Jeopardy’s most controversial moment was years in the making(slate.com)

38 points by voisin 1 year ago | 11 comments

The Curious Case of the Pygmy Nuthatch(slate.com)

111 points by prawn 1 year ago | 16 comments

What the Gardasil Testing May Have Missed(slate.com)

18 points by hammock 2 years ago | 11 comments

The Teton Pass collapsed in the most economically unequal county in the country(slate.com)

16 points by rntn 2 years ago | 1 comments

Margaret Mead's LSD Memo(slate.com)

29 points by benbreen 2 years ago | 5 comments

The flip-flop on whether alcohol is good for you (2023)(slate.com)

47 points by nickwritesit 2 years ago | 124 comments

The Corporate Happiness Treadmill and the Case for Doing Less(0xff.nu)

37 points by hxii 15 days ago | 31 comments

A personal blog essay arguing against the corporate pursuit of constant growth and happiness, advocating for doing less at work to avoid burnout.

What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers(noemamag.com)

970 points by RickJWagner 2 months ago | 1138 comments

Noema Magazine essay arguing that tech and knowledge workers are realizing their work feels pointless and that AI may cause a whole class to lose faith in careers.

Worth Building(armstr.ng)

52 points by colinarms 20 days ago | 38 comments

A personal blog essay on how LLMs make it worthwhile to build small personal tools that previously wouldn't justify the effort.

ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did(davidoks.blog)

502 points by colinprince 7 months ago | 527 comments

Substack essay by David Oks arguing that ATMs did not eliminate bank teller jobs but smartphone mobile banking did, exploring how automation replaces labor.

Nobody cares(grantslatton.com)

833 points by fzliu 1 year ago | 778 comments

A personal blog rant by Grant Slatton arguing that most people don't care about doing excellent work, citing examples like the DMV and buggy software.

There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy(experimental-history.com)

59 points by luu 1 month ago | 31 comments

An Experimental History Substack essay by Adam Mastroianni arguing there is no loneliness epidemic but there is an epidemic of scurvy.