stuff i wrote

• Startup advice targeting low and middle income countries

  Some learnings

  27 Sep 2024

• When it gets complicated is when your impact is spiking

  Startup advice

  19 Aug 2024

• Clarendon Postmortem

  My old house in Cambridge

  19 Mar 2024

• Solve My Mini Puzzle Hunt

  Notes about puzzle design

  07 Jan 2024

• My startup advice

  An interview with me.

  23 Oct 2023

• Why altruists can't have nice things

  Perks erode culture.

  01 Jul 2023

• Vegan nutrition notes

  From my first year

  02 Jun 2023

• Cycling Injuries Analysis in DC

  How dangerous is cycling really?

  19 May 2023

• Don't Over-Update On Others' Failures

  Angles are subtle

  15 Feb 2023

• Why I Decided To Buy A House

  Real estate has unique advantages

  06 Dec 2022

• My Vegan Thanksgiving

  Totally possible, yo.

  28 Nov 2022

• Practical Plant-Based Meal Planning for Groups

  Advancing the frontier

  12 Sep 2022

• How to be vegan (if you're me)

  Part reality, part aspiration

  15 Feb 2022

• Lisa's Black Bean Burgers

  One of my favorite recipes of all time

  05 Feb 2022

• Life in the Kitchen

  Living rooms are overrated

  19 Nov 2021

• My Advice Offer

  Send me an email to get my input on your plan

  18 Nov 2021

• Unlock the door

  Create a shared common space

  27 Oct 2021

• Bicycle Recommendations

  Steel is real

  10 Apr 2021

• Process Orientation

  My management and product philosophy

  21 Mar 2021

• Enabling Children

  Put a bunch of families in one house

  02 Mar 2021

• Simulacrum levels

  Musings on intent in communication

  24 Jan 2021

• Thinking From the End State

  Gesturing at one especially important product skill

  19 Oct 2020

• Toxic Newsfeeds

  We're being manipulated by Facebook, Twitter, etc.

  12 Oct 2020

• Idea-Tuning skill

  How to do "Product"

  01 Aug 2020

• Black Lives Matter

  And we aren't acting like it.

  08 Jun 2020

• Don't Use Alarm Clocks

  Better to wake up naturally.

  20 May 2020

• Getting started with graphic design

  Embracing my n00bitude at this skill

  14 Apr 2020

• Rationality training

  Taking a meta-look at your mental processes

  06 Apr 2020

• Ergonomics Recommendations

  In which I express 14 years of keyboard loyalty

  05 Apr 2020

• Are You Smarter than a Virus?

  A rant about incompetence

  06 Mar 2020

• Someone should probably start a bright home lighting company

  I would buy this product and tell all my friends about it too.

  26 Nov 2019

• Keto Experiments

  Playing with my diet

  05 Nov 2019

• My Small Form Factor PC build

  A pretty powerful desktop in a smallish case

  04 Apr 2019

• Value of time as an employee

  Why do companies pay tech employees so much and then insist that they spend their time on stupid shit?

  03 Jan 2019

• Towards an operational definition of tech debt

  25 Aug 2018

• New/fixed blog!

  18 Jun 2018

• Jetlag Cures

  06 Sep 2015

• Vegan Reviews

  24 Aug 2014

• Startup Skills Checklist

  02 Jun 2014

• Goals? vs. Systems?

  16 Apr 2014

• Observations from Kenya

  17 Mar 2014

• Why Soylent promises to be a major quality-of-life upgrade

  02 Mar 2014

• Interesting Decision Theory question

  04 Feb 2014

• Problems I Solved Making My 3D Printer

  06 Jan 2014

• GiveDirectly is the #1 charity on Givewell. Wait, what?

  01 Dec 2013

• My Effective Altruism Origin Story

  16 Nov 2013

• Automatic reinforcement for positive behaviors

  21 Oct 2013

• How to increase conscientiousness

  04 Oct 2013

• What's Your Hourly Rate?

  26 Aug 2013

• Getting Less Sleep

  04 Aug 2013

• Useful self-improvement interventions

  16 Jul 2013

• Effective Altruism

  17 Jun 2013

• Meditation practice

  28 Apr 2013

• Spending Tradeoffs

  14 Apr 2013

• The Nerd's Guide to Tasty Tea

  27 Mar 2013

• Hunt for Westvleteren

  12 Mar 2013

• Zeo numbers for a week of polyphasic sleep (Everyman 3)

  09 Oct 2012

• A Collection of Anti-Procrastination Techniques

  21 May 2012

• Reflecting on Rationality & Startups

  02 Mar 2012

• Facebook deleted their python-sdk repository without warning

  27 Dec 2011

• Givewell's 2011 recommendations

  29 Nov 2011

• Sixty Gallons

  17 Oct 2011

• Back to brewing

  06 Oct 2011

• RBC review exercises

  13 Aug 2011

• Conscientiousness

  07 Aug 2011

• Fashion trips

  31 Jul 2011

• Anticipations and Bayes

  23 Jul 2011

• Basic rationality training

  15 Jul 2011

• How to enjoy being wrong

  10 Jul 2011

• Cultishness followup

  07 Jul 2011

• Internal Family Systems

  04 Jul 2011

• Should You Be Worried I'm Joining a Cult?

