Care(johan.hal.se)

231 points by herbertl 2 years ago | 67 comments

Quicksilver and Clay(stevenscrawls.com)

23 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 0 comments

We (As a Society) Peaked in the 90s(chris.pagecord.com)

24 points by stog 8 months ago | 20 comments

Maladaptive Frugality(herbertlui.net)

195 points by herbertl 6 months ago | 222 comments

Figma's woes compound with Claude Design(martinalderson.com)

80 points by martinald 6 months ago | 70 comments

The unbearable joy of sitting alone in a café(candost.blog)

757 points by mooreds 9 months ago | 425 comments

A personal blog essay about the experience and pleasure of sitting alone in a café during a staycation.

The case for banning children from social media(newyorker.com)

321 points by cocacola1 3 years ago | 496 comments

A New Yorker column by Jay Caspian Kang arguing the case for banning children from social media and examining proposed ways to protect kids.

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.

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.

TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale(afterbabel.com)

474 points by cwwc 1 year ago | 471 comments

An After Babel Substack essay arguing that TikTok causes widespread harm to children and teens.

First, make me care(gwern.net)

742 points by andsoitis 9 months ago | 221 comments

Gwern blog post arguing that nonfiction writing should open by making the reader care, e.g. with a compelling question, rather than with background.

How to ask for help from people who don't know you(pradyuprasad.com)

461 points by FigurativeVoid 3 months ago | 68 comments

A personal blog essay offering heuristics for asking strangers for help, centered on putting yourself in the other person's mind and showing proof of work.