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Though the terrain of frustration may be vast – from a stubbed toe to an untimely death – at the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.
The Consolations of Philosophy
Alain De Botton
The for-profit drive is ruining a lot of the great things about open source, and I really hope we the people prevail.
**Open source is rad - do more of it.**
Worries About Open Source in the Age of LLMs
Jamie Tanna | Software Engineer
Though I’d been largely unaware of it, my productivity obsession had been serving a hidden emotional agenda. For one thing, it helped me combat the sense of precariousness inherent to the modern world of work: if I could meet every editor’s every demand, while launching various side projects of my own, maybe one day I’d finally feel secure in my career and my finances. But it also held at bay certain scary questions about what I was doing with my life, and whether major changes might not be needed.
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
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