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Hoooooo boy. What an article.

For any of my Readup comrades curious about the state of policing in another country other than America.

haha.

"If a belief turns deadbeat, evict it."

I always wondered about this. One of my first introductions to this line of thinking came when I took a job as a social media marketing manager for a electronic music startup in Denver.

I got the role on the strength of my application and research, and I learned to talk convincingly about electronic music and the various genres and sub-genres.

Yet, I could not tell them apart. They were all the same to me, fundamentally dissonant and I was certain everyone pretended to like it.

As you can imagine, this severely impacted my ability to do my job effectively, despite my best intentions.

I'm now on a hunt for human experiences that I don't have but assume is the case for everyone else.

I already know I can't make the clicking sound people make with their mouths closed.

Scott's modest review of Surfing Uncertainty has shone a light into the human mind. Of course I'm dutifully cautious of a model that seems to explain everything, but it's interesting, even if as a curio.

it made AOTD. Whoop.

I didn't watch the debate, but now I feel morally compelled to.

Brilliant example of Bayesian updating of priors in action.

Some agnostic life lessons here, but definitely a good list for newbie programmers looking to grow faster.

Makes you think.

Excellent framing!

Came here for the Superhuman mention. Was not disappointed.

I really love this sort of meta, BTS writing. I always wondered about the people who wrote O'Reilly books and how much value it was to them.

Branding-wise, they tend to all look the same to me, y'see.

Intriguing.

old, but gold.

HELL OF AN ARTICLE. How much of an opportunist are you? Do you wanna get even more opportunistic? Hop on like fleas on the back of the mindless growing business and let's get suckin'.

(i assume that fleas do some version of sucking.)

"Look at your phone. You see a mere tool, there to do your bidding, and perhaps that’s the way your phone sees you, the dutiful but otherwise unremarkable robot that from time to time plugs it into an electrical socket."

In this piece I found a stirring, something similar to the feeling those sci-fi shorts from my teen years used to give me.

I am both horrified and fascinated by this BBC article.

Do things that don't scale. Also: do things that don't require scale.

Haha.

eh

This is amazing and hilarious and a good story I'll start telling until all the software engineers I know get sick of me.

Riveting.

Beautiful. Gosh. Also a great blog post idea for everyone experiencing writer's block on Readup today :D

It'd be great, right?

WHAT A TALE.

RAH.

beautiful.