The Perils of 'Design Thinking'(theatlantic.com)

40 points by Petiver 1 year ago | 37 comments

The city that forgot itself(thecritic.co.uk)

22 points by anarbadalov 1 year ago | 39 comments

Where did the Carter White House's solar panels go? (2010)(scientificamerican.com)

55 points by rndmize 3 years ago | 50 comments

Age of Invention: How the Dutch Did It Better(antonhowes.substack.com)

98 points by tim_sw 3 years ago | 71 comments

What Does George Orwell's '1984' Mean in 2024?(smithsonianmag.com)

34 points by KnuthIsGod 1 year ago | 16 comments

Lore Segal Saw the World in a Nutshell(theatlantic.com)

7 points by prismatic 2 years ago | 0 comments

The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better(ourworldindata.org)

363 points by colonCapitalDee 2 years ago | 265 comments

Max Roser essay on Our World in Data arguing the world is simultaneously awful, much better than before, and capable of becoming much better.

Child's Play: Tech's new generation and the end of thinking(harpers.org)

339 points by ramimac 8 months ago | 211 comments

Harper's Magazine essay by Sam Kriss, a letter from San Francisco about tech's new generation of AI startup founders and 'the end of thinking'.

Do your own writing(alexhwoods.com)

690 points by karimf 7 months ago | 222 comments

Blog post by Alex Woods arguing against using LLMs to write documents and essays, since writing is a way to think and build trust.

How to post when no one is reading(jeetmehta.com)

598 points by j4mehta 1 year ago | 240 comments

Personal blog essay arguing creators should keep publishing through years of obscurity, since mastery and audience take a long time to build.

Most people prefer traditional architecture(worksinprogress.news)

332 points by alihm 1 month ago | 285 comments

A Works in Progress newsletter essay by Samuel Hughes arguing that people broadly agree in preferring traditional architecture over modern styles.

I Want You to Understand Chicago(aphyr.com)

466 points by tonyg 11 months ago | 202 comments

A personal essay on aphyr.com by Kyle Kingsbury describing conditions in Chicago, likely concerning federal immigration enforcement operations there.