Willingness to look stupid(sharif.io)

691 points by Samin100 7 months ago | 237 comments

Personal essay by Sharif Shameem arguing that willingness to look foolish is an underrated advantage, or moat, in creative work.

I Think Rutger Bregman and the School for Moral Ambition Are Full of Shit(louwrentius.com)

25 points by louwrentius 4 months ago | 9 comments

The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote (2010)(sive.rs)

161 points by downbad_ 3 months ago | 42 comments

Solar-based sleep patterns compared to modern norms(dylan.gr)

94 points by James72689 5 months ago | 83 comments

Summary: Don't make me think(revisited) by Steve Krug(chestergrant.com)

45 points by chegra 3 years ago | 6 comments

How three years at McKinsey shaped my second startup(blog.zactownsend.com)

115 points by zt 1 year ago | 140 comments

The past is not true(sive.rs)

375 points by swah 3 years ago | 319 comments

Derek Sivers essay recounting how a car crash memory he carried for years turned out to be false, arguing our memories of the past are unreliable.

Intellectuals Are Fucking Idiots(markmanson.substack.com)

15 points by speckx 28 days ago | 5 comments

Mark Manson Substack essay arguing that highly intelligent people get trapped by their own ideas, opening with the story of professor Malcolm Caldwell's 1978 trip to Cambodia.

Do the simplest thing that could possibly work(seangoedecke.com)

1015 points by dondraper36 1 year ago | 364 comments

Blog post by Sean Goedecke arguing engineers should understand the current system deeply and then do the simplest thing that could possibly work.

You are not dumb, you just lack the prerequisites(lelouch.dev)

625 points by JustinSkycak 2 years ago | 351 comments

A personal blog post arguing that struggling with math usually stems from missing prerequisite knowledge rather than lack of intelligence.

I miss thinking hard(jernesto.com)

1166 points by jernestomg 8 months ago | 633 comments

A personal blog post venting that the author rarely spends days thinking hard about difficult problems anymore, tagged as an opinion piece on AI.

Imaginary problems are the root of bad software(cerebralab.com)

834 points by deofoo 3 years ago | 358 comments

Blog essay on Cerebralab arguing that bad software stems from developers solving imaginary problems rather than real user needs.