tag: Reading

Monday, November 27, 2023 The biggest tech companies employ a lot of engineers. In 2021, Microsoft employed over 100,000 software engineers. That is just mind boggling scale to me. It’s roughly as many people as the whole county I grew up in. They are paying a lot of engineers. Some of them do very little, with employees saying they “were paid to do little-to-no work”1. So… why are they paying them if there isn’t a lot of work for them to do?...

Not all Google searches make Google money. Google often says that it only shows ads on about 20 percent of queries, the ones it calls “commercial queries.” You can probably guess what qualifies. “US president in 1836” is not something you type when you...

Hey, so I use git to sync my vaults over github and I often find problems with the file .obsidian/workspace which most often causes merge conflicts. should I just add it to gitignore? Also, any other file recomended to ignore on git? source: r/ObsidianMD - Syncing over git|github: how to set up. gitignore file

August 27, 2023 I’m writing this post mainly for myself as I have fallen victim to this problem. But I hope this helps others as well. I often see people in a constant search for the best note taking app. Or the best Linux distro and desktop setup. Or the best AI tool to enhance productivity. Or the best game engine. And so on, you guys get the point....

The tourist is a deferential character. He outsources the vindication of his experiences to the ethnologist, to postcards, to conventional wisdom about what you are or are not supposed to do in a place. This deference, this “openness to experience,” is exactly what renders the tourist incapable of experience. Emerson confessed, “I seek the Vatican, and the palaces. I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I am not intoxicated....

Ranked: America’s Best Universities The latest ranking of America’s best universities is here, perfectly timed for the approaching admissions season. “Best” is of course subjective, and U.S. News and World Report has compiled 19 metrics on which they evaluated more than 400 national universities. Some of them include: Graduation rates & performance: A four-year rolling average of the proportion of each entering class earning a bachelor’s degree in six years or less....

当建筑过于诗意的时候，就会失去使用的价值。这里面需要一个尺度，优秀的建筑师，总是能够把握好尺度，设计出好的建筑，在地理空间特定的环境下，让每...

去年临时起意的 《2022 年值得持续阅读的内容平台》 收获了很多朋友的好评和转发，让我受宠若惊。今年继续梳理我在这一年里的信息消费来源，以及原因...

Drek Sivers 说自己一个慢思考者： When a friend says something interesting to me, I usually don’t have a reaction until much later. When someone asks me a deep question, I say, “Hmm. I don’t know.” The next day, I have an answer. I’m a...