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• Julia Evans Mastodon 27 Aug RE: https://social.jvns.ca/@b0rk_reruns/117163592714663123 this one has a PDF version too at
• John Scalzi Bluesky 20 Sept Don't judge, they're happy
• Chris Coyier Bluesky 11 Sept you're all invited to my couscous booze cruise (don't snooze you can't lose)
• Kent C. Dodds x.com 19 Sept I'M TELLING YOU NOW! LISTEN TO ME NOW! https://t.co/6kcdMSfyih IS WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR TO SOLVE THE PROBLEMS YOU'RE HAVING!
• Nate Silver Newsletter 15 Sept We’re not ready for superpersistent AI
• Pieter Levels Korrent 18 Sept People who enjoy calls are probably managers rather than makers. If you enjoy calls, you're probably a manager not a maker https://t.co/CmUTfFxVgZ https://t.co/ZslI1JXbZW
• Jeff Atwood Mastodon 15 Sept So you're saying people aren't very good at asking questions, and thus get bad answers? Interesting. 🤔
• Fatih Arslan x.com 2 Sept If you’re in SF you shouldn’t skip this. What a banger team. Must attend.
• David Heinemeier Hansson Korrent 26 Aug Most organisations are bottlenecked on ideas, vision and taste rather than on implementation, so making code cheap does not make them productive. The other thing I'd say is that most organizations don't know what they want. They don't know how to make it better. They're not bottlenecked on implementation. They're bottlenecked on ideas. They're bottlenecked on…
• Guillermo Rauch x.com 15 Sept Excited to formally introduce Vercel Labs. https://t.co/zCNVryaiin is the home for the in-public research and experimentation arm of Vercel. 247 million downloads in, we wanted to, also in public, share what we're…
• Freddie deBoer Newsletter 17 Sept Sooner or Later, You’re Going to Have to Make an Actual Argument
• Casey Liss Mastodon 15 Sept There are several features in Callsheet that were either inspired by or requested by literally one person. Admittedly, they’re small features, but they’re features. Ask, and don’t be an asshole about it, and you’d be…
• François Chollet x.com 13 Sept In the near term (definitely not in the long term), more capable models should mean safer models (maybe paradoxically). Current models are unsafe not because they're too smart, but because they take goals too literally…
• Kit Yates Bluesky 19 Sept Just arrived at the Royal Institution for my talk on “You don’t know what you’re missing”. Just made it inside before it really started to rain heavily. Wish me luck.
• Kit Yates x.com 19 Sept Just arrived at the Royal Institution for my talk on “You don’t know what you’re missing”. Just made it inside before it really started to rain heavily. Wish me luck.
• François Chollet Korrent 13 Sept Current models are unsafe because they are not smart enough, not because they are too smart. Current models are unsafe not because they're too smart, but because they take goals too literally or take nonsensical shortcuts to achieve these goals, i.e. they're RL-fried. They lack common sense. They don't do the…
• James Brooks x.com 14 Sept We're ISO 27001 certified 🤓 What does that mean? It means “trust us, we take security seriously” wasn't quite enough, so we got independently audited to prove it 🔐
• Lenny Rachitsky Korrent 14 Sept People don't need to know exactly what they're building before they start creating it. People no longer need to know exactly what they are building before they begin.
• Seth Godin Blog 16 Sept Work isn’t optional…
• Meb Faber x.com 10 Sept Real current drawdowns in fixed income: TIP 19% T-bills 20% AGG 25% LQD 27% IEF 32% TLT 55% Zeros 😱😱 If you respond yEs BUT i iNveSt in InIDVIDual BonDs so I don't have this problem you're going to get blocked. via
• Michael Lopp Bluesky 3 Aug If you’re falling in love with your robot, I don’t think you understand the best parts of being human. Hint: we’re a mess.
• Michael Lopp Mastodon 3 Aug If you’re falling in love with your robot, I don’t think you understand the best parts of being human. Hint: we’re a mess.
