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Archinect

10 examples of glass in architecture that stood out this week In case you haven't checked out Archinect's Pinterest boards in a while, we have compiled ten...

18 hours ago

In case you haven't checked out Archinect's Pinterest boards in a while, we have compiled ten recently pinned images from outstanding projects on various Archinect Firm and People profiles. Today's top images (in no particular order) are from the board Glass. Tip: Use the handy...

Never Met a Science

For-Profit Academic Publishers Love LLM Garbage Against For-Profit "Open Access"

19 hours ago

Against For-Profit "Open Access"

Seth's Blog

Where do bad choices come from? We all make them from time to time. You might not know what you need to know. This is where...

21 hours ago

We all make them from time to time. You might not know what you need to know. This is where experience is created. You might have an identity that pushes you to make those choices. If you’re determined to act like the person you have assumed you are, the choices come with the...

Anecdotal Evidence

'Thank You. Thank Everything' I happened to be reading the poet-historian Robert Conquest when a friend called to tell me her...

an hour ago

I happened to be reading the poet-historian Robert Conquest when a friend called to tell me her troubles – health, romance, job, the usual life distresses. She’s not by nature a whiner so I listened, seldom interrupting. Her manner resembles my own – articulating a problem,...

Least I Could Do

Beginnings The post Beginnings appeared first on Least I Could Do.

2 hours ago

The post Beginnings appeared first on Least I Could Do.

I am BARRY HESS

Short, and late, rendition of Friday this week as I’m traveling... Short, and late, rendition of Friday this week as I’m traveling. We took a spring break to Phoenix...

3 hours ago

Short, and late, rendition of Friday this week as I’m traveling. We took a spring break to Phoenix and were able to fit in a Project Hail Mary IMAX screening. It was excellent! Two of us have read the book, and we enjoyed both versions of the story on their own terms. We got in...

Matt Mullenweg

Turn Every Page If you’re looking for a good watch this weekend, I couldn’t recommend more the documentary Turn...

5 hours ago

If you’re looking for a good watch this weekend, I couldn’t recommend more the documentary Turn Every Page – The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb. The craft of research, writing, and editing is presented in the most beautiful way possible. Around 400,000 words were...

diamond geezer

Moon News 5th April Surnames of people who've been to the Moon On it: Armstrong, Aldrin, Conrad, Bean, Shepard,...

6 hours ago

Surnames of people who've been to the Moon On it: Armstrong, Aldrin, Conrad, Bean, Shepard, Mitchell, Scott, Irwin, Young, Duke, Cernan, Schmitt Around it: Borman, Lovell, Anders, Stafford, Collins, Gordon, Swigert, Haise, Roosa, Worden, Mattingly, Evans; Wiseman, Glover, Koch,...

Rubenerd

Approaches for personal backups The cobbler’s son walks barefoot is such a perfect English idiom to describe how professionals apply...

8 hours ago

The cobbler’s son walks barefoot is such a perfect English idiom to describe how professionals apply themselves in their jobs, and how this differs from their personal lives. I invoke it regularly here for this raison, a typo I’m keeping because it makes me smile. Lest the title...

Explorations of an...

Colombia: Santa Marta Mountains And Caribbean Coast I have recently returned from an excellent tour of northern Colombia for Quest Nature Tours. This...

11 hours ago

I have recently returned from an excellent tour of northern Colombia for Quest Nature Tours. This was my fourth time guiding for Quest here, in the birdiest country in the world. Birdiest may be a bold claim, but eBird shows 1,956 species recorded for Colombia, while the...

The Diff

Longreads + Open Thread Happiness, Milgram, Delivery, China, Spreadsheets, Alpha, Trading, Hassabis

14 hours ago

Happiness, Milgram, Delivery, China, Spreadsheets, Alpha, Trading, Hassabis

anderegg.ca

The Atkinson Polaroids I’ve been reading (slowly) David Pogue’s Apple: The First 50 Years, and really enjoying it. I’ve...

15 hours ago

I’ve been reading (slowly) David Pogue’s Apple: The First 50 Years, and really enjoying it. I’ve previously read quite a few books about Apple’s history, but Pogue has put together something really special with this one. This morning I came across this sidebar about the...

Saturday Morning...

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Super Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: It's inoperable thanks to the yellow sun of...

15 hours ago

Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: It's inoperable thanks to the yellow sun of Earth! Today's News:

Johnathan Bi:...

Transcript for Interview on Project Stargate | Remote Viewing An Interview with Jeff Kripal on Stargate

15 hours ago

An Interview with Jeff Kripal on Stargate

Overcoming Bias

More Fatal Conceits In The Fatal Conceit (1988), F.A.

17 hours ago

In The Fatal Conceit (1988), F.A.

IEEE Spectrum

Look Back on Some of Apple’s Forgotten Legacies at 50 Years This month, Apple celebrates its 50th anniversary, having survived five decades of ups and downs....

17 hours ago

This month, Apple celebrates its 50th anniversary, having survived five decades of ups and downs. Whether you love or hate the company, its products have had a massive influence on the consumer technology market and the world. Among the obvious successes, such as the iPhone and...

TASTE

This Is TASTE 755: For the Semisecret Coffee Club in New York, Membership Has Its Perks. Hafiz Mangalji is the founder of ⁠Hyunah Coffee Club⁠, a reservations-only members’ space located in...

18 hours ago

Hafiz Mangalji is the founder of ⁠Hyunah Coffee Club⁠, a reservations-only members’ space located in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. The post This Is TASTE 755: For the Semisecret Coffee Club in New York, Membership Has Its Perks. appeared first on TASTE.

Construction Physics

Reading List 04/04/2026 Aluminum disruptions, the EV rust belt, the ongoing transformer shortage, SpaceX’s IPO, and more

18 hours ago

Aluminum disruptions, the EV rust belt, the ongoing transformer shortage, SpaceX’s IPO, and more

Old Structures...

A Surprising Source I don’t go into the Port Authority Bus Terminal expecting to agree with the management on much, but...

19 hours ago

I don’t go into the Port Authority Bus Terminal expecting to agree with the management on much, but on January 19, 2024, it was like they read my mind:

TheCollector

How Three Rights Organizations Cracked Jim Crow The Civil Rights Movement was built through the work of three different rights organizations—the...

21 hours ago

The Civil Rights Movement was built through the work of three different rights organizations—the NAACP, SCLC, and SNCC. Each played a unique role in the fight for equality. Legal challenges, nonviolent protest, and student-led activism were the tactics used. Together, they...

