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  • How I Became a “Morning Person”

    I’ve been sleeping in since kindergarten. If there was somewhere to be in the morning, I was either slightly late or really late. Getting to…

  • Deep Work (highlights)

    My Kindle highlights from Deep Work by Cal Newport Deep Work: Professional activities performed in a state of distraction-free concentration that push your cognitive capabilities…

  • Physicist to Programmer: bottom-up vs. top-down learning

    Two years ago I left a PhD in physics, joined a startup, and taught myself to be a software developer. I had to radically alter…

  • Why you Should Quit While You’re Ahead

    ‘”Quit while you’re ahead” is an effective strategy for forming new habits when it is applied locally rather than globally. I don’t mean quit a…