My Friend Aaron(rorz.io)
562 points by sarreph | 152 comments
A short story by Rory McMeekin on his personal blog about a school friend, Aaron, who obsessed over things like World of Warcraft instead of studying.
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Smart people don't think others are stupid(sive.rs)
62 points by andsoitis | 49 comments
A 2012 short essay by Derek Sivers arguing that dismissing groups of people as stupid shows a lack of understanding, from his book Hell Yeah or No.
I wish people were more public(borretti.me)
59 points by swah | 60 comments
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427 points by LaurenSerino | 200 comments
A Substack personal essay by Bess Stillman about grieving her husband Jake a year after his death and how society expects grief to expire.
Jake Seliger has died(marginalrevolution.com)
908 points by A_D_E_P_T | 189 comments
Alex Tabarrok's Marginal Revolution post remembering writer Jake Seliger after his death from cancer, noting his advocacy for faster drug development.
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705 points by jamesrandall | 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.
Nobody knows how to build with AI yet(worksonmymachine.substack.com)
475 points by Stwerner | 368 comments
Scott Werner's Substack essay arguing nobody yet knows how to build software with AI, drawing on building Protocollie in four days without touching the code.
AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain(davidepiffer.com)
524 points by rzk | 452 comments
A Substack essay by Davide Piffer arguing that AI's edge over mathematicians comes from a vast symbolic working memory rather than superior reasoning.
The year I didn't survive(bessstillman.substack.com)
856 points by LaurenSerino | 220 comments
Personal essay by Bess Stillman on how her husband's death from cancer and the birth of her daughter in the same year transformed her brain, body, and sense of self.