PatrickDFarley

I previously wrote about the present perfect tense and how it can make you waste time pursuing things you don’t really want—when you want to have done them instead of wanting to do them. Now I notice the continuous tense characterizes another pitfall, kind of the opposite: sometimes you want...

AI researcher Andrej Karpathy just put into visuals something that I already knew: AI is coming for my job. “Technical Writer” is not actually a big enough category to get its own rectangle within the technology group, but everything in the technology group is red, and red here means “high...

When I first read In the Balance on Slate Star Codex I was fascinated in the beginning and middle, and then exhausted as the ideas got progressively harder to think through. I read it again a few months later, and several times again after that. There was something captivating about...

I was way too far in life by the time I figured out my sleep cycles. This is one of those personal metrics that’s worth learning and memorizing because once you know it, you’ll use it often—like your daily calorie expenditure, or the exact chemicals you’re allergic to, etc. It’s...

> Author note: This is basically an Intro to the Grey Tribe for normies, and most people here are already very familiar with a lot of the info herein. I wasn't completely sure I should post it here, and I don't expect it to get much traction, but I'll share...

Yes I’m talking about grammar. The present perfect tense describes actions that happened in the past but are relevant in the present. You say, “I have seen that movie,” meaning you saw it in the past, but what’s important is that presently you are a person who saw it. How...

(This is a crosspost from TrueGeneralist.com) Introduction Why I read this book Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World is a book about generalists. And it’s pretty much the only book about generalists that’s gotten substantial traction in popular culture. Since I started this whole blog around being a...