This is a mostly uncurated collection of stuff I’ve come across on the Internet that I like.
A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
This website has several amazing series about things like analyzing the siege of Gondor from the perspective of an ancient and military historian professor.
I haven’t ported it to this iteration of my blog, but one of my earliest posts was about how important writing was to the learning process as an engineer. In the years since then my opinion hasn’t changed an ounce. I should take more of my own advice — isn’t that life? — but I seriously feel like writing is a superpower.
The power of keeping a coding journal · Thomas Burette
The Shopping Cart Theory (Anonymous)
The shopping cart is the ultimate litmus test for whether a person is capable of self-governing.
To return the shopping cart is an easy, convenient task and one which we all recognize as the correct, appropriate thing to do. To return the shopping cart is objectively right. There are no situations other than dire emergencies in which a person is not able to return their cart. Simultaneously, it is not illegal to abandon your shopping cart. Therefore the shopping cart presents itself as the apex example of whether a person will do what is right without being forced to do it. No one will punish you for not returning the shopping cart, no one will fine you or kill you for not returning the shopping cart, you gain nothing by returning the shopping cart. You must return the shopping cart out of the goodness of your own heart. You must return the shopping cart because it is the right thing to do. Because it is correct.
A person who is unable to do this is no better than an animal, an absolute savage who can only be made to do what is right by threatening them with a law and the force that stands behind it.
The Shopping Cart is what determines whether a person is a good or bad member of society.
From this stupid Reddit thread.