Blog Archive

Historical blog posts.

By Jacob Robinson · Published by JBR Productions

Inside the archive.

265 PUBLISHED ARTICLES

01Five Takeaways from #100DaysofCode—READ ARTICLE 02Getting Past the Bump—READ ARTICLE 03How Important are Principles?—READ ARTICLE

Show 259 middle articles

04How to Avoid Writer’s Fatigue—READ ARTICLE 05The Dangers of Catastrophizing—READ ARTICLE 06State of the Union 2019—READ ARTICLE 07The Rise of the Personal Brand—READ ARTICLE 08Finding Adventure in 2019—READ ARTICLE 095 Ways to Use Automation to Vastly Increase Your Efficiency—READ ARTICLE 10What you Should be Doing Instead of Networking—READ ARTICLE 11Creatives vs. Technicals: Which Should You Focus On?—READ ARTICLE 12The Difference between Quitting and Giving Up—READ ARTICLE 133 Ways To Get Value Out Of Nature—READ ARTICLE 14What is the Purpose of Dreams?—READ ARTICLE 15How to develop intellectual success in future generations—READ ARTICLE 16What the Definition of Luck Really Is—READ ARTICLE 17Who Makes the Culture?—READ ARTICLE 18Sexual Frustration and Trying to Find Love in the Age of the Internet—READ ARTICLE 19The Lazy Man’s Guide to More Efficient Research—READ ARTICLE 20How One Joke Can Ruin Your Life—READ ARTICLE 21Why IQ is BS—READ ARTICLE 22Why it’s Impossible for the Illuminati to Exist—READ ARTICLE 23Some of my Favorite Blogs—READ ARTICLE 24The Most Important Indicator on Why a Company Succeeds—READ ARTICLE 25Returning to Tesla—READ ARTICLE 26Living in a Post-Truth World—READ ARTICLE 27The Function of Success—READ ARTICLE 28Lessons at 20—READ ARTICLE 29If the Recession Happened This Year…—READ ARTICLE 30Why People Don’t Read—READ ARTICLE 31Social Media and Truth—READ ARTICLE 32Making Things 1% Better—READ ARTICLE 33What the Book of Job Really Means—READ ARTICLE 34Life as a Game—READ ARTICLE 35The Function of Opportunity—READ ARTICLE 36Exponential Growth—READ ARTICLE 37The Machine Learning Revolution—READ ARTICLE 38Practical Thoughts on Blockchain—READ ARTICLE 39Why the Humanities Are Just as Important as STEM—READ ARTICLE 40Dow 30,000—READ ARTICLE 41The Shame Economy—READ ARTICLE 42You Can’t Do It All Alone—READ ARTICLE 43Favorites of 2019—READ ARTICLE 44State of the Union 2020—READ ARTICLE 45The Tolerance Paradox—READ ARTICLE 46Null—READ ARTICLE 47Social Game Theory—READ ARTICLE 483 Tips for Developing a Positive Mindset—READ ARTICLE 49Why Social Gaming is So Popular—READ ARTICLE 50A Design Study on YourStack—READ ARTICLE 51Relationships, Careers, and Investments—READ ARTICLE 52The Fall of GAFA—READ ARTICLE 53Wartime CEO—READ ARTICLE 54Mass Shooting Cycles—READ ARTICLE 55But Who’s Right?—READ ARTICLE 56What Matters in the End—READ ARTICLE 57Is AR/VR too “weird”?