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Why self-improvement?
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Startups are like firewood
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Substitute goods for leisure are abundant
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Saying things because they sound good
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The need for speed in web frameworks?
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Microstartup Stories: Initial Thoughts
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The many types of blog posts
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Pursuing the right tech stack for me
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Choosing the right dish
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Developer experience for the motivation
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Consider your appetite for disagreement
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Losing the root for the tree
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Why Portland
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User research as a barometer of software design
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Assorted thoughts about abstraction
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Code quality and rule consequentialism
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Reflections on Connect Developers
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Conversation as path traversal
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Onboarding and taxi driving
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What are pure functions?
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Anxiety and computer architecture
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Tentative Anger
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Using blinders to help you see things for what they are
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My current thinking on money and low carb diets
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Impressive vs honest signaling
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Classes often aren't the simplest tool for the job
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Appropriately Gray Products
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How much should we value life?
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A Brief Review of The Scout Mindset
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When Programmers Don't Understand Code, Don't Blame The User
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A Qualitative and Intuitive Explanation of Expected Value
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When writing triggers memory reconsolidation
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Believing vs understanding
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Preparing for ambition
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Happy paths and the planning fallacy
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Code as a closet
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Bad names make you open the box
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Don't feel bad about not knowing basic things
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Taking the outside view on code quality
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Naming and pointer thickness
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Code quality interviews
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Call stacks in everyday life
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Bayes' theorem, plausible deniability, and smiley faces
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Think like an educator about code quality
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The best frequently don't rise to the top
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The best things are often free or cheap
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Using obscure features of a programming language
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Five examples
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Code isn't the only thing that needs to be maintained
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Thoughts on Mustachianism
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Conversation, event loops, and error handling
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Give it a google
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Why I love stand up comedy
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Bad reductionism
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Debugging the student
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Writing to think
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Big O, little n
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Overview of heaps
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Overview of tries
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Dynamic programming with fibonacci numbers
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Economic potential energy
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Things I don't understand about basketball
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The thinking behind the Startups In Depth podcast