[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":2504},["ShallowReactive",2],{"article-/articles/09-write-about-your-work":3,"library-posts":74,"library-books":227},{"id":4,"title":5,"author":6,"body":7,"date":57,"description":58,"extension":59,"image":6,"meta":60,"navigation":61,"nearby":62,"path":66,"seo":67,"slug":6,"stem":68,"tags":69,"__hash__":73},"content/articles/09-write-about-your-work.md","Reading and writing about work",null,{"type":8,"value":9,"toc":53},"minimark",[10,19,22,25,28,39,50],[11,12,13,14,18],"p",{},"I've recently had the opportunity to refresh a knowledge base at work.\nAs I sit down to discover what I can learn, and what I can contribute,\nI'm reflecting on the value of reading and writing about the systems we build.\nAs we enter an era where we're writing much less software by hand, I suspect that\nthe practice of reading and writing ",[15,16,17],"em",{},"about"," our systems, including the problems\nwe're trying to solve, and how we're solving them, is likely waning as well.",[11,20,21],{},"In my career, I've worked on three teams that cared deeply about optimizing\nprocesses for knowledge sharing. I've worked on many others that valued this\npractice to a lesser degree. The teams that valued knowledge sharing built norms\naround the practice of reading and writing content by engineers and domain experts.\nEach was different in terms of scale and culture; one, a ~100-person medical device startup.\nThe second, a big-tech (FAANG) company, where I subcontracted for several months.\nThe third was within a team I led; we spent several years building custom knowledge\nbase software within a 15-person software agency.",[11,23,24],{},"The factors driving the perceived value of knowledge sharing differed at each company.\nThe medical device startup's work product was highly regulated; producing and maintaining standardized\ndocumentation was protocol. However, its leadership also leaned heavily into contributing\nto an internal Q&A board and protected dedicated time for engineers to spend asking and answering questions.\nManagers and leads encouraged new engineers to orient themselves through self-directed exploration of the Q&A\nsystem and other documentation. The big tech company optimized its knowledge management for a globally-distributed team.\nThe knowledge base here helped developers easily identify subject matter experts and navigate massive codebases and complex\ninfrastructure with autonomy. My own team, a small cohort within an agency, captured knowledge as a means to optimize\nonboarding staff to time-sensitive client work, which was often championed by one or two individuals.\nWe also shared specialized knowledge with each other in areas like web accessibility and machine learning.",[11,26,27],{},"Working within each of these teams taught me the value and challenges of reading and writing about work.\nPractices of knowledge sharing within groups emerge from the skills, tastes, and discipline of the particular group,\nas well as historical context and other external conditions.",[11,29,30,31,34,35,38],{},"What did each of these contexts, where \"writing docs\" was the norm, have in common? Reflecting, two things come to mind:\n",[15,32,33],{},"improved autonomy"," and ",[15,36,37],{},"conscious interdependence"," (or, perhaps, community?).\nWhen there is a practice and expectation that knowledge about design and decision-making will be shared,\nas a new engineer, I know I can orient myself by reading and asking questions. As a contributor, effective writing\nand question-answering force me to think clearly about my work. As a lead, I know that the team will maintain the\ncontext it needs to sustain expertise, which enables the potential for more thoughtful decisions and more empowered decision-making.",[11,40,41,42,45,46,49],{},"Writing takes patience. It's not easy to write well. It's all the more difficult to write well about complex,\nevolving systems for an audience whose questions and curiosity you must broadly anticipate.\nIt's also not always pleasant to ",[15,43,44],{},"read"," docs -- many knowledge bases are woefully incomplete, fragmented, and\nlittered with stale information. That said, I believe it's more important than ever\nfor engineers -- ",[15,47,48],{},"humans"," -- to read and write about what we build. The process of human learning, reading, and\nwriting is slow, by the standards of our typical work culture; this slowness, and the moderate pain\nassociated with the maintenance of knowledge-sharing systems, is crucial to our collective wellbeing.",[11,51,52],{},"I hope we see more teams invest time in thoughtful human learning, including reading and writing.\nI believe it is perennially valuable to turn our attention to one thing at a time, for extended periods.\nIt's crucial that we listen to and read the thoughts and decision-thinking of those in our respective communities,\nand that we take time to thoughtfully share our own. 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Danger is not at first, for then we are unconscious, but in the after - slower - Days - Do not try to be saved - but let Redemption find you - as it certainly will - Love is it's own rescue, for we-at our supremest, are but it's trembling Emblems -","Your scholar -","Emily Dickinson, letter to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1863",{"path":1491,"slug":1492,"title":1493,"author":955,"date":1494,"year":137,"finished":1481,"finishedMonth":249,"tags":1495,"threads":1496,"notes":241,"passages":1497},"/reading/more-than-allegory","more-than-allegory","More than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth and Belief","2021-09-19",[237,828,275],[88,146],[],{"path":1499,"slug":1500,"title":1501,"author":1502,"date":1503,"year":137,"finished":1481,"finishedMonth":249,"tags":1504,"threads":1505,"notes":241,"passages":1506},"/reading/an-introduction-to-information-theory","an-introduction-to-information-theory","An Introduction to Information Theory: Symbols, Signals and Noise","John P. 