Fast(patrickcollison.com)

799 points by valtism 3 years ago | 273 comments

Patrick Collison's list of historical examples of people quickly accomplishing ambitious projects, like BankAmericard, the P-80 Shooting Star, and Marinship.

Steve Ballmer was an underrated CEO(danluu.com)

326 points by greggyb 2 years ago | 617 comments

Dan Luu essay arguing Steve Ballmer was an underrated Microsoft CEO whose long-term bets and groundwork set up Satya Nadella's later success.

Konrad Zuse (1994)(xn--plankalkl-x9a.de)

72 points by tmalsburg2 2 years ago | 41 comments

History of HTTPS Usage(jefftk.com)

36 points by wpapper 2 years ago | 5 comments

TDF ejects its core developers(meeksfamily.uk)

147 points by janvdberg 6 months ago | 98 comments

Artificio de Juanelo(en.wikipedia.org)

86 points by benbreen 2 years ago | 10 comments