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Here are the Internet forums that are still alive and kicking and full of information and interesting people.

• Admitting that “I don’t know” at least once a day will make you a better person.
• If you think someone is normal, you don’t know them very well. Normalcy is a fiction. Your job is to discover their weird genius.
• There should be at least one thing in your life you enjoy despite being no good at it. This is your play time, which will keep you young. Never apologize for it.
• Never accept a work meeting until you’ve seen the agenda and know what decisions need to be made. If no decisions need to be made, skip the meeting.

5. Tree-based knowledge organization.
6. Graph-based knowledge organization.
10. Expecting people to follow written instructions.
17. Arguing with people.
21. Wanting to be liked.
31. Waiting.
32. Quality over quantity.
35. Rewriting your code from scratch.

Huge list of self-hosted software.

Enjoy music through headphones on a low budget.

A directory of books, resources and courses for studying everything about music and sound.

No posts today! Murdered by Elon.

One of the few aggregators I loved to use. Goodbye.

Much more in there, but the basics:

1. Focus on direction, not destination
   Immerse yourself completely in the journey and you will reach your final goal gradually.
2. Raise your hand
   Asking questions is a fundamental human right.
3. Learn at your own pace
   Find your rhythm, find your flow. Don’t compare yourself to others.
4. Unplug
   You have the right to disconnect and move your attention towards what’s essential. Learn unplugged, far away from digital distractions.
5. Change your learning path (and mind)
   Don’t get too comfortable in the habit zone and start with changing the aversion to change. Think differently and learn new things.
6. Take a break
   Micro-breaks, lunch breaks, and longer breaks will all improve your learning performance. You have the right to rest.
7. Make mistakes
   Don’t fall into despair but Fail Forward.
8. Leave it unfinished
   We live in a super busy, multi-tasking, results-oriented society. Step away from your long to-do list and enjoy once in a while the beauty of an unstructured day.
9. Unlearn and forget
   Harness the power of unlearning. Reboot your mind, abandon old knowledge, actions and behaviours to create space.
10. Slow down
    Sometimes slow and steady will win the learning race. Make haste slowly.

The Avalanches – Since I Left You is missing off this list… But that can almost be forgiven.

75. The Apollo 11 surface checklist
76. Warren Buffett’s “Investment Criteria Checklist”
77. This grocery list
78. Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation
79. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
80. The U.S. Declaration of Independence list of grievances
81. The Fibonacci Sequence
82. Santa’s List!

When I was working at AWS, around 2017 we started getting excited pitches from companies who wanted to be part of the 5G build-out, saying that obviously there’d be lots of opportunities for public-cloud providers. But I never walked away convinced. Either I didn’t believe the supposed customers really needed what 5G offered, or I didn’t believe the opportunity was anywhere near big enough to justify the trillion-dollar build-out investment. Six years later, I still don’t. This is a report on a little online survey I ran, looking for actual real-world 5G impact to see if I was wrong.

I define a heresy as: something you believe that the people you most admire and respect don’t believe and reject out of hand.

With that criterion in mind, here are a bunch of Contemporary Heresies I’ve collected. These are not necessarily my heresies, although some are, some are not; many are “plausible — not insane” heresies that others around me believe.