• Paul Graham x.com 20 Sept Jessica and I have been watching Professor T, and it's really good. If, like me, you wish Doyle had written more Sherlock Holmes stories, this may be as close as you're going to get.
• Alex Tabarrok x.com 12 Sept Speaking as head of the Center for Study of Public Choice, the capture story for an AI pause doesn't fit. Reg capture is what you attempt when you're losing. Anthropic is about to have the biggest IPO in history.…
• Nate Silver Newsletter 20 Sept Expert ratings are ignoring signs of a blue wave
• Dean W. Ball x.com 13 Sept Let’s just remember that we don’t need to reinvent the wheel here. Independent assessment is common in other industries. We have defined independence before in similar contexts. We’re not flying blind.
• Matt Birchler Mastodon 4 Sept RE: https://hachyderm.io/@samhenrigold/117214789134679373 If this came out for iOS, people would argue this is a reason why people can't be trusted to install just any old app.
• Katelyn Jetelina Korrent 18 Sept The administration's likely plan to revise federal vaccine recommendation categories is not a legitimate way to improve the system. There are legitimate ways to improve our systems, but what they're likely planning isn't one of them.
• Naval Ravikant x.com 27 Aug You’re here because an unbroken chain of your ancestors, from tadpoles to monkeys to now, replicated. Don’t be the first one to miss the branch.
• Andy Burnham x.com 10 Sept We've all been there. You wake up feeling unwell, try to get an appointment, and before you know it half the day has disappeared. When you're sick, the last thing you should be worrying about is how you're going to get…
• Scott Alexander Blog 24 Aug Re: Re: Re: Pritchard On Liberal Happiness
• Ben Vinegar x.com 6 Sept to make *actually* good software, you have to use it a lot but many people are spending more time in their coding agents/factories than in the apps they're building - so they won't
• Freddie deBoer Newsletter 4 Sept We Can’t Help Hurting People by Abandoning Basic Epidemiological Rigor
• Nate Silver Newsletter 3 Sept Beware big swings in midterm forecasts
• James Brooks x.com 22 Aug I've updated https://t.co/jtxQc4wgek with some missing packages (whoops!): - laravel/doctor - laravel/folio - laravel/tinker - laravel/wayfinder If we're missing anything else, lemme know!
• Lyn Alden x.com 1 Sept Someone dug this old gem up, so I checked the resulting outcome, 6+ years later. The moral of the story is don't buy Clorox for 30x earnings and don't lend money to the government for a 0.6% yield. If you do, you're…
• Mandy Brown Bluesky 11 Aug “That’s how it is—we’re literate….But why do we lock ourselves into one mode? Why either/or? We aren’t binary. Why have we replaced oral text with written? Isn’t there room for both?”
• Mandy Brown Mastodon 11 Aug “That’s how it is—we’re literate….But why do we lock ourselves into one mode? Why either/or? We aren’t binary. Why have we replaced oral text with written? Isn’t there room for both?”
• Andrew Plotkin Bluesky 20 Aug GDC 2027 page is up. My thoughts: blog.zarfhome.com/2026/08/gdc-... TLDR: “Jeez, if we don't get foot traffic back up at Moscone, we're in trouble.”
• Freddie deBoer Newsletter 17 Aug Perhaps "Woke 1.0" is an Admission of Past Mistakes and a Commitment to Doing Better
• Andrew Plotkin Mastodon 20 Aug GDC 2027 page is up. My thoughts: https://blog.zarfhome.com/2026/08/gdc-updates TLDR: “Jeez, if we don't get foot traffic back up at Moscone, we're in trouble.”
• Travis Kalanick Korrent 14 Aug When a business starts to feel easy it is about to get very hard; comfort is the warning sign, not the reward. And I've talked to a lot of entrepreneurs over the years where they're like, "Oh man, we're just cranking. We're on easy street right now." And I'm like, "Dude, you are about to get your ass whooped and you don't even…
• Dmitri Dolgov Korrent 3 Aug If you cannot quantitatively define what good enough means, you are not building a product — you are iterating on a demo. If you can't quantitatively define what good enough means, you're not really building a product, you're just iterating on your demo.
