Notable Readings

Articles in more or less inverse chronological order:

What can a technologist do about Climate Change?: «Worrying about sentient AI as the ice caps melt is like standing on the tracks as the train rushes in, worrying about being hit by lightning»
What is a Computational Essay: Steven Wolfram (the inventor of Mathematica) describes how science and computing are intertwinded today and how he sees the scientific paper of the future. Nowadays we luckily have the lightweight open source version of his proposition in the form of Jupyter Notebooks.
Controlling Your Environment Makes You Happy: A programmer giving advice on design? If it's Joel Spolsky then it's OK. He describes how it is fundamental to make people feel in control of what they use. Also read his other things.
The rainbow color map: Don't be tricked by colors. The rainbow is only ever adapted in data visualisation when you have discrete steps.
Why Procrastination is Good: I needed this :-)
Don't call yourself a programmer: Sane career advice about not being a cost center. Could be applied for any profession.
Bret Victor: Just everything he writes is insightful and exciting. «Magic Ink» is one of my favorites though.
Toward a better programming: Essay about the state of programming and why it is broken. Also gives some hints to where it should be headed.
Battle for the body field: Discusses the eternal problem of structure and text. How much can there be? And why are normal people not thinking like programmers?
Writing is Thinking: Helped me to finally overcome my perfectionism and just start writing. And yes, I think it is true what the article says.
Why education is so difficult and contentious: About the three contradicting goals of education. No solution offered but still an enlightening read.
What Screens Want: Fundamental thoughts beautifully presented.
Mental Models: A collection of models used in different branches of science. A nice way to get an overview.