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About 5% is the most common final ownership stake for the founder of a VC-funded startup that works out.Their words
You think this is crazy low but ~5% ownership probably the most common final % most VC funded startups will have when they work out, especially when you have a co-founder
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18 July
From one piece Controlling Reasoning Effort in LLMs 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Pushing an LLM's reasoning budget higher eventually yields diminishing returns and becomes uneconomical.Their words
This saturation can be seen more clearly for the GPT 5.6 Sol model, which also shows that increasing reasoning budgets can become uneconomical at some point.
Controlling Reasoning Effort in LLMsmagazine.sebastianraschka.com
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a smaller model at a higher reasoning effort can sometimes reach a similar score as a larger model at a lower reasoning effort
Controlling Reasoning Effort in LLMsmagazine.sebastianraschka.com
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These <think> and </think> tags are cosmetic with respect to reasoning ability. They do not make the model reason, and they are not required to achieve good reasoning performance.
Controlling Reasoning Effort in LLMsmagazine.sebastianraschka.com
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A City on MarsTheir words
They excel at making the dull delightful. There are a lot of big and serious facts to get through, but they have a gift for communicating them simply and eloquently. I just wish they'd've come to a different conclusion.
17 July
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Restricting US AI models does not work: China builds better ones and everyone switches to them.Their words
US: restricts US AI model because too dangerous China: builds better Chinese AI model Everyone: switches to Chinese AI model This is why restricting models probably doesn't work, it's much more preferable (for US) to have everyone on US AI models so at least they can monitor what everyone is doing
From one piece Canada's boreal wildfires aren't just bad forest management 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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warmer air is exponentially "thirstier" (saturation vapor pressure rises ~7% per degree), so it pulls moisture out of live vegetation and dead fuels alike, priming the landscape to burn.
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Local fuel treatments protect communities but cannot reduce total wildfire area across the remote borealTheir words
Fuel management is valuable around communities, but is essentially useless across the remote boreal.
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Fuel buildup from forest mismanagement cannot occur in forests that were never actively managedTheir words
You cannot have a fuel-buildup from forest mismanagement in a forest you were never managing.
From one piece Permanent Daylight Saving Time Is the Perfect Stupid Idea for Our Stupid Time 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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politicians acting based on what they think polls well, rather than based on what will actually produce results that make voters happy
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the increasing unreasonableness of an electorate that wants all its groceries in one bag and also doesn't want the bag to be heavy is a primary driver behind permanently low approval of politicians in both parties
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Modern technology has made seasonal clock changes far less burdensome than they were decades ago.Their words
the main relevant difference between 1974 and now is that technology handles clock changes on our behalf, so time changes are less burdensome than they used to be.
From one piece Another stolen summer day 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Forest management alone cannot offset the hotter, drier conditions that climate change has brought to wildfires.Their words
It is not enough to manage away the hotter, drier conditions that have turned fires into continent-spanning hellscape smoke events.
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Polluters and their cronies are not trying to win the climate argument, merely to prolong it in perpetuity so there's never enough public consensus for action.
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Unlocking the Past: A Yogic Perspective on Healing Intergenerational TraumaTheir words
Join my on-demand course with @YogaUOnline—Unlocking the Past: A Yogic Perspective on Healing Intergenerational Trauma, exploring how yogic approaches can resolve inherited trauma.
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I read a bunch of blog posts about how it is totally fine to use SQLite in production for a small site and I think it is totally fine, but what I did not fully appreciate is that SQLite is still a database, databases are complicated, and I do not know a lot about operating databases.
16 July
From one piece My speech at Borgo Laudato Si’ 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Competitive pressure among AI developers could cause loss of control even without anyone intending itTheir words
But in a climate of rushed decisions and fierce competition, we could lose control over AI even if almost no one wants that outcome.
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AI is developing at a very rapid pace, far more rapidly than most outside of the industry fully understand, and far more rapidly than almost anyone in the industry predicted.
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Loss of control is a risk for the next few years, not the next few decades as many experts once thought.
From one piece Notebooks And The Extended Mind 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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the most pressing question is not whether the machines are on the verge of sentience, since the likelihood of that seems low.
Notebooks And The Extended Mindadjacentpossible.substack.com
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the external tools that we use to help us reason, remember, associate, calculate-from counting on our fingers to chatting with an advanced LLM-should be properly understood as extensions of our own cognitive process.
Notebooks And The Extended Mindadjacentpossible.substack.com
From one piece Is the Age of Reading Actually Over? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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A shift toward faster media formats changes how people read rather than ending reading altogetherTheir words
Faster formats don't automatically destroy reading. They change it.
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As everything else becomes faster and cheaper, things that require sustained attention become more valuableTheir words
When everything else gets faster and cheaper, the stuff that requires real-time and attention becomes more important, more valuable.
From one piece Workshop Basel day three 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Today's live-streamed TV broadcasts have higher latency than the 1969 moon landing broadcast.Their words
The moon landing was broadcasted with less latency than current live-streamed TV
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The feature is disabled by Google in ChromeOS, Android and in production Google servers which certainly holds back some use of it.
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I have the Wigglesworth and Moore books on my desk, queued up for my hammock reading
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How to Get Rich in American HistoryTheir words
I have the Wigglesworth and Moore books on my desk, queued up for my hammock reading
15 July
From one piece Corridor Zoning is not Transit-Oriented Development 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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the explicit purpose of corridor zoning is to concentrate both air pollution and the perceived social pollution of apartment dwellers in quarantine zones that single-family homeowners can avoid
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The reason is simple: TOD doesn't care about corridors but about the underlying transit, which is a subway, not a bus stopping every block.
From one piece Context engineering with Dex Horthy 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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But it's also your instruction budget is like if you give the model too many instructions and especially too many conflicting instructions and that's in your initial prompt and also like if you have a conversation you start going down a path and then you change your mind and you start going down a different you actually I don't want to do any of that I want to do this. It's like a it's a lot of computation the model has to do to notice that it has to ignore that whole thing.
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You're not actually getting a like smarter model. like the intelligence of the model is is what drives its ability to attend to all of the tokens in the context window to figure out on the next turn which parts of this 100k or 200k context window are the most relevant to making the decision of like what is the next tool we call and doing that over and over again in a loop.
