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Leviathan, or The Whale by Philip Hoare - As a big fan of whales and Moby Dick, this was amazing.

Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold - This has been on my to-read list for years. Pretty great so far.

Why? Revenge? I would think that all parties involved prefer money over revenge.

I've been listening to EconTalk since 2007. It's one of the only podcasts that I never skip an episode, even if the topic or author doesn't initially seem too interesting.

Articles of Interest [0]. It's a podcast about clothes. I have little interest in fashion but for some reason this really clicked with me.

[0] https://www.radiotopia.fm/podcasts/articles-of-interest

At the end of the game, the king and the pawn go back into the same box.

Stories like this are why I only ever buy items on Amazon that are sold by and shipped from Amazon. (In case it's relevant, this is in the UK.) I've been buying from Amazon for 20 years and have only ever had issues on the rare occasions when I strayed from this rule.

Big plus-one for the Systems Design Interview channel. I learned a lot from watching those videos (repeatedly) when I was preparing.

That website has a wonderful retro feel to it. Functional and clutter free.

If you want to extend your journey into stationery, I highly recommend the Erasable podcast [0]. It reignited my love for wood pencils.

Stationery is such a fun and relatively inexpensive rabbit hole to fall into (as long as you steer clear of the bonkers fountain pens).

[0] https://www.erasable.us/

If you want to go deeper, Eli Maor's "e: The Story of a Number" [0] is a great read that doesn't shy away from showing a few equations.

[0]: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691168487/e-...

This is exactly why I am happy to be going back into the office. The physical separation really helps and my commute acts as a good transition period.

It's also not some new phenomenon. The chart goes back to 2012 and is basically flat over the last nine years.

I'd be interested to see the same chart (a) going back another 10-20 years and (b) showing older age groups.

In case anyone else hasn't heard of or used :x

> Like “:wq”, but write only when changes have been made.

https://til.hashrocket.com/posts/2fdb6afb66-difference-betwe...

There was one of these stuck onto at least one -80oC freezer in every lab I ever entered during my 20 years in biology.

It's incredible to consider how much time and money (funding) are backing these posters.

Not to nitpick, but it's Andrew Gelman. Murray Gell-Mann is the physicist.

I see the article was published in 2014. Does anyone know if much more has come out of this since then?

HyperNormalisation is amazing, as are all of Adam Curtis's other documentaries. I especially liked Bitter Lake as well. All highly recommended.

Or perhaps stop using Excel?

I have to ask, do people really use number pads that often that it's worth having the main key section off center?

I regret that I have but one upvote to give.

Great site! I love playing with colour combinations, but I don't have the colour sense to be able to put together palettes myself.

On the data side, I have often (mis)used colorbrewer [0] to play with colours and see what might work well in visualizations.

[0] http://colorbrewer2.org

My iPhone is a great product because it does more.

Great products don't have to be spartan. But in my experience they do seem to be intentional and value craftsmanship.

I can't believe that people are excited for a credit card.

We are surrounded by more and more genies that have escaped their bottles. The current tax systems we have are the result, and I'm afraid I don't see any way that's going to change.

One minute in and I saw a video that appeared to show an older guy secretly recording a girl playing hopscotch.

The concept is great. It's real, and that's amazing, but it's also a reminder of how terrible people can be.