College baseball, venture capital, and the long maybe(bcantrill.dtrace.org)

170 points by bcantrill 1 year ago | 121 comments

Do teachers need advanced degrees?(cremieux.xyz)

18 points by renameme 5 months ago | 33 comments

Marc Andreessen wants you to stay in school(garelick.net)

8 points by jonathang6k 2 years ago | 0 comments

The Economics of Duke University(dontaylor13.substack.com)

40 points by paulpauper 9 months ago | 15 comments

American Dads Became the Parents Their Fathers Never Were(derekthompson.org)

82 points by ozozozd 5 months ago | 61 comments

you should probably have a kid(benexdict.io)

6 points by exolymph 2 years ago | 1 comments

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.

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.

A Reddit bot drove me insane(posthuman.blog)

486 points by erhmmmm 1 year ago | 239 comments

A blog post recounting the author's encounter with a human-seeming Reddit post that turned out to be a bot, reflecting on AI slop online.

I'm Tired of Being on the Network(matduggan.com)

97 points by sagacity 1 month ago | 93 comments

A personal blog essay by Mat Duggan about growing weary of smartphones and the always-online, constantly connected life.

You can just say it(noperator.dev)

331 points by antirez 5 months ago | 172 comments

Personal blog essay by Caleb Gross arguing against valuing humans only for output quality that AI may eventually match, and for stating human value directly.

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.