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I think context engineering has been so long lived because it's it's grounded in the fundamentals of how transformer attention works and until we have post transformer models or linear attention or whatever it is which who knows when that's going to happen context engineering will be interesting and important to anyone building on AI
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Well, harness engineering just is like how do I raise the floor so that every single turn of this thing, the results are as good as possible.
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And at the end of the day, they're all like different ways to pass tokens into a model and ask it to produce usually some structured output. And understanding that is a lot more powerful than trying to learn memory and trying to pick some agent framework off the shelf and some memory framework off the shelf.
From one piece Operation Gallavant: An Overlanding Journey Through Latin America 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The purpose of childhood is to encounter failure and hardship directly, not be shielded from it.Their words
The whole purpose of childhood is to mess up, to skin your knees, to run up against the limits of reality and feel reality push back.
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Under rising uncertainty, people should shorten their planning horizon rather than invest in a distant future.Their words
When uncertainty rises, your horizon should become shorter-term.
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AI's transformation of society will unfold gradually over decades, not in a single moment of takeoff.Their words
AI will take many decades to ripple through society. We won't see the end of it in our lifetimes.
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climate coverage is rapidly shrinking-and what remains is increasingly paywalled
From one piece An Alternative to Private Equity: Introducing ORANGE JUICE 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Privately held businesses in the United States are collectively worth trillions of dollars, and demographically speaking, they have an aging set of owners who are seeking liquidity or diversification as they explore how to pass on what they've built.
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PE funds optimize for a 4-7 flip and typically resort to aggressive cost-cutting and near-term optimization at the cost of the "soul" of the business or what made it successful in the first place.
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Businesses acquired by private equity funds fail more often than average because of the leverage loaded onto them.Their words
Businesses that emerge out of PE funds have higher failure rates than average, thanks to being saddled with a lot of leverage.
From one piece Labor is Now Free. Make Something. 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The difference in performance between horse and buggy and a modern car is far less than hand coding and AI coding.
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This will become normal and commonplace 12-24 months from now, but right now no one really knows.
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Now is the best time ever to start a small business, thanks to AI making labor essentially free.Their words
There has never been a better time to start a small business.
From one piece Open source models are having a moment 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Geo-politically, countries will be weighing open weight models as a way to get frontier-level tokens inside controlled environments that may not be otherwise possible.
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Organizations will trade some access to frontier-level AI capability for greater control over how their data is used.Their words
Organizations are increasingly looking for control over how their data is used and are willing to trade off some access to frontier level tokens for this control.
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The future is multi-model.Their words
it is clear we are going to have a diverse ecosystem of models at least on coding and agentic use.
From one piece Various and Sundry 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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AI-generated junk papers risk overwhelming the hep-th physics field with worthless content.Their words
The result is something completely worthless, but not obviously distinguishable from many other things on hep-th, which is in serious danger of going from something sad and unhealthy to something completely overwhelmed with crud.
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While in mathematics AI agents are starting to have a major positive impact on research (e.g. by resolving the Jacobian conjecture), the situation is very different in hep-th.
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I see nothing that looks like a significant new idea or any evidence this isn't a dead field.
14 July
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All you need to build a business today is free open source software, a VPS, an AI API and S3-style file hosting.Their words
All you really need today to build a business is 100% free open source software that charges you $0/mo a VPS server an API to do some required AI stuff some R2/S3 file hosting
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Dell XPS 13 (2026)Their words
The XPS 13 has a great 120Hz screen (something you don't even get on a MacBook Air at twice the money!), a superb keyboard w/ backlighting (also missing on the Neo!), and weighs 20% less at just 1 kg with every bit as nice an aluminum chassis.
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Dell XPS 14 (2026)Their words
As I said, I've spent months using an XPS 14 as my main machine. It's been so good I even gave up on using a dedicated desktop machine.
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Framework LaptopTheir words
I did try Dell's laptops a few years back, didn't like what I saw, and ended up spending a few years using Framework computers instead (they're still great too).
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Apple Pro Display XDRTheir words
Now I just run everything off the XPS 14, connected to an Apple XDR 6K 32" (nobody has yet managed to beat this, and I've owned it for years). It's a great, simple setup.
From one piece Some Summer Reading 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Behavioral economics is not a cure-all, but it is a useful tool for individuals and for systemic change alike.Their words
My view: Behavioral economics is no panacea, but it can be an extremely useful tool for individuals and for systems as well.
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As I've often written, money isn't really about numbers; it's about emotion.
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Good economic times tend to produce bad financial ideas, while bad times produce good ones.Their words
My own theory is that good times foster bad financial ideas, and bad times engender good ones.
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The Psychology of MoneyTheir words
Housel, the author of The Psychology of Money, a book I wish I'd written, has written another book I wish I'd written.
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1873: The Rothschilds, the First Great Depression, and the Making of the Modern WorldTheir words
Ahamed, the banker and investment manager whose previous book Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World covered the crash of 1929, writes well.
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The Wealth LadderTheir words
He develops simple, clever, quantitative rules of thumb to guide saving, spending, and investing as you progress through different levels of wealth.
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Stay Calm: Learn to Embrace Uncertainty in Investing and LifeTheir words
It might have worked even better as two separate books, rather than as one short book trying to do two things. But Booth's writing is soothing, and his overall message — investing is simply a bet on human innovation and progress — is a truism worth repeating. Young people, in particular, might benefit from reading it.
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Risk & RewardTheir words
Carlson, author of the aptly named blog A Wealth of Common Sense, brings a similar approach to this book. While much of it might seem familiar to sophisticated readers, Carlson's clean and clear use of data — both in charts and text — makes basic points memorable.
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Makita XGT LED worklightTheir words
While I only spent a couple of minutes with the new Makita worklight, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
13 July
From one piece How to Improve Your Memory & Cognitive Function at Any Age | Dr. Alan Castel 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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And our brain does a lot of interesting things in terms of, you know, reconstructing the past also has a similar brain signature as imagining the future. which you know in some ways makes sense. We shouldn't have separate parts of the brain for thinking about the past and thinking about the future.
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Now, it can also make your memory worse because you're realizing I want to I'm taking this photo so I don't need to remember it later. And so, you could see it going both ways, but that selection process is important.
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the research on photographic memory does show that even people who have very strong visual memory will make memory errors. So it's not that you know it's exactly photographic but their visual memory is exceptional.
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How can you make learning kind of uncomfortable, but that you'll remember things better? And it goes against a lot of our intuitions. A lot of teachers will want to say, how can we make learning easier? And I think that's probably the first problem is you don't want it to be easy.
