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I work for the Internet, at @stripe, mostly on accelerating startups. Opinions here are my own.

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    1. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 May 24
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      I got about ~40% faster solving sudoku after casually watching an hour of YouTube (turns out sudoku YouTube is a thing) and now I’m wondering how many other things in life are shaped like this.

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    2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 May 24
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      You would not guess that level of improvement trivially available for someone who had been on math team and casually solved a few hundred sudoku puzzles over the years, right?

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      Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 May 25
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      I'm wondering in particular how much routine cognitive work, like mortgage underwriting or radiology diagnosis or what have you, is "Watch an expert narrate this process and show you a few things from their toolkit which you'll apply 15 times a day for forever" improvable.

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        2. Nirant‏ @NirantK May 25
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          Does this transfer to SW? In most software engineering, your ability to design systems and libraries improves rapidly by even reading and analyzing few designs. I definitely improved a lot (un-quantified) just from pouring through AOSA book. https://www.aosabook.org/en/ 

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        3. Meng Weng Wong‏ @mengwong May 25
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          You know how TV has "let's visit a celebrity and have them show us their shoe closet"? I've long wanted a video podcast of "let's screenshare a distinguished geek and have them show us their desktop, IDE, shell, email".

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        2. Dr. Njoki Ngumi  🇰🇪‏Verified account @njokingumi May 25
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          Replying to @patio11

          Cc @visakanv you'll like this tweet and the two above it 💫

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        3. Visakan Veerasamy‏ @visakanv May 25
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          Visakan Veerasamy Retweeted Visakan Veerasamy

          I like almost everything about Patrick 🥰 https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1064776700335075328?s=21 …https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1064776700335075328 …

          Visakan Veerasamy added,

          Visakan Veerasamy @visakanv
          At Tanjong Pagar with @patio11: being geeky public-facing bloggers, navigating different cultures, the nature of human networks (building your own), orthogonal+circuitous career trajectories, pipelines and incentives, the complications of marrying someone from a different culture pic.twitter.com/u7dLlw9YYo
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        2. ryan‏ @context_ing May 25
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          ryan Retweeted Andy Matuschak

          @andy_matuschak did a bit of this: videotaping his writing process https://twitter.com/andy_matuschak/status/1257334987390685185?s=21 …https://twitter.com/andy_matuschak/status/1257334987390685185 …

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          Andy MatuschakVerified account @andy_matuschak
          Going to try an experiment: livestreaming part of my morning writing today at 9AM PST. I’ll mostly be consolidating some hazy questions from Design Unbound. No live interaction with viewers (hard enough w/o that). Video (probably) available afterwards. https://www.twitch.tv/andymatuschak 
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        3. ryan‏ @context_ing May 25
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          ryan Retweeted ryan

          This may be of interest, also. https://twitter.com/context_ing/status/1262510987136995328?s=21 …https://twitter.com/context_ing/status/1262510987136995328 …

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          ryan @context_ing
          Finished watching “The Last Dance” about the rise of the Chicago Bulls during the Michael Jordan era and can’t stop thinking about this note: https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z4qhD8UwNAmJDdJUC36BUGp5PEUfgfzZXvkhB … pic.twitter.com/QiCyqRBqWE
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        2. JD‏ @j12y_ May 25
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          Replying to @patio11

          After casually playing chess online for 3 years, this post from @danluu (https://danluu.com/p95-skill/ ) inspired me to 1/ read a chess book & 2/ evaluate my games afterward. I went from 59%-ile on lichess to 90%-ile in 6 weeks

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        3. Kishore Narra‏ @kishorenarra May 25
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          Can you share the book you read?

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        1. That Barney guy  💖 💜 💙‏ @barney_parker May 25
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          I’ve always had a theory that anyone could do/understand anything, as long as it was explained to them in the right way for them to understand. So much of life is following small scripts (processes), but until you know the scripts, it’s all “work”

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        1. Imran Ghory‏ @imranghory May 25
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          It probably also applies to a lot of household chores (how to fold laundry, cut different food items,etc)

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