This has some stuff useful to building but more than anything it is a collection of articles and conversations by professionals in many fields that should have something of interest to nearly everyone.
Enjoy looking around. :) I've had this in my bookmarks for years.
http://yarchive.net/home.html
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collected by Norman Yarvin
That's going to take some time. Very interesting.
Somehow I figured you'd bite on that one, Don.