Contents of Authors Content

This is an exhaustive list of videos, talks, blogposts, and resources that inspired me in some point of time.

Machine Learning & AI

• Attention, Transformers in Neural Network Large Language Models Bactra

• Do we need deep learning for time series Sheeren Elsayed

• Differential Privacy at the US Census Simson Garfinkel

• Fast and frugal time series forecasting Fotios Petropoulos

• Building the Minerva metrics store @ Airbnb Robert Chang

• Machine Learning, Recommender Systems and the future of AI Michael Jordan

• Deep Learning and Time Series Forecasting for Smarter Energy Igor Gotlibovych

• Matching Markets Alvin Roth

• Optimal Growth in Two-Sided Markets Garret Van Ryzin

• Approximately Efficient Two-Sided Combinatorial Auctions Riccardo Colini-Baldeschi

• Large Matching Markets as Two-Sided Demand Systems Konrad Menzel

• Boosted embeddings for time series Rao Karingula

• Contextual Multi-Arm Bandit and its applications to digital experiments Peterson & Qin

• I like notebooks Jeremy Howard

• NixtlaVerse, bridging the gap between statistics and deep learning for time series Max Mergenthaler

• Can We Really Use Machine Learning in Safety Critical Systems? Richard Murray

• Can We Really Use Machine Learning in Safety Critical Systems? - Presentation Richard Murray

• ImageNet Classification with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks Yannic Kilcher

• A DARPA Perspective on Artificial Intelligence DARPA

• Variational Autoencoders CodeEmporium

• Attention Is All You Need Yannic Kilcher

• LSTM is dead. Long Live Transformers Leo Dirac

• Machine Learning - Dynamical, Stochastic & Economic Perspectives Michael I. Jordan

• Personalizing Explainable Recommendations with Multi-objective Contextual Bandits Rishabh Mehrotra

• Clearing Matching Markets Efficiently - Informative signals and Match Recommendations Peng Shi

• Strategies of Two-Sided Markets Mira Mak

• Recommendations in a Marketplace - Part I Rishabh Mehrotra

• Recommendations in a Marketplace - Part II Rishabh Mehrotra

• Building products for Continous Delivery in Machine Learning Alan Lu

• Deep Learning With PyTorch Patrick Loeber

• AI for Full-Self Driving at Tesla Andrej Karpathy

• Forecasting - Principles and Practice Rob Hyndman

• How Support Vector Machines work Brandon Roher

• Generative Adversarial Networks Yannic Kilcher

• Evaluating Classification Models, Part 1 - Weighing False Positives Against False Negatives Greg Gandenberger

• Evaluating Classification Models, Part 2 - The Sufficiency of Precision and Recall Greg Gandenberger

• Evaluating Classification Models, Part 3 - Fβ and Other Weighted Pythagorean Means of Precision and Recall Greg Gandenberger

• Evaluating Classification Models, Part 4 - Weighted Power Means of Precision and Recall Greg Gandenberger

• t-SNE from Scratch Jacob Pieniazek

• Time series for scikit-learn people Ethan Rosenthal

• Time series for scikit-learn people - Part 1 Ethan Rosenthal

• Time series for scikit-learn people - Part 3 Ethan Rosenthal

• Autoretraining is Easy if You Skip the Hard Parts Ethan Rosenthal

• Change Point Detection in continuous integration systems David Daly

• Change Point Detection Algorithms Gerrit Van Den Burg

• From User-Intent to Multistakeholder Recommendations Rishabh Mehrotra

• Packaging hell is dragging ML Donny Greenberg

• The Future of Time Series Neil Gershenfeld

MLOps & Production

• Monitoring is Dead. Long Live Monitoring Greg Poirier

• Observability. it’s not just an ops thing Charity Majors

• Observability for Emerging Infra. What Got You Here Won’t Get You There Charity Majors

• MLOps Tooling Landscape v2 Chip Huyen

• MLOps Anti-Patterns Nikhil Muralidhar

• CI/CD in 5 minutes - Is it worth the hassle? ByteByteGo

• Detecting drift Sam Ackerman

• SRE for everyone else Steve McGhee

• Building foundational ML Platforms at Capital One Ali Rodell

• The great MLOps Debate - Build x Buy MLOps Community

• Why Isn’t Functional Programming the Norm? Richard Feldman

• Post Deployment Data Science Hakim Elakhrass

• SRE Road Map teiva

• Tesla and the nature of disruption a16z Podcast

Data & Systems Engineering

• SQL as API Valentin Willscher

• Deconstructing the Database Rich Hickey

• Kelsey Hightower On Kubernetes & Cloud Computing Kelsey Hightower

• Infrastructure for autonomous vehicles Missy Cummings

• gRPC Richard Belleville

• k8s API Reference Kubernetes

Software Engineering

• Unlearning toxic behaviors in a code review culture Sandya Sankarram

• Simplicity Matters Rich Hickey

• The Value of Values with Rich Hickey Rich Hickey

• Hammock Driven Development Rich Hickey

• The hidden costs of estimations Mob Programming Podcast

• Design Patterns Refactoring Guru

• Creative Selection - Inside Apple’s Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs Ken Kocienda

• Working Effectively with Legacy Code Michael Feathers

• Inside Apple Software design a16z Podcast

Engineering & Tech

• How strong techies destroy startups, and how it can be avoided Gadi Evron

• ML Systems Design Interview Guide Patrick Halina

• Que tal codar como se você não pudesse refatorar? Dev Eficiente

• Acoplamento distribuído - O fundo do poço dos acoplamentos Dev Eficiente

• The big problem, the big promise of working from home Anne Hellen Petersen

• It’s time to build a16z Podcast

• Innovation through software development and IT a16z Podcast

• Responsible Engineers and Outcomes Mary Poppendieck

• Mobbing Programming at Tesla Joe Justice

• Why technology still matters a16z Podcast

• Enabling a world where all software is reliable Robert Ross

• Fairwashing and the folly of ML solutionism Zach Lipton

• The death of Agile Allen Holub

• The mechanisms of growth Allen Holub

• Curso Completo de Ruby One Bit Code

• The REAL Reason Cyberpunk 2077’s Software FAILED! Dave Farley

• The High Tech Telemetry System PatronSpirits

• Some Salient Issues with Saliency Models Aggregate Intellectual

• Lawyer Explains Stable Diffusion Lawsuit Corridor Crew

• Causality, part 1 Bernhard Schölkopf

• Causality, part 2 Bernhard Schölkopf

• Lets Continue Bundling into the Database Ethan Rosenthal

• In praise of opinionated frameworks Mendhak

• Why generalists triumph in a specialized world Gary Collins

• The no-nosense guide to simplifying every aspect of your life David Epstein

• The Promise and Peril of JSON logging Oakley Hall

Systems Thinking & Complexity

• Meltdown - Why Our Systems Fail and What We Can Do About It Chris Clearfield & András Tilcsik

