* “Levelling Up: What got you here won’t get you there.” Doing the right boring stuff to build skills every day is also important.
* The new and amazing Lectric ONE ebike.
* “The best essay,” a new Paul Graham essay, and one that’s essential for anyone writing online.
* “Democrats Should Be a ‘Pro-Normal’ Party.”
* “Once America’s Hottest Housing Market, Austin Is Running in Reverse” (wsj, $). Building a lot of housing works to reduce prices. Who knew?
* A Mathematician On Creativity, Art, Logic and Language.
* “The Coddling of the American Undergraduate: The infantilizing social control of the university.” Almost too obvious to link to.
* The value of tiny storefronts, despite the way American zoning codes largely ban them.
* Paul Graham on how to start Google. I note this: “Once you’re good at programming, all the missing software in the world starts to become as obvious as a sticking door to a carpenter.” If you develop writing skills, all the missing writing in the world starts to become obvious, and it’s possible for you (or me) to do it. The Internet makes writing vastly more important and powerful than it was pre-Internet, and yet it feels like many people haven’t properly internalized this.
* “Walking Phoenix: A quick retreat from an expansive hell on earth.” Depressingly consistent with many of my experiences. It’s funny to read this right after Bess published “The dangers of walking include falling in love.”
* Journalism about the Google employees who figured out large-language models and wrote the now-famous paper “Attention Is All You Need.” (wired, $). Perhaps most interesting for the spontaneous meetings that drove the project and its ideas.
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