draining notes - giants

General Guiding lights

SICP Chapter 2 opening quote : 

The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are chiefly these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas into one compound one, and thus all complex ideas are made. 2. The second is bringing two ideas, whether simple or complex, together, and setting them by one another so as to take a view of them at once, without uniting them into one, by which it gets all its ideas of relations. 3. The third is separating them from all other ideas that accompany them in their real existence: this is called abstraction, and thus all its general ideas are made. 

John Locke, An Essay 

Concerning Human Understanding (1690)

From the Tao of Programming  

When you have learned to snatch the error code from the trap frame, it will be time for you to leave

From Taoist literature 

Cook Ting and his ox Cleaver

Joko Beck

Life always gives us exactly the teacher we need at every moment. This includes every mosquito, every misfortune, every red light, every traffic jam, every obnoxious supervisor (or employee), every illness, every loss, every moment of joy or depression, every addiction, every piece of garbage, every breath. Every moment is the guru.

Sheldon Kopp

https://thetcj.org/in-residence-articles/eschatological-laundry-list

Folks and their pieces

 Kalzumeus / patio11

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-programmer/

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/936615043126370306

mindbogglingly large amounts of money in mundane simple LOB apps

Jason Fried

https://www.inc.com/magazine/20110301/making-money-small-business-advice-from-jason-fried.html

https://lifehacker.com/im-jason-fried-ceo-of-basecamp-and-this-is-how-i-work-1790556608

sell-sawdust.  like Rails

Derek Sivers

There's too many, here're the main ones

happy,smart, useful.  https://sive.rs/hsu

ceramics art project story  https://sive.rs/failure

no speed limits https://sive.rs/kimo

hell yeah! or no! https://sive.rs/hellyeah

Idlewords

all of it- good range

https://idlewords.com/talks/thoreau_2.0.htm

https://idlewords.com/2006/04/argentina_on_two_steaks_a_day.htm

https://idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm

Steve Maxwell  

http://www.killingbuddha.co/steve-maxwell

there are 5 links on this page. Ensure to read them all. Themes - minimalism, pranayama, chi, life

Rasmus Lerdrof  quotes on programming

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rasmus_Lerdorf

 We have things like protected properties. We have abstract methods. We have all this stuff that your computer science teacher told you you should be using. I don't care about this crap at all.

 I actually hate programming, but I love solving problems.

I've never thought of PHP as more than a simple tool to solve problems.

Giles Bowkett

 Again, so many, but the original blog has been scrubbed and anything interesting has been sanitised. Ditto for Zed Shaw

https://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/

Zed Shaw

Steve Yegge

Three blogs and counting. Infinite number of words. 

https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/

https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/blog-rants

https://steve-yegge.medium.com/why-i-left-google-to-join-grab-86dfffc0be84

also videos.

Your job is not your job, Your job is to automate your job away !

https://www.youtube.com/@SteveYegge/videos

Scott Adams

I still hold God's Debris to be the best explanation of the universe. How-to-fail is also gets great perspectives.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704101604576247143383496656

Slava Akechmet

Two posts on Lisp - explaining lisp

Three articles on life stuff  - taming doubt, taming perfection, raelity of enso

all removed. wayback machine would still have some i guess 

defmacro.org

Christian Grobmeier

10 rules of zen programmer.

https://grobmeier.solutions/the-10-rules-of-a-zen-programmer-03022012.html

Keep your mind clean

Cal Newport

Corrupted callings/career capital

Deep work (murakami running)

https://calnewport.com/on-the-value-of-hard-focus/

https://calnewport.com/corrupted-callings-the-subtle-difference-between-finding-your-lifes-work-and-loving-your-life/

Philip Greenspun

https://philip.greenspun.com/

https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/

Matt Might

Computer stuff / functional programming stuff aside, lots of wisdom

http://matt.might.net/articles/hacking-strength/

http://matt.might.net/articles/work-life-balance/

Alan Kay

man who said "knowledge is silver, perspective /outlook is gold, IQ is lead"

no blog, but youtube videos are deeeeeeeep

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyIQKBzIuBY&t=635s

Scott Locklin

'How to be a man' article. Let's face it, we all need to look in the manual now and then ..

https://www.takimag.com/article/tips_for_big_babies/

Mark Manson

just keep reading em all

https://markmanson.net/5-massive-books

https://markmanson.net/paradoxes-that-are-true

https://markmanson.net/the-zen-dilemma

Mark Watson

Mark Watson

Loving Lisp book

Java AI Book

Python AI Book

James Hague

https://prog21.dadgum.com/

Michael O Church 

How the Other Half Works: an Adventure in the Low Status of Software Engineers

again, post taken down. Still, very enlightening exploration of status.

waybackM to the rescue

Naval Ravikant : Rich no luck

https://nav.al/rich

many soundbites

Ribbonfarm

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2011/12/08/acting-dead-trading-up-and-leaving-the-middle-class/

also, gervais principle for introduction to powertalk for the clueless

Misc

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/excuse-me-but-why-are-you-eating

https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2022/02/10/the-scientific-virtues/