• Rakhim Davletkaliyev Loved 16 Aug You're It! On Hiding, Seeking, and Being Found — Alan Watts Love it. Can’t get enough. The series of lectures by Alan Watts did shape a lot of my life.
• Mitchell Hashimoto x.com 28 Aug I can't tell you the number of people over my career that have said "I tried learning tmux" First problem: the fact you have to "learn it" at all. The world's best multiplexer is the one you don't have to learn. It just…
• Lynn Fisher Mastodon 22 Aug I often see people say they haven’t seen a trailer for a new movie and are baffled why studios aren’t advertising to them. But I’ve seen that trailer six times at the cinema. So like maybe you’re not the target audience…
• Fei-Fei Li Korrent 10 Aug Scientific discovery is ready to be rewritten, because for all of history it has run at the speed of smart humans remembering what other smart humans learned. I think we're we're ready for complete re rewriting of how scientific discovery can be done because for ages, I don't even know how long, it relies on smart humans retaining what they have learned from other smart humans
• Casey Muratori Korrent 26 Aug The specific rules taught as clean code are simply bad programming practices, and they get worse when you apply them together. If you look at those things, they're kind of just bad programming practices. I I don't really know how else to say them. They don't mesh well when you put them together.
• Blake Scholl Korrent 28 Jul Becoming a deep expert makes you useless, because what an expert is steeped in is the past. don't try to become a deep expert. The moment you become an expert, what you're steeped in is the past and then you're completely useless.
• Andrew Dessler Newsletter 4 Jul Where do heat waves come from?
• Charity Majors Bluesky 20 Jul Love it. Why stop there? nines don’t matter until you don’t have them nines don't matter if the answer is slop nines don't matter when you are the training data four nines of confidently incorrect nines don't matter…
• Kent Beck Korrent 1 Jul An outside expert's understanding of somebody else's problem is bounded, because they do not have to live with the design after they leave. Your understanding of somebody else's problem is bounded because you're not in the middle of it. You don't have the same skin in the game. If you're not semiconductor test engineer, you don't have as much skin in the…
• Kent Beck Korrent 1 Jul A coach's job is to identify and induce productive discomfort, not to reassure people that they are doing fine. It's not always pleasant. It's not a pat you on the head and you're going to be fine. It's a It's a don't like no, you're screwing this up. Go try this thing. Tell me how that works. Oh, you didn't try the thing. Oh,…
• Kent Beck Korrent 1 Jul An engineer who accomplishes every goal they set is sandbagging; hitting about half of them is the sign of someone risking and learning enough. If you accomplished everything you set out to accomplish, people, you know, you're sandbagging. you're not trying hard enough. You're not risking enough. You didn't learn anything over the course of the six months.
• Ada Palmer Korrent 16 Jun Corrupting the church was a prisoner's dilemma: a duke who declined to bribe the pope while his enemies bribed him was simply beaten. It even becomes a kind of a prisoner's dilemma system because if you're the duke and you don't manipulate the papacy, if you don't bribe the pope, if you don't work hard to get your brother to be bishop, and your…
• Kent Beck Korrent 1 Jul People who vibe-code a replacement for a product will rebuild the visible tip of the iceberg and then discover the downstream problems they never knew existed. So, we're going to see people get into those where they're like, "Well, I vibe code the tip of the iceberg. I throw away the rest of the iceberg and now I'm in trouble because now I don't know what to do. Now I get to…
• Randall Wilk Loved 15 Jun 1Password — AgileBits If you're not using a password manager, you're doing it wrong. I prefer to use 1Password. I honestly don't think I could live without 1Password. Having access to all my vaults across all my devices is also a plus.
