This Is Knuth 3:16 (2002)(larry.denenberg.com)

122 points by signa11 2 years ago | 25 comments

A Mathematician's Lament (2002) [pdf](worrydream.com)

88 points by xeonmc 4 months ago | 7 comments

Feynman: I am burned out and I'll never accomplish anything (1985)(asc.ohio-state.edu)

341 points by ent101 2 years ago | 136 comments

Excerpt from "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman" where Feynman recounts recovering from burnout by playing with physics, starting with a wobbling plate.

What Problems to Solve (1966)(genius.cat-v.org)

456 points by jxmorris12 1 year ago | 54 comments

A 1966 letter from Richard Feynman to former student Koichi Mano advising him that worthwhile problems are ones you can actually solve, hosted on cat-v.org.

Does anyone remember websites?(tttthis.com)

31 points by lr0 1 year ago | 37 comments

How the Sun Enterprise 10000 was born (2007)(filibeto.org)

59 points by robin_reala 1 year ago | 58 comments