#+TITLE: Essays

most of these are essays i have yet to (re)read, unfortunately
https://www.oxfordamerican.org/magazine/item/1945-lesson-in-acceptance
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2011/12/05/goodbye-serenity/
https://aeon.co/ideas/hypocognition-is-a-censorship-tool-that-mutes-what-we-can-feel
https://markmanson.net/how-to-grow-up
https://dbp.io/essays/2012-10-24-programming-literature.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23222424
https://capitalandgrowth.org/answers/Article/3217401/Become-Abnormal
https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/learning-for-a-living/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22105229
https://markan.me/the-delight-of-development/
https://www.principles.com/the-changing-world-order/#introduction
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23095190
https://heartbeat.fritz.ai/how-lidar-detection-works-8db24556a8d9
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23098090


gamecube joycons
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/02/12/two-heads
https://www.svese.de/impact-vs-backlog-frame-in-software-development
https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app/
[[https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2020/05/05/the-hard-parts-about-making-it-look-easy/][the hard parts about making it look easy]]
https://fs.blog/2012/04/feynman-technique/
[[http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews][hate the news]]
https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2020/05/07/serv/
https://www.gwern.net/In-Defense-Of-Inclusionism
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22990872

https://iism.org/article/driving-engineers-to-an-arbitrary-date-is-a-value-destroying-mistake-49
[[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22990872][tell me about your life]]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22050802
https://nesslabs.com/too-busy-to-enjoy-life
https://mobile.twitter.com/naval/status/1002103360646823936
https://www.ybrikman.com/writing/2013/09/29/the-10x-developer-is-not-myth/
https://brianmckenna.org/blog/softwerewolves
https://muldoon.cloud/programming/2020/04/17/programming-rules-thumb.html
https://billwadge.wordpress.com/2020/04/25/the-secret-of-software-success/
https://nora.codes/post/names-legal-names-and-fractally-deferred-responsibility/
https://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/resource/success-nonviolent-civil-resistance/
https://medium.com/@jesse.singal/planet-of-cops-50889004904d


https://mobile.twitter.com/noampomsky/status/1304946095189970944
https://rabbitpodcast.com/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-07-14/coronavirus-conversations-with-one-of-america-s-richest-men?utm_content=businessweek&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&cmpid=socialflow-twitter-businessweek&utm_source=twitter
https://dlang.org/blog/2020/05/14/lomutos-comeback/
http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2019-12-02/bpf-a-new-type-of-software.html
https://genzmafia.com/
https://www.alimirio.com/posts/advice
https://pioneer.app/gap-year
https://forge.medium.com/33-things-i-stole-from-people-smarter-than-me-on-the-way-to-33-c38e368e5cb8
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23340031
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23170881
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23172959
https://bradfrost.com/blog/post/write-on-your-own-website/
https://blog.andrewbran.ch/overengineering-a-blog/
https://www.feltrac.co/control/2020/01/12/simple-control-systems.html
https://www.flipmine.com/
https://medium.com/endless-filament/make-your-filament-at-home-for-cheap-6c908bb09922
https://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rpressler/loom/loom/sol1_part1.html
https://samzdat.com/2017/06/28/without-belief-in-a-god-but-never-without-belief-in-a-devil/

https://samzdat.com/the-uruk-series/


https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n13/katherine-rundell/consider-the-hare
https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/urban-gilgamesh
[[https://moultano.wordpress.com/2020/06/21/the-defaults-dont-work/}[the defaults dont work]
https://mailchi.mp/f78bc13cbb84/food-for-thought-58 good things to read : )
https://hypercritical.co/2020/06/20/the-art-of-the-possible
https://spectator.us/topic/new-york-times-private-slate-star-codex-blog/
[[https://adityamukerjee.net/2013/08/22/dont-fly-during-ramadan/][don't fly during ramadan]]
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/09/magazine/09wwln-lede-t.html

[[https://web.archive.org/web/20080125030037/http://deoxy.org/pkd_how2build.htm][how to build a universe that doesn't fall apart two days later]]

https://taylorpearson.me/interesting/ optimizing for interesting
https://www.theredhandfiles.com/do-u-have-any-spare-lyrics/ songwriting well.


