There are a couple of resources I keep coming back to when I want to exercise my technical writing muscles, and "The Rust Book" has always been on the top. It is a technical writing and pedagogical masterpiece. You can tell from the fact that I have spent more time reading the

i’m pretty hard into supernatural media and the vampire diaries and the originals are so far one of my favourites, they hit different than literally every other supernatural show and i’ll tell you why. most vampire shows treat vampires like they're just humans with fangs or

Imagine if I told you that every computer crash, every security breach, every time your phone freezes, traces back to a single decision made in 1965 by a British computer scientist who was just trying to make programming easier. Tony Hoare added something called "null references"

NotPetya used tools that were originally created by other software developers. The EternalBlue exploit was written by NSA programmers, then leaked. The Mimikatz credential dumping tool was created by a French security researcher as a proof of concept. Both became components in

We talk about growth like it's climbing a mountain. You start at the bottom, work hard, and eventually reach the top where you stay. This story feels good because it promises that struggle leads somewhere permanent. But it's bullshit. Real human experience is circular. You learn

the reason async rust feels impossible isn't the syntax or even the borrow checker. it's that rust refuses to let you live in the beautiful lie that makes go and nodejs so pleasant. go and node let you pretend concurrency is just "do multiple things at once" and handle all the

The entire PaaS industry has been built on a fundamental lie. Every provider tells you they're simplifying deployment while simultaneously creating artificial complexity through per-seat pricing models that have nothing to do with actual infrastructure costs. Your code doesn't

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The most counterintuitive truth about modern business is that FOMO isn't a psychological bug, it's an evolutionary feature that every successful company weaponizes. The real edge comes from understanding that human psychology operates on scarcity gradients, not rational utility

The difference between web3 and AI hype lies in value creation velocity and problem specificity. AI succeeded because it solved immediate, quantifiable problems that enterprises could measure in dollars saved or revenue generated. ChatGPT didn't need to convince anyone that text

The whole "follow your passion" thing is broken at a root level. It assumes passion exists as some kind of cosmic signal you just need to tune into. But that's not how human psychology works at all. Most people don't walk around with burning passions. They have mild curiosity

If anyone’s as confused about software licenses as I was, here is how I see them now. Software licenses control what people can do with your code. MIT license lets people do anything. Say you build a JSON parsing library with MIT license. A startup can take your code, modify it,

Now that I'm writing a book about software history, I notice an interesting pattern. The same people keep creating the tools that define entire generations of computing. Ken Thompson built Unix and the B language at Bell Labs, then decades later co-created Go at Google. Brendan

The whole "work-life balance" thing assumes there's some perfect formula where you can have an amazing career, be present for your family, stay in great shape, maintain friendships, pursue hobbies, and somehow still have time to rest. But physics doesn't work that way. Energy is

The law of least effort explains why most people never reach their potential and why the ones who do seem to operate on a completely different level. Everyone thinks successful people have more willpower or work harder. Wrong. They've just figured out how to make the physics of

we're addicted to the villain-turns-hero moment because it's one of the best disguised and subtle plot twist element ever. zuko showing up to teach aang firebending. vegeta sacrificing himself against buu. the winter soldier remembering steve rogers. vader throwing palpatine

Some people naturally draw others to them while others struggle to get anyone to listen. We assume charisma or marketing skills matter most. But I've noticed something different. People have this built-in radar for value. They can sense when someone actually knows something worth

TIL that services now craft hyper-personalized emails just to dodge your Gmail promotions tab. That "Hey Srini, quick update on your account!" wasn't just customer care after all, those are just to beat the algorithm.