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I collect interesting information, thoughts and visual inspiration throughout my day, which I save here. Below, you’ll find insights from books, a wide array of images and links to varied sites. especiallyI enjoy browsing through past highlights.

Caste is insidious and therefore powerful because it is not hatred, it is not necessarily personal. It is the worn grooves of comforting routines and unthinking expectations, patterns of a social order that have been in place for so long that it looks like the natural order of things. Isabel Wilkerson in Caste

A caste system is an artificial construction, a fixed and embedded ranking of human value that sets the presumed supremacy of one group against the presumed inferiority of other groups on the basis of ancestry and often immutable traits, traits that would be neutral in the abstract but are ascribed life-and-death meaning in a hierarchy favoring the dominant caste whose forebears designed it. A caste system uses rigid, often arbitrary boundaries to keep the ranked groupings apart, distinct from one another and in their assigned places. Isabel Wilkerson in Caste

The real threat to creativity isn’t a language model. It’s a workplace that rewards speed over depth, scale over care, automation over meaning. If we’re going to talk about what robs people of agency, let’s start there. Let’s talk about the economic structures that pressure people into using tools badly, or in ways that betray their values. Let’s talk about the lack of time, support, mentorship, and trust. Not the fact that someone ran a prompt through a chatbot to get unstuck. Greg Storey in The luxury of saying no.

I think that what we were being taught was less a body of knowledge than a way to be in the world: orderly, organized, attentive to direction. There is nothing wrong with developing those skills—in fact, I’ve learned the hard way how useful they can be. What is wrong is their fetishization, the way they were allowed to outrank the actual body of knowledge held within algebra or English lit. The result was that “learning” felt like a kind of bait and switch. And this frustrated me because I truly did love to learn—it just so happened I learned best away from my desk, where ideas and concepts could be made tangible. Ta-Nehisi Coates in The Message

I think many of us who are teachers and professors have forgotten that the syllabus serves the student, and all around us are teachers, administrators, and columnists who seem to believe that material should be hard for the sake of it and that education itself is best when rendered not in wonder but in force. Ta-Nehisi Coates in The Message

Chasing TikTok users doesn’t build a better platform for writers. It builds a different platform entirely. The value proposition collapses when your infrastructure for thought becomes optimized for the attention economy. You can’t serve two masters. You either build a tool for writers or you build an app for dopamine hits. Once you choose the latter, you’ve already traded your audience. Joan Westenberg in This Is Peak Featurecide























Creating the perfect vegetable
Wei Yu Wayne Tan explores the significance of inventing Japanese Braille.
"a low-code builder that makes it easier to build powerful AIs that can use any API, model, or database"
A large-scale tech worker sentiment survey for 2025
This concept could be super useful in large code bases, when applied well. Via Stuart Robson.
Watch London Underground trains move in real-time on an interactive 3D map.
How the US administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.
In recent years I've come across an interesting distinction that I keep having to explain to people. To make it easier ... by crell
A high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.
Handy! Via daverupert.com/2025/05/week-links-2/