My Picks

Milk, No Sugar: Being Human; Charisma; Mathematics

Empowerment, corrigibility, etc. are simple abstractions (of a messed-up ontology)

The Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI): Comparing Eruptions

Just and loving seeing

11 behaviours punished in school -- but rewarded in adulthood.

Weeknotes 41

Should we buy Instagram, Foursquare, or Pinterest?

Blog Fuckup

Designing Fast and Slow

[books] John Green and his megaphone

The Seinfeld Strategy for Brands

sqlite-utils 4.1

The AI Window is Now

A Year of Writing for Myself (That 230,000+ People Read)

Exclamatory birthday edition // W26 — 2026

Coding Is Designing

How incidents can teach us about what’s already working well

Going back to the beach

Productivity and Entropy

The Great Filter

📚 Find Fantastic Books

What’s in your top 4?

Builder Of The Coolest Trans Am Ever Tells All

Grace Cho

The Creative Playground

It’s 2020 and you’re in the future

I am making videos again!

Breadboarding, shaping, slicing, and steelthreading solutions with AI agents

Several short sentences about writing

You should try contra dancing

Resident: vibe coding firmware (our new sandbox library for ESP32 devices)

Mirror

Machine

Leaving Elicit

Passing of the torch

I’m a Tech Lead, and nobody listens to me. What should I do?

Riding Technology Waves

Make Something Heavy.

Revenge Of The Humanities

Creating prototypes constrained by the medium not our skills or understanding

Design dogma you must unlearn

I ran a marathon, here's a comic (pt. 2)

Discipline is Overrated: The Devotion–Friction Matrix

The Story of My First Book

What I’ve Been Reading

You Know What? Just Don’t Split Words into Letters

Learning flywheels are all you need

Use the saw, fear the saw

🎨 June 3, 2026

Endgame for the Open Web

On Secure By Default Frameworks

Kraken

[photos] Photos: Boston, April 2026

Yunnan III · Dali

Automating AI Web Search With Perplexity

Fulfillment FOMO

Some Advent Highlights

No silver bullet

The Penguin Pool Edition

Sometimes Your Job is to Get in the Way

OpenAI Debuts ChatGPT Work Agent and New GPT-5.6 Models

Nobody asked for this

Design Can’t Rely on Logic: Troy Leinster on Type Design and Human Perception

Strife is Life

Seeing Yourself through Others’ Eyes (guest post by Deb Liu)

Consistency

TBM 411: Messy Docs As Helpful Pattern

Why You Can’t Have Nice Things

Own what’s yours