Writing Ideas
Something you said in a conversation with a friend that surprised them (In defense of blub studies, You don’t need to work on hard problems)
Document a project you did recently—what went well, what went poorly (Your room can be as bright as the outdoors, Comparing the Same Project in Rust, Haskell, C++, Python, Scala and OCaml)
Explain how to do something you do (this post, Why and how to start a startup serving emerging markets, My weekly review habit, How to make video calls almost as good as face-to-face)
Explain how something works (Why squared error?, What is a major chord?)
Review a book (Why Nations Fail and the long-termist view of global poverty, Book review: Legal Systems Very Different From Ours)
Curate a set of links about a topic (My favorite essays of life advice, Gwern’s Most Important Writing (in essays, tweets, book reviews, and other forms))
A rant (Wireless is a trap, Matthew Walker’s “Why We Sleep” Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors)
Something internet commenters/public intellectuals frequently say that seems wrong (Don’t claw back employee options, The Problems with Deliberate Practice)
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