_The perdocent exploits the claim of not having been taught how to do something, as a means of not understanding, of taking control, or to avoid doing any actual work.

As a management professional, no matter their appeal to credential, never let a perdocent take control. Always seek to maintain familiarity with the perdocent's tactics…_

Those given the greatest authority in the firm turn out to be the most powerless to effect positive change in the production process. The actual means by which decisions get made in the firm are a rats' nest of bypasses often held up by the force of will in singular individuals.

Many of these individuals (such as staff engineers) also have a crisis of meaningness when and if they realize their vast skills are essentially wasted being a glorified "glue stick" holding together a system which is perverse, and for no real purpose.

https://hbr.org/2019/12/can-you-know-too-much-about-your-organization
If you looked closely, would you see a deliberate strategy or the results of years and years of patches, workarounds, political truces, and shadow systems? They came to see peripheral roles, in which they stood apart from the complex system that required redesign, as a place from which they could add more fundamental and long-term value to the organization.

'Schlep Blindness'
http://paulgraham.com/schlep.html
A company is defined by the schleps it will undertake.

'Chesterton's fence' is the principle that reforms should not be made until the reasoning behind the existing state of affairs is understood.

Work the iron while it’s hot

Just like programming, writing requires a lot of context that you hold in your short term memory. You need to recall a lot of details about the topic you are writing about, as well as your punch-line and the current state of the document. All this state takes time to load into memory, and is easily lost by distractions or context switching.

Start at the Top not the Beginning

For documents that are more than a page long you must take a top-down approach and start with an outline. An outline is a list of sections together with rough notes, often in the form of bullet points.

There is a tremendous amount of spit and polish that goes into making a major website highly usable. A developer, asked how hard something will be to clone, simply does not think about the polish, because the polish is incidental to the implementation.

The Boston-based painter’s large, color-rich paintings begin with what he hears, not with what he sees. He says, “Sight and sound run parallel in our perception, and these works do not intend to confound the two. Rather, the interest is for the viewer to switch back and forth across subjectivity, allowing sound its visual memory. As a word becomes a sound’s visual placeholder, so these paintings become their portrait.”

Norfolk began painting as a teenager and earned a BFA from the College of William and Mary, and received his MFA from Boston University.

A series of mixes intended for listening while ${task} to focus the brain and inspire the mind.

Five questions to look under the hood of the interview

1. How will I fail?
2. How do you incentivise your team?
3. Can you share an example of something the team did that didn’t go well, and what did you do to course correct?
4. What does the shipping look like internall`,
5. How much attention do you pay to reducing friction for the engineering team?

The French Polynesia island of Nuku Hiva is an extraordinary part of the world where a traveler can be as far from the crowds as it's possible to be. It offers an intoxicating mix of deserted beaches, spectacular tropical mountains and traditional local culture.

This is a gentle introduction to how Stable Diffusion works.

People often ask me how to use AI. Here's an overview with lots of links.

• The Six Large Language Models
• Write stuff
• Make Images
• Come up with ideas
• Make videos
• Coding

Yes, there has been much hype over the imagined powers and flaws of the new Large Language Models (e.g., Chat GPT-4), but the recent advances (that is, as of today in April 2023) indicate that ther…

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.12712.pdf

A talk by the lead author, Sebastian Bubeck, at MIT on March 22, 2023: Sparks of AGI: Early experiments with GPT-4.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbIk7-JPB2c

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Do these fish even exist? Who cares, look at their outfits. From this French book, where you can find many more. Published 1719.

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84573724/f33.item#

Stephen Wolfram explores the broader picture of what's going on inside ChatGPT and why it produces meaningful text. Discusses models, training neural nets, embeddings, tokens, transformers, language syntax.

• The first key strategic note is that Ten-Nine Suited is an amazing hand with which to 3-bet. Doing so balances out the strong hands in your 3-bet range (like Pocket Aces and Ace-King). The only time I suggest calling with Ten-Nine suited is when you’re in the Big Blind or on the Button in certain scenarios. Otherwise, it’s gonna be a 3-bet or a fold.

• If you’ve been reading these types of articles from me, you know that I’ve been harping on backdoor draws in all of them. That’s because you can’t rely only on the “real” draws to balance out the value hands. You simply won’t have enough of them!

• Check back with middle or third pair in single-raised pots

Correction in the thumbnail: This video was shot on April 2023

• It's not HTML5 or CSS3 - it's just 'html' and 'css'!
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML - Good documentation but not the spec!
• https://html.spec.whatwg.org/
• Content model - What is legal to nest
• Transparent: a > h1 is ok, but p > a > h1 not ok!
• https://caninclude.glitch.me/
• preload preconnect prefetch prerender for links
• Get your head straight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW1PEMBdX5E
• <header><main><footer> are important!
• Subheading <hgroup><h1><p> - Not <hgroup><h1><h2>
• Upgrade Your HTML (4 books)
• <menu> - like <ul>
• script - defer async type="module" nomodule
• <template id="mytable"> - Don't have to put html in javascript
• JavaScript is expensive, HTML is almost free!

A large part of playing jazz on ukulele is understanding the underlying harmony. In this beginner ukulele lesson we demystify jazz chords by breaking them down one note at a time.

If you haven't seen PHP code in a while, let me show you how it looks like in 2023. PHP has become faster, more secure, and more enjoyable to use. More importantly, development became more active. PHP is now a..

I'd love to have you try PHP if you're still with me. And the best place to begin is with the Laravel PHP framework.

A three-way color contrast checker for when you remove underlines from links.

https://chipcullen.com/the-contrast-triangle/

In order for your text and links to be accessible, they both need to have sufficient contrast from the background, as well as from each other. This creates a three-way design constraint.