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From one piece There's No Such Thing as Affordable Housing 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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These shifts in price without any physical change to the housing stock are by far the biggest part of the affordability story. They dwarf the impact of actual new construction.
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Affordability for the masses will live or die not by what we build this year or next, but by what happens to the price of homes that already exist, in which the vast majority of people live.
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Because affordability is not, and has never been, an intrinsic quality of a building.
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Adding chairs to the game—any kind of chairs—will tend to make the competition less cutthroat for the chairs already in play.
3 January 2023
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From one piece Why Not Mars 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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With our current capability, NASA would struggle to keep a crew alive for six months on the White House lawn, let alone for years in a Martian yurt.
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The International Space Station exists mainly to teach its builders how to build another space station.Their words
The ISS crew spend most of their time fixing the machinery that keeps them alive, and when they have a free moment for science, they tend to study the effect of space on themselves.
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A crewed spacecraft does no work: putting people aboard is what stops a mission getting anything done.Their words
In 2023, we simply take it for granted that if a rocket goes up carrying passengers, it’s not going to get any work done.
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Fifty years of miniaturisation have made robotic spacecraft better and cheaper explorers than astronauts.Their words
But fifty years of progress in miniaturization and software changed the balance between robots and humans in space.
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The goal of this essay is to persuade you that we shouldn’t send human beings to Mars, at least not anytime soon.
From one piece Closed social affordances / Open social affordances in social systems design 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
People who do not yet trust each other are better served by tightly limited ways to interact.Their words
Low trust players benefit from closed affordances.
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Social affordances are naturally open because humans crave social connection and will pry open channels that designers tried to close off.
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By eliminating the bad aspects of humans interacting, you often also remove many of the good parts.
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The more freedom a design gives people to interact, the more of that freedom will be abused.Their words
The more freedom you give players, the more they will abuse it.
31 December 2022
From one piece I am not a supplier 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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If you use this, I owe you nothing. At all. We have no relationship. I put this up online on the condition that if you use it, all the risks are on you.
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But to do that, I am going to have to become a supplier. Which means you are going to have to start to pay me. A fair price, that we can negotiate. Under a different license.
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We are not suppliers. All the people writing and maintaining these projects, we are not suppliers. We do not have a business relationship with all these organisations.
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Maintainers of widely used open source software are not adequately funded, and that is a real and unsolved problem.Their words
Hell even worse, a lot of the libraries that underpin the fabric of what we all call the digital economy have trouble getting enough money to pay for food.
From one piece The Dark Forest and Generative AI 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Referencing obscure concepts, friends who are real but not famous, niche interests, and recent events all make you plausibly more human.
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Every time you find a new favourite blog or Twitter account or Tiktok personality online, you’ll have to ask: Is this really a whole human with a rich and complex life like mine?
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Easier said than done, but one of the best ways to prove you’re not a predictive language model is to demonstrate critical and sophisticated thinking.
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But I think the sheer volume and scale of what’s coming will be meaningfully different. And I think we’re unprepared.
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The web is being flooded with coherent, generic, generated text that buries the writing worth reading.Their words
These new models are poised to flood the web with generic, generated content.
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FuturismTheir words
This is older, but it's still a really good book about the Italian Futurists. Indeed I can't think of a better one for a general audience with some background knowledge of modern art. The chapters on Futurist painting and sculpture, on music and performance, on women, and on politics are especially good.
29 December 2022
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From one piece Science isn't storytelling 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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A scientific paper isn’t supposed to be a story.
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korrents.com
Compressing a piece of research into a journal paper's word count is itself a distortion of what was found.Their words
The mere act of squeezing a complex process into a few thousand words—limited by a journal-imposed word count—is itself a distortion of reality.
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Deciding your conclusion before you look at the data is one of the most reality-distorting things a scientist can do.Their words
Having a pre-existing conclusion—a “take-home message”—in mind is one of the most reality-distorting influences on our thinking.
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This, as was noted on Twitter, is a recipe for bad studies: it encourages the cherry-picking of results that went your way and the hiding of those that didn’t.
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We know how easily these practices can distort the scientific record and give us false-positive, nonsense results.
26 December 2022
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14 December 2022
From one piece Indie Game Dev: Death Loops 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
Each project you finish makes the next one easier to finish and teaches you more about what a successful one takes.Their words
"Finishing games gets easier with each game you finish, and the more games you finish, the better you will understand what it takes to make a successful game."
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korrents.com
Aiming to make an objectively great work is the wrong goal; make the best you can now and treat it as one of many.Their words
My advice is to abandon the goal of making an objectively great game.
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I find it best not to spend too long on any one part of the game until the entire game is playable from beginning to end.
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The right way to size a project is by the size of the projects you have already finished, not by how skilled you are.Their words
the best metric for scoping a project is not technical skill, but the scope of the previous games you've finished!
13 December 2022
From one piece The rise and fall of peer review 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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This extremely bad system is worse than nothing because it fools people into thinking they’re safe when they’re not.
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Scientists say they take peer review seriously, but what they actually do shows they do not think it matters.Their words
If you look at what scientists actually do, it’s clear they don’t think peer review really matters.
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In fact, we’ve got knock-down, real-world data that peer review doesn’t work: fraudulent papers get published all the time.
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Scientists have run studies where they deliberately add errors to papers, send them out to reviewers, and simply count how many errors the reviewers catch. Reviewers are pretty awful at this.
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All we can say from these big trends is that we have no idea whether peer review helped, it might have hurt, it cost a ton, and the current state of the scientific literature is pretty abysmal.
10 December 2022
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Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. TrumanTheir words
this one is one of the best leadership books I have ever read
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The War of ArtTheir words
Before I start any book project, I take a few hours and re-read The War of Art by Steven Pressfield, maybe the greatest book ever written on the creative process.
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Outdoor Kids in an Inside World: Getting Your Family Out of the House and Radically Engaged with NatureTheir words
It’s about encouraging curiosity and interest, and cultivating resiliency and self-sufficiency.
