Articles
- ★ I should have loved biology
- ★ Superiority Complex
- ★ It Does Not Matter If You Are Good
- Canada is fake
- The transformational power of how you talk about your life
- How Two Words Can Change Your Life
- The Most Dangerous Way to Lose Yourself
- Elite Failure Has Brought Americans to the Edge of an Existential Crisis
- I used to be a human being
- You’re allowed to leave
- Six Years to Six Hundred Pounds
- Making maps with noise functions
- resignation and postmortem.
- Architecture, Performance, and Games
- The Laws of Online World Design
- ★ What You’ll Wish You’d Known
- Trouble at sea: what fossil fuels are doing to our oceans
- Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually
- ★ Why Racket? Why Lisp?
- ★ Why anything? Why this?
- When Evidence Says No, but Doctors Say Yes
- A Brief History of Existential Terror
- Dogs Are Doggos: An Internet Language Built Around Love For The Puppers
- Don’t Tell Your Friends They’re Lucky
- You Are Not Equal. I’m Sorry.
- ★ The Great Shame of Our Profession
- DOOMSDAY PREP FOR THE SUPER-RICH
- ★ George W. Bush is smarter than you
- ★ The Disadvantages of an Elite Education
- Why do we work so hard?
- 8,760 Hours: How to get the most out of next year
- ★ Don’t let your anger persist
- ★ The Simple Joys are the Most Meaningful
- Screw Finding Your Passion
- ★ How to Write Articles and Essays Quickly and Expertly
- ★ The stigma of doing things alone
- ★ ‘We’re the Only Plane in the Sky’
- How Ikea took over the world
- ★ The End of Small Talk
- How German nuclear scientists reacted to the news of Hiroshima
- ★ The Fermi Paradox
- Khantemplations: A Khanpilation of thoughts on life and work
- If English was written like Chinese
- The hedgehog and the fox
- ★ Say Thank You
- ★ What can a technologist do about climate change?
- Reflections on Trusting Trust
- Transit Ends
- Minimally Minimal
- ★ withdraw into yourself forever
- ★ it’s coming apart
- ★ falling apart
- ★ HOW TO LOSE WEIGHT IN 4 EASY STEPS
- ★ When I’m Gone
- 20-Year-Old Hunter S. Thompson’s Superb Advice on How to Find Your Purpose and Live a Meaningful Life
- Losing sight
- Tech nerds are smart. But they can’t seem to get their heads around politics.
- Eliminating branches in Rust for fun… but not much profit
- John Carmack discusses the art and science of software engineering
- What’s New in CPUs Since the 80s and How Does It Affect Programmers?
- ★ Can we ever really know another person?
- The Hardest Program I’ve Ever Written
- The One Method I’ve Used to Eliminate Bad Tech Hires
- Matlab’s internal memory representation
- Genetically modified plants and human health
- Talk at Yale: Part 2 of 3
- Talk at Yale: Part 1 of 3
- Six Years to Six Hundred Pounds
- An Homage To Strict Coding
- What I’d tell myself about startups if I could go back 5 years.
- The Really Big One
- Git Tutorial: A Comprehensive Guide
- ★ Fuck Yes Or No
- Interview Questions
- The Laws of Online World Design
- ★ resignation and postmortem.
- The elegant secret to self-discipline
- Why Procrastinators Procrastinate
- How to Beat Procrastination
- Working at Microsoft
- ★ How Adulthood Happens
- Change trays
- ★ 15 things I wish I’d learned earlier about software engineering
- Pixar’s 22 Rules of Storytelling
- For Linux, your core skill is navigating broken stuff, which is everything.
- Code Review Best Practices
- The Magic Thread
- Losing my religion for equality
- ★ Just Don’t Hire 0x Engineers
- Dumb and gets things done
- ★ How Music Hijacks Our Perception of Time
- ★ How Silence Works: Emailed Conversations With Four Trappist Monks
- Stuff I’ve Messed Up While Interviewing
- The Truth About Interviewing
- Why SSDs are obsolete
- 17 Essential Best Practices for Making Things Happen
- ★ Deep Habits: The Importance of Planning Every Minute of Your Work Day
- ★ How To Ruin Your Life (Without Even Noticing That You Are)
- Comparing Workflows
- You should write blogs
- ★ Be the We
- Ladder Of Abstraction
- ★ The Top of My Todo List
- How the tech elite teach Stanford students to build billion-dollar companies
- 18 Ways to Send the Right Message With Body Language
- What are common mistakes that applicants make when writing their resumes for tech companies?
