# two things (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 5 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover two things. Page: Feed: --- ## [How I Purge My Closet](https://megankarp.substack.com/p/how-i-purge-my-closet) _2026-08-24 · Megan Karp · UNDONE by Megan Karp_ Five rules for keeping only what I really love—plus, a closet sale. ## [If I'm Anal About Anything, It's My Bedtime Ritual](https://megankarp.substack.com/p/if-im-anal-about-anything-its-my) _2026-08-19 · Megan Karp · UNDONE by Megan Karp_ Ninety minutes, eleven steps, in order — from 7 p.m. to lights out at 8:30. ## [UNDONE](https://megankarp.substack.com/p/undone) _2026-08-12 · Megan Karp · UNDONE by Megan Karp_ Same space, new name. ## [What Have You Had Done?](https://megankarp.substack.com/p/what-have-you-had-done) _2026-08-04 · Megan Karp · UNDONE by Megan Karp_ Every treatment, product, price, and the two things I still can't reconcile. ## [10 THINGS: AUGUST](https://megankarp.substack.com/p/10-things-august) _2026-08-01 · UNDONE by Megan Karp_ Summer-into-fall dressing, crystal ear seeds for anxious August, the cutest $3.25 you'll spend, plus more. ## [Luteal Phase Shopping](https://megankarp.substack.com/p/luteal-phase-shopping) _2026-07-17 · Megan Karp · UNDONE by Megan Karp_ Because sometimes we just want to shop. ## [Attractive, Not Hot.](https://megankarp.substack.com/p/attractive-not-hot) _2026-07-07 · Megan Karp · UNDONE by Megan Karp_ Nine qualities that have nothing to do with your face. ## [10 THINGS: JULY](https://megankarp.substack.com/p/10-things-july) _2026-07-01 · UNDONE by Megan Karp_ The best basics (including underwear), thong sandals worth discussing, my new sleep secret, plus more. ## [Take Only a Handful](https://megankarp.substack.com/p/take-only-a-handful) _2026-06-23 · Megan Karp · UNDONE by Megan Karp_ Dear Reader, ## [Before We Learned the Rules](https://megankarp.substack.com/p/before-we-learned-the-rules) _2026-06-17 · Megan Karp · UNDONE by Megan Karp_ Before we learned the rules ## [Follow Releases, Get Reminders (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/9UPUENpNbZ08) _2026-06-17 · **Sponsored**_ Follow a genre or a name and receive reminders on release day — free. ## [Five Things I've Changed My Mind About](https://megankarp.substack.com/p/five-things-ive-changed-my-mind-about) _2026-06-14 · Megan Karp · UNDONE by Megan Karp_ On success, motherhood, productivity, faith, and health. ## [An AI Agent Progresses Towards Idiocy, Not Expertise](https://holdtherobot.com/blog/an-ai-agent-progresses-towards-idiocy-not-expertise) _2026-05-13 · Hold The Robot Blog_ If you hand a new project to a human, they will start out pretty useless. Over time, they will develop experience, understanding, and intuitions. Their ability to reason about it, answer deep questions, and do meaningful work will continue to develop to the point where they become an expert (assumin ## [Public Restroom Doors are a Nightmare](https://holdtherobot.com/blog/public-restroom-doors-are-a-nightmare) _2026-03-24 · Hold The Robot Blog_ Look at this. This is the interior handle and lock of a single occupant public restroom door. Someone spent a lot of time and effort creating what might be the worst lock imaginable. ## [a paranoid year](https://diglossia.substack.com/p/a-paranoid-year) _2026-02-24 · Shira Abramovich · Two Things_ Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and the predictive impulse ## [In Software, One Thing is Better Than Two Things](https://holdtherobot.com/blog/one-thing-is-better-than-two-things) _2025-12-14 · Hold The Robot Blog_ I recently took over a software project that had, from both an engineering perspective and a usability perspective, outright failed. The code was a teetering tower that had collapsed in on itself into a pool of leaked abstractions and interdependent logic. ## [How to use Claude Code for big tasks without turning your code to shit](https://holdtherobot.com/blog/how-to-use-claude-code-for-big-tasks-without-turning-your-code-to-shit) _2025-11-10 · Hold The Robot Blog_ I find myself using LLMs for coding in 4 specific ways: 1. Finding information 2. Rubber ducking 3. Generating snippets of code or documentation 4. Having it work for hours on a big task with minimal intervention ## [Test your strength](https://yiu.co.uk/blog/test-your-strength/) _2025-11-09 · Chris Yiu_ Secret Weapon #019 When you’re doing strategy and planning work – whether it’s evaluating a new initiative, choosing between options, or building a roadmap – it’s much easier to make good decisions if you’re sure about the ground you’re standing on. This means knowing about yourself (whether it’s you personally, your team or the wider organisation or company) and knowing about the world around… ## [Ten practical benefits of a digital