- You're Too Busy
When George Shultz was secretary of state in the 1980s, he liked to carve out one hour each week for quiet reflection. He sat down in his โฆ
- Human Misjudgement Revisited
Phil Ordway gave a talk, revisiting Charlier Munger’s famous talk on “The Psychology of Human Misjudgement”, at John โฆ
- What works in e-commerce A/B experiments
[The investigators] categorise roughly 2,600 experiments into a set of 29 categories, and measure a few statistics, such as the average โฆ
- The Engineer/Manager Pendulum
Source: https://charity.wtf/2017/05/11/the-engineer-manager-pendulum/ The best frontline eng managers in the world are the ones that are โฆ
- A list of opensource backup tools
via cronweekly: Backup is a system utility for Linux and Mac OS X, distributed as a RubyGem, that allows you to easily perform backup โฆ
- Knowledge grows by subtraction
In life, understanding what to avoid is more important than constantly searching for positive advice to do something new. This is expressed โฆ
- Short Investing Rules from Collaborative Fund
Define what youโre incapable of and stay away from it. Youโre not proven until youโve survived a calamity. Plan on every plan not going โฆ
- Jeff Bezos: Disagree and Commit
Use the phrase โdisagree and commit.โ This phrase will save a lot of time. If you have conviction on a particular direction even though โฆ
- Some things about Email
From Albert Wenger’s post: Two legitimate uses for BCC. First, moving some one to bcc who need not to be part of the ongoing exchange. โฆ
- Power to ignore
“The world is changing faster than ever before, and we are flooded by impossible amounts of data, of ideas, of promises and of โฆ
- Busy, but not productive
From collaborative post with the title - Busy vs. Productive: Despite the increase in leisure hours over the last several decades, the โฆ
- Three buckets of Knowledge
Every statistician knows that a large, relevant sample size is their best friend. What are the three largest, most relevant sample sizes โฆ
- Google Drive Clients
Do you know that there is no official Google Drive client for Linux? And, that you have to rely on third-party tools and SaaS serivces to โฆ
- Phones and Drones
Chris Anderson, currently the CEO of 3D Robotics and founder of DIY Dones, says in an edge.org conversation - Most of the devices in our โฆ
- httpie
HTTPie is a useful HTTP CLI client with sensible defaults, built-in JSON support via an expressive and intuitive command syntax. On OSX, you โฆ
- Elastic Search Cheat Sheet
General monitoring API endpoints Metric Description stats from all nodes curl 'localhost:9200/_nodes/stats' Stats from specific nodes curl โฆ
- Shortness of Life
Wherefore it is as foolish to lament that we shall not be alive a hundred years from now as it is to lament that we were not alive a โฆ
- Creating yarapavan.in
Relaunching website after a long hiatus Hugo provided an opportunity to relaunch my long-forgotten website! Been away from active blogging โฆ
- Life Lessons from a Man who has seen 12000 Deaths
Bhairav Nath Shukla is the Manager ofย Mukti Bhawan, a Varanasi hostel where people check-in to die. He shares key life lessons he has learnt โฆ
- Why Read Philosophy?
There is a pleasure in philosophy, and even a lure in the mirages of metaphysics which every student feels until the coarse necessities of โฆ