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/
Why do wind turbines have three blades?
https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/why-do-wind-turbines-have-three-blades
https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/why-do-wind-turbines-have-three-blades
The Kid Should See This
Why do wind turbines have three blades?
What makes three the perfect blade count for wind turbines? Why not two for simplicity, or five to catch more wind? The answer connects physics,
The great sameness: a comic on how AI makes us more alike
https://www.itsnicethat.com/features/the-great-sameness-light-and-shade-digital-220925
https://www.itsnicethat.com/features/the-great-sameness-light-and-shade-digital-220925
It's Nice That
The great sameness: a comic on how AI makes us more alike
Studies say that using generative AI flattens our collective creative individuality. But how does this happen? Comic artist Jordan Bolton shows us, so we might escape the same fate.
Why do we remember some life moments but not others?
https://www.bu.edu/articles/2025/why-do-we-remember-some-moments-but-not-others/
https://www.bu.edu/articles/2025/why-do-we-remember-some-moments-but-not-others/
Boston University
Why Do We Remember Some Life Moments—but Not Others?
BU study finds memories of mundane incidents can be strengthened when they get attached to a memory of an emotionally charged event
Thousands of Japanese centenarians may have died decades ago
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/sep/10/japenese-centenarians-records
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/sep/10/japenese-centenarians-records
the Guardian
Thousands of Japanese centenarians may have died decades ago
More than 77,000 people aged 120 or over – 884 aged 150 or higher – are listed on government records as still alive
Loneliness increases mortality risk by 32%
We know loneliness is killing people. Literally rewiring their bodies to self-destruct. We know exactly how to help them. But we’re still treating it like some personal weakness instead of the health crisis it really is.
https://lightcapai.medium.com/the-loneliness-epidemic-threatens-physical-health-like-smoking-e063220dde8b
We know loneliness is killing people. Literally rewiring their bodies to self-destruct. We know exactly how to help them. But we’re still treating it like some personal weakness instead of the health crisis it really is.
https://lightcapai.medium.com/the-loneliness-epidemic-threatens-physical-health-like-smoking-e063220dde8b
Medium
The loneliness epidemic threatens physical health like smoking
Loneliness increases death risk by 32% but we know how to fix it. Real solutions that cut loneliness in half, from mindfulness to community…