The Bitter Lesson (or general learning is better than specific)

The lesson from the last several decades is that when it comes to AI, general learning approaches are superior - esp when you take into account that compute gets cheaper over time.

Boredom, Daydreaming, and Happiness

Interesting musings, note to self to read the referenced books.

Hacker Laws

A good compilation of engineering "laws". Has a couple of classics as well as some I had not yet heard of. E.g: Putts's law: Technology is dominated by two types of people, those who understand what they do not manage and those who manage what they do not understand. And corollary: Every technical hierarchy, in time, develops a competence inversion.

Good insight on career ladders

A pithy summary of what distinguishes managers, directors, and VPs. Short but good read.

Who killed Google search?

The go to piece that explains the downward march of the search engine.