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- Life is Short
- What Should You Do with Your Life? Directions and Advice
- I Thought I Would Have Accomplished a Lot More Today and Also by the Time I Was Thirty-Five
- My year in data
- Map of my personal data infrastructure
- Life tips
- 100 Very Short Rules for a Better Life
- How I practice at what I do
- The 24 Hour “Do Nothing” Challenge
- 20 Reasons To Quit Social Media
- A Time-Series Analysis of my Girlfriends Mood Swings
- Ultimate Meaning: We Don’t Have It, We Can’t Get It, and We Should Be Very, Very Sad
- Ten Years of Logging My Life
- Merlin’s Wisdom Project
- Things you’re doing but don’t want to be doing
- 103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known
- Do Yourself a Favor and Go Find a ‘Third Place’
- How I put my whole life into a single database
- The Best
- Life Stats
- 100 Tips For A Better Life
- Why I Hope to Die at 75
- One Day You’ll Find Yourself
- The Open-Office Trap
- The Tyler Ransom Production Function
- A Pretty-Good Mathematical Model of Perfectionism
- How I work
- Anticipatory Procrastination
- Trading time for money
- Why you should put salaries on your job ads
- Burning out and quitting
- Hundreds of Ways to Get S#!+ Done—and We Still Don’t
- ‘I’ll Finish It This Week’ And Other Lies
- An Old Hacker’s Tips On Staying Employed
- you should ask for more money when you get a job offer. here’s how.
- Mise-en-Place for Knowledge Workers: 6 Practices for Working Clean
- My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file
- Lessons from my PhD
- Tips for work-life balance
- Productivity tips, tricks and hacks for academics (2015 edition)
- Career Advice Nobody Gave Me: Never Ignore a Recruiter
- Rules for Conferences
- Donald Knuth on work habits, problem solving, and happiness
- Curated list of valuable salary negotiation advice
- Changes from academia to industry
- Guide to onboarding in a new job
- How Nespresso’s coffee revolution got ground down
- Tea Reviews
- How Long Does a Bottle of Wine Last After It Is Opened?
- What do you want to cook?
- On the impracticality of a cheeseburger
- In Praise of Small Menus
- The food timeline: food history research service
- The Sad Bastard Cookbook
- The Fat Gold Guide to Extra Virgin Olive Oil
- Systematically Improving Espresso: Insights from Mathematical Modeling and Experiment
- What Dinner Will Look Like in the Next 100 Years, According to Scientists (and Sci-Fi Authors)
- The Complicated Evolutionary History of Spicy Chili Peppers
- The Serious Eats Guide to Shopping for Asian Noodles
- The Kitchen Starter Kit: Essential Tools for Every Cook
- Different types of Pizza and toppings
- GrimGrains
- How to Eat Street Food Without Getting Sick
- 150 Most Legendary Restaurants in the World & Their Iconic Dishes
- Recipe Websites Master List
- Ten thousand ways to use chopsticks
- Recursive Recipes
- How to Taste Whisky the Right Way
- Is everything we eat associated with cancer? A systematic cookbook review
- I should have loved biology
- List of unusual biological names
- “Reality” is constructed by your brain. Here’s what that means, and why it matters.
- Stanley Milgram and the uncertainty of evil
- Electric Schlock: Did Stanley Milgram’s Famous Obedience Experiments Prove Anything?