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When I would come to her crying because my feelings were hurt, she could be terribly unsympathetic. \"That's not grief.\" she would say. \"You're just feeling sorry for yourself.\" Self-pity weakens us; grief, which means sorrow for others, ennobles us and releases inner resources to help.",{"path":1633,"slug":1634,"title":1635,"author":815,"date":1636,"year":137,"finished":1616,"finishedMonth":296,"tags":1637,"threads":1638,"notes":241,"passages":1639},"/reading/the-red-book","the-red-book","The Red Book: A Reader's Edition: Philemon","2021-07-05",[319,426,427],[146],[],{"path":1641,"slug":1642,"title":1643,"author":1005,"date":1644,"year":137,"finished":1645,"finishedMonth":340,"tags":1646,"threads":1647,"notes":241,"passages":1648},"/reading/just-this","just-this","Just This","2021-06-30","June 2021",[598,828,563],[88],[],{"path":1650,"slug":1651,"title":1652,"author":54,"date":1653,"year":137,"finished":1645,"finishedMonth":340,"tags":1654,"threads":1657,"notes":241,"passages":1658},"/reading/nordic-tales-folktales","nordic-tales-folktales","Nordic Tales: Folktales from Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, and Denmark","2021-06-20",[1655,1656],"folklore","scandinavia",[112,238],[],{"path":1660,"slug":1661,"title":1662,"author":1663,"date":1664,"year":137,"finished":1665,"finishedMonth":629,"tags":1666,"threads":1667,"notes":241,"passages":1668},"/reading/dealers-of-lightning","dealers-of-lightning","Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age","Michael Hiltzik","2021-05-31","May 2021",[747,916,238],[103,89,238],[],{"path":1670,"slug":1671,"title":1672,"author":1673,"date":1674,"year":137,"finished":1665,"finishedMonth":629,"tags":1675,"threads":1677,"notes":61,"passages":1678},"/reading/soul-of-a-new-machine","soul-of-a-new-machine","The Soul of a New Machine","Tracy Kidder","2021-05-30",[238,1676],"information age",[89,238],[],{"path":1680,"slug":1681,"title":1682,"author":1683,"date":1684,"year":137,"finished":1685,"finishedMonth":405,"tags":1686,"threads":1688,"notes":241,"passages":1689},"/reading/first-signs","first-signs","The First Signs: Unlocking the Mysteries of the World's Oldest Symbols","Genevieve von Petzinger","2021-04-21","April 2021",[1687,427],"anthropology",[146,238],[],{"path":1691,"slug":131,"title":1692,"author":638,"date":1693,"year":137,"finished":1685,"finishedMonth":405,"tags":1694,"threads":1695,"notes":241,"passages":1696},"/reading/peace-is-every-step","Peace is Every Step","2021-04-19",[644,1325],[88],[],{"path":1698,"slug":1699,"title":1700,"author":1701,"date":1702,"year":137,"finished":1685,"finishedMonth":405,"tags":1703,"threads":1706,"notes":241,"passages":1707},"/reading/bhagavad-gita","bhagavad-gita","The Bhagavad Gita","Unknown","2021-04-15",[1704,1705],"hindusim","yoga",[88],[],{"path":1709,"slug":1710,"title":1711,"author":1712,"date":1713,"year":137,"finished":1685,"finishedMonth":405,"tags":1714,"threads":1717,"notes":241,"passages":1718},"/reading/sand-county-almanac","sand-county-almanac","Sand County Almanac","Aldo Leopold","2021-04-14",[352,1715,1716],"ecology","environmentalism",[355],[],{"path":1720,"slug":1721,"title":1722,"author":1723,"date":1724,"year":137,"finished":1685,"finishedMonth":405,"tags":1725,"threads":1726,"notes":61,"passages":1727},"/reading/the-living-mountain","the-living-mountain","The Living Mountain","Nan Shepherd","2021-04-11",[355],[355],[],{"path":1729,"slug":1730,"title":1731,"author":1732,"date":1733,"year":137,"finished":1734,"finishedMonth":465,"tags":1735,"threads":1737,"notes":61,"passages":1738},"/reading/the-world-ending-fire","the-world-ending-fire","The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry","Wendell Berry","2021-03-12","March 2021",[355,1715,1736],"community",[355],[1739],[1740],"The difference between a path and a road is not only the obvious one. A path is little more than a habit that comes with knowledge of a place. It sort of ritual of familiarity. As a form, it is a form of contact with a known landscape. It is not destructive. It is the perfect adaptation, through experience and familiarity, of movement to place; it obeys the natural contours; such obstacles as it meets it goes around. A road, on the other hand, even the primitive road, embodies a resistance against the landscape. Its reason is not simply the necessity for movement, but haste. Its wish is to avoid contact with the landscape; it seeks so far as possible to go over the country, rather t through it; its aspiration, as we see dearly in the example of our modem ways, is to be a bridge; its tendency is to translate place into space in order traverse it with the least effort. It is destructive, seeking to remove or destroy all obstacles in its way. The primitive road advanced by the destruction of forest; modern roads advance by the destruction of topography. (Wendell Berry, “A Native Hill”)",{"path":1742,"slug":1743,"title":1744,"author":1745,"date":1746,"year":137,"finished":1734,"finishedMonth":465,"tags":1747,"threads":1748,"notes":61,"passages":1749},"/reading/cloud-of-unknowing","cloud-of-unknowing","The Cloud of Unknowing","Anonymous, translated by Carmen Acevedo Butcher","2021-03-10",[1008,563,564],[88],[1750],[1751],"\"And so I urge you, go after experience rather than knowledge. On account of pride, knowledge may often deceive you, but this gentle, loving affection will not deceive you. Knowledge tends to breed conceit, but love builds. Knowledge is full of labor, but love, full of rest.