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And I think that illustrates also how our memory works. That just seeing something many times doesn't mean you'll remember it well. And this is a classic demonstration that, you know, you've seen a penny many times. You don't remember all the features on the penny.
From one piece The Strongest El Niño Ever 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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global temperature lags ENSO by around three to five months, most of this event's warming will land in 2027, which is now shaping up to be a genuinely alarming year and the warmest on record by a sizable margin.
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El Niño events typically peak near the end of the calendar year, between November and January.Their words
El Niño almost always peaks near the end of the calendar year - typically between November and January, occasionally as early as October
From one piece Graham Platner Was Just Hunter Biden With Worse Ink 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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After all, one of the main reasons bad boys are bad is that they lie.
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They get women to sleep with them, but they attract both men and women and cause them to surrender their better judgment and make bad choices in a variety of contexts, including the voting booth.
From one piece Why Reading Matters 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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We should treat highly distracting digital garbage like junk food – something we largely avoid – and purposefully schedule a non-trivial amount of time each day to read, write, and self-reflect, just as we now dedicate time to walking, jogging, and weight lifting.
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Human rights, logic, progress and the very idea of an independent self are all children of the written word.Their words
essentially every cultural attribute that we celebrate – from human rights, to logic, to progress, to the very notion of an independent self – are conceptual children born from the mind-shaping power of the written word.
From one piece The Black Markets Fallacy 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Prohibition reduces how much of a product is consumed rather than merely moving the same consumption underground.Their words
Quantity consumed under prohibition is almost always smaller than quantity consumed under legalization.
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What’s fallacious is to argue that this fact necessarily means the prohibition does not “work,” or is not better than legalization.
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Siri AITheir words
The ability to go from Siri in the Camera to a longer conversation in the dedicated Siri app is one of my favorite aspects of Siri AI.
12 July
From one piece The Network State 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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As mentioned before, Uber and Lyft are better regulators than the State’s paper-based taxi medallions, email is superior to the USPS, and SpaceX is out-executing NASA.
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As incredible as it may sound, the blockchain is the most important development in history since the advent of writing itself, as it’s a cryptographically verifiable, highly replicated, unfalsifiable, and provably complete digital record of a system.
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In this sense, the Network is the next Leviathan, because on key dimensions it is becoming more powerful and more just than the State.
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Encryption thus limits governments in a way no legislation can.
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new laws are like code that is pushed live to production without even being read (let alone tested), often in the face of tremendous opposition, affecting millions of citizens, with minimal monitoring to ensure they’re producing the desired results, an extremely slow customer feedback cycle, and few ways to truly opt out.
From one piece A self-absorbed giant 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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China's cultural and intellectual output to the world is far smaller than its economic weight.Their words
It surely does not “produce” one quarter of world culture or intellectual activity (if the latter is defined as influential books, of fiction and non-fiction, politics, history; films, plastic arts, music, theater etc.)
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China had more ideological influence in the world during the Cultural Revolution than it has today.Their words
Paradoxically, China might have had more soft power when it followed self-destructive policies of Maoist Cultural Revolution.
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China's economic success has produced no transferable blueprint that other poor countries could follow.Their words
China’s tremendous success had not resulted in a blueprint that could be followed from Afghanistan to Zambia on how to become rich in four decades.
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Chinese writers' preoccupation with China alone is what limits China's soft power abroad.Their words
To come to my key point: this self-concentration limits China’s ideological influence in the rest of the world and its soft power.
From one piece Medicine is Moving From Calendars to Clocks 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I would suggest not buying any of these tests.
Medicine is Moving From Calendars to Clockserictopol.substack.com
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I believe this represents the most important advance we have yet seen in the science of human aging.
Medicine is Moving From Calendars to Clockserictopol.substack.com
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Accordingly, the brain and immune system have the appearance of master regulators of the aging process.
Medicine is Moving From Calendars to Clockserictopol.substack.com
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Our organs and cell types age at different rates, so a single chronological age is an illusion.Their words
It also turns out our organs age at a different pace.
Medicine is Moving From Calendars to Clockserictopol.substack.com
11 July
From one piece Does losing sleep mean losing lifespan? 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Given what we know about sleep loss, that conclusion makes sense—but being reasonable isn’t the same thing as being proven.
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So a rough night here and there is nothing to agonize over.
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Sleep is a lever on body composition, metabolism, and mood, and deprivation pulls in the wrong direction across nearly every axis at once.
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Population-level studies will keep struggling to prove that short sleep shortens life, because they are structurally unable to separate cause from symptom—and the genetic tools meant to overcome this limitation inherit a different fatal flaw.
From one piece The value of software in a Fable world 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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As AI makes coding easy for everyone, the ability to code stops being a meaningful edge for entrepreneurs.Their words
Indie entrepreneurs need to stack every advantage they have, and increasingly "coding" won't be the advantage it once was.
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My guess is that people will still want to buy certain types of software and tools "off-the-shelf."
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Scarcity and difficulty of production, not just usefulness, are what let a seller charge more.Their words
Generally, the economy rewards difficulty and rarity. If something is hard to do or make, you get to charge more.
From one piece The Odyssey 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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How a person interprets a major movie is shaped by where they are in their own life at that moment.Their words
Finally, when you watch any major movie, you interpret it through where you are in your life at that moment.
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Reading online commentary about a movie before seeing it reduces the immersion of experiencing it for the first time.Their words
There are many forces online that want to cast every movie into their pet topic and I find that deeply reduces the immersion and experience from watching a piece of cinema for the first time.
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The OdysseyTheir words
this will be the movie of the year, will leave a deep impact on any viewer and will go down as one of the great epic movies made
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Thunderbolt's official wake-from-sleep certification does not guarantee the feature works reliably in practice.Their words
At this point, I had pretty much given up and filed Thunderbolt's "wake from sleep" promise in the "unreliable" folder, right next to Bluetooth Pairing.
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ASUS ROG Swift PG27UCDMTheir words
Since I switched the monitor, I have never experienced a failure. The system works perfectly, flawlessly waking the laptop and bringing the desktop online in under a second.
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Caldigit TS4Their words
I got the CalDigit TS4 as soon as it was released, in 2022. It was perhaps a little bit better but overall I was disappointed to still sometimes encounter a machine that would not wake up.