ID](https://yiu.co.uk/blog/ten-practical-benefits-of-a-digital-id/) _2025-09-28 · Chris Yiu_ A good scheme can make things more private, secure and convenient. The UK is finally getting a national digital ID scheme. I highly recommend reading the official explainer for an overview of what’s planned. I think it’s good news. Entirely predictably, the announcement was followed by a lot of noise. It seems to me there are three main sources of concern, all of which are exacerbated by… ## [Xcode is the Worst Piece of Professional Software I Have Ever Used](https://holdtherobot.com/blog/xcode-is-the-worst-professional-software-i-have-ever-used) _2025-09-22 · Hold The Robot Blog_ The compiler is unable to type-check this expression in reasonable time; try breaking up the expression into distinct sub-expressions This is an error you will see often if you develop SwiftUI in Xcode. Know what it means? It means the compiler has given up, and you’re on your own. The error point ## [Three horizons](https://yiu.co.uk/blog/three-horizons/) _2025-09-08 · Chris Yiu_ Secret Weapon #018 Strategy work often involves looking into the future and thinking about the trajectory you want to see for your product, company or country. The future typically gets more uncertain the further ahead you look. And the different actions required to keep you on the right path will likely vary as things progress too. So when it’s time to communicate where you want to go and how you… ## [ThreatCrush on GitHub (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/LSYu3eoSHl6J) _2025-09-07 · **Sponsored**_ View the ThreatCrush listing on the GitHub Marketplace. ## [European progress starter pack](https://yiu.co.uk/blog/european-progress-starter-pack/) _2025-08-15 · Chris Yiu_ Things to read on European ambition and policy reform. Over the last few years I’ve been encouraged to see lots of interesting new writing on economic growth, scientific progress and new technologies. It feels like there’s real intellectual and policy momentum building around progress studies , abundance liberalism and effective accelerationism – particularly in the US, but also increasingly in… ## [Disagree and commit](https://yiu.co.uk/blog/disagree-and-commit/) _2025-08-13 · Chris Yiu_ Secret Weapon #017 Teams working to solve complex problems need to do at least two important things: Figure out the best course of action Get it done One of the biggest challenges is that these two things are often in tension. Sometimes we’re working with limited information or a lot of uncertainty, and it’s attractive to put off taking action so we can find out more or get a better sense of what… ## [Heredocs Can Make Your Bash Scripts Self-Documenting](https://holdtherobot.com/blog/heredocs-can-make-your-bash-scripts-self-documenting) _2025-07-25 · Hold The Robot Blog_ I have long since come to appreciate the value of writing scripts to avoid someone else (or future me) from having to re-learn and re-solve problems, but something about it has always bugged me. I am automating a process, but I’m also documenting it, and those two things struggle to coexist. One o ## [Ask open questions](https://yiu.co.uk/blog/ask-open-questions/) _2025-07-22 · Chris Yiu_ Secret Weapon #016 Questions are essential for soliciting information and understanding someone else’s point of view. But not all questions are created equally – and the sorts of questions you ask can make a big difference to their effectiveness. Closed questions typically elicit a one-word response like “ yes ” or “ no ”. These can be powerful when you are under time pressure or you need extreme… ## [COMPAS and cliché](https://diglossia.substack.com/p/compas-and-cliche) _2025-07-19 · Shira Abramovich · Two Things_ an old rant on old things, enhanced with some Anne Carson pizzazz ## [More robust recommendations](https://yiu.co.uk/blog/more-robust-recommendations/) _2025-07-10 · Chris Yiu_ Secret Weapon #015 We’ve all seen projects where seemingly sensible recommendations fail to survive contact with reality. Sometimes this is outside anyone’s control – we’re all at the mercy of events – but it’s also much more likely when there is a gap in the supporting evidence and / or analysis. A good discipline when you’re formulating recommendations is therefore to run an exercise that… ## [porsche cayenne for everything](https://diglossia.substack.com/p/porsche-cayenne-for-everything) _2025-07-09 · Shira Abramovich · Two Things_ class anxiety, cars, and education in Massachusetts suburbs ## [A CRDT-based Messenger in 12 Lines of Bash Using a Synced Folder](https://holdtherobot.com/blog/crdt-messenger-in-12-lines-of-bash) _2025-06-25 · Hold The Robot Blog_ mkdir -p $(dirname $0)/data; cd data print\_messages() { clear cat $(ls -tr | tail -n30) printf "033\[31m$USER:033\[0m " } export -f print\_messages watchexec 2\> /dev/null -- bash -c "print\_messages" & while