Early internet was about getting everybody online. Now that we are, many want to unplug. The business model of social media platforms is incompatible with human...

Millions of books. Computational power Neil Armstrong couldn't have dreamt of. If we can't think about the future, no one can. So why is effectively no one...

It can’t be a coincidence that so many good programmers have a math/physics background. What's more, they all claim that knowing math “helps you think." I’ve...

What's your soul worth, anon? Do you want snacks or skills? If Software Engineer at MANGA is peak competition, What's an underpursued path for the modern...

Many bigger companies ask coding interview questions you will never have to solve while actually programming. Topological sort, reversing a linked list™. If you...

90% of developers will NOT pay $10/month for GitHub Copilot.1 This is irrational: Say Copilot increases your productivity by just 1%. Say you value your time...

You can never let a bug defeat you. It's like a fighter losing a fight. It crushes your confidence. And next time you'll throw in the towel even faster. Shippers...

Learning new tech can be like going to WAR. It takes courage (to enter the unknown) It takes pain tolerance (to sit with discomfort) In other words, serious...

Remember Nokia? They used to be worth $250 billion. Everyone you knew had a Nokia. You used to flex ringtones on lunch breaks. Now everyone has an iPhone. Why...

How come Twitter has 7500 employees, whereas FTX – the crypto exchange company – grew to $18B with just 6 engineers? If you ask their CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried,...

Do you hate unit tests? Perhaps you're overthinking. We want our code to WORK. We want it to KEEP WORKING. And we want to develop FAST with CONFIDENCE. It's as...

In this issue, you'll learn about: How to self-teach CS What we can learn from Floki the boat builder The best study guide on the internet Here's a quote, read...

In this issue, you'll learn about: How Vercel is becoming the Google of web dev Why I'm on board the Urbit train Whether writing tests is a waste of time Is...

In this issue, you'll learn about: What an Urbit dinner is like What makes Vercel so great The grug-brained dev Announcing a project I recently attended an...

Yesterday night I wrote in my journal... I think I can finally see myself working with software for a big part of my life. Finally gained enough mastery to...

Last week I started building something new. Will reveal more as I go, but it's solving a niche problem of mine, and I can't wait to use it. Maybe it'll help...

I wonder: is this the future the audience had in mind, cheering along to those visionary words of JFK in 1962? One could start listing examples of decadence—of...

I was 13 years old and no one in my family knew how to code. None of my friends knew what it was. But I was lucky enough to get my hands on a computer at this...

With state-infested megacorps writing the narrative on what it means to live a human life—what even qualifies as such—it is easy to grow cynical about the...

Imagine a dog, full of playful energy. The most wonderful joyous dog. Now imagine, each time the dog begs its owner for play (to go outside), it is without...

Every upswing. The same damn thing. All colourful, everything possible. Surfing on clouds, the words are clay. Angelic awareness please would you stay? Back on...

How to become a pragmatic programmer1 in 10 simple steps, according to The Pragmatic Programmer by Andrew Hunt. 1/ No dogma. A pragmatic programmer is...

Thanks to the introduction of Hooks in React 16.8, functional components now provide the same lifecycle functionality as class-based such. So we're left with two...

I'm a single-threaded, non-blocking asynchronous concurrent language I have a call stack, an event loop, a callback queue, and some other apis - JavaScript So...

To open oneself to experience is to enquire into what is arbitrary and what is meaningful. Diverse experience isn't as much about extracting insight as it is...

Reality appears to be accelerating towards complexity. We do not know what this complexity is. More importantly, our role as human beings in this unfoldment—if...

Trying to stay afloat, we grab on to anything which postpones the ever-pressing question patiently awaiting us in silent darkness on the ocean floor. Knowing we...

How come who is tightest integrated in the uncaring machine is prettiest of all? Suit or dress, a combed hair; perfume and makeup, hygienic and orderly? It's a...

Whenever we hear "I'm an aspiring X," it should call for skepticism. To me it's a tell that X is probably not that person's calling. That they place value on the...

Be wary of works that are void of humor, outrageous claims, or short on schizo qualities. Forget the previous line. Just this: A work's number of jokes is...

I don't want to hear what I said, read what I wrote, think what I thought, or know what I knew. Today is alive, today brings potential. This day I want to do...

In Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind, author Shunryū Suzuki asks, would you rather be a bad horse, or a good horse? Naturally, we’d all want to be a good horse. But—he...

It’s the ever-narrower tracks that are working less well: college, jobs, media. Inertia combined with straight-up outoftouchness. This is great. The availability...

Friedrich had been having trouble with finding ground underfoot lately, so in a last attempt to restore some sanity he called up an old friend for...

Think you have it all figured out yes? With all your takes and cute little projects. Don't worry, it'll all disgust you soon. Relax! You're a fool. We all...

Once upon a time, on a tiny speck. Monkeys became aware, and now they’re depressed. So off they went, on a meaning quest. Tried with values, grandiose and...

I'm crying as I'm writing this. Nostalgia I guess. It's in moments like these we get to pause. Turn around and look back for a bit. After three months of solo...

You're fucked and I don't mean it in a derogatory way. You know how your brain automatically ignores your nose if you don't consciously focus on it, but you can...

"No!" he mimed. Gazing over the lake surrounded by silent trees. This is magic, he thought. Weird, even. Emotion colours the mind in such unusual ways. "Follow...

Potential: More a moon, than everglowing star. At times deeply hidden - how murky clouds, they are! Sometimes others see, and we? No, nothing at all. It calls...

Different is not the same as better, it's better than better. Consider mediocrity. Simply going about things differently isn't such a terrible strategy. When...

Frida Kahlo and Thomas Edison sat down at a table at the local restaurant, awaiting the waitress. EDISON: How fun of you to swing by, but I have got to be frank....

It's what you see in others From which you think you're exempt But the unconscious bothers Feeling unworthy Tripping yourself up A human without...

If you're somewhat smart (in the conventional sense of the word), there's a big trap of conformity. You're expected to tread one of a handful laid out paths. To...

Great movies are as much about stories As they are about ourselves Fiction's about being human And we read because it teaches us Great art makes us feel...

Some are birds, others are frogs. Birds fly high in the air...out to the far horizon. Frogs live in the mud below and see only the flowers that grow...

A karate kid walked up to the black belt and asked excitedly, "how do I get as good as thou?" "Ah, there's not much to it" said the black belt. "It's just...

There are fighters And there are apathetics Troublemaking winners And lazy losers There are those who don’t fight, and still succeed Do not declare war, neither...

We seek completion yet there is none. Anticipating arrival but it’s always forgone. No destination, and never will be. An everlasting journey, is all there could...

Progress, in the midst of it, seldom feels like it. Looking back personally, the most valuable lessons have always come from chaos. When you're seemingly...