If you are useful, it doesn't mean you are valued
https://betterthanrandom.substack.com/p/if-you-are-useful-it-doesnt-mean
https://betterthanrandom.substack.com/p/if-you-are-useful-it-doesnt-mean
Substack
If you are useful, it doesn’t mean you are valued
The difference can be subtle
Ben Franklin effect
The Ben Franklin effect is a psychological phenomenon in which people like someone more after doing a favor for them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Franklin_effect
The Ben Franklin effect is a psychological phenomenon in which people like someone more after doing a favor for them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Franklin_effect
Wikipedia
Ben Franklin effect
psychological phenomenon
being too ambitious is a clever form of self-sabotage
https://maalvika.substack.com/p/being-too-ambitious-is-a-clever-form
https://maalvika.substack.com/p/being-too-ambitious-is-a-clever-form
Substack
being too ambitious is a clever form of self-sabotage
on starting, doing, being, and becoming.
Tell HN: My advice after I applied to 450 positions before getting hired
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45073589
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45073589
Famous cognitive psychology experiments that failed to replicate
https://buttondown.com/aethermug/archive/aether-mug-famous-cognitive-psychology/
https://buttondown.com/aethermug/archive/aether-mug-famous-cognitive-psychology/
A shift in developer culture is impacting innovation and creativity
Have a project in mind that you’ve always wanted to tackle but it never made sense to you to do it because it would never be used by anyone else or it would never make you any money? Do it anyway, build it, tinker with it, learn from it. Who cares if you can’t ship it to the masses, who cares if it’s useless. Make it, create something from nothing, just because you can.
https://dayvster.com/blog/dev-culture-is-dying-the-curious-developer-is-gone/
Have a project in mind that you’ve always wanted to tackle but it never made sense to you to do it because it would never be used by anyone else or it would never make you any money? Do it anyway, build it, tinker with it, learn from it. Who cares if you can’t ship it to the masses, who cares if it’s useless. Make it, create something from nothing, just because you can.
https://dayvster.com/blog/dev-culture-is-dying-the-curious-developer-is-gone/
Dayvster
Dev Culture Is Dying The Curious Developer Is Gone
From tinkerers to metric seekers: How the shift in developer culture is impacting innovation and creativity.
Universities should be more than toll gates
What matters is that I keep finding new things to chase, new rabbit holes to fall into. The act of learning itself is such a rush, even if I find another shinier subject halfway through. I now have a new plan: acquire the financial freedom my little family needs to design my own syllabus and spend the rest of my life learning on my own terms.
https://www.waliddib.com/posts/universities-should-be-more-than-toll-gates/
What matters is that I keep finding new things to chase, new rabbit holes to fall into. The act of learning itself is such a rush, even if I find another shinier subject halfway through. I now have a new plan: acquire the financial freedom my little family needs to design my own syllabus and spend the rest of my life learning on my own terms.
https://www.waliddib.com/posts/universities-should-be-more-than-toll-gates/
Walid Dib
Universities should be more than toll gates
Blog by Walid Dib featuring learning insights into game development with Godot, and building startups in the Middle East.
Oxford loses top 3 university ranking in the UK
https://hotminute.co.uk/2025/09/19/oxford-loses-top-3-university-ranking-for-the-first-time/
https://hotminute.co.uk/2025/09/19/oxford-loses-top-3-university-ranking-for-the-first-time/
HotMinute
Oxford loses top 3 university ranking for the first time
The University of Oxford has fallen out of the top three universities in the UK for the first time, according to The Times and The Sunday Times Good University
I forced myself to spend a week in Instagram instead of Xcode
https://www.pixelpusher.club/p/i-forced-myself-to-spend-a-week-in
https://www.pixelpusher.club/p/i-forced-myself-to-spend-a-week-in
www.pixelpusher.club
I forced myself to spend a week in Instagram instead of Xcode
This is what happens when you ban yourself from coding
How can I influence others without manipulating them?
https://andiroberts.com/leadership-questions/how-to-influence-others-without-manipulating
https://andiroberts.com/leadership-questions/how-to-influence-others-without-manipulating
Andi Roberts - Executive Coach | Leadership Trainer | Facilitator
How can I influence others without manipulating them? | Andi Roberts – Executive Coach | Leadership Trainer | Facilitator
This guide explains how to influence others without manipulating them. It introduces five respectful approaches to persuasion that build trust, commitment and genuine buy-in.
We influence others every day, whether we intend to or not. Sometimes it is through…
We influence others every day, whether we intend to or not. Sometimes it is through…
The Counterclockwise Experiment
going counterclockwise is about refusing to let time imprison us in stories that may be more flexible than we think. It's about staying curious about what's possible, staying open to renewal, staying present to the ongoing conversation between mind and body that shapes our lives in ways both subtle and profound.
https://domofutu.substack.com/p/the-counterclockwise-experiment
going counterclockwise is about refusing to let time imprison us in stories that may be more flexible than we think. It's about staying curious about what's possible, staying open to renewal, staying present to the ongoing conversation between mind and body that shapes our lives in ways both subtle and profound.
https://domofutu.substack.com/p/the-counterclockwise-experiment
Substack
The Counterclockwise Experiment
Discover Ellen Langer's radical 1979 experiment where men lived as if it were 1959. The shocking results on aging and health challenge everything we know about the mind-body connection.
AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity
https://hbr.org/2025/09/ai-generated-workslop-is-destroying-productivity
https://hbr.org/2025/09/ai-generated-workslop-is-destroying-productivity
Harvard Business Review
AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity
Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appears polished but lacks real substance, offloading cognitive…
Nine Things I Learned in Ninety Years
https://edwardpackard.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Nine-Things-I-Learned-in-Ninety-Years.pdf
https://edwardpackard.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Nine-Things-I-Learned-in-Ninety-Years.pdf
How to Lead in a Room Full of Experts
https://idiallo.com/blog/how-to-lead-in-a-room-full-of-experts
https://idiallo.com/blog/how-to-lead-in-a-room-full-of-experts
Ibrahim Diallo Blog
How to Lead in a Room Full of Experts
Here is a realization I made recently. I'm sitting in a room full of smart people. On one side are developers who understand the ins and outs of our microservice architecture. On the other are the fro
New bacteria, and two potential antibiotics, discovered in soil
https://www.rockefeller.edu/news/38239-hundreds-of-new-bacteria-and-two-potential-antibiotics-found-in-soil/
https://www.rockefeller.edu/news/38239-hundreds-of-new-bacteria-and-two-potential-antibiotics-found-in-soil/