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CalDigit TS3Their words
Even the best Thunderbolt dock at the time, the CalDigit TS3, would occasionally fail to wake up the system. It was super annoying.
10 July
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Once you commit to HTML, an enormous amount of complexity simply evaporates.
From one piece Don't you mean extinct? 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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But for everything else, code quality still matters tremendously.
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Writing every line by hand is no longer the norm. Those who refuse to use an LLM will fall behind because they won't be able to produce as much
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Smaller teams are betterTheir words
We can accomplish more with smaller teams. We may not be far from the '90s model, when a team of four could produce professional software.
9 July
From one piece Is Recall the Second Brain for the AI Era? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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AI tends to flatten outputs toward sameness, so personal taste and perspective become the main way to stand out.Their words
AI flattens everything it touches. The way you stand out is by getting clearer about what you really want, your taste, your perspective, your opinions.
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The quality of the context given to an AI matters more than the model's inherent capability.Their words
The quality of your context beats the cleverness of the model.
From one piece The rise of taste, human authenticity and judgment in an AI world | Adam Mosseri (Head of IG) 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I think that you can imagine at least in an year or two coming that the the burn rate of a strong engineer might be the same as their salary or their cost of employment.
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So you know who who succeeds is a function of whose strengths are aligned with the tools needs and the business's needs.
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Because if you're those three things, if you got fire in your belly, you learn quickly, and you're self-aware, you can kind of get good at anything eventually.
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you've got these other generalists doing design, you've got engineers doing design, product staff doing design, but I'm actually pretty long on design or designers because they tend to have taste and I think that is something that is much more difficult to imagine being automated away.
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But they just by virtue of having less people to coordinate they can often move faster and make um better decisions a little bit less design by committee.
From one piece The Natural-Born Artist. 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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A kinder assistant makes for a more daring detective.
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Years of apparent failure and waiting can be the artistic work itself rather than evidence of a missing gift.Their words
Someone might have to live a long time before the thing they were born to say becomes fully formed and accessible to them.
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The more we know – the more we insist on being sure – the more doors we close.
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I think of it like this: any person has an innate curiosity about life, and an energy toward it, that may manifest itself in all kinds of ways throughout the course of their life.
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A History of BiologyTheir words
The chapter on medieval Islam wasn't very deep, otherwise this is truly excellent, particularly when covering the very complicated 20th century. I don't have much more to say, because it is so good, except that I should try to get my brother to review it.
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Go Down HardTheir words
Mind candy: dueling psycho-killers go on a date; mayhem ensues.
8 July
From one piece From Solvers to Research: Large Language Model-Driven Formal Mathematics at the Research Frontier (with 18 co-authors) 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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AI systems are now capable of meaningful contributions to formal mathematics, not only informal problem-solving.Their words
These developments inform our position that AI systems are now capable of meaningful contributions to formal mathematics, not merely informal problem-solving.
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Despite these strides, we argue that current AI4Math systems still largely operate as solvers, excelling at isolated, well-defined proof generation rather than as researchers capable of expanding the boundaries of mathematical knowledge.
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However, these LLM reasoners that generate informal reasoning in natural language are fundamentally limited by the lack of precise, machine-checkable semantics, making their outputs prone to hallucinations [Huang et al., 2025b] and precluding autonomous verification, a prerequisite for tackling open-ended mathematical research.
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We argue that the next leap in AI4Math systems requires a decisive shift from predefined problem-solvers to research agents that can address frontier mathematical challenges with rigorous formal mathematical reasoning.
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Claude Code /checkupTheir words
New in Claude Code: /checkup
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Recorded crime partly measures policing: a neighbourhood policed harder produces more crime in the statistics.Their words
Particularly with gun and drug crimes, communities with more aggressive policing tend to produce more crimes in part because law enforcement polices them more aggressively.
A guide to racism in the criminal justice systemradleybalko.substack.com
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So I did something crazy. I pulled out my typewriter and banged away for an hour.
7 July
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Django MigrationsTheir words
My favorite implementation of this pattern remains Django’s Migrations
From one piece Prioritizing Rail Expansion in New England 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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it's more important to invest in trains that can get more riders than just the railfans; taking a line from 0% to 5% modal split is less important than taking it from 20% to 40%
Prioritizing Rail Expansion in New Englandpedestrianobservations.com
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Building out low-speed regional rail to small towns before intercity rail is fast enough is a waste of money.Their words
further investment in regional rail in New England - by which I mean RegionalBahn-style service to small towns like Westerly and Manchester, not core commuter rail service in Boston to be turned into an S-Bahn - is a waste of money in the current situation.
Prioritizing Rail Expansion in New Englandpedestrianobservations.com
From one piece Deadly heat wave in France shows the future of climate risk 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Without a move away from fossil fuels, future heatwaves will keep testing the limits of public health systems and more people will die.
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Climate models are underestimating how intense heatwaves become at a given level of global warming.Their words
the temperatures seen in France show that climate models continue to underpredict the magnitude of heatwaves for a particular level of global warming.
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Robotaxis should be judged and regulated on comparable fleet-wide incident data, not on individual incidents.Their words
More data for better comparisons are good. Now everybody has to do it, and regulators and the public have to learn to look at only the data, and not individual incidents
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Several companies have tried to declare they met a major milestone by having "nobody behind the wheel" and moving supervision to the passenger seat. It's a bad idea
6 July
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XteinkTheir words
I recently got an Xteink and it is a really cute little e-reader device! I thought I'd try hacking around on it, and it's been fun to tweak.
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CrossPoint ReaderTheir words
The most popular custom firmware for The Xteink is called CrossPoint Reader, which is fully open source and really great.
5 July
From one piece What America has meant to me 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The finance industry is built on false mathematical precision and prone to systemic collapse.Their words
Finance only to find that it is a house of cards built on false precision, as the world collapsed around us
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America is a country that rewards first-principles thinkers and builders and encourages reinvention despite cynicism.Their words
increasingly I see America as the place that rewards first principles thinkers and builders; that asks "why not?" instead of telling you why you cannot; that imperfectly supports optimism, reinvention and perseverance in spite of cynicism.
From one piece If You Want Taste, You're Gonna Have to Eat 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Taste is not about consensus or criticism, but the courage to value what genuinely resonates with you.Their words
Taste isn't consensus. It's not judgment first, either. It's easy to be a critic. Curiosity has to come first, because without curiosity you never broaden your horizons.
