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The Matias Ergo Pro keyboard has a control key where I usually type "b" (I type "b" with my right hand). Here's how to remap that key to a "b".

Download Karabiner: https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/
Install it
Open the app and go to "Misc & Uninstall"
Click "Open private.xml" to open the customization file
Open "private.xml" in TextEdit
Add the following:
Save and go back to Karabiner
Go back to the first tab, Change Key

How perfectionism can lead to procrastination and lower performance

Lately, I’ve been exploring what the tradeoffs of optimization are. That is, when we try to optimize what we do in work and life, what are the effects? What actually gets worse when we try to make things better?

One that seems obvious is that more optimization leads to higher cognitive load. The more we want to do something well, the more mental effort we’ll have to put into doing that task. This doesn’t just amount to the additional work needed to do something well, but I hypothesize that optimizing also seems to involve a second track of thinking, running alongside the track of the action itself, that is dedicated to observing how we are doing that action and evaluating whether we are doing it well or not.

If we assume that the need to optimize increases cognitive load, either beacuse the desire to do something well involves more mental effort, or because the simultaneous reflexive self-evaluation of our performance requires

	## How perfectionism can lead to procrastination and lower performance

	Lately, I’ve been exploring what the tradeoffs of optimization are. That is, when we try to optimize what we do in work and life, what are the effects? What actually gets worse when we try to make things better?

	One that seems obvious is that more optimization leads to higher cognitive load. The more we want to do something well, the more mental effort we’ll have to put into doing that task. This doesn’t just amount to the additional work needed to do something well, but I hypothesize that optimizing also seems to involve a second track of thinking, running alongside the track of the action itself, that is dedicated to observing how we are doing that action and evaluating whether we are doing it well or not.

	If we assume that the need to optimize increases cognitive load, either beacuse the desire to do something well involves more mental effort, or because the simultaneous reflexive self-evaluation of our performance requires u

	# The curse of knowledge, beginner’s mind, and barriers to creativity

	“The best way to learn is to learn from those who have come before you, who have figured it out and wrote down their wisdom. So I read to get their knowledge, to take advantage of the work they’ve done to figure it out.”

	But how, then, do you avoid only thinking like them, and making the same mistakes they did? If we assume that once we learn something and take it to heart—we learn something that makes a lot of things make sense—that it’s harder to then reject that idea and think of new ideas that might actually be closer to the truth, how do we avoid thinking like the status quo and never challenging it?

	This is a question that I’ve dealt with for most of my life, and over the past year I found out it has a name. The curse of knowledge is the idea that people who have more knowledge are unable to think about things from the perspective of those who have less knowledge. It’s similar to the innovator’s dilemma in that it describes a sit

	// Quip Autofocus
	// Super hacky, not optimal, but "damn it, it works"
	// I'll come up with a better solution after exams

	// suggested namespace: quip.com
	// I use this in a Fluid app as a Userscript. Not tested anywhere else

	console.log('quip.autofocus.js - Loading Quip autofocus');
	var qafFocusedThread = null; // stores the last focused thread ID
	// allows js to only focus once,

	at http://ladeq.citizenreach.dev/assets/jquery.js?body=1 [2564]
	JScript anonymous function
	code: return elem.getAttribute( name, name.toLowerCase() === "type" ? 1 : 2 )
	at http://ladeq.citizenreach.dev/assets/jquery.js?body=1 [1458]
	JScript anonymous function
	code: val = fn && hasOwn.call( Expr.attrHandle, name.toLowerCase() ) ?
	fn( elem, name, !documentIsHTML ) :
	undefined
	at http://ladeq.citizenreach.dev/assets/jquery.js?body=1 [1661]
	JScript anonymous function

	require 'fileutils'

	desc "Create nondigest versions of all ckeditor digest assets"
	task "assets:precompile" => :environment do
	fingerprint = /\-([0-9a-f]{32})\./
	for file in Dir["public/assets/ckeditor/*/"]
	# Skip file unless it has a fingerprint
	next unless file =~ fingerprint

	# Get filename of this file without the digest

	// Quip Focus
	// by Mark Bao

	// Unlicensed: <http://unlicense.org/>

	// Initialize dat CSS. Anyone know of a better way?
	var qf_css = 'a.quip-focus {width: 32px; height: 32px; position: absolute; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,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