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Really enjoyed this article, I like your writing style. Re: your pro-specialist argument - "Specialists cost more because you either need to pay more to hire them, or you need to p…

i don't think employers are going to see this guy's personal blog post and try to change company policy based on it lol. calling it a 'disservice' is hyperbolic. however, i agree t…

it's funny because sometimes i daydream about just 'Leaving Society' and living on a farm, as i imagine many do who have no idea what that kind of life entails. my father grew up o…

RIP to TV networks and other media entities having free online computer games. Clone-a-doodle-doo and code of the samarai were my games. ESPN also used to have great flash games. t…

i really want all remote companies to consider offsites a necessity

Ideal, ideal, ideal, Knowledge, knowledge, knowledge, Boomboom, boomboom, boomboom,

the article is more nuanced than that. it's not saying liberalism is bad - it's saying it needs a refresh. specifically, a more progressive refresh.

I hate bloat and feature-soup as much as the next person. But market forces will always push companies to keep adding more and more to otherwise simple products.

Anything by Douglas Rushkoff. I particularly enjoyed Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires. Another good one is Irrational Man by William Barrett. The …

love john berryman, shout out john berryman

well to want to be 'liked' is to put yourself at the mercy of someone else's opinion of you. and to seem 'interesting' without saying much is to elicit intrigue - or mystery, so yo…

i just dont entirely agree that cleverness should be classed as 'bad'. cleverness is entertaining. it's ok for things to just be fun.

i think there's an unconscious impulse to try to seem either servile or mysterious in conversations where you want to be liked or seem interesting. so it makes sense that people as…

the most unintentionally meta essay ever written

Mine is either Jim Jarmusch: "Nothing is original." Or Einstein's "no worthy problem is solved on the plane of its original conception."

Tremendous | Full-time | Fully-remote |Senior Software Engineer | Job description here: https://www.tremendous.com/careers?gh_jid=4244578004 Tremendous is an org of 50+, fully-remo…

jacqueline du pre: daniel barenboim - elgar cello concerto. it's a half hour long and it'll get you in the zone.

it's based on the documentary 'the salesman', but you don't even need to see both. they did a perfect job of parodying.

US treasury department regulations prohibit US companies from working with people and companies in Russian-controlled parts of Ukraine. Unfortunately, IP geolocation is accurate on…