“Yes” means “no”: The language of VCs(jacobbartlett.substack.com)

221 points by jakey_bakey 2 years ago | 177 comments

Confusion Is a Muse(notes.eatonphil.com)

19 points by sebg 2 years ago | 3 comments

On a great interview question(behdadesfahbod.medium.com)

213 points by behdad 3 years ago | 381 comments

Tech is facing a reckoning, not a recession(wheresyoured.at)

49 points by nickwritesit 3 years ago | 35 comments

Stack Overflow's CEO Doesn't Understand Stack Overflow(jlericson.com)

194 points by jlericson 3 years ago | 177 comments

Interviewing the Interviewer: Questions to Uncover a Company's True Culture(praachi.work)

351 points by abhas9 2 years ago | 190 comments

A blog post advising tech job candidates on open-ended questions to ask interviewers to uncover a company's real culture.

On social reality in China(lesswrong.com)

147 points by thicTurtlLverXX 24 days ago | 148 comments

A LessWrong linkpost essay by alkjash sharing intuitions and anecdotes about social reality in China, in the context of spreading AI safety and rationalist ideas there.

Writing about what you learn pushes you to understand topics better(addyosmani.com)

597 points by twapi 3 years ago | 149 comments

Addy Osmani blog post arguing that writing about what you learn deepens understanding and reveals gaps in your knowledge.

Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes(dank.systems)

426 points by jaykru 1 month ago | 552 comments

Personal blog essay by Jay Kruer arguing LLMs remain overhyped despite headline results like Navier-Stokes, citing poor generalization, reward hacking, and specification costs.

The upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis is the loss of community(afterbabel.com)

684 points by throwup238 2 years ago | 627 comments

An After Babel Substack essay by Seth Kaplan arguing that the loss of community is the upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis.

How to post when no one is reading(jeetmehta.com)

598 points by j4mehta 1 year ago | 240 comments

Personal blog essay arguing creators should keep publishing through years of obscurity, since mastery and audience take a long time to build.

We're Missing a Key Reason Why Americans Hate AI(derekthompson.org)

11 points by abe94 24 days ago | 8 comments

A paid Substack essay by Derek Thompson arguing the AI buildout has raised costs rather than delivering cheap abundance, fueling American hostility to AI.