It happened on Medium: June 2024 roundup

Most-read stories, most popular highlights, and some old…

CrowdStrike: a root cause analysis

Issue #127: how to communicate across continents & how to be…

Why AI won’t kill software engineering jobs

🎓 There are more computer science majors today than at any point in history — so many that some universities have made the major application-only
Issue #125: on staying in the closet + switching teams
By Harris Sockel

Why no one wants to host the Olympics anymore

Issue #130: ’80s nostalgia, medieval memes, and work…

Correlation is not causation, or: the story of vitamin D

Issue #120: kindness v. niceness + thinking like a 60-year-old

📖 73 years ago today, J.D. Salinger published the 10th bestselling book of all time (~65 million…

How to be happier: sleep, gratitude, and usefulness

Be ruthless with your schedule

Issue #128: Time and being an executive, volunteering for science, and…

A security expert breaks down the Trump assassination attempt

On good, bad, and confusing communication

Issue #119: What good communication looks like, how…

How being irrational helps us cooperate and survive