2024-08-24 Links Digest

Published: 2024-08-24

Tagged: links-digest

• Deep Reading Will Save Your Soul
  • Higher Ed is changing. One sign of it is the rapid disappearance of humanities courses and departments. Yet many of us yearn to plumb the depths of the human condition, so what is to be done? William Deresiewicz points to a growing number of off-campus organizations that offer to teach those who want to be taught. I signed up for a course on Emerson at BISR, though I am looking at the Catherine Project's offerings with interest as well.
• The Long Shadow of Soviety Sabotage Doctrine
  • Old Czechoslovak military papers reveal the complexity of Soviet sabotage doctrine. It sounds basically like the Lean Startup, but aimed at causing damage to material and morale.
• Reckoning: Part 1 -- The Landscape
  • This series of four short-ish posts explains a big part of why the modern Web sucks so much. The author used to work Chrome at Google, acted as the first Web Standards Tech Lead for Chrome, and spent nine years on the W3C Technical Architecture Group. Spoiler: he blames web development culture and I agree. I think web developers largely focus on producing for other web developers and not for actual users.
• Epistemic Minor Leagues
  • How to exist in the global intellectual fabric when everything everywhere has probably already been studied and expounded on by a devoted expert?
• Pseudonyms lets you practice agency
  • Fun exploration of online pseudonyms as important technology.