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Breck's Blog https://breckyunits.com/ Some writing about probability, programming, economics and life. Tue, 10 Jun 2025 23:26:17 +0000 en-us Juggling Ideas https://breckyunits.com/juggling.html Tue, 10 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Understanding Conformism https://breckyunits.com/conformism.html Wed, 04 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 The Spherical Object Model https://breckyunits.com/som.html Sun, 25 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Dreaming of a 4D Wikipedia https://breckyunits.com/fordDream.html Thu, 15 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Does 3D exist? https://breckyunits.com/3d.html Tue, 06 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Information is the Easiest Job https://breckyunits.com/theEasiestJob.html Mon, 28 Apr 2025 02:00:00 +0000 Deceptive Intelligence verse Genuine Intelligence https://breckyunits.com/digi.html Mon, 28 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Knowledge https://breckyunits.com/knowledge.html Thu, 24 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000 How to get rid of advertising https://breckyunits.com/ads.html Wed, 23 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000 The Internal Comparison Trap https://breckyunits.com/improvement.html Tue, 22 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Ford https://breckyunits.com/ford.html Sun, 20 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000 The Infosphere https://breckyunits.com/infosphere.html Sat, 19 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Experiments https://breckyunits.com/experiments.html Tue, 15 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Pretext https://breckyunits.com/pretext.html Mon, 14 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Movement https://breckyunits.com/move.html Sat, 12 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Mind Changers https://breckyunits.com/mindChangers.html Fri, 11 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000 You Steal Your Software https://breckyunits.com/basic.html Thu, 10 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000 The Lisp Enlightenment Trap https://breckyunits.com/lispet.html Sat, 05 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000 What Science May Be https://breckyunits.com/science.html Thu, 03 Apr 2025 04:00:00 +0000 Nanoideas https://breckyunits.com/nanoideas.html Thu, 03 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000 The Consultation Problem and Why Copyright is Dishonest at its Core https://breckyunits.com/copyrightIsDishonest.html Tue, 25 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Tech's Dirty Secret https://breckyunits.com/dirtySecret.html Fri, 21 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Microverses https://breckyunits.com/microverses.html Wed, 12 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Topological Sorting https://breckyunits.com/tsort.html Wed, 05 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Scales https://breckyunits.com/scales.html Wed, 05 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Thinking in Parsers https://breckyunits.com/thinkingInParsers.html Mon, 03 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000 What is Particle Syntax? https://breckyunits.com/whatIsParticles.html Sun, 02 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Communicating with the Market https://breckyunits.com/market.html Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000 A Mathematical Model of Trust https://breckyunits.com/trust.html Tue, 25 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000 What we published in 2024 for $70,000 https://breckyunits.com/2024.html Mon, 24 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000 What is Mathematics? https://breckyunits.com/mathematics.html Sun, 23 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Here's to Honest Work https://breckyunits.com/honestWork.html Sat, 22 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000 MODO: A Method to Increase Truth https://breckyunits.com/truth.html Thu, 20 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Owned Air https://breckyunits.com/ownedAir.html Mon, 17 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Information Cleaner https://breckyunits.com/ic.html Sun, 16 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000 All the benefits of property; none of the responsibility https://breckyunits.com/ipResponsibility.html Mon, 10 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Optimizing for Truth https://breckyunits.com/optimizingForTruth.html Thu, 06 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000 The Greatest Prompt in the World https://breckyunits.com/greatestPrompt.html Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 A New Coat of Paint https://breckyunits.com/aNewCoatOfPaint.html Mon, 13 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 The Permission Function https://breckyunits.com/thePermissionFunction.html Sun, 15 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Why Define a New Language? https://breckyunits.com/whyDefineANewLanguage.html Tue, 10 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Mitocycles https://breckyunits.com/mitocycle.html Tue, 03 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Breckchain https://breckyunits.com/breckchain.html Mon, 02 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Particle Thinking https://breckyunits.com/particleThinking.html Sun, 24 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 