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HiyaTheir words
The Reading List email is sponsored by Hiya , the pediatrician-approved superpowered chewable vitamin created by two dads tired of children’s vitamins that cause more problems than they solve.
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Guns, Germs, and SteelTheir words
I have a soft spot for extremely broad histories like Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel and Joseph Henrich's The WEIRDest People in the World.
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Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth CenturyTheir words
Slouching Towards Utopia is a rich, nuanced story of the interplay of politics, economics, and ideas and how they shaped progress.
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of Immigrant SuccessTheir words
Absolutely. It is incredibly enjoyable and readable. The authors, in a way that is very rare for economists, find small stories that paint big pictures for the points they make.
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Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about ItTheir words
Although his training is not in economics, Richard Reeves draws on economic research, as well as research from the fields of sociology, psychology, and political science, to tell an under-told story. The book explores the problems faced by boys and men, the roots of those problems, and possible policy solutions.
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Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical TechnologyTheir words
Chris Miller tells us the history of how microchips were developed, emphasizing the critical role of the government, and especially defense procurement.
8 December 2022
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Fellowship PointTheir words
There have been many novels written in historical modes this year, and I've hated all of them except Fellowship Point by Alice Elliott Dark precisely because that novel feels vibrant and lively and full of characters and it reminds me of early 20th century literature.
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eBayTheir words
I wanted the the superior UK edition of two Kawabata books, so I ordered them from eBay. They arrived in like five days. It was amazing.
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Lovedrcmnd.app
The Drama BookshopTheir words
Recently though, I went to The Drama Bookshop, which was a delightful surprise. It is the closest I have come to the experience of a Manhattan bookshop as a third place in the kind of Prairie Lights mode.
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the StrandTheir words
For used books, the Strand is pretty amazing. If you want an interesting, vibey new book, you don't go to the Strand, you go to McNally Jackson.
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The Late AmericansTheir words
Also, please preorder The Late Americans so I can write more homosexual novels—it comes out next year!
7 December 2022
From one piece Why encrypted backup is so important 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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A handful of Silicon Valley executives made the choice for us, in pursuit of adoption metrics and a “magical” user experience.
Why encrypted backup is so importantblog.cryptographyengineering.com
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It terrifies me, because these data repositories are not only a risk to individual user privacy, they’re effectively a surveillance super-weapon.
Why encrypted backup is so importantblog.cryptographyengineering.com
6 December 2022
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22 November 2022
From one piece in which legibility comes at a price 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Being easy to find online exposes people, especially those in marginalized groups, to a high risk of targeted abuse.Their words
ask any member of a marginalized group and they'll tell you that being easy to find can have a high cost when it exposes you to targeted abuse.
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the real goal was to make their users more legible, primarily for advertising purposes, but also to law enforcement and other authorities.
21 November 2022
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Mendeleyev’s DreamTheir words
Paul Strathern’s terrific book Mendeleyev’s Dream traces that journey all the way back to ancient Greece, when people first started questioning why the world is the way it is.
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Stranger in a Strange LandTheir words
Of all the sci-fi I read as a teenager, Stranger in a Strange Land is my favorite.
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SurrenderTheir words
Bono’s new book, Surrender, is packed with funny, poignant moments like this.
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The Inner Game of TennisTheir words
But The Inner Game of Tennis is just as relevant today as it was in 1974.
20 November 2022
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From one piece Where Are The Crewed eVTOL Videos? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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All radically new products, and air taxi eVTOLs certainly count as radically new, require the convergence of many different capabilities and technologies. Often one or more technology will be lagging and it may take decades for them all to come together in the right place at the right time.
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I see lots of hype about eVTOLs being on the verge of being big, but I can’t find any videos of prototypes doing what the hype says will be common place by 2025.
3 November 2022
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Template Metaprogramming with C++Their words
I spent the last few weeks reading Template Metaprogramming with C++ by Marius Băncilă. It is currently 50$ on Amazon. Though, technically, the book is about advanced 'template' techniques, it is much more broad and practical. It is one of the 'good programming books'. If you are an experienced C++ programmer, you should give it a peek
24 October 2022
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Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.Their words
Fascinating account of a Gilded Age titan much worse known than Carnegie.
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In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our LivesTheir words
I learned a great deal from this book about Google, which put some of my own experiences with Google products in context.
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The Black CompanyTheir words
I enjoyed the first book a great deal: it’s in a fairly stock medieval setting, but it handles the dark fantasy well
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Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War IITheir words
a fascinating book on the bloody aftermath of WWII as the destruction wound down
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Tombstone: The Untold Story of Mao’s Great FamineTheir words
The statistics and anecdotes are fairly horrifying, and the sheer profusion drills in how widespread the famine was.
12 October 2022
From one piece Starting from scraps 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Hence, the necessity of shitty first drafts.
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Writing gets better when it is handled physically, like a collage of scraps pushed around, rather than composed.Their words
I’m constantly on a quest to make writing more hands on — more manipulative, in the sense that you’re using your hands to shape it. The more I treat writing like one of my collages, the better it gets.
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The Great DivergenceTheir words
His 2000 masterpiece The Great Divergence argues that the Americas, won and worked by force, provided the critical ghost acreages that propelled Britain past the Old World's common ecological constraints.
11 October 2022
From one piece Review of DeLong's "Slouching Towards Utopia" 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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What I’m nitpicking here is that this decline in fertility deserves equal billing with the research lab, corporation, and globalization.
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Without this anti-Malthusian response the research lab, corporation, and globalization cannot provide sustained growth.
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What broke the Malthusian trap was that productivity growth raised the price of bringing a child to adulthood.Their words
The key change is that productivity growth, starting around 1870, reached down and profoundly raised the price of bringing a child to adulthood.
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Prior to this inflection point, productivity growth had increased before, but every time had induced a response of higher population growth rates, eroding any gains in per-person living standards.
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It was an acceleration in productivity combined with a decline in population growth that put us on a slow trudge towards utopia.
