David Poblador i Garcia:

Which is to say, after two decades and forty-four meters of build tools and bundlers and hydration schemes, the industry sprinted in a giant circle and arrived, slightly out of breath, back at something that looks an awful lot like the file you uploaded over FTP. The instinct didn’t expire. The ground moved, for real reasons, and then it moved back.

A journey in and out of the heart of darkness.

Lightscape in Kings park is always fantastic.

I’ve been getting out with my camera a lot more lately.

Walking these black and white streets in Autumn.

My enthusiasm for taking photos hasn’t abated since the workshop I attended in March.

As the days are getting shorter the silhouettes are coming out.

Trent still out there killing it.

A morning walk around Galup.

I spent last weekend shooting in Fremantle on a Leica Akademie workshop with Jesse Marlow.

Jesse was a fantastic coach and guide.

I had a wicked time and managed to get a few keepers to boot.

Some recent sunsets.

Testing my new lens on some building textures.

A nicely laid out story of how we got where we are in software product design.

Mitchell Hashimoto:

This is my journey of how I found value in AI tooling and what I’m trying next with it. In an ocean of overly dramatic, hyped takes, I hope this represents a more nuanced, measured approach to my views on AI and how they’ve changed over time.

Derek Thompson:

Stalin and Hitler: Both terrible, but also mutually destructive. Cancer and Alzheimer’s: Also both terrible and also, weirdly, mutually destructive. Apparently—and I never knew this—Alzheimer’s patients rarely have cancer. Doctors have studied the association for years without understanding the root cause. Maybe it’s mere selection effect, where people who don’t get cancer survive long enough to get dementia. Or maybe something more interesting is happening.

decryption:

Over a decade ago I got into FIRE - Financial Independence, Retire Early. I’m currently in the position where I’m closer to the end of a FIRE journey than the start, so here’s a big dump of knowledge on various finance topics relevant to me. This post exists primarily so I can get it out of my head and stop thinking about it.

A well written summary with loads of references.

Cate Hall:

It’s easy to extend this framework to explain burnout. You can think of the rider and the elephant as having agreed to a sacred pact: In exchange for doing what the rider asks, the elephant is promised certain rewards. When things are going well, the needs of both rider and elephant are satisfied, even if the balance isn’t exactly even day-to-day.

Burnout results when the rider asks the elephant, over and over again, to commit a tremendous amount of energy to a task, but then fails to provide the reward the elephant is expecting. As a result, the link between effort and reward breaks for the elephant, with catastrophic consequences for the rider.