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242 from 1 Jan 2012 to 20 Dec 2025
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2025 5

  1. Nothing outside
  2. No facts
  3. God is a playwright
  4. Zen coding
  5. Fork

2024 1

  1. Psas

2023 7

  1. Anxaity
  2. There is no normal
  3. Honest movements sell you less
  4. The future of Privacy Inc.
  5. The tyranny of unsolvable problems
  6. Things I was wrong about
  7. Nearer to the truth

2022 12

  1. Beauty
  2. Simple thoughts
  3. Memories
  4. Intelligence is in the network
  5. Dreaming of Evolution
  6. He said ask anything
  7. Nearer to the truth
  8. In Random we trust
  9. Battle cry
  10. Simulation Overflow: The Runtime
  11. A thousand signs
  12. Average

2021 10

  1. The great external
  2. Science client
  3. There is no team
  4. Simulation Overflow: Intervention
  5. Science™
  6. Oscillation
  7. Simulation Overflow: Part 2
  8. Techno conservatism
  9. How does Naval speak so eloquently?
  10. The Bitcoin Story

2020 5

  1. 4 things I've learned about negotiation
  2. On the Epic side of history
  3. A total hoax
  4. Bullshit opinions
  5. Simulation overflow

2019 5

  1. A year of pain, and some growth
  2. The imagined world
  3. Like Air
  4. What happens when an AI learns to read?
  5. The Top Shelf Principle

2018 80

  1. Evil algorithms
  2. Play the game
  3. The futility of knowledge
  4. Six flights
  5. That bitter taste
  6. The storyteller
  7. Susceptible to Control
  8. Real
  9. You, Deity
  10. How to learn programming the natural way
  11. Dog food is soylent for dogs
  12. Common Genius
  13. Simple
  14. Not all days are equal
  15. Notice
  16. Ambiance Monetizer
  17. Not open to suggestion
  18. It's not your fault
  19. The Artificial Life
  20. Imaginary
  21. Chaos Theory
  22. Masterless
  23. A world awaits
  24. Time is patient
  25. Visitors
  26. Bye bye
  27. Lethargy
  28. An old friend
  29. Resourceful
  30. Hardcoded
  31. Uncertainly Free
  32. Licenses are the death of freedom
  33. A definition of freedom
  34. A React Native tutorial
  35. Zzzzz...
  36. Meticulously Explicit
  37. You can be made to believe
  38. No Competiton
  39. Lossless Writing
  40. Launch
  41. The consumer isn’t stupid
  42. Melted
  43. The solution to fake news is more fake news
  44. Problem solver
  45. Win by one
  46. Fond Contempt
  47. Pure Capitalism
  48. Thoughtful
  49. Spinning
  50. Write everything down
  51. I'll give today 2 stars
  52. Proof of work
  53. The Influence Multiplier
  54. Chaos. Pure chaos.
  55. Problem = solution
  56. Wildcard schedule
  57. Ideas prison
  58. The mere act of observing
  59. One thing a day
  60. The Great Shift
  61. Sorry, nothing today
  62. Hazy
  63. Clarity
  64. Don't do something every day
  65. The God Move
  66. What's your axiom?
  67. The flower and the bee
  68. When you have to, you will
  69. Chip Away
  70. The Last One Percent
  71. Easy
  72. Joint Pain
  73. What if dreams are...
  74. 2.1 Progress Update
  75. Pricing cannot be an afterthought
  76. There's no such thing as app ideas
  77. The story progresses
  78. The same person
  79. Loosened
  80. I spread fake news today

2017 76

  1. The myth of telling people about your goals
  2. @ing people
  3. Layer code instead of modifying in place
  4. When did stocks become boring?
  5. Daily Routine
  6. When to write
  7. Christmas Eve Worklog
  8. Unprofitable Days
  9. The first four hours
  10. Get into it
  11. Do nothing
  12. Some marketing advice
  13. All of man's problems
  14. The mind is a wild place.
  15. 10,000 hours is way too many hours
  16. Things I'm exploring
  17. The human function is to want
  18. Journal Entry
  19. Objectively Difficult
  20. I've gotten stupider with time
  21. Be Intelligent For Your Users
  22. Not everything is a complex problem
  23. You’ll get there faster if you slow down
  24. Growth Articles That Make You Feel Small
  25. Be absolutely resolute in what you do
  26. Things vs. People
  27. Productivity of the soul
  28. Never ever play the What If game.
  29. Immediately do the thing that scares you. Immediately.
  30. 100% chance of failure
  31. Why is success scary?
  32. I enjoy struggling too much
  33. What is true, and what is beautiful.
  34. Life doesn't like to be observed
  35. When you're stuck, bash things together.
  36. A vision for how life should be
  37. Of the ground, and of the Sun
  38. The Courage That I Lack
  39. Why You're Resistant to Being Productive
  40. A class of internet-developing humans
  41. The Capitalism Squeeze (or, No One's Happy)
  42. Giving fate a chance to intervene
  43. Reality optimizes for the whole, not just you.
  44. Memories of Winter
  45. How does the universe look to nothing?
  46. A Photograph of the Mind
  47. The Romance of Another's Life
  48. Don't mistake stress for an existential crisis
  49. Is Nature Intelligent?
  50. Code Me
  51. How To Leave App Reviews Like A Decent Person
  52. PSA: Add dir="auto" to your inputs and textareas.
  53. When nothing happens
  54. Save yourself from Daylight Saving
  55. Do Everyday
  56. I'm glad I'm not doing hardware
  57. Post-Human
  58. The Secret Life of Software Bugs
  59. I'm not entirely sure you exist.
  60. Stop changing your homepage
  61. Don't build features you can't afford to maintain
  62. Build a Business, not an App
  63. Stop Waiting
  64. You could be anything
  65. I don't know, a million times
  66. You should quit your job.
  67. How To Destroy A Company
  68. I've seen heaven. And it's written in JavaScript.
  69. If doing something wags your tail, keep doing it
  70. A falling tree doesn't make a sound
  71. The universe is lazy-loaded
  72. I hate marketing
  73. Niceness happens in pockets
  74. Tethered
  75. A Hundred Redwood Trees
  76. The Meantime

2016 5

  1. Taking Risks Accelerates Progress
  2. Standing
  3. The Myth of Healthy Foods
  4. Invisible Probability Forces
  5. Entangled

2015 8

  1. Do the right thing.
  2. To update your software, take a vacation
  3. Wired In
  4. One Week in Peru
  5. A Well-Disciplined Machine
  6. Friends with Boredom
  7. The Importance of Looking
  8. Beginner's Luck

2014 6

  1. The Amazing Echo
  2. The chance success of startups in a wildly volatile marketplace
  3. Do not disturb
  4. Mobile phone batteries are not ready for 2014
  5. Meditation without the frustration
  6. How to maximize the number of email responses you get

2013 13

  1. 4 apps, 1 weekend
  2. Entrepreneurship is not ideation
  3. What to ask yourself when creating a startup
  4. Three Brands of Water
  5. The dangers of willful blindness
  6. The Human Class
  7. 10,000 Years Ago
  8. The Adverse Effects of Mental Profanity
  9. The benefits of willful blindness
  10. A Lonely Age
  11. Misunderstood
  12. Ones and Zeros
  13. Voices

2012 9

  1. The Ideal Self
  2. The New & Old
  3. The Wave
  4. Fate
  5. Every time
  6. Sadly
  7. The Coldest Winter
  8. The War Within
  9. Trouble