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12-05-23	Pseudonyms in American History
12-04-23	Fairchildren
12-02-23	McNamara Fallacy
11-29-23	Standard Causes of Human Misjudgment (Munger)
11-28-23	The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Monte Carlo
11-27-23	Razor and Blades Model
11-25-23	Are Things Getting Worse?
11-23-23	Duties of a Board of Directors
11-21-23	Take Your Time Making Decisions
11-20-23	The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
11-19-23	The Catilinarian Conspiracy
11-17-23	The AI-Neid
11-12-23	Eroom's Law
11-11-23	The Lucretius Problem
11-10-23	The Call to Adventure
11-06-23	To be, or not to be; ay, there’s the point.
11-01-23	Mechanical Turks
10-31-23	Regulatory Capture in the Railroad Industry
10-25-23	Positioning Yourself Near the Opportunity
10-21-23	The Silent Todo List
10-14-23	An Intelligent Wikipedia
10-11-23	Black Swan by Shakespeare
10-08-23	The American Experiment
10-05-23	Keep Going
10-04-23	The Benefit of a Personal Notation
09-30-23	Compression / Learning Duality
09-25-23	Observer-Expectancy at Scale
09-23-23	The Fundamental Attribution Error
09-15-23	Cincinnatus
09-04-23	Why Fast?
08-31-23	Imputavi, Computavi, Putavi.
08-24-23	Adding Constraints
08-22-23	Beating the Average
08-18-23	Directly Responsible Individuals
08-17-23	Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design
08-15-23	Learning Via Negativa
08-12-23	Dark Mode and Marginal Benefit
08-09-23	Bayes' Rule
08-05-23	Prescriptive vs. Descriptive Feedback
08-04-23	Focus On What Could Go Right (Not Wrong)
07-31-23	Minimum Effective Dose and Discrete Outcomes
07-28-23	Modern Samizdat Libraries
07-27-23	Amara's Law
07-18-23	Diffusion of Innovation
07-16-23	Schopenhauer's 36 Stratagems for Winning Arguments
07-09-23	Towards Technical CEOs
07-06-23	Customer Obsession is the Only Winning Strategy
06-28-23	Monopolizing Useless Resources
06-27-23	Dark Patterns
06-24-23	Clear, Simple, and Wrong
06-18-23	Unforced Errors
06-14-23	Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing
06-10-23	Biography of an Idea
05-28-23	Two Years of Daily Blogging
05-25-23	A List of Things I Was Wrong About
05-22-23	Twitter and the Idea Maze
05-20-23	Piecewise
05-13-23	Taylor Swift and Launch Cadence
05-06-23	Second-level Thinking
05-01-23	Applications of Category Theory
04-20-23	Peanut Butter Manifesto (2006)
04-18-23	Stochastic/Deterministic
04-16-23	Everyday Fourier Transforms
04-15-23	On The Shortness Of Life
04-12-23	Imperative, Declarative, Interrogative, and Exclamatory Interfaces
04-11-23	But / Therefore
03-24-23	Remix Culture
03-14-23	Gell-Mann Amnesia
03-04-23	The Stoic Arrow
02-27-23	More Art than Science
02-22-23	Erdős Vocabulary
02-20-23	Amdahl's Law and Optimization
02-15-23	Ask Yourself Dumb Questions
02-14-23	Carrying a Dozen Problems
02-06-23	Applications of Gall's Law
02-02-23	Optimal Stopping Theory
01-31-23	Zero Interest Rate Policy Phenomena
01-27-23	Eisenhower Priority Matrix
01-17-23	All Models Are Wrong (But Some Are Useful)
01-15-23	Output vs. Outcome
01-14-23	Garbage In, Garbage out?
01-13-23	Winning Ugly and The Metagame
01-09-23	White Space
01-03-23	Counterfactuals
01-01-23	Top Posts of 2022
12-31-22	2023 Predictions
12-28-22	Reflections on 2022 Predictions
12-27-22	Proebsting's Law
12-26-22	Turing Social: Twitter, For Bots
12-25-22	Christmas 2022
12-11-22	Tarpit Ideas
12-09-22	Elo Rating
12-08-22	Spam Filtering AI Content
12-07-22	Google Takeout and Data Portability
12-03-22	A Conversation with ChatGPT
12-01-22	MacGuffin
11-26-22	Technical Posts Overview and Roundup
11-25-22	Schelling Point
11-24-22	Showing Up Every Day
11-21-22	Excel for Developers
11-16-22	Solving the Simple Case
11-10-22	Information Barbell
11-08-22	Decoy Effect
11-06-22	Generational Advantages
11-03-22	Man in the Arena
10-30-22	And Yet it Moves
10-25-22	Daily is the Product
10-18-22	Richard Feynman and Narrative
10-16-22	Defaults
10-15-22	Getting Stuck in the Past
10-13-22	The Middle Squeeze
10-12-22	A Personal Training Corpus
10-08-22	Risk vs. Uncertainty
10-03-22	Screenshots as the Universal API
10-02-22	The Steffen Boarding Method
09-28-22	Simple Group Theory
09-26-22	Startup Ideas I've Considered
09-25-22	Hard to Compute, Simple to Verify
09-14-22	The Inventor's Paradox
08-23-22	A Short List of Cognitive Biases
08-21-22	Tool-driven Scientific Revolutions
08-18-22	Friction as a Proxy for Value
08-11-22	Growing the Pie
08-08-22	Braess's paradox
08-06-22	On Unoptimizing
07-31-22	Gacha Game
07-26-22	Adverse Selection Examples
07-17-22	Shannon's Demon
07-13-22	Hotelling's Law and Differentiation
07-07-22	Not Even Wrong
07-01-22	Does Financial Policy Matter?
