Author: robert.adlington

Laws 90–9–1 Principle (1% Rule) 90–90 Rule Amdahl’s Law The Broken Windows Theory Brooks’ Law CAP Theorem (Brewer’s Theorem) Clarke’s three laws Conway’s Law Cunningham’s Law Dunbar’s Number The Dunning-Kruger Effect Fitts’ Law Gall’s Law Goodhart’s Law Hanlon’s Razor Hick’s Law (Hick-Hyman Law) Hofstadter’s Law Hutber’s Law The Hype Cycle & Amara’s Law Hyrum’s Law…

By a conservative estimate, in 1860 the total value of American slaves was $4 billion, far more than the gold and silver then circulating nationally ($228.3 million, “most of it in the North,” the authors add), total currency ($435.4 million), and even the value of the South’s total farmland ($1.92 billion). Slaves were, to slavers,…

What A.I. can’t do is feel the shape of silence after someone says something so honest we forget we’re here to learn. What it can’t do is pause mid-sentence because it remembered the smell of its father’s old chair. What it can’t do is sit in a room full of people who are trying—and failing—to…

Feminization = wokeness and men and women are fundamentally different and society will fall apart if too many women are in (any?) professions. Gosh, isn’t it possible to find a balance between competing and caring ? Or is any caring fundamentally bad ? Helen Andrews on the feminization of culture – Marginal REVOLUTION — Read…

The tumult of everyday family routine can make it hard for people to step back and think about their lives. As I often remind myself, something that can be done at any time tends to be done at no time, and the demands of parenthood make it easy to delay facing what can be difficult…

Knowing one’s place in the world. A sense, perhaps embodied in spiritual practice, that the individual is an insignificant part of a larger, more abiding universe. — Read on kottke.org/25/10/what-makes-for-a-healthy-society

Color me extremely skeptical: “It’s not replacing going out on a date and getting a girlfriend or having a lover, wife or a relationship. AI is a good place to let younger people practice their social skills,” Jones said, adding that AI allowed people to behave badly without consequences. “People will say things to an…

The path to a better Amazon doesn’t lie through consumer activism, or appeals to the its conscience. Corporations, being artificial, immortal colony-organisms that use humans as their inconvenient gut flora, do not have consciences to appeal to. The path leads through coalitions: of consumers and merchants who are tired of being robbed; of workers who…

fear creates protective habits and protective habits make us act out of whack with our values. The greater the fear, the greater the habit, the worse the warp. — Read on www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/oct/03/crippling-fear-of-being-judged-how-overcome-this

Liberal culture is more nerdy, idea focused, and autistic, which is my natural home. But I do get the idea that there is something soulless about it, and the way conservatives interact with one another is closer to how our species evolved to live – that is, either hiding women from public view, or allowing…