For anyone that hasn’t read it, the book Surely You’re Joking Mr Feynman is a delightful read. Especially the bits about him fucking with security during the Manhattan project.

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(I am not affiliated in any way with this shop)

Corrections falls under the sheriff’s department.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-Country_Cairn

One of my favorite managers once told me while I was struggling with a severe case of imposter syndrome “if you’re faking it well enough that others can’t tell, you might not be faking it as much as you think.”

I love Takis. One of my guilty pleasure trash snacks is a bag of Takis and a couple hazys.

I had a physics teacher in college who explained it like this.

Imagine we see by throwing tennis balls. You know the shape of something (and he gestured at a giant whale skeleton in the lecture hall) by Knowing where the tennis ball bounces off of the shape. If we throw a lot of them, we can “observe” the shape of an object.

Now imagine the object we want to observe is another tennis ball. With the skeleton, the tennis ball, even meant of them, hitting it and bouncing off won’t effect it. But if we want to use our tennis ball sight to observe a tennis ball, it’s going to knock the tennis ball away, thus we’ve significantly effected it.

The only way to “observe” a photon is to use something that will have a significant effect on it.

This was some 15+ years ago, so I might be misremembering the details slightly, but that was more or less the gist of it.

One of the best bosses I ever had once told me that people will stay for the culture but leave for money. His philosophy was to try and ensure that money was not a factor in people’s decision, then build as good a culture as he could.

And to be clear, by making money not a factor, I mean he paid well.