• Getting to Catastrophe - Concentrations, Complexity and Coupling Charles Perrow

• Software Failures, Security, and Cyberattacks Charles Perrow

• Hardware, Software and Heuristics Richard Feynman

• How Complex Systems Fail Richard Cook

• Managing Complexity Richard Millan

• Out of the Tar Pit Ben Moseley, Peter Marks

• Fundamentals of War Gaming Naval War College

• Antifragile System Design 1 - Optionality Hannes Rollin

• Antifragile System Design 2 - Redundancy And Spare Capacity Hannes Rollin

• Antifragile System Design 3 - Evolutionary Design Hannes Rollin

• Antifragile System Design 4 - Modularity And Decentralization Hannes Rollin

• Antifragile System Design 5 - Chaos Engineering Hannes Rollin

• Antifragile System Design 6 - The Zen And Tao of Complex Systems Hannes Rollin

• How Complex Systems Fail Richard I. Cook

• Black Box Thinking Matthew Syed

• Against Incident Severities and in Favor of Incident Types Honeycomb

• How to Actually Migrate Complex Systems in Infrastructure Kyle Cascade

• Richard Feynman’s blackboard at time of his death Richard Feynman

• The same incident never happens twice, but the patterns recur over and over Lorin Hochstein

• Is Fewer Incidents Always Good? Hamed Silatani

• Component defects - RCA vs RE surfingcomplexity

• Two thought experiments surfingcomplexity

Science & Technology Society

• Experimental Evidence on the Productivity Effects of Generative Artificial Intelligence Shakked Noy & Whitney Zhang

• AI will save the world Marc Andressen

• Pushing Back on AI Hype Alex Hanna

• The Artificiality of Alignment The Gradient

• Generative AI exists because of the transformer Financial Times

• AI differentiation Victor Lima

• All by Hand AI All by Hand AI

• Towards more cooperative AI safety strategies Richard Ngo

• How I use AI Nicholas Carlini

• How I write code using Cursor - A review Arguing with Algorithms

• The Transformative Power of AI in Manufacturing Robert Scoble & Irena Cronin

• The EdTech Revolution Has Failed Jared Cooney Horvath

• Why Open Source is So Hard to Defend Daniel Jeffries

• Open Weights, Open Society, Open Future Daniel Jeffries

• It’s Time to Fight for Open Source Again Daniel Jeffries

• The Age of Industrialized AI Daniel Jeffries

• The forgotten mistake that killed Japan’s software industry Disrupting Japan

• Applied Machine Learning Cornell University - CS 5785 Cornell University

• CS 5785 - Applied Machine Learning Cornell University

• AI —The Last Employee? - How bigtech AI CAPEX spending will reshape future corporate cost structures Hemant Mohapatra

• Deep Learning Course François Fleuret

• Algorithms Are Coming for Democracy—but It’s Not All Bad Bruce Schneier

• The 70% problem - Hard truths about AI-assisted coding Addy Osmani

• Ask questions of SQLite databases and CSV/JSON files in your terminal Simon Willison

• Are We Really Engineers? Hillel Wayne

• Most people don’t care about quality Terence Eden’s Blog

• Building a (T1D) smartwatch from scratch One Pixel to the Left

• The future belongs to idea guys who can just do things Geoffrey Huntley

• Building effective agents anthropic

• Open Source Software and Corporate Influence alilleybrinker

• Tech Strikes Back Nadia Asparouhova

• Progressives need to embrace progress Noah Smith

• Running ML models in Elixir using Pythonx Samrat Man Singh

• America Is Missing The New Labor Economy – Robotics Dylan Patel

• Everything Wrong with MCP Shrivu Shankar

• AI-powered Software Engineering Shrivu Shankar

• why i wont be vibe coding anymore varunraghu

• Manufactured consensus on x.com rook2root

• Taxonomy of Failure Mode in Agentic AI Systems Microsoft

• 12-Factor Agents - Principles for building reliable LLM applications humanlayer

• Building Real Software the Way Pros Do Ibrahim Diallo

• I use Zip Bombs to Protect my Server Ibrahim Diallo

• The Model Context Protocol - Getting beneath the hype Karrtik Iyer

• MCP explained without hype or fluff nilenso

• AI Denialists are the Data Industry’s Flat Earthers Joe Reis

• American Decel Daniel Jeffries

• How we built our multi-agent research system anthropic

• The lethal trifecta for AI agents - private data, untrusted content, and external communication simonwillison

• The AI Bubble Is Real. So Is the AI Revolution OMC

• operators, not users and programmers the website of jyn

• Will data centers crash the economy? Noah Smith

• Screen-Free Activities for Kids offline.kids

• MCP is eating the world Stainless

• MCP vs. API Explained Norah Sakal

• FastAPI MCP tadata-org

• Production-ready Python Docker Containers with uv hynek

• Is UV the FUTURE of Python PACKAGING? hynek

• uv IS the Future of Python Packaging! hynek

• Scalable Python backend - Building a containerized FastAPI Application with uv, Docker Ismael Arce

• The Therac-25 incident Daily WTF

• The Second Half Shunyu Yao

• Against LLM maximalism Matthew Honnibal

• AI and Home-Cooked Software mrkaran

• The majority of AI View anildash

• Vibe Engineering simonwillison

• Stop Avoiding Politics terriblesoftware

• MCP vs API - what’s the difference? bytebytego

• Your vibe coded slop PR is not welcome samsaffron

• Too Fast to Think - The Hidden Fatigue of AI Vibe Coding tabulamag

• The Next Two Years of Software Engineering addyosmani

Leadership & Organizations

• Steve Jobs on Consulting Steve Jobs

• Toto Wolff on Hamilton, Rosberg, Lauda and breaking records F1 Beyond the Grid

• Toto Wolff - I run a successful F1 team but thats nothing compared to what other people have achieved… F1 Beyond the Grid

• Toto Wolff - Falling behind, figthing back F1 Beyond the Grid

• Risk, innovation and winning Toto Wolff

• Innovating while scaling - Lessons from Amazon Colin Bryar / Bill Carr

• Avoiding the doomsday Toto Wolff

• Empathy over engineering Toto Wolff

• Lessons from a Silicon Valley maverick - new ways of working and collaborating Patty McCord

