The Most Expensive Eating Disorder(desmolysium.com)

74 points by nickwritesit 1 year ago | 55 comments

How to stay sane in a world that rewards insanity(joanwestenberg.com)

243 points by enbywithunix 11 months ago | 190 comments

Slowness is a virtue(blog.jakobschwichtenberg.com)

216 points by jakobgreenfeld 10 months ago | 72 comments

Slow social media(herman.bearblog.dev)

142 points by rishikeshs 1 year ago | 124 comments

The Demise of the Flynn Effect(cremieux.xyz)

7 points by smnthermes 1 year ago | 0 comments

I designed a Dieter Rams-inspired iPhone dock(arslan.io)

1431 points by farslan 2 years ago | 335 comments

Fatih Arslan's blog post describing how he designed a Dieter Rams-inspired iPhone dock, shown as an orange printed stand.

Doomscrolling ourselves to death(edwest.co.uk)

377 points by shubhamjain 1 month ago | 281 comments

Ed West's Substack essay on children's media diets and doomscrolling, discussing James Marriott's 'The New Dark Ages'.

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 force-feeding of AI features on an unwilling public(honest-broker.com)

330 points by imartin2k 1 year ago | 279 comments

Ted Gioia essay on The Honest Broker arguing tech companies are forcing unwanted AI features on users, calling it tyranny rather than innovation.

I'm addicted to being useful(seangoedecke.com)

519 points by swah 9 months ago | 265 comments

Sean Goedecke's blog essay on loving his software engineering job because he is driven by being useful, drawing on Gogol's The Overcoat.

Nobody knows how to build with AI yet(worksonmymachine.substack.com)

475 points by Stwerner 1 year ago | 368 comments

Scott Werner's Substack essay arguing nobody yet knows how to build software with AI, drawing on building Protocollie in four days without touching the code.

As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing(thewalrus.ca)

845 points by awnird 2 months ago | 844 comments

A Walrus essay by Vass Bednar arguing that Google Search is declining as AI reshapes the web, and that the internet's collective memory is disappearing.