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Can relate to this. Avoiding ads most of the time I find TV ads very jarring

unsurprising

really quite excellent explanation of a bunch about sound

1. Keep the lights on, and make keeping them on cheaper. Everything your team already owns (that actually matters to customers) needs to approach 0 maintenance costs.

2. Cut the entire roadmap of new features down to one thing at a time

tldr: you probably can’t

Most TV shows are not good. The key problems are that too much quality scripting is required, and that the incentives are to try to get the show extended for another season. Plus too much of the audience “just wants something to watch.”

Could I name twenty TV shows that I think are worth watching, relative to the best movies you haven’t seen and the best books you haven’t read? Not sure. Attention is that which is scarce. But it shouldn’t be. Just pay better attention and read that book or watch that movie. There is also plenty on YouTube that beats TV shows, and if you are old you may not consume much YouTube content at all.

. Writing experts judged the edited papers as 0.6 standard deviations (SD) better written overall (1.22 points on an 11–point scale). They further judged the language–edited papers as allowing the reader to find the key message more easily (0.58 SD), having fewer mistakes (0.67 SD), being easier to read (0.53 SD), and being more concise (0.50 SD)

Read almosts back to back with Writing Matters, which highlighted the importance of editing.

Had read many of the ideas before, but the hourglass diagram was a fantastic visualisation of it. Recommends The Precipice.

Biggest risks to continued survival: nuclear war, pandemic, and evil AI.

Known for his work in “in-flight surgery with a coat-hanger and silverware”

Incredible project

Me either. Logging out of twitter has helped reduce the effect.

Removing limits on radio station ownership. Meant the same songs played across the whole of the US, and reduced the chance of local scenesters getting airplay.

Twitter thread on the design of the iPhone 7 lens.

in the past 5 years or so, advancements in phone cameras have come mostly in better sensors, far better image processing, and adding more cameras

And the post itself

Some minigames and exercises to practice touchtyping

Still very much agree with this. Keep thinking to try out some kind of database but text is pretty great