• Pare de usar metas Waterfall - Como OKR pode ajudá-lo a focar em valor Felipe Castro

• When Genius Failed - The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management Roger Lowenstein

• Barbarians at the gate Empowerment High Performance Center

• Why Managers Matter as Applied Organization Nicolai J. Foss && Peter G. Klein

• Accountability is Not Blame Kent Beck

• Wartime and Peacetime Ben Horowitz

• Become evidence-guided Itamar Gilard

• Leadership is overrated Kyle Buckett

• Eastern & Western Design - How Culture Rewires The Brain Design Theory

• Is Your Team Caught in the Solution Fixation Trap? HBR

• Making Hard Things Easy Julia Evans

• Choose Boring Culture Charity Majors

• Doing a Job Adm. Hyman Rickover

• Thoughts on Man’s Purpose in Life Adm. Hyman Rickover

• The Essence of Leadership Pete Smith

• Quotations from Chairman Powell Oren Harari

• Why Leadership Matters in the Department of State Colin L. Powell

• Twenty-two Ways to Develop Leadership in Staff Managers Robert W. Eichinger and Michael M. Lombardo

• Nobody Ever Gets Credit for Fixing Problems That Never Happened - Creating and Sustaining Process Improvement Nelson Repenning

• The Engineering Manager James Stanier

• On Micromanagement Ben Horovitz

• Losing a Day a Week to Inefficiencies? John Cutler

• Boundary of Safely Challenged Assumptions John Cutler

• Too cool for school? Signalling and countersignalling Feltovich and Harbaugh

• A Culture of Good Decision-Making Itamar Gilard

• Feedback Systems Richard Murray

• Amazon - 2015 Shareholders Letter Amazon

• Observations on Observability Collin Breck

• Observations on Errors, Corrections, & Trust of Dependent Systems James Hamilton

• Conversational Cultures - Combat vs Nurture (V2) Ruby

• Epistemic Trust abramdemski

• Ten Modes of Culture War Discourse jchan

• Measuring Developer Goals Benjamin Ferrari-Church and Carolyn Egelmann

• Using Enabling Constraints for Situational Awareness John Cutler

• How to design teams that do not suck Adam Grant

• How Patty McCord built Netflix culture Patty McCord

• Modern Software Development Summarized Benji Smith

• How to make Product give a shit about your architecture proposal Andy G Blog

• Enhancing Data Reliability With An SLO Platform Abhishek Chawla

• Splitting engineering teams into defense and offense greptile

• A Culture of Good Decision-Making (Part 2) Itamar Gilad

• Accountability sinks Mandy Brown

• bureaucracy Midnight Musings

• The Unaccountability Machine - Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions - and How The World Lost its Mind Dan Davies

• The Amazon Weekly Business Review (WBR) Cedric Chin

• What layoffs teach us about technical leadership Chelsea Troy

• Organizational Debt Kills Only CFO

• How to get more headcount Irrational Exuberance

• How To Sell Engineering Needs To Product Managers Attila Vágó

• Your Organization Probably Doesn’t Want To Improve Things mataroa

• You can Change Your Organization or Change Your Organization James Shore

• Categories of leadership on technical teams benkuhn

• Categories of leadership on technical teams Niels Cautaerts

• No glue Tanya Reiley

• Glue Work - don’t get stuck with undervalued work Denholm + Data

• Deep Bureaucracy and Autonomist AI McQuillan, Daniel

• Product management is broken. Engineers can fix it James Hawkins

• Adhocracies and Bureaucracies John Cutler

• Measuring developer experience, benchmarks, and providing a theory of improvement Irrational Exuberance

• Moving Past Shallow Incident Data John Allspaw

• Glue work considered harmful sean goedecke

• Hitting OKRs vs Doing Your Job jessitron

• Nobody cares grantslatton

• Culture patrickcollison

• How Japan Copied American Culture and Made it Better Tom Downey

• Should managers still code? James Stanier

• Nobody Cares Ben Horowitz

• How Not to Disagree Andrew Bosworth

• The 5 Most Difficult Employees Clarie Lew

• Measuring Dialogue Intelligibility for Netflix Content Netflix TechBlog

• Guide to product development Michael Seibel

• How to Get Startup Ideas paulgraham

• Making sense of MVP (Minimum Viable Product) – and why I prefer Earliest Testable/Usable/Lovable Henrik Kniberg

• The magic of software; or, what makes a good engineer also makes a good engineering organization moxie

• Impact, agency, and taste benkuhn

• Characterizing a high-functioning team Abi Noda

• Five Short Lessons To Improve Infrastructure Reliability rchang

• Moving from an orchestration-heavy to leadership-heavy management role lethain

• Advancing the industry, part two lethain

• What async communication behaviors lead to better outcomes for software engineers? rdel

• Code Review Can Be Better matklad

• Python package management with uv for dockerized environments shaliamekh

• Vertical vs. Horizontal Org Coupling John Cutler

• We were hired to do the grunt work John Cutler

• 6 Archetypes of Broken Ownership alexewerlof

• The Accountability Problem jamesshore

• How to Run Profitable Pricing Experiments? Wojciech Kałużny

• Use it or lose it theengineeringmanager

Career & Work

• Inside the 2023 talent tsunami a16z podcast

• The Death of the Junior Developer Steve Yegge

• Dark Matter Developers - The Unseen 99% Scott Hasselman

• Do Good Fences Make Good Neighbors, or Do They Hurt Kids? Aaron Anderson

• Software Engineer Titles Have (Almost) Lost All Their Meaning Trevor I. Lasn

• Good Fences Make Good Neighbors” Misses the Point David Burton

• Is Age Really a Factor in Tech? Trevor I. Lasn

• My spiciest take on tech hiring Haskell for all

• How I ship projects at big tech companies sean goedecke

• What I Wish Someone Told Me About Postgres ChallahScript

• Elimination of Egospend Nomadic Developer

• Nomadic Programmer WikiWikiWeb

• Salary Expectations Questions Fearless Salary Negotiation

• A Practical Guide to Executive Presence - Earning Respect Stay SaaSy

• Staff Engineer vs Engineering Manager Alex Ewerlöf

• Grifters, believers, grinders, and coasters sean goedecke

• Egoless Engineering mcfunley

• My 25-year adventure in AI and ML Austin Z. Henley

• Software Developer Roles Career Progression Chris Lucian

• Good engineers are right, a lot Sean Goedecke

• My Philosophy on Alerting Rob Ewaschuk

• Why are big tech companies so slow? sean goedecke

• Has the Decline of Knowledge Work Begun? Noam Scheiber

• The Death of the Software Engineer by a Thousand Prompts Verdi Kapuku

• Ten Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer haseebq

• Act Your Age ericsink

• What makes strong engineers strong? seangoedecke

• Principal Engineer Roles Framework Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec

• An Attorney’s Guide to Semantics gumphus

• Human coders are still better than LLMs antirez

• My (mostly) minimalistic AI setup as a Senior Engineer in Big Tech highgrowthengineer

• What are Forward Deployed Engineers, and why are they so in demand? pragmaticengineer

• Five Years as a Startup CTO - How, Why, and Was It Worth It? distinctplace

• 90% of My Skills Are Now Worth $0 Kent Back

• Don’t ask, don’t tell anildash

• How to develop High Agency Dr Milan Milanović

• Mistakes I see engineers making in their code reviews seangoedecke

• Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases seangoedecke

• Pure and impure software engineering seangoedecke

• The good times in tech are over seangoedecke

• Why Your Best Engineers Are Interviewing Elsewhere codegood

Economics & Finance

• Prediction Machines - The Simple economics of AI Avi Goldfarb & Ajay Agrawal

• The Problem of HFT - Collected Writings on High Frequency Trading Haim Bodek

• Flash Boys - A Wall Street Revolt Michael Lewis

• The Big Short - Inside the Doomsday Machine Michael Lewis

• Average Is Over - Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation Tayler Cowen

• The Great Stagnation - How America Ate All The Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History Tayler Cowen

• The Quants - How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It Scott Patterson

• Dark Pools - The Rise of the Machine Traders and the Rigging of the U.S. Stock Market Scott Patterson

• Inside the Black Box - A Simple Guide to Quantitative and High-Frequency Trading Rishi K. Narang & Manoj Narang

• My Life as a Quant - Reflections on Physics and Finance Emanuel Derman

• Valuation - Métricas de Valor e Avaliação de Empresas Alexandre Assaf Neto

• The Smartest Guys in the Room - The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron Bethany McLean & Peter Elkind

• Fyre festival fraud, failure, hacking Billy McFarland

• The collapse of FTX - Insiders tell all CNBC

• FTX Is A Scam Marc Cohodes

• On War Clausewitz

• Broadening the Gains from Generative AI - The Role of Fiscal Policies IMF Staff Discussion Note

• Quantifying Technical Debt Chelsea Troy

• The End of the Subscription Era is Coming Nick Hilton

• How to Build a Great Company, Step by Step Steve Blank

• The Death of Point Solutions Only CFO

• Fixing Stock-Based Comp Sins Only CFO

• [Build vs Buy

  The End of SaaS?](https://www.onlycfo.io/p/build-vs-buy-the-end-of-saas) Only CFO

• Employee Stock Options Guide Only CFO

• Macroeconomics and the data industry Tristan Hardy

• How did it go so wrong for Germany? Wolfgang Münchau

• Euro Intelligence Wolfgang Münchau

• The Good Thing About Hard Things Packy McCormick

• Navigating Private Equity ownership Irrational Exuberance

• Kaput - The End of the German Miracle Wolfgang Münchau

• Raytheon is Now Run Under the Portfolio Theory of the Firm Samu Burja

• USAWC expert discusses Clausewitz Dr. Jim Helis

• Will We Ever Get Fusion Power? Brian Potter

• The rise of the abundance faction Steven Teles and Rob Saldin

• A Simple Plan to Solve All of America’s Problems Derek Thompson

• It’s time to build Marc Andreessen

• Trade Wars Are Class Wars Matthew C. Klein & Michael Pettis

• Public company comparables Irrational Exuberance

• Private Equity 101 for the tech industry Joao Alves

• What caused the 2020 SaaS bubble and why is it now popping? Patrick Mathieson

• The SaaS Capital Index The SaaS Capital Index

• Adapting to change - macroeconomic shifts and policy responses Benjamin Schoefer

• Labor Market Institutions, Dynamism, and European Competitiveness Benjamin Schoefer

• The Death of the Amex Lounge - Why the Upper Middle Class Isn’t Special Anymore Nick Maggiulli

• Trading with Claude, and writing your own MCP server dangelov

• After the Bubble, the Dream Gap Marcelo Rinesi

• Fim do SaaS Medíocre - A Ameaça da GenAI aos Produtos Digitais rodrigoy

Personal Development & Mindset

• No Asshole Rule - Why Life is Too Short To Work With Them Anthony Bourdain

• The Cues That Make You Charismatic Vanessa Van Edwards

• The character traits that drive optimal performance Rich Diviney

• When to Quit Annie Duke

• Coachbility is Critical Code Cubitt

• Deep Reset Carl Newport

• Confidence and competition Paul Rabil

• Jocko Willink Jocko Willink

• Grit is good. But quiting can be, too Annie Duke

• Why grit is an essential element of high performance Mark Webber

• The 6 mindshift you need to rise and thrive at work Aliza Knox

• So Good They Cannot Ignore You Cal Newport

• Dont Follow Your Passion Cal Newport

• Frameworks for better decision making Eric Johnson

• How to perform your best under pressure Don Greene

• Grow, adapt, and reinvent yourself through ultralearning Scott Young

• Overcome the comfort crisis Michael Easter

• Andragogy Lee Rusty Waller

• Advice on Achieving any long-haul dream Steven Pressfield

• 10 Signs You Work At A Dead End Company Bryan Creely

• Insight - Why Were Not as Self-Aware as We Think Tasha Eurich

• 13 Rules of Being Relentless Tim Grover

• Why discipline equals freedom Jocko Willink

• Deliberate practice Sprouts

• Motivação para estudar - Você tem brio? Clóvis de Barros Filho

• Giving a F*ck about what really matters Mark Manson

• F*ck yes or no Mark Manson

• Adaptability is the new stability Reid Hoffman

• Escape the happiness trap Russ Harris

• Why specializing early doesnt always mean career success David Epstein

• On failure Steve Jobs

• Resilience In Complex Adaptive Systems Richard Cook

• How to achieve cognitive dominance Mark McLaughlin

• Knowing when to quit Annie Duke

• F-35 Fighter Pilot makes decisions on pressure Hasard Lee

• Start with Discipline Carl Newport

• Stop being a complainer Will Bowen

• That cues that makes you charismatic Vanessa Von Edwards

• Stop Venting! It Does not Work. Gail Cornwall & Juli Fraga

• O mapa andrágico da aprendizagem Andragogia Online

• Os princípios da andragogia Andragogia Online

• O que é a andragogia? Andragogia Online

• Andragogia e algumas considerações Andragogia Online

• O professor universitario na perspectiva da andragogia Andragogia Online

• Deliberate Practice and Acquisition of Expert Performance - A General Overview Anders Ericsson