- My top 12 favourite perceptual illusions
- The psychology of torture
- How a Publicity Blitz Created The Myth of Subliminal Advertising
- PSY 1 | Introduction to Psychological Science | Lectures
- Reversals in psychology
- False Psychology Glossary
- A map of cognitive biases in decision making
- How to Study Mathematics
- The most counterintuitive facts in all of mathematics, computer science, and physics
- Curves and Surfaces
- Why Mathematics Works So Well
- Interactive Linear Algebra
- A Layman’s Guide to Recreational Mathematics Videos
- Calculus Made Easy
- Visually stunning math concepts which are easy to explain
- The Art of Linear Algebra – Graphic Notes on “Linear Algebra for Everyone”
- How to Slice a Bagel into Two Linked Halves
- So You Want to Study Mathematics…
- Matrix Multiplication
- The Mathematics of 2048: Optimal Play with Markov Decision Processes
- Understanding Mathematics
- The Philosophy of Linear Algebra
- Mathematics for Machine Learning
- Visual Sum of Cubes
- Mathematical Surprises
- The Geometry Junkyard
- Algebra Rules for Arithmetic
- An Intuitive Guide To Exponential Functions & e
- Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Mathematics
- Matrices and graphs
- The Princeton Companion to Mathematics
- Linear Algebra Done Right
- The economics of Christmas trees
- The economics of vending machines
- Radical Jokes
- The Ultimate Guide to Inflation
- Unemployment: Models and policies
- A Fable of the OC
- Potterian Economics
- A critical behavioural economics and behavioural science reading list
- The Economy
- Game theory in popular culture
- List of unsolved problems in economics
- Plausibly Exogenous Galore
- The Economics Of | WSJ
- The A to Z of economics
- The Economics of Seinfeld
- Awesome Economics
- Pricing Money: A Beginner’s Guide to Money. Bonds, Futures and Swaps
- Econoclass: Resources for Economics Teachers
- What can a technologist do about climate change?
- A Guide to Climate Change
- Pollution
- We Need To Take CO2 Out Of The Sky
- What if it’s a big hoax and we create a better world for nothing?
- A Data-Driven Guide to Effective Personal Climate Action
- Climate Solutions 101
- What does global warming spell for you… and your loved ones?
- How will climate change shape climate opinion?
- Place-Based Carbon Calculator
- Personal list of interesting climate change & sustainability links
- Memos
- The Observer Effect – Daniel Ek
- The PayPal Mafia
- List of startups/companies that had successful pivots
- The Mythology of Red Bull
- Starting a Startup
- Think about Equity
- Programmer Competency Matrix
- Programming and Writing
- The History of Command Palettes: How Typing Commands Became The Norm Again
- lon lat lon lat
- Elements of Programming
- Guide to securing and improving privacy on macOS
- Be anonymous
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Online Anonymity
- Wi-Fine
- Use RSS for privacy and efficiency
- Protecting yourself from phone theft
- Living without a smartphone: The definitive guide
- A Quickstart Guide to Privacy
- How I stay reasonably anonymous online
- Privacy is sexy
- The documentation system
- Why I Still Use RSS
- The 9/11 Pager Leaks
- The Art of Command Line
- A decade and a half of instability: The history of Google messaging apps
- Objective or Biased
- Open Source Alternatives
- First You Make the Maps
- The messy business of sand mining explained
- How Hidden Technology Transformed Bowling
- GPS
- Food Packaging
- The Humble Brilliance of Italy’s Moka Coffee Pot
- Mechanical Watch
- Version Museum: A visual history of your favorite technology
- Internet Artifacts
- Explain that Stuff
- How To Understand Things
- In 40 tweets I will describe 40 powerful concepts for understanding the world
- Here are 50 ideas that shape my worldview
- Driven by Compression Progress: A Simple Principle Explains Essential Aspects of Subjective Beauty, Novelty, Surprise, Interestingness, Attention, Curiosity, Creativity, Art, Science, Music, Jokes
- Why simplicity works
- Thinking in Bets: How to Make Decisions Like a Poker Player
- Mental Models: The Best Way to Make Intelligent Decisions (~100 Models Explained)
- Why the title of your paper matters
- Writing matters
- Write Well
- How I learned to stop worrying and structure all writing as a list
- 15 rules for blogging, and my current streak
- A history of punctuation
- Writing one sentence per line
- En dash, em dash and hyphen; what’s the difference? (also ndash and mdash, or n-dash and m-dash)
- Common Bugs in Writing
- Common Errors in Technical Writing
- Writing Well
- Van Gogh’s Ugliest Masterpiece
- Revising the Canon: How Andy Warhol Became the Most Important American Modern Artist
- Louvre site des collections
- Great Art Explained
- High-resolution image of Rembrandt’s Night Watch (5 micron sampling resolution, 717 gigapixels)
- The Where’s Waldo Legacy
- Closer to Johannes Vermeer
- SMK OPEN
- Who Did J.K. Rowling Become?
