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Wisdom

Wisdom: Big questions

"Big questions — Who am I? Where am I going? What is truth? — give way to little ones."

Wisdom

Wisdom: Sincerity

Sincerity represents a strict correspondence between an individual’s professions and their actual feelings and beliefs. Sincere communication is thoroughly honest — free of hypocrisy, pretense, deceit, and contradictions. Insincerity can be evinced when we act as if our feelings for something are stronger than

Wisdom

Wisdom: Getting past behind

While we don’t know what Emerson experienced as he looked into the vault where his wife lay, we can surmise the effect this act had on his life. Within months, he’d resigned his prestigious position as minister of Boston’s Second Church

Ghost

Ghost: What memberships are for

Memberships are a cool way of building a community and optionally monetizing your content. Especially with the addition of comments, this feature has become even more valuable. ‒ https://nehalist.io/ghost-5-review/

Pomysł, aplikacja: Zidentyfikuj maszynę budowlaną z AI

Wisdom: Time

"Though you have the wealth of a cloak-room attendant at the Carlton Hotel, you cannot buy yourself a minute more time than I have, or the cat by the fire has."

LaTeX

LaTeX: Performance tune-up needed

On Overleaf, typesetting LaTeX documents is pretty fast, but the time required grows quite quickly when your document reaches about 70 pages. For my master thesis, I needed to start a premium subscription trial to be able to typeset my thesis in full for

Wisdom

Writing: Process like a journey

Trust the process.

Publishing

Terraform for Working Moms

Book idea.

Learning

Organizing knowledge

Feynman once prepared for his oral examinations by opening a fresh notebook titled "NOTEBOOK OF THINGS I DON’T KNOW ABOUT."

Publishing

Publishing: Illustrating ideas

John Bell promoted good literature using attractive graphics.

Wisdom

Wisdom: Kofeina

Istnieją dowody naukowe, że małe dawki kofeiny mogą wywoływać bardziej korzystne efekty niż jej duże ilości. Kofeina bowiem blokuje receptory, ale nie hamuje produkcji adenozyny. Im wyższa dawka kofeiny tym dłuższy czas blokowania adenozyny, która po ustąpieniu działania kofeiny łączy się ze swoimi receptorami

History

Lessons from history: False statement in a book

At sixteen years, Alexander the Great was the world's leading general. -- Buckminster Fuller, "Grunch of Giants" This is not true. If it is, then this is not: Alexander was just 16 when Philip went off to battle and left his son

Wisdom

Funkcje jako odpowiedzialność

Odpowiedzialność sprawia, że jesteś ważny.

Design

Design: User interfaces

"I strongly believe that you can “begin anywhere” and don’t need to learn technologies in any particular order. But I also place great value in gaining expertise. Personally I’ve mostly been interested in creating user interfaces." says Dan Abramov

Software Engineering

Software engineering: Complex code

Measuring your skill by the number of lines of code you have written.

Marriage: Contract or covenant?

It may seem like marriage is simply a contract. "I'll do my part; you'll do yours. If we disagree, we can compromise and still keep the deal (the contract) valid." It sounds just like a contract statement. But, there is an alternative

Wisdom

Wisdom: Deep Life

Deep Work as a foundation for Deep Living.

Wisdom

Wisdom: Intro

There is always someone watching.

Terraform

Terraform

Declarative Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform: Why, and how to get started.

Publishing

Blogs @ Akamai (writers - technical and non-technical)

I delight in reading first-hand notes, reports and analyses. Even at a company like Akamai, it turns out to be a rare thing to find an active blogger. If you're curious what they're up to, here's a list to get you started.

nature

Nature: Speed of light

Suppose that we shoot a photon, together with an electron, into a huge tank of water.

Donations

Collecting donations – example: Gareth Stephenson

"Thank you for using my software, I'm glad that it provides value and service to you."

TeX

2 key aspects of a clean LaTeX package

Allow the user to choose which macros they want to import. Keeping internal package macros defined only within an internal group may also be better than "namespacing" macro names.

historia

Opowieść: Lata 90-te

"Hardkorowe lata 90-te"