9 October 2022
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The three-year bet about whether AI image models could handle compositionality was won in three months.Their words, before
In fact, not only did they reach this level in three months, but probably they were at this level before the bet was even made
Their words now
I retract my claim to have won and will continue to see how AI progress advances over the next three years.
4 October 2022
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Write Useful BooksTheir words
How to write a non-fiction book so useful to people that they recommend it to others. A great step-by-step methodology from someone experienced, who’s done it successfully a few times already.
24 September 2022
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From one piece The Hierarchy Is Bullshit (And Bad For Business) 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
Burnout comes from not caring and from not feeling needed, not from working the hardest.Their words
The times I have come closest to burnout or flaming out have never been when I was working the hardest, but when I cared the least.
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But if there’s one thing we know, it’s that for industries that are fueled by creativity and innovation, command-and-control leadership is poison.
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Treating the org chart as a ladder on which higher is always better is the central lie of hierarchy.Their words
The “Big Lie” of hierarchy is that your organizational structure is a vertical tree from the CEO on down, where higher up is always better.
22 September 2022
21 September 2022
From one piece Azure Dives 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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People don't really control most outcomes, so the sensible response to events is to look for the good in them.Their words
We don't really control anything anyway, so we may as well find the good in things.
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The aim of any professional training in the end is to make you someone competent, capable of independent thought and leadership in a specified field.
20 September 2022
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Drag and tire friction dominate energy expenditure. Engineering effort to improve drag is worth so much more with electric vehicles.
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AI progress is faster than people expect, and ordinary scaling can be enough to solve problems that looked very hard.Their words
I think this matches the general finding that AI progress is faster than expected, and increases my certainty that scale and normal progress can sometimes be enough to solve even very difficult problems.
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Wild ProblemsTheir words
How to improve your HUGE major life decisions, like whether/who to marry, whether to have kids, where to live, career paths, and such — where you can’t use the usual checklist/data approach. This economist addresses self-identity, “deepest self”, and “something I was meant to do”. You can’t use a pro/con checklist with an item that says “lose respect for myself”.
8 September 2022
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Outer Order, Inner CalmTheir words
With clarity and humor, Gretchen Rubin illuminates one of her key realizations about happiness: For most of us, outer order contributes to inner calm.
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The Four TendenciesTheir words
Our Tendency shapes every aspect of our behavior, so understanding this framework lets us make better decisions, meet deadlines, suffer less stress and burnout, and engage more effectively.
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Better Than BeforeTheir words
With her signature mix of rigorous research, easy humor, and personal experimentation, author Gretchen Rubin identifies the 21 habit-change strategies that will help every reader to create the habits that will transform their lives.
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Happier at HomeTheir words
Happier at Home is the account of what she tried, and what she learned, when she undertook to be happier at home.
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The Happiness ProjectTheir words
The Happiness Project synthesizes the wisdom of the ages with current scientific research, as Rubin brings readers along on her year to greater happiness.
7 September 2022
From one piece Nick Lane: Origin of Life, Evolution, Aliens, Biology, and Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #318 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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If we found a thousand life forms across the universe, 995 of them would be carbon-based and living in water.Their words
I would say pretty fundamental. I wouldn’t like to say it’s impossible for life to start any other way, but water is everywhere. Water’s extremely good at what it does, and carbon works in water especially well. And carbon is everywhere. So, those things together make me think probabilistically, if we found 1,000 life forms, 995 of them would be carbon-based and living in water.
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So, there is no necessary trajectory towards great complexity in human beings at the end of it. It’s very easy to imagine that without photosynthesis arising or without eukaryotes arising, that the planet could be full of bacteria and nothing else.
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The primordial soup is a miracle story: life needs a continuous flow of reaction, and a soup can never provide one.Their words
So, how did they do that? You may as well say that a miracle happened. I don’t believe in soup. I think what we have in a vent is a continuous conversion, a continuous growth, a continuous reaction, a continuous converting a flow of molecules into more of yourself, you might say, even if it’s a small bit.
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Life probably arose only once on Earth, and the deep split between bacteria and archaea is the evidence for it.Their words
But there’s a very interesting deep split in life between bacteria and what are called archaea, which look just the same as bacteria. And they’re not quite as diverse, but nearly, and they are very different in their biochemistry. And so any explanation for the origin of life has to account, as well, for why they’re so different and yet so similar. And that makes me think that life probably did arise only once.
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It’s possible it started multiple occasions. There’s two provisos to that. One of them is oxygen makes it impossible really for life to start. So, as soon as we’ve got oxygen in the atmosphere, then life isn’t going to keep starting over.
6 September 2022
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Electric bikes are worth their cost, flaws and all, because they bring the world nearerTheir words
Sure, electric bikes aren't cheap. But I believe they're a rare object to be well worth the cost. This in spite of their annoying flaws, their often bad software, their defective geometries. Because they open the world.
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BESV PSA1Their words
Despite these flaws I put hundreds of kilometers on this thing in the first month. The front and rear suspension turn every road to glass, and are even fine for dirt trails; I find myself hunting down paths through parks I'd never otherwise think about.
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Vanmoof X3Their words
The Vanmoof is much smarter — the brain and software within it are refined, the app good, the acceleration curves smooth — but the bike is all custom components, and they aren't the highest quality at that.
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Klamper disc calipersTheir words
The Pauls feel as fresh today as the day I put them on, whereas the hydraulics have required much bikeshop tuning over the course of the last eighteen months.
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Brooks grips and saddleTheir words
I upgraded my BESV to an SRAM drivetrain and Paul brake levers and Klamper disc calipers, some MKS pedals, and a set of Brooks grips and saddle and it feels wonderful through and through.
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MoultonTheir words
I still have a custom orange Moulton that I've modified into a single-speed city bomber that goes remarkably fast while floating atop its simple suspension.
2 September 2022
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That hokey unfashionable techniques like practicing gratitude turn out to have strong scientific evidence behind them
Their words now
I was wrong about gratitude. I thought it was a guaranteed way to become happier
31 August 2022
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NotionTheir words
I use Notion but this guide can help you choose one if interested.
