Can a Despised Autocrat Consolidate Power?(paulkrugman.substack.com)

5 points by ndsipa_pomu 1 year ago | 1 comments

America's Greatest Strategic Blunder: The Imprisonment of Qian Xuesen(danieltan.weblog.lol)

78 points by danieltanfh95 5 months ago | 38 comments

My falling-out with the rationalist community(lcamtuf.substack.com)

57 points by surprisetalk 3 months ago | 43 comments

The Poison Pill to End the MMR Is Tylenol(rasmussenretorts.substack.com)

7 points by us-merul 1 year ago | 3 comments

A Lawless Nation – Friends don't let friends visit America(paulkrugman.substack.com)

7 points by xqcgrek2 1 year ago | 0 comments

The Techlash That Never Happened(eriktorenberg.substack.com)

43 points by tim_sw 3 years ago | 50 comments

The Post-AGI Era(avidfayaz.com)

10 points by Avid_F 1 month ago | 3 comments

A personal blog essay on Fayaz Notes arguing that AGI has arrived and exploring what the post-AGI era means.

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.

It's hard to write code for computers, but it's harder to write code for humans(erikbern.com)

429 points by imartin2k 2 years ago | 131 comments

Erik Bernhardsson's blog post arguing that writing code for humans, such as libraries, APIs and tools other developers use, is harder than writing code for computers.

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.

Loyal workers are selectively and ironically targeted for exploitation(sciencedirect.com)

341 points by ck45 3 years ago | 219 comments

Abstract page for a Journal of Experimental Social Psychology paper finding that loyal workers are selectively targeted for exploitation by managers.

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.