- ★ An Oculus Rift In Every Home
- Free Design Resources
- Thirty Things I’ve Learned
- ★ You Are Not Late
- How Potato Chips Inspire Magical Software
- On-person self-protection in NYC for non-leos?
- Just starting out, what games should I make?
- ★ 50 Things
- Stop Telling Me What My 20s Should Look Like!
- 9 Things I Learned as a Software Engineer
- Everything Is Broken
- 7 Things You Need To Stop Doing To Be More Productive, Backed By Science
- Advice from 30 year old me to 20 year old me
- The Crossroads of Should and Must
- This is your brain on mobile
- Programming Sucks
- Your syntax highlighter is wrong
- What can businesses learn from the military?
- As We May Think
- [WP] Every ten years, you must go in front of a board of peers who will evaluate your life for you. If you do not impress your peers you will be executed.
- Madison Gets Her First Phone
- The Last Answer by Isaac Asimov
- Sir Anthony Hopkins Hears The Waltz He Wrote 50 Years Ago For The First Time.
- ★ Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued
- Lessons from a Silicon Valley job search
- WHY I STOPPED BEING A VOLUNTOURIST
- ★ 10 Tips For Being More Productive, From The CEO Of Red Hat
- From Google Ventures: 5 Rules For Writing Great Interface Copy
- The Blunt Realities Of Running Your Own Design Business
- How do you get into game development?
- You Don’t Want to Think Like a Programmer
- Stop Networking
- Career Hack: Re-Designing the CV to Get Your Dream Job
- Don’t Just Learn New Skills; Learn New Ways of Thinking
- How Olympians Stay Motivated
- Rap Genius Explains Why Worse is Better
- ★ Your Progress As A Programmer Is All Up To You
- ★ How I learned to stop giving advice
- Top Five (Wrong) Reasons You Don’t Have Testers
- Designing for People Who Have Better Things To Do With Their Lives, Part Three
- The Two Cultures of Computing
- Why was this secret?
- The Night Watch
- No Girls Allowed
- Never Heard of It
- ★ Recruiting Advice No One Tells You
- ★ [CMV] I see belief in God as a major intellectual weakness. CMV response by 161719.
- ★ How Designers Destroyed the World
- Life is all about killing the magic
- Advice to a Young Programmer
- The power of “Thank You”
- The 5 Character Traits of Great Salespeople
- How to build great products
- Culture is not about aesthetics. Punk rock is now enforced by law.
- If you’ve relocated to a high tech area: Was it worth it?
- Open Letter to My Students: No, You Cannot be a Professor
- The Habits Of Supremely Happy People
- The Best Programmer in the World is the One Having the Most Fun
- A Beginner’s Guide to Perceived Performance
- The Secret of iOS 7
- JUST GO HOME.
- People simply empty out
- Curiosity Makes The Entrepreneur
- Sitting at Computers Is Killing Us, but This Video Could Help Save Your Life
- Happy 20th birthday Debian!
- The TRUE Size of Africa – Have Our Maps Been Misleading For Over 500 Years?
- 42 Rules to Lead by from the Man Who Defined Google’s Product Strategy
- How things get done
- WHO TOOK A CHANCE ON YOU?
- What it’s like to die
- How I Beat Depression
- The Humble Programmer
- Digital Assistance for Sign-Language Users
- My hell as a 911 operator
- Ten things about being a founder I wish I knew two years ago.
- ★ Playing On Easy Mode
- Changing The Creepy Guy Narrative
- Practical Android Design by Xtreme Labs
- What happened to innovation?
- This is a web page.
- This is also a web page.
- Google says tricky job interview brainteasers were ‘a waste of time’
- 8 months in Microsoft, I learned these
- Focus At Will
- The Word ‘Hacker’
- Spencer Fry On Writing
- Letter To A Young Programmer Considering A Startup
- McDonald’s Theory
- You should blog even if you have no readers
- News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier
- Goodbye Microsoft, Hello Facebook!
- What it’s Really Like Working with Steve Jobs
- Easy Ways To Be A Sleep Viking In 2011
- Ward Cunningham answered ‘Do wikis have to be ugly?’
- Kevin Gao’s 6 Rules of Well-Being
- Willpower Isn’t Enough
- Everything is my fault
- Alone Together, Again
- Most lives are lived by default
- No Studying After 5PM …
- People Innovate in America because they are Angry
- How Barack Obama Gets Things Done
- President Obama’s Productivity Tactics
- Why It’s Awesome Being a Girl in Tech.
- How I Learned to Program
- ★ What is the single best thing we can do for our health
- Amy hears sound for the first time @ 26 years old
- Culture shock for Amazon chief’s son who left rainforest for New York.
- Awesome Motivation
- People are amazing…
- Now I Know