Feynman: I am burned out and I'll never accomplish anything (1985)(asc.ohio-state.edu)

341 points by ent101 2 years ago | 136 comments

Excerpt from "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman" where Feynman recounts recovering from burnout by playing with physics, starting with a wobbling plate.

Hans Reiser on ReiserFS deprecation in the Linux kernel(ftp.mfek.org)

283 points by wut42 2 years ago | 219 comments

Mathematicians will probably become obsolete before anyone else [pdf](olli.unt.edu)

68 points by tiahura 2 months ago | 39 comments

Does anyone remember websites?(tttthis.com)

31 points by lr0 1 year ago | 37 comments

A Letter from Dijkstra on APL (1982)(jsoftware.com)

54 points by tosh 5 months ago | 52 comments

What Problems to Solve (1966)(genius.cat-v.org)

456 points by jxmorris12 1 year ago | 54 comments

A 1966 letter from Richard Feynman to former student Koichi Mano advising him that worthwhile problems are ones you can actually solve, hosted on cat-v.org.