Interesting reading

One star (⭐) is good. Two stars (⭐⭐) is great.

2021

• “nohello”
• “The XY Problem”
• “Is it worth the time?” by Randall Munroe
• “Billionaries build” by Paul Graham
• “Simple defense against power analysis?”
• “Reflections on Trusting Trust” by Ken Thompson
• “Trial by Fire” by David Grann ⭐
• “Get me off Your Fucking Mailing List” by David Mazières and Eddie Kohler
• “Fast”
• “Opinion: Why America’s prisons are an unconstitutional moral horror” by Tyler Cowen
• “The Man Who Refused to Spy” by Laura Secor
• Chebli v. Kable

2020

• “hacker-laws” ⭐
• “Big Bang 20 Years On”
• “All models are wrong, but some are completely wrong” by Martin Goodson
• “Parable of the broken window”
• “Cobra effect”
• “Jevons paradox”
• “Software disenchantment” by Nikita Tonsky
• Mathematical Recreations and Essays by W. W. Rouse Ball
• “De-escalation Keeps Protesters And Police Safer. Departments Respond With Force Anyway.” by Maggie Koerth and Jamiles Lartey
• The Dream Machine by M. Mitchell Waldrop
• “A Bit Rich” by Eilís Lawlor, Helen Kersley, and Susan Steed
• “The Responsibility of Intellectuals” by Noam Chomsky
• “Philosophers on GPT-3”
• Hacker News on “Science and Scientific Expertise Are More Important Than Ever”
• “A Plea for Lean Software” by Niklaus Wirth
• “The dual PhD problem of today’s startups” by Danny Crichton
• “What happened to Lee?” by Sandra Upson ⭐
• “Why the US military usually punishes misconduct but police often close ranks” by Dwight Stirling
• “Apple’s Shifting Differentiation” by Ben Thompson

2019

• “Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find?” by Nicholas Bloom et al. ⭐
• “Big Firms Lose Value in Acquisitions” by Andrew Balls
• “Is it ever okay to take a harmful job in order to do more good? An in-depth analysis” by Benjamin Todd
• “Chicken chicken chicken” by Doug Zongker
• “The Last Question” by Isaac Asimov ⭐⭐
• “The Last Answer” by Isaac Asimov
• “The Nine Billion Names of God” by Arthur C. Clarke ⭐
• “The Jaunt” by Stephen King ⭐
• Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman ⭐
• The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
• “The Algorithm: Idiom of Modern Science” by Bernard Chazelle
• “You and the Atomic Bomb” by George Orwell
• “Politics and the English Language” by George Orwell
• “Optimization by Simulated Annealing” by S. Kirkpatrick et al.
• SIGBOVIK 2019 by the Association for Computational Heresy ⭐
• “Internet Tidal Wave” by Bill Gates ⭐
• How Changes Happens by Cass Sunstein ⭐
• “Semantic Image Synthesis with Spatially-Adaptive Normalization” by Taesung Park, et al. ⭐
• “Better Language Models and their Implications” by OpenAI ⭐
• “How to Ask Questions the Smart Way” by Eric S. Raymond
• “Class of 2018 Address” by Regan Kerney ⭐
• “We’re Inventivizing Bad Science” by James Zimring
• “Theory of Interstellar Trade” by Paul Krugman