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How to true a bicycle wheel

Published in February 5th, 2025
Posted by in How to
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So it came to be that the handle of a sledge hammer had fallen onto the spokes of my rear wheel and left it all wobbly and out of true. Now, ordinarily, you can go to the bike shop and have them fix it for $15, you you can buy a truing stand for about […]

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What’s the point of education?

Published in February 5th, 2025
Posted by in Work
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One of the blogs I currently read daily is Rate Your Students. It is a helpful antidote against any desire to become a professor, whenever — or if-ever (it seems to be somewhat of a black swan event as of late) — I start developing a, uh, “passion” for teaching undergraduates. RYS offers professors a […]

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The engineering triangle of financial independence

Published in February 4th, 2025
Posted by in Early Retirement, Strategy
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The engineering triangle is a constraint model that says that for any project you wish to design, you can pick any two of the following but only two: cheap, fast, good. It is widely applicable. This means, that if you want cheap and fast, it’s not going to be good. If you want cheap and […]

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