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I’m surprised I had to scroll this far to see this. I think most folks want to care about their jobs and the default is having a healthy level of investment. But especially in larg…

Is it the (lack of) reliability of electronic systems that people don't like? As a fairly anxious driver, I rather like the extra peace of mind that comes from having automatic bra…

Could you elaborate on what those "upgrades" look like? At least for math, I found that by around Calc II I had to start grinding problem sets to do well on exams, and I can't imag…

My personal favorite egg white cocktail is the Clover Club, which hasn’t been mentioned yet.

I’m surprised I had to scroll so far to find this response. It was a revelation to me when I realized that, no, it’s not that “most people” lack intellectual curiosity. Their inter…

The Bolt is one of the cars available through the carshare system in my city, and I was pleasantly surprised with how much I liked it. The combination of absurd torque and econobox…

Over-analyzing has always been a huge struggle of mine, and your comment reminded me of a few times in my life where actually doing things taught me something important: 1. I thoug…

Having the Apple Store support option is another one. Yes, repairs can be a bit expensive, but most of them can be done same-day instead of having to ship my phone off for a week+ …

Highly recommend Nand2Tetris. I completed it a few months ago as a relatively non-technical person (I had only taken CS50 as my first CS class ever in 2020) and learned a ton.

For what it's worth, my undergraduate experience was that we had very few opportunities to do any actual empirical* research in most disciplines. Most of the "research" positions a…

> We don't hear phrases like "I used to read and write English, but since I moved to management I have stopped" I had to chuckle a bit at this one given how some VP+ folks write em…

> I definitely think there's an advertising bubble and it's popping. This is something I’ve been thinking about a decent amount over the past few years. Advertising is the cash cow…

This is such a key insight. For me at least, “time management” is really about managing my energy levels more than anything.

Figured someone who has read the book might see this and be able to answer a question — to what extent is Caplan’s critique of the U.S.-model of widespread-ish resource-intensive h…

I think a big part of why remote learning is such a "tough nut to crack" is because in-person learning is about the social experience as much as anything else. As much as I've enjo…

I feel like the line between Wikipedia and Objectivism is a bit of a stretch. The key Objectivist principles are that are relevant to Wikipedia — realism and rationalism — are hard…

I think it’s less likely that companies like Shopify are purposely filtering out candidates who have interview anxiety and more likely that it’s simply not a factor they take into …

This is brilliant. I’d never thought about it such explicit terms, but of course using analogies with an unsympathetic interlocutor is basically building them a all-too-convenient …

Replication as part of scientific consensus-building dates back at least to the air-pump experiments of 17th century. See e.g. “Leviathan and the Air-Pump”

This seems to be a particularly salient issue in the area of medicine, since many practice but may not actually “do science” unless they’re affiliated with a university or research…

That’s my favorite thing about reading Feynman’s autobiographical works or anecdotes about him. There’s a feeling that he must be embellishing, but the stories are never entirely o…