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Some great answers here. Mine: Air Pods Pro. Takes the edge off of traffic and other city noises while walking around. Makes it easier to consume audiobooks/podcasts. Plane/bus/tra…

Some good stuff here. I’ll add my $0.02. David Brooks talk on meaning (and how financial/social freedom isn’t as great as you think) https://youtu.be/iB4MS1hsWXU Paul Bloom and Sam…

An opinion piece on the matter of being clipped in vs street shoes: https://www.rivbike.com/pages/the-shoes-ruse

I resigned from my tech job (most recently as an SRE) this past June after having hit my FIRE [1] number and the job becoming less interesting than it once was. I'm curious about w…

How do you get good restaurant margins without alcohol sales? I wonder if the savings of not running an actual restaurant offsets that (or more).

Ah, you wrote the piece: http://qz.com/57254/to-save-the-world-dont-get-a-job-at-a-ch... What did you think of Brook Allen's response: http://qz.com/57807/dont-come-to-wall-street-…

Which is then followed by: > Why Constructing a Viable Argument and Making Sense of the Reasoning of Others is Crucial. This may seriously be the most vital mathematical practice. …

> Also, in places like Africa,food is stored! Indeed. And, in savvier kitchens. See MFK Fisher's How to Cook a Wolf and the nicely written modern interpretation by Tamar Adler: The…

I'd like to know if there's been an implementation of that. I remember reading about such a thing in William Gibson's Pattern Recognition.