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 think Immanuel Kant was around 60 when he wrote the Critique of Pure Reason. There are lots of examples of old people doing good stuff.

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

Something I’ve noticed that I didn’t expect is that people are able to guess a lot of albums in only one or two squares. Some of this is luck and image layout paradigms being surprisingly consistent (titles at the top!), but we also may have better context-based image memory than we think. There’s an obscure setting to increase the difficulty, which makes the squares smaller (or larger) to combat this.

Interesting idea about the reveal! I’ll consider adding that (or some cheap version of placing the image in the success modal at least).

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'