Interesting pages
Life in general
- How Technology Grows (a restatement of definite optimism)
- Why is finance so complex?
- Notes on “Taste”
- What I Learned About Life at My 30th College Reunion
- the agony of eros: dating
- The Trouble with Optionality
Software engineering
- Abstraction, intuition, and the “monad tutorial fallacy”
- You can’t tell people anything
- Reality has a surprising amount of detail
- Being Glue
- The Bitter Lesson
- We only hire the trendiest
- Engineering Management: The Pendulum Or The Ladder
UX
- Inventing on Principle
- How We Built the World’s Prettiest Auto-Generated Transit Maps
- Invisible Details of Interaction Design
- Cartography Comparison: Google & Apple Maps
- When fonts fall
Theorycrafting
- The Gervais Principle, Or The Office According to “The Office”
- Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution
- The Cactus and the Weasel
- The Premium Mediocre Life of Maya Millennial