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From one piece Collections: Why No Roman Industrial Revolution? 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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New land can be brought under cultivation (or cultivated more intensively) of course, but marginal gains decrease rapidly (because the best land is cultivated first and because adding more labor to already cultivated land, while it can increase harvests, is less efficient than cultivating new land) and there is a fairly hard ceiling on total production of this sort that was, for the most part, fairly low.
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If you had given the Romans the designs for a Newcomen steam engine, they couldn’t have built it without developing whole new technologies for the purpose (or casting every part in bronze, which introduces its own problems) and then wouldn’t have had any profitable use to put it to.
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The specificity matters here because each innovation in the chain required not merely the discovery of the principle, but also the design and an economically viable use-case to all line up in order to have impact.
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As much as we might want to imagine that the greater currents push historical events largely on a predetermined path with but minor variations from what must always have been, in practice events are tremendously contingent on unpredictable variables.
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In my view the key takeaway here is just how contingent the industrial revolution was: the industrial revolution that occured required a number of very specific pre-conditions which were really on true on Great Britain in that period.
24 August 2022
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Anbernic Win600Their words
I don't know who I would reccomend this device to. The premise of this device has a lot of promise, but in practice it has so many problems that it's overall not really worth choosing in comparison to devices like the Steam Deck.
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Steam DeckTheir words
The Steam Deck was my first taste of PC gaming in a handheld form factor and I love the snot out of my deck.
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The European MiracleTheir words
I recommended Eric Jones’ The European Miracle
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The Lever of RichesTheir words
Joel Mokyr’s The Lever of Riches
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How the World Became RichTheir words
and How the World Became Rich by Mark Koyama and Jared Rubin.
16 August 2022
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Relationship HandbookTheir words
Best philosophy of love relationships I’ve ever found. Like meditation teaches you that moods pass, this experienced marriage counselor says this applies to relationship communication as well. When angry or insecure, don’t vent, don’t share that. Let the feeling pass. Your anger doesn’t reveal some real truth. Everyone in a romantic relationship should read this.
14 August 2022
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From one piece Insights for Making Better Decisions | Gary Klein | Knowledge Project 144 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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But their lives became miserable. It would take them 45 minutes to decide what restaurant to go through. They got divorced. They lost their jobs because they could not use their emotions because our emotions are a way of drawing on on the patterns we've built and on our experiences.
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Decision-bias research is itself biased, studying only how heuristics fail and never the strength they supply.Their words
Um but nobody has done research on the positive side of these heuristics. And so, I think that's a bias on the part of the decision bias researchers that they're only looking at the down arrow. How do these heuristics get us in trouble? And they're not looking at the strength of these heuristics.
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I don't like the idea of decision biases. I know my sense of the literature is that there's been little if any success in debiasing people. And I think that's a good thing. Because the biases that get identified are essentially related to the heuristics that we've learned and are part of the experience that we have. And they only look like biases in hindsight once one of them doesn't work.
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What we could we could train people by saying, "Here's the recognition prime decision model. Now, you know, follow this." And that would be useless. Because of uh telling people the strategy isn't going to buy them anything. The intuition part is a reflection of the patterns they've built up through experience. And so there's no shortcut for that.
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in 1985, um my colleagues and I came up with a description of how people actually make life-and-death decisions under extreme time pressure and certainty. And we called it the recognition prime decision model. And it's a blend of intuition plus analysis. And we found we studied firefighters. We found that most fire that accounted for almost 90% of the tough decisions firefighters made.
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2 August 2022
1 August 2022
From one piece The Mechanism Behind Astringency in Coffee 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
The compounds responsible for astringency in coffee require very high water temperatures to dissolve efficiently.Their words
The case of astringent compounds is particularly interesting, because they require a very high temperature to be dissolved efficiently in water.
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Grinding too fine will liberate a lot more astringent compounds by breaking more coffee cells, which will result in an astringent cup regardless of how even the water flows through the coffee bed.
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korrents.com
Avoiding astringency in coffee is fundamentally a filtration problem rather than simply a matter of flow evenness.Their words
Therefore, avoiding astringency is not directly a matter of flow evenness, it is actually a filtration problem !
31 July 2022
29 July 2022
From one piece Jurassic Jeep Adventures 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
Fixating on the destination rather than the process leaves you stranded when things go wrong.Their words
If you focus on the goal you'll just be stranded on some mountain waiting for a rescue mission.
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Charming, beautiful and astronomically expensive because like in most of the western world it's illegal to build anything.
28 July 2022
26 July 2022
25 July 2022
From one piece in which the word column has several meanings, none of them architectural 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Programming, of course, is forgetting, but we need to at least try to be aware of the costs of the abstractions we choose and consider who it is that ends up being forgotten.
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In my opinion the root cause of this bug is that when a white american developer sees a terminal they immediately interpret it as this idealized cartesian plane where they can lay out any writing they want in neatly-spaced characters that behave in "predictable" ways (in other words, behave exactly like English).
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Their words, before
If you get a check during a pandemic, you’re not going to go out and spend it at restaurants and bars, because…well, there’s a pandemic. Instead, you’re more likely to stick it in the bank, pay down debt, or pay the back rent that you owe.
Their words now
I had some theory and some evidence on my side for this prediction, and yet I ended up being very wrong about what would happen to consumption.
24 July 2022
21 July 2022
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16 July 2022
From one piece More Even Espresso Extractions 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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flat burrs tend to send the coffee preferentially on one side of the portafilter (to the right side with the design of EG-1), an effect probably worsened by the use of high rpm.
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I now suspect that adding a source of hydraulic resistance under the puck that is non-negligible compared with the espresso puck itself is desirable to reduce the impact of channels because it slows down the flow of water where it would tend to become otherwise too fast and as a consequence less even across the surface of the coffee bed.
