learningerrday

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by learningerrday 3y ago
Larry Mcenerney's lectures on how to write effectively are gold for getting better at writing. There's a lot packed in his lectures, but a big core idea is that you should use writing to help you do your thinking. With complex su
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by learningerrday 3y ago
I hope the safety conversation doesn't die. The societal effects of these technologies are quite large, and we should be okay with creating the space to acknowledge and talk about the good and the bad, and what we're doing to miti
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by learningerrday 3y ago
This reminds me of a powerful post I read a while ago with the charter to "Half-ass [your projects] with everything you've got!". Pre-commit to what level of quality you're looking to achieve and then strive to do just w
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by learningerrday 6y ago
This is amazing! And SSL option right off the bat too? Well done. Feature request for Postgres: it looks like this version mostly displays tables in the 'public' schema. Would be great if it could display all tables and views in a
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by learningerrday 6y ago
Another alternative to Internet archive is perma.cc. A webmaster can write to IA and request that they pull archives off their site at any moment: https://perma.cc/
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by learningerrday 7y ago
Taking inspiration from this list of books to help form a core of understanding of the world. Working my way through the 'core' section: https://medium.com/swlh/definitive-list-of-50-books-to-under...
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by learningerrday 7y ago
Gordon Brander's pattern wiki is probably the best contemporary example I can think of that implements the Zettelkasten pattern: http://gordonbrander.com/pattern/ I think part of what can make the concept hard to
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by learningerrday 7y ago
I'd punt on offering free trials and instead offer a 30 or even 60 day money back guarantee. This is effectively the same thing but gets you access to money today as opposed to 30 days later. Learned from this terrific video from Jason