All posts from 2025
- Finding Signal with Counterfactual Thinking
- Beyond Better or Worse
- Pushing One's Edge
- Geraldo Jesus Fernandes de Carvalho
- How to Set Up Your Own Custom Aliases on PowerShell
- Bash aliases for git
- Getting to know the tmux terminal multiplexer
- Objectivity, Subjectivity, and Metrics in Software Products
- What's Lost When You're Past Learning
- How to improve at any skill
- Historical Perspective
- A correct computer program and a sound argument piece are the same
- Thinking We Humans Are So Much Smarter Than a Century Ago Is Unfounded Vanity
- The Ever-Expanding Frontier of Commoditization
- Framework vs Application Code for Managing Complexity
- Alpine Linux on the Raspberry Pi 4
- I love having read
- Make the work easy, then do the easy work
- Good writing, simply
- "What's the test?" and "What's the alternative?"
- Credit Is Selling Your Future
- Unverifiable Claims Are Noise
- Ideas Are Non-Rival Goods
- Writing is not the product of thinking; writing is thinking
- Enlightened Self-Interest
- Substitutes for Thought
- Hedging Is Just Good Judgment
- Science Is Different
- Science, Technology, and Democracy
- What Is Engineering, After All?
- Low-Quality, Noisy Information
- What I Believe In
- Reflecting on a shortcoming
- Socrates the First Western Myth
- Russell's Paradox
- Make a cult in 5 easy steps
- An overview of major economic doctrines since the 19th century
- Do questions like "what's the nature of..." make sense to begin with?
- A useful role for AI: a critic
- The Philosophy of Descartes (1596-1650)
- Simulation Hypothesis: Contesting on Merits
- Simulation Hypothesis: Mysticism dressed up for the secular age
- Frequentist and Bayesian approaches to probability theory