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Learning a Language as Muscle Memory
Note: This post is cross-posted from my post on medium.
I learned a lot from learning a second language. I started learning Japanese on
my own and moved to Japan several years ago. I now work at a Japanese company
where I spend most of my d...
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Decentralized groups and Stand Alone Complex
The other day I watched the talk “The coming war on general computation” by
Boing Boing editor Cory
Doctorow.
The talk itself was very interesting and I encourage anyone interested in the
recent attempts to pass laws like SOPA to listen to the...
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Working overtime makes you stupid?
There was a recent article I read online about how working working over 40 hours a week makes you less productive.
http://www.inc.com/margaret-heffernan/the-truth-about-sleep-and-productivity.html
I’m really really skeptical about over-reaching ...
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Data and instinct driven decision making
I just read a piece called We Are All Talk Radio
Hosts
which mentions some studies saying that the more we humans think about
things, the more we make bad decisions. The rationale is that we try to
come up with reasons why we like or dislike somet...
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How to be a 10x programmer
I recently read a blog post that is a satirical look at how to gain a
reputation as a guru programmer by converting code to your own code and
making it hard for other programmers to get their work done. It’s called
3 Simple Rules That Will Make Yo...
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Walled Gardens Suck
I recently read a couple of posts on the openness of the iPad and the
effect it will have on tinkering and computer hacking. One was a
post by al3x
of twitter fame and one was a
response,
perhaps not directly to al3x, by Rory Marinich
called I Lov...
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Health related Japanese Vocab
Since I went to the doctor today I thought I would post some Japanese words that
are relatively new to me. Some I learned today and some I had learned before but
they all relate to illness or infirmity. Forgive the somewhat advanced and
somewhat g...
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Choosing Kanji
One of the things that makes Japanese hard is the writing system. Written
Japanese consists of essentially four alphabets, Kanji (borrowed chinese
characters (1,000 needed for literacy, 2000 base characters, about 5,000, give
or take a thousand, i...
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Mobile phones are not Desktops
While John C. Dvorak generally writes flamebait that you shouldn’t pay attention
to, there is usually a nugget of truth in his writing. This time Mr. Dvorak
points out that iPhones are not
desktops. He says iPhones
but he really means all mobile d...