13 July 2022
12 July 2022
9 July 2022
8 July 2022
From one piece Bjorn’s Corner: Sustainable Air Transport. Part 27. Multicopters. 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The drone-like architecture of the multicopters is simple, but as the rotors are responsible for keeping the unit at a constant altitude with hover power, they represent an energy-intensive version of VTOLs. Their range is, therefore, short, typically less than 20 miles.
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All propulsion systems are air pumps, and they work more efficiently if they accelerate a large mass of air to a small overspeed than vice versa.
5 July 2022
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1 July 2022
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The Early Chinese Empires: Han and QinTheir words
Mark Edward Lewis' The Early Chinese Empires: Han and Qin is probably the best companion piece to your Sima Qian readings
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Early China: A Social and Cultural HistoryTheir words
Feng Li's Early China: A Social and Cultural History is a staid yet serviceable overview of the pre-imperial period.
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Medieval Chinese Warfare, 300-900Their words
David Graff's Medieval Chinese Warfare, 300-900 is actually a political-institutional history of China from 200 AD-1000 AD, and is probably the best political narrative history we have for the time period.
30 June 2022
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They weren't infallible oracles, but they weren't blindly casting about either.
From one piece Why On-Call Pain Is A Sociotechnical Problem 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
A permanently painful on-call rotation is a five-alarm emergency, not a normal cost of owning code in production.Their words
Being on call should not be a constant cycle of things breaking down and firefighting, or alerts going off at all hours. This is not ‘normal.’ These are telltale signs of a fragile system and lack of alert discipline.
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korrents.com
Engineers should own their code in production, and it is management’s job to make sure that on-call does not suck.Their words
It is engineering’s job to own their code in production. It is management’s job to make sure it doesn’t suck.
28 June 2022
22 June 2022
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Infinite JestTheir words
It's incredibly written, deeply complex, confusing as hell, and you'll probably throw it at the wall when it's done. But then you'll kinda go "okay... I'm glad I did that" and maybe start it again.
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End the FedTheir words
It's a book by a politician, about what you expect. Some interesting tid bits on the history of the Fed but you could get it from Wikipedia.
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Awaken the Giant WithinTheir words
This 1992 book changed everything about my life. It’s my Bible. Most of my beliefs come from it. I read it many times at a formative age, but re-read it now 30 years later, taking notes. It’s not a perfect book. It’s too verbose and full of expired American references. But its core messages are the wisest, most effective life philosophy I’ve ever encountered. You choose how you feel. Your emoti…
20 June 2022
From one piece Writing one sentence per line 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
Weak openings like “I think” should be cut, and a sentence started on its subject and verb.Their words
Chop the weak beginnings, like “I think” and “Whether or not”. Start with powerful subjects and verbs.
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Delete any sentence not worthy of its own line.
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korrents.com
Writing one sentence per line, for your own eyes, improves prose more than any other habit.Their words
I've been doing it for twenty years, and it improved my writing more than anything else.
18 June 2022
17 June 2022
From one piece Post 49: Things That Make Me Enjoy Giving Career Advice 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
In any mentoring conversation, only a small fraction of what's discussed turns out to be highly valuable.Their words
in general, I expect 90% of a mentoring chat to be kinda useless, and 10% to be particularly high value.
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In particular, most EA careers and most careers to do with AI are competitive as fuck.
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often the best way to maximise your impact is by pursuing high-risk, high-reward strategies
16 June 2022
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korrents.com
Somebody with trauma should try a trauma-focused therapy such as EMDR before treating their nightmares directly.Their words
I would recommend that anyone who thinks they're suffering from trauma (eg PTSD) try a trauma-focused therapy like EMDR before trying to address nightmares directly, unless the nightmares are overwhelmingly worse than all their other trauma symptoms.
15 June 2022
From one piece Post 48: Prioritise Tasks by Rating not Sorting 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
Having any ordering to follow, even an arbitrary one, helps overcome indecision about where to start workTheir words
There's a surprising amount of value in having any order at all (even an arbitrary one like first-come-first-served!) to break past indecisiveness about where to start.
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korrents.com
In prioritizing a list of tasks, the closest calls matter least while getting the very top item right matters mostTheir words
In hindsight, the hardest comparisons are in fact the least useful - if I do the fourth most important task before the third most important, that's no big deal, but doing the tenth before the first is a screw-up!
14 June 2022
10 June 2022
From one piece AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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A strategically aware intelligence can choose its visible outputs to have the consequence of deceiving you, including about such matters as whether the intelligence has acquired strategic awareness
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We’ve got no idea what’s actually going on inside the giant inscrutable matrices and tensors of floating-point numbers.
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The best and easiest-found-by-optimization algorithms for solving problems we want an AI to solve, readily generalize to problems we’d rather the AI not solve; you can’t build a system that only has the capability to drive red cars and not blue cars, because all red-car-driving algorithms generalize to the capability to drive blue cars.
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unaligned operation at a dangerous level of intelligence kills everybody on Earth and then we don’t get to try again.
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2 years after the leading actor has the capability to destroy the world, 5 other actors will have the capability to destroy the world.
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The Pigeon TunnelTheir words
The rest of the book is great, do buy it!
9 June 2022
7 June 2022
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The Sense of StyleTheir words
Overall, I'm still firmly on team Strunk and White. But this was a pretty damned entertaining grammar book.
6 June 2022
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Their words
With each rule and added complexity you make the system less human and less fun. You make it a Computer Scientists rube goldberg machine while sterilizing it of all the joy of life.
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Why We’re PolarizedTheir words
In his terrific book Why We’re Polarized, Ezra Klein argues that identity is the answer to the question suggested by his title.
3 June 2022
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Their words
Tyler Cowen will often praise a book by saying it is interesting on every page. Together with Daniel Gross, he has written a book that very much matches this description.
2 June 2022
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Influence: The Psychology of PersuasionTheir words
This is my list of the 10 best nonfiction books. These are the pillar books that have helped shape my thinking and approach to life. In my opinion, these are 10 nonfiction books everyone should read.
