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Recently planted and tended public notes from across note.garden.

  1. stevegrossi

    1. make impossible states unrepresentable

      Tended

      Software not working when it's in a bad state is the reason why "turning it off and back on again" (which resets the state to a known-good value) is the solution to so many technical issues.

    2. the ethics of risk

      Tended

      The intersection of risk and ethics is concerned with questions of whether and when it is morally permissible to impose a risk of harm on another person.

    3. luddism

      Tended

      Huh, the common story of Luddites being ignorant, lawless vandals isn't the full story:

    4. Antifragile

      Tended

      From the book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, things which are antifragile get stronger from being stressed (like muscles).

    5. A Philosophy of Software Design

      Tended

      book by John Osterhout

    6. Less but better

      Tended

      Notes on the book Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less:

    7. Accelerate

      Tended

      The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations

    8. Why Buddhism Is True

      Tended

      Notes on the book Why Buddhism is True by Robert Wright.

    9. Lean Logic

      Tended

      The life's work of David Fleming, an economist, cultural historian, and environmentalist.

    10. book

      Planted

      It's remarkable to sit with a group of 15 an 16 year-olds talking about the way that a book is in conversation with the various facets of their own lives and to see that that could serve as an entrypoint for them to understand the way that…