Build community forum posting into the app.]
[Ask people to describe their workflows.]
['Identity theft' is favourable because it absolves institutions of their responsibility to secure their authentication systems.]
Nature is abundant. Nature does not imagine.
[End-user programming languages are more motivating to learn when they are task-oriented: instead of making available only smaller primitives, provide higher-level abstractions that actually do the complete job.]
[Spreadsheet arithmetic is approachable not because most people know how to add and subtract, but because that's what accountants and business people do]
[Go beyond 'easy to use' and prioritize early success within a few hours of use to increase motivation.]
[Avoid 'having to know everything to do anything']
[Spreadsheets obviate the need for control structures or variable names.]
[Happiness is a choice.]
How can we appropriate the mind's repetition and 'latching onto things' to reinforce healthy practices?
[Start out by not letting anyone touch it without being there to show how it works. First give a demo to let them see what they can do with the product, then guide them while they try it for themselves.]
[Help provide context and help them understand why they should care.]
10 Years of Open-Source Visualization
[Maximize your impact by making teaching central to your strategy, ideally material that can be consumed without you being present.]
[Have lots of examples.]
[Answering questions is more than altruism, it's a chance to learn.]
[If you're complaining on the Internet, think of the practical impact of your words.]
[Focus on laying a perfect brick everyday and eventually you'll look up and there will be a wall.]
[Conversational language is a poor medium of HCI because computers lack the context that we constantly refer to, as well as the ability to interpret context to derive meaning.]
[Deterministic outcomes from a computer and so prefer formal languages because conversation is naturally open-ended and not specific.]