Links #153

JA Westenberg on failure. “I’ve started to think the whole framing is wrong. We’ve been so busy rehabilitating failure that we forgot to ask whether ‘failure’ is even the right word for what’s happening when you try something and it doesn’t work.” The experimental lens is a good way to approach it, I think.

Raptitude on covering your twenty-five miles and then resting up. I read this and liked it a lot — this is how you do big things — and then some time later as I was nearing the end of War and Peace I came across the original passage, which was fun.

James Brown on what makes programming great. Liked this.

Matheus Lima on life happening at 1x speed. While I think this is good advice — efficiency often has downsides, and slowing down can enhance the quality of one’s experience — I do also think some things can be consumed at a slightly faster clip without lossiness, and sometimes the qualitative changes that accompany the speed increase are worth it, at least in my experience with reading.

Alex Harri’s deep dive into rendering higher-quality ASCII art. Fun. Using the shape of the characters to effectively bump up the resolution seems so obvious in retrospect.