Writing

Portrait of a Man Writing in His Study. Gustave Caillebotte - Oil On Canvas - 1885.
Ambiguity is where the work is
Book Notes on 'Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S Truman'
Do The Hard Work That's Required
Notes on Thoughts for Young Men by JC Ryle
How to make timestamps for multiple versions of a podcast
Recently (June '24)
How to learn like Sherlock Holmes
Book Notes and Review of 'The Patriots by Winston Groom'
Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough
Fix the fridge
You can just
Don't let it fade to black
Don't take non-practitioner advice
Rental car envy
Explanation vs. excuses
Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Life in War, Law, and Ideas
Specific directions or shut up
Most things just need to be done
Foolishness leads to mastery
Visible progress makes doing hard things easy
How I choose what to read: bullets vs. cannonballs
Sailing the Graveyard Sea by Richard Snow
A love letter to old books
Don't Create a Horse Storm
1776
The Gathering Storm
Success is found in the minutiae
Advice from Grandpa
25 quotes from my commonplace book
Who you are is who you will be (but you can change)
Some questions to ask yourself
My Reading Year, 2023
Reading plants seeds
JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century
Who are you when someone Googles you?
TWR: Political Parties, Friday 13, Democracy
An example of Chekhov's Gun
TWR: Work, Position, Reading, Economists
Should I go back to school?
TWR: Oscars, Positioning, Reading, Economists
How to handle critics
You can just ignore things
Spillane: King of Pulp Fiction by Max Collins
One must do
Gather intellectual scraps to shape ideas of your own
There doesn't have to be an end goal
Charles Dickens and Active Patience
David McCullough on The Art of Writing, History, and Success
What Actually Happened in Oppenheimer
Crooked: The Roaring '20s Tale of a Corrupt Attorney General, A Crusading Senator, And the Birth of the American Political Scandal
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
Break the Mold
Beat writer’s block
The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World
221b: Get Up and Write
Telling old stories in new ways
Isaac Asimov on writing and reading
Write stuff down
Shake things up
221b: Poetry and Politics
221b: Unlocking Success
Notes: American Prometheus by Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin
221b: Work, Places, Sentences, Problems, Timeless
221b: Reading, Nobody Cares, Wealth and Wisdom, AI and Writing, Van Cleaves
The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
How to Approach Life: From Leonardo da Vinci
The weekend has too much free time
The Wright Brothers
2 Ideas for Realistic Time Management
9 Lessons on Curiosity and Adventure from Richard Feynman
6 Rules for Self-Mastery | 'Discipline is Destiny' by Ryan Holiday
Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman by Richard Feynman
7 Life Lessons from 'The Splendid and the Vile' by Erik Larson
5 lessons from 'Novelist as a Vocation' by Haruki Murakami
Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami
How to read more (if you have trouble reading)
Transplant
221b: Irrationality, Mistakes, Ego, Third-Place, & Impressions
221b: Fish, Thinking, Knowledge, Waste, Genius
221b: Kubrick, Reputation, Star Trek, Time, & Observation
Annie Dillard’s Advice on Keeping a Daily Routine
The Splendid and the Vile
Working by Robert Caro
January Reading List
221b: Sandwich, Death, Fitzgerald, Sitzfleisch, Genius
A day well spent
The Crack-Up by F. Scott Fitzgerald
221b: Comparison, Simplicity, Details, Silence, Responsibility
3 Lessons on Human Psychology and Project Management
221b: Da Vinci, Brevity, X-15, Ballomania, Thinking
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
221b: Curiosity and Edison
Perennial Seller by Ryan Holiday
How I Built my Blog with Next.js and Notion with Custom React Components in Blog Posts
221b: Edison, Einstein, Pursuit, Gödel, Rest
Be prepared for the disaster to be worse than before
Check all kinds of unusual things
What I Read in December
A few funny things about time
Just get something on the page
The best thinkers are ‘wonderers’
221b: Time, Moonshots, Artistry, 26.2 Miles, & Genius
A Practical Summary of How to Live on 24 Hours a Day by Arnold Bennett
221b: Writing, Detectives, Libraries, Leadership, Reading
