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HISTORY & WAR · 10 MIN
The chess inside the life lessons is often half right. A pawn can become a queen, rook, bishop or knight, not only a queen, and the knight's move is fixed by the rules; what makes it awkward is that it cannot be blocked.
TOOLS & TECH · 15 MIN
Security is built in layers, so one failure is not the end. NIST's glossary describes layering different technologies so that attacks missed by one are caught by another.
TOOLS & TECH · 19 MIN
Many website attacks are automated. Scripts look for known holes in plugins and try passwords on any site they can reach, so being small does not keep you out of the way.
TOOLS & TECH · 5 MIN
Most of the seven are built for AI coding agents: skill files, DESIGN.md style sheets and a browser controller that tell an assistant how to design or test a page.
PHILOSOPHY & MEANING · 8 MIN
Several of the most shared "Buddha quotes" are not in the early Buddhist texts, including "The mind is everything". The "hot coal" image for anger comes from the Visuddhimagga, a Buddhist treatise written many centuries later, though the early texts do teach that anger harms the angry person first.
PHILOSOPHY & MEANING · 6 MIN
Confucius did not write the Analects. It is a collection of his sayings put together by later hands, and scholars disagree about how early.