\"",{"path":1753,"slug":1754,"title":1755,"author":1756,"date":1757,"year":137,"finished":1734,"finishedMonth":465,"tags":1758,"threads":1759,"notes":61,"passages":1760},"/reading/revelations-of-divine-love","revelations-of-divine-love","Revelations of Divine Love","Julian of Norwich","2021-03-01",[1008,563,564],[88],[],{"path":1762,"slug":1763,"title":1764,"author":1765,"date":1757,"year":137,"finished":1734,"finishedMonth":465,"tags":1766,"threads":1767,"notes":241,"passages":1768},"/reading/the-old-ways","the-old-ways","The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot","Robert McFarlane",[530,355],[355],[],{"path":1770,"slug":1771,"title":1772,"author":1773,"date":1774,"year":137,"finished":1775,"finishedMonth":496,"tags":1776,"threads":1779,"notes":241,"passages":1780},"/reading/four-arthurian-romances-unabridged","four-arthurian-romances-unabridged","Four Arthurian Romances","Chrétien de Troyes","2021-02-22","February 2021",[1777,485,1778],"romance","medieval",[112],[],{"path":1782,"slug":1783,"title":1784,"author":1785,"date":1786,"year":137,"finished":1787,"finishedMonth":528,"tags":1788,"threads":1790,"notes":241,"passages":1791},"/reading/say-nothing","say-nothing","Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland","Patrick Radden Keefe","2021-01-31","January 2021",[238,926,1789],"20th century",[238],[],{"path":1793,"slug":1794,"title":1795,"author":1796,"date":1797,"year":137,"finished":1787,"finishedMonth":528,"tags":1798,"threads":1799,"notes":241,"passages":1800},"/reading/nicholas-black-elk-medicine-man-missionary-mystic","nicholas-black-elk-medicine-man-missionary-mystic","Nicholas Black Elk: Medicine Man, Missionary, Mystic","Michael F. Steltenkamp","2021-01-22",[725,365,563,726],[88,238],[],{"path":1802,"slug":1803,"title":1804,"author":1805,"date":1806,"year":137,"finished":1787,"finishedMonth":528,"tags":1807,"threads":1809,"notes":241,"passages":1810},"/reading/gathering-moss","gathering-moss","Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses","Robin Wall Kimmerer","2021-01-20",[355,1715,1808],"mosses",[355],[],{"path":1812,"slug":1813,"title":1814,"author":1815,"date":1816,"year":137,"finished":1787,"finishedMonth":528,"tags":1817,"threads":1818,"notes":241,"passages":1819},"/reading/the-wisdom-jesus","the-wisdom-jesus","The Wisdom Jesus","Cynthia Bourgeault","2021-01-07",[1008,563,808],[88],[],{"path":1821,"slug":1822,"title":1823,"author":1824,"date":1825,"year":156,"finished":1826,"finishedMonth":561,"tags":1827,"threads":1828,"notes":241,"passages":1829},"/reading/the-seven-storey-mountain","the-seven-storey-mountain","The Seven Storey Mountain","Thomas Merton","2020-11-26","November 2020",[563,1379,631],[88,238],[],{"path":1831,"slug":1832,"title":1833,"author":1834,"date":1835,"year":156,"finished":1826,"finishedMonth":561,"tags":1836,"threads":1837,"notes":241,"passages":1838},"/reading/dead-souls","dead-souls","Dead Souls","Nikolai Gogol","2020-11-24",[416,251,252],[112],[],{"path":1840,"slug":1841,"title":1842,"author":1843,"date":1835,"year":156,"finished":1826,"finishedMonth":561,"tags":1844,"threads":1845,"notes":241,"passages":1846},"/reading/the-river-of-consciousness-unabridged","the-river-of-consciousness-unabridged","The River of Consciousness","Oliver Sacks",[576,509,330],[146,112],[],{"path":1848,"slug":1849,"title":1850,"author":1851,"date":1852,"year":156,"finished":1826,"finishedMonth":561,"tags":1853,"threads":1854,"notes":241,"passages":1855},"/reading/dangerous-mystic","dangerous-mystic","Dangerous Mystic: Meister Eckhart's Path to the God Within","Joel F. Harrington","2020-11-10",[564,563,725],[88,238],[],{"path":1857,"slug":1858,"title":1859,"author":1860,"date":1852,"year":156,"finished":1826,"finishedMonth":561,"tags":1861,"threads":1862,"notes":241,"passages":1863},"/reading/gnosticism-from-nag-hammadi-to-the-gospel-of-judas","gnosticism-from-nag-hammadi-to-the-gospel-of-judas","Gnosticism: From Nag Hammadi to the Gospel of Judas (Great Courses)","David Brakke",[827,828,238],[88,238],[],{"path":1865,"slug":1866,"title":1867,"author":54,"date":1852,"year":156,"finished":1826,"finishedMonth":561,"tags":1868,"threads":1869,"notes":241,"passages":1870},"/reading/new-seeds-of-contemplation-unabridged","new-seeds-of-contemplation-unabridged","New Seeds of Contemplation",[563,598,631],[88],[],{"path":1872,"slug":1873,"title":1874,"author":1875,"date":1876,"year":156,"finished":1877,"finishedMonth":249,"tags":1878,"threads":1879,"notes":241,"passages":1880},"/reading/paradise-lost","paradise-lost","Paradise Lost","John Milton","2020-09-27","September 2020",[476,485,563],[88,112],[],{"path":1882,"slug":1883,"title":1884,"author":638,"date":1885,"year":156,"finished":1877,"finishedMonth":249,"tags":1886,"threads":1887,"notes":61,"passages":1888},"/reading/the-art-of-living-life","the-art-of-living-life","The Art of Living: Peace and Freedom in the Here and Now","2020-09-13",[644],[88],[1889],[1890],"I see that I am like a wave on the surface of the ocean. I see myself in all the other waves, and I see all the other waves in me. The manifestation or the disappearance of the waves does not lessen the presence of the ocean.\"",{"path":1892,"slug":1893,"title":1894,"author":1895,"date":1896,"year":156,"finished":1897,"finishedMonth":263,"tags":1898,"threads":1899,"notes":61,"passages":1900},"/reading/wilderness-essays","wilderness-essays","Wilderness Essays","John Muir","2020-08-29","August 2020",[355],[355],[1901,1903,1905,1907,1909],[1902],"Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. Camp out among the grass and gentians of glacier meadows, in craggy garden nooks full of Nature's darlings. Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but Nature's sources never fail. Like a generous host, she offers here brimming cups in endless variety, served in a grand hall, the sky its ceiling, the mountains its walls, decorated with glorious paintings and enlivened with bands of music ever playing. The petty discomforts that beset the awkward guest, the unskilled camper, are quickly forgotten, while all that is precious remains. Fears vanish as soon as one is fairly free in the wilderness. (John Muir, \"The Yellowstone National Park\")",[1904],"Now came the solemn, silent evening. Long, blue, spiky shadows crept out across the snow-fields, while a rosy glow, at first scarce discernible, gradually deepened and suffused every mountain-top, flushing the glaciers and the harsh crags above them. This was the alpenglow, to me one of the most impressive of all the terrestrial manifestations of God. At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed and waiting like devout worshipers. Just before the alpenglow began to fade, two crimson clouds came streaming across the summit like wings of flame, rendering the sublime scene yet more impressive; then came darkness and the stars.",[1906],"How still the woods seem from here, yet how lively a stir the hidden animals are making; digging, gnawing, biting, eyes shining, at work and play, getting food, rearing young, roving through the underbrush, climbing the rocks, wading solitary marshes, tracing the banks of the lakes and streams! Insect swarms are dancing in the sunbeams, burrowing in the ground, diving, swimming,--a cloud of witnesses telling Nature's joy. The plants are as busy as the animals, every cell in a swirl of enjoyment, humming like a hive, singing the old new song of creation. (John Muir, \"The Yellowstone National Park\")",[1908],"Now comes the gloaming. The alpenglow is fading into earthy, murky gloom, but do not let your town habits draw you away to the hotel. Stay on this good fire-mountain and spend the night among the stars. Watch their glorious bloom until the dawn, and get one more baptism of light. Then, with fresh heart, go down to your work, and whatever your fate, under whatever ignorance or knowledge you may afterward chance to suffer, you will remember these fine, wild views, and look back with joy to your wanderings in the blessed old Yellowstone Wonderland. (John Muir, \"The Yellowstone National Park\")",[1910],"It may be asked, What have mountains fifty or a hundred miles away to do with Twenty Hill Hollow? To lovers of the wild, these mountains are not a hundred miles away. Their spiritual power and the goodness of the sky make them near, as a circle of friends. They rise as a portion of the hilled walls of the Hollow. You cannot feel yourself out of doors; plain, sky, and mountains ray beauty which you feel. You bathe in these spirit-beams, turning round and round, as if warming at a camp-fire. Presently you lose consciousness of your own separate existence: you blend with the landscape, and become part and parcel of nature. (John Muir, \"Twenty Hill Hollow\")",{"path":1912,"slug":1913,"title":1914,"author":1915,"date":1916,"year":156,"finished":1897,"finishedMonth":263,"tags":1917,"threads":1918,"notes":241,"passages":1919},"/reading/a-short-account-of-the-history-of-mathematics","a-short-account-of-the-history-of-mathematics","A Short Account of the History of Mathematics","W. W. Rouse Ball","2020-08-22",[498,238,330],[146,238],[],{"path":1921,"slug":1922,"title":1923,"author":6,"date":1924,"year":156,"finished":1897,"finishedMonth":263,"tags":1925,"threads":1926,"notes":241,"passages":1927},"/reading/i-m-your-man-the-life-of-leonard-cohen","i-m-your-man-the-life-of-leonard-cohen","I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen","2020-08-17",[725,1345,476],[112,238],[],{"path":1929,"slug":1930,"title":1931,"author":1932,"date":1933,"year":156,"finished":1934,"finishedMonth":296,"tags":1935,"threads":1936,"notes":241,"passages":1937},"/reading/bicameral","bicameral","The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind","Julian Jaynes","2020-07-12","July 2020",[275],[146],[],{"path":1939,"slug":1940,"title":1941,"author":1942,"date":1943,"year":156,"finished":1934,"finishedMonth":296,"tags":1944,"threads":1945,"notes":241,"passages":1946},"/reading/classics-russian-lit","classics-russian-lit","Classics of Russian Literature (The Great Courses)","Irwin Weil","2020-07-01",[319],[146],[],{"path":1948,"slug":1949,"title":1950,"author":413,"date":1943,"year":156,"finished":1934,"finishedMonth":296,"tags":1951,"threads":1953,"notes":61,"passages":1954},"/reading/fathers-and-sons","fathers-and-sons","Fathers and Sons",[416,1952,1777],"political",[112,238],[1955,1957],[1956],"\"Whereas I think: I’m lying here in a haystack... The tiny space I occupy is so infinitesimal in comparison with the rest of space, which I don’t occupy and which has no relation to me. And the period of time in which I’m fated to live is so insignificant beside the eternity in which I haven’t existed and won’t exist... And yet in this atom, this mathematical point, blood is circulating, a brain is working, desiring something... What chaos! What a farce!\"",[1958],"\"A man's capable of understanding anything - how the ether vibrates, and what's going on in the sun - but how any other man can blow his nose differently from him, that he's incapable of understanding.\"",{"path":1960,"slug":1961,"title":1962,"author":1963,"date":1943,"year":156,"finished":1934,"finishedMonth":296,"tags":1964,"threads":1965,"notes":61,"passages":1966},"/reading/memories-dreams-reflections","memories-dreams-reflections","Memories, Dreams, Reflections","C. G. Jung",[319],[146],[],{"path":1968,"slug":1969,"title":1970,"author":1971,"date":1943,"year":156,"finished":1934,"finishedMonth":296,"tags":1972,"threads":1973,"notes":241,"passages":1974},"/reading/thinking-fast-slow","thinking-fast-slow","Thinking, Fast and Slow","Daniel Kahneman",[319],[146],[],{"path":1976,"slug":1977,"title":1978,"author":1979,"date":1980,"year":156,"finished":1981,"finishedMonth":340,"tags":1982,"threads":1984,"notes":241,"passages":1985},"/reading/to-build-a-fire","to-build-a-fire","To Build a Fire","Jack London","2020-06-01","June 2020",[1983],"short story",[112],[],{"path":1987,"slug":1988,"title":1989,"author":1990,"date":1991,"year":156,"finished":1992,"finishedMonth":629,"tags":1993,"threads":1995,"notes":241,"passages":1996},"/reading/sandworm","sandworm","Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers","Andy Greenberg","2020-05-01","May 2020",[1994],"technology and