Slowness is a virtue(blog.jakobschwichtenberg.com)

216 points by jakobgreenfeld 10 months ago | 72 comments

Founding is a snowball(blog.bawolf.com)

96 points by bryantwolf 8 months ago | 34 comments

Ted Chiang: The Secret Third Thing(linch.substack.com)

262 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 122 comments

Agent orchestration for the timid(substack.com)

104 points by markferree 9 months ago | 27 comments

Your startup idea probably isn’t venture-scale(lennysnewsletter.com)

39 points by type0 3 years ago | 51 comments

A Tale of Unwanted Disruption: My Week Without Amazon(medium.com)

78 points by josephcsible 3 years ago | 19 comments

Practical UX for startups surviving without a designer(tibinotes.com)

387 points by tb8424 1 year ago | 156 comments

A Substack essay by Tibi Iorga on how startups can work out their user experience without a dedicated designer, time, or budget.

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.

If you are useful, it doesn't mean you are valued(betterthanrandom.substack.com)

748 points by weltview 1 year ago | 334 comments

A Better than Random Substack essay arguing that being useful at work is different from being valued, and that the distinction can be subtle.

We need scientific dissidents(chronicle.com)

355 points by Georgelemental 3 years ago | 848 comments

Chronicle of Higher Education opinion essay arguing that the early artificial consensus on Covid's origins shows the need for scientific dissidents.

The Bitter Lesson Is Misunderstood(obviouslywrong.substack.com)

335 points by JnBrymn 1 year ago | 218 comments

A Substack essay arguing the Bitter Lesson is really about data rather than compute, citing scaling laws where compute scales with data squared.

A New Experiment Meta-Strategy(chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)

26 points by surprisetalk 1 month ago | 1 comments

A Substack post by an amateur physicist describing a new strategy for doing home experiments after reorganizing a messy lab to fit limited free evenings.