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Are You the Same Person You Used to Be? | The New Yorker

Researchers have studied how much of our personality is set from childhood, but what you’re like isn’t who you are. Joshua Rothman on “The Origins of You,” by Richie Poulton, Jay Belsky, Avshalom Caspi, and Terrie E. Moffitt; and “Life Is Hard,” by Kieran Setiya.

Do my friends hate me? The pandemic is making people doubt friendships. - T

For many women, friendship insecurity has gotten worse, especially during the colder months.

Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid

It’s not just a phase.

What’s so great about functional programming anyway?

To hear some people talk about functional programming, you’d think they’d joined some kind of cult. They prattle on about how it’s changed the way they think about code. They’ll extol the benefits of purity, at length. And proclaim that they are now able to “reason about their co

"Performant" is nonsense, but performance can still matter - Stack Overflow

You can add biometric authentication to your webpage. Here's how. - Stack O

Speeding software innovation with low-code/no-code tools - Stack Overflow B

The Remote Worker's Guide to "Managing Up"

Actionable steps for making sure "out of sight" doesn't mean "out of mind"

The Zeigarnik Effect: Why Unfinished Work Follows Us Home [comic]

Why it's so hard to stop thinking about everything we have to get done (and so easy to forget what we've already accomplished)

7 Real-Life Todoist Setups to Steal

Copy the powerful workflows of productivity experts

Deep Work: The Complete Guide (Including a Step-by-Step Checklist)

How to master the #1 job skill that will never be obsolete

Complexity Bias: Why We Overcomplicate Our Lives [comic]

Why we prefer complex solutions over simple ones

Makers vs Managers: The Battle Over Remote Work - Ambition & Balance

Managers want to go back to the office. Employees aren’t so sure.

The Two-Minute Rule: Stop Procrastinating With This Simple Trick

A simple technique to ensure your small tasks don’t become big headaches

I Declare To-Do List Bankruptcy! (and you should too)

Can't see your way out of your to-do list debt? Read this.

The Sunk Cost Fallacy & Your Productivity [comic] - Doist Blog

Why it's so hard to walk away even when it's the only rational thing to do

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up Your To-Do List

Your to-do list should spark joy, not dread.

How to Craft the Perfect Daily Schedule (According to Science)

Schedule your energy, not your time. And don’t forget to take breaks.

When to Take Real-time Meetings Async

Here's how to decide which meetings can be async threads (and which can't)

Virtual Networking 101: How to Network Online Like a Human

Connect with industry peers, potential clients, and future employers without feeling super awkward

The Distributed Computing Manifesto | All Things Distributed

Today, I am publishing the Distributed Computing Manifesto, a canonical document from the early days of Amazon that transformed the architecture of Amazon's ecommerce platform. It highlights the challenges we were facing at the end of the 20th century, and hints at where we were

The ‘Form’ Element Created the Modern Web. Was It a Big Mistake? | WIRED

A little HTML widget gave us all-powerful Amazon and Facebook. There's no closing Pandora's text box now.

How companies made productivity a personal problem

How the hell did finding the time and focus to do our actual jobs become an individual responsibility? And what can we do about it?

LARPing your job - by Anne Helen Petersen - Culture Study

A few weeks ago, I went on one of my favorite podcasts — The Ezra Klein Show — to talk about burnout, workism, and our relationship to labor.

The Future of Remote Work is the Opposite of Lonely

This is the midweek edition of Culture Study — the newsletter from Anne Helen Petersen, which you can read about here. If you like it and want more like it in your inbox, consider subscribing.