- BOOKSTORES: How to Read More Books in the Golden Age of Content
- The Art Of Sci-Fi Book Covers
- Why Do We Keep Reading The Great Gatsby?
- The 25 Most Iconic Book Covers in History
- The 666 greatest novels of all time
- The 100 Best Children’s Books of All Time
- The 100 greatest non-fiction books
- Why books donʼt work
- Akira Kurosawa - Composing Movement
- How The Shawshank Redemption Humanizes Prisoners
- Sexual Assault of Men Played for Laughs - Part 1 Male Perpetrators
- The Making of “The Godfather”—Sort of a Home Movie
- James Bond Movies Ranked: The Absolute Best of Bond
- Il Maestro: Federico Fellini and the lost magic of cinema
- A Supercut of Supercuts: Aesthetics, Histories, Databases
- UbuWeb: Film & Video
- A Visual Guide to The Big Lebowski
- Why James Bond gets constantly reinvented
- Through Agnes Varda’s Looking Glass
- Stanley Kubrick, cinephile
- Hollywood Age Gap: The age difference in years between movie love interests
- Estimating the number of awkward toilet encounters created by Professor Hulk’s heroic snap [Avengers: Endgame]
- Almost Everything in “Dr. Strangelove” Was True
- Digital vs. Practical Shots in MAD MAX: FURY ROAD | TIFF 2022
- ‘Annie Hall’: One of the Last Beautiful American Films of the Pre-Blockbuster Era
- An option value problem from Seinfeld
- Through Scandinavia, Darkly: A Criminological Critique of Nordic Noir
- Halt and Catch Fire Syllabus
- Into the Fairy Castle: The Persistence of Victorian Liberalism
- The Fall of The Simpsons: How it Happened
- Peep Show – The Most Realistic Portrayal of Evil Ever Made
- A beginner’s guide to modern art jazz
- Exploring the Sonic Cocktail of Beastie Boys’ PAUL’S BOUTIQUE
- 64 Reasons To Celebrate Paul McCartney
- Beatport’s Definitive History of Techno
- The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time
- A Beginner’s Guide to Miles Davis
- Which Singers Have the Biggest Vocabularies?
- Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom
- A beginner’s guide to modern classical music
- Rhyme Theory
- What Makes Music Sound Good?
- Knowing When To Fold `Em: The Science of Poker
- BBC Future column: The Psychology Of Tetris
- 4-2: The History of Super Mario Bros.’ Most Infamous Level
- This Is What a Second-Person Video Game Would Look Like
- A Brief History of Word Games
- Games on GitHub
- The Making Of: Dust 2
- How Flash games shaped the video game industry
- The Hotline Miami Story
- Deep Play? Video Games and the Historical Imaginary
- History of Grand Theft Auto (1984 – 2021)
- ESL Classics: Rapha vs. Cooller
- Why medieval city-builder video games are historically inaccurate
- The Rocks and Minerals of Minecraft
- HATETRIS
- A digital museum of video game levels
- The Complete, Untold History of Halo
- When SimCity got serious: the story of Maxis Business Simulations and SimRefinery
- Wikitrivia
- An Apology for Roger Ebert
- Card Game Rules
- The History of Tetris World Records
- Mario meets Pareto
- A Beginner’s Garden of Chess Openings
- 10 Positions Chess Engines Just Don’t Understand
- Doc Pop’s One-Dimensional Chess
- How Long Does It Take Ordinary People To Get Good At Chess?
- Introduction to Pawn Endgames | Principles of Chess Endgames | GM Naroditsky
- Chesses
- Statistical Analysis of the Elo Rating System in Chess
- How I learned to suck less at Chess
- From 1400 to 2000 in Blitz on Chess.com - A 10½ Year Journey
- Ain’t it funny how the knight moves?