• Decision-Making Pitfalls for Technical Leaders Chelsea Troy

• Ikigai - The Japanese Secret to a Joyful Life Kizuna

• Mending Wall Robert Frost

• Overcoming our nihilistic, uncreative world Adam Singer

• Predicting with confidence - the best machine learning idea you never heard of Locklin on science

• The 4-Hour Life - The Consistency Space The Lindy Newsletter

• Life Happens in Bursts Paul Skallas

• You Don’t Have to Look Back Paul Skallas

• In Praise of the Human Shoulder Paul Skallas

• The World Before 8 a.m. Paul Skallas

• 1875-1930 The Last Beautiful Era Paul Skallas

• We’re All Gamers Now Paul Skallas

• Slow Deployment Causes Meetings kent Beck

• The Canva outage - another tale of saturation and resilience Lorin Hochstein

• Trade-Offs Under Pressure - Heuristics and Observations Of Teams Resolving Internet Service Outages John Allspaw

• Using ML to detect and respond to performance degradations in slices of Stripe payments Lakshmi Narayan

• Resilience - some key ingredients Lorin Hochstein

• How to do discipline Jacqueline Nesi

• Negative Habit Transfer Patrick Veillette

• Close Calls - Managing Risk and Resilience in Airline Flight Safety C. Macrae

• Age and cognitive skills - Use it or lose it Eric A. Hanushek

• You should value experiences over stuff Jacob

• Stoicism’s Appeal to the Rich and Powerful exurbe

• Practical UX for startups surviving without a designer Tibi Iorga

• The Staff+ Performance Cliff sylormiller

• Turning Non-Prod Incidents into Resilience-Building Opportunities Joe Mckevitt

• How I Read Rob Henderson

• In Most Difficult Things in Life, The Solution is Indirect naval

• Are we overproducing elites and instability? Matt Grossmann

• Learning Is Slower Than You Think — And That’s the Point Nisheeth Vishnoi

• Focus Is Saying No Yifeng Liu

• What are the seven team profiles of engineering delivery performance? Research-Driven Engineering Leadership

• Thin Desires Are Eating Your Life joanwestenberg

• Deliberate Internet Shutdowns schneier

• Why self-improvement starts with maintenance Tim Harford

• Spaced repetition for efficient learning gwern

Science & Engineering (non-software)

• I Landed A Rocket Like SpaceX - Scout F BPS Space

• Garduino Practical Engineering

• How SpaceX Reinvented The Rocket Engine Space Race

• The Insane Biology of The Spotted Hyena Real Science

• Rice Farming Gets an AI Upgrade Chiara Negrello

• NeoGeo Architecture Rodrigo Copetti

• Why Bridges Don’t Sink Practical Engineering

• Why I Lugged My 27-Pound Toddler to a Rocket Launch Tim Urban

• The UX Research Reckoning is Here Judd Antin

• PlayStation Vita Architecture Rodrigo Copetti

• An improved flood forecasting AI model, trained and evaluated globally Deborah Cohen

• Audi TT air vent design Vivek Shah

• Taking A $15 Casio F91W 5,000 Meters Underwater watchesofespionage

• The Birth of German(y) Tomas Pueyo

• Why Japan Succeeds Despite Stagnation Tomas Pueyo

• Did Renewables Contribute to Spain’s Blackout? engineeringethicsblog

• Bismarck - A Life Jonathan Steinberg

• Realpolitik - a history John Bew

Motorsport & Sports

• Daniel Ricciardo - Not done with F1 F1 Beyond the Grid

• Nicholas Latifi - limits, lessons + leaving F1 F1 Beyond the Grid

• Steve Nichols - Engineering domination for McLaren F1 Beyond the Grid

• Valtteri Bottas on Mercedes, Alfa Romeo goals, coffee, and cycling F1 Beyond the Grid

• Chase Carey on his role in shaping F1 future and guiding the sport through a global pandemic F1 Beyond the Grid

• Sebastian Vettel on leaving Ferrari, life outside F1 and changing goals F1 Beyond the Grid

• Ross Brawn on Michael Schumacher – the driver, the leader, the man F1 Beyond the Grid

• Nico Rosberg - I do not miss the driving, but I miss the winning… F1 Beyond the Grid

• Disassembling The Greatest F1 Car With The Men Who Made It JayEmm on Cars

• Formula 1 Car Development And Production Cars Garage

• Andy Cowell - The man leading Mercedes fominant F1 engine division Motor Sport Magazine Podcast

• How a Formula 1 Race Car Works Animagraff

• The loneliness of the low-ranking tennis player Conor Niland

• Otmar Szafnauer - The Truth Behind My Alpine Exit & The Piastri Signing High Performance Podcast

• Embracing the Bitter Lesson Daniel Jeffries

• Biomechanics of Competitive Swimming Strokes Tiago M. Barbosa, Daniel A. Marinho, Mário J. Costa and António J. Silva

• Basketball is a solved sport nabraj

Arts & Culture

• The future is analog David Sax

• A diferença entre o sistema musical do oriente e do ocidente Rafael Bittencourt

• 16 levels of piano composition Nahre Sol

• One Year Ago I Built an Ecosystem, This Happened Dr. Plants

• VIVALDI Juditha triumphans, RV 644 - Air Armatae face et anguibus by Jupiter Alpha Classics

• HANDEL Flavio, Re de Longobardi, HWV 16 - Aria ‘Rompo i lacci, e frango i dardi’ by Eva Zaïcik Alpha Classics

• The Design Behind GTA 3 Rockstar

• The Visual Effects Crisis Royal Ocean Film Society

• Why are the violins the biggest section in the orchestra? Laura Case

• The Architecture of London Pubs Stephen Gardiner

• Who Pays for the Arts? Kate Dwyer

• Paul Rudolph Was an Architectural Star. Now He’s a Cautionary Tale Michael Kimmelman

• Let The Clubs Close lefsetz

• the decline of the working music Hua Hsu

• Alchemy - The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don’t Make Sense Rory Sutherland