Londonist

A Double Decker In Stained Glass The church with the most Londony windows.

22 hours ago

The church with the most Londony windows.

The Ruffian

How Evil Is Mark Zuckerberg? A Review of "Careless People" by Sarah Wyn-Williams

22 hours ago

A Review of "Careless People" by Sarah Wyn-Williams

Pluralistic: Daily...

Pluralistic: EU ready to cave to Trump on tech (04 Apr 2026) Today's links EU ready to cave to Trump on tech: Surrendermonkeys ahoy. Hey look at this: Delights...

22 hours ago

Today's links EU ready to cave to Trump on tech: Surrendermonkeys ahoy. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: "Among a Thousand Fireflies"; "fiscal" not "physical"; Ontario's pusher premiere can't distribute vaccines; You need your head examined (if you...

Mert Bulan

My Favorite Books in the First Quarter of 2026 Sharing my favorite books from the first quarter of 2026 and how they impacted my perspective on...

23 hours ago

Sharing my favorite books from the first quarter of 2026 and how they impacted my perspective on various topics.

Sherman's Food...

Fairmount Bagel Continuing our frenetic quest to bring stuff home from our last day in Montreal, it brought us to...

23 hours ago

Continuing our frenetic quest to bring stuff home from our last day in Montreal, it brought us to Fairmount Bagel.  I've already had St. Viateur the last time I was in town, so I really wanted to see the other popular spot.  Naturally, there was a lineup to get in and of course,...

Flashbak

An Invitation to The Rats Wedding And Vietnam’s Ðông Hồ Folk Paintings Often used to illustrate Vietnamese New Year, Ðông Hồ paintings are bright, witty riffs on society...

4 days ago

Often used to illustrate Vietnamese New Year, Ðông Hồ paintings are bright, witty riffs on society and human desire. The traditional themes of Đông Hồ painting and woodblock prints are good luck signs, historical figures, folk allegories, popular stories, and social commentaries....

Yale E360

More Than 110 New Species Discovered In Deep Waters Off Australia Scientists have identified more than 110 new species found in deep water beyond the edges of...

4 days ago

Scientists have identified more than 110 new species found in deep water beyond the edges of Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Read more on E360 →

Classical Wisdom

How Do YOU Walk? The Surprising Importance of Your Stride

5 days ago

The Surprising Importance of Your Stride

The Quanta Podcast

Why Do Humanoid Robots Still Struggle With the Small Stuff? Humanoid robots can run, crawl, and sort objects in flashy demos. So why can’t they reliably climb...

5 days ago

Humanoid robots can run, crawl, and sort objects in flashy demos. So why can’t they reliably climb stairs or open doors? On this episode of The Quanta Podcast, host Samir Patel speaks with contributing writer John Pavlus on why robots still struggle with the messy physics of the...

Rare Historical...

Rare Photos Reveal the Underground Punk Scene in 1980s Communist East Germany Beneath the gray concrete and rigid control of the German Democratic Republic in the 1980s, a quiet...

a week ago

Beneath the gray concrete and rigid control of the German Democratic Republic in the 1980s, a quiet rebellion pulsed through cellars, abandoned factories, and dimly lit basements. The underground punk scene in East Germany was more than a musical movement; it was an expression of...

The Works in...

Did status signaling ruin architecture? Episode 15 of the Works in Progress is about ornament, taste, and modernism.

a week ago

Episode 15 of the Works in Progress is about ornament, taste, and modernism.

Works in Progress...

A brief history of instant coffee Instant coffee seems unremarkable. It’s just powder and hot water. But making it work took decades.

a week ago

Instant coffee seems unremarkable. It’s just powder and hot water. But making it work took decades.

Trying to Understand...

Plans, Platforms And Projectiles. The longer-term meaning of the Iran war.

a week ago

The longer-term meaning of the Iran war.

A Collection of...

Miscellanea: The War in Iran This post is a set of my observations on the current war in Iran and my thoughts on the broader...

a week ago

This post is a set of my observations on the current war in Iran and my thoughts on the broader strategic implications. I am not, of course, an expert on the region nor do I have access to any special information, so I am going to treat that all with a high degree of uncertainty....

The Deleted Scenes

Nostalgia and NIMBYism Meeting our need for meaningful, enduring places

a week ago

Meeting our need for meaningful, enduring places

Paul Cudenec

A shadowy shaper of global tyranny [I read the article here]

a week ago

[I read the article here]

Stat Significant

The Billion-Dollar Business of ABBA How ABBA turned joy, nostalgia, and musical IP into a billion-dollar enterprise.

2 weeks ago

How ABBA turned joy, nostalgia, and musical IP into a billion-dollar enterprise.

Stratechery by Ben...

An Interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang About Accelerated Computing An interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about his GTC 2026 keynote, navigating China and DC, and...

2 weeks ago

An interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about his GTC 2026 keynote, navigating China and DC, and remembering Nvidia's true nature.

Build In Public...

Your AI forgets everything when the session ends. XHawk is fixing that. Puneet Singh spent years watching engineering knowledge evaporate between coding sessions. He built...

2 weeks ago

Puneet Singh spent years watching engineering knowledge evaporate between coding sessions. He built a system to stop it.

Obsolete Sony’s...

Last chance to get Sony: Year by Year before the reprint closes The final window to order a copy.

2 weeks ago

The final window to order a copy.

Winnie Lim

wet blanket A long while ago I told a friend I didn’t feel like I was up to catching up because I have become a...

2 weeks ago

A long while ago I told a friend I didn’t feel like I was up to catching up because I have become a very cynical and “negative” person since the pandemic started...

iDiallo.com

You Digg? For me, being part of an online community started with Digg. Digg was the precursor to Reddit and...

3 weeks ago

For me, being part of an online community started with Digg. Digg was the precursor to Reddit and the place to be on the internet. I never got a MySpace account, I was late to the Facebook game, but I was on Digg. When Digg redesigned their website (V4), it felt like a slap in...

Tech and Tea

A Day in the Life of a Solo-ish Builder What my days actually look like right now, AI workflows, and some random tangents.

3 weeks ago

What my days actually look like right now, AI workflows, and some random tangents.

Marcus on AI

Is the US military actually afraid of Claude? A new theory of why Anthropic was labeled a supply... Unpacking a perplexing argument from the Pentagon

3 weeks ago

Unpacking a perplexing argument from the Pentagon

Birchtree

I waited on this rumor so long we already know it's wrong Joe Rossignol: Apple's Upcoming Studio Display 2 Rumored to Have an Unusual Feature The tipster...

