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The user interfaces on top of the data should help humans cope by rounding values to megabytes and CPU-years, or otherwise indicating orders of magnitude. When working with large raw numbers I configure my terminal to display millions & billions & trillions in different colors.

The Mature Optimization Handbook

Carlos Bueno

The promotion of brainstorming as a starting point is all the more surprising as it is not the origin of most ideas: The things you are supposed to find in your head by brainstorming usually don’t have their origins in there. Rather, they come from the outside: through reading, having discussions and listening to others, through all the things that could have been accompanied and often even would have been improved by writing.

How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking (For Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers) – Sönke Ahrens

Sebastian Trzcinski-Clément

The signs of whether a cutting has rooted or not is to look for the new growth. If it shows new growth - lush like this - then there's every possibility that it has rooted.

Summer Prune and Spring Follow Up

Herons Bonsai

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