Bits

Life

Growing Old: Bertrand Russell’s answer to the fear of death.
Personal Growth: The handful of ideas I run my own life on.
Flourishing: Six directions for the seeking drive, and why direction beats arrival.
Legacy: Why wanting to be remembered is ego, and what is worth passing on anyway.
Compatibility: Fit in the three realms, and the luck that decides whether two people meet.
Engaging Strangers: Seven steps for opening a conversation with a stranger.
Blood Pressure Diet: A DASH-style cheat-sheet of foods to favor and foods to limit.
Kidneys and Blood Pressure: How the kidneys regulate blood pressure and what that means for diet.
Chess: Openings to master, and a PGN cleanup function.
Poker: Chip counts, blind schedules, and payouts for home games.
Karaoke: Songs I sing, grouped by what earns each one its place.
Baseball: Why baseball is an American art form, plus one link for data hacking.
Columbo: All 69 episodes, and how to transcode the DVD set.
Star Wars Chronology: The films and live-action series in story order, with release years.
Mix Music Into a Video: Put a song under a clip’s own sound with FFmpeg.
Prompt Cards: Shortest prompts for four retired how-tos, with the choices each must carry.