3 weeks ago

Joe Rossignol: Apple's Upcoming Studio Display 2 Rumored to Have an Unusual Feature The tipster believes that a 90Hz refresh rate would make sense due to bandwidth considerations. Thunderbolt 5 can support 5K resolution at 120Hz without any compression, but they think Apple...

oftwominds-Charles...

Paging Nostradamus: You Have a Margin Call If conditions change beneath the surface, the folks behind the curtain will be powerless to do...

3 weeks ago

If conditions change beneath the surface, the folks behind the curtain will be powerless to do anything but make it worse. This just in: predicting is hard, especially about the future. One solution is ambiguity: couch predictions in poetic allusions that are open to...

Don't Worry About...

Claude Code, Claude Cowork and Codex #5 It feels good to get back to some of the fun stuff.

3 weeks ago

It feels good to get back to some of the fun stuff.

NeuroLogica Blog

Scientists Grow Chickpeas In Lunar(ish) Soil If we are going to have an enduring presence on either the Moon or Mars, or anyplace off of Earth,...

4 weeks ago

If we are going to have an enduring presence on either the Moon or Mars, or anyplace off of Earth, we will need to grow food there. It is simply too expensive, inconvenient, and fragile to be dependent on food entirely from Earth. In fact, any off-Earth habitat will need to be...

Contraption Co.

Sync, phone numbers, and webhooks A couple of weeks have passed since I last posted. If this were an email, it would start with "Sorry...

5th Mar 2026

A couple of weeks have passed since I last posted. If this were an email, it would start with "Sorry for the slow response." Sync A project I built just shipped at Chroma. I added Amazon S3 sync support to Chroma Cloud. This service lets people easily add

Uncharted...

Iran: The Day After What's going to happen in the coming days and weeks?

3rd Mar 2026

What's going to happen in the coming days and weeks?

Obsolete Sony’s...

Why PlayStation 6 Still Has No Release Window How the PS3 Era Rewrote Sony’s Rules

3rd Mar 2026

How the PS3 Era Rewrote Sony’s Rules

Rare Historical...

The Golden Age of Streamliners: Vintage Photos Show the Unmatched Glamour of Rail Travel From the wreckage of the 1929 stock market crash, a new American obsession was born. As the economy...

2nd Mar 2026

From the wreckage of the 1929 stock market crash, a new American obsession was born. As the economy crumbled, the companies that survived found themselves locked in fierce competition, and many turned to the power of design to stay relevant. Everyday objects like toasters,...

Artificial Ignorance

BYOB: Build Your Own Benchmark AI benchmarks are saturating, getting harder to verify, and increasingly irrelevant to how most...

1st Mar 2026

AI benchmarks are saturating, getting harder to verify, and increasingly irrelevant to how most people use models. The replacements are weirder - and more useful.

Jeff Geerling

Expert Beginners and Lone Wolves will dominate this early LLM era After migrating this blog from a static site generator into Drupal in 2009, I noted: As a sad...

1st Mar 2026

After migrating this blog from a static site generator into Drupal in 2009, I noted: As a sad side-effect, all the blog comments are gone. Forever. Wiped out. But have no fear, we can start new discussions on many new posts! I archived all the comments from the old 'Thingamablog'...

oftwominds-Charles...

The War That I don't have an analysis or insight to offer doesn't mean I don't care. It simply means there...

1st Mar 2026

That I don't have an analysis or insight to offer doesn't mean I don't care. It simply means there are limits on what we know, and what we do know suggests circumspection. War seems to demand some response--opinion, analysis, insight--lest it seem that we're uncaring or...

Can We Still Govern?

The reasons Trump gives for attacking Iran It does not add up to much

1st Mar 2026

It does not add up to much

./techtipsy

The cloud just stopped scaling It has happened. The cloud just stopped scaling. Hetzner’s cloud, for now. At this rate, my home...

1st Mar 2026

It has happened. The cloud just stopped scaling. Hetzner’s cloud, for now. At this rate, my home server will actually have to become production at work, and my gaming PC has to be converted to a server because it has a whopping 32 GB of RAM and 6 good CPU cores. With Forza...

Looking Through the...

The Fashion Counter-Revolution The French Revolution in clothes, from the guillotine to Napoleon

1st Mar 2026

The French Revolution in clothes, from the guillotine to Napoleon

Obsolete Sony’s...

How Sony Lost Control of Digital Music Control, DRM, and the moment distribution stopped being governable

1st Mar 2026

Control, DRM, and the moment distribution stopped being governable

iDiallo.com

“How old are you?” Asked the OS A new law passed in California to require every operating system to collect the user's age at...

1st Mar 2026

A new law passed in California to require every operating system to collect the user's age at account creation time. The law is AB-1043. And it was passed in October of 2025. How does it work? Does it apply to offline systems? When I set up my Raspberry Pi at home, is this...

The Honest Broker

My 24 Rules for Reading These have been invaluable for me. Maybe they will help you too.

28th Feb 2026

These have been invaluable for me. Maybe they will help you too.

Global Inequality...

To work or not to work Can nations not work hard and continue to prosper?

28th Feb 2026

Can nations not work hard and continue to prosper?

Herbert Lui

Social media just doesn’t hit like a website does Seven years ago, the Pigeons & Planes team shut down its music publication website, thinking it...

28th Feb 2026

Seven years ago, the Pigeons & Planes team shut down its music publication website, thinking it might be better to connect with people on social media platforms. Last month, it started up its website again. Here’s how founder Jacob Moore explains it: All that said, we’re not sure...

Ed Zitron's Where's...

Premium: The Hater's Guide to Private Equity We have a global intelligence crisis, in that a lot of people are being really fucking stupid. As I...

27th Feb 2026

We have a global intelligence crisis, in that a lot of people are being really fucking stupid. As I discussed in this week’s free piece, alleged financial analyst Citrini Research put out a truly awful screed called the “2028 Global Intelligence Crisis” — a slop-filled...

The Works in...

Should everyone be taking statins? Heart disease is the leading cause of death worldwide, but it’s also one of medicine’s biggest...

27th Feb 2026

Heart disease is the leading cause of death worldwide, but it’s also one of medicine’s biggest success stories.

Jeff Geerling

Upgrading my Open Source Pi Surveillance Server with Frigate In 2024 I built a Pi Frigate NVR with Axzez's Interceptor 1U Case, and installed it in my 19" rack....

27th Feb 2026

In 2024 I built a Pi Frigate NVR with Axzez's Interceptor 1U Case, and installed it in my 19" rack. Using a Coral TPU for object detection, it's been dutifully surveilling my property—on my terms (100% local, no cloud integration or account required). I've wanted to downsize...

