2023-05-20 Links

The Economist 1983: You studied CompSci but Big Tech no longer wants you. What next?

Thomas Kuhn’s “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” is a text I’ve regrettably not read before. Time to remedy that this week. Found the word “Congeries” there: a disorderly collection, a jumble.

Ness Labs: The Good Side of Stress “Dis-tress vs Eus-tress”

Ethan Mollick: Catastrophe/Eucatatrophe

“No man treats a motorcar as foolishly as he treats another human being. When the car will not go, he does not attribute its annoying behavior to sin; he does not say, “You are a wicked motorcar, and I shall not give you any more petrol until you go.” He attempts to find out what is wrong and to set it right. An analogous way of treating human beings is, however, considered to be contrary to the truths of our holy religion. -Bertrand Russell”

Reasons to be cheerful: The surprising role of blind women in India’s healthcare system

Ludwig Wittgenstein: “the limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”

How physics explains business is a fab read!