• David Heinemeier Hansson Liked 14 Jul Framework Laptop — Framework I did try Dell's laptops a few years back, didn't like what I saw, and ended up spending a few years using Framework computers instead (they're still great too).
• Nick Maggiulli x.com 14 Jul To everyone who says "stocks aren't going up, the dollar is just going down"—you're wrong, and I can prove it. My latest on why debasement theory is false (and true) at the same time:
• NeetCode Korrent 24 Jun Moving fast enough that you never measure the impact of your changes makes things regress — that is what happened to Anthropic, and they only acknowledged it later. If you're going so fast, you're not measuring the impact of the changes that you're making, you don't have time to do that cuz you're just focused on shipping and then things regress and things get worse and we've seen…
• Mark Pincus Korrent 2 Jun A founder has to run on what if everything goes right; starting from what if everything goes wrong is playing defense and losing before the start. And I don't know how you're going to get yourself there, but you've got to be in this place that you're thinking, you're also thinking, "What if everything goes right? What does right look like? How am I ready for…
• Kent Beck Korrent 1 Jul Saying that coding will be automated away first betrays a misunderstanding of software engineering, because coding is only a small part of the work. My response is that that's a statement by someone who doesn't understand software engineering. Coding is part of what you're doing, but it's only a small part of what you're doing.
• NeetCode Korrent 24 Jun If you are not willing to try hard, do things yourself and dig deeper, you should know what you are getting yourself into before betting a career on tech. The only reason I suggested that even in the title was that I think if you have an attitude of like you don't want to try hard, or you don't like you don't want to do things yourself, and you don't want to to dig deeper…
• Mark Pincus Korrent 14 Jun Being too ambitious and visionary at the outset is how founders miss product-market fit, because it stops them starting somewhere small and humble enough. if if we're if we're too ambitious and we're at the outset and too ambitious and visionary about the product we want to build, then we will probably miss product market fit because we won't start at a small enough…
• Scott H Young x.com 20 Mar Lesson Two: Life Doesn’t Need to Be Exhausting https://t.co/5iviwzvI4A It’s easy to assume that if you’re not tired, you’re not working hard enough. I don’t think that’s true. In this article, I share a different way of…
• Philip Trammell Korrent 4 Jun Whoever fails to satiate in capital rationally saves more, and therefore ends up holding most of the wealth in the long run. Then the person who doesn't satiate in capital is going to have if they're being rational they're going to have a higher savings rate.
• John Resig x.com 27 Apr An amusing side effect of using LLMs when working at @khanacademy is that occasionally they're like "You're trying to cheat, aren't you?? No cheating allowed!!" (Clearing the chat and using more authority usually works…
• Mark Zuckerberg Korrent 10 Jun The point is not to cure diseases but to build the tools with which the whole scientific field cures them. And again, I mean, the the theory isn't that we're going to cure the diseases. We're not. um it's that we want to help accelerate the pace of progress for the whole scientific field.
• Jamie Brandon Korrent 24 Jun Thoughts, feelings, decisions and bodies are not real in themselves, only useful abstractions layered over the underlying chaos of atoms. Thoughts, feelings, decisions, even bodies don't exist, they're only abstractions that we use to manage the chaos.
• Mari Andrew Korrent 18 May Every act of desire involves giving something up, though it rarely feels like sacrifice when you're happy with what you chose. Every act of desire involves giving something up, and we don't usually call it sacrifice because we're too busy being delighted by what we picked!
• Sarah C. M. Paine Korrent 9 Jun Britain alone in Europe needed no large standing army, because a competent navy meant no army could ever reach its shores. They're the only uh power in Europe that doesn't need to maintain a large standing army because if Britain could maintain a competent navy, no army's going to reach British shores cuz they're going to be drowned at sea.
• Nicole Forsgren Korrent 22 Mar Teams that trade quality for speed well never describe it that way — they make an explicit, bounded, risk-based decision. Some teams can, and but when they do it, they're doing it very, very intentionally. They don't say they're sacrificing quality. They say they're making a risk-based decision.
