Founded in 2020 by Internet champions Seanbaby and Brockway, 1-900-HOTDOG is the last comedy website, cursed to study broken artifacts from a wrong universe. Every weekday we examine one of the foundational aspects of the hotdog: 🌭 Learning: You are never so beefy you can’t better yourself. 🌭 Punching: On days of punching, we, as […]

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Learn what time anxiety and time anxiety attacks are, and how to stop being anxious about time.

I have always struggled with a thought: it’s too late. Too late to publish a book, to start a company, to learn a new language. This is called time anxiety.

Logistics tracks, in reverse chronological order, the journey of a pedometer from a shop in Sweden to a factory in China.

Introducing “How the System Works,” a series on the hidden mechanisms that support modern life

Beyond the chamomile and spearmint blend, there’s a peculiar story lurking in your cup of Sleepytime.

Geologists identify gigantic plunge pools, evidence of the dramatic erosion of Dover Strait

Learn how I stay up-to-date with tech and what resources I used to grow to Senior Software Engineer.

The Californian author became the ultimate literary celebrity for her journalistic style. Here are some of her best quotes on writing, love, ageing and fear, plus a selection of essays

We are all wrong from time to time, it's part of the human condition. Even smart people can be wrong. True wisdom is being able to admit you were wrong, and then actually change your mind. However, that is very difficult and mentally painful. Many people avoid it all together, and the cognitive dissonance theory explains why. I'll go over the theory with a metaphor I've learned from the book Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me!), written by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson. Basically, cognitive di

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Clay Shirky's writings about the Internet, including Economics and Culture, Media and Community, Open Source

What I am doing during the explosive disassembly of the US administrative state and what I want, and why.

Emily Liu, head of special projects at Bluesky, shares her favorite online spaces, the evolution of social media, and the future of the open web.

Who else is the only woman on their dev team?

Learn about asynchronous communication and improve teamwork by utilizing effective collaboration tools.

Not every fun activity or moral good is a waste of time.

Why the Myth of Innate Coding Talent Is Holding Us All Back

And how to combat it. The story of an EM who created a ChatGPT for the internal docs in a few hours

These three alternatives to the newsletter platform offer just as many—if not more—features, and can be easier on your wallet.

Everything you need to know about OKRs vs KPIs. Help your organization set meaningful goals and execute effective strategies to reach them.

Are you wondering what the differences are between PAYE and a limited company? In this guide, we take a closer look at these ways of working. Learn more.

Spoiler alert: it's not LeetCode!

We're in an exciting moment for the open social web. As Elon makes one bad decision after another on X, we've seen waves of users leave the platform for alternatives. Three obvious beneficiaries of these, ahem, lapses of judgment are Threads, Bluesky, and Mastodon. What's particularly interesting about these three

Imagine a live coding stream in the real world: a group of software engineers, all sat around a whiteboard in a conference room, trying to solve a problem.

Issue 224: Why the mentality of lean and small always wins