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
• “The Cost of Silence: Normalization of Deviance and Groupthink” by Terry Wilcutt and Hal Bell
• “GCJ-02”
• “The LinkedIn Incident”
• “Past Performance is Not Indicative of Future Results” by Cory Doctorow
• “Dana Angluin’s List of Proof Techniques”
• “Why I wrote PGP” by Philip Zimmermann ⭐️
• “Apple’s Mistake” by Ben Thompson
• “The reckless, infinite scope of web browsers” by Drew DeVault
• “Firefox usage is down 85% despite Mozilla’s top exec pay going up 400%” by Cal Paterson
• “Not Dying Alone — Modern Compassionate Care in the Covid-19 Pandemic” by Glenn K. Wakam, M.D., John R. Montgomery, M.D., Ben E. Biesterveld, M.D., and Craig S. Brown, M.D.
• “Banquet speech” by Friedrich von Hayek

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