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Verbiage is proof of work, and journalists need to make a living, just the same as planning-to-plan product managers. You can train yourself to skim for maximal extraction per minu…

tldr tl;dr Our bodies self-correct to maintain a constant calorie expenditure. Marathoners and lean-mean bush people were found to burn as many calories daily as a middle aged woma…

You can hate the guilt, but you can't hate the pleasure -- that wouldn't make any sense.

Lots of sour grapes rationalizing. Every deprived addict, from the grounded Minecraft player to the imprisoned dope fiend, will tell you the deprivation was good for him, but as so…

Automatic plug whenever I see this asked: nnhackernews.

decent people with decent products just don't make it. Which is why you need to make your product a little more than decent. "Evil will always triumph because good is dumb." So be …

The legal driving age for men should be raised to 40. Problem solved.

You can always end the contract Most people don't have the kind of eff-thou money, which is why OP asked his question conditioning on unionization.

What are some good resources on Emacs? Google. how long did it take you to debug issues? For many years, I googled for little elisp snippets I didn't understand. If you use doom/sp…

Never heard the author, but having read his blog, I've concluded I am this guy modulo the talent and the fact that he got to my way of thinking in half the time.

Attempting to learn mathematics as some sort of pattern matching... does not work China (and other countries who put American math education to shame) disagrees. For you, math may …

The only value of a university math class are the problems and their solutions. Lecture is worthless. MIT does this right. Students can boost their grade by submitting revised solu…

Typical of most management primers: 2,000 words of hand-wavy psychobabble, none of it actionable, all of it music to other psychobabblers.

Software is a quick win. Everyone loves the quick win.

they simply want access to more cheap and compliant labor Only bad programmers believe software scales with manpower. And it's those bad programmers who become hiring managers; the…