#philosophy (17 links)
- Effective altruism is this century’s biggest idea economist.com
It is right to revere reason. But moral philosophers from Aristotle to Rawls knew that if an argument leads to intolerable places, it must have a hidden faulty step. EAs’ instinct, though, is to enjoy counterintuitive conclusions, even if they seem perverse.
- Competence as Tragedy crowprose.com
What does it mean to keep practicing a craft you love when you suspect it's dying?
- Thin Desires Are Eating Your Life joanwestenberg.com
The desire to understand calculus versus the desire to check your notifications are both real desires, and both produce (to a degree) real feelings of satisfaction when fulfilled. But the person who spends a year learning calculus becomes someone different, someone who can see patterns in the world that were previously invisible, who has expanded the range of things they're capable of caring about, who has Been Through It.The person who checks their notifications is, afterward, exactly the same person who wanted to check their notifications five minutes ago.
Basically: be a nice human.
- The Deaths of Effective Altruism wired.com
- Mono no aware - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org
<blockquote>Mono no aware (物の哀れ?), literally "the pathos of things", and also translated as "an empathy toward things", or "a sensitivity to ephemera", is a Japanese term for the awareness of impermanence (無常 mujō?), or transience of things, and both a transient gentle sadness (or wistfulness) at their passing as well as a longer, deeper gentle sadness about this state being the reality of life.</blockquote>
- The Management Myth - Magazine - The Atlantic theatlantic.com
The world of management theorists remains exempt from accountability. In my experience, for what it’s worth, consultants monitored the progress of former clients about as diligently as they checked up on ex-spouses (of which there were many). Unless there was some hope of renewing the relationship (or dating a sister company), it was Hasta la vista, baby. And why should they have cared? Consultants’ recommendations have the same semantic properties as campaign promises: it’s almost freakish if they are remembered in the following year.
- Video games can never be art - Roger Ebert's Journal blogs.suntimes.com
"I remain convinced that _in principle_, video games cannot be art. Perhaps it is foolish of me to say "never," because never, as Rick Wakeman informs us, is a long, long time. Let me just say that no video gamer now living will survive long enough to experience the medium as an art form."
- Milton Glaser - Ten Things I Have Learned miltonglaser.com
- Mr. Yuk Says Project Roadmaps Are Poisonous codesqueeze.com
For some time now, I have thought that high-level project roadmaps (Gantt charts in particular) are one of the most worthless documents that a software project team can produce.
- Google Corporate Information: Our Philosophy google.com
"Ten things Google has found to be true". Classic vision.
- Readability, Uniqueness, Hackability and Meaning in URL Design - Article - andrewingram andrewingram.net
URL design is arguably one of the most important areas of website developement. Not only do URLs generally have huge visual priority in web browsers but they’re also shown on search result listings and get used for matching search terms.
- we are what we do wearewhatwedo.org
We’re here to change the world (just a small thing then) and have fun while we’re doing it. We believe that each of us has the power to make a difference, and if enough of us believe this, then together we can change the world.
- 10 Things I Have Learned miltonglaserposters.com