Explosm.net

Comic for 2026.02.27 - Dinner Party New Cyanide and Happiness Comic

27th Feb 2026

New Cyanide and Happiness Comic

Jeff Geerling

How to Securely Erase an old Hard Drive on macOS Tahoe Apparently Apple thinks nobody with a modern Mac uses spinning rust (hard drives with platters)...

26th Feb 2026

Apparently Apple thinks nobody with a modern Mac uses spinning rust (hard drives with platters) anymore. I plugged in a hard drive from an old iMac into my Mac Studio using my Sabrent USB to SATA Hard Drive enclosure, and opened up Disk Utility, clicked on the top-level disk in...

Charles Petzold

The Appalling Stupidity of Spotify’s AI DJ Am I naïve in expecting Artificial Intelligence to be smart? Is my interpretation of the word...

26th Feb 2026

Am I naïve in expecting Artificial Intelligence to be smart? Is my interpretation of the word “intelligence” too literal? And when an AI behaves stupidly, who’s to blame? The programmers or the AI entity itself? Is it even proper to make a distinction between the two? Or does the...

the singularity is...

The Insane Stupidity of UBI Thinking that UBI will solve anything comes from a misunderstanding about money. Money is a map, not...

26th Feb 2026

Thinking that UBI will solve anything comes from a misunderstanding about money. Money is a map, not a territory. All UBI experiments have been small scale, and of course UBI works at a small scale. No shit you can give a few people money and it’s all good and they are happy....

Noahpinion

Why does America feel worse than other countries? Crime. In most ways, the U.S. is a typical rich country. Except for crime.

26th Feb 2026

In most ways, the U.S. is a typical rich country. Except for crime.

Uncharted...

Saudi Arabia’s Ordeal Between the Sandworm and the Quicksand

25th Feb 2026

Between the Sandworm and the Quicksand

High Signal

Building a local media empire 💰 Thanks for signing up to the High Signal newsletter. I went to a painting class last night. It was a...

25th Feb 2026

Thanks for signing up to the High Signal newsletter. I went to a painting class last night. It was a really great way to switch off

Obsolete Sony’s...

Spider-Man at Sony: The $7 Million Rights Deal That Became Corporate Infrastructure How one licensed character stabilized Sony Pictures, powered DVD and Blu-ray, and anchored...

25th Feb 2026

How one licensed character stabilized Sony Pictures, powered DVD and Blu-ray, and anchored PlayStation

Ctrl+Alt+Del Comic

UI Updated, Feedback Welcome The updated site user interface is now live, with a number of quality of life changes. The archives...

25th Feb 2026

The updated site user interface is now live, with a number of quality of life changes. The archives interface is paginated for all comics by default, though you can still sort by month and by series if you want. When navigating, it should now be very clear which archive a comic...

TokyoDev

Thirteen Years in Japan: Richard Ramsden On Finding Your Company ”The original question you had asked,” said Richard Ramsden, CTO at Degica, “was, ‘How do people...

24th Feb 2026

”The original question you had asked,” said Richard Ramsden, CTO at Degica, “was, ‘How do people make a life for themselves here, and start their career right, and not have a bad experience when they come to Japan?’ It doesn’t work out for everyone.” There are some people that...

iDiallo.com

Nvidia was only invited to invest Nvidia was only invited to invest. That is one reversal of commitment. Remember that graph that has...

21st Feb 2026

Nvidia was only invited to invest. That is one reversal of commitment. Remember that graph that has been circling around for some time now? The one that shows the circular investment from AI companies: Basically Nvidia will invest $100 billion in OpenAI. OpenAI will...

Birchtree

Hosting my own analytics I've used Plausible for my analytics since 2021, and I've been quite happy with it. It just works,...

21st Feb 2026

I've used Plausible for my analytics since 2021, and I've been quite happy with it. It just works, it's pretty good from a privacy angle, and it gives me a nice UI for showing essential metrics without being overwhelming. I'm currently paying

The Deleted Scenes

Neighborhoods Should Grow Like The Beatles Thoughts on continuity through change

21st Feb 2026

Thoughts on continuity through change

Rare Historical...

Vintage Photos of a Young Ronnie Coleman in His Physical Prime, 1990-2000 Ronnie Coleman did not arrive at the top overnight, and before he became “The King,” before the...

21st Feb 2026

Ronnie Coleman did not arrive at the top overnight, and before he became “The King,” before the eight consecutive Mr. Olympia titles, before the record-tying reign alongside Lee Haney, before the legendary training videos and the catchphrases that echoed through gyms around the...

The Honest Broker

30 Facts about Childhood Today that Will Terrify You Why are we doing this to our kids?

19th Feb 2026

Why are we doing this to our kids?

Some Bits: Nelson's...

IRCv3 Old Internet chat system is getting a new version, the plans look serious

19th Feb 2026

Old Internet chat system is getting a new version, the plans look serious

Stratechery by Ben...

An Interview with Matthew Ball About Gaming and the Fight for Attention An interview with Matthew Ball about the state of the video gaming industry in 2026, and why...

19th Feb 2026

An interview with Matthew Ball about the state of the video gaming industry in 2026, and why everything is a fight for attention.

The Works in...

Americans are ten times more likely to be fired than Germans Restrictive labor laws are making Europe's superstars fall far behind.

18th Feb 2026

Restrictive labor laws are making Europe's superstars fall far behind.

Steve Blank

You Only Think They Work For You When I was a new VP of Marketing I got a painful lesson of who my PR (Public Relations) agency...

18th Feb 2026

When I was a new VP of Marketing I got a painful lesson of who my PR (Public Relations) agency actually worked for. Later I realized that it was true for all of my external vendors. And much later I realized what I really should have been asking them to do. The lessons still...

Cremieux Recueil

Why Do Olympic Hosts Win More Medals? The answer is much simpler than you might think

18th Feb 2026

The answer is much simpler than you might think

TokyoDev

Permanent Residency vs Naturalization in Japan: What Does the Data Tell Us? If you pay attention to news site headlines and videos from various influencers, then you’ve...

16th Feb 2026

If you pay attention to news site headlines and videos from various influencers, then you’ve probably heard some of these claims involving international residents in Japan: Nobody stays more than a few years Permanent residency is impossible to get Citizenship is easy to...

./techtipsy

BTRFS disk errors to fall asleep to This is inspired by a dying Seagate Portable 4TB hard drive, and brought to you by 15 minutes of...

