links #6, sept-nov 2025

nov 30th, 2025

The day Return became Enter

The Disappointment of Downtown Brooklyn

Why TigerBeetle is the most interesting database in the world

You are the scariest monster in the woods

America Is Sliding Toward Illiteracy

Why AI Will Widen the Gap Between Superstars and Everybody Else

The New World

How America’s Elite Colleges Breed High-Status Careers—and Misery

Gambling Is Killing Sports and Consuming America

More Than DNS: The 14 hour AWS us-east-1 outage

Predicting Every Block of the 2025 NYC Mayoral Election

The Case That A.I. Is Thinking

The Age of De-Skilling

Jack Schlossberg, Social Media Provocateur, Gives Politics a Try

To Lock or Not: MongoDB’s Lock-Free B-Tree Unlocks Throughput