It really depends. I believe and apply a lot of Cal Newport advice, and benefit greatly from it. But I also see in my daily life how just being close to people you work with, and (crucially) being a short walk away/floor from people in other groups, creates immense value by helping unclog processes and especially by creating new ideas and products that wouldn‘t otherwise exist.

Yup, short walt to my colleagues who are all spread across the world. /$

I don't think we read the same Deep Work book.

Bullshit. When I'm in the office most of my time is spent on making sure it looks like I'm working and obsessing about if someone is standing/sitting behind me and looking at my screen or not, because I'm in a panopticum. There is no time for deep work.

And the Bible had quite a head start!

I grew up in Brazil and never heard that the Little Prince had a bad reputation there. Quite the contrary, at least in my circle of people.

Wishing you a good recovery and a long life to have fun and to pass on your learnings

Wait, are hotels now taking bathroom doors away? It’s awful enough when they don’t let you lock the door.

My experience with quarto + revealjs on the other hand has been great. I'm an economist, which means my slides only ever have text (usually short bullets) + literature references + equations + graphs (and rarely, outright image files). So for me, revealjs with quarto works out perfectly because in the same .qmd file I write the paper I already write up the slides, so everything is in the same place and I can simply choose if I want to re-render the paper PDF or the presentation .HTML file.

I chucked because it reminded me of the Steven Soderbergh movie with Matt Damon, "The Informant!"

Wow I can’t believe this happened!

I can't tell if sarcasm, but he was very drunk, and it became one of his first big scandals. He's had so many more after that it pales in comparison.

Just wait until you find out who won the US presidential election.

I love how each HN post is a gateway to miscellaneous obscure knowledge with a technical point behind it

I had good experience with Codex iterating to prove a fixed point theorem. But will also now consider GLM-4.6.