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AI can hand you the end result of a skill without the attentive practice that used to build it.Their words
It gives you the destination without the hours of noticing that used to get you there.
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AI has made ability nearly free, making taste the main bottleneck separating good creators from mediocre ones.Their words
As AI has allowed more and more people to create things, the biggest differentiation, the biggest skill people are lacking, is taste itself.
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The emotional and relational dynamics are not an intrusion upon the work of prescribing. They are a part of the work itself.
4 July
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Metformin is not a general-purpose anti-cancer or anti-ageing drug, and healthy people should not take it as one.Their words
MAST adds to a growing body of evidence suggesting that metformin is not a general-purpose anticancer drug.
Metformin and cancer: active surveillance neededpeterattiamd.com
From one piece Harness Engineering for Self-Improvement 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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harness improvement enables better deployment of the model but intelligence is still the core.
Harness Engineering for Self-Improvementlilianweng.github.io
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Recursive self-improvement only works if the base model is already capable enough to improve its own mechanism.Their words
Recursive structure alone is not enough. The base model must be capable enough to improve the mechanism.
Harness Engineering for Self-Improvementlilianweng.github.io
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The deployment layer surrounding a model is as important as the model's raw intelligence.Their words
the layer between the raw model and the real-world context seems to be as important as the model's raw intelligence
Harness Engineering for Self-Improvementlilianweng.github.io
3 July
2 July
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Claude Code ArtifactsTheir words
Artifacts in Claude Code have been life changing. Excited to expand to Pro and Max!
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Safari Technology PreviewTheir words
Whether you’re a web developer or tinkerer, I highly recommend checking out what Apple has released in Safari Technology Preview.
1 July
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So You Want to Own Greenland?Their words
A useful and dispassionate overview of the relevant history and issues.
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This book meets her usual high standards.
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The Shortest History of IrelandTheir words
From a useful series, even if some of the claims are wrong and the judgments intemperate.
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An engaging book about the beauties of stonemasonry, with case studies of Venice, Angkor Wat, Lalibela, Zimbabwe and other locales.
From one piece How Kent Beck shapes the software engineering industry 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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part of the goal of programs is to communicate intent to other human beings and now to models as well which which is a much more open-ended problem. We understand a lot more about how to communicate to other human beings whether we apply that understanding or not. We don't understand at all how to communicate effectively to models
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You look under the underneath though at the code and it was just a horrible unmaintainable mess. But the fact that people could program the programs that they wanted was a a significant step forward as opposed to I'm going to write a thousandpage requirements document and then wait 8 years and not get what I want which was the alternative that we were offering at the at the time.
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So I was promised just understand the computer and then just kidding understand people from a position where I was already 10 years behind.
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we're accumulating code faster than we're accumulating trust and that sense of trust comes from me struggling to understand some domain concept I get it. I represent it in the code. I have I write tests that demonstrate that I really did understand it. And now I trust my program.
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My response is that that's a statement by someone who doesn't understand software engineering. Coding is part of what you're doing, but it's only a small part of what you're doing.
From one piece Google’s exponential path to climate-wrecking digital bloat 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Both hide the fact the company is simply choosing the climate-wrecking road, consciously.
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What is happening is that GenAI's climate harm comes from the system design, such as Google's AI overview triggering constantly whether users want it or not, in addition to significantly worse digital bloat tools dominating overconsumption.
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It is actually pretty likely that it was Google's efficiency actions that enabled their total energy consumption to increase.
From one piece Artificial adventures 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Cheap flat-rate AI subscription pricing is a temporary loss-leader that will be phased out once users are hookedTheir words
The subscriptions to frontier models are a very good deal, but it looks like they are being phased out now that everyone is hooked.
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Frontier AI models essentially never fabricate outright false facts, unlike smaller modelsTheir words
I haven't seen anything I would call a hallucination from the frontier models.
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But they are terrible at making decisions. They have the worst judgement.
From one piece Principles of Plotting Part III: Variation 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Regardless of genre or style, nearly all fiction works through a balancing act of repetition and difference.
Principles of Plotting Part III: Variationcountercraft.substack.com
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Stories are always deliberately constructed by their author, not something that emerges on its own.Their words
Stories are not raw milk or nature photography. They are always constructed by the author.
Principles of Plotting Part III: Variationcountercraft.substack.com
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Preliminary Report of the Independent International Scientific Panel on AITheir words
That’s why we’re launching the Preliminary Report of the Independent International Scientific Panel on AI — an initial evidence-based assessment of the current state of AI science — to help the public and policymakers better understand the unprecedented moment we’re in.
From one piece Talent Is Bullshit 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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It doesn’t matter what creative field you’re in. Keep showing up day after day, and the game of numbers will work in your favor.
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He is not the most talented writer in the room and never was; what has carried him is the capacity to grind.Their words
I’m not the most talented writer in the room. Never have been.
30 June
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STOPS is designed for quick-and-dirty calculations and is known to choke on New York.
From one piece Grant Sanderson (@3blue1brown) – AI disproved a famous math conjecture. Now what? 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Um even if it's proven just like there is a difference between proof and explanation.
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Uh but I don't think it's easy but I do think it's something you would have to do in order to uh reward the gawwa like instinct rather than just rewarding have you solved a problem.
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what makes the GAWA theory such an interesting example is you have um literally this 100-year segment of like an idea that like flows through many different people's heads before it like settles into something that the math community like agrees is good.
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I think the way that you'd measure conjecture generating ability is going to be more subjective on like that tone shift where um it'll be mathematicians saying they're not just using it to like solve their problems, but as they step back and decide what their research field should even be that a conversation with such and such model like was genuinely helpful for that.
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that like if it's capable of building mountains uh that are, you know, the correct new theory that like crystallizes how we should be thinking about a subject, that's just such a level of intelligence that then it starts to feel like it would be surprising if that didn't permeate into other aspects of the economy besides like just the mountain building for math itself.
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KoezeTheir words
Koeze makes the best peanut butter in the country. They make one batch a day, laboriously grinding for three hours.
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Rishi Dandelion GingerTheir words
Rishi Dandelion Ginger. Extraordinary and surprising. And most things taste better mixed with tonic.
