A blog about nothing
If you aren t religious, it s easy to feel like life is somehow inherently meaningless and that humans add their own meaning to it. For some, this is fine they don t think too much about it, and move on. For others, like me when I was in college, this can be a source of existential [ ]
Dear Grandpa, Please stop sending me emails from the grave. These links look very suspicious and I do not know where they will take me. Though there is some chance they will take me to the beyond where you are waiting to commune, it seems more likely that my computer will be infected with a [ ]
I m pretty new to cooking anything more complicated than rice and beans, basic pasta, and individual items like sweet potatoes in an oven or basic broccoli with salt and pepper. Last week I insisted that my brother teach me how to make stir fry, since he s a pretty good cook and very enthusiastic about cooking. [ ]
Throughout my career, though I ve managed to be productive in aggregate, I ve always sought to be more consistent in my productivity. How productive I am at a given moment seems driven by a combination of few factors: How enthusiastic I am about the current tasks I m supposed to be completing Whether there are any upcoming [ ]
This is the first post in a series of posts considering ways to design governments. 7 minute read Typically when we consider society , we think about a giant mass of people millions or billions depending on the scale. When we talk about rules for governing society, we usually consider the amount of people that [ ]
5 minute read At the company I work for, the design process for projects involves writing a technical design document that describes the way in which the project will be implemented. Before proceeding with the implementation of the project (barring some potential proof of concept work that happens alongside the design), the design document is [ ]
(a poem) i see the empty storefronts and i wait for the streets to grow themselves dusty - tumbleweed will find its way and so will the outlaws, bandana masks huffing, (a standoff awaits) wind whistling, everything still but the dust.
6 minute read assuming 200 WPM As a software engineer, I ve gotten used to describing things precisely. Specifically, programming involves describing a process so meticulously that even a computer can understand it. I m given some behavior that I need to tell the computer to do, and I write a step by step sequence of instructions [ ]