Ibrahim Sowunmi

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Pages worth visiting at least once

Updated last August 2021

joshwcomeau.com

An interactive guide to flexbox

Learn flexbox with this fun and engaging interactive guide.

Master flexbox in CSS with this hands-on tutorial.

#CSS
#Flexbox
#Web Development

documentation.divio.com

Writing technical documentation

A comprehensive guide to writing effective technical documentation.

Improve your technical writing skills with this resource.

#Technical Writing
#Documentation

kk.org

1000 true fans

To be a successful creator you don’t need millions. You don’t need millions of dollars or millions of customers, millions of clients or millions of fans. To make a living as a craftsperson, photographer, musician, designer, author, animator, app maker, entrepreneur, or inventor you need only thousands of true fans.

#Career

kalzumeus.com

Do not end the week with nothing

Brilliant write up from the excellent Patio11. Increase your human, social and reputational capital.Position yourself for visibility, value and ownership.

#Career

lucasfcosta.com

Explaining explaining: a quick guide on explanatory writing

Three steps to pedagogical writing. 1) Explaining what they’ll explain and how they’ll explain it. 2) Explaining it 3) Summarising what they’ve just explained.

#Writing

yt.com/defcon

Genetic Diseases to Guide Digital Hacks of the Human Genome

“A hacker convention. One talker has a unique modality that he thinks may be a battleground for the future.”

Scaryish video on genes, chilling to watch post covid.

#Video
#Science

nichanank.com

Gray space in the middle

Cool NFT use case example

#Finance
#Crypto
#NFT

swyx.io

How to Market Yourself - without Being a Celebrity

Best personal branding piece I've ever read... I don't really read personal branding pieces but still

#Personal Website
#Career

yt.com/Hubermanlab

Huberman Lab Podcast

“The Huberman Lab Podcast, hosted by Dr. Andrew Huberman, discusses neuroscience—how our brain and its connections with the organs of our body control our perceptions, our behaviors, and our health. The podcast also discusses tools for measuring and changing how our nervous system works.”

My favourite podcast and nothing is a close second.

#Neuroscience
#Health
#Fitness
#Podcast

lynalden.com

Lyn Alden - Investment Strategy

“Content aimed at new investors, experienced investors and everything inbetween. Most topical articles are aimed at more experienced investors”

Posts on topics from QE, to inflation to Bitcoin from my macroeconomic queen.

#Finance

ralphammer.com

Make me think!

Short read on the interactions between UX and complexity

#Accessibility

yt.com/MacabreStorytelling

Male Dating & Sex Struggles: A Problem In Plain Sight

Really good video essay that explains the cultural issues surrounding the explosion in incels.

#Video
#Internet History

yt.com/NotJustBikes

Not Just Bikes

“Stories of great urban planning and urban experiences from Amsterdam and the Netherlands. It's not just bikes.”

If there's any channel that's affected my perception on a city's liveability. It's this one.

#Video
#Fun

obsidian.md

Obsidian.md

“Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files.”

My markdown based note taking resource. Syncs with my iCloud so it's on my phone and just helps with general organisation.

#Tool

treeofwoe.substack

Orcs were real

“Every human culture has believed in the existence of other beings, monstrous humanoids, sapient but inhuman. They have gone by different names- boogeymen, bugbear, cyclopes, giant, jotun, ogre, oni, troll, yeti, and more. But they are always feared, lurkers in the shadows, threats to the clan, tribe, or hearth. Dungeons & Dragons didn’t create these monsters, and (despite ongoing controversies) they don’t represent anything modern. Humanity’s legendary heroes have been fighting these monsters since time immemorial.”

#Fun

paulgraham.com

Paul Graham: How to make wealth

“If you wanted to get rich, how would you do it? I think your best bet would be to start or join a startup. That's been a reliable way to get rich for hundreds of years. The word "startup" dates from the 1960s, but what happens in one is very similar to the venture-backed trading voyages of the Middle Ages.”

End up somewhere with measurement and leverage

#Management

astralcodexten.substack.com

Progress and Poverty - A review

“In 1879, a man asked "How come all this new economic development and industrialized technology hasn't eliminated poverty and oppression?" That man was Henry George, his answer came in the form of a book called Progress & Poverty, and this is a review of that book”

This was hard to read through but also excellent

#Economics

yt.com/Qoves

QOVES Studio

“Taking a look into the age old question of what makes a face beautiful through anthropology and cognitive psychology.”

A bit of the why behind attraction, intersting stuff.

#Video
#Science
#Psychology

whatever.scalzi.com

Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is

A gamified description of privilege. Lots of cool discourse in the comment sections around the desctiption. Really well written imo.

#Politics

yt.com/b1m

The B1M

“The definitive video channel for construction”

#Video
#Construction

thediff.co

The promise and paradox of decentralization

Tackling centralisation is a tricky beast.

#Crypto

yt.com/tldrUK

TLDR News

“TLDR News aims to make news and politics easier to understand. No one person can be an expert in everything so we create videos to make the world around you simpler. Our videos are designed to make complex topics understandable and to help you engage more with news and politics.”

Politics & news that feels less shilly

#Video
#News

yt.com/2minutepapers

Two Minute Papers

“Two Minute Papers is a YouTube series that showcase and attempt to explain interesting research works, a couple minutes or more at a time”

What a time to be alive!

#Video
#Science

typora.io

Typora

“Typora is a simple and configurable document editor that provides excellent Markdown support. This application is ideal for students and professionals who need to write essays and reports."

A minimalist markdown editor. For minimal minimalists, who minimise.

#Tool

apenwarr.ca

What do executives do, anyway?

I had a conversation with my manager discussing how the jobs of the people above his role seem ephemeral, lo and behold what google gives me next

#Management

guzey.com

Where does talent come from? How easy is it to discover talent?

Rich, talented and well-educated people give birth to rich, talented and well-educated people.

##Misc

danluu.com

Working at a startup vs big corporate

Everyone always talks about how much more money there is in startups, someone did a breakdown

#Engineering

https://sites.google.com/steveyegge2

You-should-write-blogs

Why you should write blogs

#Personal Website
#Career
#Writing

hackernews.com

Hackernews

“Hacker News is a social news website focusing on computer science and entrepreneurship.”

I read this daily.

#News
#Engineering