By Ayoub Khallok
Publishing unfinished thinking is uncomfortable. It is also the fastest way I know to get better at anything. For a long time, I learned in private. I read, took notes, built small projects and kept almost all of it to myself. It felt safer that way. Nobody could see the half-finished work, the wrong turns, or the things I did not understand yet. If I changed my mind, no one knew I had ever held the earlier view. more
Essays, articles and working notes on the subjects I keep returning to, published as I think them through. Most pieces start as questions I can't stop thinking about, and I write them to find out what I actually understand.
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The same arithmetic that grows savings also grows knowledge. A look at what that means in practice. more
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Notebooks, scripts and habits that turn scattered reading into usable notes. more
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Cartographers worked with incomplete data and still made decisions. So do we. more
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Good interfaces respect the reader's time. A few principles I try to follow. more
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Fewer books, read twice, with a pen in hand. Why I changed how I read. more
