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The cost of being available
I once calculated, in a fit of late-night rigor, that I had been on call — in some informal sense — for roughly 4,200 of the previous 4,380 days. The number was wrong only in that it was too low.
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Latency is a worldview
Network engineering as a metaphor for how good thinkers structure their lives. Async, batched, queued, cached — and the one bad path that ruins all of them.
The second-brain trap
Most note-taking systems are productivity cosplay. Three rules separate the ones that pay rent from the ones that don't.
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