Ws on X For September 2023
Here are some Tweets that I've liked/RT'd and that have made me think from July/August/September:
You are basically unstoppable once you decide "everything is figure-out-able."
— Minn Kim (@minney_cat) August 31, 2023
The longer the walk, the better the ideas.
— Sahil Lavingia (@shl) September 19, 2023
The long game is less crowded.
— Hiten Shah (@hnshah) September 11, 2023
Take the long road, in anything. Life admits no shortcuts. https://t.co/IyM5beStGe
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) September 21, 2023
You are not a team because you work together. You are a team because you trust, respect and care for each other.
— Vala Afshar (@ValaAfshar) August 31, 2023
we don’t need nicer bosses, nicer landlords, nicer managers who don’t know much to begin with. we need a diff system entirely. one that prioritizes public need and people ahead of everything else.
— Sudip Bhattacharya (@ResistRun) September 17, 2023
Understand, don't memorize. 🧠
— Prof. Feynman (@ProfFeynman) August 21, 2023
Life is too short to waste. If you are waking up every day and don't/can't celebrate your accomplishments, you are wasting your life with wrong people.
— Jaana Dogan ヤナ ドガン (@rakyll) August 20, 2023
If you're the smartest person in the room, then change your room.
— Prof. Feynman (@ProfFeynman) August 14, 2023
When people copy you, the best strategy is usually to ignore them. People who copy you are (a) unoriginal and (b) opportunists, and those are both strong predictors of failure. If you wait them out, they'll eventually drop away.
— Paul Graham (@paulg) September 2, 2023
Summer will still be hot 🔥!#learning #books #softwareengineering pic.twitter.com/ZfHeiesese
— Dr. Milan Milanović (@milan_milanovic) August 25, 2023
Books that endure don't look like good books; they are almost always very poorly written, but address fundamental topics.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) August 22, 2023
Masterfully crafted ones generate excitement; they look like "great works", get prizes, impress academics, critics, & empty suits, then fade away.
Psychologists have posited hundreds of cognitive biases over the years. A fascinating new paper argues that they all boil down to one of a handful of fundamental beliefs coupled with confirmation bias. https://t.co/bDDmNfsSie pic.twitter.com/Q32CbIsJpJ
— Steve Stewart-Williams (@SteveStuWill) September 19, 2023
Try really hard, and then stop, recover, and repeat. https://t.co/XOn7jS0cHn
— Harvard Business Review (@HarvardBiz) September 21, 2023
“As I look back on my life, I realize that every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better.”
— Vala Afshar (@ValaAfshar) August 17, 2023
"Writing is drawing, drawing is writing. Because it's the same gesture. They're close already."
— Zeeshan Pathan (@ZeeshanJaanam) August 10, 2023
—Etel Adnan pic.twitter.com/TDfIg7Nvx7
why is it a number of literary novels etc. that have to do with people of color characters, it’s so much about trauma or something awful? not saying one shouldn’t write about the stuff we experience but our lives do include humor, and love, and not always the “struggle”.
— Sudip Bhattacharya (@ResistRun) September 16, 2023
In Arabic, the word “shi’r” (poetry) is related in root to the word “shi’oor” (feeling) but how to turn “shi’oor” into “shi’r” is the main task of the poet.
— amani (@Aurorraz_) August 13, 2023
If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more humane and decent world.
— Zeeshan Pathan (@ZeeshanJaanam) August 11, 2023
—Mark Strand
I don't care who you are: learn SQL
— Sabrina (@sabrinaesaquino) August 10, 2023
feeling pretty good about my job security rn pic.twitter.com/fFIkCaf9tI
— Molly Struve 🦄 (@molly_struve) August 8, 2023
"The thing you do obsessively between age 13 and 18, that's the thing you have the most chance of being world-class at."
— Cory Levy (@cory) August 7, 2023
- Bill Gates
3.5 years now of WFH and here's what I now have come to realize
— Sara Mauskopf (@sm) August 4, 2023
You get *more stuff done* when you work from home
You make *more progress* when you meet in person
It's important not to confuse doing stuff for progress! Sometimes the same, sometimes not.
No, slavery did not benefit those who were enslaved.
— Nina Turner (@ninaturner) July 24, 2023
End of discussion.
Nationalism is just racism with a flag.
— amani (@Aurorraz_) August 11, 2023
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
— Vala Afshar (@ValaAfshar) August 11, 2023
—James Baldwin pic.twitter.com/J9BvLSIWut
In 1807, Omar ibn Said, a Muslim scholar, was stolen from Senegal & sold into slavery in America. He left behind an autobiography written in Arabic.