On Focus https://breckyunits.com/focus.html Tue, 12 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 A New Scientific Model of Mania and Depression, with Testable Predictions https://breckyunits.com/bipolarModel.html Thu, 07 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Comics https://breckyunits.com/comics.html Wed, 06 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Writeable https://breckyunits.com/writeable.html Sat, 02 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Why Scroll? https://breckyunits.com/whyScroll.html Fri, 01 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Copyright is a mind virus https://breckyunits.com/copyrightIsAMindVirus.html Tue, 29 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Patents are Poison https://breckyunits.com/patentsArePoison.html Sun, 27 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Strong Startup Advice https://breckyunits.com/startupAdvice.html Sun, 20 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 What do you need to make our universe? https://breckyunits.com/essentials.html Sun, 20 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 sf: instant scratch folders https://breckyunits.com/sf.html Sat, 19 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Microprogramming: A New Way to Program https://breckyunits.com/microprograms.html Tue, 24 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 The Liver Turns On and Off https://breckyunits.com/liver.html Thu, 19 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Make Something You Love https://breckyunits.com/makeSomethingYouLove.html Wed, 11 Sep 2024 11:21:00 +0000 Flaws in Heaven https://breckyunits.com/flawsInHeaven.html Wed, 11 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 The Galton Board https://breckyunits.com/hebner.html Sat, 07 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Advice to the current batch of YCombinator companies: demand carry https://breckyunits.com/letter.html Fri, 06 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Particle Chain: A New Kind of Blockchain https://breckyunits.com/particleChain.html Sun, 01 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Humans https://breckyunits.com/humans.html Fri, 30 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Nature's Eternal Omen: Do not ignore me. https://breckyunits.com/neo.html Thu, 29 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Why Warpcast should not add blocking https://breckyunits.com/blocking.html Wed, 28 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 A Review of the South Park Commons Rejection Letter https://breckyunits.com/southPark.html Sun, 25 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 PAU: Patient Accessible and Understandable health records https://breckyunits.com/pau.html Wed, 21 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 The Journey of the Ketones https://breckyunits.com/ketoneMap.html Wed, 14 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Part Assholes are Awesome https://breckyunits.com/assholes.html Mon, 05 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 David's Last Letter https://breckyunits.com/davidsLastLetter.html Thu, 25 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Abraham Lincoln: "Discourage Litigation." https://breckyunits.com/litigation.html Tue, 23 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000 ETA!: A Measure of Evolution https://breckyunits.com/eta.html Thu, 18 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Early Source https://breckyunits.com/earlySource.html Sat, 13 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Vest Early. Vest Often. https://breckyunits.com/vestEarlyVestOften.html Thu, 04 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000 IPDD https://breckyunits.com/ipdd.html Sat, 29 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000 CheckBox: An Online + Offline Voting System https://breckyunits.com/checkbox.html Tue, 25 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000 The World Wide Scroll https://breckyunits.com/wws.html Wed, 12 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Download this Blog https://breckyunits.com/download.html Tue, 11 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000 ICS: A Measure of Intelligence https://breckyunits.com/intelligence.html Thu, 06 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000 PTCRI: An Equation about Syntax Potential https://breckyunits.com/ptcri.html Fri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Patch: a micro language to make pretty deep links easy https://breckyunits.com/patch.html Mon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 The Choice https://breckyunits.com/meaning.html Mon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Breck's Lab https://breckyunits.com/lab.html Mon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Bring back RadioShack? https://breckyunits.com/radioShack.html Sun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 What can we learn from programming language version numbers? https://breckyunits.com/versionNumbers.html Sat, 25 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Abort Bars https://breckyunits.com/abortBar.html Fri, 24 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 The Omni Restaurant https://breckyunits.com/omniRestaurant.html Thu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 ScrollSets: A New Way to Store Knowledge https://breckyunits.com/scrollsets.html Tue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 High Impact Thoughts https://breckyunits.com/hits.html