—READ ARTICLE 58Convenience + Efficiency—READ ARTICLE 59Vicious Cycles—READ ARTICLE 60With Smart People—READ ARTICLE 61The Third Moat—READ ARTICLE 62The Secret to Success—READ ARTICLE 63The End of Education—READ ARTICLE 64The Ben Carson Effect—READ ARTICLE 65Biological Evolution, Cultural Evolution—READ ARTICLE 66Suicide and the Self—READ ARTICLE 67The Life Cycle of a Business—READ ARTICLE 68How to Get into Harvard—READ ARTICLE 69Managing Your Personal KPIs—READ ARTICLE 70Fog of War—READ ARTICLE 71Make-or-Break vs. Nice-to-Have—READ ARTICLE 72Identity and Political Groups—READ ARTICLE 73Nationalism’s Pros and Cons—READ ARTICLE 74How to Win an Election—READ ARTICLE 75Why You Shouldn’t Network—READ ARTICLE 76On Relative Morality—READ ARTICLE 77Death in the Age of the Internet—READ ARTICLE 78Audience of One—READ ARTICLE 79The Rise of Anxiety—READ ARTICLE 80Stop Getting Scared By AI—READ ARTICLE 81If You Build It, They Will Come—READ ARTICLE 82Building Knowledge Advantage—READ ARTICLE 83The Quest to be Kinder—READ ARTICLE 84Everything You Do Sucks—READ ARTICLE 85Niche Monopolies—READ ARTICLE 86Up Shit Creek—READ ARTICLE 87Emotional Equivalent Salary—READ ARTICLE 88Uncertainty Principle—READ ARTICLE 89Building a Startup with Anxiety—READ ARTICLE 90Punishment and Forgiveness—READ ARTICLE 91Favorites of 2020—READ ARTICLE 92State of the Union 2021—READ ARTICLE 93Random Factor Social Suicide—READ ARTICLE 94Old World Business, New World Business—READ ARTICLE 95The Customer Takes Care of Itself—READ ARTICLE 96How to Use Reddit as a Business—READ ARTICLE 97Genetic Obsolescence—READ ARTICLE 98A Social Capital Theory of Management—READ ARTICLE 99If I Could Do My Education Over Again—READ ARTICLE 100Aggregation and Decoupling—READ ARTICLE 101The Crazies, Part II—READ ARTICLE 102Art as Inspiration, Art as Education—READ ARTICLE 103Free to Play Models for SaaS Services—READ ARTICLE 104A Recap on my 2020 Politics Posts—READ ARTICLE 105Making Mistakes, Post-Internet—READ ARTICLE 106Taste is Not Tech—READ ARTICLE 107Immortality—READ ARTICLE 108Biases Against Consistency—READ ARTICLE 109The Mythical Self—READ ARTICLE 110Faulty Mental Models—READ ARTICLE 111Honor and Glory—READ ARTICLE 112Momentum, and the Value of Cold Showers—READ ARTICLE 113The Prestige Myth: Providing Structure to Structureless Forms—READ ARTICLE 114The Unluckiest Man Alive—READ ARTICLE 115Those Who Make, And Those Who Work—READ ARTICLE 116Post-Truth, Revisited—READ ARTICLE 117Conscience Questions, Unchristianized Edition—READ ARTICLE 118On Being You—READ ARTICLE 119Effective versus Efficient—READ ARTICLE 120The Experimental Method of Learning—READ ARTICLE 121A New Model for Teaching Humanities—READ ARTICLE 122A Dialogue on Mindset—READ ARTICLE 123I Am Not Your Friend—READ ARTICLE 124My 5 Tips Towards Reading Books—READ ARTICLE 125Buying Immortality—READ ARTICLE 126Do this, but…—READ ARTICLE 127Leverage and Wealth: A Simplification—READ ARTICLE 128Mind’s Eye and Creative Application—READ ARTICLE 129Intersection of Technology and Art—READ ARTICLE 130Blog Writing for Robots—READ ARTICLE 13110 Tips on Writing—READ ARTICLE 132The Cost of Staying Alive in America—READ ARTICLE 133Taste on the Margin—READ ARTICLE 134Top 10 Tools I Use in 2021—READ ARTICLE 135Income Generators 101—READ ARTICLE 136Strategies for David, Versus Goliath—READ ARTICLE 137Progress in the Long Term—READ ARTICLE 138The End of Journalism—READ ARTICLE 139Myths of People—READ ARTICLE 140Heroism—READ ARTICLE 141External Mentors—READ ARTICLE 142Favorites of 2021—READ ARTICLE 143State of the Union 2022—READ ARTICLE 144The End of Gender—READ ARTICLE 145The Work After Work—READ ARTICLE 146There Is No Metaverse—READ ARTICLE 147On Dealing With Chaos—READ ARTICLE 148Risk/Return Bets in Entrepreneurship—READ ARTICLE 149The Weird, Magical World of Modern Day Quora—READ ARTICLE 150On Business—READ ARTICLE 151What’s “Hivemind”?