“This guy’s arrogance takes your breath away”

Letters between John W Backus and Edsger W Dijkstra, 1979

I was in Washington, DC over Memorial Day weekend, consulting the Library of Congress for a paper I’m writing about the early…

Many Nodes, One Distributed System

A friendly introduction to distributed computing and the nature of…

Arrogancia: la falacia de la subjetividad en la mejora continúa

Claude Shannon: How a Real Genius Solves Problems

Building cores, restructuring and contrast, and…

How to Master Any New Skill

6 Lessons on Learning to Learn from Naval Ravikant, Richard Feynman, and…

How to Become the Best Programmer in the World

Seeing vs. reading

the key to creativity

Josh Kaufman: How To Learn Anything From Scratch

Everything I’ve Learned About Life in 500 Words

My Life in 30 Lessons.

The habits of the good reader

If you are reading this, probably you love reading. Reading is a leisure, an evasion, a learning, and a…