# resiliency (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover resiliency. Page: Feed: --- ## [The dark forest of political communication](/the-dark-forest-of-political-communication/) _2025-09-13 · Stable Sort on_ I have no views I care to vocalize about the current political situation in the United States, or anywhere else you may associate me with. I am personally totally politically inert, the equivalent of neon gas in a tube, and a steadfast adherent to philosopher Michael Huemer’s prescription in In Praise of Passivity to boot. I have never voted and refused to say the pledge of allegiance in… ## [Digital resiliency 2025 - checklist](/digital-resiliency-2025-checklist/) _2025-09-09 · Stable Sort on_ Companion to digital resiliency 2025 . Follow to become moderately more digitally resilient. This list does not implement every single suggestion from that post. But it puts you in a really good position to implement more later if desired. Cheap wins So called because altogether these will probably cost you less than $10 total in the first year, and under $100 in the first decade. (At least if… ## [Digital resiliency 2025 - my first self-audit!](/digital-resiliency-2025/) _2025-09-09 · Stable Sort on_ (⭐ See the digital resiliency 2025 checklist if you just want to quickly go through and implement the nuts and bolts of this for yourself!) I like security! 🔒 Even though my personal data is about as interesting as turnip soup, I really enjoy thinking about things like “threat models” and “risk optimization”. I happened to have some time on my hands this summer, so I… ## [Militant contentment](/militant-contentment/) _2025-08-22 · Stable Sort on_ The world has gotten much, much richer over the 31 years I’ve been alive, and so have I. My parents, Irish immigrants and perpetual laggards to technology, now not only both have cell phones, they both have smartphones , and they can see the videos I send them a few times a week of our beautiful baby boy 4000 miles away in rauhallinen Finland. I have been able to work at home for over 90% of… ## [Death worries me because I have things to do](/death-worries-me-because-i-have-things-to-do/) _2025-08-10 · Stable Sort on_ 7 or 8 years ago, while I was by no means suicidal, I did have a kind of blase take on death. Like if it happens, it happens; it might hurt momentarily, but then I’ll just be gone, and the world will roll onward. That is almost unthinkable to me now as a husband and father. — Andrew Quinn (@hiAndrewQuinn) May 10, 2025 I think about my wife sleeping in the other room, and I look down at this… ## [On turning 30](/on-turning-30/) _2025-07-07 · Stable Sort on_ Contra my previous Thoughts on 29 , I did not just turn 30. I started being 30 almost a year ago, and I will soon stop being 30 and start being 31. This is a new writing technique I recently learned of called the non-prophetic perfect tense , in which you describe past events that are so certain to have happened that you refer to them in the past tense as if they had already happened. Because they… ## [1000 days without drinking](/1000-days-without-drinking/) _2025-06-30 · Stable Sort on_ According to Beeminder , today marks 1000 days since I decided to go sober. I don’t know if it is 1000 days since my last drink, exactly, but it’s certainly possible. I feel accomplished. Indeed, the only thing I regret about reaching 1000 days now is that I ever started at all. What few promises civilizational culture likes to toss around about alcohol being a “social… ## [Thoughts on language learning at the end of the world](/thoughts-on-language-learning-at-the-end-of-the-world/) _2025-06-11 · Stable Sort on_ Four years into learning a second language to fluency, I am forced to admit this is probably the hardest thing I have ever done, intellectually. This claim probably doesn’t come as a surprise to anyone else who found themselves with good reason to learn another language as a fully-formed, employed adult. It is probably made a little easier in my case by the fact that I studied multiple… ## [Inside, outside, and elsewhere in Finnish locative case pedagogy](/inside-outside-and-elsewhere-in-finnish-locative-case-pedagogy/) _2025-06-05 · Stable Sort on_ Finnish has six “locative” (location-based) cases, which are generally first explained to students with the following table: Movement Internal (Inside) External (Outside/On) Static Inessive (-ssa/-ssä) Adessive (-lla/-llä) Moving Towards Illative (-Vn, -hVn, -seen) Allative (-lle) Moving Away From Elative (-sta/-stä) Ablative (-lta/-ltä) Or, to use an example from the Finnish word… ## [We should use prediction markets for long term software maintenance](/we-should-use-prediction-markets-for-long-term-software-maintenance/) _2025-05-26 · Stable Sort on_ I have long espoused the works of Gwern Branson , and his essay Choosing Software is no exception. If I were to sum up the vibe of it, it would be: It is not enough for software to be good - it must also be lindy . There isn’t much point in eating the learning curve for, say, Emacs if Emacs isn’t going to be around long enough to see a good ROI on it. ## [Real SIMs for AI Agents (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/SZuxzQZxpNDQ) _2025-05-26 · **Sponsored**_ Pass 2FA and verifications with real carrier numbers via our API. ## [Perfect Commit Checklists](/perfect-commit-checklists/) _2024-09-15 · Stable Sort on_ ⚠️: Unlike most other entries, this one requires some JavaScript to make the checkboxes work. Nothing you put here is saved to my server! It’s all in your localStorage . Simon Willison ’s post, “The Perfect Commit” , is one of my favorite posts to reference when anything I’m starting to work on gets large enough that I can’t keep the full context in my head. I…