🔖 bookmarks that I often share with friends

Disclaimer – I find these reads interesting. I don’t necessarily agree with them. 

2024 update: I’ve moved the last version of this bookmarks page to visakanv.com/archives/bookmarks because this was starting to feel cumbersome and I wanted to have a fresh start.

I’ll now update this list every time I find myself sharing a link with somebody.

1. The idea maze (cdixon.org) – balajis describing how good startup ideas are well-developed multi-year plans that contemplate many possible paths
2. You can’t tell people anything (habitatchronicles.com) – 2004 — on the problem of communication
3. big ball of mud (laputan.org) — 1999 — comprehensive post about software architecture that has implications for all kinds of architecture and creative work
4. the tough tomato principle — 2019 —
5. a good place to work (a16z.com) — 2012 — on the importance of doing good 1-1s, and of having clarity of vision and purpose
6. operant conditioning by software bugs (reghr.org) — 2012 — “Have you ever used a new program or system and found it to be obnoxiously buggy, but then after a while you didn’t notice the bugs anymore? If so, then congratulations: you have been trained by the computer to avoid some of its problems.”
7. playing to win (sirlin.net) — 2014 — on scrubs
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to be updated. more of these links are available on my [[bookmarks2024]] roam page