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https://www.ekioh.com/flow-browser/

This reminds me of the piano teacher (danthecomposer) I am following on youtube: he calls his approach a "philosophical approach" to learning the piano and to me it seems quite influenced by daoism or zen.

he puts heavy emphasis on practicing with your eyes closed from the beginning. this becomes possible through visualizing scales and chords from the beginning.

other aspects are: getting your ego out of the way, trusting in you inherent musicality and allowing you creative source to steer your fingers to express your emotions and avoiding conscious interference. there is also a lot of simple improvisation inside a chord from the beginning.

i cant speak for the long term success of his technique, but i like the approach and it makes sense to me with respect to other skills i have aquired before.

his youtube channel is a bit hard to navigate but this playlist is a good starting point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQxJJ7AgS7k&list=PL4cPpP-Ua6...

he also has a blog: http://piano-jazz.blogspot.com/p/water-pianism.html

I found the jooq blog (not affiliated) excellent for understanding the concepts of SQL properly.

This article is a great starting point:

https://blog.jooq.org/2016/03/17/10-easy-steps-to-a-complete...

there are many other articles worth reading on there

how about semi-colon shaped https://breakingsmart.substack.com/p/semicolon-shaped-people

sounds like a great idea

Really sad how almost all the comments in this thread are negative.

As somebody who has lived in Berlin since 11 years, whilst having studied the official transit map and the big BVG physical map of berlin for hours:

This is a really great improvement over the official one it gives me a relieved kind of pleasure to look at. I can really feel how all those expectations from the physical map finally find a home in the abstraction. Oddly satisfying!

Tiago Forte has a lot of thoughts on this topic and a partialy free/paid blog: https://www.fortelabs.co/

I'm not affiliated in any ways but his ideas a really well thought out and apparently thoroughly tested with clients.

i've had a similar intuition and remember also reading somewhere that eventually your underlying data structure will shine through into the user interface, and if it doesn't make sense the whole application feels off.

I've first had this intuition when working with d3, where the visualization becomes trivial if your data is in the right shape.

Workflowy is another example of an app where there is a minimal disparity between data structure and interface.

Does anybody have other examples of apps or games that share this deep integration of structure and interaction?

The piece was posted on The Archdruid Report (https://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com) and was called "The Next Ten Billion Years".

In a bit of an unconventional move, the author has closed down the blog and is now selling the previously free articles as ebooks. There are a lot of valuable perspectives in his writing, so it might very well be worth the purchase. Most of it is not in the "short story format" that you remember though. (http://www.foundershousepublishing.com/).

There might also be an free archive somewhere..

Beat me to it :) amazing channel!

3Blue1Brown is an amazing youtube channel that provides very entertaining and educating visual explanation for all sorts of maths.

He has a whole series on linear algebra, including matrix mulitplication:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDPD3MizzM2x...