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I think good writing is more about the higher level: effectively communicating a point. Mechanical components, such as grammar, are important but don't help express ideas. As a tan…

> How much does the environment you're in contribute to performance? As an oversimplified answer, a lot. I think this is actually a complex question, cause there's a lot of dimensi…

Yeah, I wasn't sure how I wanted to deal with duplicates so I mostly ignored them. I track letter positions directly (just a bunch of tuples), but don't actually do anything with t…

I also wrote a tool for playing: https://github.com/vple/wordle-solver/blob/main/solver.js There's probably more tuning I can do for the algo, but roughly: - I took all the words f…

> How did you first get into programming? In high school, my friend and I realized you could program TI-84 graphing calculators. We made really simple games (guess a number from 1-…

Similar ideas discussed in The Best Interface is No Interface: https://www.amazon.com/Best-Interface-No-brilliant-technolog... I like the underlying concept a lot (roughly, use tec…

I think it's good that you're taking time to evaluate yourself! I suspect you are smart but haven't found something that fits your "groove" yet. Here are some thoughts/questions th…

I've seen this too, and I'm wondering how (or if) this fits into the shapes/additive/subtractive model. "Ritual" work doesn't seem like it falls under additive or subtractive to me…

He's probably selling to diversify. It looks like he's selling based on a 10b5-1 plan, i.e. he's selling on a predetermined plan.