For those who want to understand Go's error handling better.
"Style" is already taken care of by gofmt. This document is all about how
you can write effective Go.
This is a great resource to learn about many synchronization patterns (and anti-patterns) in Go.
An Introduction to Handlers and Servemuxes in Go
This article explains how HTTP requests are typically handled in Go. It is incredibly well-written.
Hedonism, Asceticism and the Hermetic Answer
Luke's take against asceticism in this blog post is interesting.
Industrial Society and Its Future
If you ever want to read a bleak prognosis of our species, Industrial Society and Its Future will fit your needs perfectly. While I like the author's pessimism little, I believe he brings up valid points that we will have to contend with in the future.
Tom Preston-Werner, a co-founder of Github, gives advice on how you want to think about your product and build a business around it, at a time when getting venture capital is all the rage, so to speak.
Write maintainable code the first time
In this immersive article, Tristan carefully deconstructs the difference between easy-to-read code and easy-to-maintain code.
The Internet: An Extension of Google
An "SEO guy" bashes SEO.
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World, with Professor Cal Newport
He speaks about the "boredom drive" from 48:05 to 50:00. Historically, boredom used to drive us toward doing difficult, but rewarding, things. Today, as boredom can be dispelled easily through use of the phone, for example, we seem to have lost the yearning to put effort into arduous but worthwhile activities.
Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari
This book poses important questions about the future of humankind in the face of advancement of AI and biotechnology. Strangely enough, this work is highly reminiscent of Industrial Society and Its Future.
Privacy is Power by Carissa Veliéz
The title of the book is strangely hackneyed. The content, however, is not. In the first chapter, Carissa takes us through a day in the life of a man in a fictitious world where modern technology scourges him without his knowing the cause of his misery. I found the allegory very powerful. Later in the book, the author proposes several practical legislative ideas to tackle privacy invasions. Overall, the book is insightful.
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Brothers Karamazov poses deep questions about our existence and its meaning through the use of characters that undergo profound trauma, moral suffering, despair, and struggles against their own worse selves. Dostoevsky did not live long enough to complete the two-part story: the second book was to continue Alyosha's—Dostoevsky's 'hero'—journey. The first part itself was exceedingly profound; I wonder what the second part would have been like had Dostoevsky lived longer.