• Dan Shipper Korrent 24 May Designers have stopped handing work off — they open the pull request themselves, which changes how companies build. And what you see when we work with them internally is now they're just like they're just making pull pull requests. Like they don't they don't need to hand it off as much. Sometimes they do but like a lot of times they…
• Mari Andrew Korrent 5 May A person does not need a friend group to find people for everyday activities and errands. That said! I don't believe you need a group for the activity partners you're looking for. I don't even think you need friends per se for these day-to-day adventures.
• Jacob Falkovich Newsletter 21 May 2025 The Good Men Aren’t Gone, They’re Delayed
• Andrej Karpathy Korrent 20 Mar Nobody inside a frontier lab can speak freely about AI, because there are things the organisation will not let them say and things it wants them to say. You're you're not a completely free agent and you can't actually like be part of that conversation in a fully autonomous um free way. Like if you're inside one of the frontier labs. Like there's some things that you…
• Scott H Young x.com 14 May New Article: What if We’re Already Living in Utopia? https://t.co/Dl5UNMKVfn By historical standards, modern life delivers extraordinary levels of comfort, convenience and stimulation. Yet rates of anxiety, distraction…
• Austin Kleon Loved 14 Jan Four Quartets — T.S. Eliot A re-read of one of my favorite books of poetry, and an excellent traveling companion
• Steve Yegge Korrent 11 Mar The big companies are already dead and simply do not know it yet; every innovation from here comes from the fringes. So, I think what's happening is we're all looking at the big companies going, "When are you going to give us something?" And the answer is we're looking at the big dead companies. We just don't know they're dead yet.
• Colin Percival Site 4 Dec 2024 My re:Invent asks
• Rory Sutherland Korrent 9 Dec 2025 Entrepreneurship resembles gambling rather than chess, because the large payoffs cannot be identified in advance. you don't find entrepreneurs in chess clubs. You find entrepreneurs in casinos. They're playing poker. They're playing bat gam. You know, they're playing games of chance with an occasional very high payoff. And a lot of…
• Philip Koopman Korrent 25 Nov 2020 Miles driven measures how well funded a self-driving company is, not how safe it is or how far ahead. But having a ton of miles doesn’t mean you’re ahead, it just means you’re well-funded and you’re out there operating.
• Nicole Forsgren Korrent 22 Mar Release management is human group sense-making, and it does not scale to the volume of change AI now produces. so many times that process has been managed by humans because you're selecting the right candidate build and you're verifying it and you're thinking, you know, you're figuring out cherry picks and then you like rebundle…
• Dario Amodei Korrent 13 Feb The chatbot has hit its ceiling — a smarter model no longer helps the average consumer — and that is a limit of the product, not of AI. The the chatbot is already running into limitations of, you know, making it smarter doesn't really help the average consumer that much. But I don't think that's a limitation of AI models. I don't think that's evidence…
• Matthew Green Mastodon 15 Oct 2025 The “age verification” and the “human identification” problem are the same problem. It upsets me to be around people who think they’re working on the first, but don’t understand they’re actually working on the second.
• James Clear Korrent 1 Jan A habit only survives difficulty if the person enjoys it, which makes enjoyment a better predictor of persistence than discipline. Because if it's not fun, if it's not engaging or interesting, if it doesn't feel good, you're not going to stick with it when it gets tough. I mean, this is probably one of the great lessons for life, which is if you're…
• Bryan Caplan Korrent 19 Feb 2025 Parents and teachers are not trustworthy judges of how intelligent a young person is. Don’t base your life choices on whether parents and teachers constantly tell you that you’re “smart.” They’re not trustworthy assessors of your intelligence.
• Andrej Karpathy Korrent 17 Oct 2025 Coding models are worst at exactly the thing an AI research explosion would need: code that has never been written before. I think um yeah, they're not very good at code that hasn't never been written before maybe is like one way to put it, which is like what we're trying to achieve when we're building these models.