15th Feb 2026

This is inspired by a dying Seagate Portable 4TB hard drive, and brought to you by 15 minutes of vibe engineering. Enjoy. Starting the RMA process on the Seagate website is one of the most difficult things I’ve done lately, and half the links there look like a legitimate phishing...

Arnaud Bertrand

China "never needed God", really? My last article on secularism in China stirred quite the debate, which genuinely surprised me given...

15th Feb 2026

My last article on secularism in China stirred quite the debate, which genuinely surprised me given that I was under the impression that the secular nature of China had been settled knowledge for centuries.

SatPost by Trung...

How does DocuSign have 7,000 employees? And other thoughts about B2B SaaS in the age of AI coding agents.

13th Feb 2026

And other thoughts about B2B SaaS in the age of AI coding agents.

Marcus on AI

Breaking: OpenAI is probably toast Will OpenAI someday be seen as the WeWork of AI, as I have suggested several times, as far as back...

13th Feb 2026

Will OpenAI someday be seen as the WeWork of AI, as I have suggested several times, as far as back as late 2023? I still think so, and I think that moment is drawing close. They have, by any reasonable standard, seen rough times of late. Google and Anthropic have each largely...

Long Now

Indy Johar: Civilizational Optioneering Indy Johar pointed to the first photographs of the whole Earth taken from space. “This was the...

12th Feb 2026

Indy Johar pointed to the first photographs of the whole Earth taken from space. “This was the moment the planet became self-aware." This planetary consciousness came with new responsibility, he argued. The task before us is not simply to survive, but to reimagine civilization...

Uncharted...

Why SpaceX Merged with xAI and Is Going to the Moon Datacenters in space, merger, IPO, pivot to the Moon... All are happening at the same time. Why?...

12th Feb 2026

Datacenters in space, merger, IPO, pivot to the Moon... All are happening at the same time. Why? They're connected in unexpected ways.

iDiallo.com

Markdown.exe I've been spending time looking through "skills" for LLMs, and I feel like I'm the only one...

12th Feb 2026

I've been spending time looking through "skills" for LLMs, and I feel like I'm the only one panicking. Nobody else seems to care. .doparatgteersdfsd {display:none} Agent skills are supposed to be a way to teach your LLM how to handle specific tasks. For example, if you have a...

Anil Dash

Coding agents as the new compilers In each successive generation of code creation thus far, we’ve abstracted away the prior generation...

12th Feb 2026

In each successive generation of code creation thus far, we’ve abstracted away the prior generation over time. Usually, only a small percentage of coders still work on the lower layers of the stack that used to be the space where everyone was working. I’ve been coding long enough...

Retail Design Blog

Dyad by Studio One Eighty Fragrance packaging often relies on minimalism to signal luxury. Dyad builds on that foundation,...

11th Feb 2026

Fragrance packaging often relies on minimalism to signal luxury. Dyad builds on that foundation, using color, proportion, and contrast to...

Paul Cudenec

Epstein, the Rothschilds and the global cabal [I read the article here]

11th Feb 2026

[I read the article here]

bookbear express

self-knowledge screaming, crying, throwing up for something no one can even see

11th Feb 2026

screaming, crying, throwing up for something no one can even see

Casey Handmer's blog

I guess we’re doing Moon factories now A quick note collating a list of blogs I’ve written on the topic. I’ll update it with good third...

10th Feb 2026

A quick note collating a list of blogs I’ve written on the topic. I’ll update it with good third party write ups as I become aware of them. Context: SpaceX announced a refocus on lunar development. My best explanation for this is that SpaceX wants to accelerate human occupation...

Arnaud Bertrand

The civilization that never needed God This is probably the single feature that makes China the most unique as a civilization in human...

9th Feb 2026

This is probably the single feature that makes China the most unique as a civilization in human history: it is pretty much the only one where religion never had a say in political affairs.

Probably...

Don’t Bet on the Super Bowl If you have studied probability, you might be familiar with fractional odds, which represent the...

8th Feb 2026

If you have studied probability, you might be familiar with fractional odds, which represent the ratio of the probability something happens to the probability it doesn’t. For example, if the Seahawks have a 75% chance of winning the Super Bowl, they have a 25% chance of losing,...

Don't Worry About...

Claude Code #4: From The Before Times Claude Opus 4.6 and agent swarms were announced yesterday.

6th Feb 2026

Claude Opus 4.6 and agent swarms were announced yesterday.

Not Boring by Packy...

Weekly Dose of Optimism #179 Opus 4.6, GPT-5.3-Codex, As Rocks May Think, Mouse Brain Computers, Waymo, Contrary Tech Trends + 4...

6th Feb 2026

Opus 4.6, GPT-5.3-Codex, As Rocks May Think, Mouse Brain Computers, Waymo, Contrary Tech Trends + 4 Extra Doses

Sam Solomon

Zen HN HHacker News is probably my favorite place on the internet. I’ve been part of the community for over...

6th Feb 2026

HHacker News is probably my favorite place on the internet. I’ve been part of the community for over a decade, and I’ve learned so much from the incredibly smart and thoughtful people there. I love the site. But it’s ugly. There’s a certain charm to that brutal simplicity, and I...

Caroline Crampton

How Much It Really Costs To Do Nice Things Thirteen things this Thursday that I have read, watched, listened to or otherwise found noteworthy.

5th Feb 2026

Thirteen things this Thursday that I have read, watched, listened to or otherwise found noteworthy.

Rare Historical...

When Homes Were Packed: Rare Photos of Extraordinarily Large Families In an era when a family of four is considered average, photographs of households with ten, twelve,...

4th Feb 2026

In an era when a family of four is considered average, photographs of households with ten, twelve, or even twenty children seem almost unfathomable. Yet for most of American history, sprawling families weren’t just common—they were the expected pattern of life. From the late...

oftwominds-Charles...

Owning Your Work in a World That Rents Your Life This is the quiet truth of institutional work: improvement doesn't buy freedom. It buys...

3rd Feb 2026

This is the quiet truth of institutional work: improvement doesn't buy freedom. It buys responsibility without ownership. This guest essay by longtime correspondent 0bserver describes the core dynamics of work in America and the global economy: if we don't own our work, we...

Scarlet Ink

Interview Mistake: Trash Talking Co-Workers Complaining about co-workers is an immature and dangerous temptation.

3rd Feb 2026

Complaining about co-workers is an immature and dangerous temptation.

Retail Design Blog

Stream Eyewear Starfield Village Unjeong by RVMN If eyewear in the past was consumed primarily for vision correction, today it has come to be...