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MeditationsTheir words
This is my list of the 10 best nonfiction books. These are the pillar books that have helped shape my thinking and approach to life. In my opinion, these are 10 nonfiction books everyone should read.
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A Brief History of TimeTheir words
This is my list of the 10 best nonfiction books. These are the pillar books that have helped shape my thinking and approach to life. In my opinion, these are 10 nonfiction books everyone should read.
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The War of Art: Break Through Your Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative BattlesTheir words
This is my list of the 10 best nonfiction books. These are the pillar books that have helped shape my thinking and approach to life. In my opinion, these are 10 nonfiction books everyone should read.
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This is WaterTheir words
This is my list of the 10 best nonfiction books. These are the pillar books that have helped shape my thinking and approach to life. In my opinion, these are 10 nonfiction books everyone should read.
1 June 2022
From one piece Fiscal Policy under Low Interest Rates 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Real interest rates have steadily declined in all major economies for more than three decades. This decline was not caused by the Global Financial Crisis or the Covid crisis.
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korrents.com
There is no tight relation between growth rates and interest rates, either theoretically or empirically.Their words
while the growth rate may well affect saving and investment, there is no tight relation between growth rates and interest rates, either on theoretical or empirical grounds.
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A low r is actually a signal that something is wrong with the economy: In effect, if we think of the safe rate as the risk-adjusted rate of return on capital, the low safe rate is sending the signal that, risk adjusted, the return on capital is low.
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Low interest rates reflect underlying fundamental economic factors rather than central bank policy choices.Their words
In other words, central banks are not to blame for low rates: these low rates just reflect underlying fundamental factors.
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The main challenge in discussing fiscal policy is the widely held and nearly religious belief that public debt is very bad.
31 May 2022
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Edge BrowserTheir words
Modern browser with split-screen functionality. Helps organize different work contexts more efficiently. Yeah I know, I know. It's a Microsoft product.
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FigmaTheir words
I'm using Figma as just a design tool but now it's become our virtual whiteboard for the entire company. Never would have expected the collaboration features to be the real hook.
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CanvaTheir words
Tool for quickly creating simple graphics, presentation slides, and other visual content. Very useful for everyday graphic needs.
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Lucide IconsTheir words
Collection of open-source icons for use in web and mobile applications. Provides a wide range of icons for various use cases.
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TailscaleTheir words
Tailscale is a zero config VPN for building secure networks. I'm using this for connecting all my devices.
26 May 2022
25 May 2022
From one piece Do You Learn More by Struggling on Hard Problems? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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For starters, it’s abundantly clear that both practice and instruction are necessary for effective learning.
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Pure discovery learning, where students are never shown instructions or examples, fails miserably.
24 May 2022
23 May 2022
From one piece Major Version Numbers are Not Sacred 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I actually prefer more frequent major versions with smaller sets of breaking changes. There is a real danger in saving up all your significant changes and releasing them in one whopping major version once a year.
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If we want to live in a world where SemVer improves our collective experience as much as possible, it means we need to believe something new: Major version numbers are not sacred.
22 May 2022
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An Elegant PuzzleTheir words
I read this book because I read Will Larson's blog and newsletter and they're frequent sources of management insight. This book reads like a collection of blog posts with smooth transitions.
21 May 2022
17 May 2022
From one piece Professional Programming: The First 10 Years 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Dependencies aren't free. You have to keep them up to date. They increase your compile or loading times.
Professional Programming: The First 10 Yearsthorstenball.com
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Code has mass. Every additional line of code you don't need is ballast. It weighs your codebase down, making it harder to steer and change direction if you need to.
Professional Programming: The First 10 Yearsthorstenball.com
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Everything is the result of trade-offs. You will never reach 100% on every axis that you care about. Something has to give.
Professional Programming: The First 10 Yearsthorstenball.com
13 May 2022
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Snow CrashTheir words
I stuck it out to the end for a deus ex machina and that was some bullshit. This book would have been a perfect short story about pizza delivery.
11 May 2022
From one piece Is There a Housing Shortage or Not? 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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There’s a reasonable amount of evidence that housing prices tend to adjust to match regional incomes.
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The more restrictions on land use, the higher rents you see.
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If there’s one thing to take away from this essay, it's that you can’t infer a housing shortage by looking at housing construction rates in isolation.
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So, historical evidence suggests that the US is short at least several million housing units.
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There is essentially zero correlation - the metros with the largest rent increases had added population / added housing ratios no different than metros with smaller rent increases.
8 May 2022
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BreathTheir words
Anyway, the book has compelling parts, but hurts its own arguments with sloppy pseudo-science.
19 April 2022
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7 April 2022
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korrents.com
Climate change is the existential crisis of our timeTheir words
Climate change is the existential crisis of our time. We need more ideas and progress in every sector, including software-based approaches to preventing emissions and sequestering carbon.
6 April 2022
From one piece In defense of simple architectures 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The cost of our engineering team completely dominates the cost of the systems we operate
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Despite the unreasonable effectiveness of simple architectures, most press goes to complex architectures.
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computers are fast enough that high-traffic apps can be served with simple architectures, which can generally be created more cheaply and easily than complex architectures
4 April 2022
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When you take venture funding, you sign up for a rocket ship ride that will either take you to the moon or to crash-land painfully back on earth. Those are the only two choices. And both rides tend to require heavy extraction of value from the customer.
Announcing RedwoodJS 1.0 and $1M Fundingtom.preston-werner.com
1 April 2022
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22 March 2022
From one piece The Electric Car's Shrinking Role in Reducing Oil Demand 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
Electrifying high-mileage vehicles — trucks and vans — cuts oil demand more than electrifying private cars does.Their words
Trucks, vans, and other high mileage vehicles promise to impact oil demand more than EVs.
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korrents.com
Oil demand will fall mainly because petrol cars get driven less, not because they are replaced by electric ones.Their words
Falling consumer oil demand looks much more like driving the Camry 6000 miles per year instead of 12,000 miles rather than a shiny new electric car in every garage or robot taxis swarming everywhere.
