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The same point expressed beautifully by Jocko Willink: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyMEQMt6yAw

2 is possible (Preferences > Interface > uncheck "Allow only one instance").

Your rare awareness makes me hopeful that it's withing your power to turn your life around. Anyways, this makes a good argument why IQ is largely inconsequential in the real life: …

They are not organized by BPM range.

This is discussed in the book Incognito by David Eagleman. I remember reading about someone learning to "see" with their tongue. Along the same line, his team developed a vest whic…

This idea is expanded in Taleb's "Surgeons Should Not Look Like Surgeons": https://medium.com/incerto/surgeons-should-notlook-like-surg...

It reminds me of how old German books written in Schwabacher used roman typeface for Latin and other foreign words. In this case, it was intentional, but I have always found it a b…

I especially like the clever analogy with genetics. Douglas Hofstadter said something along the lines of analogy being more powerful when the two concepts it connects are otherwise…

One concept I really like for teaching Go (and I think it would be a great addition to this site) is the "Go teaching ladder": http://gtl.xmp.net/ It lets you submit a record of yo…