2nd Feb 2026

If eyewear in the past was consumed primarily for vision correction, today it has come to be recognized as a...

nanoscale views

What is the Aharonov-Bohm effect? After seeing this latest extremely good video from Veritasium, and looking back through my posts, I...

1st Feb 2026

After seeing this latest extremely good video from Veritasium, and looking back through my posts, I realized that while I've referenced it indirectly, I've never explicitly talked about the Aharonov-Bohm effect.  The video is excellent, and that wikipedia page is pretty good, but...

Winnie Lim

learning to take care of my self For as long as I can remember I had been very unhappy with myself. I think I have internalised the...

1st Feb 2026

For as long as I can remember I had been very unhappy with myself. I think I have internalised the judgement of people upon me: lazy, fickle, impulsive, over-sensitive, emotional, bad-tempered, etc....

Computer Ads from...

NCR Tower 1632 Tower 1632. You Can Really Grow Attached to It.

1st Feb 2026

Tower 1632. You Can Really Grow Attached to It.

Armin Ronacher's...

Pi: The Minimal Agent Within OpenClaw If you haven’t been living under a rock, you will have noticed this week that a project of my friend...

31st Jan 2026

If you haven’t been living under a rock, you will have noticed this week that a project of my friend Peter went viral on the internet. It went by many names. The most recent one is OpenClaw but in the news you might have encountered it as ClawdBot or MoltBot depending on when...

Don't Worry About...

On The Adolescence of Technology Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is back with another extended essay, The Adolescence of Technology.

30th Jan 2026

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is back with another extended essay, The Adolescence of Technology.

iDiallo.com

You Don't Understand Things Better, You Just Feel Smarter After watching a Veritasium video, I feel a surge of intellectual confidence. I feel smarter....

30th Jan 2026

After watching a Veritasium video, I feel a surge of intellectual confidence. I feel smarter. Whether it's a video on lasers or quantum physics, it seems like I have a better grasp on the subject. I finally get it. Derek and his crew just have a way of simplifying complex ideas,...

Arduino Blog

This Twister-inspired coffee table controls things resting on it Smart home and IoT devices are nice and all, but controlling them always feels a bit clunky. It...

29th Jan 2026

Smart home and IoT devices are nice and all, but controlling them always feels a bit clunky. It seems like it always comes down to trying a voice command and then, when that fails, opening an app on a smartphone and pushing a button. That’s why Unnecessary Inventions’ Matty...

The Pragmatic...

I replaced a $120/year micro-SaaS in 20 minutes with LLM-generated code I used to pay $120/year for a SaaS that hasn’t added new features in four years, and didn’t fix its...

29th Jan 2026

I used to pay $120/year for a SaaS that hasn’t added new features in four years, and didn’t fix its broken billing system for three years. Using an LLM, I managed to rewrite all the functionality I used to pay for in 20 minutes. Is this bad news for “write once, don’t update...

Arnaud Bertrand

The incredible story of Alex, forced to flee to China for documenting poverty in the U.S. The hottest term on Chinese social media right now is “kill-line”: if you go to Xiaohongshu,...

29th Jan 2026

The hottest term on Chinese social media right now is “kill-line”: if you go to Xiaohongshu, Bilibili or Douyin, everyone is speaking about it.

The Works in...

American water is too clean Clean drinking water is a modern miracle. But it has become expensive, and it doesn’t need to be.

28th Jan 2026

Clean drinking water is a modern miracle. But it has become expensive, and it doesn’t need to be.

The Honest Broker

10 Survival Skills in an AI-Controlled Society Why don't they teach these in college?

26th Jan 2026

Why don't they teach these in college?

Scarlet Ink

9 Hard Lessons You Learn as a Director at Amazon What unexpected things happen when your scope increases, almost everything is ambiguous, and results...

26th Jan 2026

What unexpected things happen when your scope increases, almost everything is ambiguous, and results (not effort) are all that matter.

UX Collective

What makes generated UI worth keeping? Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.

26th Jan 2026

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.

Explosm.net

Comic for 2026.01.26 - Post-It New Cyanide and Happiness Comic

26th Jan 2026

New Cyanide and Happiness Comic

Rare Historical...

Beautiful Studio Shots Capture Young Women’s Hairstyles and Fashion of the Early 1990s The early 1990s marked a shift in fashion that was a refreshing contrast to the extravagant styles...

26th Jan 2026

The early 1990s marked a shift in fashion that was a refreshing contrast to the extravagant styles of the previous decade. As the world adapted to a more subdued economic environment, the everyday fashion of young women became more relaxed, casual, and, most importantly,...

Global Inequality...

The great puzzle of the Great Terror As I mentioned on Twitter, I just finished reading the second volume of Aragon’s Histoire de l’URSS...

26th Jan 2026

As I mentioned on Twitter, I just finished reading the second volume of Aragon’s Histoire de l’URSS (published by Edition 10/18 in 1962).

Obsolete Sony’s...

PlayStation 2 Launch History Original Price, All 29 Launch Games, and the DVD Revolution

26th Jan 2026

Original Price, All 29 Launch Games, and the DVD Revolution

ntietz.com blog -...

Making niche solutions is the point I got a 3D printer recently, and got to work using it. When I shared one of the first things I made...

26th Jan 2026

I got a 3D printer recently, and got to work using it. When I shared one of the first things I made in a private Discord, someone commented that "This is the most niche thing I've ever seen someone design/print." That, my friend, is the point: that we can make exactly what we...

Some Bits: Nelson's...

Trump Nazi memes Parallels between Trump social media posts and Nazi propaganda. It's not accidental.

25th Jan 2026

Parallels between Trump social media posts and Nazi propaganda. It's not accidental.

Inverted Passion

Science of habit building This essay is part of the series in which I talk about my learnings and insights building a habit...

25th Jan 2026

This essay is part of the series in which I talk about my learnings and insights building a habit coaching app (Nintee) in 2024. It didn’t ultimately work out because an app has marginal influence in a human’s life (v/s that of friends, family, culture and immediate environment)....

Buttondown's blog

Better tag self-management Flip a toggle and subscribers can add or remove tags themselves in the portal.

25th Jan 2026

Flip a toggle and subscribers can add or remove tags themselves in the portal.

Uncharted...

AI in 2026 The AI bubble, who will win, the rate of AI progress, are we getting close to AGI, the impact on...

24th Jan 2026

The AI bubble, who will win, the rate of AI progress, are we getting close to AGI, the impact on jobs, and more.

High Signal

MRR and how long to get there Hi there Thanks for signing up for my founder newsletter. I fixed some issues with the newsletter...

