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By day I’m an engineer at Wave, building faster and cheaper money transfer in Africa. Otherwise I enjoy reading, climbing, hiking, making music, contra dancing, trying to improve the world, and various other strange activities.For info on how this site was made, see the colophon.
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A lot of smart college students end up with the idea that "solving hard technical problems" is the best thing they can do with their life-probably because that's the only thing they've ever been rewarded for so far.
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You should try contra dancing
a story of middle school Ben a not-very-illuminating description of the mechanics flow, joy, and community the antidote to the rest of life how to try contra
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My weekly review habit
how it works example topics compounding improvements what I've gotten out of it tips
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Autocomplete as an interface
the real reason zsh beats bash how I got twice as fast in python autocompleting all the things maximizing user-interface bandwidth
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Attention is your scarcest resource
how to ration your shower thoughts care viscerally monotask evade obligations timebox bullshit
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Grad school is worse for public health than STDs
(The way you can really tell something is horribly wrong is that grad students find PhD Comics darkly funny, not just dark.)
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Wireless is a trap
Over and over again, I've seen people fix some wireless-related problem and go
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Searching for outliers
most important things are outlier-driven draw lots of samples filter for maybe-amazing, not probably-good learn where your bar should be expect to fail a lot
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Impact, agency, and taste
understand + work backwards from the root goal don't rely too much on permission or encouragement make success inevitable find your angle think real hard reflect on your thinking
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Advice for time management as a manager
have accurate expectations of yourself prioritize ruthlessly unemploy your future self a five-step "help, I'm overwhelmed" checklist carve out focused time
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