"Different interfaces are good at different things"
Command line interfaces ask more of you up front, but allow for expressive and easy-to-automate computing over time.
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"The point of text is as much to be written as it is to be read"
The more I do it, the more I realize the pursuit of better writing is the pursuit of a more satisfied reader. It's an act of care.
"It's like a special stuffy"
The short-term results are impressive, the long-term consequences are uncertain, and anyone who pauses long enough to ask the uncomfortable questions risks getting left behind or ostracized.
"The solution to technology is not more technology"
When we're lonely or insecure, it's tempting to reach for the machine instead of people. Rebecca Solnit makes the case for difficulty, and for each other.
"Quality follows care"
Keyana Sapp of Worse on Purpose explains how quality erodes when companies manage by dashboard, and why care can't be exercised from a distance.
"Principles are not aspirational"
Barry Lachapelle, creator of the Canadian Google Docs alternative cDox, on Small Tech: software where principles are design constraints, not marketing copy.
"You can’t advertise people out of reacting to their own experiences"
Nilay Patel argues AI doesn't have a marketing problem, because people experience it every day. An important read for anyone working in tech.
"Applying sound methods to stupid projects"
Adam Mastroianni separates objective intelligence from subjective intelligence and argues AI only has the first.
"The failures are the curriculum"
Minas Karamanis on how AI lets students produce work they can't explain. Expertise comes from failing, though AI can shorten the time between tries.
"Technology changes. Human nature does not."
Sahaj Garg expects AI to automate most cognitive work within a few years. I think he underrates the last mile, resource limits, and regulation.
"You cannot fact-check your way out of status competition"
Dan Williams frames anti-intellectualism as a status problem: taking expert advice can feel like admitting inferiority. Facts alone won't fix that.
"This is how societies get dumber"
Shreya Shankar on how AI wears down our ability to verify what we read. When nobody can tell good from plausible, taste and trust go with it.
"Atlas is a browser, but it is not a web browser"
Anil Dash calls OpenAI's Atlas an anti-web browser that turns you into ChatGPT's agent. From a security and privacy angle, that's the scariest part.
"If I forget how to be uncomfortable, I forget how to grow"
Jenny refuses AI to keep the friction that helps her grow. I see it as a tool we have to learn to use well, but her case for discomfort is hard to argue with.
"Who benefits from what this technology does?"
Christopher Butler on how AI can amplify the worst of late-stage capitalism, and why I'm keeping my tech stack nimble while the giants clash.
"Motivation is weather, discipline is climate"
Why do we tell young people that good work should feel effortless? My highlights from a piece arguing that discipline matters more than motivation.
“The art of happiness is also the art of suffering well”
Thich Nhat Hanh's No Mud, No Lotus is a book about suffering that turns out to be about happiness. The passages I still return to in hard times.
"Someone that you'd high five but not hug"
On the Ologies podcast, Dr. Kandi Wiens explains how stress turns into burnout and which physical signs to watch for. Plus a great test of friendship.
“If we expect nothing, we will get nothing”
Matt Duffy argues that efficiency without morality is tyranny. I'm not sure “morality” is the right word, but his piece shook me out of a stupor.
"I don’t want to hide my grief or my joy"
My university classmate Keith writes straight from the heart about being open with the people who matter. A post that reminded me why I subscribe.