19 March 2022
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Moonwalking with EinsteinTheir words
The book Moonwalking with Einstein explores humans' relationship to memory, our ideas of knowledge, and how that's shifted over time. But it begins with an exploration of competitive memorization and the techniques used by memory champions.
18 March 2022
17 March 2022
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korrents.com
How science works can be reasoned about in advance, because the activity has invariants that do not change over time.Their words
If we know the invariants of the problem at hand we can make assertions about the best way to solve that problem now and in the future.
From one piece How to pay professional maintainers 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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$1,000/month without benefits is a nice way to show appreciation, but won’t achieve any other goals.
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Governance is a delicate and complex topic, and you want to leave it as orthogonal as possible to funding.
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Finally, the health of the project depends on issue triage, bug fixes, refactors, and design work more than on new features. In fact, new features increase the maintenance burden.
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I often read advice along the lines of “if you want to help a project send PRs” and I never understood it. Reviewing and iterating or pushing back on PRs is work! Often more than writing the code itself.
16 March 2022
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4 March 2022
From one piece Training language models to follow instructions with human feedback (with 19 co-authors) 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
The next-token language modeling objective is misaligned with following user instructions helpfully and safely.Their words
This is because the language modeling objective used for many recent large LMs-predicting the next token on a webpage from the internet-is different from the objective "follow the user's instructions helpfully and safely" (Radford et al.,, 2019; Brown et al.,, 2020; Fedus et al.,, 2021; Rae et al.,, 2021; Thoppilan et al.,, 2022). Thus, we say that the language modeling objective is misaligned.
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korrents.com
Fine-tuning with human feedback is a promising direction for aligning language models with human intent.Their words
Even though InstructGPT still makes simple mistakes, our results show that fine-tuning with human feedback is a promising direction for aligning language models with human intent.
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For example, large language models can generate outputs that are untruthful, toxic, or simply not helpful to the user. In other words, these models are not aligned with their users.
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Making language models bigger does not inherently make them better at following a user's intent.
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The LoopTheir words
Science journalist Jacob Ward warns about a future in which AI technology forms a tight cybernetic feedback loop with the biases ingrained into the human brain, pushing our day-to-day existence in frightening directions. It's sort of like a version of The Terminator in which Danny Kahneman plays a starring role. As longtime readers and listeners of mine know, a big theme in my techno-criticism is the under-appreciated degree to which technologies exert powerful, unintended consequences on our personhood and culture, so Ward's warning hits a sweet spot with me.
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Of Mice and MenTheir words
Steinbeck deploys a standard third person omniscient narrative style that avoids all the flash of the modernists, and then postmodernists, that soon after took over the literary scene. But in his hands, it's enough. I still think about the ending.
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Cathedral of the WildTheir words
I picked up this book after hearing Varty's recent appearance on Tim Ferriss's podcast and I wasn't disappointed.
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The Devil's TeethTheir words
I'm a big fan of Susan Casey, who has perfected a style of nature journalism that's built around a narrative of personal adventures. (I recommend you start with The Devil's Teeth.)
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Living with a SEALTheir words
The book was light and fun, but it makes a lot more sense if, like me, you first read Goggin's mega-bestselling memoir, Can't Hurt Me.
2 March 2022
From one piece Write plain text files 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
Storing your own writing in a company's proprietary format is a mistake, because you will outlive the company.Their words
You will outlive these companies. Your writing should outlive you. Depending on companies is not an option.
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That's why I only use plain text files. They are the most reliable, flexible, and long-lasting option.
1 March 2022
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One of the reasons I've never cared for crypto currencies is that the associated utopia of trustless society had zero appeal to me. I don't think the world is better off by erasing the need to trust in our transactional counterparts, so turning these transactions into pure computing always struck me as a regression.
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But wherever this leads us next, it's clear to me now that I was too hasty to completely dismiss crypto on the basis of all the things wrong with it at the moment. Instead of appreciating the fundamental freedom to transact that it's currently our best shot at protecting.
20 February 2022
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These ideas can be disturbing and off-putting, but I think there is also a strong case for them, for those who wish their ethics to be principled and focused on the interests of others.
13 February 2022
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It appears that the evidence for all of these beliefs is much weaker than sleep scientists and public health experts want us to believe.
9 February 2022
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But I do want to stress that each of these five approaches are all just trade-offs, and none of them are universally wrong.
4 February 2022
2 February 2022
From one piece Future-proof ethics 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Combining these three pillars yields a number of unusual, even uncomfortable views about ethics. I feel this discomfort and don't unreservedly endorse this approach to ethics.
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Indeed, I think some of the best opportunities to do good in the world come from working on issues that aren't yet widely recognized as huge moral issues of our time.
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korrents.com
Ethics based on common sense and the conventions of the time has a horrible track record.Their words
Ethics based on "common sense" seems to have a horrible track record.
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Garmin inReach Mini 2Their words
I own an inReach Mini, used it for several years, and have no intention of upgrading to the Mini 2 because I don't see $400 of value in these improvements (or even $250, if I was able to sell my used Mini for $150).
31 January 2022
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From one piece Bjorn’s Corner: Sustainable Air Transport. Part 4. Reality checks. 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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These projects have been around for years, yet no one has done this simple math.
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An airliner's empty weight is at least half its take-off weight, and no flying design has ever come in below 47%.Their words
The model output, which uses data from 74 presently flying airliner variants, from short-haul Commuters to long haul Widebodies, made with aluminum or composites, shows that the OEW fraction (OEW divided by MTOW) never go below 47%.
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the electric technology used for cars only has to beat energy hogs that are below 10% in efficiency, our everyday car. But to qualify for aircraft use, the technology has to equal or beat what is used today, which is at the 30% to 40% efficiency level using modern turboprop or turbofan engines.