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Everybody's PerfectTheir words
And now it's Everybody's Perfect, a book that pretty much defines what it means for one text to be "in dialog" with another text. In this case, it's Ada Palmer's Inventing the Renaissance, a stunning magnum opus that tells not just the story of the Renaissance, but the story of the story, all the different ways the Renaissance has been used, abused, revised and recovered, starting with the Renaissance itself. It's a book that will make you rethink everything you know about European history, about the world today, and about the very idea of history itself
From one piece This Summer, Design a Daily Recess: 7 Ways to Have More Fun 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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What's fun for others might not be fun for you, and vice versa.
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Research shows that children are far better able to sit still, focus, and learn when they've had the exercise, sunlight, freedom, and fun of recess. The same is true for adults.
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In this sense, I think I was wrong to imply in Saying NO… that ecomodernism focuses on secondary managerialist goals like the efficiency of feedlots without speaking to the mysteries and passions of what animates life.
From one piece Saving the world from bad ideas: the continuing failure of food ecomodernism 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Today's level of city living depends on cheap fossil fuels and is unlikely to survive without them.Their words
However, in our non-ideal biophysical reality, present levels of urbanism are unlikely to be sustainable without cheap fossil fuels, and the human cost of that could be horrific unless we address it urgently.
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but I do think that in a future of probable energy constraint there will be a need for a more peopled agriculture, with populations spreading out to tap diffuse solar energy input.
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"Food from thin air" is not from thin air: it runs on water, minerals, ammonia and industrial plant.Their words
Another is that it isn’t ‘food from thin air’ as is often claimed – as well as the high energy use, it’s food from a lot of tap water, minerals, ammonia and industrial infrastructure.
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Agriculture is the only major sector that at present is significantly energised directly by zero cost and zero carbon sunlight.
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To meet the global population’s protein needs through factory-produced bacterial protein in 2024 would have used more than the total global electricity generated using renewable (hydro, photovoltaic and wind) energy
From one piece Some Things YIMBYs Tend To Get Wrong (and Right) 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Housing subsidies cannot scale to the size of the problem, and the YIMBYs are right to say so.Their words
While there are certainly some benefits to these programs, YIMBYs are right to doubt that housing subsidies alone are a scalable solution to affordability challenges.
Some Things YIMBYs Tend To Get Wrong (and Right)strongtowns.org
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As is the case with most businesses, suppliers in the housing industry generally set prices based on market conditions and what buyers or tenants are willing to pay, rather than on production costs.
Some Things YIMBYs Tend To Get Wrong (and Right)strongtowns.org
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Making housing widely affordable today through the removal of development regulations would require allowing extremely low quality housing.
Some Things YIMBYs Tend To Get Wrong (and Right)strongtowns.org
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To real estate professionals, slowing growth or declines in rent are often signals to stop building new housing.
Some Things YIMBYs Tend To Get Wrong (and Right)strongtowns.org
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Mac miniTheir words
I believe that a Mac mini with Codex running on it is the best bang for your buck if you’re building an always-on agentic setup based on a frontier model that can do just about anything you throw at it.
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CodexTheir words
I believe that a Mac mini with Codex running on it is the best bang for your buck if you’re building an always-on agentic setup based on a frontier model that can do just about anything you throw at it.
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The Blueprint: How Socialism Can Work in the Real WorldTheir words
This is the best --- the most accessible and the most forceful --- case for market socialism since Alec Nove in the 1980s.
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GlasslandsTheir words
This is clearly an amateur effort (there was a whole repeated paragraph), but as such it's very impressive and I am happy to have paid money for it.
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Resenting the HeroTheir words
Comparing this to The Fifth Season, it is striking how different two fantasy novels about worlds over-supplied with natural disasters, and the people with the psychic gifts to stop those disasters with their minds, can be in tone and execution. This is immensely fluffier, but it has no pretensions to be anything except candy, and succeeds as such.
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Visual Studio CodeTheir words
When writing for my blog, I use Visual Studio Code.
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Audio HijackTheir words
For recording ATP, we use Zoom to talk with each other, Audio Hijack to record our local audio, Dropbox to share files with one another, Textual for our IRC chat room
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TextualTheir words
For recording ATP, we use Zoom to talk with each other, Audio Hijack to record our local audio, Dropbox to share files with one another, Textual for our IRC chat room
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MacBook Pro (14-inch, M3 Max)Their words
I’ve had this computer since it debuted a couple years back, and it’s incredible.
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Herman Miller Jarvis sit/stand deskTheir words
I use a Herman Miller Jarvis sit/stand desk.
29 June
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SuperhumanTheir words
I wanted to connect to Superhuman, the email program I’ve used for years, since that is where all my custom inboxes, shortcuts, and settings live.
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Claude ConnectorsTheir words
This is why I recommend ignoring the vast web of custom and “community-built” MCP servers you can find out there, and focusing your attention on the two safer bets instead
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Number Go UpTheir words
Zeke Faux’s great book, Number Go Up
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llama3.2:3bTheir words
Right now: llama3.2:3b appears to be the model for: is this email urgent?qwen3:8b appears to be the model for: summarize this 5000-word article. llama3.3:70b(q8) appears to be the model for: let’s write or debug some computer code.
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gemma4:26b-a4b-it-q4_K_MTheir words
The absolute gonzo gemma4:26b-a4b-it-q4_K_M performance-wise. What is going on here that is making it such an extraordinary outlier?
From one piece The generic style of AI web design 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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this kind of instantly ubiquitous homogeneity is going to happen across every field of human endeavor in the era of AI, until AI gets so powerful that it actually becomes original (doubtful) or until we shut it down.
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Getting genuinely original output from AI requires working hard against the grain of its defaults.Their words
You have to work very hard, against a lot of friction, to get anything remotely original out of AI.
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AI models default to generic, lowest-common-denominator output unless a user actively pushes back against them.Their words
If the user doesn't actively push back against the AI model, then they get the generic output, the lowest common acceptable denominator of aesthetics and taste.
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it’s also true that their impact on our output was never as tremendous or as clear-cut as that of prior innovations, such as the steam engine or the power loom, and that integrating them effectively into the workforce took a long time
From one piece Why Care About The Stupid Em Dash Anyway? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The way we take care of small things is how we take care of big things.
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The presence of an em dash in a piece of writing does not indicate it was written by AI.Their words
AI uses em dashes. Humans use em dashes. That does not make an em dash an AI fingerprint any more than Batman's cape makes everyone in a bath towel Batman.
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Back then I thought I was remaking the world, tearing down the old and erecting something new in its place.