— Bayt Al Fann (@BaytAlFann) August 23, 2023
To mark the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade & its Abolition, a thread on the remarkable story of Omar... pic.twitter.com/mcbwyRWjKS
Photo of the Week 📸
— red. (@redstreamnet) August 13, 2023
Nairobi, Kenya - Police arrest a protester holding a “Colonialism never really ended” sign at demonstrations against Kenya’s crippling cost-of-living crisis and deadly police violence, which resulted in the deaths of 30 people during last month’s unrest. pic.twitter.com/nc58SBTtxz
I want to produce a Netflix show in the league of The Great British Bake Off but for code reviews.
— Jaana Dogan ヤナ ドガン (@rakyll) July 15, 2023
There is a possibility that there will be a billion programmers in 5 years.
— hardmaru (@hardmaru) July 6, 2023
Effort is recognized, outcomes are rewarded.
— Vala Afshar (@ValaAfshar) June 29, 2023
Dunno who made this but it's genius. Why change fails: pic.twitter.com/GSH5p0ApPy
— Jasper Polak (@polak_jasper) September 22, 2023
One of my favorite @paulg essays
— Sar Haribhakti (@sarthakgh) September 22, 2023
“When experts are wrong, it's often because they're experts on an earlier version of the world.” https://t.co/tHahl2eZQQ pic.twitter.com/4IctnPNcT2
An apology under pressure is not an apology.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) August 13, 2023
NEW: a recent study found a fascinating pattern
— John Burn-Murdoch (@jburnmurdoch) September 22, 2023
People are becoming more zero-sum in their thinking, and weaker economic growth may explain why
Older generations grew up with high growth and formed aspirational attitudes; younger ones have faced low growth and are more zero-sum pic.twitter.com/yXFhjHBMV2
Anything that starts with “the number of ...”.
— Andrea Sipos 🚢 (@AASipos) September 16, 2023
In the old days, before startups, it was obvious to new grads which employers were most impressive to work for. It was as easy as judging the relative prestige of universities. Now it's much, much harder. You have to guess which cluster of nerds is the new Google.
— Paul Graham (@paulg) September 22, 2023
I really miss that environment where engineers were trusted and were given space. They were given space to fail as well. It was ok to fail. Since then, I don't think I have ever found a place that resembles me the old Google.
— Jaana Dogan ヤナ ドガン (@rakyll) August 17, 2023
Of course Menendez was taking bribes - I mean, have you seen what dinner costs at Newark Airport these days?? https://t.co/RzuzgHiVV5 pic.twitter.com/3HHc4gxG6G
— Benjamin McKean (@BLMcKean) September 22, 2023
forests suck and i hate them. parking lots should be there instead
— pudding person (@JUNlPER) August 31, 2023
software engineering is easy
— Madison Kanna (@Madisonkanna) August 21, 2023
just delete the ticket
we need a term for self inflicted complexity
— ThePrimeagen (@ThePrimeagen) August 17, 2023
I wish taco trucks would cruise the neighborhood like ice cream trucks
— greg (@greg16676935420) August 22, 2023
I'm a huge fan of that post-laundry feeling when you've got all your A-list clothes back in the game
— T-show ✞︎ (@kiiingsleyy) August 15, 2023
this is my roman empire pic.twitter.com/Lu0L4KtQoK
— New Jersey (@NJGov) September 20, 2023
Donald Trump is seen as a narcissistic sociopath. Some voters can relate.
— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) August 17, 2023
i'm going to marie kondo the heck out of this code
— 👩💻 Paige Bailey (@DynamicWebPaige) July 14, 2023
ChatGPT becoming more human by the day pic.twitter.com/j6iKwpkRkM
— Dara (@daraladje) September 21, 2023
Data visualization is used in two ways in data analysis:
— Rafael Irizarry (@rafalab) September 21, 2023
1) Communicating data insights
2) Guiding analysis and spotting data issues
While modern courses and books focus on the first, it's the second - exploratory data analysis - that is more important and harder to teach.
How photographer Sunny Inaganti captured the perfect moment when a heron and a keelback snake found out who had the quickest reactions on a fish pic.twitter.com/19c1FZkRh8
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) September 21, 2023
If you want an easier life, work on solving harder problems.
— Vala Afshar (@ValaAfshar) September 19, 2023
This is a subtle truth. Whatever you love, you are.
— Rumi (@Rumi_Quote) September 19, 2023
It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.
— Vala Afshar (@ValaAfshar) September 20, 2023
—Steve Jobs pic.twitter.com/jZuEWUQMm7
𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗹𝘆
— Dr. Milan Milanović (@milan_milanovic) September 19, 2023
An essential step in the software development lifecycle is code review. It enables developers to significantly enhance code quality. It resembles the authoring of a book. The story is written by the author, but it is then… pic.twitter.com/OGIMBK8tPm
i miss the days when tinkering and building things was low-status, low-drama, and you did it just for the heck of it
— 👩💻 Paige Bailey (@DynamicWebPaige) September 17, 2023
suggested to my students to wear masks since we're in a room with no windows. explained my health situation and my partner's. today, everyone wore masks. one student had an entire box of extras for everyone. it was amazing.