Mon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 PMF Mirages https://breckyunits.com/pmfMirage.html Wed, 15 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 The law favors ChatGPT over humans https://breckyunits.com/digitalCopyright.html Tue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Corporate Email https://breckyunits.com/corporateEmail.html Sun, 12 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Marks https://breckyunits.com/marks.html Sat, 11 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 The Tallest Tree https://breckyunits.com/theTallestTree.html Tue, 07 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Three Scientists Go To Heaven https://breckyunits.com/aScientistGoesToHeaven.html Sun, 05 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Hypothermia https://breckyunits.com/badModels.html Sat, 04 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 A Higher Language https://breckyunits.com/aHigherLanguage.html Sat, 27 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Hot Coffee https://breckyunits.com/datasets.html Tue, 23 Apr 2024 05:00:00 +0000 Big O's Kitchen https://breckyunits.com/bigOsKitchen.html Tue, 23 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000 The Fastest in the World https://breckyunits.com/fastest.html Mon, 22 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Final Tree Notation Report https://breckyunits.com/treeNotationFinalReport.html Tue, 02 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000 The Box Method of Science https://breckyunits.com/boxMethod.html Sat, 30 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Synthesizing Knowledge https://breckyunits.com/synthesizingKnowledge.html Wed, 21 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Why do we subsidize lies? https://breckyunits.com/whyDoWeSubsidizeLies.html Wed, 14 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Beliefs https://breckyunits.com/beliefs.html Sun, 11 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000 On Eating Animals https://breckyunits.com/eatingAnimals.html Fri, 26 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Words are Worse than Weights https://breckyunits.com/wordsAreWorseThanWeights.html Fri, 12 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000 If nature is doing it... https://breckyunits.com/ifNatureIsDoingIt.html Thu, 04 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Writing in 2024 https://breckyunits.com/nyd2024.html Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Could in vitro brains power AI? https://breckyunits.com/couldInVitroBrainsPowerAI.html Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000 I thought we could build AI experts by hand https://breckyunits.com/iThoughtWeCouldBuildAIExpertsByHand.html Thu, 28 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000 A Proposal to Solve Government Forms Worldwide, Forever https://breckyunits.com/a-proposal-on-government-forms.html Fri, 16 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Many Narratives. All true. https://breckyunits.com/many-narratives-all-true.html Tue, 13 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Live Free or AGI https://breckyunits.com/live-free-or-agi.html Fri, 09 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000 A Mathematical Model of Copyright https://breckyunits.com/a-mathematical-model-of-copyright.html Fri, 26 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Walking and other invisible tools of thought https://breckyunits.com/walking-as-a-tool-of-thought.html Fri, 19 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000 The Magnificent Multi-Agent Mind of Marvin Minsky https://breckyunits.com/marvin-minsky.html Tue, 09 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Enchained Symbols https://breckyunits.com/enchained-symbols.html Fri, 28 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 A Public Domain Human https://breckyunits.com/a-public-domain-human.html Mon, 06 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 SafeFS https://breckyunits.com/safeFs.html Fri, 27 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Use the Spine https://breckyunits.com/useTheSpine.html Tue, 03 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 One Textarea https://breckyunits.com/oneTextarea.html Fri, 30 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Root Thinking https://breckyunits.com/root-thinking.html Wed, 16 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Replies always welcome https://breckyunits.com/replies-always-welcome.html Mon, 14 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Training a neural network to spot misinformation, fake news, and propaganda from a single image https://breckyunits.com/misinformationOrFakeNewsNeuralNetwork.html Sat, 15 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000 A scratch ticket with a positive expected value https://breckyunits.com/scratch-ticket.html Fri, 07 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Cancer and Copyright https://breckyunits.com/cancer-and-copyright.html Tue, 04 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000 An Angel Investor's Data https://breckyunits.com/an-angel-investors-data.html Thu, 01 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000 How the public domain can win https://breckyunits.com/how-the-public-domain-can-win.html Tue, 30 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000 The Three Byte Fix https://breckyunits.com/ckmeans.html Thu, 09 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Upstream of Everything