Remembering this formatting, I wonder what other examples are out there of documents purposefully designed for efficient use in intense situations — does anyone have more interesting examples?

Increasingly annoyed every time a button in some form or app won't let me give a proper final "no" and forces me to opt for "not today", "maybe next time", "maybe later", etc. instead. It's inconsequential but it starts to feel really icky after the umpteenth time.

McMaster-Carr should make a web based ERP/MRP system. They should build physical book stores. McMaster-Carr hotels. McMaster-Carr pharmacies and apprenticeship centers. Build a company so good that you want the entire civilization modeled by them. McMaster-Carr supremacy.

I think the earliest I really realized you could often "RTFM of the world" and look up things that had real-life implications was in elementary school when we got this phonebook CD ROM at home and I randomly found out it came bundled with PDFs of various legal statutes

ladies if you enjoy mansplaining there is tremendous alpha in asking him about Jane Street and the Indian options market right now

I've seen people making out passionately after spending 42 sleep-deprived and unshowered hours hunched over their laptops at a hackathon. If you want to help people find partners, start a community around anything other than people finding partners.

tough call

at this point smart people getting really interested in optimizing online ads or narrowing the spread on some financial instrument ever so slightly seems much less tragic to me than smart people turning into tasteless and shameless grifters

Overthinking is misnamed. If you actually sat down to write all the thoughts you've had about the thing you're "overthinking", you likely would not clear one page.

I've had read receipts turned off basically everywhere I can for almost as long as I can remember and it's quite the QoL improvement

fuck story points or tshirt sizes, we should do all estimates in battleship classes

AI that annotates every DM you send like this