reading, watching & listening to

sharing a selection of things I'm reading and find thought provoking

sari

I Wrote a Story for a Friend - By Julian Gough

theeggandtherock.substack.com theeggandtherock.substack.com

Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino

John Gruber daringfireball.net

You Can't Buy An "Authentic Self"

Freya India open.substack.com

Fell in a hole, got out.

medium.com

The Coming Humanist Renaissance

Adrienne LaFrance theatlantic.com

How to be More Agentic

Cate Hall substack.com

Western Leftists Have Lost the Plot

Noah Smith noahpinion.blog

Building Learning and Fun into Your Applications

The content explores integrating learning and fun from game design principles into applications, emphasizing interaction design, user engagement, and creating effective, enjoyable user experiences.

lostgarden.com

A game must teach you new skills only when appropriate, get you to care about a goal, and of course help you have fun. Why are games so good at this when software is so poor at it? This talk teaches you how to build fun software applications.