| The Tyranny of Structurelessness |
Jo Freeman |
Contrary to what we would like to believe, there is no such thing as a structureless group. Any group of people of whatever nature that comes together for any length of time for any purpose will inevitably structure itself in some fashion. |
| I Hate the News |
Aaron Swartz |
Reading the mainstream news doesn’t give us any benefits because we can’t act on it. We’re made to feel helpless. We’re better off reading a book. |
| A Group is Its Own Worst Enemy |
Clay Shirky |
Groups behave both as groups and as individuals, meaning that groups online are constantly in conflict with each other and themselves. |
| The Web is a Customer Service Medium |
Paul Ford |
“Why Wasn’t I Consulted” is an important question to ask when being online |
| I tweet honestly, I tweet passionately |
Alice E. Marwick, danah Boyd |
We have different contexts depending on which people we spend time with. The internet has erased that. |
| Reflections on the programming life |
Ellen Ullman |
What programming is like at the micro level |
| The Anaconda and the Chandelier |
Perry Link |
Why the threat of surveillance is scarier than actual surveillance |
| In Praise of the Flaneur |
Bijan Stephen |
Walking purposelessly around the internet is no longer an option |
| Woods+ |
Paul Ford |
It’s about Google+, but even more. |
| The Submarine |
Paul Graham |
How marketing and newspapers work |
| How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to my Epic Hacking |
Mat Honan |
On Apple IDs and digital identity |
| You Have Two Jobs |
Jacob Kaplan-Moss |
At work, you need to be good at your job and be easy to work with. |
| The Wolf |
Michael Lopp |
What makes up a 10x developer |
| Talking about Large Lanugage Models |
Murray Shanahan |
The more adept LLMs become at mimicking human language, the more vulnerable we become to anthropomorphism, to seeing the systems in which they are embedded as more human-like than they really are. |
| The Engineering-Manager Pendulum |
Charity Majors |
You can switch between both in your career and that's mostly ok. |
| How to Ask Good Questions |
Julia Evans |
You have to research a problem before you need to seek out help |
| The B-Lane Swimmer |
Holly Witteman |
People of different skill levels behave differently to one another. |