Why I Hate Frameworks (or, Modern Software Development Summarized) Sometimes the most basic and non-general tool is the best tool for your simple job.

Speed matters: Why working quickly is more important than it seems Being fast at things makes it more likely that you'll try new and more things - speed is a human feature.

Viaweb's First Business Plan How to pitch a company with writing instead of a deck; how not to do financial planning.

Minimal-Trust Investigations Learn deeply by occasionally suspending trust and diving in deep to primary sources.

Choose Good Quests A call to do better things.

Learning by Writing Building better opinions by reading for writing.

Advice That Actually Worked for Me Productivity advice without all the junk.

The Friendship That Made Google Huge A beautiful tale of a beautiful working relationship between Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat.

Terraform Industries Whitepaper 2.0 This is how you think through a business and explain a brilliant future - and the path to get there.

Do Quests, not Goals Work on grand quests, not goals.

Bring back personal blogging - Colm Doyle Don't be the product - own your thoughts and conversations.

13 sentences for startups Paul Graham's 13 sentences for startups.

Principles of Progress Principles for managing - progress is most important.

Anu Atluru Rise of the Silicon Valley Small Business.