Links I recommend

Here are some articles by other people that I recommend. I don’t necessarily agree with every view in the links below, but I think they’re worth reading. I periodically edit this list.

• Life is Short
• Intelligent vs. Smart
• Goodbye Microsoft, Hello Facebook!
• Embrace the Grind
• The Day You Decided to Take the Leap
• Envy Is the Cancer of the Soul
• Think Your Thoughts
• The Tyranny of Convenience
• Reading in the Age of Constant Distraction
• How To Be Wrong
• Imagining your future projects is holding you back
• Things Many People Find Too Obvious To Have Told You Already
• The Unexotic Underclass
• On Having Something to Say
• Why we care about whales
• Latent serendipity
• Engineering Management
• A Decade at Google
• Advice That Actually Worked For Me
• Principles
• You Should Write Blogs
• Why I Won’t Sign Your NDA
• What can a technologist do about climate change?
• The Opposite of Loneliness
• Are you a satisficer or a maximizer?
• The Age of the Essay
• Writing, Briefly
• AngelList new employee reading list
• RECONSIDER
• On Secretly Terrible Engineers
• Someone else had your idea first
• The Curse of Culture

July 2015