The year I didn't survive(bessstillman.substack.com)

856 points by LaurenSerino 1 year ago | 220 comments

Personal essay by Bess Stillman on how her husband's death from cancer and the birth of her daughter in the same year transformed her brain, body, and sense of self.

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

Before the Internet, there was The Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought(everything.intellectronica.net)

37 points by intellectronica 3 years ago | 12 comments

Hallelujah, Leonard Cohen, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer's suicide(subtledigressions.substack.com)

151 points by Curiositry 2 years ago | 92 comments

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

145 points by yakkomajuri 2 years ago | 119 comments

The year I didn't survive(bessstillman.substack.com)

856 points by LaurenSerino 1 year ago | 220 comments

Personal essay by Bess Stillman on how her husband's death from cancer and the birth of her daughter in the same year transformed her brain, body, and sense of self.

Grieving the loss of details(purplesyringa.moe)

448 points by signa11 20 days ago | 352 comments

A personal blog post by purplesyringa reflecting on grieving the loss of low-level coding details as the industry shifts toward vibecoding and architecture-focused work.

My old job feels distant now(pinecoder.dev)

28 points by speckx 10 days ago | 27 comments

A personal blog post on pinecoder.dev reflecting on how the author's previous job now feels distant.

The darker side of being a doctor(drericlevi.pages.dev)

202 points by Danhale93 1 month ago | 181 comments

A personal essay by surgeon Dr Eric Levi on the hidden mental health struggles and darker side of working as a doctor.

Hello, me. It's been a while(themech.net)

336 points by somesoftdev 2 months ago | 178 comments

A personal blog post in which a programmer returns after fourteen years to reflect on filling every quiet moment with podcasts, audiobooks, and social media.

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.