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What Did the Depressed Clown Say to Buddha?
An essay built on Kierkegaard's idea that the crowd is untruth, weighing the danger of feeling compassion without ever a…
What Sort of Thing a Brain Is
A short note by Nate Soares on what kind of thing a brain is, a specialty device shaped by evolution, written as backgro…
When Looking Became Seeing
An essay on John Berger's Ways of Seeing, the 1972 BBC series that changed how a generation looked at art, advertising a…
Where Do the Children Play?
An essay on growing up with machetes and wild places, and why children and the living world both need room to exist with…
Where Have All the Websites Gone?
An essay asking whether the quirky, personal websites of the late 2000s really vanished or whether we just stopped looki…
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Why All Of Our Games Look Like Crap
A veteran indie game developer explains with humor and hard numbers why his studio's games look dated, and why that is a…
Why Be Moral?
Larry Sanger's essay presenting his basic approach to ethics, arguing that living well is the foundation of morality and…
Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard
A well-known essay by David Moser on why learning Chinese is so difficult for English speakers, covering the characters,…
Why Didn't Gandalf Own a Colt .45?
A long, playful essay asking why Middle-earth never had an industrial revolution, using real economic history to examine…
Why I Am Not a Christian
A philosophy essay by Keith Parsons, a former professor of the philosophy of religion, laying out his reasoned case for…
Why I Write
George Orwell's 1946 essay on his four motives for writing and how he set out to turn political writing into an art, in…
Why Intelligence Doesn't Improve Reasoning
An essay arguing that real-world rationality depends less on IQ than on timing, framing, and incentives, and why smart p…
Why Modern Chinese is Just English with Hanzi
An essay on how modern Chinese grammar and vocabulary were reshaped by European languages in the 20th century, with exam…
Why the Culture Wins: An Appreciation of Iain M. Banks
Philosopher Joseph Heath's essay on Iain M. Banks's Culture novels and why this post-scarcity utopia works as a vision o…
Why Time Seems to Pass Faster as We Age
An essay exploring the psychology and neuroscience behind the feeling that years speed up as we get older, and what we m…
Why We Need a Literary Canon
An essay by Joshua Fagan arguing for the enduring value of preserving the best of human thought and expression in a shar…
Why You Hate Comic Sans
An essay on why Comic Sans draws so much scorn, looking at the child-like handwriting font's infamy and the movement bui…
Why Your City's Street Grid Matters More Than You Think
An essay on the hidden impact street connectivity has on transportation, housing and how easily people can get around a…
Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software
A programmer reflects on swapping audio-engine code for a hand-built wooden chair, and on what physical craft teaches ab…
Words
A minimalist essay arguing that written content should come before design and that words are the web's most powerful too…
Working as a Software Developer
An essay adapted from a talk to first-year engineering students that explains what software development work is actually…
Worse Is Better
Richard P. Gabriel's classic 1991 essay on why simple, imperfect software often beats elegant design, a foundational rea…
Writing Slowly
A reflective post from the Writing Slowly blog on Walter Benjamin and the obsolete book, touching on footnotes, hyperlin…
You Are How You Act
An essay setting Rousseau's inner self against Hume's behaviorism to argue that you are the sum of your actions rather t…
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