Hi, I'm Dalton

I'm a first year law student in Sacramento.

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Writing
  1. Book Notes on 'Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S Truman'
  2. Do The Hard Work That's Required
  3. Notes on Thoughts for Young Men by JC Ryle
  4. How to make timestamps for multiple versions of a podcast
  5. Recently (June '24)
  6. How to learn like Sherlock Holmes
  7. Book Notes and Review of 'The Patriots by Winston Groom'
  8. Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough
  9. Fix the fridge
  10. You can just
  11. Don't let it fade to black
  12. Don't take non-practitioner advice
  13. Rental car envy
  14. Explanation vs. excuses
  15. Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Life in War, Law, and Ideas
  16. Specific directions or shut up
  17. Most things just need to be done
  18. Foolishness leads to mastery
  19. Visible progress makes doing hard things easy
  20. How I choose what to read: bullets vs. cannonballs
  21. Sailing the Graveyard Sea by Richard Snow
  22. A love letter to old books
  23. Don't Create a Horse Storm
  24. 1776
  25. The Gathering Storm
  26. Success is found in the minutiae
  27. Advice from Grandpa
  28. 25 quotes from my commonplace book
  29. Who you are is who you will be (but you can change)
  30. Some questions to ask yourself
  31. My Reading Year, 2023
  32. Reading plants seeds
  33. JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century
  34. Who are you when someone Googles you?
  35. TWR: Political Parties, Friday 13, Democracy
  36. An example of Chekhov's Gun
  37. TWR: Work, Position, Reading, Economists
  38. Should I go back to school?
  39. TWR: Oscars, Positioning, Reading, Economists
  40. How to handle critics
  41. You can just ignore things
  42. Spillane: King of Pulp Fiction by Max Collins
  43. One must do
  44. Gather intellectual scraps to shape ideas of your own
  45. There doesn't have to be an end goal
  46. Charles Dickens and Active Patience
  47. David McCullough on The Art of Writing, History, and Success
  48. What Actually Happened in Oppenheimer
  49. Crooked: The Roaring '20s Tale of a Corrupt Attorney General, A Crusading Senator, And the Birth of the American Political Scandal
  50. Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
  51. Break the Mold
  52. Beat writer’s block
  53. The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World
  54. 221b: Get Up and Write
  55. Telling old stories in new ways
  56. Isaac Asimov on writing and reading
  57. Write stuff down
  58. Shake things up
  59. 221b: Poetry and Politics
  60. 221b: Unlocking Success
  61. Notes: American Prometheus by Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin
  62. 221b: Work, Places, Sentences, Problems, Timeless
  63. 221b: Reading, Nobody Cares, Wealth and Wisdom, AI and Writing, Van Cleaves
  64. The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
  65. How to Approach Life: From Leonardo da Vinci
  66. The weekend has too much free time
  67. The Wright Brothers
  68. 2 Ideas for Realistic Time Management
  69. 9 Lessons on Curiosity and Adventure from Richard Feynman
  70. 6 Rules for Self-Mastery | 'Discipline is Destiny' by Ryan Holiday
  71. Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman by Richard Feynman
  72. 7 Life Lessons from 'The Splendid and the Vile' by Erik Larson
  73. 5 lessons from 'Novelist as a Vocation' by Haruki Murakami
  74. Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami
  75. How to read more (if you have trouble reading)
  76. Transplant
  77. 221b: Irrationality, Mistakes, Ego, Third-Place, & Impressions
  78. 221b: Fish, Thinking, Knowledge, Waste, Genius
  79. 221b: Kubrick, Reputation, Star Trek, Time, & Observation
  80. Annie Dillard’s Advice on Keeping a Daily Routine
  81. The Splendid and the Vile
  82. Working by Robert Caro
  83. January Reading List
  84. 221b: Sandwich, Death, Fitzgerald, Sitzfleisch, Genius
  85. A day well spent
  86. The Crack-Up by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  87. 221b: Comparison, Simplicity, Details, Silence, Responsibility
  88. 3 Lessons on Human Psychology and Project Management
  89. 221b: Da Vinci, Brevity, X-15, Ballomania, Thinking
  90. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
  91. 221b: Curiosity and Edison
  92. Perennial Seller by Ryan Holiday
  93. How I Built my Blog with Next.js and Notion with Custom React Components in Blog Posts
  94. 221b: Edison, Einstein, Pursuit, Gödel, Rest
  95. Be prepared for the disaster to be worse than before
  96. Check all kinds of unusual things
  97. What I Read in December
  98. A few funny things about time
  99. Just get something on the page
  100. The best thinkers are ‘wonderers’
  101. 221b: Time, Moonshots, Artistry, 26.2 Miles, & Genius
  102. A Practical Summary of How to Live on 24 Hours a Day by Arnold Bennett
  103. 221b: Writing, Detectives, Libraries, Leadership, Reading
  104. Why I Wake Up at 5:00 am
  105. How to Live on 24 Hours a Day by Arnold Bennett
