Maybe you’re not trying(usefulfictions.substack.com)

338 points by eatitraw 11 months ago | 145 comments

Cate Hall's Useful Fictions essay "Maybe you're not Actually Trying," on selective agency in capable people.

UI is hell: four-function calculators(lcamtuf.substack.com)

198 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 115 comments

How to increase your surface area for luck(usefulfictions.substack.com)

164 points by jger15 1 year ago | 78 comments

Are you stuck in movie logic?(usefulfictions.substack.com)

189 points by eatitraw 11 months ago | 152 comments

A Tale of Unwanted Disruption: My Week Without Amazon(medium.com)

78 points by josephcsible 3 years ago | 19 comments

The Problems That Attract the Smartest People(medium.com)

120 points by wsgeorge 3 years ago | 70 comments

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.

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.

Successful people set constraints rather than chasing goals(joanwestenberg.com)

343 points by MaysonL 1 year ago | 182 comments

A blog essay by Joan Westenberg arguing that smart people create limits and constraints for themselves rather than chasing goals.

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.

The Art of Finishing(bytedrum.com)

609 points by emmorts 2 years ago | 147 comments

A personal blog essay on the ByteDrum blog about a developer's pile of unfinished side projects and the challenge of actually finishing them.

The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better(ourworldindata.org)

363 points by colonCapitalDee 2 years ago | 265 comments

Max Roser essay on Our World in Data arguing the world is simultaneously awful, much better than before, and capable of becoming much better.