How I changed my personality in six weeks
Based on emerging research showing people can shift their core personality traits, Laurie Clarke tried tweaking hers. Here's what happened.
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Rami Ismail's Top Games of 2025 | Giant Bomb
Rami Ismail's Top Games of 2025 - A guest list for GiantBomb.com's 2025 Game of the Year extravaganza.
Moon – Bartosz Ciechanowski
Interactive article about the Moon
Qing-UP in the Age of Tilt
As anyone who has played 5 seconds of League of Legends knows, competitive multiplayer games have a tilt problem.
Careful technology
Dear friends,
How to Succeed At MrBeast Production: Leaked PDF
Why Solarpunk is already happening in Africa
Or: How Africa is building the future by skipping the past
Stop doing UX cheerleading
Design is being hijacked to create legitimacy for bad ideas. We can do better.
The f*** off contact page - Nic Chan
How to get people to NOT contact you
Drinking The Largest Beer At The Airport Makes Everything Better
An essay by Austin L. Ray
In My Life, I’ve Witnessed Three Elite Salespeople at Work. You Won’t Like Their Secret.
My wayward months as the best telemarketer in America.
Accountability sinks | A Working Library
In The Unaccountability Machine, Dan Davies argues that organizations form “accountability sinks,” structures that absorb or obscure the consequences of a decision such that no one can be held dire...
Did a top NIH official manipulate Alzheimer's and Parkinson’s studies for decades?
Agency announces research misconduct finding for neuroscientist Eliezer Masliah as scores of his papers fall under suspicion
I'm Great At Baby Steps Because I Walk Like That In Real Life - VGBees
CW: medical talk, surgical talk, bones, car accident In late May, an uninsured Lexus driver ran a yellow light and pulled in front of me...
Opinion | The Key to Longevity Is Boring
The best supplements are exercise, a good diet and strong relationships.
The Pelvic Floor Is a Problem | WIRED
archived 20 Nov 2025 17:45:34 UTC
Egoless Engineering
It turns out misery is a shitty proxy metric.
Things That Aren't Doing the Thing
Stay in the gap | everything changes
The work is the work.
Rachel Thomas, PhD - Your Immune System is Not a Muscle
an AI researcher going back to school for immunology
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't know there's anything wrong with it.
Why your website should be under 14kB in size | endtimes.dev
The Later Years of Douglas Adams
Hacking the Scammers | theB10G
How someone I don't know hacked the scammers back
Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover
Ruby Central recently took over a collection of open source projects from their maintainers without their consent.
How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner - annie's blog
“Hello! I am a developer. Here is my relevant experience: I code in Hoobijag and sometimes jabbernocks and of course ABCDE++++ (but never ABCDE+/^+ are you kidding? ha!) and I like working with Shoobababoo and occasionally kleptomitrons. I’ve gotten to work for Company1 doing Shoobaboo-ing code things and that’s what led me to the Snarfus. So, let’s dive in!
Pluralistic: The one weird monopoly trick that gave us Walmart and Amazon and killed Main Street (14 Aug 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
The Dead World of Blippi
The loneliness and sterility of children’s “educational” videos in the Trump era.
permacomputing
The science behind an iPhone dumb phone.
A breakdown of recent research supporting tactics for dumbing down your iPhone (as I've discussed previously). Dumbing down your iPhone can lead to a wide range of benefits, including improved attention, reduced stress and depression, improved wellbeing and reduced anxiety.