• The Status Game - How Social Position Governs Everything Will Storr

• The Art of Witty Banter Patrick King

• Collaboration Is the New Competition Priscilla McKinney

• The UX of LEGO Interface Panels interactionmagic

• In Praise of Print - Why Reading Remains Essential in an Era of Epistemological Collapse Ed Simon

• Casual Viewing Will Tavlin

• Nokia Design Archive Nokia

• The True Costs of Being on YouTube carla lalli music

• A The Sims Design Documents donhopkins

• Rembrandt to Picasso - Five ways to spot a fake masterpiece Kelly Grovier

• Why Is the World Losing Color? The Culturist

• Hiroshima - 1946 John Hersey

• Discovering Design Beyond Aesthetics flightaware

Reading & Writing

• Por que deixamos de escrever? E por que devemos voltar a escrever? Rodrigo Gurgel

• Stop Reading the News - A Manifesto for a Happier, Calmer and Wiser Life Rolf Dobelli & Caroline Waight

• You Might Be a Late Bloomer David Brooks

• The Joy of Reading Books You Don’t Entirely Understand Reactor Mag

• WTF happened to blogs? Michal Corner

• The Art of Doing Science and Engineering - Learning to learn Shen Huang

• You Are What You Read, Even If You Don’t Always Remember It Jim Nielsen

• Read More Books Packy McCormick

• For The Love of God, Make Your Own Website Gita Jackson

• The One Hundred Pages Strategy Matthew Walther

• The Essays of Michel de Montaigne Online Michel de Montaigne

• always bet on text graydon2

• The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint Ed tufte

• Advice for a friend who wants to start a blog Escaping Flatland

• Why Blog If Nobody Reads It? Andy’s Blog

• The Rising Tide of Educated Aliteracy Alex Good

• A Society That Lost Focus Ploum

• Writing is thinking Nat Rev Bioeng

• The Sound of Silence kieranhealy

• If you’re remote, ramble Steph Ango

• Why and how to write things on the Internet benkuhn

• The Software Essays that Shaped Me Refactoring English

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• In praise of maintenance in a world obsessed with innovation The Art of Manliness

• A guide to getting of grid Gary Collins

• Genio ou burro? Besta ou bestial? Os tecnicos brasileiros! Hoje Sim

• Off-Grid is a lie Bushradical

• NoEstimates Allen Holub

• Agile Estimation Mike Cohn

• O Ceticismo Empírico dos Gregos Oswaldo Porchat de Assis Pereira

• Empirismo e Ceticismo - David Hume Roberto Bolzani Filho

• Advice to Aimless, Excited Programmers James Hague

• Most Technologies Arent Races Astral Codex Ten

• Artificial Intelligence as exit strategy from the age of acute existential risk Arturo Macias

• AI Doomsaying Is Circumstantially Ridiculous The Sinistral

• Causal Inference Changelog

• Marriage, Relationships & Love James Sexton

• Death Star Architecture John Nicholas

• The Cult of Done Manifesto BRE

• The burning platform Stephen Elop

• Why Software Estimations Are Always Wrong Continuous Delivery

• Multi Armed Bandits - Reinforcement Learning Explained! Code Emporium

• How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers Engineer Codex

• How Pinterest scaled to 11 million users with only 6 engineers Engineer Codex

• System Design 101 ByteByteGo

• GPU Computing Code Confessions

• The dead sea effect Bruce Webster

• The tyranny of structurelessness Jo Freeman

• Useful tradeoffs are multi-dimensional Irrational Exuberance

• Layers of context Irrational Exuberance

• Writers who operate Irrational Exuberance

• Making engineering strategies more readable Irrational Exuberance

• Grammar, Punctuation, and Capitalization - a Handbook for Technical Writers and Editors NTRS - NASA Technical Reports Server

• The Boring Product Manifesto John Cutler

• Async Code Reviews Are Killing Your Companys Throughput d_stepanovic

• The problem with a root cause is that it explains too much Lorin Hochstein

• Skinning the F-35 fighter Jeff Sloan

• Do things that don’t scale Paul Graham

• I enforced the AGPL on my code, here’s how it went Raymii

• The Bumble Founder’s Prophecy for the Future of Dating and Romance Rob Henderson

• Perfectionism is optimizing at the wrong scale Curiositry

• Counts Outlier Detector - Interpretable Outlier Detection Brett Kennedy

• A Note on Essential Complexity Olano

• Conways Law Martin Fowler

• Kill it with fire Marianne Bellotti

• Complexity Fills the Space it’s Given Tomass Wilson

• Software Friction Hillel Wayne

• Friday Deploy - Freezes Are Exactly Like Murdering Puppies Charity Majors

• Feature Interaction Hillel Wayne

• Formal Specifications and Planning Increment

• ETA Estimated Time of Arrival Reliability at Lyft Lyft Engineering

• Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought Evelina Fedorenko

• Why AI Infrastructure Startups Are Insanely Hard to Build John Hwang

• Programmers, Identity Crises, and Moral Panic Chelsea Troy

• Physics and Perception Will Larson

• Gateless Sebastian Marshall and Kai Zau

• Awesome Foundation Model Leaderboards SAIL Research

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• Hitchhiker’s Guide to MLOps for Time Series Forecasting with Sklearn Marco Cerliani

• How Do We Make Remote Meetings Not Suck? Chelsea Troy

• 4d6 Psychic Damage Evan Smith

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• Conformal Prediction a Practical Guide Igor Radovanovic

• Navigating Through Time - The Evolution of UX in AI Systems Full Stack Machine Learning

• Degradation vs disruption alexewerlof

• Yes, we still have to work Noah Smith

• The Decline of Etiquette and the Rise of Boundaries Michael Waters

• The biggest-ever global outage - lessons for software engineers Gergely Orosz

• The expert mind Philip Ross

• Seven basic rules for causal inference Peder M. Isager

• Hidden Technical Debt in Machine Learning Systems D. Sculley

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• Technical Debt Quadrant Martin Fowler

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• Using IDPs to Leverage Strengths Don Jacobson

• Awesome ML Sys Cuda Mode

• Awesome Conformal Prediction Valeman

• A simpler way to understand legacy code Steve Yegge

• The 4 Hidden Costs of Code Maintenance Krugle

• Six Reasons Why Data Mesh Will Fail Hannes Rollin

• Three More Reasons Why Data Mesh Will Fail Hannes Rollin

• The Brutal Cost of Data Mesh Hannes Rollin

• Building LLMs from the Ground Up - A 3-hour Coding Workshop Sebastian Raschka

• Practices of Reliable Software Design Entropic Thoughts

• Berlin Mietkasernen Berlin Layers

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• The Pragmatic Programmer for Machine Learning Marco Scutari, Mauro Malvestio