Why I Wake Up at 5:00 am
How to Live on 24 Hours a Day by Arnold Bennett
The Writing Life by Annie Dillard
221b: Droste Effect, Rules, History, Work, Death
My Analog and Digital Productivity System for 2023
The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
Reflections on Calculus
American Moonshot by Douglas Brinkley
Not Long Ago in a Galaxy Not Very Far
Thinking About Blogging
getStaticPaths in NextJS Explained (Simply)
How to time travel
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
What I Read in November
David Starr Jordan on Life, Education, and Politics
Ernest Hemingway by Mary V. Dearborn
John von Neumann on how to safely progress with technology
On Ribbonfarm's Portal and Flags
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
Leonardo da Vinci
Adventures of a Curious Richard Feynman
The Care and Culture of Men by David Starr Jordan
2 Habits for a Better Intellectual Life
The Rise and Fall of Dinosaurs by Steven Brusatte
On Viewquakes
What I Read in October 2022
Why I Read
Kevin Kelly's 103 Bits of Advice, Expanded
Beware of the curse
What Do You Care What Other People Think? By Richard Feynman
Discipline is Destiny by Ryan Holiday
On Being an Inconvenienced Guesser
Make learning a reality
The Library: A Fragile History
The Mountain of Knowledge (And Why Dumb Smart People Never Escape It)
What I read in September 2022
My Manifesto
Deliberare Otium
God-primes and Social Behavior
Book Review and Summary: Revolt of the Public
On Writing Well by William Zinsser
Leadership by Henry Kissinger
New Ideas Suck
The Man From The Future
Dulcius Ex Asperis
Some Questions
Plan for Future Conduct
Which is better: instinct or reason?
Pieces of the Action
What It Takes To Be a Great Teacher
Political Parties. Interesting...
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Book Review: da Vinci
Creative procrastination
Documenting what you do
Why you feel stuck in life
The Clockwork Universe by Edward Dolnick
An attempt to understand the Kolmogorov Complexity of human values
The value of niche secrets
Ubi Caritas
Revolt of the Public
Personality creates behaviors. Circumstances reveal them.
On Celebrating Tiny Learning Milestones
The passage of time
The Value of Science 67 Years Later
Where the term 'zero-sum' comes from
What I do when someone asks to borrow a book
The best system I've read for synthesizing knowledge
You can't go there by doing that
On Physiognomy
Sometimes your room for error, isn't enough
How to Increase the Chances of Becoming a Genius
Building a Custom React Form Hook
Season-Long Friendships
Thursday's Assorted Links
If, By Whiskey
Looking like a fool at first leads to mastery at last
Thursday Assorted Links
Wednesday Assorted Thoughts
Moravec's Paradox
Reading advice from Tyler Cowen
12 Rules For Life
Where Dead Cells in the Body Go
Popular sayings
The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons From 15 Years as CEO of The Walt Disney Company
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
Think Like a Rocket Scientist
What We See When We Read
The Dip by Seth Godin
Show Your Work by Austin Kleon
Junior: Writing Your Way Ahead in Advertising
Private Eye: 1, Everyone Else: 0
Essentialism by Greg Mckeowen
Einstein: His Life and Universe
How to Add Conditional Class Rendering in Next JS
How to Enable Word Wrap on Only MDX in VS Code
How to Redirect Users to a Different Page After a Set Interval with Next.js
Solving the vague errors
15 Quotes from Albert Einstein That Reveals His Philosophy on Life
2 Strategies To Help You Remember What You Read
How Record Players Work: The Science Behind That Beautiful Sound, Simplified
Media Consumption (February, 2022)
Examining the Life that Communicated With the Universe - Albert Einstein
Why I Publish My Notes Online
Chef and The Line Cook: Going Deeper
Being Okay With Negative Capability
How the James Webb Space Telescope Will Look Back in Time
How to Be Great? Be Okay With Being Bad
How to Build Rome in A Year
How to Change the World With Your Ideas (Like Albert Einstein)
Why Legacy Career Paths Can't Innovate
Be prepared for the disasters you can't imagine
Are you playing a game you want to win?
Writing in Your Head
How We Got to Now
The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
Range by David Epstein
Book Summary - Think Again by Adam Grant