jeffshek

Derek Sivers has phenomenal book summaries. https://sivers.org/book

- changed my life - read summary first, if really good, buy and read book - cons are 1) makes you think less about content 2) may be too easily forgotten 3) retention isn't as high as reading a book that hits theme over and over with a sledgehammer 4) ignore books with bad review that may be useful to you

But you're compounding the 2.5% only with itself. If you had reinvested the dividend back into the stock (common), the return is higher than 48.5%.

I've played a little with Memorang after reading this yesterday, but I'm struggling to understand what the difference in studying was before and after of Anki.

What was the reason Memorang changed for the students that Anki didn't provide? Better default flash cards? Gamification? Or multi-factors?

I've been using Anki for about a year, and I've read a lot about Anki burnout (missing a few days means I'm going to dedicate 2-3 hours on the weekend to catch up). I don't procrastinate this as much so this becomes less of a fear.

This was hinted at Chicago's JuliaCon about some consulting work. Some of the JuliaCon participants brought up a question - "I love Julia, etc, but how can you convince me that this isn't going to be dumped once you guys all get bored?" - IIRC, Jeff Bezanson replied something along the lines of "I love this project and I'm comfortable starving on ramen while I work on this". Which is a noble thing for Bezanson to say, but actually made me nervous about Julia's future.

Considering it's obvious Bezanson and many of the core contributors works on Julia full-time * 2, I wasn't quite sure how he paid rent/food. And since everyone needs to pay food/rent ... this seems a very good thing for the contributors to continue working on Julia.

If you told me that the core developers were planning to eat ramen for years on end, I'd be very worried for a new language. Instead, this strikes a great balance for Julia to advance and keep the lights on.

Great piece.