391. 🇺🇦 Made in Ukraine 392. Chesses 393. 103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known 394. The Common Tongue of Twenty-First-Century London 395. The Turn-of-the-Century Pigeons That Photographed Earth from Above 396. Teach Yourself Computer Science 397. London’s lost ringways 398. Who’s in Your Wallet? 399. I Liked The Idea Of Carbon Offsets, […]
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Assorted links #13
361. How Does Perspective Work in Pictures? 362. Writing matters 363. Wiki History Game 364. GPS 365. Bankers are more honest than the rest of us 366. Canterbury – Best Things to See – City Walk & History Canterbury, England 367. November 1997: Rushdie and le Carré in literary spat 368. Peep Show – The […]
Assorted links #12
331. The ten best films of: 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931 332. My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file 333. The Economy 334. Lessons from my PhD 335. List of startups/companies that had successful pivots 336. Tweeting ourselves […]
Assorted links #11
301. A critical behavioural economics and behavioural science reading list 302. Calculus Made Easy 303. The Complete, Untold History of Halo 304. How Long Does It Take Ordinary People To “Get Good” At Chess? 305. Focus groups: what are they for? 306. The Onion: 20 Years Later 307. Why skyscrapers are so short 308. 40 […]
Ten ways to slightly improve your life without really trying
In The Guardian, there is an article with a list of 100 ways to slightly improve your life (without really trying). I do not agree with all of them (for various reasons), so I decided to pick out the ten I believe provide the greatest marginal gain: Get the lighting right: turn off the overhead […]
Assorted links #10
271. The misuse of colour in science communication 272. Click 273. 52 things I learned in 2021 274. 52 Snippets from 2021 275. If Marx or Freud had never lived? 276. How we became weekly 277. How To Learn Stuff Quickly 278. An Ex-Drinker’s Search for a Sober Buzz 279. Using spider-web patterns to determine […]
Assorted links #9
241. Read color hex codes 242. The True Size of Africa 243. Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day 244. An Old Hacker’s Tips On Staying Employed 245. The 75 Best Movies of the 1920s 246. List of common misconceptions 247. Getting Access to Paywalled Articles 248. Interactive Linear Algebra 249. First […]
Assorted links #8
211. Surprising shared word etymologies 212. A Beginner’s Guide to Miles Davis 213. Doc Pop’s One-Dimensional Chess 214. The C-Word: Scientific Euphemisms Do Not Improve Causal Inference From Observational Data 215. Star Trek + Design 216. Curves and Surfaces 217. Deep Play? Video Games and the Historical Imaginary 218. Bicycle Network Analysis 219. Shortage nation: […]
Assorted links #7
181. Lectures on unemployment 182. Reversals in psychology 183. Objective or Biased 184. Place-Based Carbon Calculator 185. User:Emijrp/All Human Knowledge 186. The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time 187. “I’ll Finish It This Week” And Other Lies 188. How to Study Mathematics 189. Some observations about life in Denmark vs. life in the US 190. […]
Assorted links #6
151. The Art of Command Line 152. The Ultimate Guide to Inflation 153. How will climate change shape climate opinion? 154. We Should All Be More Afraid of Driving 155. A decade and a half of instability: The history of Google messaging apps 156. Twenty Years Gone: What Bobby McIlvaine Left Behind 157. Burning out […]