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Reading
Technical
AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard'
After my interview the only feedback I received was that I didn't have much exposure to enterprise software development, which was completely true. At the time I took this criticism to heart; only later did I realise it was a compliment.
Do things that don’t scale, and then don’t scale
I don’t want to use them. This one works exactly the way I want, for the small group I’m happy to support. That’s the whole point.
OpenFreeMap survived 100,000 requests per second
Making Postgres 42,000x slower because I am unemployed
AI slows down open source developers. Peter Naur can teach us why.
mental models cannot be fully conveyed through prompts, leading to lossy communication, unchallenged assumptions, and undetected misunderstandings.
Non technical
How to be the best trader in the world
Youtube
~10 minutes
Longer
How to Cook With Stainless Steel
Inside the Secret World of Fake Seafood
Framework Laptop 16 - Prototypes and scrapped ideas
Why Tokyo Is the Opposite of Every Major City
Podcast
Human bodies have cooled by ~1°C over ~100 years (lower chronic infections/inflammation), narrowing our thermal defense against fungi.
We overestimate others’ attention (spotlight effect) but underestimate the impact of kindness/compliments.
Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Manifesto for a Gift Economy
Moss (tetraphis) makes decisions about reproduction: chooses sexual reproduction when crowded (to escape via spores), asexual when space available (to colonize territory) Trees communicate through underground networks (referenced from Suzanne Simard's work)