https://breckyunits.com/upstream-of-everything.html Mon, 28 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Brain Pilots https://breckyunits.com/brain-pilots.html Fri, 18 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Aftertext https://breckyunits.com/aftertext.html Wed, 15 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000 Write Thin to Write Fast https://breckyunits.com/write-thin-to-write-fast.html Fri, 15 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000 User Methods https://breckyunits.com/user-methods.html Wed, 11 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000 Goblin Interviews Alexandra Elbakian https://breckyunits.com/elbakian-interview.html Sat, 22 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000 Scrolldown now has Dialogues https://breckyunits.com/dialogues.html Fri, 14 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000 Aaron's Amendment https://breckyunits.com/aaron.html Wed, 12 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000 Some old blogs https://breckyunits.com/some-old-blogs.html Fri, 07 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000 Strong Advice https://breckyunits.com/advice.html Thu, 06 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000 Logeracy https://breckyunits.com/logeracy.html Mon, 26 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000 How to fix the CDC, NIH, etc https://breckyunits.com/how-to-fix-the-cdc.html Tue, 30 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000 How James Park built FitBit https://breckyunits.com/how-james-park-built-fitbit.html Thu, 11 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000 Insist on Focus - Keith Rabois describes working at PayPal https://breckyunits.com/insist-on-focus.html Sun, 28 Feb 2021 02:00:00 +0000 The Public Domain Publishing Company https://breckyunits.com/the-public-domain-publishing-company.html Sun, 28 Feb 2021 01:00:00 +0000 Scroll Beta https://breckyunits.com/scroll-beta.html Mon, 22 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000 Sleepy Time Conference https://breckyunits.com/sleepyTimeConference.html Thu, 11 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000 2019 Tree Notation Annual Report https://breckyunits.com/tree-notation-annual-report-2019.html Wed, 09 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Musing on the Future of Healthcare https://breckyunits.com/musing-on-the-future-of-healthcare.html Mon, 02 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Medical Records to the Moon https://breckyunits.com/medical-records-to-the-moon.html Mon, 02 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000 How Old Are These Keys? Five Eras of Human Progress https://breckyunits.com/how-old-are-these-keys.html Tue, 25 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000 An Unpopular Phrase https://breckyunits.com/an-unpopular-phrase.html Fri, 21 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Integrity and Perseverance in Business ensure success (1853) https://breckyunits.com/integrity-and-perseverance-in-business-ensure-success.html Sun, 09 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Building a TreeBase with 6.5 million files https://breckyunits.com/building-a-treebase-with-6.5-million-files.html Wed, 29 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Dataset Needed https://breckyunits.com/dataset-needed.html Thu, 23 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Type the World https://breckyunits.com/type-the-world.html Mon, 20 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000 If stories are lies why do they work? https://breckyunits.com/if-stories-are-lies-why-do-they-work.html Thu, 16 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Dreaming of a Logic Checked Language https://breckyunits.com/dreaming-of-a-data-checked-language.html Fri, 03 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000 English cannot encode Real News https://breckyunits.com/english-cannot-encode-real-news.html Mon, 19 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000 30,000 Hours https://breckyunits.com/30000hours.html Thu, 18 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000 Removing the 2’s from Trinary Notation is a Terrible Idea. https://breckyunits.com/trinary.html Sun, 14 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000 PC: Particle Complexity https://breckyunits.com/countingComplexity.html Wed, 20 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +0000 Parsers: a language for making languages https://breckyunits.com/aGrammarNotationForTreeLanguages.html Sun, 10 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0000 Ohayo https://breckyunits.com/ohayo.html Fri, 23 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0000 Tree Notation: an antifragile program notation https://breckyunits.com/treenotationPaper.html Wed, 21 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0000 A New Discovery in Computer Science: 2-Dimensional Programming Languages https://breckyunits.com/show-hn-programming-is-now-two-dimensional.html Wed, 21 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0000 Big Data Notation https://breckyunits.com/big-data-notation.html Tue, 24 Sep 2013 00:00:00 +0000 NudgePad: An IDE in Your Browser https://breckyunits.com/nudgepad-an-ide-in-your-browser.html Mon, 23 Sep 2013 00:00:00 +0000 ScrollNet: A successor to the Internet https://breckyunits.com/scrollnet.html Sun, 02 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Software Should Save People Time https://breckyunits.com/software-should-save-people-time.html Tue, 02 