From one piece How have your beliefs evolved? What did you once hold true in your beliefs that you don't hold now? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Over time, that fiery intensity ebbed away, and I realised that the past wasn’t something to discard but to respect.
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There may be nothing new under the sun, but it is our distinctiveness that matters, our specialness.
From one piece SCOTUS Whitewashes Otherwise Racist Decision 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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To shout “temporary” and pull the plug essentially overnight after immigrants have relied on the government’s representations that they should put their efforts and future into establishing a life in the United States wreaks unfair havoc on the lives of immigrants as well as the welfare of their communities.
SCOTUS Whitewashes Otherwise Racist Decisionblog.simplejustice.us
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Everything isn’t racist, but if this isn’t, then Alito failed miserably to make the case.
SCOTUS Whitewashes Otherwise Racist Decisionblog.simplejustice.us
From one piece Obfuscation: building the final boss of cryptography (Part I) 3 beliefs · vitalik.eth.limo
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Current provably-secure indistinguishability-obfuscation schemes have galactically impractical runtimes.Their words
But within the good news, there is bad news: the run time is literally galactic
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it turns out that making a secure form of obfuscation is really really hard
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The most powerful primitive that has been conceived in cryptography is obfuscation
From one piece Top 1 Million Analysis – June 2026: Ten Years of Web Security 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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So while CSP adoption has more than doubled, nearly half of all policies are in need of some TLC.
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A lot of HSTS deployments are weaker than they look.
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The web really is more secure than it was a decade ago.
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HTTPS is now simply how the web works, and the long tail of plain-HTTP sites shrinks every year.Their words
HTTPS is now simply how the web works, and the long tail of plain-HTTP sites is shrinking every year.
From one piece Personal note 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Criticism as a field of writing is declining today.Their words
David Remnick, who has given me free rein at a time when criticism is withering away
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Contemporary composition is as vital as ever.Their words
Although the musical scene exhilarates me more than ever - contemporary composition is eternally vital - I wouldn't want to overstay my welcome.
28 June
From one piece I've been coding almost solely on my VPS with Claude Code for almost a year now 2 beliefs · levels.io
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AI agents and AI coding will run on servers and from the cloud first, not on your laptop.Their words
I agree with @theo completely, it's clear to me this is where it's going, also seeing @karpathy with Claude moving to the cloud (via Slack etc), I think AI "agents" and AI coding will operate on servers / from the cloud first
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But now with Claude Code on my VPS in the last year, it just live edits on my production server, which sounds like it should go wrong but it just doesn't, it's very careful and only twice in 12 months messed up which meant my site didn't load for 10 seconds which is OK
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Good automation design starts from whether context must persist between runs, not from building a complex system.Their words
The best automations do not start with a complicated system. They start with knowing whether the next run needs a clean slate or the same thread.
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ErgodoxEZTheir words
With its detached parts, the Ergodox EZ is able to adjust to any typist. I used that keyboard for 10 years. I liked it so much that I bought one for home and one for work.
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ZSA MoonlanderTheir words
The Moonlander is my dream keyboard. It has everything the Ergodox EZ offers, and it remains ultra-stable while tilted on the Platform. I really hope this will be my last keyboard.
27 June
From one piece There’s More to the Mental Health Crisis Than Smartphones and Social Media 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Fear of others' negative judgment is a significant risk factor for anxiety and depression.Their words
And this fear of judgment is a significant risk factor for anxiety and depression.
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Perfectionism is caused by unreasonably demanding expectations and unduly harsh criticism from others.Their words
Perfectionism stems from unreasonably demanding expectations and unduly harsh criticism.
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Smartphones and social media amplify the youth mental health crisis but are not its root cause.Their words
Modern technology may be an amplifier, but it isn't the root cause.
From one piece Using Local Coding Agents 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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When an AI lab builds both a model and a coding harness, the model is optimized for that lab's own harness first.Their words
if an LLM developer also develops a coding harness, it is somewhat safe to assume that their model is optimized for their own harness first
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Proprietary AI services will become more restrictive over time, making open-weight alternatives valuable as a backup.Their words
proprietary services may become more restrictive over time, and it's maybe a good idea to be comfortable with open-weight alternatives as a backup.
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OllamaTheir words
I am not affiliated with any of the tools mentioned in this article, but one nice thing about Ollama is that they also optionally support open-weight models hosted in the cloud
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Qwen3.6Their words
Here, I am primarily going to use Qwen3.6 with the Qwen-Coder coding client.
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Qwen-CodeTheir words
Here, I am primarily going to use Qwen3.6 with the Qwen-Coder coding client.
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North Mini CodeTheir words
Alternatively, if you don't want to use Qwen3.6, Cohere's North Mini Code is probably the most interesting, capable alternative at this size class right now.
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MLXTheir words
I highly recommend using *-mlx versions of models working on Macs (if available).
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Really the only tip I could ever give someone at this point is to pull away, reflect, do something you like, and talk to a human who cares about your current spiraling.
26 June
From one piece Really Big Test-Time Compute in AI Changes Benchmarks, Safety and Research with OpenAI's Noam Brown 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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And I wouldn't be surprised if you know 6 months or a year from now, the model is able to do zero shot an entire poker solver, basically my entire PhD thesis in one go.
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Running a model five times and keeping the best answer buys a higher benchmark score without buying a better model.Their words
Um so if you say okay well we're going to instead of just running this model once we're going to run it five times and take the best of the five responses or like ask a judge which one it thinks is best then you can get much higher scores than that model. And so it's really easy to make something that looks a lot better on paper but is actually not better once you control for the amount of test time compute.
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my claim is the proper way to evaluate the models now is you either have some kind of budget for the benchmark whether it's tokens or cost or time or whatever or you plot the performance as a function of the amount of test time compute that's going into the model
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But what we're seeing today with the modern models is that 5.5 and other models can think for if you scaffold them reasonably well, can think for weeks even um before having performance plateau on some of these benchmarks. And so, the point at which they plateau is simply too far out to reasonably test.
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I think the reason why it doesn't show up as so much better on the benchmarks is because the benchmarks are being presented, the benchmark results are being presented in the wrong way. They're not controlling for the amount of test time compute that is being used on that benchmark question.
25 June
From one piece Thoughts from the 2026 London Podcast Show 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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LLMs replacing podcasts as a source of information poses a real disruption to podcasting.Their words
Where I do see some disruption is where consumers start asking ChatGPT and other LLMs for information they would normally get from podcasts.
