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Author: Tael

  • Guide to Becoming Me

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    First, put all your plans on hold. This will take a while. Spend the next twelve years read­ing as many books as human­ly pos­si­ble. You will, and must, fill at least sev­en hours a day with this task. It doesn't mat­ter so much what you read; please your­self, so long as it is books. You…

  • How to Use Mastodon

    Today, Bluesky (a vibe-cod­ed social media plat­form) suf­fered a near-total out­age for sev­er­al hours. Bluesky is the gen­er­al­ly-accept­ed alter­na­tive to Twit­ter (futile­ly rebrand­ed as X) after Elon Musk's pur­chase prompt­ed sev­er­al mass exo­dus­es from the plat­form. Bluesky is basi­cal­ly Twit­ter 2.0. It's a very easy switch to make because it requires you to re-exam­ine none…

  • About the Culture War

    The "culture war." I'm sure you've heard the term before. What is it? Who's fighting it? Am I in it? Are you? What does it mean? What should we do about it?

  • Duolingo Is Fine, You're Just Impatient

    A defense of a teaching style I've benefited from, and why I think people dislike it.

  • Stop Using Uber Eats

    Uber Eats. DoorDash. Instacart. Grubhub. Deliveroo. Postmates. So many different apps, but they all have one thing in common.