politics",[89],[],{"path":1998,"slug":1999,"title":2000,"author":6,"date":2001,"year":156,"finished":2002,"finishedMonth":405,"tags":2003,"threads":2005,"notes":241,"passages":2006},"/reading/21-lessons-for-the-21st-century-unabridged","21-lessons-for-the-21st-century-unabridged","21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Unabridged)","2020-04-26","April 2020",[894,2004,1994],"society",[89,238],[],{"path":2008,"slug":2009,"title":2010,"author":2011,"date":2001,"year":156,"finished":2002,"finishedMonth":405,"tags":2012,"threads":2014,"notes":241,"passages":2015},"/reading/a-rare-recording-of-marshall-mcluhan","a-rare-recording-of-marshall-mcluhan","A Rare Recording of Marshall McLuhan","Marshall McLuhan",[2013,1676,518],"media",[146,89],[],{"path":2017,"slug":2018,"title":2019,"author":2020,"date":2001,"year":156,"finished":2002,"finishedMonth":405,"tags":2021,"threads":2022,"notes":241,"passages":2023},"/reading/homo-deus","homo-deus","Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow","Yuval Noah Harari",[894,238,71],[89,238],[],{"path":2025,"slug":2026,"title":2027,"author":2028,"date":2029,"year":156,"finished":2002,"finishedMonth":405,"tags":2030,"threads":2032,"notes":241,"passages":2033},"/reading/goodbye-things-the-new-japanese-minimalism","goodbye-things-the-new-japanese-minimalism","Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism","Fumio Sasaki","2020-04-15",[2031,72,541],"minimalism",[88],[],{"path":2035,"slug":2036,"title":2037,"author":2038,"date":2039,"year":156,"finished":2002,"finishedMonth":405,"tags":2040,"threads":2042,"notes":241,"passages":2043},"/reading/economics-3rd-edition","economics-3rd-edition","Economics, 3rd Edition (Great Courses)","Timothy Taylor","2020-04-11",[2041,1017],"economics",[103],[],{"path":2045,"slug":2046,"title":2047,"author":2048,"date":2049,"year":156,"finished":2050,"finishedMonth":465,"tags":2051,"threads":2053,"notes":241,"passages":2054},"/reading/dharma-bums","dharma-bums","The Dharma Bums","Jack Kerouac","2020-03-01","March 2020",[2052],"beat literature",[112],[],{"path":2056,"slug":2057,"title":2058,"author":2059,"date":2049,"year":156,"finished":2050,"finishedMonth":465,"tags":2060,"threads":2064,"notes":61,"passages":2065},"/reading/maya-to-aztec-ancient-mesoamerica","maya-to-aztec-ancient-mesoamerica","Maya To Aztec: Ancient Mesoamerica Revealed (The Great Courses audio recordings)","Edwin Barnhart",[2061,2062,2063],"ancient history","mesoamerica","archaeology",[238],[],{"path":2067,"slug":2068,"title":2069,"author":2070,"date":2071,"year":156,"finished":2072,"finishedMonth":496,"tags":2073,"threads":2074,"notes":241,"passages":2075},"/reading/the-three-body-problem","the-three-body-problem","The Three-Body Problem","Cixin Liu","2020-02-17","February 2020",[757,252],[112],[],{"path":2077,"slug":2078,"title":2079,"author":2080,"date":2081,"year":156,"finished":2072,"finishedMonth":496,"tags":2082,"threads":2083,"notes":241,"passages":2084},"/reading/dress-your-fam","dress-your-fam","Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim","David Sedaris","2020-02-01",[509],[112],[],{"path":2086,"slug":2087,"title":2088,"author":2089,"date":2090,"year":156,"finished":2091,"finishedMonth":528,"tags":2092,"threads":2093,"notes":241,"passages":2094},"/reading/go-tell-it-on-the-mountain","go-tell-it-on-the-mountain","Go Tell It On the Mountain","James Baldwin","2020-01-30","January 2020",[251,265,252],[112],[],{"path":2096,"slug":2097,"title":2098,"author":2099,"date":2090,"year":156,"finished":2091,"finishedMonth":528,"tags":2100,"threads":2101,"notes":241,"passages":2102},"/reading/principles-life-and-work-unabridged","principles-life-and-work-unabridged","Principles: Life and Work","Ray Dalio",[1017,1026,1095],[103],[],{"path":2104,"slug":2105,"title":2106,"author":6,"date":2090,"year":156,"finished":2091,"finishedMonth":528,"tags":2107,"threads":2109,"notes":241,"passages":2110},"/reading/something-deeply-hidden","something-deeply-hidden","Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime",[746,2108,796],"quantum physics",[146],[],{"path":2112,"slug":2113,"title":2114,"author":2115,"date":2116,"year":156,"finished":2091,"finishedMonth":528,"tags":2117,"threads":2118,"notes":61,"passages":2119},"/reading/rendezvous-with-rama","rendezvous-with-rama","Rendezvous with Rama","Arthur C. Clarke","2020-01-19",[757],[112],[],{"path":2121,"slug":2122,"title":2123,"author":2124,"date":2125,"year":156,"finished":2091,"finishedMonth":528,"tags":2126,"threads":2128,"notes":241,"passages":2129},"/reading/emerson-thoreau-and-the-transcendentalist-movement","emerson-thoreau-and-the-transcendentalist-movement","Emerson, Thoreau, and the Transcendentalist Movement (Great Courses)","Ashton Nichols","2020-01-07",[2127,237,355],"transcendentalism",[355,146],[],{"path":2131,"slug":2132,"title":2133,"author":955,"date":2125,"year":156,"finished":2091,"finishedMonth":528,"tags":2134,"threads":2135,"notes":241,"passages":2136},"/reading/neuroscience-learning-more","neuroscience-learning-more","Neuroscience: Learning More About the Human Brain",[576,978,275],[146],[],{"path":2138,"slug":2139,"title":2140,"author":2141,"date":2125,"year":156,"finished":2091,"finishedMonth":528,"tags":2142,"threads":2143,"notes":241,"passages":2144},"/reading/on-anarchism","on-anarchism","On Anarchism","Noam Chomsky",[1048,1952],[238],[],{"path":2146,"slug":2147,"title":2148,"author":2059,"date":2149,"year":156,"finished":2091,"finishedMonth":528,"tags":2150,"threads":2151,"notes":61,"passages":2152},"/reading/ancient-civilizations-of-north-america","ancient-civilizations-of-north-america","Ancient Civilizations of North America (The Great Courses audio recordings)","2020-01-01",[2061,365],[238],[],{"path":2154,"slug":2155,"title":2156,"author":2157,"date":2158,"year":195,"finished":2159,"finishedMonth":642,"tags":2160,"threads":2161,"notes":241,"passages":2162},"/reading/enders-game","enders-game","Ender's Game: Special 20th Anniversary Edition","Orson Scott Card","2019-12-24","December 