  106. The Writing Life by Annie Dillard
  107. 221b: Droste Effect, Rules, History, Work, Death
  108. My Analog and Digital Productivity System for 2023
  109. The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
  110. Reflections on Calculus
  111. American Moonshot by Douglas Brinkley
  112. Not Long Ago in a Galaxy Not Very Far
  113. Thinking About Blogging
  114. getStaticPaths in NextJS Explained (Simply)
  115. How to time travel
  116. Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
  117. What I Read in November
  118. David Starr Jordan on Life, Education, and Politics
  119. Ernest Hemingway by Mary V. Dearborn
  120. John von Neumann on how to safely progress with technology
  121. On Ribbonfarm's Portal and Flags
  122. Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
  123. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
  124. Leonardo da Vinci
  125. Adventures of a Curious Richard Feynman
  126. The Care and Culture of Men by David Starr Jordan
  127. 2 Habits for a Better Intellectual Life
  128. The Rise and Fall of Dinosaurs by Steven Brusatte
  129. On Viewquakes
  130. What I Read in October 2022
  131. Why I Read
  132. Kevin Kelly's 103 Bits of Advice, Expanded
  133. Beware of the curse
  134. What Do You Care What Other People Think? By Richard Feynman
  135. Discipline is Destiny by Ryan Holiday
  136. On Being an Inconvenienced Guesser
  137. Make learning a reality
  138. The Library: A Fragile History
  139. The Mountain of Knowledge (And Why Dumb Smart People Never Escape It)
  140. What I read in September 2022
  141. My Manifesto
  142. Deliberare Otium
  143. God-primes and Social Behavior
  144. Book Review and Summary: Revolt of the Public
  145. On Writing Well by William Zinsser
  146. Leadership by Henry Kissinger
  147. New Ideas Suck
  148. The Man From The Future
  149. Dulcius Ex Asperis
  150. Some Questions
  151. Plan for Future Conduct
  152. Which is better: instinct or reason?
  153. Pieces of the Action
  154. What It Takes To Be a Great Teacher
  155. Political Parties. Interesting...
  156. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
  157. Book Review: da Vinci
  158. Creative procrastination
  159. Documenting what you do
  160. Why you feel stuck in life
  161. The Clockwork Universe by Edward Dolnick
  162. An attempt to understand the Kolmogorov Complexity of human values
  163. The value of niche secrets
  164. Ubi Caritas
  165. Revolt of the Public
  166. Personality creates behaviors. Circumstances reveal them.
  167. On Celebrating Tiny Learning Milestones
  168. The passage of time
  169. The Value of Science 67 Years Later
  170. Where the term 'zero-sum' comes from
  171. What I do when someone asks to borrow a book
  172. The best system I've read for synthesizing knowledge
  173. You can't go there by doing that
  174. On Physiognomy
  175. Sometimes your room for error, isn't enough
  176. How to Increase the Chances of Becoming a Genius
  177. Building a Custom React Form Hook
  178. Season-Long Friendships
  179. Thursday's Assorted Links
  180. If, By Whiskey
  181. Looking like a fool at first leads to mastery at last
  182. Thursday Assorted Links
  183. Wednesday Assorted Thoughts
  184. Moravec's Paradox
  185. Reading advice from Tyler Cowen
  186. 12 Rules For Life
  187. Where Dead Cells in the Body Go
  188. Popular sayings
  189. The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons From 15 Years as CEO of The Walt Disney Company
  190. The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
  191. Think Like a Rocket Scientist
  192. What We See When We Read
  193. The Dip by Seth Godin
  194. Show Your Work by Austin Kleon
  195. Junior: Writing Your Way Ahead in Advertising
  196. Private Eye: 1, Everyone Else: 0
  197. Essentialism by Greg Mckeowen
  198. Einstein: His Life and Universe
  199. How to Add Conditional Class Rendering in Next JS
  200. How to Enable Word Wrap on Only MDX in VS Code
  201. How to Redirect Users to a Different Page After a Set Interval with Next.js
  202. Solving the vague errors
  203. 15 Quotes from Albert Einstein That Reveals His Philosophy on Life
  204. 2 Strategies To Help You Remember What You Read
  205. How Record Players Work: The Science Behind That Beautiful Sound, Simplified
  206. Media Consumption (February, 2022)
  207. Examining the Life that Communicated With the Universe - Albert Einstein
  208. Why I Publish My Notes Online
  209. Chef and The Line Cook: Going Deeper
  210. Being Okay With Negative Capability
  211. How the James Webb Space Telescope Will Look Back in Time
  212. How to Be Great? Be Okay With Being Bad
  213. How to Build Rome in A Year
  214. How to Change the World With Your Ideas (Like Albert Einstein)
  215. Why Legacy Career Paths Can't Innovate
  216. Be prepared for the disasters you can't imagine
  217. Are you playing a game you want to win?
  218. Writing in Your Head
  219. How We Got to Now
  220. The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
  221. Range by David Epstein
  222. Book Summary - Think Again by Adam Grant