Why Do Rich People Love Quiet? “For an hour I pretended to be a meek, muted version of myself. No one had told me to do this. I instinctively understood that, in this unfamiliar environment, the proper way to express my gratitude was to hush myself.”

TCP Congestion Control: A Systems Approach, by Peterson, Brakmo, and Davie. “What we have tried to do in this book is provide a framework for understanding congestion control as a systems problem, and to characterize the many approaches along a few main themes. For example, our work on TCP Vegas opened up a line of research that continues today, where the aim is to avoid severe congestion rather than react after it has set in. We thus consider avoidance-based approaches as one of the main categories of congestion control.”

Random acts of kindness and 50 ways to be ridiculously generous—and feel ridiculously good.

The Thorny Problem of Keeping the Internet’s Time. A nice profile of David Mills.