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 […]
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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 […]