Explores the differences between happiness and meaningfulness.

The 100 most important Swedes in history — clearly I haven’t been working hard enough to get on this list.

“Emotion is not the spanner in the works of a more rational society. It is the engine that powers it, which reason must understand in order to steer it wisely.”

I recently decided to take a vacation from Twitter. Alan Jacobs here pretty much captures why I got fed up with it and needed a break.

“I would suggest that Kreps’s system architecture can be further distilled, to this basic precept: * Focus on the data, not on the logic. The logic will emerge when you understand the data. That, in the end, is what 50 years of building database systems, version control systems, object-oriented programming languages, and the like, teaches us.”

Nate Silver: “Catering to higher-end customers in a period of rapid economic growth may be a Faustian bargain, as it increases near-term cash flows but erodes support among working class segments of the fan base who may be important to a team’s success in the longer term.”