23rd Jan 2026

Hi there Thanks for signing up for my founder newsletter. I fixed some issues with the newsletter design

CHM

Generative Music with the Muse Unpacking the mysteries of the rare Triadex Muse from the early 1970s, the first algorithm-based...

23rd Jan 2026

Unpacking the mysteries of the rare Triadex Muse from the early 1970s, the first algorithm-based sequencer/synthesizer intended for home consumers. The post Generative Music with the Muse appeared first on CHM.

AI for Software...

AI’s Economic Impact Is Real | AI for Software Engineers 78 This week: AI means more software engineers, young adults trust AI with financial decisions, tips on...

22nd Jan 2026

This week: AI means more software engineers, young adults trust AI with financial decisions, tips on agent safety, and more

Herbert Lui

Manage your energy, not just your time Focus your life on doing things that make you feel a personal lift.  I used to think that meant...

22nd Jan 2026

Focus your life on doing things that make you feel a personal lift.  I used to think that meant chasing excitement. The definition has expanded.  For example, I’ve realized I feel a personal lift when I do things I used to avoid—whether it’s an ordinary task that makes me...

NeuroLogica Blog

The AI 2027 Scenario A group of AI experts have released a paper that explores (or “predicts”) the possibility of a...

22nd Jan 2026

A group of AI experts have released a paper that explores (or “predicts”) the possibility of a near-term AI explosion that ultimately leads to the extinction of humanity. This has, of course, sparked a great deal of discussion, feedback, and criticism. Here is the scenario they...

Retail Design Blog

Mangrove Garden Offices by Bean Buro Bean Buro’s Mangrove Garden offices in Hong Kong reimagine workplace culture through a...

22nd Jan 2026

Bean Buro’s Mangrove Garden offices in Hong Kong reimagine workplace culture through a nature-inspired design, seamlessly blending vibrant aesthetics and...

Eukaryote Writes...

23 lessons you will learn living in a very snowy place 6. Snow is heavier than you think. You might think physical strength is useful for lots of things,...

22nd Jan 2026

6. Snow is heavier than you think. You might think physical strength is useful for lots of things, like overall health or familiar household tasks or picking up dudes (literally or metaphorically.) But actually, the main thing physical strength is useful for is letting you...

Ploum.net

Why there’s no European Google? Why there’s no European Google? And why it is a good thing! With some adjustments, this post is...

22nd Jan 2026

Why there’s no European Google? And why it is a good thing! With some adjustments, this post is mostly a translation of a post I published in French three years ago. In light of the European Commission’s "call for evidence on Open Source," and as a professor of "Open Source...

CrimethInc.

From Rapid Response to Revolutionary Social Change : The Potential of the Rapid Response Networks In this account, participants in the rapid response networks in the Twin Cities describe their...

21st Jan 2026

In this account, participants in the rapid response networks in the Twin Cities describe their experiences, explore the threat represented by the development of Immigration and Customs Enforcement into a political police, and propose a strategy for how the rapid response networks...

Ctrl+Alt+Del Comic

Spaghetti The post Spaghetti appeared first on Ctrl+Alt+Del Comic.

19th Jan 2026

The post Spaghetti appeared first on Ctrl+Alt+Del Comic.

The Deleted Scenes

The Social Media Lab Leak The algorithm always wins

17th Jan 2026

The algorithm always wins

Not Boring by Packy...

Weekly Dose of Optimism #176 MedGemma & MRIs, Claude, Tesla Lithium, Conceivable, Moon Week + a16z pod

17th Jan 2026

MedGemma & MRIs, Claude, Tesla Lithium, Conceivable, Moon Week + a16z pod

Evan Hahn (dot com)

A mental math heuristic to convert between Fahrenheit and Celsius I sometimes have to convert between Fahrenheit and Celsius. The actual formula is hard to do in my...

17th Jan 2026

I sometimes have to convert between Fahrenheit and Celsius. The actual formula is hard to do in my head, but someone once told me a useful approximation: To convert from Celsius to Fahrenheit, double it and add 30. To convert from Fahrenheit to Celsius, subtract 30 and halve it...

Ed Zitron's Where's...

Premium: This Is Worse Than The Dot Com Bubble Soundtrack - Radiohead - Karma Police I just spent a week at the Consumer Electronics Show, and one...

16th Jan 2026

Soundtrack - Radiohead - Karma Police I just spent a week at the Consumer Electronics Show, and one word kept coming up: bullshit.  LG, a company known for making home appliances and televisions, demonstrated a robot (named “CLOiD” for some reason) that could “fold laundry”

Artificial Ignorance

The AI Manager's Schedule The new skills you need when your reports are LLMs.

16th Jan 2026

The new skills you need when your reports are LLMs.

iDiallo.com

We Were Never Good Programmers OK, that may be a little mean-spirited, but I don't just mean you. I mean a whole lot of us. A...

16th Jan 2026

OK, that may be a little mean-spirited, but I don't just mean you. I mean a whole lot of us. A couple weeks ago, a graph made the rounds showing the decline of Stack Overflow. At its peak, there were 207,000 questions asked in a single month. By December 2025, there were just...

Noahpinion

Trapped in the hell of social comparison A hypothesis about why Americans are unhappy with their economy.

16th Jan 2026

A hypothesis about why Americans are unhappy with their economy.

Some Bits: Nelson's...

CNAME vs A record Cloudflare outage report talks about a subtle wrinkle in DNS, where the order of the records matters...

15th Jan 2026

Cloudflare outage report talks about a subtle wrinkle in DNS, where the order of the records matters when it probably shouldn't

Works in Progress...

The United States needs fewer bus stops Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective. It can turn a service people tolerate into one...

14th Jan 2026

Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective. It can turn a service people tolerate into one they’re happy to use.

Jakob Nielsen on UX

18 Predictions for 2026 Accelerating AI capabilities will shift focus from raw intelligence to autonomous agents and...

13th Jan 2026

Accelerating AI capabilities will shift focus from raw intelligence to autonomous agents and Generative UI, making UX the primary business moat.

Marcus on AI

Let’s be honest, Generative AI isn’t going all that well A sampling of recent news

12th Jan 2026

A sampling of recent news

Can We Still Govern?

How Much Power Does the President Actually Have Over the Civil Service? More than you think, which is why other branches need to step up

12th Jan 2026

More than you think, which is why other branches need to step up

The Deleted Scenes

Maps Of Time And thoughts on unlikely historical sources

10th Jan 2026

And thoughts on unlikely historical sources

Ian Betteridge

Ten Blue Links – "Platforms, promises and bad habits" edition Hello! And welcome back. I have had an extended break over Christmas and the New Year. The one...

