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