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(Inspiration for this post was The Safest Job from AI may be Writing) Replacing technical writers with AI agents writing documentation partially fails because there is no equivalent to software tests for documentation.

There is an optimal intensity range for doing hobbies or anything hobby-related.

A cool little trick I learned for the CPTS, but in general for bash (or shells in general?

The mosquito bucket of doom is a population control mechanism where you dissolve some Bti (Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis) into a bucket and allow the mosquitoes to lay eggs in these buckets.

Charter cities are a great idea.

People who use AI to outsource their thinking and communication are silently losing respect from a subset of their colleagues, potential business partners, clients, readers - and they don’t know it.

As the title says!

On 10 April 2026, I organized an ACX/LW/rationality meetup.

Disclaimers This essay is me trying to figure out the “edges” of Singer’s argument in Practical Ethics.

The premise of the Mac is that everything “just works ™️ “.

Theory building Programming is theory building1.

There are other things more important than speed.

There’s just too much paper in my life.

The Road by Cormac McCarthy was a difficult read.

This blog has moved from sundaystopwatch.eu to blog.d11r.eu.

First of, Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad is a good book.

I’ve been wearing footwear of the wrong size, material, and shape for as long as I can remember, certainly at least 20 years.

There’s a thought that I sometimes hear, and it goes something like this: “We live in the best X of all possible Xs”.

If you have a developed system for finding the difference between truth and falsehood, and constantly think about rationality skills, and are always improving them, learning new techniques, and keep thinking about meta-level things: congratulations, your…

About half a year ago I started as a solo technical writer for my current employer, and I feel that my experience is different from working on a team.

This is a good book because it gives you numbers.

Try the goddamned thing out OR, some Thoughts on Technical Writing, having to do with software writing Technical writing is a truth-seeking process.

Markdown is supposed to be easy.

This isn't completely thought out, but I wanted to get it on paper.

Some things I would like to improve in my life: The speed at which I do things.

Inspired by this post, I wanted to see if I could do the same thing.

Maybe this title is a little bit insulting, but I don’t mean it this way.

Notes to myself, not always with the full reasoning explained (read the book for that!)

A friend from work recently got into 75HARD, which I’ve written about here before.

I’ve been thinking about whether or not I have low self-esteem.

I would like to figure out my political worldview.

A little more than five months ago, I became a father.

People frequently hate Meadow Soprano more than Tony Soprano, and Skyler White more than Walter White.

I have successfully signed up for cryonics.

I just got sent a link to an AI platform that can be used to generate videos.

Taste is an excellent proxy for quality.

(these are literally thoughts I had sitting in traffic and that relate to traffic, but you’re free to extract generalized life lessons from them if you want) When someone cuts you off in traffic, you might get angry, but their behavior, their cutting-off-…

I think that self-love and self-compassion are generally good, but there’s a right tool for the right job, and those are not right tools when the job involves a short-term endeavor that includes sacrifice and discipline.

In Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, there’s a notion of being “good at the basics”, as opposed to “being good by knowing advanced techniques”.

Climate and environmental activists frequently complain how the technocentric approach to solving the climate crisis isn’t enough or isn’t good in some other way than “enough”.

I have some thoughts on productivity.

IRL > online Real life is better than online.

Equal public funding for higher education is a bad idea for several reasons: Academic institutions are full of inefficiency; public funding is indirectly funding people who sit on a chair and collect a salary, similar to how landlords collect rent on “hav…

Thinking about weight loss: I’m currently at around 96 kg of body weight.

The world doesn’t need another app.

I feel like I stopped wanting to give people advice.

“But when am I going to use any of this?”

The other day, I was walking home on an empty road and a bus drew past me.

There’s a relatively popular workout/diet/self-development program called “75HARD”: This is the type of program that requires you to develop and use mental toughness.

★★★★☆ I’m writing this on a fast computer, sitting comfortably on a comfortable couch while drinking my coffee which was imported probably from Brazil, made with purified local water, which was boiled using an electrical stove top that doesn’t emit pollut…