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shouldn't it be "the simplest possible thing that could work"?

Maybe true, but not true enough.

"If they're doing better than me it's their luck. If they're doing worse, it's their fault."

Clever framing of the authors own biases. I'd argue that for at least some of these, the opposite behaviour would be the true sabotage.

Looks like that's on codemirror framework? Any good resources you could share on wiring up custom language and view? I've managed to kinda get something working with lezer but the …

We just launched Very Disco on product hunt today, hope you like it: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/very-disco

It's unethical

Wish I read this before I named gonna my dog "Noise Maker".

I love literature and philosophy, I've found a couple great podcasts for appreciating Ecclesiastes and Book of Job from that standpoint: (Ecclesiastes) https://www.verybadwizards.c…

also curious how you track your reading speed? any tools or process that works for you?

Hey I love your reading tracking, care to share your tracking / reading process? Any reason you use airtable over, say, Goodreads?

Oh I freaking LOVED the farseer trilogy. It gets better and better until a big wow. I did a lot of the booker+booker internationals in previous years but found them too hit and mis…

Would you recommend? Is it as good as the hype? I feel like it will be a long project.

What pace would you recommend? 40 pages a day seems more than reasonable?

That might be contributing. The Pevear translation is highly regarded. I researched which to read quite attentively, I found many who reported not being able to make progress via t…

Fair enough, you're right he did originally tweet "Start on Monday, done by Sunday". But to be fair, in the very same tweet he wrote "I'll keep adjusting the list". Besides all tha…

I liked sapiens well enough. The middle is a bit of a slog, and I think he makes a few leaps in logic, but some cool ideas in there.

Yeah font size, but also just the work itself. If I'm reading epic fantasy I'll fly along. If I'm reading Wuthering Heights I'm crawling. I think it evens out.

I am so intimidated by that book. One day.

Nice one, I'll look into that next time, cheers.

How far do you get with Brothers Karamazov? And which translation? I could hardly put it down once it got rolling.

His original tweet he explicitly said "Start on Monday, done by Sunday"