10th Jan 2026

Hello! And welcome back. I have had an extended break over Christmas and the New Year. The one benefit of being useless at taking my holiday allowance is that I usually end up taking December off, and so it proved again this year. This one is a bit of an

watchTowr Labs

Do Smart People Ever Say They’re Smart? (SmarterTools SmarterMail Pre-Auth RCE CVE-2025-52691) Welcome to 2026! While we are all waiting for the scheduled SSLVPN ITW exploitation programming that...

8th Jan 2026

Welcome to 2026! While we are all waiting for the scheduled SSLVPN ITW exploitation programming that occurs every January, we’re back from Christmas and idle hands, idle minds, yada yada. In December, we were alerted to a vulnerability in SmarterTools’ SmarterMail solution,...

Hyphen Nation

What Game Are You Playing? Remind yourself that you always have agency and can stop playing the game any time if you want to.

7th Jan 2026

Remind yourself that you always have agency and can stop playing the game any time if you want to.

AI for Software...

AI's Role in Maduro's Capture | AI for Software Engineers 76 Plus: Half of AI code has security flaws, how to fix AI in education, Nvidia acquihires Groq, AI...

7th Jan 2026

Plus: Half of AI code has security flaws, how to fix AI in education, Nvidia acquihires Groq, AI safety concerns grow, and more

The American Scholar

“i thank You God for most this amazing day” by E. E. Cummings Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “i thank You God for most this amazing day” by E. E. Cummings...

6th Jan 2026

Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “i thank You God for most this amazing day” by E. E. Cummings appeared first on The American Scholar.

Noahpinion

Where does a liberal go from here? Our movement overreached and crashed. But the fundamental ideals are still just as powerful.

4th Jan 2026

Our movement overreached and crashed. But the fundamental ideals are still just as powerful.

The Map is Mostly...

Ink in the Stomach Something I believe very strongly, mostly from observing changes in myself, is that, once you’ve...

3rd Jan 2026

Something I believe very strongly, mostly from observing changes in myself, is that, once you’ve shoved your own hands deep in the entrails of a building, you’ve permanently altered your entire relationship with the world.

Jeffrey Zeldman...

Cold Storage I furnished my last design studio with bespoke Danish shelving, three Eames desk units, nine glass...

2nd Jan 2026

I furnished my last design studio with bespoke Danish shelving, three Eames desk units, nine glass tables, 12 chairs, etc. When I closed the studio I moved the furnishings plus a few hundred design books—including books I’d written, foreign translations of my work, books by other...

Herbert Lui

A journal’s purpose Every journal exists for one purpose: for someone to fill it up.  You can fill up a journal in many...

2nd Jan 2026

Every journal exists for one purpose: for someone to fill it up.  You can fill up a journal in many ways. Here are some: writing, drawing, collage, painting, or coloring. Once the journal is full, it has achieved its purpose and it quietly transforms into a book.  You can choose...

The AI Underwriter

Who told you you couldn't do that? To those who said it couldn’t be done

1st Jan 2026

To those who said it couldn’t be done

Birchtree

471 movies in 4 years (and my fav 2025 films) I'm a big fan of movies, they're my favorite medium for storytelling, and it was sometime in 2019...

30th Dec 2025

I'm a big fan of movies, they're my favorite medium for storytelling, and it was sometime in 2019 that I said to myself, "man, you don't watch that many movies for someone who claims to love movies." Of course, I was watching

Ed Zitron's Where's...

The Enshittifinancial Crisis Soundtrack: Lynyrd Skynyrd — Free Bird This piece is over 19,000 words, and took me a great deal of...

29th Dec 2025

Soundtrack: Lynyrd Skynyrd — Free Bird This piece is over 19,000 words, and took me a great deal of writing and research. If you liked it, please subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly

Noahpinion

Ten things that are going right in America Is our society slowly putting itself back together?

28th Dec 2025

Is our society slowly putting itself back together?

Quantum Frontiers

Quantum computing in the second quantum century On December 10, I gave a keynote address at the Q2B 2025 Conference in Silicon Valley. This is a...

26th Dec 2025

On December 10, I gave a keynote address at the Q2B 2025 Conference in Silicon Valley. This is a transcript of my remarks. The slides I presented are here. The first century We are nearing the end of the International Year of … Continue reading →

Farnam Street

The Outlier Playbook: The Patterns Behind Enduring Success What do some of the greatest outliers in business history have in common? For the past year, I’ve...

25th Dec 2025

What do some of the greatest outliers in business history have in common? For the past year, I’ve been sharing the stories of history’s greatest outliers like James Dyson, Harvey Firestone, Rose Blumkin, Henry Singleton, Sol Price, and Les Schwab. These are names that deserve to...

The American Scholar

A Christmas Dinner The post A Christmas Dinner appeared first on The American Scholar.

25th Dec 2025

The post A Christmas Dinner appeared first on The American Scholar.

Herbert Lui

The point of writing every day isn’t to write every day Since 2007, every year, Tony Stubblebine publishes an article on things he feels grateful for....

24th Dec 2025

Since 2007, every year, Tony Stubblebine publishes an article on things he feels grateful for. Except, sometimes, he’s late.  A couple of days ago, he published the one for 2024—the year before this one. As I dove into his archives, I noticed he’d aggregated some years—one...

Explosm.net

Comic for 2025.12.24 - Billy The Artist New Cyanide and Happiness Comic

24th Dec 2025

New Cyanide and Happiness Comic

Odds and Ends of...

It's time to reboot Back to the Future What's a re-run? You'll find out.

23rd Dec 2025

What's a re-run? You'll find out.

Common Edge

The Overlooked Charms and Underappreciated Glories of “Flyover Country” Wonderful things can be found in the towns and cities between the coasts—but only if you’re willing...

23rd Dec 2025

Wonderful things can be found in the towns and cities between the coasts—but only if you’re willing to keep your eyes and mind open.

Computer Ads from...

Plus Post: Integrated Micro Applications LTD's Keystar Keystar puts editing on Wordstar into plain language.

22nd Dec 2025

Keystar puts editing on Wordstar into plain language.

Scarlet Ink

The Easiest Way to Get a Yes at Work Why most career asks fail (if you even ask) and how making your requests smaller, clearer, and...

22nd Dec 2025

Why most career asks fail (if you even ask) and how making your requests smaller, clearer, and time-bound dramatically increases your odds of getting a good response.