—READ ARTICLE 152Life as a War—READ ARTICLE 153On Culture—READ ARTICLE 154My Approach to Investing—READ ARTICLE 155Stop Caring About Your Reputation—READ ARTICLE 156On Humility—READ ARTICLE 157Is Relative Morality Helpful?—READ ARTICLE 158Achievement-Based Thinking—READ ARTICLE 159On Success—READ ARTICLE 160Moral Implications in Maximums and Minimums—READ ARTICLE 161Sentience and Suffering—READ ARTICLE 162On Improving—READ ARTICLE 163The Suicide Disease—READ ARTICLE 164Social Diversification—READ ARTICLE 165On Meaning—READ ARTICLE 166Convenience and Pareto Optimality—READ ARTICLE 167Mental Illness is Not a Permanent State—READ ARTICLE 168Biased Science—READ ARTICLE 169People as Means—READ ARTICLE 170Being Wise and Being Smart—READ ARTICLE 171The New Working Class—READ ARTICLE 172Fitness, Suffering, Self—READ ARTICLE 173Political Theory and Evolution—READ ARTICLE 174Explaining my Rating System—READ ARTICLE 175Why You Might Want A Trading Account Over An IRA—READ ARTICLE 176Why NFTs Don’t Work For Games—READ ARTICLE 177A Few Thoughts on MMOs—READ ARTICLE 178A Review of MyMind—READ ARTICLE 179Read, Think, Make, Share, Monetize—READ ARTICLE 180Is Science Perfect?—READ ARTICLE 181A Guide to Fiction Writing—READ ARTICLE 182The Productivity Tool World Tour 2022—READ ARTICLE 183My Daily Routine—READ ARTICLE 184The Curse of The Conqueror—READ ARTICLE 185Some Brief Notes on Programming—READ ARTICLE 186My Life Principles—READ ARTICLE 187Cyberpunk in 2022—READ ARTICLE 188What Decides Good Art?—READ ARTICLE 189Trends in Mass Murder Techniques—READ ARTICLE 190Changing to Fit the Times—READ ARTICLE 191Why Did Photographers Embrace NFTs, but Artists Didn’t?—READ ARTICLE 192Favorites of 2022—READ ARTICLE 193State of the Union 2023—READ ARTICLE 194New Blog Post Schedule—READ ARTICLE 195Was Lex Fridman’s “Reading List” Controversy Caused by Mass Psychosis?—READ ARTICLE 196Is Notion “Too Good”?—READ ARTICLE 197Mastodon is Social Media PvP with Permadeath Enabled—READ ARTICLE 198Arc, Vivaldi, and the Next Generation of Browsers—READ ARTICLE 199Is the Four-Hour Workweek Actually Possible?—READ ARTICLE 200Do Not Obsess Over Your Customer. Obsess Over Your Community.—READ ARTICLE 201Why Big Entertainment Failed to Bring in Diversity—READ ARTICLE 202My All-Time Favorite Tools—READ ARTICLE 203Museums on the Computer—READ ARTICLE 204How to use AI to get you motivated to work—READ ARTICLE 205The Best Way to Focus: Do Nothing—READ ARTICLE 206Can Buddhism and Ego Intertwine?—READ ARTICLE 207How I Write My Blog Posts Now—READ ARTICLE 208Practice and Mysticism—READ ARTICLE 209Automate the Boring Stuff with ChatGPT—READ ARTICLE 210State of the Union 2024—READ ARTICLE 211The Secret to Great Products You Aren’t Doing—READ ARTICLE 212How to build a $5 billion dollar business in 5 minutes—READ ARTICLE 213How To Easily Automate Investments, Beat Big Tech, and more!