The People Who Shun Super-Popular Pop Culture - The Atlantic
“The Pitt,” “Severance,” “Sinners,” you name it: For some reason, the more popular something is, the more likely I am to resist it.| The Atlantic
Staff Product Manager - Enterprise Security @ Tenable | Accel Job Board
Search job openings across the Accel network.| jobs.accel.com
Load-Bearing Walls - BiteofanApple
We like to believe that we can predict the future. We believe it because it's true, at least in part. Physical systems obey known physical laws and so even fairly complex systems can be understood and predicted with stunning accuracy. Every branch of science makes predictions. Planes fly, servers compute, and dams generate power all through the strength we have to predict the future, if only in the short term. In our human world, we see pollsters predict elections with better-than-random odds...| brianschrader.com
A new level of cowardice
I heard all about the American torpedo attack that sunk the Iranian frigate, Dena, in the Indian Ocean. I couldn’t miss it — multiple channels on YouTube were replaying the footage over…| Pharyngula
Message Passing Is Shared Mutable State — Causality
The failure of message passing to eliminate concurrency bugs wasn't surprising, it was predicted. Edward Lee argued in 2006 that the shared-memory vs. message-passing debate was a false dichotomy. Go was a billion-dollar natural experiment. The results confirmed the prediction.| Causality
The Brand Age
March 2026| paulgraham.com
A Very Stable War - The Atlantic
J. D. Vance says this Middle East entanglement can’t be dumb—because Trump is smart.| The Atlantic
The stranger secret: how to talk to anyone – and why you should | Social etiquette | The Guardian
Forget fear of public speaking. A lot of people now shy away completely from speaking to anyone in public. But if we learn to do this it’s enriching, for ourselves and society| the Guardian
1968年大姑写给父亲的信 – Yanwei's Blogs
最高指示：没有一个人民的军队，便没有人民的一切。 首先让我们怀着万分激动的心情，敬祝毛主席万寿无疆，万寿无疆，…| Yanwei's Blogs
The Hunt for Dark Breakfast – Ryan Moulton's Articles
With a theoretical model of breakfast, can we derive the existence of “dark breakfasts,” breakfasts that we know must exist, but have never observed?| Ryan Moulton's Articles
我们终将被记忆打倒
孩子们总盼望快快长大，而大人们总希望回到童年。可惜，回到童年我们是不可实现的奢望：这不是因为我们的个子缩不了，身上的责任卸不下，而是因为我们的脑子里记着太多往事忘不掉。这些往事像战士身上的伤痕，海船船底的藤壶，中年人腰上的游泳圈，日积月累，潜移默化，让我们渐渐力不从心，总有一天会把我们拖入万劫不复的深渊。| 一言堂
マリウス . Hold on to Your Hardware
A warning about rising prices, vanishing consumer choice, and a future where owning a computer may matter more than ever as hardware, power, and control drift toward data centers and away from people.| マリウス
Dear Comrade Xi - by Alexander Campbell - Campbell Ramble
A 5-Point Plan for Renminbi World Domination in the New World Era of the Great Rejuvenation of the Middle Kingdom| www.campbellramble.ai
Privilege is bad grammar | Tadaima.
When I got my first real job, I used to get so nervous about writing emails to my boss. I would run spellcheck, triple-check the grammar, read over it again ...| Tadaima.
Words Without Consequence - The Atlantic
What does it mean to have speech without a speaker?| The Atlantic
are you out of touch? | ava's blog
Does decreasing social media use (or even deleting it) really cut you off from the culture?| ava's blog
Tenure Is a Total Scam - by Bryan Caplan - Bet On It
A tenured professor plays whistleblower| www.betonit.ai
AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it | Siddhant Khare
You're using AI to be more productive. So why are you more exhausted than ever? The paradox every engineer needs to confront.| Siddhant Khare
You can't know why people like you. | Inchwyrm barks at nothing
My therapist recently told me, "You can't know why people like you," and it was one of those rare lightbulb moments. I wanted to talk about some of the thoug...| Inchwyrm barks at nothing