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This is a linkpost for https://amirbolous.com/posts/21/ Today, I turn 21. Here are 21 reflections for 21 years. 1. The highest ROI thing you can invest in early on is learning to be an independent thinker. The world is full of noise. It's impossible to drown out it all out, but...
This is a linkpost for https://amirbolous.com/posts/build * Introduction * Tools and Products * Dogma * Building is Empowering * Closing Thoughts Introduction For the past couple of months, I've built personal tools completely from scratch. I built a way to organize and record my thoughts. I built a programming language...
This is a link post for https://amirbolous.com/posts/advice * Introduction * Heuristics for Good Advice * Closing Thoughts Introduction The counterintuitive thing about advice is that although it can be incredibly useful, it can also do more harm than good. Advice is a double-edged sword, had certain extremely successful people listened...
This is a linkpost for https://amirbolous.com/posts/abstraction * Introduction * Languages and Meaning * Communication and Translation * Closing Thoughts Introduction For the past three weeks, I've been building an interpreter for Lisp (more specifically, for a Lisp-dialect I created inspired by Clojure and Scheme). Building a language from the ground...
This is a linkpost for https://amirbolous.com/posts/doers In this world, there are two types of people: the talkers and the doers. The talkers, self-evidently, talk about things. They talk about building. They talk about solving problems. They talk about starting a project. Most people are talkers. But some special people are...
This is a linkpost for https://amirbolous.com/posts/curiosity * Introduction * Growing Up * The Missing Link * Closing Thoughts Introduction One of the most courageous people I've ever met is my five year old cousin Max. He has no trouble sprinting across the road when cars speed by, which is why...