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I've been remote for years even before Covid. RTO vs remote comes down to how and where you work best. When folks want to go remote I ask them "when you were in school, did you stu…

> 30 million monthly active users when it was acquired...[they] had just six generalist developers [1] So they got to 30mm users with 6 engineers...scaling linearly with 5mm custom…

Don't Think of an Elephant will completely change how you view politics and what anyone in politics says and how to interpret it. Aristotle's Ethics helped me reconcile my desire t…

https://www.adamconrad.dev A lot of it is around engineering management best practices but there are some more philosophical and personal bits sprinkled here and there. It has hit …

Is there a phenomenon that describes why I feel a sense of unease when I see the other maps? Seeing the various projections and changes of those maps left me _very_ uncomfortable a…

Sure a lot of stuff is high status crap (like the LV weekender bag that was torn apart here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EktumN7N5l8 ). But your comparisons don't factor in tot…

If you want to skip the article and go directly to the conclusions of the research: > ...given all the data available on red meat intake and risk of a subsequent outcome, we estima…

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This is a big deal because it’s only the second time in the publication’s history to do a cover-to-cover story on a topic (since one about code). I’m not fully through it but I wil…

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I got mono 2 months before college graduation. At the time I didn’t think “oh I won’t graduate” but in retrospect being out of school for 2 weeks without doing any work can really …