• Jancis Robinson Loved 30 Jun 2018 The Juice: Vinous Veritas — Jay McInerney I've chosen his third collection of writing about wine, The Juice. They're all fun. They're all very well written because Jay is a very good writer, and doesn't take it too seriously.
• Jason Lemkin Korrent 1 Jan Almost nobody should build their own AI go-to-market tools; buy them, the way you would buy any other software. Don't build it yourself. You're not Versel. You don't have a full-time wicked awesome engineer that wants to build this.
• Andrej Karpathy Korrent 17 Oct 2025 Agents will take a decade rather than a year, because today's models are cognitively lacking in too many independent ways at once. So like they don't have enough intelligence. They're not multimodal enough. They can't do computer use and all this kind of stuff. And they don't do a lot of things. You know, they don't have continual learning. You…
• Dario Amodei Korrent 13 Feb Models already generalise substantially from tasks that can be verified to tasks that cannot. We already see substantial generalization from things that that verify to things that don't verify. We're already seeing that.
• Grant Sanderson x.com 2 Dec 2025 In case you're unfamiliar, the @prisonmathproj is a nonprofit supporting prisoners learning math. There is a great podcast on Numberphile with its founder, Christopher Havens, describing the background:…
• Dylan Patel Korrent 3 Feb 2025 AMD's hardware is in many ways better than NVIDIA's and it does not matter, because the software gulf is too large and AMD has never resourced closing it. And they're decent, their hardware is better in many ways than in NVIDIA's. The problem is their software is really bad and I think they're getting better, right? They're getting better, faster, but the gulf is so large…
• Monica Dinculescu x.com 14 Mar 2023 Holy fucking shit, this wasn’t actually on my bingo card for “ways we’re gonna kill women after we let Roe v Wade slide”
• Haley Nahman Recommends 14 Dec 2025 Swedish dishcloths If you're a paper towel demon and feel guilty about it, I can't recommend these enough. Perfect for cleaning counters and random floor messes (talking to parents).
• Dario Amodei Korrent 13 Feb Some of the other AI companies have not written down the spreadsheet — they are committing hundreds of billions without understanding the risk. I kind of get the impression that, you know, some of the other companies have not written down the spreadsheet, that they don't really understand the risks they're taking. They're just kind of doing stuff cuz it sounds…
• Mark Zuckerberg Korrent 28 Sept 2023 The future is a variety of AIs each person works with, not one big super intelligence. I don't think we necessarily want there to be one big super intelligence. We want to empower everyone to both have more fun, accomplish their business goals, just everything that they're trying to do. We don't tend to…
• Gary Klein Korrent 9 Aug 2022 Organizations sincerely believe they want insights and still suppress them, because insights are disorganizing. What blocks insight is that organizations say they want insights and they want innovation and they really don't. But they're they're being serious. They think they want insights. But insights are disorganizing.
• Ken Norton Loved 7 Jan The Innovator's Dilemma — Clayton Christensen The most important business and product management book of the past fifty years. If you’re a technology PM and you haven’t read Christensen, do so right now.
• Vicki Boykis Site 14 Jan 2025 How FastAPI path operations work
• David Hone Korrent 4 Sept 2025 T. rex hunted by endurance rather than speed: its foot is built for efficiency, which points at long-distance pursuit, not a sprint. They're relatively efficient compared to a lot of other things, and particularly compared to the herbivores, so that means they're probably looking at long distance rather than speed.
• Jacob Falkovich Blog 19 Nov 2021 10 Reasons You’re Lazy About Dating
• Andrew Plotkin Loved 22 Jan 2011 Matias Tactile Pro — Matias They've also got Matias TactilePro keyboards. Because if your typing doesn't sound like a hailstorm on a tin roof, you're not typing.
• Fatih Arslan Recommends 26 Dec 2025 A Dog's Heart — Mikhail Bulgakov It wasn't my favorite, but it was very different. Like eating food that tastes nothing like what you're used to. For that reason alone, I'd recommend it.
