64 / Absurd Trolley Problems
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Tweet of the Week
Nobody will remember:
- Your salary
- Your fancy title
- How ‘busy’ you where
- How stressed you were
- How many hours you worked
People will remember:
— @tcarmody on Twitter
- The giant monoliths you have erected to your own majesty
- Poems about the monoliths, or at least a few of the good lines
Culture
Panel interviews don't work
Jacob Kaplan-Moss on the wrong way to interview candidates: panel interviews.
The skill/experience vs. outcome curve
John Cutler about the skill/experience vs. outcome curve and how dependent it is on a nurturing culture.
Running an Effective Book Club at Work
Nicholas Tietz-Sokolsky has some great tips on how to run a book club at work.
Tech
Monitoring tiny web services
Julia Evans about monitoring non-production services as simple as possible.
Rust Editors to Replace TextMate 2 - The Agony of Despair
Scott Johnson compares lots of editors written in Rust, this is a great overview.
How to animate multiplayer cursors
Chris Nicholas wrote a great interactive blogpost about different ways to implement remote cursor movement.
What’s new in Go 1.19?
Carl Johnson summarises the features of the upcoming Go 1.19 release.
A Pleasing Symmetry in Rust
Chris Krycho about the symmetry of Rust structs and enums.
Cutting Room Floor
Absurd Trolley Problems
Neal Agarwal built yet another playful website, this time about the trolley problem. Some of the statistics really surprised me!
Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
Jonathan Haidt compares the recent changes in society with the biblical story of Babel, the effect of social media on democracy and what to do about it.
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