• BASIC SKILLS VERSUS CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING H. Wu

• Positive and Negative Engineering Jeremiah Lowin

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• Meta’s approach to machine learning prediction robustness Facebook Engineering

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• Infrastructure Engineering Resources Infrastructure Engineering

• Tech Spec Review Infrastructure Engineering

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• Why you should not use Holt-Winters method Open Forecasting

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• A terrible way to jump into colocating your own stuff Rachel by the Bay

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• Beware Isolated Demands For Rigor Scott Alexander

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• Forecasting and Analytics with the Augmented Dynamic Adaptive Model (ADAM)Policies Ivan Svetunkov

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• A insustentável maleabilidade da pseudociência Carlos Orsi

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• Starship’s Fifth flight test SpaceX

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• A Distributed Systems Reading List dancres

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• The myth of the second chance (Discussion) HN

• Losing my son Lars Doucet

• Aging Code Vadim Kravcenko

• Managing difficult software engineers Vadim Kravcenko

• The collapse of complex software Nolan Lawson

• Transformers for software engineers Made of Bugs

• Against optimization Mandy Brown

• Move at the speed of trust Mandy Brown

• Radio noise Mandy Brown

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• Stop Blowhard Syndrome That’s What Xu Said

• Goodhart’s Law Isn’t as Useful as You Might Think Cedric Chin

• Becoming Data Driven, From First Principles Cedric Chin

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• Engineering Netflix Global Operations in the Cloud Josh Evans

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• Joint Doctrine for the conduct of operations NATO

• Why software only moves forward swizec

• Intuitive Guide to Convolution Better Explained

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• Psychological Safety vs. High Standards - A Misunderstood Dynamic Sheril Mathews

• Nike’s $25B blunder shows us the limits of “data-driven” Pavel Samsonov

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• How to Destroy a State The Present Past

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• uVitals – An Anomaly Detection & Alerting System Uber Engineering

• The Innovation Delusion - How Our Obsession with the New Has Disrupted the Work That Matters Most Lee Vinsel

• Hail the maintainers Sam Haselby

• The Innovation Delusion - How Our Obsession with the New Has Disrupted the Work That Matters Most Lee Vinsel & Andrew L. Russell

• Ease of maintenance is a feature Ronak Gothi

• Conformal Prediction Carl-McBride-Ellis

• K-anonymity, l-diversity and t-closeness Utrecht University

• When Machine Learning Tells the Wrong Story Jack Cook

• Codes of the Underworld - How Criminals Communicate Diego Gambetta

• Troubled - A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class Rob Henderson

• The Anxious Generation - How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness Jonathan Haidt

• The kids aren’t entitled, they’re suffering Adam Singer

• Die With Zero - Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life Bill Perkings

• Conscious Grieving - A Transformative Approach to Healing from Loss Claire Bidwell Smith

• The Unspoken Grief of Never Becoming a Grandparent Catherine Pearson

• OpenAI Email Archives (from Musk v. Altman) habryka

• The hostile telepaths problem Valentine

• TTR - the out-of-control metric Surfing Complexity

• Dan Morena is a genius Lawrence Krubner

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• The Compliance Doom Loop Pieter Garicano

• The Strange Kafka World of the EU AI Act Pieter Garicano

• The Problem With Passion - Not Everyone Who Works for You Loves their Job, and that’s OK Kim Scott

• Physics is like Brazil, Statistics is like Chile Stat Modeling

• Microbenchmarks are experiments mrale

• Apollo Operations Handbook NASA

• The Intuition behind Concordance Index — Survival Analysis Antonieta Mastrogiuseppe

• Complete MLOPS Cycle for a Computer Vision Project Yağmur Çiğdem Aktaş

• Engineering Principles – The 5 Step Process Christian Scheb

• The radiating programmer Jorge Manrubia

• The “R” in MTTR - Repair or Recover? What’s the difference? Will Searle

• A Short Introduction to Automotive Lidar Technology Vik’s

• Ezra Klein Speaks Frankly Ezra Klein

• What Is The API Economy? Art Anthony

• Intuitive introverts lead the most successful teams expertfile

• OpenAI o1 System Card OpenAI

• Local Optimizations Don’t Lead to Global Optimums Fred Hebert

• Being in the details James Steiner

• Top 10 Rules of Continuous Integration Kristina Nikolova

• Keep incidents boring sean goedecke

• Anomaly Detection in Time Series from Scratch Ivan Shubin

• 6 lessons I learned working at an art gallery Henrik Karlsson

• Why You Should Trust Trust and Distrust Distrust Rob Henderson

• Data Science Project Failing After 1,600 Days Martin Lellep

• The Rise of Worse is Better Richard P. Gabriel

• Worse Is Better Richard P. Gabriel

• Data-Informed, NOT Data-Driven Ant Murphy

• Context NOT Control Ant Murphy

• Prioritization & Urgency Ant Murphy

• How Data Drove Nike Into a Ditch Todd Herman

• Nike Data Driven Pavel Samsonov

• Our muscles will atrophy as we climb the Kardashev Scale Onur Solmaz blog

• Faster continuous integration builds at Canva Canva

• Database Concurrency Patterns For Developers Debugging the Universe

• Estimating Uncertainty Online Against an Adversary Volodymyr Kuleshov, Stefano Ermon

• A Tutorial on Conformal Prediction Glenn Shafer, Vladimir Vovk

• Modern Tourism is Getting Weird Paul Skallas

• Ideas from ‘A Philosophy of Software Design Eliran Turgeman

• Deep vs. Broad Context Traps John Cutler

• Cognitive load is what matters Artem Zakirullin

• Why I Hate Frameworks Artem Zakirullin

• MTTR - When sample means and power laws combine, trouble follows Lorin Hochstein

• Quick takes on the recent OpenAI public incident write-up Lorin Hochstein

• Model 777 lucaiaconistewart

• Accounting for Nonresponse in Election Polls - Total Margin of Error Jeff Dominitz and Chuck Manski

• How Barack Obama built an omnipotent thought-machine and how it was destroyed David Samuels

• Tying Engineering Metrics to Business Metrics Iccha Sethi

• That’s Not an Abstraction, That’s Just a Layer of Indirection Fernando Hurtado Cardenas

