2023-02-06 Steven Luu “mature” engineers … go beyond “just” patching these problems. They take the extra step to make sure the next person won’t have to spend the same level of energy fixing the same issue, or eliminate the problem…
2022-10-13 Morgan Smith “We live in a world that’s increasingly gamified, and I think we have an instinct to win, crush and kill,” he said. “But if you can disengage or disarm that instinct for a second and replace it…
The Lovelace test demands of a computing machine that it not only produce an artifact that is by conventional standards amazing, but it leaves everyone looking at it stupefied as to how it does what it does: including in this…
2022-04-12 Bryan Caplan Racism is wrong because collective guilt is wrong. … In my childhood, I heard the ironclad argument against racism frequently. But I sense that it’s no longer popular. Why not? Because once you reject collective guilt, you…
2022-03-16 Brian Klaas For those of us living in liberal democracies, criticizing the boss is risky, but we’re not going to be shipped off to a gulag or watch our family get tortured. In authoritarian regimes, those all-too-real risks have…
2017-07-07 Sam Julien People are honestly not that complicated. When you go to an event or a meetup, do you find yourself awkwardly standing around, compulsively looking at your phone? Do you feel alone or uncomfortable? The truth is, nearly…
2020-11-12 James Clear Behavioral problems, not technical skills, are what separate the great from the near great. Incredible results can come from practicing basic behaviors like saying thank you, listening well, thinking before you speak, and apologizing for your mistakes.…
2021-08-17 Mike Pence In February 2020, the Trump administration reached an agreement that required the Taliban to end all attacks on U.S. military personnel, to refuse terrorists safe harbor, and to negotiate with Afghan leaders on creating a new government.…
2021-08-03 James Surowiecki Deep in the laws and commentaries of the Talmud, there is an unusual provision about capital punishment: if all 71 judges in a capital case agree that the death penalty should be imposed, then it is automatically…
2021-05-07 Charles Creitz Graham … opined on Facebook about the president leaving God out of his proclamation: “Why would President Biden omit God? … I was deeply saddened to read that President Biden is the first president to omit the…