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aworkinglibrary.com

Toolmen

Even the best weapon is an unhappy tool, hateful to living things.

joanwestenberg.com

I deleted my second brain

Why I erased 10,000 notes, 7 years of ideas, and every thought I ever tried to save.

genius.cat-v.org

What problems to solve

No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.

productparty.us

Should we root for AI?

Why pressing the gas on AI adoption might be the most human thing we can do - or our biggest professional blind spot.

lesswrong.com

The stakes of AI moral status

Can AIs be moral patients? If so, what sorts of AIs?

ericwbailey.website

Quality is a trap

It is a proxy phrase, often born of an inability or unwillingness to articulate other concerns.

benholliday.com

Good design is imagination and inspiration

Why the world needs more imagination, inspiration and reinvention to make progress.

ingrids.space

What Google Translate can tell us about vibecoding

Turns out the number of jobs for translators and interpreters has actually been increasing.

benholliday.com

Design is care (and sensing carelessness)

Why design is care, and how the experiences we shape and deliver will be defined by how people sense that care in the future.

blog.singleton.io

Coding agents have crossed a chasm

Somewhere in the last few months, something fundamental shifted with autonomous AI coding agents.

invertedpassion.com

Life as a physical process

Everyone has their favorite definition of life. Here's a good one.

charity.wtf

How long it takes to know if a job is right for you

"I took a senior management role at this company six months ago. But it’s just not clicking."

chrbutler.com

The designer’s hierarchy of career needs

Success is subjective. It means many things to many different people.

hvpandya.com

Liquid glass

Thoughts on the UI paradigm shift Apple just introduced with Liquid Glass.

stackdiver.com

The grammar of independence

When machines can generate responses that increasingly resemble thought, thinking for oneself becomes about maintaining our cognitive sovereignty.

blog.glyph.im

I think I’m done thinking about genAI for now

In this particular instance, however, genAI has defeated me. I cannot make it make sense, but I need to stop thinking about it anyway.

thereader.mitpress.mit.edu

Supply chains are us

Every purchase we make ties us to a vast, hidden network of people, machines, and resources — whether we see it or not.

deplet.ing

The copilot delusion

We shared a keyboard, but not a brain. Lord, not even close.

linear.app

Why is quality so rare?

So many things feel unfinished, broken, or forgettable – why?

fly.io

My AI skeptic friends are all nuts

My smartest friends have bananas arguments about LLM coding.