Hey there! This post dives into a variety of fascinating topics. You’ll learn about setting up a powerful AI server, embracing ‘Slow Productivity’ to avoid burnout, thriving with multiple interests, and strategies to organize your life and coat closet. Plus, there are insights on young Canadians’ work preferences, cool woodworking posters, and even a quirky experiment involving a pickle and an AM radio tower. Happy reading!

• Serving AI From The Basement: 192GB of VRAM Setup: Dedicated LLM server powered by 8x RTX 3090 Graphic Cards, boasting a total of 192GB of VRAM.
• Try ‘Slow Productivity’ to Increase the Quality of Your Work (and Prevent Burnout): Productivity guru Cal Newport’s latest book, ‘Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout,’ advocates for people to do fewer things, work at a natural pace, and obsess over the quality of their work. That stands in contrast to how a normal day goes for most of us, trying to do a bunch of different stuff at warp speed, banging out a high quantity of finished tasks with varying levels of quality.
• The Rise Of The Generalist (How To Thrive With Multiple Interests): The second renaissance is here. You can learn anything, build anything, or be anything. Here’s how you take advantage.
• 10 things you won’t get until after the work is done: (a rumination to encourage myself to just FREAKING finish this dang enormously complicated project I’m building already)
• Young Canadians prefer in-person and hybrid work, according to a new report: The stereotypes around young people only caring about being online are rampant but they are worth questioning — or at least being put in context.
• Sort out your life! 100 tiny tricks to help with everything from digital overwhelm to lumpy sugar and unpaid bills: Ever feel like you’re lurching from crisis to crisis, or chore to chore? Here’s how to knock at least some of them on the head – and lay the foundations for a less stressful, more organised existence
• What happens when you touch a Pickle to an AM radio tower?:
• 50 Digital Wood Joints Poster: Print out this poster of 50 digital wood joints, compiled by Jochen Gross and laid out by Meredith Scheff-King.
• A 3-step framework to never get down-leveled in your behavioral interviews again: Amazon Principal Architect shares his secrets for the last month of collaborations guest post
• 7 Management Myths That Need To Be Busted: There are many aspects of modern business management which bother me. More than anything though, is the relentless invasion of idiotic myths which seems to pass for “inspirational leadership”. I’ve sat in many classrooms – with many different employers – and I keep seeing the same lies being told to students. HR and training teams […]
• Celebrating the art of imperfect typography with Abraham Lule: Mexican letterer Abraham Lule, now based in New York, brings a touch of handcrafted artistry to his typography work.
• The Best Ways to Organize Your Coat Closet for Fall: Your coat closet can get disorganized, especially in the fall and winter. Here are a few upgrades to help get it into shape.
• Building LLMs from the Ground Up: A 3-hour Coding Workshop: A 3-hour coding workshop presentation on implementing, training, and using LLMs.
• Growing your taste to build better products: There’s been a lot of talk about how having great taste is key to building great software. But taste is subjective. I might consider a particular movie or a restaurant amazing, but you might consider it as terrible. Despite this subjectivity, there are some common factors that go into honing your taste in pretty much…