  29 Jun 2011

• Munchkining

  26 Jun 2011

• The Elephant and the Rider

  25 Jun 2011

• Tortuga Meetup

  24 Jun 2011

• Memory

  17 Jun 2011

• Another RBC blog

  15 Jun 2011

• The social environment

  14 Jun 2011

• Parkour

  12 Jun 2011

• Creating Dispositions

  11 Jun 2011

• Rejection Therapy

  10 Jun 2011

• Meditation and Decision-Theoretic Enlightenment

  09 Jun 2011

• I'm at Rationality Boot Camp in Berkeley!

  08 Jun 2011

• First Assignment

  06 Jun 2011

• Rationality Boot Camp

  27 May 2011

• Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! -- Book review

  14 May 2011

• Learning to Cook for Newbies

  16 Mar 2011

• Value Systems, AI and Human Existence (part 2)

  25 Aug 2010

• Why Someone Like Me Should Go To Grad School Now

  22 Aug 2010

• Building a Kegerator

  22 Aug 2010

• Value Systems, AI and Human Existence

  25 Jun 2010

• Introducing Break Ideas

  18 Apr 2010

• JIT review paper

  13 Mar 2010

• Solving the procrastination problem

  16 Feb 2010

• My blog is working again

  03 Feb 2010

• Git-rebase and Django's dev server

  22 Jun 2009

• Cavendish's Physics Experiment

  13 Apr 2009

• Evernote might just change my life

  06 Apr 2009

• Time Subdividing Physics

  20 Mar 2009

• 25 Things

  06 Feb 2009

• The Lowest Common Denominator Problem

  18 Nov 2008

• Breads

  06 Aug 2008

• Compositionality

  25 Apr 2008

• A Fitting Analogy

  18 Apr 2008

• Structuring your app with Units

  05 Apr 2008

• The List Monad

  28 Jan 2008

• Grad school

  16 Dec 2007

• Computation in X

  27 Nov 2007

• My resume

  15 Nov 2007

• Ubuntu works awesome on my MacBook

  06 Nov 2007

• X the language

  06 Nov 2007

• OLPC Talk at Brown

  24 Aug 2007

• Kinesis Keyboard

  01 Aug 2007

• Why OLPC inspires me

  30 Jul 2007

• One Laptop Per Child

  27 Jul 2007

• Boston Indie Game Jam

  27 Jan 2007

• Spicy foods

  06 Jan 2007

• Coop and Cooking

  30 Sep 2006

• Debian Bugs revisited

  15 Sep 2006

• Encrypted periodic backups

  12 Sep 2006

• Partitioning your linux system on install

  29 Aug 2006

• Subpixel rendering in Ubuntu

  28 Aug 2006

• Coalition Against JavaScript Misuse

  14 Aug 2006

• Taking Apart My Powerbook

  13 Aug 2006

• It's Habanero Time!

  10 Aug 2006

• DVDs and Linux

  07 Aug 2006

• Debian Bugs That Affect Me

  31 Jul 2006

• Japantown

  30 Jul 2006

• Broadcom Wireless

  15 Jul 2006

• Go Off Meal Plan!

  06 Jul 2006

• Introduction to California

  02 Jul 2006

• Game Engines

  29 May 2006

• Polyphasic is no more

  04 Feb 2006

• Polyphasic sleep

  28 Jan 2006

• How to build a kotatsu

  18 Jan 2006

• DDR - it goes up to eleven!

  13 Jan 2006

• CS138

  13 Jan 2006

• VM and Pagetables, redux.

  29 Nov 2005

• Sore Thumbs

  10 Oct 2005

• Kern!

  10 Oct 2005

• Threads

  23 Sep 2005

• FANBOY!

  16 Sep 2005

• Soup

  15 Sep 2005

• New year

  02 Sep 2005

• TH Server Switch!

  11 May 2005

• How to take apart an iSight

  02 May 2005

• Project Manager!

  27 Apr 2005

• Casual games

  25 Apr 2005

• ADOCH

  21 Apr 2005

• The role of my blog

  13 Apr 2005

• Scheduling tasks

  13 Apr 2005

• Tax time!

  13 Apr 2005

• Anime Boston?

  07 Apr 2005

• C awesomeness

  05 Apr 2005

• Bermuda

  03 Apr 2005

• Cosmic Blobs

  30 Mar 2005

• Supercoding with Amb

  25 Mar 2005

• Asterisk and AGI

  23 Mar 2005

• Karaoke Revolution

  21 Mar 2005

• Submitted!

  19 Mar 2005

• Bubbles

  17 Mar 2005

• VM and Pagetables

  15 Mar 2005

• Linux on POWER

  15 Mar 2005

• DDR with weights?

  12 Mar 2005

• Writebacks

  11 Mar 2005

• VMWare

  11 Mar 2005

• Stepmania source

  10 Mar 2005

• CS169 next year...

  09 Mar 2005

• Making your own DDR song

  08 Mar 2005

• Java Generics

  08 Mar 2005

• I've joined Techhouse

  07 Mar 2005

• XHTML

  05 Feb 2005

• Ubuntu Linux LiveCD

  03 Feb 2005

• Python in web applications

  01 Feb 2005

• DTrace is open source!

  26 Jan 2005

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