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> People grow best where they continuously experience an ingenious blend of
> support and challenge; the rest is commentary.
> – Robert Kegan, In Over Our Heads

Hi, I’m Tom and I write about design, software, introspection, and rationality.

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Favourite blogs: Sasha Chapin · Neurotic Gradient Descent · Numb at the Lodge
Favourite tech blogs: Dan Luu · Ted Kaminski

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Latest
Developing on Windows: comparing native, MinGW, Cygwin, WSL 🟦
23 May 2024
Myths about happiness 🌟
If there was ever one thing worth understanding deeply, it would be happiness.
[...] Should I be so surprised when I'm unhappy, if I unconsciously believe it's
impossible, or boring, or unfair to be happy? · 13 April 2024
Best
Against self-discipline
I used to believe self-discipline was unquestionably good and that more =
better, but not any more. Here's why... · 26 September 2023
What holds communities, and connection, back?
On benches, politics, houses, and PR · 21 November 2023
Self, introspection, & rationality
Myths about happiness 🌟
If there was ever one thing worth understanding deeply, it would be happiness.
[...] Should I be so surprised when I'm unhappy, if I unconsciously believe it's
impossible, or boring, or unfair to be happy? · 13 April 2024
Parts are real 👏
Somewhere in the last 2 years I discovered Internal Family Systems, and it's
been one of the most impactful things I've learned. [...] Parts work is path to
seeing the mind as more than a dumb machine of suffering [...] · 21 December
2023
Getting unstuck by leaving thoughts incomplete
[...] The problem is I subconsciously don't recognise the incomplete thought as
valid, so I don't hold onto it. [...] · 17 January 2024
Improving yourself vs accepting yourself (Is self-esteem a useful concept?)
14 February 2022
Escaping false realities 👁
Dreams, butterflies, and finding true worlds · 5 March 2022
Dark matter may be wrong, but it isn't unscientific 🌌
6 September 2022
My take on meditation; why, how, resources
You've probably been told that it will relax and de-stress you. It's more about
awareness collapse · 12 November 2022
How do we really know what's true? 🔍
An overview of how knowledge is created, and its limits · 22 October 2021
Software
Everything I wish I knew when learning C
18 November 2022
A conceptual foundation for programming languages and self-compilation
31 January 2021
Interpreted vs compiled is a false distinction
6 February 2022
React is more than UI—it's a side-effect framework 🧱
It's well-known that state management in programs can lead to a lot of problems.
Spaghetti machines of far too many transitions, orchestrated by widely-visible
variables, lead to hard-to-debug, hard-to-change code. [...] · 24 June 2023
We couldn't deal with Earth-sized software, let alone galaxy-sized 🪐
How big are the largest projects today? What if they were 100x bigger? · 15 June
2022
Tips for using Git effectively
3 October 2020
Developing on Windows: comparing native, MinGW, Cygwin, WSL 🟦
23 May 2024
Untangling polymorphism: generics, overloading, subtyping, variance
20 March 2022
Real reactivity has never been tried (FRP vs observables) ⚡
Most reactive systems in use today lack important abstractions, making it easy
to write inconsistent code · 30 July 2023
Why write Bash when we could compile to it?
Ideas for a language targeting shell scripts · 1 May 2022
Heuristic text generation with predictors/Markov chains
23 February 2019
Raymarching signed distance fields for creative coding·Running code at an
average rate with a 'stretchy sleep'·Fixed-point numbers: an
introduction·Managing software installs on Linux·CRUD is fake; or, what should a
data mapper look like?·What's the sign of C's remainder operator "%"?
From Mars
I feel misled about male mental health
Pretty much all of the emotional suppression I've absorbed hasn't come from
traditional masculinity or patriarchy at all · 11 June 2023
Miscellaneous
Advice
30 January 2024
Conformity is a fractal cyclone of BS
Any child who has to spend a lot of effort learning how to fit in eventually
learns that it's an endless game of losing. [...] · 29 August 2023
I guess I'm afraid of everything falling apart
I guess I'm afraid of everything falling apart. I'm afraid of needless pain and
suffering. War that starts on nothing more than a misunderstanding. [...] · 3
March 2024
Writing things down - offload work from your brain
19 September 2020
Hunter x Hunter: Who is on the Black Whale?
7 November 2020
Mathematics
What Numberphile and Vsauce got wrong about infinity
The strange nature of the real numbers · 11 January 2022
Monte Carlo integration and importance sampling
2 April 2019
Sets, structure and maps: unifying with model theory
15 April 2019