- Assessing Game Balance with AlphaZero: Exploring Alternative Rule Sets in Chess
- What is Chess? What to think and how long for
- Opening Principles
- A data-driven exploration of the evolution of chess: Popularity of openings over time
- A Visual Look at 2 Million Chess Games
- How to Get Good at Chess, Fast: A simple, step-by-step guide to rapid chess improvement
- The Best Way To Do Exercises
- User:Emijrp/All Human Knowledge
- List of common misconceptions
- Getting Access to Paywalled Articles
- List of lists of lists
- Effective Spaced Repetition
- So You Want to Study Philosophy…
- Eunoia: Words That Don’t Translate
- Surprising shared word etymologies
- Unusual Danish words
- How I Learned French in 12 Months
- Urban Dictionary List
- FBI Guide to Internet Slang
- How to write in plain English
- The Problem With ‘Hey Guys’
- 40 literary terms you should know
- Duolingo: Tips and Notes from English
- Common Errors in English Usage
- English Style Guide: A handbook for authors and translators in the European Commission
- 50 Tongue Twisters to improve pronunciation in English
- The Mind is a Metaphor
- This Is Why Your Holiday Travel Is Awful
- Travel hacks
- Some apps recommendations that will improve your solo travels
- Awesome Digital Nomads
- My 40-liter backpack travel guide
- Top 100 Places To Visit in Europe
- Practical Tips from Years of Traveling The World
- The Case Against Travel
- Obvious travel advice
- I made a map of Central London museums… there are a lot
- Can you see the Republic of Ireland from England?
- Passport to the Pub: The Tourist’s Guide to Pub Etiquette
- Tube trivia and facts
- Canterbury – Best Things to See – City Walk & History Canterbury, England
- A tour of The UK and Ireland in accents
- Old Maps and Books - thehunthouse
- Amsterdam Coffeeshop Directory
- NOS Nieuws van de Week
- Taxes in the Netherlands: a guide to the Dutch tax system
- Canon of the Netherlands
- Why did men stop wearing high heels?
- How to Develop Good Taste, Pt. 1
- How to Develop Good Taste, Pt. 2
- How to Develop Good Taste, Pt. 3
- The Sartorialist
- The Scientific 7-Minute Workout
- Mental Health Tips feat. Anxiety Wolf
- A curated list of awesome articles, websites and resources about mental health in the software industry
- On The Exciting Subject Of Earwax And Unsupported Medical Arguments
- 96 hour No-Sleep Challenge
- Good sleep, good learning, good life
- The invisible addiction: is it time to give up caffeine?
- Why should I use dental floss?
- Least resistance weight loss
- Build Muscle
- The Fitness Wiki
- Interactive Cancer Risk Matrix
- Stretch 15
- The economics of the Tour de France
- Why Do Tennis Crowds Have to Be So Quiet?
- The 1904 Olympic Marathon May Have Been the Strangest Ever
- Soccermatics
- 50 Reasons Why Everyone Should Want More Walkable Streets
- We Should All Be More Afraid of Driving
- How to Walk (12 miles a day)
- Civilisation (1969) | Kenneth Clark
- Famous Cases & Criminals - FBI
- Yale Courses (European History)
- Captivating History
- The Analog Antiquarian
- List of photographs considered the most important
- D-Day Map
- The UX of LEGO Interface Panels
- 50 tips to improve user interface
- What I learnt roasting 200 landing pages in 12 months
- Dark Patterns at Scale: Findings from a Crawl of 11K Shopping Websites
- Star Trek + Design
- List of Aesthetics
- Read color hex codes
- How I Experience Web Today
- Why are hyperlinks blue?
- Emoji to Scale
- Spatial Interfaces
- Design Tip: Never Use Black
- Why does the 📈 Chart Increasing emoji show in red?
- The Psychology of Design
- An interactive guide to color & contrast
- UX Case Studies
- Bastion forts around the world
- The 25 Most Significant Works of Postwar Architecture
- Why skyscrapers are so short
- A modern home
- 104 Mesmerizing Mosque Ceilings That Highlight The Wonders Of Islamic Architecture
- Vernacular Economics: How Building Codes & Taxes Shape Regional Architecture
- Hiroshima
- What Really Happened to Malaysia’s Missing Airplane
- The real David Attenborough
- Pain & Gain
- The Big Here and Long Now
- Myanmar Burning
- Twenty Years Gone: What Bobby McIlvaine Left Behind
- Tom’s Essay
- One Day—and One Night—in the Kitchen at Les Halles
- An Ex-Drinker’s Search for a Sober Buzz
- The Devil at 37,000 Feet
- The age of average
- In This Essay I Will: On Distraction