Hi, I'm Dalton

I'm a first year law student in Sacramento.

I write about what I learn studying law and reading about history.

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Topics

Writing
  1. Static blogs are like printers
  2. Heavy is the Crown
  3. Your site should let you do what you want
  4. Justice Holmes
  5. Markdown sans front matter
  6. There are no rules
  7. Probably your fault
  8. Ambiguity is where the work is
  9. Book Notes on 'Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S Truman'
  10. Do The Hard Work That's Required
  11. Notes on Thoughts for Young Men by JC Ryle
  12. How to make timestamps for multiple versions of a podcast
  13. Recently (June '24)
  14. How to learn like Sherlock Holmes
  15. Book Notes and Review of 'The Patriots by Winston Groom'
  16. Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough
  17. Fix the fridge
  18. You can just
  19. Don't let it fade to black
  20. Don't take non-practitioner advice
  21. Rental car envy
  22. Explanation vs. excuses
  23. Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Life in War, Law, and Ideas
  24. Specific directions or shut up
  25. Most things just need to be done
  26. Foolishness leads to mastery
  27. Visible progress makes doing hard things easy
  28. How I choose what to read: bullets vs. cannonballs
  29. Sailing the Graveyard Sea by Richard Snow
  30. A love letter to old books
  31. Don't Create a Horse Storm
  32. 1776
  33. The Gathering Storm
  34. Success is found in the minutiae
  35. Advice from Grandpa
  36. 25 quotes from my commonplace book
  37. Who you are is who you will be (but you can change)
  38. Some questions to ask yourself
  39. My Reading Year, 2023
  40. Reading plants seeds
  41. JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century
  42. Who are you when someone Googles you?
  43. TWR: Political Parties, Friday 13, Democracy
  44. An example of Chekhov's Gun
  45. TWR: Work, Position, Reading, Economists
  46. Should I go back to school?
  47. TWR: Oscars, Positioning, Reading, Economists
  48. How to handle critics
  49. You can just ignore things
  50. Spillane: King of Pulp Fiction by Max Collins
  51. One must do
  52. Gather intellectual scraps to shape ideas of your own
  53. There doesn't have to be an end goal
  54. Charles Dickens and Active Patience
  55. David McCullough on The Art of Writing, History, and Success
  56. What Actually Happened in Oppenheimer
  57. Crooked: The Roaring '20s Tale of a Corrupt Attorney General, A Crusading Senator, And the Birth of the American Political Scandal
  58. Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
  59. Break the Mold
  60. Beat writer’s block
  61. The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World
  62. 221b: Get Up and Write
  63. Telling old stories in new ways
  64. Isaac Asimov on writing and reading
  65. Write stuff down
  66. Shake things up
  67. 221b: Poetry and Politics
  68. 221b: Unlocking Success
  69. Notes: American Prometheus by Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin
  70. 221b: Work, Places, Sentences, Problems, Timeless
  71. 221b: Reading, Nobody Cares, Wealth and Wisdom, AI and Writing, Van Cleaves
  72. The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
  73. How to Approach Life: From Leonardo da Vinci
  74. The weekend has too much free time
  75. The Wright Brothers
  76. 2 Ideas for Realistic Time Management
  77. 9 Lessons on Curiosity and Adventure from Richard Feynman
  78. 6 Rules for Self-Mastery | 'Discipline is Destiny' by Ryan Holiday
  79. Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman by Richard Feynman
  80. 7 Life Lessons from 'The Splendid and the Vile' by Erik Larson
  81. 5 lessons from 'Novelist as a Vocation' by Haruki Murakami
  82. Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami
  83. How to read more (if you have trouble reading)
  84. Transplant
  85. 221b: Irrationality, Mistakes, Ego, Third-Place, & Impressions
  86. 221b: Fish, Thinking, Knowledge, Waste, Genius
  87. 221b: Kubrick, Reputation, Star Trek, Time, & Observation
  88. Annie Dillard’s Advice on Keeping a Daily Routine
  89. The Splendid and the Vile
  90. Working by Robert Caro
  91. January Reading List
  92. 221b: Sandwich, Death, Fitzgerald, Sitzfleisch, Genius
  93. A day well spent
  94. The Crack-Up by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  95. 221b: Comparison, Simplicity, Details, Silence, Responsibility
  96. 3 Lessons on Human Psychology and Project Management
  97. 221b: Da Vinci, Brevity, X-15, Ballomania, Thinking
  98. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
  99. 221b: Curiosity and Edison
  100. Perennial Seller by Ryan Holiday
  101. 221b: Edison, Einstein, Pursuit, Gödel, Rest
  102. Be prepared for the disaster to be worse than before
  103. Check all kinds of unusual things
  104. What I Read in December
  105. A few funny things about time
  106. Just get something on the page
  107. The best thinkers are ‘wonderers’
  108. 221b: Time, Moonshots, Artistry, 26.2 Miles, & Genius
  109. A Practical Summary of How to Live on 24 Hours a Day by Arnold Bennett
  110. 221b: Writing, Detectives, Libraries, Leadership, Reading
