Essays
most of these are essays i have yet to (re)read, unfortunately https://www.oxfordamerican.org/magazine/item/1945-lesson-in-acceptance https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2011/12/05/goodbye-serenity/ https://aeon.co/ideas/hypocognition-is-a-censorship-tool-that-mutes-what-we-can-feel https://markmanson.net/how-to-grow-up https://dbp.io/essays/2012-10-24-programming-literature.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23222424 https://capitalandgrowth.org/answers/Article/3217401/Become-Abnormal https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/learning-for-a-living/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22105229 https://markan.me/the-delight-of-development/ https://www.principles.com/the-changing-world-order/#introduction https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23095190 https://heartbeat.fritz.ai/how-lidar-detection-works-8db24556a8d9 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23098090
gamecube joycons https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/02/12/two-heads https://www.svese.de/impact-vs-backlog-frame-in-software-development https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app/ the hard parts about making it look easy https://fs.blog/2012/04/feynman-technique/ hate the news https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2020/05/07/serv/ https://www.gwern.net/In-Defense-Of-Inclusionism https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22990872
https://iism.org/article/driving-engineers-to-an-arbitrary-date-is-a-value-destroying-mistake-49 tell me about your life https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22050802 https://nesslabs.com/too-busy-to-enjoy-life https://mobile.twitter.com/naval/status/1002103360646823936 https://www.ybrikman.com/writing/2013/09/29/the-10x-developer-is-not-myth/ https://brianmckenna.org/blog/softwerewolves https://muldoon.cloud/programming/2020/04/17/programming-rules-thumb.html https://billwadge.wordpress.com/2020/04/25/the-secret-of-software-success/ https://nora.codes/post/names-legal-names-and-fractally-deferred-responsibility/ https://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/resource/success-nonviolent-civil-resistance/ https://medium.com/@jesse.singal/planet-of-cops-50889004904d
https://mobile.twitter.com/noampomsky/status/1304946095189970944 https://rabbitpodcast.com/
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-07-14/coronavirus-conversations-with-one-of-america-s-richest-men?utm_content=businessweek&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&cmpid=socialflow-twitter-businessweek&utm_source=twitter https://dlang.org/blog/2020/05/14/lomutos-comeback/ http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2019-12-02/bpf-a-new-type-of-software.html https://genzmafia.com/ https://www.alimirio.com/posts/advice https://pioneer.app/gap-year https://forge.medium.com/33-things-i-stole-from-people-smarter-than-me-on-the-way-to-33-c38e368e5cb8 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23340031 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23170881 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23172959 https://bradfrost.com/blog/post/write-on-your-own-website/ https://blog.andrewbran.ch/overengineering-a-blog/ https://www.feltrac.co/control/2020/01/12/simple-control-systems.html https://www.flipmine.com/ https://medium.com/endless-filament/make-your-filament-at-home-for-cheap-6c908bb09922 https://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rpressler/loom/loom/sol1_part1.html https://samzdat.com/2017/06/28/without-belief-in-a-god-but-never-without-belief-in-a-devil/
https://samzdat.com/the-uruk-series/
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n13/katherine-rundell/consider-the-hare https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/urban-gilgamesh [[https://moultano.wordpress.com/2020/06/21/the-defaults-dont-work/}[the defaults dont work] https://mailchi.mp/f78bc13cbb84/food-for-thought-58 good things to read : ) https://hypercritical.co/2020/06/20/the-art-of-the-possible https://spectator.us/topic/new-york-times-private-slate-star-codex-blog/ don't fly during ramadan https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/09/magazine/09wwln-lede-t.html
how to build a universe that doesn't fall apart two days later
https://taylorpearson.me/interesting/ optimizing for interesting https://www.theredhandfiles.com/do-u-have-any-spare-lyrics/ songwriting well.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24097945 malcolm gladwell on discovering religion https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2018/11/20/to-bed-to-wed-to-talk-to/?fbclid=IwAR0YB-x7e0dbc1Ehet11Yh9rW_hNTT_mF52VykNMPkqrWQcuqspPrHW-Utg https://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/
http://shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com/2020/07/05/algorithms-are-now-commodities/ Algorithms are commodities
the bad feature https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/k/kranz-failure.html
https://andymatuschak.org/books/ why books don't really work as a medium https://blog.andymatuschak.org/post/159340765257/exalting-data-missing-meaning measuring arbitrarily is measuring nothing
boredom and creativity, privilege and success
https://www.gatesnotes.com/2020-Annual-Letter why gates swings for the fences to accomplish things
how to become a hacker - eric s. raymond
https://ava.substack.com/p/on-maintaining-attention and the follow up tweets: significant decrease in thoughts and non localized sense of self after a 'peak experience' https://ava.substack.com/p/desire-optimism
https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/09/12/ted-hughes-inner-child-letter/ on the inner child: "Everybody tries to protect this vulnerable two three four five six seven eight year old inside, and to acquire skills and aptitudes for dealing with the situations that threaten to overwhelm it." "That’s the paradox: the only time most people feel alive is when they’re suffering, when something overwhelms their ordinary, careful armour, and the naked child is flung out onto the world." https://mobile.twitter.com/noampomsky/status/1315436452830826496 various notes? very cool
https://maxdeviant.com/posts/2017/default-dead-or-alive/ kind of simple but aggressive: default dead or default alive? how do you feel?
https://smidgeo.com/bots/ fun bots and art https://jimkang.com/weblog/articles/miscellaneous-findings-002/ cool tricks!
http://instrumentslab.org/research/craft craft and digital lutherie, designing instruments for Music
https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/ how and why i stopped buying new laptops! https://web.archive.org/web/20080125030037/http://deoxy.org/pkd_how2build.htm https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/mar/04/six-four-hideo-yokoyama-review-crime-thriller-phenomenon-japan https://blog.jse.li/posts/software/
http://www.paulgraham.com/vb.html life is so short https://publishsomething.online/ why you should publish something online! Blogs http://eudaimonium.net/ love the animated connections being made
http://eudaimonium.net/posts/children_of_men.html so pretty, looks super professional too. https://technicshistory.com/2020/06/25/the-era-of-fragmentation-part-4-the-anarchists/ computer anarchists
the social obligation to do bad things
TODO I, Pencil by Leonard E. Read - Foundation for Economic Education
Captured On:
TODO Hamming, "You and Your Research" (June 6, 1995) - YouTube
Captured On: https://ava.substack.com/p/whats-become-of-americas-space-dream?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMDY5MzAyMSwicG9zdF9pZCI6NTE0MjIxNiwiXyI6IlZEQ2RqIiwiaWF0IjoxNjAyMjY4MzU1LCJleHAiOjE2MDIyNzE5NTUsImlzcyI6InB1Yi0yMzQxNyIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.xlajzm4gAM0qnZtekkxNwmqEDWQphtjPVjrFdKfYP_0 https://aarontag.dev/2020/06/14/the-urge.html the urge to create
https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/j-notation/?utm_source=hillelwayne&utm_medium=email https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24257458 chaos engineering
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24107598 why software should be free. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24097348 training programmers
https://jonasersland.net/#index https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Theroux brilliant biographer