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I recommend reading histories of mathematics including more recent histories like Morris Kline's "Mathematics: the loss of certainty." According to other books by Reuben Hersh, suc…

Serge Lang has a series of books that cover these topics with a miniumum of fluff and in a maximally efficient way. Starting with his "Basic Math" and "Geometry", you could then st…

So keep on making the world a better place. And as you're doing that, there will come a time when you'll look to your right or your left and see a guy who's also working to make th…

I think the idea is that if you aggregate enough of this junk, some of the noise is canceled out--possibly enough to recover the signal.

Your intuition that it's not that complicated is correct. For example, ""Breathing in long, he discerns, 'I am breathing in long'; or breathing out long, he discerns, 'I am breathi…

Some good books to get started: Difficult Conversations by Stone, Patton and Heen Crucial Conversaions by Patterson et al. Difficult Conversations is about why difficult conversati…

I'm from a hybrid humanities and technical background. Good writing is good writing: clear, simple, and easy to read. Books that influenced me: Style, by F.L. Lucas Simple and Dire…

You're not the only one who wants to trust their computer more. There are a few projects working on creating a good root of trust at boot time. For example, there's Raptor Computin…

I am very happy with the ThinkPenguin mini router. https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/free-software-wireles... It uses LibreCMC--a really well supported Libre branch of OpenWRT…

It was a bad management move. It's basically saying that the company wants to exploit the employees and steal their IP. Companies that do this shouldn't expect anyone to innovate w…

This is mindfulness by definition, and also the answer to the question "how do you sustain mindfulness throughout the day?" One purpose of having periods of formal meditation is to…

For a affordable/cheap degree, there is University of the People: https://www.uopeople.edu/programs/cs/degrees/computer-scienc... For general background for the autodidact there is…

I've been running OpenBSD more than 15 years, and it does have a learning curve. One area to consider as a happy Debian desktop user is using OpenBSD as a router OS. PC Engines (I …