— Sudip Bhattacharya (@ResistRun) September 16, 2023
Men will literally fail tech interviews because they're bad at programming and underqualified and then complain about diversity hiring.
— mewtru •ᴗ• (@trunarla) September 14, 2023
Smart people use simple language.
— Vala Afshar (@ValaAfshar) September 13, 2023
$100 is basically an adult dollar
— Jaren Sustar (@financecowboy) September 9, 2023
Embracing every possible conspiracy doesn't make you an independent and critical thinker, but an overly dependent & uncritical one.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) September 9, 2023
Distance yourself from people who have a problem with every solution.
— Vala Afshar (@ValaAfshar) September 7, 2023
Distance yourself from people who make you feel bad about yourself.
Distance yourself from people who consistently invite unnecessary drama.
Distance yourself from people who play status games.
If the White House plan is to publicly pick fights with Big Pharma, well… it’s a good plan. https://t.co/9irNXegDBk
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) September 1, 2023
You’ll never have enough time. That’s just the way it is.
— Bojan Tunguz (@tunguz) September 1, 2023
"I don't have talent, so I just get up earlier."
— FS (@farnamstreet) August 14, 2023
– Henry Rollins
Sleep is beautiful because it makes your training jobs advance
— Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy) August 24, 2023
'Mushroom Medley' by photographer and artist Jill Bliss #WomensArt #September1st pic.twitter.com/SquuDQglEr
— #WOMENSART (@womensart1) September 1, 2023
"almost 98% of people in the world will try to pull [your ambition back] and say 'seems a little bit too crazy, a little bit too out there, a little bit too ambitious" pic.twitter.com/jmnDdxFdTD
— near (@nearcyan) August 31, 2023
the person who's about to legislate your human rights away pic.twitter.com/GHU1Vvj54R
— matt (@mattxiv) August 30, 2023
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
— Vala Afshar (@ValaAfshar) August 30, 2023
―Haruki Murakami pic.twitter.com/Uz8DhFwSyQ
some people who make programming easier
— 🔎Julia Evans🔍 (@b0rk) August 29, 2023
(who am I missing?) pic.twitter.com/qp1xayvJw9
RNA as a message
— Patrick Hsu (@pdhsu) August 28, 2023
RNA as a catalyst
RNA as a regulator
RNA as a medicine
...what's next?
The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.
— Vala Afshar (@ValaAfshar) August 28, 2023
—Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (August 28, 1963) pic.twitter.com/OecMTXSB2B
You can code for a paycheck, you can code not for a paycheck. If you are in the latter group, it's good to remember that you are one of the luckiest group of people walking on this planet, and you are possibly pretty rich. https://t.co/Ij3LN9PnWl
— Jaana Dogan ヤナ ドガン (@rakyll) August 16, 2023
I attributed it to Napoleon. https://t.co/X5gUmygiTw
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) August 24, 2023
Claude Monet’s Flowers pic.twitter.com/HLLodIgtvD
— soli (@solisolsoli) June 25, 2023
peace pic.twitter.com/owdNOh8KWy
— ︎ ︎ (@artindetails) September 1, 2023
If you're ignorant of love, what good are sunrises and sunsets to you?
— amani (@Aurorraz_) August 27, 2023
― Amin Maalouf, Samarkand
I think, to a poet, the human community is like the community of birds to a bird, singing to each other. Love is one of the reasons we are singing to one another, love of language itself, love of sound, love of singing itself, and love of the other birds.
— Zeeshan Pathan (@ZeeshanJaanam) August 26, 2023
—Sharon Olds
Our ancestors spent time being idle and resting. They weren’t worried about getting 10k steps, tracking their macros, or hitting their protein goals. The healthiest humans didn’t care to do any of that. They simply lived intuitively and were deeply connected to the natural world.
— Melanie 🌸 (@VitallyMelanie) August 15, 2023
Home is not where you were born,
— amani (@Aurorraz_) August 26, 2023
Home is where all your attempts to escape cease.
-Naguib Mahfouz pic.twitter.com/C19OtwvCbi
Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) August 27, 2023
[📹 Cole DeMarco]pic.twitter.com/T8vJcJSUZ3
pretty pic.twitter.com/Q3OmYvvceF
— Flowers (@FlowersDaily_) August 27, 2023
Gustav Klimt - Orchard - 1907 pic.twitter.com/K8R7mI8RoK
— Zeeshan Pathan (@ZeeshanJaanam) August 17, 2023
The point of poetry is to love the world.
— Uche Nduka (@UcheNdukaPoet) August 13, 2023
A friday full of blessings — pic.twitter.com/HjwR0puGAv
— Mikael (@mikael_jibril) June 8, 2023