Grief gets an expiration date, just like us(bessstillman.substack.com)

427 points by LaurenSerino 1 year ago | 200 comments

A Substack personal essay by Bess Stillman about grieving her husband Jake a year after his death and how society expects grief to expire.

Remembering things that haven't happened yet(bessstillman.substack.com)

149 points by LaurenSerino 2 years ago | 24 comments

How the light gets in: a solstice at the border of life and death(bessstillman.substack.com)

27 points by jseliger 2 years ago | 1 comments

Everything will be alright in Iceland(memoirsandrambles.substack.com)

145 points by yakkomajuri 2 years ago | 119 comments

Not everyone is using AI for everything(gabrielweinberg.com)

432 points by yegg 4 months ago | 472 comments

Gabriel Weinberg's Substack essay arguing that AI adoption varies, with people embracing, limiting, or avoiding AI much as they do with eating meat.

Cut out everything that's not surprising (2019)(sive.rs)

93 points by surprisetalk 3 years ago | 57 comments

Grief gets an expiration date, just like us(bessstillman.substack.com)

427 points by LaurenSerino 1 year ago | 200 comments

A Substack personal essay by Bess Stillman about grieving her husband Jake a year after his death and how society expects grief to expire.

My dad could still be alive, but he's not(jenn.site)

324 points by DustinEchoes 11 months ago | 218 comments

A personal blog post about the author's father dying of a first heart attack shortly after his 57th birthday, reflecting on how he could have survived.

I'm the mom in that viral Giants clip. Let me tell you about my husband(themomoftheyear.substack.com)

406 points by minimaxir 1 month ago | 168 comments

A Substack essay by the mother seen in a viral San Francisco Giants game clip, giving context about her husband and family that night.

I started programming when I was 7. I'm 50 now and the thing I loved has changed(jamesdrandall.com)

705 points by jamesrandall 8 months ago | 556 comments

Personal essay by a 50-year-old developer who began coding BASIC in 1983, reflecting on how the craft of programming has changed, including with AI.

Jake Seliger has died(marginalrevolution.com)

908 points by A_D_E_P_T 2 years ago | 189 comments

Alex Tabarrok's Marginal Revolution post remembering writer Jake Seliger after his death from cancer, noting his advocacy for faster drug development.

Being Raised by the Internet(jimmyhmiller.github.io)

792 points by DamonHD 2 years ago | 265 comments

Personal essay by Jimmy Miller about growing up poor with an absent mother and a father with schizophrenia, and how the internet helped raise him.