• Software Design is Knowledge Building olano.dev

• The Evolution of SRE at Google Tim Falzone, Ben Treynor Sloss

• Refining strategy with Wardley Mapping Irrational Exuberance

• How Do You Like What You’ve Built? Morris Brodersen

• The most important Docker Compose properties programonaut

• The Ultimate Docker Compose Cheat Sheet Lukas Aichbauer

• How to persist data with docker compose Alessio Michelini

• The True Self is the Person You Want Others to Believe You Are Rob Henderson

• Software Folklore beza1e1

• Why are tech people suddenly so into homeschooling? Good Tech Things

• Code reviews - A success story Blog System/5

• Fuck Nuance Kieran Healy

• Coping In Unimaginable Times The Gottman Institute

• Rich People Food, Daydreaming, Broken Windows Rob Henderson

• The Outrage About Chipotle and Panda Express Rob Henderson

• Bridging theory and practice in engineering strategy Irrational Exuberance

• Enhancing Neural Network Training at Yelp - Achieving 1,400x Speedup with WideAndDeep Yunhui Zhang

• Service Reliability Mathematics addyosmani

• How Meta discovers data flows via lineage at scale Facebook Engineering

• An Analysis of DeepSeek’s R1-Zero and R1 arcprize

• Why I still like Sublime Text in 2025 ohdoylerules

• 3 takeaways from red teaming 100 generative AI products Microsoft Security

• Lessons from red teaming 100 generative AI products Microsoft Security

• Avoiding Outrage Fatigue while Staying Informed Scientific American

• Statements about stateless Daniel Maher

• Cities Can Cost Effectively Start Their Own Utilities Now KEVIN BURKE

• Embrace the Grind Jacob Kaplan-Moss

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• You Should Use /tmp/ More atthis

• Exploring Differences and Commonalities between Feature Flags and Configuration Options Jens Meinicke, Chu-Pan Wong, Bogdan Vasilescu, Christian Kästner

• Marshmallow Test and Parenting desunit

• On Bloat Rob Pike

• Abstracts in the Hydrodynamics of Swimming coachsci

• You can’t call yourself a senior until you’ve worked on a legacy project Alen Kosanovic

• Textbook for System Design Interviews SystemDesign.org

• Awesome Cold Showers hwayne

• searchcode.com’s SQLite database is probably 6 terabytes bigger than yours boyter

• Fast patrickcollison

• NASA has a list of 10 rules for software development otago

• Teaching with Authenticity and Authority Knowing and Doing

• The Trouble with Samuel Moyn

• The two kinds of progressives Matthew Yglesias

• Democrats’ Long Goodbye to the Working Class Ruy Teixeira

• The Four Quadrants of Conformism Paul Graham

• Criticism Of Criticism Of Criticism Scott Alexander

• Here’s Why We Respond in Force to One Amtrak Crash While Ignoring Thousands of Daily Car Crashes Charles Marohn

• Why America Can’t Build Brian Balkus

• Why we can’t build Ezra Klein

• Willingness to look stupid danluu

• The Dynamics of Affection and Exchange in Modern Relationships Vincent Harinam

• 11 Life Lessons From History’s Most Underrated Genius Jimmy Soni

• Speed matters Scattered Thoughts

• The End of Ownership - Personal Property in the Digital Economy Aaron Perzanowski, Jason Schultz

• Tolerant Reader Martin Fowler

• In defense of simple architectures danluu

• In Praise of “Normal” Engineers Charity Majors

• Sometimes Money Can Destroy You Faster Than Poverty Rob Henderson

• What Makes Code Hard To Read - Visual Patterns of Complexity seeinglogic

• The Art of Being Busy Without Getting Anything Done matduggan

• MTTR Is (Still) Lying to You resilienceinsoftware

• You Can’t Treat Me This Way Rob Henderson

• Why I don’t discuss politics with friends shwin

• Why I no longer use the term “cargo-cult science” Andrew Gelman

• Model error Lorin Hochstein

• Models, models every where, so let’s have a think Lorin Hochstein

• Why Companies Don’t Fix Bugs Ibrahim Diallo

• How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70% tost

• Why Your ‘Harmonious’ Team Is Actually Failing terriblesoftware

• Tradeoff costs in communication Lorin Hochstein

• The high cost of low ambiguity Lorin Hochstein

• The communicative function of ambiguity in language Steven T. Piantadosi, Harry Tily, Edward Gibson

• How to win an argument with a toddler Seth Godin

• A post-mortem of a start-up Track

• Making Software Dan Hollick

• Computational Complexity of Air Travel Planning Carl de Marcken

• The skill of the future is not ‘AI’, but ‘Focus carette

• There Are Two Types of Dishwasher People Ellen Cushing

• I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice and received the GPLv3 license mendhak

• Linus Torvalds Expresses His Hatred For Case-Insensitive File-Systems Michael Larabel

• How should Stripe deprecate APIs? Irrational Exuberance

• The Configuration Complexity Clock mikehadlow

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• Why decline in generalists leads to disjointed games and harms tool quality Evgeny Obedkov

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• Status Cues, Escalating Signals, Luck Rob Henderson

• Why Bell Labs Worked areoform

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• If Everyone Has Trauma, Everyone Has Trauma Freddie deBoer

• Older Generations Continue to Surrender Moral Authority to the Most Naive, Narcissistic, Impulsive, and Dishonest Age Group Rob Henderson

• Time to stop paying for three-tier software support Anton Baturan

• On work processes and outcomes Lorin Hochstein

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• Toyota Design Toyota

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• Atlassian’s Cloud Engineering Overview Atlassian

• When a team is too big alexewerlof

• The valley of engineering despair seangoedecke

• Using JWTs in Python Flask REST Framework appsignal

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• Compiling a Neural Net to C for a 1,744× speedup slightknack

• How science inspires our ETA models Mohamad Elmasri

• Complexity is Bad—as a Concept Tikhon Jelvis

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• The Who Cares Era Dan Sinker

• The MTTI Manifesto Old School Burke

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• Reinforcement learning, explained with a minimum of math and jargon understandingai

• The Email Startup Graveyard - Why 80%+ of Email Companies Fail forwardemail

• Autonomy Mandy Brown

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• Migrating the Jira Database Platform to AWS Aurora atlassian

• Most RESTful APIs aren’t really RESTful florian-kraemer

• being too ambitious is a clever form of self-sabotage Maalvika

• When Figma Starts Designing Us designsystems

• You should delete tests André.Arko.net

• Best practices aren’t always best for you Tom Elliott

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• gitdiagram gitdiagram

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• No One Expects Young Men To Do Anything and They Are Responding By Doing Nothing Rob Henderson

• Dynamic Inventory Optimization with Censored Demand Mert Ersoz

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