2019",[757,252],[112],[],{"path":2164,"slug":2165,"title":2166,"author":754,"date":2167,"year":195,"finished":2168,"finishedMonth":561,"tags":2169,"threads":2171,"notes":241,"passages":2172},"/reading/cryptonomicon","cryptonomicon","Cryptonomicon","2019-11-15","November 2019",[2170,967,252],"cryptography",[112,89],[],{"path":2174,"slug":2175,"title":2176,"author":2177,"date":2178,"year":195,"finished":2179,"finishedMonth":235,"tags":2180,"threads":2181,"notes":241,"passages":2182},"/reading/as-i-lay-dying","as-i-lay-dying","As I Lay Dying","William Faulkner","2019-10-20","October 2019",[251,265,252],[112],[],{"path":2184,"slug":2185,"title":2186,"author":2187,"date":217,"year":195,"finished":2188,"finishedMonth":263,"tags":2189,"threads":2190,"notes":241,"passages":2191},"/reading/48-laws-of-power","48-laws-of-power","48 Laws of Power","Robert Greene","August 2019",[319],[146],[],{"path":2193,"slug":2194,"title":2195,"author":2196,"date":217,"year":195,"finished":2188,"finishedMonth":263,"tags":2197,"threads":2198,"notes":241,"passages":2199},"/reading/a-handbook-for-new-stoics","a-handbook-for-new-stoics","A Handbook for New Stoics","Pigliucci, Lopez",[237,319],[146],[],{"path":2201,"slug":2202,"title":2203,"author":2204,"date":217,"year":195,"finished":2188,"finishedMonth":263,"tags":2205,"threads":2207,"notes":241,"passages":2208},"/reading/a-mind-at-play-claude-shannon","a-mind-at-play-claude-shannon","A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age","Jimmy Soni, Rob Goodman",[2206,725,747],"claude shannon",[89,238],[],{"path":2210,"slug":65,"title":2211,"author":1414,"date":217,"year":195,"finished":2188,"finishedMonth":263,"tags":2212,"threads":2213,"notes":61,"passages":2214},"/reading/an-elegant-puzzle","An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management",[101,103],[103],[2215,2217,2219,2221],[2216],"Finally, the one thing that I’ve found at companies with very few interruptions and have observed almost nowhere else: really great, consistently available documentation. It’s probably even harder to bootstrap documentation into a non-documenting company than it is to bootstrap unit tests into a non-testing company, but the best solution to frequent interruptions I’ve seen is a culture of documentation, documentation reading, and a documentation search that actually works.",[2218],"Most system-implemented systems are designed to support one to two orders magnitude of growth from the current load. Even systems designed for more growth tend to run into limitations within one to two orders of magnitude. If your traffic doubles every six months, then your load increases an order of magnitude every 18 months. (And sometimes new features or products cause load to increase much more quickly.) The cardinality of supported systems increases over time as you add teams, and as \"trivial\" systems go from unsupported afterthoughts to focal points for entire teams as the systems reach scaling plateaus (things like Apache Kafka, mail delivery, Redis, etc.).",[2220],"Instead of asking the candidate to explain some architecture on the spur of the moment, give them a warning before the interview that you'll ask them to talk about a given topic for 30 minutes, which is a closer approximation of what they'd be doing on the job. Debugging or extending an existing codebase on a laptop (ideally on their laptop). This is much more akin to the day-to-day work of development than writing an algorithm on the board. A great problem can involve algorithmic components without coming across as a pointless algorithmic question. (One company I spoke with had me implement a full-stack auto-suggest feature for a search inbox, which required implementing a prefix tree, but the interviewer avoided framing it as yet another algo question.)",[2222],"Have you ever worked at a company where the same two people always got the most important projects? Me too. It's frustrating to watch these opportunities to learn from the sidelines, and reliance on a small group can easily limit a company's throughput as it grows. This is so important that I’ve come to believe that having a wide cohort of coworkers who lead critical projects is one of the most important signifiers of good organizational health.",{"path":2224,"slug":2225,"title":2226,"author":2227,"date":217,"year":195,"finished":2188,"finishedMonth":263,"tags":2228,"threads":2229,"notes":61,"passages":2230},"/reading/applied-cryptography","applied-cryptography","Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C","Bruce Schneier",[2170],[89],[2231],[2232],"There are two kinds of cryptography in this world: cryptography that will stop your kid sister from reading your files, and cryptography that will stop major governments from reading your files. This book is about the latter.",{"path":2234,"slug":2235,"title":2236,"author":2237,"date":217,"year":195,"finished":2188,"finishedMonth":263,"tags":2238,"threads":2239,"notes":241,"passages":2240},"/reading/becoming","becoming","Becoming","Michelle Obama",[725,447],[238],[],{"path":2242,"slug":2243,"title":2244,"author":1805,"date":217,"year":195,"finished":2188,"finishedMonth":263,"tags":2245,"threads":2248,"notes":241,"passages":2249},"/reading/braiding-sweetgrass","braiding-sweetgrass","Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teaching of Plants",[2246,1715,2004,2247],"botany","indegenous wisdom",[355,238],[],{"path":2251,"slug":2252,"title":2253,"author":2254,"date":217,"year":195,"finished":2188,"finishedMonth":263,"tags":2255,"threads":2258,"notes":241,"passages":2259},"/reading/collected-ficciones","collected-ficciones","Collected Fictions","Jorge Luis Borges",[308,2256,2257],"argentina","complexity",[112,103],[],{"path":2261,"slug":2262,"title":2263,"author":2264,"date":217,"year":195,"finished":2188,"finishedMonth":263,"tags":2265,"threads":2267,"notes":241,"passages":2268},"/reading/computer-networks","computer-networks","Computer Networks, Fifth Edition","Andrew S. Tanenbaum, David