Changing things doesn't necessarily imply improving them and it's improvement we should strive for, otherwise change is pointless.

I was still surprised to see him spend five columns on panic-inducing thought experiments about governments surveilling me under my skin, in which China, Israel and North Korea are set up as perfectly representative nation-states . . . only to then spend three columns begging us all to trust our governments and the experts and wash our hands.

If you hold down alt (option on a Mac) while creating a cloze, Anki will automatically use the same number instead of incrementing it.

you need the internet, and then it is all too easy to drop into checking email, or peeping at Twitter and then you are back in the roar of the world flowing by.

I did miss some of the news - I didn't get to know of Aaron Swartz's suicide for instance (poor fellow, R.I.P)

The price seemed awfully high, and let’s be honest: sometimes you pay the price, and you still don’t get the result. It was frightening, depressing, enough to make me reconsider.

You can “buy” it for the price of 10-20 years where you teeter on the edge of bankruptcy, sleep for only 4-6 hours a night, listen to everyone calling you a fool, and struggle in silence against your fears and anxiety, burdened with the knowledge that you can never reveal to your employees or investors how scared you are, because they depend on you to give them confidence.

In the end, happiness is a side effect of living well — just like speed can be the result of excellent swimming technique.

After all this I noticed a reduction in critical thought, my ability to form my own opinion on topics

Much like autism, I’m often confronted with the dilemma of “curing” people of who they are, versus giving them the tools to share those rich differences with the world. But how can we respect someone’s humanness while also giving them the choice to become more like the majority of humans?

Instead of focusing on the misery of the wait, you can go off and entertain yourself-secure in the knowledge that you’ll be alerted when it’s your turn.

I published the Level manifesto with great fanfare: The War on Developer Productivity (And How I Intend to Win It).

A.nnotate, Diigo, PaperHive and Remarq

What are some things they want?

But that's not addiction! That's just managing time so kids can do a lot of [other] things. The problem with Fortnite and many games is this is where they have their social life. And they meet with friends and they play with friends. They hang out and are creative. It's not like they're mindlessly shooting, they do a lot of other things.

StackOverflow answers), I also use a screenshot instead of dealing with formatting. I'm lazy.

Adding cards when offline studying is risky, it's too easy to end in a Wikipedia rabbit hole.

Avoid importing online Anki decks. Similar to note taking, your own materials have better retention and comprehension.

What if instead of getting together for mutual private acts of kindness, the teachers and the community and Good Morning America all got together and demanded human dignity and decency as foundational working conditions for everyone?