What Happened to People Magazine?(annehelen.substack.com)

70 points by squeezer 2 years ago | 43 comments

Why aren't smart people happier? (2022)(experimental-history.com)

230 points by rafaelc 2 months ago | 325 comments

Why aren't smart people happier?(theseedsofscience.pub)

460 points by zdw 11 months ago | 538 comments

A Seeds of Science post by psychologist Adam Mastroianni exploring why higher intelligence doesn't seem to make people happier.

You might want to try being less creative(blog.bawolf.com)

61 points by bryantwolf 16 days ago | 31 comments

A Substack newsletter essay arguing that trying to be original everywhere hinders progress, drawn from a jam session experience about finishing songs.

American Dads Became the Parents Their Fathers Never Were(derekthompson.org)

82 points by ozozozd 5 months ago | 61 comments

The Demise of the Flynn Effect(cremieux.xyz)

7 points by smnthermes 1 year ago | 0 comments

Why the AI future will be awesome(nullpaste.org)

5 points by samstress 18 days ago | 6 comments

A plain-text essay arguing that AI will bring humanity's best era, addressing concerns like bioweapons, AI cyberattacks, and misalignment.

There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy(experimental-history.com)

59 points by luu 1 month ago | 31 comments

An Experimental History Substack essay by Adam Mastroianni arguing there is no loneliness epidemic but there is an epidemic of scurvy.

A Love Letter to People Who Believe in People(swiss-miss.com)

352 points by NaOH 1 year ago | 104 comments

A personal essay on the Swissmiss blog by Tina Roth Eisenberg about the transformative power of enthusiasm and people who believe in others.

Most people prefer traditional architecture(worksinprogress.news)

332 points by alihm 1 month ago | 285 comments

A Works in Progress newsletter essay by Samuel Hughes arguing that people broadly agree in preferring traditional architecture over modern styles.

Remote work doesn't seem to affect productivity, Fed study finds(bloomberg.com)

706 points by simula67 2 years ago | 467 comments

Bloomberg article reporting a San Francisco Fed study finding no evidence that remote work affects productivity, with about 30% of paid workdays remote at end of 2023.

I started programming when I was 7. I'm 50 now and the thing I loved has changed(jamesdrandall.com)

705 points by jamesrandall 8 months ago | 556 comments

Personal essay by a 50-year-old developer who began coding BASIC in 1983, reflecting on how the craft of programming has changed, including with AI.