Essays, videos, and other things that I particularly enjoy.

• Notes on Camp
  RE "camp" aesthetics.
• Taste for Makers
  On good design, beauty, and the nature of taste.
• Notes on Icons and Design (Susan Kare)
  On the importance of constraint, iteration, and elegance in icon/type design for early Apple.
• The Book is Not a PDF
  Books are physical and multisensory objects. PDFs are not.
• Teenage Engineering
  Very cool audio hardware.
• FB Red Book
  Facebook's 2012 manifesto on its mission and culture.
• The Duolingo Handbook
  Culture, principles, and ideas that built Duolingo.
• The Eleven Laws of Showrunning
  Writing/producing a show is awfully similar to leading a team or business.
• You and Your Research
  How to find and do impactful, meaningful work.
• How did places like Bell Labs know how to ask the right questions?
  Strategies that fueled the impactful and sustainable research at Bell Labs.
• The Inner Ring
  On the pursuit of social circle membership.
• Change (Jim Keller)
  History, frontiers, and the future of computing.
• Money is the Map
  But a map is not a territory... instead, real growth is the way.
• The Machine Stops
  Too real.
• The Goddess of Everything Else
  Parable on the dynamic between cooperative goodness and suppressive evil.
• Structured Procrastination
  Tactically wield procrastination through self-deception.
• Lockhart's Lament
  Modern mathematics education is a mockery.

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