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Simplicity by Rob Pike.

Many years ago, Tom Cargill [...] reduced the complexity of the system. Less code, less to test, less to maintain. His coworkers loved it.

But there was a catch. During his performance review, he learned that management had a metric for productivity: lines of code. Tom had negative productivity. In fact, because he was so successful, his entire group had negative productivity. He returned to Research with his tail between his legs.

So You Want to Move to Canada by Cassey Lottman. When I was moving north 20 years ago, I seriously considered going all the way to Canada, and looked into what it would take. I decided I wasn't ready for that big of a change, which is good considering I decided to move back south. This is a great rundown on the process, for anyone who's currently interested.

I mentioned the bog mummy hair style to a friend and he had never heard of it, so I searched for the post I remembered and nothing came up. I only found it again because I remembered I linked to it here years ago. Here it is again, for ease of finding and anyone who hasn't encountered it before: How to recreate a bog mummy's practical, comfortable hair style for very long hair.