read text; do printf ## [State your problem](https://yiu.co.uk/blog/state-your-problem/) _2025-06-18 · Chris Yiu_ Secret Weapon #014 The first order of business for a new project is usually a scoping exercise, so that there’s a common understanding of the problem to be tackled and the space around it. There are lots of approaches and templates for doing this. Here’s a version that many consultants use when kicking off a new project, and that I continue to use to this day. It has seven parts: Basic question to… ## [The power of three](https://yiu.co.uk/blog/the-power-of-three/) _2025-06-04 · Chris Yiu_ Secret Weapon #013 There are lots of good rules of thumb for communicating well, but I particularly like the rule of three things . I saw other people using this early in my career, and my experience since suggests it remains a remarkably useful discipline to follow. Being told there are two things you need to know (or decide between) can feel constrained or that something’s been overlooked. Being… ## [One platform, from silicon to agent (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/2eg5m5VrYnCJ) _2025-06-03 · **Sponsored**_ Serverless inference plus Inference Router to optimize cost and latency at scale. ## [Portfolio of initiatives](https://yiu.co.uk/blog/portfolio-of-initiatives/) _2025-05-28 · Chris Yiu_ Secret Weapon #012 Planning and executing on lots of different activities in parallel can be a big headache. It’s easy to unintentionally end up with too much to manage on some fronts, and simultaneously be underinvested on others (particularly if you are someone with a bias for action!). A simple technique for anticipating and mitigating this is to map everything out. Even if each individual… ## [Coding Without a Laptop - Two Weeks with AR Glasses and Linux on Android](https://holdtherobot.com/blog/linux-on-android-with-ar-glasses) _2025-05-11 · Hold The Robot Blog_ I recently learned something that blew my mind; you can run a full desktop Linux environment on your phone. ## [Come hear me read poetry!](https://diglossia.substack.com/p/come-hear-me-read-poetry) _2025-04-21 · Shira Abramovich · Two Things_ meditations on things that come back + upcoming events ## [the terrible present](https://diglossia.substack.com/p/the-terrible-present) _2025-03-16 · Shira Abramovich · Two Things_ then and now, documents and parallels ## [pulse check](https://diglossia.substack.com/p/pulse-check) _2025-02-27 · Shira Abramovich · Two Things_ montréal and the choice I have to make ## [Artsy Tuesday: Three quick things](https://julia.substack.com/p/artsy-tuesday-three-quick-things) _2025-02-25 · Julia Smith · Here for You HAS MOVED!_ Make good trouble!!!! ## [Monday's two things](https://julia.substack.com/p/mondays-two-things) _2025-02-24 · Julia Smith · Here for You HAS MOVED!_ Proactive, not (just) reactive. ## [Friday follow-ups](https://julia.substack.com/p/friday-follow-ups-dfe) _2025-02-22 · Julia Smith · Here for You HAS MOVED!_ Not quitting! + Some thank yous and questions toward the end ## [Thursday's two things](https://julia.substack.com/p/thursdays-two-things) _2025-02-21 · Julia Smith · Here for You HAS MOVED!_ a real drag. x2 ## [Wednesday's one thing](https://julia.substack.com/p/wednesdays-one-thing) _2025-02-20 · Julia Smith · Here for You HAS MOVED!_ Short and strong ## [Tuesday's two things](https://julia.substack.com/p/tuesdays-two-things) _2025-02-19 · Julia Smith · Here for You HAS MOVED!_ An “aesthetic of resourcefulness” + why school cafeteria food is bland ## [vignettes from urban winter](https://diglossia.substack.com/p/vignettes-from-urban-winter) _2025-02-19 · Shira Abramovich · Two Things_ snow clearing and the intrepid buses of montréal ## [Thursday's few things](https://julia.substack.com/p/thursdays-few-things) _2025-02-13 · Julia Smith · Here for You HAS MOVED!_ "these inept baby men" ## [Today's 6 (or is it 36?) things](https://julia.substack.com/p/todays-6-or-is-it-36-things) _2025-02-12 · Julia Smith · Here for You HAS MOVED!_ Take what you need, leave the rest. 🍿🧠 ## [Monday's one thing](https://julia.substack.com/p/mondays-one-thing) _2025-02-11 · Julia Smith · Here for You HAS MOVED!_ "We need to relearn how to attune our presence to what matters to us." ## [Friday follow-ups](https://julia.substack.com/p/friday-follow-ups) _2025-02-07 · Julia Smith · Here for You HAS MOVED!_ All the Whos down in Coupville ## [one thing](https://diglossia.substack.com/p/one-thing) _2024-11-06 · Shira Abramovich · Two Things_ there are no words, but here's one poem. ## [October in Ohio](https://diglossia.substack.com/p/october-in-ohio) _2024-10-23 · Shira Abramovich · Two Things_ seasons & making sense ## [Translation & Restoration](https://diglossia.substack.com/p/translation-and-restoration) _2024-09-07 · Shira Abramovich · Two Things_ two small unifying theories