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As someone around the telescope a few years back, I would absolutely recommend applying! Frossie is legit and is an excellent engineer and boss

That’s exactly how I would put it. I read his article on Philosophy yesterday at 30 after reading his essays at 20 and admiring him. It’s crazy how impressionable my mind was at 20

I worked at a BigCo after a bunch of small ones, and got totally stressed about the friction as well. Took me a couple years away from the experience to realize that slow processes can be a great thing in their own right because it gives you a lot of time to think about your own interests in and outside of coding.

Hume’s Wikipedia page is really funny where it describes his life post breakdown. He certainly enjoyed the merry life and a good port. I thought it would be a funny idea to do a “day in the life” video following Hume’s lifestyle and just end up stone drunk on port.

Also, there’s a statue of Hume in the center of Edinburgh where he looks emaciated and serious like the ancient philosophers looked, and I’ve always thought it was a funny statue, because it completely gets his character (and stature I’m guessing) wrong.

The author of this essay assumes a familiarity with the MFA v. PHD debate that might not be right for the HN crowd. If you're curious about this topic though, I would recommend Elif Batuman's Get a Real Degree: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v32/n18/elif-batuman/get-a-r...

It's very funny writing, Batuman has a PHD in Russian Literature and she does a good job of giving a high-level overview.

Yes

Thomas Hobbes was in his 60’s when he wrote Leviathan. I think about that a lot when I get discouraged.

I agree with others about the clicks. I weirdly got it on the first guess and thought it would be revealed after. Or more of the squares would be revealed per guess a la wordle

I’m reading The Critique of Pure Reason right now. If anyone else is interested we can start a book club, it’s slow going.

Ashlee Vance's biography, 'Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future'

I would put On The Nature of Things on my list of life changing books as well. Its sublime

The first episode of Mad Men alludes to Bernays work. They are trying to come up with a new campaign for Lucky Strike and he rejects an idea to base the campaign off of Freud’s research.

The Starlink fleet has been a huge problem for the field of astronomy entirely do to this "move fast and break things" ethos.

Does Ukranian Airlines have a bad reputation besides the incident in Tehran? I rode it once, and besides it being a particularly rowdy flight, I found it to be a very strict and safe airline.

This was a very interesting essay. I learned about Material Culture at design school but had never considered it through the lens of literature before. The physicality of the written word is itself very ephemeral, which is something I spend too much time worrying about