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👋 Quit my job and moved to Asia. Building a new language learning app: https://yakk.app
🌍 Đà Nẵng, Việt Nam
🗣 Followers 215 · Following 386 · Logs 336 · Docked 3 years ago
Heuristic that you made good evening choices: the number of times you open Shazam.
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Good work takes time. That's a big part of why it's good. I have to remind myself sometimes. To steal an expression a friend of mine used last night: "there's no point screaming at a seed."
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The biggest predictor for productivity (and feeling happy) is having large, uninterrupted blocks of time. If I don't get that right, all the smaller factors fade to irrelevant for me.
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"It turns out my really big problem was thinking I might one day get rid of all my problems."
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Look, I'll level with you. I'm fairly sure at least 3 people think I've developed a pet name for my brain. Brian might seem like a weird choice, but it may be easier for me to just run with this now.
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I'm spending my Saturday night studying 100 Vietnamese flashcards due to a hectic past week. What a life! In all seriousness, it feels great putting in the work to make living in this country such a deeper and more fun experience.
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Super cool – a "quine" clock in JS. A quine is a program that has no input and outputs only its own code. https://aem1k.com/qlock
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Internet appreciation post. I’m lay on my couch in Vietnam. It’s 21:30. I’m chatting to my mother who’s walking over to the beach in the Dominican Republic. It’s 10:30 in the morning for her. We’re so far apart that she can see the sun and I can’t. Our voices, encoded into chunks and packeted across a vast distance over the internet via a multitude of devices, cables, signals, etc. means we can chat like we were in the same room. That’s still wild to me… as a thing that actually works.
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Lazy day rewatching Halt and Catch Fire. Such an underrated show.
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I was pretty sure my own perception of "popular" is not, in any way, reflective of facts. However my curious gander at the current TIOBE Index quickly confirmed that. Visual Basic 7, Fortran, Delphi and ASM at 10, 11, 12. Wild. https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index
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Last week I went on a 3-day solo retreat to Hội An to reflect, relax and be with my own thoughts for a while. I made a little video about it: https://youtu.be/nSkcQyXH5yk
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Hello from the land border at Lao Bảo between Vietnam and Laos. I’m basically in the middle of nowhere where goats and cows are roaming the streets, but the fact I can get on Station makes me happy.
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"It’s easier to act yourself into a new way of thinking than to think your way into a new way of acting."
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Station's cert has been updated to a v3 cert. I hope everyone made it back alive :)
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PSA: At some point in the next week I'm going to replace Station's cert with a new one. You'll see a warning about Station's cert having changed, that it may no longer be trustworthy, that perhaps its creator has been violently murdered by a hit squad from X due to internal jealously about how superior Station is. All of this is false, except the last last part. Context: Station currently uses a v1 x509 cert, which makes it harder for folks writing custom Gemini clients, and generally speaking, is just old. Bad call, Martin! So, I'll update it to a newer v3 cert and the world can rejoice in harmony, and peace and success will befall us all.
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PSA: Station finally now detects links in replies and shows them below the reply itself. In celebration, please link your favourite books. 👌
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Just pushed a little update to my personal site (which, to my shame, is still not on Gemini). I also updated my /now page with some deets of my recent retreat to the beautiful town of Hoi An here in Vietnam. https://martinrue.com
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That there are around 10⁸² atoms in the universe is a great example of how we can’t think well about large numbers. That looks wrong to me at first glance.
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Controversial opinion(?) I'm sick of finishing books with a strong sense that they were 300 pages just to appease the publisher/market, not because the author couldn't have been just as effective in 100 pages. I consider Derek Sivers a perfect counter example of this. Few books should need 300 pages.
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"Impatience is an argument with reality." I like this. I think it's even more useful with the qualifier: "You can win the argument, but not always." Impatience can be useful, but only when your odds of changing reality are high enough. Otherwise embrace it. Patience brings presence.
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The camera has really been getting its exercise lately. The fact the camera even survived this one is actually a miracle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvZ5amwkvRc
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After many visits to Sivers's /now page, I realised his new book (https://sive.rs/u) is in early access. So, naturally, I read the hell out of it. Loved it. Really appreciate the short, provocative style and it left me with plenty of things to mull over.
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Finally recorded a new video about life in Da Nang. 📽️ https://youtu.be/4J2uZqipzfY
💬 0 Replies · 1 Thumb · 1 month ago
It just cost me £1.58 to fill up my bike, which is now good for about 200km. Now that's a version of capitalism I can get behind.
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Today was peak life: Had a great sleep. Jumped on the motorbike and shot over to the coworking space. Finished a new vlog edit. Met some new people. Got stuck due to the flash storm. Hung out chatting to cool folks. Cruised home on the fumes of petrichor. Dinner and a book.
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"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page." Travel by itself doesn't change you much. What does change you, however, is an openness to engage with the sometimes huge differences in culture, attitudes, daily life, etc., that you often find via travel with that mindset. Vietnam has been a great teacher so far.
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This weekend was one of those that’s just good for the soul. I spent it on a remote island with a bunch of new friends I’ve made here in Vietnam. 10/10.
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I just learned about recency bias and it's already my new favourite.
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I'm shutting down a project I built and ran for 7 years, serving ~3,000 people. It's bittersweet. On one hand it's amazing to contribute something valuable for so many. On the other, our attention and focus are so important, and we have to allow them to take on new things fully.
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The root race conditions of all evil are.