• Andrej Karpathy Korrent 17 Oct 2025 You only really know something once you have built it — blog posts and slides leave gaps that building the thing does not. So, don't write blog posts, don't do slides, don't do any of that. Like, build the code, arrange it, get it to work. It's the only way to go. Otherwise, you're missing knowledge.
• Grant Sanderson Recommends 1 Jun 2020 Numberphile — Brady Haran I'm guessing if you're here, you already know about Numberphile. If somehow you don't, it's a great channel full of interviews with mathematicians.
• Guy Spier Korrent 8 Sept 2025 People who believe themselves incapable of harm are more dangerous than those who recognize and fear their own capacity for it. People who insist they're harmless aren't safe; they're naive. People who know exactly how dangerous they could become-and fear it-are the ones who deliberately yoke that force to good aims.
• David Heinemeier Hansson Liked 24 Nov 2025 Starlink — SpaceX If you're stuck on a rock in the middle of nowhere, and you somehow haven't discovered the glory of Starlink, maybe just stick to your old full-disk backup ways.
• Tynan Korrent 13 Jan By the time an opportunity is widely known and talked about, it's too late to capitalize on it. Don't follow what other people are doing. By the time they're crowing about it, it's already too late.
• Andrej Karpathy Korrent 17 Oct 2025 Computer-use agents had to wait for language models: without pre-trained representations the reward is too sparse to ever learn from. And it just so turns out that um this was extremely early, way too early. so early that we shouldn't have been working on that, you know, uh because um if you're just stumbling your way around and keyboard mashing and…
• Steve Coast Korrent 15 Oct 2023 People who are smart in a narrow way but don't read broadly are the ones who cause disastrous unintended consequences. you should be frightened of smart people who don't read. They're the ones that build Jurassic Park, or send all the dentists to build a dam.
• Neel Nanda Korrent 27 Feb 2022 Mathematics gives practitioners corrective feedback on being wrong that moral philosophy lacks. Mathematicians get feedback re whether there proofs work in a way that, as far as I can tell, moral philosophy doesn't
• David Hone Korrent 4 Sept 2025 Evolution does not perfect anything; organisms are bodge jobs, which is why the human eye has a blind spot and a squid's does not. I think people think evolution is, like, perfecting things in some way. And they're not. They're bodge jobs, you know? That's why we have a blind spot in our eye, but things like squid don't.
• Hillel Wayne Korrent 18 Jan 2021 Programming is mathematical work: it uses discrete mathematics rather than the continuous mathematics people picture when they say maths. Just because we use a different branch of math doesn't mean we're not doing engineering.
• Jeff Atwood Recommends 2 Feb 2004 The Visual Display of Quantitative Information — Edward Tufte You don't need to own all four books in the series unless you're a completist (or a masochist, I suppose), but the first two are essential.
• Felix Salmon Korrent 2 Jun 2018 Brutalist buildings are not inherently doomed to age badly. Brutalist buildings often age badly; Habitat 67 is proof that they don't need to, not even when they're built in a rush out of pre-fabricated units.
• ThePrimeagen Korrent 22 Mar 2025 Without hard skills of your own, your ceiling as a programmer is whatever the LLMs happen to be capable of. And so if you don't have those hard skills and you're not ultimately the driver at the end of the day, you're going to really find some hard times, and your ability to progress will be directly bound to how good the…
• Sara Walker Korrent 13 Jun 2024 Living things are among the largest objects in the universe — not large in space, but large in time. And so what I’m getting at with this is I think that living objects are actually huge. They’re some of the biggest structures in the universe, but they are not big in space. They’re big in time. And we actually can’t…
• Nat Eliason Disliked 7 Feb 2020 The First 20 Hours — Josh Kaufman This is basically a much worse version of 4-Hour Chef. Kaufman doesn’t bring nearly as much to the table as Ferriss, and it feels a little rushed and under researched. Wouldn’t recommend it if you’re trying to quickly…