tylerdane

"Do you think I made the biggest mistake of my life doing this? If you do, you may not be wrong"

“The main problem of the engineer is to decide which approximations to make.” -- Dirac, The Engineer and the Physicist (1980)

Shannon's Information Theory paper

I started working on this in 2021 after quitting my job and squandering my time on silly things. I wanted an app that'd give me some structure. But my first iteration was bloated with notes, tasks, tags, events. It was trying to be an "everything app" like Notion, but it wasn't doing any job well.

So I deleted everything except normal events and just focused on making them fast to edit from the keyboard.

"What I cannot create, I do not understand."

Notes Richard Feynman made in 1961-64 to plan and prepare lectures for Caltech's two-year introductory physics course from the Cal Tech archives.

Alan put Einstein's theory in simple form, taking the book chapter by chapter, with directions on how to read it

"Just keep telling yourself that you're doing something that your brain is going to reward you for several years down the line"

Although I don't like their product...I think the thesis is sound.

When before the public in the pulpit, on the platform, or the stage, forget all rules, or rather make no effort to recall them. Your motto there should be heart-work, not head-work.

"Learning anything is a long term project, and long term projects are necessary for building a sense of control over your circumstances. Almost nothing can be deliberately and meaningfully changed within the scope of a day, but in months, certainly years, a lot of things can be made to happen."

Fav quote: "I have made changes in the world that are beyond what most people thought was possible, and I hope that my judgment continues to be good as to what is possible to change and what is not."