Yes, it’s a clickbaity title, but if you read this as an essay about what to care about at work, it has some good reminders like this:

“Care less” is directionally right, but let’s get more specific. The real shift is learning to place your care deliberately — to get good at telling the difference between what’s strategically important and what’s just noisy. A lot of what happens inside companies is frustrating without being important. Reacting to a messy call that you personally wouldn’t have made as if it’s a strategic risk is what drains you. So is holding on to every detail as if it’s existential. Not everything deserves to be treated with equal importance. A gut check that helps: Will this matter in a year? If not, it probably doesn’t deserve much energy now. What’s the worst-case scenario? Often, it’s not that bad.

I sent this essay to my wife because doing self-owns is kind of my brand. It’s about husbands who can’t stop talking about AI, and despite how uncomfortable it made me, it’s not wrong and also wonderful writing. This is so good:

I should also say I didn’t bother speaking to any of the actual husbands for this story. I’m sick of hearing from the men of AI. So many of us are. They have podcasts and Senate hearings and magazine profiles and probably a group chat with the president. They’ve been talked to—and I can’t stress this enough—enough.

This post is a fascinating look at how botnets actually work. I don’t want to spoil the takeaways so I’ll just quote this (but you should read the whole thing):

Your server isn’t special. Nobody is “targeting” it. Every IP address on the internet is being continuously probed by automated systems. Within seconds of exposing port 22, you will receive login attempts. This isn’t a question of “if” but “when” — and the answer to “when” is “immediately.”

This song is all over my Instagram Reels for some reason and it is such a vibe I can’t get enough of it.

I guess this shows just how old I am because I loved every single one of the “Oscar-bait” movies in this list (I do agree on TCM though)…

When I was a kid, I would watch Turner Classic Movies and try to appreciate films from the 1940s, only to find the exercise strangely difficult. I could admire them—in theory—but I struggled to experience these stories the way their original audiences did.

I feel similarly about many Oscar-bait dramas of the 1990s, including but not limited to: Chocolat, American Beauty, Shakespeare in Love, Scent of a Woman, The English Patient, and Life Is Beautiful. I simply don’t understand what contemporary audiences saw in these films.

That aside, as usual Daniel makes an interesting larger point, about why we don’t see as many dramas as we used to:

Action and horror, meanwhile, have visceral elements that translate across generations: big dinosaurs, jump scares, campy set pieces, and other straightforward pleasures. The first ten minutes of Raiders of the Lost Ark are timeless and feature almost no dialogue.