streamed requests should have the best performance on a per-message basis

hardware complexity, manages computational resources, and provides isolation and protection. Most importantly, it directly has privilege access to the underlying hardware.

Given that the latest attack wasn't impacting us or any of our customers, we decided to let it run for a while and see what we could learn.

1. Nurturing their careers—strategizing and focused work 2. Nurturing their relationships—giving their families and friends their best 3. Nurturing themselves—exercise and spiritual and creative practices

Baumeister ran an experiment testing willpower. To one group, he gave a glass of glucose-containing lemonade. The other group used an artificial sweetener. The group that got the real drink performed better on tests of self-control and willpower than the control.

“overview ruler”

Getting a broad, scientific understanding of a field can’t answer all questions, but it can avoid the worst kinds of errors.

Much of the potential source of books and blogs to become a distraction seems to me to come from this entertainment aspect. Just like anything else you enjoy for its own sake, it can become a distraction.

Since a lot of this testing and tweaking is low-profile, many of the people who seem to be able to consistently take huge bets and win, are actually engaged in a sophisticated process of risk minimization by gathering more information.

Why should we use JSON Web Tokens?

Or take what happens on Smashing Magazine’s JAM‐stack site: each time a user comments on an article, a simple func‐tion commits the comment to the site’s repository and triggers a newbuild (as long the comment passes moderation).

“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool.”

Note that webpack will not alter any code other than import and export statements. If you are using other ES2015 features, make sure to use a transpiler such as Babel or Bublé via webpack's loader system.

Start simple Work on things that you like If you have no clue what to do, fiddle around Don't be afraid to experiment Find a friend to work with, share ideas! It’s OK to copy stuff (to give you an idea) Keep your ideas in a sketch book Build, take apart, rebuild Lots of things can go wrong, stick with it

Ultralearning, with its focus on aggressiveness, therefore is about seriously answering the question, “what activities should I do to learn this well?” Those activities are often more effortful than the default, but they are also more effective. This is what I’m trying to advocate in encouraging ultralearning—picking activities that actually let you learn and not filler ones that feel good but have no value.

(step, move)

ability to intercept and handle network requests, including programmatically managing a cache of responses.

many teachers were eager for students to—as one put it—“get out of their bubble.”

they might be tackling the activity simultaneously, or they might engage asynchronously across a few days.

Elderly British people (the majority of whom voted to leave) must deal with dropping pensions and potentially worse healthcare due to reduced funding.

“Do not be ashamed to make a temporary withdrawal from the field if you see that your enemy is stronger than you; it is not winning or losing a single battle that matters, but how the war ends.”— Paulo Coelho, Warrior of the Light

“Grand strategy is the art of looking beyond the present battle and calculating ahead. It requires that you focus on your ultimate goal and plot to reach it.”— Robert Greene, The 33 Strategies of War

(2) I’m not smart enough to figure everything out myself, so I want to ‘master the best of what other people have already figured out.’

(1) Go to bed smarter than when you woke up

By shouldering some of readers’ self-monitoring and regulation, these authors’ efforts can indeed lighten the metacognitive burden. But metacognition is an inherently dynamic process, evolving continuously as readers’ own conceptions evolve. Books are static. Prose can frame or stimulate readers’ thoughts, but prose can’t behave or respond to those thoughts as they unfold in each reader’s head. The reader must plan and steer their own feedback loops.

weave unfamiliar new forms—not from paper, and not from pixels, but from insights about human cognition.