Join 📚 Josh Beckman's Highlights
A batch of the best highlights from what Josh's read, .
I propose that there is one problem chief among them, an impetus for bad software from which almost all others take root: imaginary problems.
Most complicated or broken software is not designed to be overly complex or dysfunctional. It’s just designed to do something other than its intended purpose.
Imaginary Problems Are the Root of Bad Software
George Hosu
The decision to sharply manage down the price of eggs was, indirectly but inescapably, *also* a considered decision to cause large notional losses to all holders of financial assets. That includes everyone with a mortgage, every startup employee with equity, and every bank.
Banking in Very Uncertain Times
Patrick McKenzie (patio11)
The possibilities for using language as an intermediate representation are endless. LAIR is a powerful paradigm for transformational tasks that allows us to use language as an intermediate representation to manipulate things in a way that is both accessible and powerful, and that allows us to pick and choose *what* part of semanticity we want to manipulate *versus* what we want to preserve.
LAIR - Language as Intermediate Representation
chrisvoncsefalvay.com
...catch up on these, and many more highlights
Readwise