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This is an attempt to collect (slowly), essays that I can recommend. Attention conservation notice: In the beginning, I will collect, later i'll curate. AI Situational Awareness ( PDF ); Also as website…
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Great Memos - Historic Business Documents Archive
Reality has a surprising amount of detail
has shades of ZAMM
Becoming the person who does the thing | @fredrivett
A Programmer's Reading List: 100 Articles I Enjoyed (1-50) | Piglei
the articles in the list focus on the following areas: general programming knowledge, software engineering, backend development, technical writing, Python, Go.
Horseless intelligence | Ned Batchelder
My advice about using AI is simple: use AI as an assistant, not an expert, and use it judiciously. Some people will object, “but AI can be wrong!” Yes, and so…
Career Development: What It Really Means to be a Manager, Director, or VP - Kellblog
Managers are paid to drive results with some support. They have experience in the function, can take responsibility, but are still learning the job and will…
YOUTH - by Jared Young - Tolstoyan
A K Ramanujan - Is there an Indian way of thinking
The Utility of Mathematics
Fallible Ideas
Edited Contributions - Programmer 97-things
Gin, Television, and Social Surplus
The Six-Lesson Schoolteacher
How to Get Things Done by Robert Benchley
Really great read on how to get things done by procastinating :)
Corruption in textbook-adoption proceedings: 'Judging Books by Their Covers'
The reason was that the books were so lousy. They were false. They were hurried. Everything was a little bit ambiguous -- they weren't smart enough to…
Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine
The Hacker's Guide to Investors
paul graham's article
fare: What Makes Lisp Great
How I Write by Bertrand Russell
learn it from the master of prose
Microsoft Research DRM talk
Classic Texts of Computer science
Idle Words
if you have read Paul Graham's "Hacker sna Painters", you will want to read this too :)
First Contact: The Selling of the Last Savage | Outside Online
On a planet crowded with six billion people, isolated primitive cultures are getting pushed to the brink of extinction. Against this backdrop, a new form of…
Why Socialism? By Albert Einstein
We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive
Worse Is Better
The original worse is better essay?
The Pursuit of Happiness
Why smart people defend bad ideas
Best Software Essays of 2004