J. Wetherall",[2266,747,103],"networking",[103,89],[],{"path":2270,"slug":2271,"title":2272,"author":2273,"date":217,"year":195,"finished":2188,"finishedMonth":263,"tags":2274,"threads":2276,"notes":241,"passages":2277},"/reading/death-of-expertise","death-of-expertise","The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters","Tom Nichols",[2275,448],"education",[103],[],{"path":2279,"slug":2280,"title":2281,"author":2282,"date":217,"year":195,"finished":2188,"finishedMonth":263,"tags":2283,"threads":2284,"notes":241,"passages":2285},"/reading/devops-handbook","devops-handbook","The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations","Gene Kim, Patrick DuBois, John Willis, Jez Humble",[1116,103,101],[103],[],{"path":2287,"slug":2288,"title":2289,"author":2290,"date":217,"year":195,"finished":2188,"finishedMonth":263,"tags":2291,"threads":2292,"notes":61,"passages":2293},"/reading/mans-search-for-meaning","mans-search-for-meaning","Man's Search for Meaning","Victor Frankl",[447,1789],[238],[],{"path":2295,"slug":2296,"title":2297,"author":2298,"date":217,"year":195,"finished":2188,"finishedMonth":263,"tags":2299,"threads":2300,"notes":61,"passages":2301},"/reading/rework","rework","Rework","Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson",[101,1017],[103],[2302],[2303],"If you are trying to decide among a few people to fill a position, hire the best writer. It doesn’t matter if that person is a marketer, salesperson, designer, programmer, or whatever; their writing skills will pay off. That’s because being a good writer is about more than writing. Clear writing is a sign of clear thinking. Great writers know how to communicate. They make things easy to understand. They can put themselves in someone else’s shoes. They know what to omit. And those are qualities you want in any candidate.",{"path":2305,"slug":2306,"title":2307,"author":2308,"date":217,"year":195,"finished":2188,"finishedMonth":263,"tags":2309,"threads":2310,"notes":241,"passages":2311},"/reading/tcp-ip-illustrated","tcp-ip-illustrated","TCP / IP Illustrated, Volume 1: The Protocols","Kevin R. Fall, W. Richard Stevens",[2266,747,103],[103,89],[],{"path":2313,"slug":2314,"title":2315,"author":2316,"date":217,"year":195,"finished":2188,"finishedMonth":263,"tags":2317,"threads":2319,"notes":61,"passages":2320},"/reading/the-fellowship-of-the-ring","the-fellowship-of-the-ring","The Fellowship of the Ring","J.R.R. Tolkien",[2318],"epic fantasy",[112],[2321],[2322],"The prime motive was the desire of a tale-teller to try his hand at a really long story that would hold the attention of readers, amuse them, delight them, and at times maybe excite them or deeply move them. ... I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history, true or feigned, with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers. I think that many confuse 'applicability' with 'allegory'; but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author.",{"path":2324,"slug":2325,"title":2326,"author":2187,"date":217,"year":195,"finished":2188,"finishedMonth":263,"tags":2327,"threads":2328,"notes":241,"passages":2329},"/reading/the-laws-of-human-nature","the-laws-of-human-nature","The Laws of Human Nature",[319,101],[146,103],[],{"path":2331,"slug":2332,"title":2333,"author":2334,"date":217,"year":195,"finished":2188,"finishedMonth":263,"tags":2335,"threads":2336,"notes":241,"passages":2337},"/reading/the-leaders-guide","the-leaders-guide","The Leader's Guide","Eric Ries",[101,103],[103],[],{"path":2339,"slug":2340,"title":2341,"author":2334,"date":217,"year":195,"finished":2188,"finishedMonth":263,"tags":2342,"threads":2343,"notes":241,"passages":2344},"/reading/the-lean-startup","the-lean-startup","The Lean Startup",[101,103],[103],[],{"path":2346,"slug":2347,"title":2348,"author":2349,"date":217,"year":195,"finished":2188,"finishedMonth":263,"tags":2350,"threads":2352,"notes":61,"passages":2353},"/reading/thinking-in-systems","thinking-in-systems","Thinking in Systems: A Primer","Donella H. Meadows",[2351,2257,103],"systems",[103],[2354,2356,2358,2360],[2355],"We can, and some of us do, celebrate and encourage self-organization, disorder, variety, and diversity. Some of us even make a moral code of doing so, as Aldo Leopold did with his land ethic: \"A thing is right when it tends o' to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.\"",[2357],"System structure is the source of system behavior. System behavior reveals itself as a series of events over time.",[2359],"The bounded rationality of each actor in a system may not lead to decisions that further the welfare of the system as a whole.",[2361],"Everything we know about the world is a model",{"path":2363,"slug":2364,"title":2365,"author":2366,"date":217,"year":195,"finished":2188,"finishedMonth":263,"tags":2367,"threads":2369,"notes":241,"passages":2370},"/reading/turings-cathedral","turings-cathedral","Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe","George Dyson",[747,238,2368],"turing",[89,238],[],{"path":2372,"slug":2373,"title":2374,"author":2375,"date":2376,"year":195,"finished":2377,"finishedMonth":296,"tags":2378,"threads":2379,"notes":241,"passages":2380},"/reading/a-farewell-to-arms-unabridged","a-farewell-to-arms-unabridged","A Farewell to Arms","Ernest Hemingway","2019-07-27","July 2019",[251,265,252],[112],[],{"path":2382,"slug":2383,"title":2384,"author":2385,"date":2386,"year":195,"finished":2387,"finishedMonth":340,"tags":2388,"threads":2390,"notes":241,"passages":2391},"/reading/one-hundred-years-of-solitude","one-hundred-years-of-solitude","One Hundred Years of Solitude","Gabriel Garcia Marquez","2019-06-14","June 2019",[251,252,2389],"magical realism",[112],[],{"path":2393,"slug":2394,"title":2395,"author":2396,"date":2397,"year":195,"finished":2398,"finishedMonth":629,"tags":2399,"threads":2400,"notes":241,"passages":2401},"/reading/company-of-one","company-of-one","Company of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business","Paul Jarvis","2019-05-22","May 