06-24-22	Sequencing
06-23-22	Panic of 1907/2022
06-15-22	Path of Least Resistance
06-13-22	The Last Question
06-11-22	Work Expands to Fill the Space
05-28-22	One Year of Daily Blogging
05-26-22	Computer Tips For Everyday People From a Software Engineer
05-24-22	List of All Oblique Strategies
05-18-22	Minsky Cycle
05-09-22	The Economics of Seinfeld
05-04-22	Correlation vs. Causation
04-29-22	Steganography
04-27-22	Path Dependence
04-16-22	Annus Mirabilis
04-08-22	Backwardation and Contango
04-01-22	Type 1 and Type 2 Errors
03-29-22	On Standardized Tests
03-26-22	Carthago Delenda Est
03-24-22	How to Negotiate a Car Lease
03-22-22	Working on the Right Problems
03-19-22	Gall's Law
03-16-22	Problems with Daylight Saving Time
03-13-22	Sword of Damocles
03-09-22	Exponential Trends
03-08-22	Ignore Sunk Costs
03-03-22	What is SWIFT?
03-02-22	Modus Tollens
02-24-22	Remote Work Zealotry
02-20-22	Order of Magnitudes
02-19-22	Regression to the Mean
02-10-22	Rickard's Law of Eponymy
02-09-22	Optimization is Fragile
02-06-22	Onion Futures Act and Saturated Channels
02-02-22	Rethinking the PDF
01-31-22	Keynesian Beauty Contest
01-28-22	Flying-Car Syndrome
01-27-22	Dumb (and Free) Interchange
01-17-22	Monk's Window
01-12-22	Reversing the Chicago River
01-11-22	Veto Power and Decision-Making Process
01-09-22	Maxwell's Equations and Bridges
01-07-22	Wordle: What's the Best Starting Word?
01-04-22	Strategy Beyond Markets
01-01-22	Antifragile in 2022
12-31-21	2022 Predictions
12-28-21	Russell Conjugation and The Great Rebranding
12-26-21	Virtual Reality this Christmas
12-24-21	Ownership in the Twenty-First Century
12-23-21	Lost Art of Arch Linux
12-21-21	Twitch's Gini Coefficient
12-20-21	Antiwork
12-17-21	No Brown M&M's
12-16-21	Top 10 Posts of 2021
12-15-21	90% of Everything is Crap
12-14-21	Unused Gift Cards are Great Business
12-13-21	Metaverse and Other Words from Science Fiction
12-10-21	The Leopard of Kilimanjaro
12-08-21	Hollywood Accounting
12-07-21	Direct Registration System (DRS)
12-06-21	The Toyota Production System
12-05-21	It's Impossible to Design a Watch that Only Tells Time
12-02-21	The Most Entertaining Outcome is the Most Likely
12-01-21	Jane Jacobs and Software Engineering
11-29-21	Achilles and the Tortoise
11-24-21	The Sailing Ship Effect
11-21-21	The Gordian Knot
11-18-21	Being Wrong on Hacker News
11-15-21	Mining Crypto on My M1 Max
11-14-21	No Time to Read Bad Books
11-13-21	The Goat Behind the Door
11-06-21	The Cloud Cost Era
11-05-21	The Next Design Systems
11-04-21	Rich Barton and Zillow
11-02-21	Niche Communities
11-01-21	I Miss The Programmable Web
10-31-21	Chesterton's Fence
10-30-21	Cloud Growth in 2021
10-26-21	Kelly Criterion
10-25-21	Remote Work for Developers
10-24-21	Solving Supply Chain with a Tweet
10-23-21	How Complex Systems Fail
10-18-21	Zuckerberg on Platforms
10-07-21	Running Fast
10-03-21	Zawinski's Law
09-28-21	A Hypothesis is a Liability
09-07-21	As We Thought
09-04-21	Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find?
08-28-21	Words
08-27-21	The Clever Hans Effect
08-25-21	The Map is Not The Territory
08-21-21	History of Silicon Valley: 1891-1956
08-18-21	Hire for slope, not Y-Intercept
08-15-21	Yak Shaving
08-12-21	Signaling Against Asymmetric Markets
08-07-21	Coding Classical Latin
08-03-21	Silence Dogood and the Ben Franklin Effect
07-29-21	Grok
07-28-21	Don't Break the Chain
07-26-21	How to Spot a Made Up Number
07-22-21	Orthogonal or Parallel Problems
07-21-21	Be Lazy
07-18-21	Code Poems
07-13-21	The Potato Paradox
07-08-21	Strange Loops
07-07-21	The Taste Gap
07-05-21	High-Velocity Decision-Making
07-04-21	Makers of Patterns: Part 2
07-03-21	Maker of Patterns: Part 1
06-30-21	Jevons Paradox and Software Efficiency
06-28-21	Survivorship Bias
06-22-21	Reducing Errors in Decision-Making
06-21-21	First Principles
06-17-21	Observations of the Lindy Effect
06-07-21	Problem Solving Techniques from Math
05-30-21	A Mind at Play
05-29-21	What's Measured Gets Managed
07-09-20	Is Technology Making Us More Productive?