Anatomy of an Internet Argument(defenderofthebasic.substack.com)

134 points by nkurz 2 years ago | 82 comments

Banter(homosabiens.substack.com)

14 points by surprisetalk 3 months ago | 3 comments

Definancialization / Hyperfinancialization(mylessnider.com)

13 points by alexgiann 1 year ago | 5 comments

America's Greatest Strategic Blunder: The Imprisonment of Qian Xuesen(danieltan.weblog.lol)

78 points by danieltanfh95 5 months ago | 38 comments

The Prigozhin Coup seems pretty damn well organized(phillipspobrien.substack.com)

29 points by JumpCrisscross 3 years ago | 13 comments

Understanding Kafka with Factorio (2019)(ruurtjan.medium.com)

173 points by pul 3 years ago | 93 comments

Face it: you're a crazy person(experimental-history.com)

633 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 338 comments

Adam Mastroianni's Experimental History essay "Face it: you're a crazy person," subtitled "why your brain needs a boxcutter."

If you are useful, it doesn't mean you are valued(betterthanrandom.substack.com)

748 points by weltview 1 year ago | 334 comments

A Better than Random Substack essay arguing that being useful at work is different from being valued, and that the distinction can be subtle.

Embeddings are underrated (2024)(technicalwriting.dev)

441 points by jxmorris12 1 year ago | 133 comments

An essay arguing that text embeddings are an underrated machine learning tool, especially for technical writing and documentation work.

Write some software, give it away for free(nonogra.ph)

350 points by nohell 5 months ago | 235 comments

An anonymous essay on Nonograph arguing for writing software and giving it away free, citing the platform's own low costs versus subscription-driven enshittification.

The Weird Nerd comes with trade-offs(writingruxandrabio.com)

392 points by jseliger 2 years ago | 416 comments

A Substack essay by Ruxandra Teslo arguing that academia should tolerate unconventional 'weird nerd' researchers and take human capital more seriously in science.

Coding is not solved(blog.alexewerlof.com)

458 points by firstSpeaker 28 days ago | 459 comments

Alex Ewerlöf's opinion essay arguing that AI and LLM coding tools have not solved software coding, drawing on his experience building AI systems.