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[meorae]

napoleonofnerds's post about education made me remember some essays I read a while ago. So I dug through my old bookmarks and actually found the site and have spent the afternoon reading the ones I remembered being interesting instead of doing what I was going to do, but whatever. So site is here. (Majority of the essays have to do with computer programming as the author is a computer programmer, but there are still essays on other topics...)

The essays I like the most are The Age of the Essay, Good and Bad Procrastination, What You Can't Say, Why Nerds Are Unpopular and there were a few others I remember liking, but those are the only ones I've reread so far.

Oh, the one napoleonofnerds's post reminded me of was What You'll Wish You'd Known, which has the conclusion we've already all come to, that we should pursue what interests us outside of school if we aren't satisfied with the education we get in school.

So y'all should read those essays... Just a warning though, they're all around 10 pages single spaced, so they each take me around 15 minutes to read and I'm supposedly a fast reader...

Comments

[wirlia.livejournal.com]

I LOVE THIS GUY'S ESSAYS!!!!!!!!!!!! I found them a *really* long time ago and read a shitload shitload shitload shitload of them and thought they were *really* funny.

Wow. I didn't realize until just now that he wrote Hackers and Painters. I've been wanting to read it for a really long time, but none of the bookstores have it. *rereads that excerpt*

And I love you forever for linking me to this guy. *bookmarks*

[meorae.livejournal.com]

You can buy it on amazon if you want it (it being Hackers and Painters).

And no problem. I knew other people would be interested, so I'm glad I was right.

d '_' b

[l33tspike.livejournal.com]

those essays are most fabulous, I thouroughly enjoyed them, thank you.

[arsinyk.livejournal.com]

Hah, I remember these essays. This guy's awesome. *begins rereading just for the heck of it*

[cbizkit.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm... the guy thinks he's so smart that he can write an essay in which he encourages people, in a thinly veiled way, to think about Larry Summers' "women might just be worse in math and science" comments in a serious way, because labeling anything as "x-ist" (i.e. sexist) is wrong and the ideas of past generations (i.e. "get thee to a corset, strumpet!") might be right after all.

Well, gee, maybe I'm just a dumb girl, but I think he's a little full of himself. :P

[cbizkit.livejournal.com]

Oh, but I DO like the "What You'll Wish You'd Known" one. It has motivated me to write more and schedule schoolwork around writing, not the other way around. :)