https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24097945 malcolm gladwell on discovering religion
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2018/11/20/to-bed-to-wed-to-talk-to/?fbclid=IwAR0YB-x7e0dbc1Ehet11Yh9rW_hNTT_mF52VykNMPkqrWQcuqspPrHW-Utg
https://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/


http://shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com/2020/07/05/algorithms-are-now-commodities/ [[file:algorithms.org][Algorithms]]  are commodities

[[https://nplusonemag.com/issue-37/essays/the-bad-feature/][the bad feature]]
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/k/kranz-failure.html

https://andymatuschak.org/books/ why books don't really work as a medium
https://blog.andymatuschak.org/post/159340765257/exalting-data-missing-meaning measuring arbitrarily is measuring nothing

[[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23515504][boredom and creativity, privilege and success]]

https://www.gatesnotes.com/2020-Annual-Letter why gates swings for the fences to accomplish things


[[http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html][how to become a hacker - eric s. raymond]]


https://ava.substack.com/p/on-maintaining-attention [[https://mobile.twitter.com/noampomsky/status/1314751746103635968][and the follow up tweets]]: significant decrease in thoughts and non localized sense of self after a 'peak experience'
https://ava.substack.com/p/desire-optimism


https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/09/12/ted-hughes-inner-child-letter/ on the inner child:
"Everybody tries to protect this vulnerable two three four five six seven eight year old inside, and to acquire skills and aptitudes for dealing with the situations that threaten to overwhelm it."
"That’s the paradox: the only time most people feel alive is when they’re suffering, when something overwhelms their ordinary, careful armour, and the naked child is flung out onto the world."
https://mobile.twitter.com/noampomsky/status/1315436452830826496 various notes? very cool

https://maxdeviant.com/posts/2017/default-dead-or-alive/ kind of simple but aggressive: default dead or default alive? how do you feel?

https://smidgeo.com/bots/ fun bots and art
https://jimkang.com/weblog/articles/miscellaneous-findings-002/ cool tricks!


http://instrumentslab.org/research/craft craft and digital lutherie, designing instruments for  [[file:music.org][Music]]


https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/ how and why i stopped buying new laptops!
https://web.archive.org/web/20080125030037/http://deoxy.org/pkd_how2build.htm
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/mar/04/six-four-hideo-yokoyama-review-crime-thriller-phenomenon-japan
https://blog.jse.li/posts/software/

http://www.paulgraham.com/vb.html life is so short
https://publishsomething.online/ why you should publish something online! [[file:blogs.org][Blogs]]
http://eudaimonium.net/ love the animated connections being made


http://eudaimonium.net/posts/children_of_men.html so pretty, looks super professional too.
https://technicshistory.com/2020/06/25/the-era-of-fragmentation-part-4-the-anarchists/ computer anarchists

[[https://snufk.in/blog/temporality.html][the temporality of media]]

[[https://notebook.drmaciver.com/posts/2020-02-29-10:30.html][the social obligation to do bad things]]

** TODO [[https://fee.org/resources/i-pencil/][I, Pencil by Leonard E. Read - Foundation for Economic Education]]

Captured On: [2020-10-08 Thu 00:23]

** TODO [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1zDuOPkMSw][Hamming, "You and Your Research" (June 6, 1995) - YouTube]]

Captured On: [2020-10-08 Thu 00:23]
https://ava.substack.com/p/whats-become-of-americas-space-dream?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMDY5MzAyMSwicG9zdF9pZCI6NTE0MjIxNiwiXyI6IlZEQ2RqIiwiaWF0IjoxNjAyMjY4MzU1LCJleHAiOjE2MDIyNzE5NTUsImlzcyI6InB1Yi0yMzQxNyIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.xlajzm4gAM0qnZtekkxNwmqEDWQphtjPVjrFdKfYP_0
https://aarontag.dev/2020/06/14/the-urge.html the urge to create

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/j-notation/?utm_source=hillelwayne&utm_medium=email
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24257458 chaos engineering

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24107598 why software should be free.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24097348 training programmers

https://jonasersland.net/#index
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Theroux brilliant biographer