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Time https://breckyunits.com/time.html Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Why 10,000 hours? https://breckyunits.com/why-10000-hours.html Sat, 30 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Money is Meant to Circulate https://breckyunits.com/money-is-meant-to-circulate.html Sat, 30 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Minor Epiphanies https://breckyunits.com/minor-epiphanies.html Sat, 16 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000 The Booster Design Pattern https://breckyunits.com/the-booster-design-pattern.html Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Startups and Planes https://breckyunits.com/startups-and-planes.html Sun, 24 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Save Your Money for Great Values https://breckyunits.com/save-your-money-for-great-values.html Sat, 16 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Infinite Futures https://breckyunits.com/infinite-futures.html Tue, 12 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Prove It https://breckyunits.com/prove-it.html Sat, 29 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000 The Great Bank Robbery https://breckyunits.com/the-great-bank-robbery.html Sun, 23 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Responsibility https://breckyunits.com/responsibility.html Sat, 22 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Deliver https://breckyunits.com/deliver.html Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Black Swans and Technology https://breckyunits.com/black-swans-and-technology.html Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Probability Makes Planes Fly https://breckyunits.com/probability-makes-planes-fly.html Tue, 18 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Can't Lose. Could Win Big. https://breckyunits.com/cant-lose-could-win-big.html Tue, 18 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Simple is... https://breckyunits.com/simple-is.html Sun, 16 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Narratives Misrepresent Complex Systems https://breckyunits.com/narratives-misrepresent-complex-systems.html Sun, 16 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Introducing Note https://breckyunits.com/introducing-note.html Fri, 14 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Planets and Pebbles https://breckyunits.com/planets-and-pebbles.html Mon, 26 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Publishing More https://breckyunits.com/publishing-more.html Sun, 25 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Setplicity https://breckyunits.com/setplicity.html Tue, 20 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Naming Things https://breckyunits.com/naming-things.html Sat, 20 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000 What can a Programmer learn from Rock Climbing? https://breckyunits.com/what-can-a-programmer-learn-from-rock-climbing.html Wed, 30 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Look for a Line https://breckyunits.com/look-for-a-line.html Sat, 05 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Backpack the World with Zero Planning https://breckyunits.com/backpack-the-world-with-zero-planning.html Fri, 04 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0000 The Economy Explained https://breckyunits.com/the-economy-explained.html Sat, 18 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0000 You Can't Predict the Future https://breckyunits.com/you-cant-predict-the-future.html Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Ruby https://breckyunits.com/ruby.html Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Recommendations Are Far From Good https://breckyunits.com/recommendations-are-far-from-good.html Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Nature Verse Nurture https://breckyunits.com/nature-verse-nurture.html Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Kids are Neat https://breckyunits.com/kids-are-neat.html Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0000 How is Intelligence Distributed? https://breckyunits.com/how-is-intelligence-distributed.html Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Critical Thinking https://breckyunits.com/critical-thinking.html Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Circle of Competence https://breckyunits.com/circle-of-competence.html Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0000 What Percentage of the Brain Does What? https://breckyunits.com/what-percentage-of-the-brain-does-what.html Mon, 23 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0000 The Recency Effect https://breckyunits.com/the-recency-effect.html Mon, 23 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0000 The Ovarian Lottery and Other Side Projects https://breckyunits.com/the-ovarian-lottery-and-other-side-projects.html Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0000 What I Want https://breckyunits.com/what-i-want.html Fri, 06 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Orbits https://breckyunits.com/orbits.html Fri, 06 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Happiness is in Mediocristan https://breckyunits.com/happiness-is-in-mediocristan.html Fri, 06 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0000 The Do You Know Game and Why We Need Celebrities https://breckyunits.com/the-do-you-know-game-and-why-we-need-celebrities.html Tue, 03 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Design Matters. 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