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  1. Nov 2021
    1. Think of some regular walk or drive or ride you experience often, or even that you’re experiencing for the first time. Imagine yourself a curator. Decide what, among the things you notice, you might declare public works of art.

  2. Oct 2021
    1. There is nothing that gets in the way of success more than avoidance. We avoid hard conversations. We avoid certain people. We avoid hard decisions. We avoid evidence that contradicts what we think. We avoid starting a project until we're certain of the outcome. ... Sometimes we muster half the courage. And here’s the interesting thing. Half-efforts tend to make things worse, not better. When things don’t get better, it only reinforces that we shouldn’t have said anything in the first place. Avoiding isn’t better, it’s just easier. Everything becomes harder until we stop avoiding what's getting in the way. The longer you wait the higher the cost.

  3. May 2021
    1. Useful code is actively managed to stay useful.

      This somehow clicked for me. More than the tools such as zettelkasten, the process of creating/maintaining code or notes is essentially a digital garden. You have to tend to it regularly to make sure the leaves don't wither away.

    1. Note that array.length isn't necessarily the number of items in the array. Consider the

      golang does a better job at defining capacity and length. In this example, length would be 3 and capacity would be 100.

  4. Apr 2021
    1. Some elements have no content and are called empty elements

      Which elements won't have a closing tag ? A possible answer might be elements that dont have any content. for example, img.

  5. Mar 2021
    1. The application code does not invoke the functions itself, but the runtime environment - the browser, invokes the function at an appropriate time, when the event has occurred

      Callbacks, sounds pretty useful. It's sounds like a pub sub mechanism, where the environment calls function in response to a trigger, instead of the function polling for a state change.

  6. Feb 2021
    1. mental models

      Keep hearing this term again and again

    2. Here again, it’s not a story about a lack of prevention

      How true is this ? Can cancer really be prevented ? What about the genetics story ?

    1. Being able to do something online that you can’t do in any other way is important. It’s all about the fundamental tenet of building any business

      This statement displays the attention to detail for how much successful founders pay for their business. I would not have expected the reasoning for the books