If you want to be a good writer, you have to read a lot. Reading trains your ear. There is no shortcut. - Paul Graham

The government spying on people doesn’t literally make programmers write worse code. It just leads eventually to a world in which bad ideas will win. And because this is so important to hackers, they’re especially sensitive to it. They can sense totalitarianism approaching from a distance, as animals can sense an approaching thunderstorm.

Social networks are one of the rare counterexamples to the principle that you can discover the optimal product by following growth. In this domain there are local maxima. You're reading this on one.

A selection process will be unbiased only if (a) the later performance of those selected is measured and (b) the selectors are judged according to this.