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If, as on most days, no such event is obvious, I just dedicate the day (daydicate) anyway, with a name or motto, basically a headline to this one day's task list. I always have a to-do list for each day. This adds a fitting headline to the list, and is an excellent frame in which I promote or expand tasks that fit the theme of the day, and reduce or postpone ones that don't. "Recovery Day", "Day of Updates", "Orderly Thursday" - whatever seems suitable as an emotional and behavioral carrier wave for just that one day in particular.

The Daydication Technique

chaosmage

Adler and Van Doren suggest that the first and most important rule of skillful reading, active reading, is asking questions and trying to answer them. If you just dwell on that, what kinds of questions should I be asking and how should I go about asking them? How should I go about answering them when the author isn't present? And so on and so forth. [Unclear] They also say conversely, and this is meant as a criticism, an undemanding reader asks no questions and gets no answers.

Andy Matuschak - Self-Teaching, Spaced Repetition, Why Books Don’t Work

Dwarkesh Patel

When adding jitter to scheduled work, we do not select the jitter on each host randomly. Instead, we use a consistent method that produces the same number every time on the same host. This way, if there is a service being overloaded, or a race condition, it happens the same way in a pattern. We humans are good at identifying patterns, and we're more likely to determine the root cause. Using a random method ensures that if a resource is being overwhelmed, it only happens - well, at random. This makes troubleshooting much more difficult.

Timeouts, Retries, and Backoff With Jitter

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