2019",[1017,1036],[103],[],{"path":2403,"slug":2404,"title":2405,"author":2406,"date":2407,"year":195,"finished":2408,"finishedMonth":405,"tags":2409,"threads":2410,"notes":241,"passages":2411},"/reading/a-little-life","a-little-life","A Little Life: A Novel","Hanya Yanagihara","2019-04-13","April 2019",[251,252],[112],[],{"path":2413,"slug":2414,"title":2415,"author":2416,"date":2407,"year":195,"finished":2408,"finishedMonth":405,"tags":2417,"threads":2418,"notes":241,"passages":2419},"/reading/hard-boiled-wonderland-and-the-end-of-the-world","hard-boiled-wonderland-and-the-end-of-the-world","Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World","Haruki Murakami",[251,252,609],[112],[],{"path":2421,"slug":2422,"title":2423,"author":2424,"date":2425,"year":2426,"finished":2427,"finishedMonth":642,"tags":2428,"threads":2429,"notes":241,"passages":2430},"/reading/how-the-internet-happened","how-the-internet-happened","How the Internet Happened","Brian McCullough","2018-12-14","2018","December 2018",[916,238,1676],[103,89,238],[],{"path":2432,"slug":2433,"title":2434,"author":2435,"date":2436,"year":2426,"finished":2437,"finishedMonth":249,"tags":2438,"threads":2440,"notes":61,"passages":2441},"/reading/my-antonia","my-antonia","My Antonia","Willa Cather","2018-09-20","September 2018",[265,2439],"nebraska",[112],[2442,2444],[2443],"This was the road over which Antonia and I came on that night when we got off the train at Black Hawk and were bedded down in the straw, wondering children, being taken we knew not whither. I had only to close my eyes to hear the rumbling of the wagons in the dark, and to be again overcome by that obliterating strangeness. The feelings of that night were so near that I could reach out and touch them with my hand. I had the sense of coming home to myself, and of having found out what a little circle man's experience is. For Antonia and for me, this had been the road of Destiny; had taken us to those early accidents of fortune which predetermined for us all that we can ever be. Now I understood that the same road was to bring us together again. Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.'",[2445],"In the course of twenty crowded years one parts with many illusions. I did not wish to lose the early ones. Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again. She asked me whether I had learned to like big cities. 'I'd always be miserable in a city. I'd die of lonesomeness. I like to be where I know every stack and tree, and where all the ground is friendly. I want to live and die here. Father Kelly says everybody's put into this world for something, and I know what I've got to do. I'm going to see that my little girl has a better chance than ever I had. I'm going to take care of that girl, Jim.' I told her I knew she would. 'Do you know, Antonia, since I've been away, I think of you more often than of anyone else in this part of the world. I'd have liked to have you for a sweetheart, or a wife, or my mother or my sister—anything that a woman can be to a man. The idea of you is a part of my mind; you influence my likes and dislikes, all my tastes, hundreds of times when I don't realize it. You really are a part of me.' She turned her bright, believing eyes to me, and the tears came up in them slowly, 'How can it be like that, when you know so many people, and when I've disappointed you so? Ain't it wonderful, Jim, how much people can mean to each other? I'm so glad we had each other when we were little. I can't wait till my little girl's old enough to tell her about all the things we used to do. You'll always remember me when you think about old times, won't you? And I guess everybody thinks about old times, even the happiest people.' As we walked homeward across the fields, the sun dropped and lay like a great golden globe in the low west. While it hung there, the moon rose in the east, as big as a cart-wheel, pale silver and streaked with rose colour, thin as a bubble or a ghost-moon. For five, perhaps ten minutes, the two luminaries confronted each other across the level land, resting on opposite edges of the world. In that singular light every little tree and shock of wheat, every sunflower stalk and clump of snow-on-the-mountain, drew itself up high and pointed; the very clods and furrows in the fields seemed to stand up sharply. I felt the old pull of the earth, the solemn magic that comes out of those fields at nightfall. I wished I could be a little boy again, and that my way could end there. We reached the edge of the field, where our ways parted. I took her hands and held them against my breast, feeling once more how strong and warm and good they were, those brown hands, and remembering how many kind things they had done for me. I held them now a long while, over my heart. About us it was growing darker and darker, and I had to look hard to see her face, which I meant always to carry with me; the closest, realest face, under all the shadows of women's faces, at the very bottom of my memory. 'I'll come back,' I said earnestly, through the soft, intrusive darkness. 'Perhaps you will'— I felt rather than saw her smile. 'But even if you don't, you're here, like my father. So I won't be lonesome.' As I went back alone over that familiar road, I could almost believe that a boy and girl ran along beside me, as our shadows used to do, laughing and whispering to each other in the grass.'",{"path":2447,"slug":2448,"title":2449,"author":2450,"date":2451,"year":2426,"finished":2452,"finishedMonth":340,"tags":2453,"threads":2455,"notes":61,"passages":2456},"/reading/make-your-own-neural-network","make-your-own-neural-network","Make Your Own Neural Network","Tariq Rashid","2018-06-01","June 2018",[2454],"machine learning",[89],[],{"path":2458,"slug":149,"title":2459,"author":2460,"date":2451,"year":2426,"finished":2452,"finishedMonth":340,"tags":2461,"threads":2462,"notes":61,"passages":2463},"/reading/simply-wittgenstein","Simply Wittgenstein","James C. 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