Gödel, Escher, Bach, and AI, an analysis of AI as a tool for thinking and philosophizing, from the author of the 1979 book by a similar name. The author largely concludes that much of the world has fallen for an “illusion” posed by systems with dizzying tones of supreme self-confidence and infallibility.
Why I like Twitter Threads more than Epic Novels, how different forms of communication can tell stories in different ways. Books weave a narrative while technical writing often wants to repeat itself in clear, understandable ways.
Become a Regular Contributor, a guide towards becoming a regular contributor of open-source projects (or just being a good project contributor, in general!) Inspired by the work on the Rust game dev engine, Bevy.
Why Housing ‘Efficiency’ Isn’t Making Homes Affordable, how the housing market has become less about shelter and more about financial engineering. Mortgages have become a financial vehicle leveraged by institutional investors rather than a means of shelter tied to the real needs of individuals.
On Testing Hypotheses Instead of Setting Goals, a framework for experimentation rather than setting goals, especially as a means for avoiding toxic productivity. Inspired by the novel Tiny Experiments.
Don’t Trust the Trumpsplainers, a rejection of the “grand strategy” proposed by many of Trump’s supporters. While it can be tempting to accept some explanation of the madness, “the only beneficiaries of this bizarre series of MAGA outrages have been America’s geopolitical enemies.”
TypeScript Announces Go Rewrite, Achieves 10x Speedup, a noteworthy step forward for the TypeScript compiler. It seems the biggest winners of this announcement are the TypeScript maintainers, though most should see a speedup in transpile times. Adoption of tsc-go will likely be slow until .jsx / .tsx is supported.