—READ ARTICLE 214Can I Use AI To Solve The World’s Unsolvable Problems?—READ ARTICLE 215How A “Taste Matrix” Can Improve Your Art And Kill Writer’s Block—READ ARTICLE 216My Bizarre, Counterintuitive, and Lifechanging Approach to Work—READ ARTICLE 217Top 3 Recommended Browsers (They Aren’t What You Think)—READ ARTICLE 218How Hard Is It To Make Money On Steam?—READ ARTICLE 219What To Do If You’re Socially Anxious—READ ARTICLE 220My New New Way of Reading Books (I Abandoned AI)—READ ARTICLE 221References Are The Best Way To Learn Anything—READ ARTICLE 222How To Quit Planning Goals And Start Achieving Them—READ ARTICLE 223The Only Good Self-Help Book—READ ARTICLE 224Be Nice To Everyone. It Just Might Save Your Life.—READ ARTICLE 225I Learned An Ancient 3-Step Process And Became A Master Meditator—READ ARTICLE 226How Canva Became The Home of Everything—READ ARTICLE 227Has The Internet Made More People Mentally Ill?—READ ARTICLE 228The Biology Behind Why We Like Stories—READ ARTICLE 229This Tape Haunted An Entire Nation. But Was It Even Real?—READ ARTICLE 230We Are All Most Certainly Going To Make It—READ ARTICLE 231What Makes Good Taste?—READ ARTICLE 232In a World of Cancel Culture, Reputation Doesn’t Matter Anymore—READ ARTICLE 233Why You Hate Diversity In Media—READ ARTICLE 234I Used Readwise for 200 days. Here’s what happened.—READ ARTICLE 235Lessons on Bootstrapping Solo with Little Income—READ ARTICLE 236This Ancient Story Was Drowned In Lies. The Truth is Much More Interesting.—READ ARTICLE 237How To Get Actionable, Memorable Advice Out Of Anything You Read—READ ARTICLE 238You Are A Coward. And That’s Not So Bad, Really.—READ ARTICLE 239Time Travel is Real. Here’s How to Use It.—READ ARTICLE 240How I Got Into Old Games—READ ARTICLE 241Is Every Story Political?—READ ARTICLE 242Your Culture Decides Your Fate—READ ARTICLE 243In Defense of the Jumpscare—READ ARTICLE 244Final Fantasy XIV’s Story Is A Mess—READ ARTICLE 245Markov Chains and You!—READ ARTICLE 246I used Obsidian for 90 days. Here’s what happened.—READ ARTICLE 247Ideas That Can Kill You—READ ARTICLE 248Porting A 250k+ Item Database from Notion to Obsidian—READ ARTICLE 249Why the Fast Inverse Square Root Matters—READ ARTICLE 250A Deep Dive on Networking—READ ARTICLE 251A Deep Dive on Cybersecurity—READ ARTICLE 252Converting a $100k+ Trading Algorithm from Excel to Python—READ ARTICLE 253How To Make A (Super) Hard Drive From Scratch—READ ARTICLE 254So, How Do Computer Graphics Work?—READ ARTICLE 255The Quantum Physics Rabbit Hole, Part I—READ ARTICLE 256The Quantum Physics Rabbit Hole, Part II—READ ARTICLE 257The Story (and Meaning) of Humanity’s Greatest Achievement—READ ARTICLE 258Explaining Tonal Indicators—READ ARTICLE 259AI should have you thinking MORE, not less—READ ARTICLE 260Forbidden Knowledge: The Vela Incident—READ ARTICLE 261All success in life comes back to pain tolerance—READ ARTICLE 262The AI Revolution rewards the curious—READ ARTICLE

263Forbidden Knowledge: Marco Evaristti—READ ARTICLE 264Forbidden Knowledge: Casket Failure—READ ARTICLE 265Forbidden Knowledge: Coriander Theory—READ ARTICLE

Blog Archive

Inside the archive.

Pick up where you left off