Others' Writing That Has Me Thinking
Sometimes I read a piece of writing that has me thinking for days or weeks. It's silly to keep all of that good stuff with me and only me, so I decided to start documenting it for others who may be interested.
-
Position on this list serves no relation to the writing's worth, it's purely chronological.
-
🌟'd links are articles I highly recommended reading.
2024
- 🌟 An Argument For Logging Off
- 🌟 Why I Changed My Mind About Volunteering
- 🌟 100 Things You Can Do On Your Personal Website
- 🌟 100 Small Acts Of Love
- Brains Are Not Required When It Comes to Thinking and Solving Problems—Simple Cells Can Do It
- Befriending The Goon Squad
- Do not try to be the smartest in the room; try to be the kindest
- Design Doesn't Have To End Like This
- Systems: The Purpose of a System is What It Does
2023
- Perfectionism and Procrastination: How They’re Connected and What to Do About It
- Sit.
- How Long Does It Take to Fix a Marriage? Give the Gottmans 7 Days
- 🌟 LLMs And Programming In The First Days Of 2024
- The Open Argument Must Be Fed
- 🌟 AI and Mass Spying
- 🌟 What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Quality
- Mixture of Experts Explained
- The Dunning Kruger Effect Is Autocorrelation
- 🌟 Why I Don’t Want To Grow My Freelance Design Studio Into An Agency
- Write About What You Learn
- You Are Not The Man In The Arena
- ⭐️ How to Learn Better in the Digital Age
- The Past Is Not True
- ⭐️ It Doesn’t Take Much Public Creativity To Stand Out As A Job Candidate
- MVC Isn’t MVC
- ⭐️ Sao Paulo: The City With No Outdoor Advertisements
- Why Transformative AI Is Really, Really Hard To Achieve
- How To Blow Up A Timeline
- ⭐️ All This Unmobilized Love
- ⭐️ Finish Your Projects
- ⭐️ What Colour Are Your Bits?
- Social Media Is Doomed To Die
- Shoggoth-As-A-Service May Not Survive The Rise Of AI Script Kiddies
- ⭐️ What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?
- AI-Enhanced Development Makes Me More Ambitious With My Projects
- A Social Network Taxonomy
- Why You Can't Trust The Media
- Screw Motivation What You Need Is Discipline
- ⭐️ What Shape are You?
- The Internet Transition
- ⭐️ Theory-building And Why Employee Churn Is Lethal To Software Companies
2022
- ⭐️ On Bill Watterson’s Refusal To License Calvin and Hobbes
- ⭐️ Publishing Your Work Increases Your Luck
- If You Unscrew Your Belly Button, Your Bottom Will Fall Off; And Other Things My Dad Taught Me
- ⭐️ Don't Specialize, Hybridize
- Scaling Mastodon Is Impossible
- ⭐️ I Was Wrong About Mastodon Moderation
- Bystanders In Your Life
- ⭐️ Good Conversations Have Lots Of Doorknobs
- ⭐️ Donald Knuth On Work Habits, Problem Solving, And Happiness
- ⭐️ Why Complex Systems Collapse Faster
- ⭐️ Spatial Interfaces, notes
- ⭐️ What Are Our Lives For? A Philosopher Answers Kids' Existential Questions
- ⭐️ Career Advice
- ⭐️ Friend Groups
- ⭐️ Finance For Designers
- What Do Great Engineering Managers Need To Know About Compensation And Equity?
- ⭐️ How To Rest Well
- Out Of The Valley
- Things I Don’t Want To Do To Grow My Side Project
- ⭐️ Why Moderating Content Actually Does More To Support The Principles Of Free Speech
- ⭐️ Applying Growth Design And Prototyping To Yourself
- ⭐️ It's Just Oscars Takes All The Way Down
- ⭐️ To Listen Well, Get Curious
- Friendships Have Never Been Harder To Maintain
- The Creatory Economy
- ⭐️ Micro-exercising Throughout The Day
- Stop Brainstorming
- ⭐️ Everything Must Be Paid For Twice, notes
- ⭐️ Mastering Deliberate Practice
- A Simple Plan to Solve All of America’s Problems
- The Importance Of Small, Positive Interactions
- Intellectual Loneliness
- ⭐️ Don't Waste The Good Days
2021
- The Problems of Privilege and Writing About Work
- Writing Is Networking For Introverts
- Even Swaps: A Rational Method for Making Trade-offs
- ⭐️ How To Learn Stuff Quickly
- Local-First Software
- Willingness To Look Stupid
- Individuals Matter
- ⭐️ How To Help A Student Get Unstuck, notes
- ⭐️ The 8 Week Work Cycle With Sabbaticals
- American Idle
- ⭐️ This Is Water
- What To Learn
- That Which Is Unique, Breaks
- Reasons To Not Become Famous
- The Internet's Original Sin
- ⭐️ The Unreasonable Effectiveness Of Just Showing Up Everyday
- Privacy: The Sequel
- The Most Precious Resource Is Agency
- ⭐️ The Internet Is Flat
- How To Be Polite
- ⭐️ Slack, notes
- ⭐️ How Will You Measure Your Life, notes
- The Ponzi Career
- The Twilight of the Ethical Consumer
- How To Hire Senior Developers: Give Them More Autonomy
- Programming Is Hard
- ⭐️ The Michael Scott Theory of Social Class
- ⭐️ Paradigm shifts for the decentralized Web
- ⭐️ The Clubhouse App and the Rise of Oral Psychodynamics
- ⭐️ What Makes A Great Friend?
- The High Price Of Mistrust
- ⭐️ The BuzzFeedification of Mental Health, notes
- How Hard Should I Push Myself
- Increasing Your Luck Surface Area
- Who Owns The Benefit? The Free Market As Full Communism
- A Widening Gap
- Notes On Technology In The 2020s
2020
- ⭐️ An App Can Be A Home-Cooked Meal
- Can Projects Recharge You?
- The Lesson Of Grace In Teaching, notes
- ⭐️ How Complex Systems Fail, notes
- We Need Young Programmers; We Need Old Programmers, notes
- ⭐️ The Polymath Playbook
- ⭐️ A Forty Year Career, notes
- Homesteading The Twittersphere
- A Culture Canceled, notes
- Change at Scale
- ⭐️ We Don't Do That Here
- ⭐️ Nicomachean Ethics
- ⭐️ The Economy Of Ideas
Joe Fabisevich is an indie developer creating software at Red Panda Club Inc. while writing about design, development, and building a company. Formerly an iOS developer working on societal issues @Twitter. These days I don't tweet, but I do post on Threads.
Like my writing? You can keep up with it in your favorite RSS reader, or get posts emailed in newsletter form. I promise to never spam you or send you anything other than my posts, it's just a way for you to read my writing wherever's most comfortable for you.
If you'd like to know more, wanna talk, or need some advice, feel free to sign up for office hours, I'm very friendly. 🙂