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Semiconductor Fabs III: The Data and Automation
Dallas, USA—ACX Spring Schelling 2026
March 2026 Links
Set the Line Before It’s Crossed
Null Results From An Orexin RCT
February 2026 Links
January 2026 Links
Taiwan Trip Report
LessOnline 2026 Improvement Ideas
December 2025 Links
I realized soon after posting that it probably wasn’t in the best order, so thank you for confirming that! I chose chronological order out of laziness because that’s the order in which I add them to my repository.
My December 2025 Links post will be ordered by most to least interesting.
November 2025 Links
Reviews I: Everyone’s Responsibility
Any report back? I’m planning to implement some of these for a month or two and see how they work.
Here is my list (which riffs off yours):
Work uniform every day. These will be clothes I rarely outside of work so as to minimize the amount of work-personal blend. I’ll also make them more professional to fit in with the “I’m at work and being a professional” vibe.
Work phone in safe when I get home. I have a work-only phone because I’m on-call 24⁄7. I plan to put this in my phone safe when I get home and only check it at certain times to avoid checking it out of habit or fear.
No work in apartment. Separating physical locations is important. If I have to work from home, then I’ll go to my apartment complex’s study area.
No talking about work outside of work.
I’ve found an identity angle to this, where you become the type of person who doesn’t talk about work outside of work because that type of person doesn’t have a fulfilling personal life and thus resorts to work talk. I talk to a handful of people about work outside of work and it doesn’t make me feel good, which means the identity angle is working as it should. I will probably try to reinforce this.
Sleep Deprivation Training for Endurance Athletes
Semiconductor Fabs II: The Operation
Semiconductor Fabs I: The Equipment
Phrasing in the essay may have been poor: I’m not saying use those specifically nor asking anyone to memorize them, but rather just making sure to use words that convey different likelihoods. Your point about wildly different interpretations still holds.
That’s actually how I found Stratfor! Super cool to see the inside of an operation like that. Thanks for posting!