#essentialreading — Public Fediverse posts

🚨🧠 BREAKING NEWS: Someone on the internet was diagnosed with a rare brain inflammation! Here's a blog post for your perusal, sprinkled with personal anecdotes that are essential to your coding projects, because who doesn't need a side of medical drama with their GitHub repository? 😂 #EssentialReading #TotallyRelevant
https://burntsushi.net/encephalitis/ #BreakingNews #BrainHealth #RareDisease #CodingHumor #MedicalDrama #HackerNews #ngated

A compelling introduction to the greatest minds in philosophical history. Buy online here:
https://www.quaybooksstore.com/products/arcturus-publishing-ltd-philosophy-100-essential-thinkers
#QuayBooks #Philosophy #BookLovers #EssentialReading #ThinkDeeply

Essential Reading for Agentic Engineers – August 2025

https://steipete.me/posts/2025/essential-reading-august-2025

#HackerNews #EssentialReading #AgenticEngineers #August2025 #TechInsights #EngineeringCommunity

This is such a a good article.

#AgustinFuentes
#EssentialReading

"To say that we’re binary is philosophy. It’s not biology. It’s declaring oneself essentialist: there are [men and women], two types of humans. But our biology doesn’t validate that position. Yes, there are binary things in our biology, but to say that human beings come in two different types is false. And we can prove it."

https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2025-08-02/agustin-fuentes-bioanthropologist-saying-that-human-beings-are-binary-is-a-failure-its-not-biology-its-philosophy.html

Hey #fediverse! What would you consider #essentialreading for #LGBTQ slash #lgbtqia youth?

Disciplines are an unhealthy form of essentialism — as if the world divides naturally into them. We need a pragmatic view of fields instead. So argues @timhwang persuasively. After all, Everything Is Miscellaneous :) #EssentialReading https://www.macroscience.org/p/field-essentialism-field-realism

https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2024/04/25/all-the-kings-horses/

This is a real cri de cœur - from the heart and the soul. #EssentialReading whatever your country - because the same kind of thing is happening all over the world.

The #proud and the #cruel are taking over.

#ScottishIndependenceNow
#politicsofdestruction

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2023/dec/21/sanctuary-i-grew-up-in-the-troubles-and-have-been-seeking-a-place-of-peace-ever-since

#ReadThis #EssentialReading #FutureNow

Seriously, read this. Every paragraph resonates in so many ways with what's happening now and not just in the #UK

The week’s wrap up.

If you’re not yet a subscriber of Heather Cox Richardson’s newsletter, I highly recommend it. #MustRead #EssentialReading #ThisMomentInTime #ThisMomentInHistory

https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/october-20-2023?r=2m1hl&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

I’m not finishing another book tonight, so I can safely now say that in 2022 I finished only 60 books.

I will put up my full list on my blog soon, but I want to give a New Year’s Eve shoutout to @keribla whose beautifully written and gripping memoir Corrections in Ink was one of the book highlights of my year.

It is the kind of read that can fundamentally change your perception of what we call the “criminal justice system” in the US.

#essentialReading #memoir

Major eye opener right here! It’s quite fascinating to learn about the historic roots of the general aversion to reality that seems to permeate American society. #Fantasyland #Pseudoscience #SnakeOil #Grifting #ExtraordinaryClaims #WildBeliefs #Book #EssentialReading #CurrentlyReading #ReadingList #Books #Bookstodon #AmReading