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Mass-produced AI-generated podcast shows are not a major threat to podcasting because listeners do not like them.Their words
I don't think mass-produced AI-generated shows are a big threat to podcasting, mostly because I don't think consumers like them.
24 June
From one piece Tech interviews with NeetCode 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I don't understand why anybody would learn the CAP theorem when that theorem exists because it's just more complete. It's not that much more complicated. I think it's more simple to understand.
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The training is really hard to get to get down cuz it's like interviewers are just not good. Like the most interviewers do not like interviewing. They hate it.
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I think we probably will see different interview formats introduced. I just think it is going to be a slower transition than most people think.
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And the second reason that's stayed sticky is that companies just have no idea how to evaluate. Like And they probably never did.
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And DSA interviews were never the best for that. Well, thinking, sure. But in terms of like does that skill translate to what you're doing on the job? It never really translated to that. It was more about evaluating like does somebody think?
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As models keep growing, AI is running out of enough high-quality unique training tokens to keep up.Their words
As the model size grows significantly, we are running out of enough high-quality unique tokens.
From one piece I'm not a cat 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I have no faith in the people in charge of the future, but humanity isn't going to change any time soon.
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Thoughts, feelings, decisions, even bodies don't exist, they're only abstractions that we use to manage the chaos.
From one piece How to Be a Happier, Calmer Parent: 16 Things to Try Instead of Yelling 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Parental stress and sleep deprivation make harsh reactions to normal child behavior more likely.Their words
When a parent is stressed, low on sleep, or otherwise depleted, they may be even more prone to reacting harshly to normal kid behavior and boundary-pushing.
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Yelling and nagging at children produces compliance in the moment but costs tension, sulking, and guilt.Their words
Yelling and nagging may seem effective in the moment ("I'm getting them to put on their shoes!"), but the cost is tension, sulking, and guilt.
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An intentional steering layer can not only help but is increasingly needed in software today.
23 June
From one piece Surrender as a non-stupid life strategy 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Unhappiness is the product of the number of times per minute that you believe circumstances should be otherwise.
Surrender as a non-stupid life strategysashachapin.substack.com
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Dreading a future experience causes much of human suffering by making that imagined suffering happen now.Their words
A large percentage of human suffering is anticipatory tension, or dreading a future experience such that you actualize its potential suffering in the now.
Surrender as a non-stupid life strategysashachapin.substack.com
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The mind's planning and goal-setting function is only a small fraction of a person's overall intelligence.Their words
The planning part of your mind, the one that generates ambitions and hypothetical situations, is a small part of your overall intelligence.
Surrender as a non-stupid life strategysashachapin.substack.com
22 June
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And there is Jeremy A. Simmons, Sea of Treasures: A Cultural History of Ancient Indian Ocean Trade
From one piece The Must-Read Articles of the Month 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Leaders' resistance to remote work is driven by a desire for power and status, not by genuine productivity concerns.Their words
what really drives leaders to resist remote work isn't productivity concern. It's ego. Ordering people in is a power and status move. Leaders want to be worshiped at the office altar.
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New research reveals that the higher women's IQs, the less they're liked-and the more they're undermined by coworkers.
From one piece There Are More than Five POVs 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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It's a cold mode. Most readers recoil at it. Characters are our windows into a story, and third-person objective narrators are opaque windows.
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A first-person 'I' narrator and a collective 'we' narrative voice produce dramatically different narrative effects.Their words
Narratively, there is a dramatic difference between an "I" narrator and a collective "we" narrative voice.
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The traditional five-part POV taxonomy is organized around grammatical person rather than narrative effect.Their words
It's not that the categories are wrong exactly. But they are rooted more in grammar than narrative.
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Lovedrcmnd.app
FiiO Warmer DACTheir words
This DAC is insanely great for the $349 price tag and feels more like a $2k DAC in build, design and sound.
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FiiO K13Their words
The K13 let me down, was unreliable and sounded a bit underwhelming.
From one piece How not to forget what matters 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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There are many practices that promise to transform and improve us-therapy, meditation, psychedelics-, but that branding doesn't mean that they actually do much for us: it is common to see people use these techniques for years without any obvious progress on their problems.
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People tend to assume their habitual practices achieve what they intend, even without evidence that they do.Their words
It is common to think that what we do achieves what we want it to achieve, even if there is no evidence for it.
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But in order to actually live in accordance with what you believe in long-term, you must make it a habit.
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The phrase "your feelings are valid" does not invite curiosity or deeper self-understanding, which is the point of psychotherapy. It is the mirror image of "stop whining and get a grip." One sounds warm and one sounds harsh, but neither deepens self-awareness.
21 June
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Recommendsrcmnd.app
Rocking pizza cutterTheir words
An alternative — which works especially well if you’re making thick-crust pizza — is a rocking pizza cutter
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Washlet (Japanese toilet)Their words
Once you’ve used a washlet for years, it’s very hard to go back to a basic toilet.
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Pizza shearsTheir words
So there you go, Americans. Please try pizza shears or rocking pizza cutters, and please try washlets.
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WashletTheir words
Once you’ve used a washlet for years, it’s very hard to go back to a basic toilet.
From one piece How to breathe air when we’re drowning in big tech’s slop 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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High-polluting industries benefit directly and obviously from the collapse of trust, shared reality and information quality.
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Genuinely valuing truth, honesty and climate action logically entails opposing generative AI.Their words
Being pro-correctness, anti-theft and anti-fossil fuels automatically places you in an aggressively anti-generative-AI position.
From one piece Chartbook 452 Europe's Machiavellian moment? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Rather they are the sign of disorientation, disillusionment and despair.
Chartbook 452 Europe's Machiavellian moment?adamtooze.substack.com
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They are none of these things. All three were predictable and overdetermined.
Chartbook 452 Europe's Machiavellian moment?adamtooze.substack.com
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ZigTheir words
Zig is exceptional software: ambitious, practical, independent, and unusually serious about quality. Ghostty exists in large part because Zig made it possible for me to build the kind of software I wanted to build. This is why I support Zig.
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BunTheir words
I have no problem with what Bun did, I think Bun is a great project, and I'm not interested in turning this into a Bun post.
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The surrounding system framework and scaffolding matter more for AI agent capability than the underlying model.Their words
The experiments showed that the system framework matters far more than the underlying model.
20 June
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