Flurries of latent creativity - Stripe CTO blog22 Mar 2026
“When art critics get together they talk about form and structure and meaning. When artists get together, they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.” — attributed to Pablo Picasso I’ve...
Ness Labsby Anne-Laure Le Cunff11 Mar 2026
We often talk about “trusting our gut.” But the gut feelings people refer to can actually stem from two very different sources: instinct and intuition.
Steve Blankby steve blank24 Feb 2026
What Lies Ahead I have no Way of Knowing, But It’s Now Time to Get Going Tom Petty This post previously appeared in Philanthropy.org A while ago I wrote about what happens in a startup when a new...
Essays - Benedict Evansby Benedict Evans19 Feb 2026
How will OpenAI compete? “Jakub and Mark set the research direction for the long run. Then after months of work, something incredible emerges and I get a researcher pinging me saying: “I have...
Blog19 Feb 2026
You have probably noticed that my website has been a bit stale the last few months. I'll be frank about why that is.
The Gradientby Peli Grietzer18 Feb 2026
Preface This essay argues that rational people don’t have goals, and that rational AIs shouldn’t have goals.
Julia Evansby Julia Evans18 Feb 2026
Hello! After spending some time working on the Git man pages last year, I’ve been thinking a little more about what makes a good man page.
Coding Horrorby Jeff Atwood4 Feb 2026
It's been a year since I invited Americans to join us in a pledge to Share the American Dream: 1. Support organizations you feel are effectively helping those most in need across America right now.
Ness Labsby Editorial Team3 Feb 2026
Welcome to this edition of our Tools for Thought series, where we interview founders on a mission to help us think, connect, and live better.
Kirkus Reviewsby Kirkus Prize Winners; Finalists About the Kirkus Prize Jurors2 Feb 2026
by Rashid El-Daif ; translated by Nicholas R. Lobo & Alfred J. Naddaff ‧ RELEASE DATE: today An intellectually ambitious, often provocative exploration of modernization and progress.
Kirkus Reviewsby Kirkus Prize Winners; Finalists About the Kirkus Prize Jurors2 Feb 2026
by Kwadwo Abrokwa ‧ RELEASE DATE: today A sometimes-inspiring fictional account of one man’s journey through his own history.
Kirkus Reviewsby Kirkus Prize Winners; Finalists About the Kirkus Prize Jurors2 Feb 2026
by David Joseph ‧ RELEASE DATE: today Skillfully observed, fleeting miniatures that tend to evaporate before acquiring real depth.
Kirkus Reviewsby Kirkus Prize Winners; Finalists About the Kirkus Prize Jurors2 Feb 2026
by Steinunn G. Helgadóttir ; translated by Larissa Kyzer ‧ RELEASE DATE: today A restrained novel about discovering and wielding one’s innate powers.
Kirkus Reviewsby Kirkus Prize Winners; Finalists About the Kirkus Prize Jurors2 Feb 2026
by Ellen Halter ‧ RELEASE DATE: today A well-researched, politically urgent story that could use more vivid prose to match its ambitions.
Kirkus Reviewsby Kirkus Prize Winners; Finalists About the Kirkus Prize Jurors2 Feb 2026
by Ranjit Arab ‧ RELEASE DATE: today An intriguing portrayal of an underdiscussed event in American history, let down by lackluster execution.
The Sunday Wisdomby Abhishek Chakraborty25 Jan 2026
I keep discovering that time is not a straight line so much as a series of rooms I can still walk into, even when the doors are supposed to be closed.
Essays - Benedict Evansby Benedict Evans23 Nov 2025
AI, networks and Mechanical Turks Any consumer internet system with critical mass becomes, in part, a Mechanical Turk. It looks at what the users do and draws conclusions from that.
The Sunday Wisdomby Abhishek Chakraborty9 Nov 2025
There’s a strange kind of peace that comes from admitting you don’t know who you are. Not in the adolescent, identity-crisis way—but in the calm, adult sense of realising that not knowing is...
Essays - Benedict Evansby Benedict Evans25 May 2025
GenAI’s adoption puzzle This chart is very ‘glass half-empty or half-full?’, and it’s a puzzle. You could say that this is amazingly fast adoption, and much faster than PCs, the web or smartphones.
The Sunday Wisdomby Abhishek Chakraborty11 May 2025
The other afternoon, as I was having coffee and trying to focus on a very overdue deadline, my brain decided it was the perfect moment to remind me of this random shopkeeper from my childhood.
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