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2024

The Shirky Principle: Institutions Try to Preserve the Problem to Which They Are the Solution – Effectiviology

Link: The Shirky Principle: Institutions Try to Preserve the Problem to Which They Are the Solution – Effectiviology: ""

“The Shirky principle is the adage that “institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution”. More broadly, it can also be characterized as the adage that “every entity tends to prolong the problem it is solving”.

The Psychology of Human Misjudgment annotated/explained version.

Link: The Psychology of Human Misjudgment annotated/explained version.: "Charlie Munger"

This week we are revisiting “The Psychology of Human Misjudgment" an essay by Charlie Munger. In this essay, Munger discusses a series of 25 Cognitive Biases that induce human misjudgment and provides some of his famous mental models to counter this innate behavior.

It's a great read full of insights: https://fermatslibrary.com/s/the-psychology-of-human-misdgugement [fermatslibrary.com]

Debugbar For Ruby on Rails

Link: Debugbar For Ruby on Rails: "Rails debugging dev tools for faster development. Inspect your request details (queries, logs, cache, jobs and more)."

This is super useful for rails apps. Will it work for other frameworks like Sinatra? I haven’t tried this yet but it looks promising.