  111. Why I Wake Up at 5:00 am
  112. How to Live on 24 Hours a Day by Arnold Bennett
  113. The Writing Life by Annie Dillard
  114. 221b: Droste Effect, Rules, History, Work, Death
  115. My Analog and Digital Productivity System for 2023
  116. The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
  117. Reflections on Calculus
  118. American Moonshot by Douglas Brinkley
  119. Not Long Ago in a Galaxy Not Very Far
  120. Thinking About Blogging
  121. getStaticPaths in NextJS Explained (Simply)
  122. How to time travel
  123. Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
  124. What I Read in November
  125. David Starr Jordan on Life, Education, and Politics
  126. Ernest Hemingway by Mary V. Dearborn
  127. John von Neumann on how to safely progress with technology
  128. On Ribbonfarm's Portal and Flags
  129. Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
  130. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
  131. Leonardo da Vinci
  132. Adventures of a Curious Richard Feynman
  133. The Care and Culture of Men by David Starr Jordan
  134. 2 Habits for a Better Intellectual Life
  135. The Rise and Fall of Dinosaurs by Steven Brusatte
  136. On Viewquakes
  137. What I Read in October 2022
  138. Why I Read
  139. Kevin Kelly's 103 Bits of Advice, Expanded
  140. Beware of the curse
  141. What Do You Care What Other People Think? By Richard Feynman
  142. Discipline is Destiny by Ryan Holiday
  143. On Being an Inconvenienced Guesser
  144. Make learning a reality
  145. The Library: A Fragile History
  146. The Mountain of Knowledge (And Why Dumb Smart People Never Escape It)
  147. What I read in September 2022
  148. My Manifesto
  149. Deliberare Otium
  150. God-primes and Social Behavior
  151. Book Review and Summary: Revolt of the Public
  152. On Writing Well by William Zinsser
  153. Leadership by Henry Kissinger
  154. New Ideas Suck
  155. The Man From The Future
  156. Dulcius Ex Asperis
  157. Some Questions
  158. Plan for Future Conduct
  159. Which is better: instinct or reason?
  160. Pieces of the Action
  161. What It Takes To Be a Great Teacher
  162. Political Parties. Interesting...
  163. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
  164. Book Review: da Vinci
  165. Creative procrastination
  166. Documenting what you do
  167. Why you feel stuck in life
  168. The Clockwork Universe by Edward Dolnick
  169. An attempt to understand the Kolmogorov Complexity of human values
  170. The value of niche secrets
  171. Ubi Caritas
  172. Revolt of the Public
  173. Personality creates behaviors. Circumstances reveal them.
  174. On Celebrating Tiny Learning Milestones
  175. The passage of time
  176. The Value of Science 67 Years Later
  177. Where the term 'zero-sum' comes from
  178. What I do when someone asks to borrow a book
  179. The best system I've read for synthesizing knowledge
  180. You can't go there by doing that
  181. On Physiognomy
  182. Sometimes your room for error, isn't enough
  183. How to Increase the Chances of Becoming a Genius
  184. Building a Custom React Form Hook
  185. Season-Long Friendships
  186. Thursday's Assorted Links
  187. If, By Whiskey
  188. Looking like a fool at first leads to mastery at last
  189. Thursday Assorted Links
  190. Wednesday Assorted Thoughts
  191. Moravec's Paradox
  192. Reading advice from Tyler Cowen
  193. 12 Rules For Life
  194. Where Dead Cells in the Body Go
  195. Popular sayings
  196. The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons From 15 Years as CEO of The Walt Disney Company
  197. The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
  198. Think Like a Rocket Scientist
  199. What We See When We Read
  200. The Dip by Seth Godin
  201. Show Your Work by Austin Kleon
  202. Junior: Writing Your Way Ahead in Advertising
  203. Private Eye: 1, Everyone Else: 0
  204. Essentialism by Greg Mckeowen
  205. Einstein: His Life and Universe
  206. How to Add Conditional Class Rendering in Next JS
  207. How to Enable Word Wrap on Only MDX in VS Code
  208. How to Redirect Users to a Different Page After a Set Interval with Next.js
  209. Solving the vague errors
  210. 15 Quotes from Albert Einstein That Reveals His Philosophy on Life
  211. 2 Strategies To Help You Remember What You Read
  212. How Record Players Work: The Science Behind That Beautiful Sound, Simplified
  213. Media Consumption (February, 2022)
  214. Examining the Life that Communicated With the Universe - Albert Einstein
  215. Why I Publish My Notes Online
  216. Chef and The Line Cook: Going Deeper
  217. Being Okay With Negative Capability
  218. How the James Webb Space Telescope Will Look Back in Time
  219. How to Be Great? Be Okay With Being Bad
  220. How to Build Rome in A Year
  221. How to Change the World With Your Ideas (Like Albert Einstein)
  222. Why Legacy Career Paths Can't Innovate
  223. Be prepared for the disasters you can't imagine
  224. Are you playing a game you want to win?
  225. Writing in Your Head
  226. How We Got to Now
  227. The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
  228. Range by David Epstein
  229. Book Summary - Think Again by Adam Grant