How to Develop a Sense of Scale
A sense of scale helps us better understand the world, and convey ideas more effectively. What’s more impressive?
- Bill Gates has 56 billion dollars.
- Bill Gates earned over $3000 per minute [$50/second] since Microsoft was created. Spending 5 seconds to pick $100 off the floor is literally not a good use of his time.
Surviving (and thriving) on your own: Know Thyself
Combining Simplicity and Complexity
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Math & Numbers
- Mental math shortcuts, adding 1-100
- Understanding exponents and the natural log
- Div, Curl, Flux, Gradient and other Vector Calculus topics
Programming & Web Development
- Site speedups with HTTP caching, gzip compression
- Understanding Rails, Web debugging, and Javascrtipt
- Swap bytes with XOR, byte order, unicode