25 January 2022
From one piece Inside the Mind of A Famous Investor | Marc Andreessen 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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as you age, you just naturally build up all of this all of this sort of psychic scar tissue and you have all these cautionary lessons in your in your head all the time. And you just you and and therefore as a consequence, right? Your your aperture of what you're willing to explore as you get older just shrinks.
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korrents.com
Open access to information makes a closed information regime on the Soviet model fundamentally impossible to sustain.Their words
it's like could you ever have another Soviet Union like in the era of the internet? Um you know North Korea's doing their damndest to try to maintain that model you know but without going full North Korea like I'm not sure you can. I I mean, I guess I'm an optimist on this point. Like I tend to think open access information basically makes a lot of these historical things, you know, fundamentally impossible.
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what we have now is kind of at the at the sort of deepest level what we have is kind of this big fight between people who want to use the internet to basically reinforce top-down power uh, versus people who want to use it to disrupt top-down power.
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And so all of the people who have achieved positions of power and authority in the world based on prior generations of technology are inherently threatened by new technology because new technology will upend the power and status structures and then a new set of people will, you know, come to the foreground and and take the power.
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What what I find generally is if I don't understand something, I I try to read backwards and and and kind of the further back back I read, the more universal things I find. And the more things that I think are kind of remarkable and unique to our era actually turn out to be quite universal.
23 January 2022
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From one piece My first impressions of web3 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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web3 is not on a path away from centralised platforms, and its privacy story is already below the internet’s low bar.Their words
I don’t think it’s on a trajectory to deliver us from centralized platforms, I don’t think it will fundamentally change our relationship to technology, and I think the privacy story is already below par for the internet (which is a pretty low bar!), but I also understand why nerds like me are excited to build for it.
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People don’t want to run their own servers, and never will.
5 January 2022
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From one piece 2021 letter 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The US focus on efficiency has revealed the brittleness of its economy, which has neither the manufacturing capability to scale up domestic production of goods nor the logistics capacity to handle greater imports.
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Beijing diagnosed the problems with financialization earlier than the US, where the problem is now endemic.
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Beijing deliberately rejects comparative advantage and targets a high level of manufacturing output for its own sake.Their words
The leadership is targeting a high level of manufacturing output, rejecting the notion of comparative advantage.
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It has displayed a stronger record of reform than any other developing country, as the leadership keeps pulling off politically-difficult tasks: shrinking the state sector, re-orienting the economy towards export-led growth after WTO accession, and so on.
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China's cultural and intellectual output to the world is far smaller than its economic weight.Their words
Never has any economy grown so much while producing so few cultural exports.
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Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19Their words
Briefly, I think that this is one of the most important books so far of the twenty-first century.
18 December 2021
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Free software is designed to be used commercially, but you have to do it correctly. This is a resource which is made available to companies who want to exploit it, but they must do so according to the terms of the licenses.
15 December 2021
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I used to think that this was unequivocally a win for open source. That to fight for attention with the commercial alternatives, we had to adopt the commercial playbook. Now I think it’s at the very least a mixed blessing.
11 December 2021
From one piece log4j: between a rock and a hard place 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Software upgrades that invalidate previously learned knowledge make programmers worse at their craft.Their words
When software "upgrades" invalidate my old knowledge, it makes me a worse programmer.
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We as a profession misunderstand and misuse the concept of backwards compatibility, both upstream and downstream, by focusing on narrow legalistic definitions instead of outcomes.
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a good software project tries to break downstream as little as possible, and when we do break downstream, we should do our best to make the breakage obvious and easy to fix.
8 December 2021
5 December 2021
1 December 2021
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A Random Walk Down Wall StreetTheir words
A fine intro to investing if you think you can reliably beat the market or that active trading is a good use of energy. If you're already bought in on index funds though, you won't find much here.
30 November 2021
25 November 2021
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Samsung Galaxy Watch 4Their words
The Galaxy Watch 4 is easily the best smartwatch that Samsung has ever made, and also notably, the first one on Wear OS.
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COROS Pace 2Their words
Arguably the single unit on this entire post with the most bang for the buck, the COROS Pace 2 is a full multisport watch that can do swim/bike/run/triathlon, but even more than that
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Garmin Forerunner 245Their words
While this Garmin watch lacks some of the triathlon features the COROS Pace 2 has, it makes up for it with added running features like PacePro and in the case of the 245 Music, well, music.
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Polar Vantage M2Their words
In some ways, it’s really a disservice to assume that because these are budget options that they’re somehow bad.
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Garmin Fenix 6 ProTheir words
There’s still really no competition here. If you’re looking for the most feature-packed higher-end watch
23 November 2021
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Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be AliveTheir words
That led me to pick up this new book from one of the great science writers of our time, Carl Zimmer, and it did not disappoint.
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The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human ValuesTheir words
I just finished this book a few weeks ago and it is still reverberating in my mind
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The Bomber MafiaTheir words
It’s one of the first truly audio-first books that I’ve encountered, both in the prose style which has clearly been written from the ground up to be heard, not read
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The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of HumanityTheir words
I wouldn’t say that this is the most compelling book I’ve ever read in terms of the prose style or storytelling, but it does provide a very helpful, almost quantitative overview of all the potential threats looming out there
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Trust ExerciseTheir words
But what really makes it brilliant is a kind of meta-fictional twist that happens in the middle of the book
22 November 2021
From one piece The Rising Tide of Semiconductor Cost 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Finally, not just old chips and new chips, but the companies that make the chips (semiconductor fabs) are becoming more consolidated and more strategic.
The Rising Tide of Semiconductor Costfabricatedknowledge.com
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TSMC can pass its rising costs on because at the leading edge its customers have nowhere else to go.Their words
Given the concentration of fabrication power at TSMC, customers really don’t have another option.
The Rising Tide of Semiconductor Costfabricatedknowledge.com
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Chips are getting more expensive mainly because they take more process steps, not because the tools got dearer.Their words
The primary driver is not only the rising costs of tools such as EUV, but the rising number of steps to make a chip.
The Rising Tide of Semiconductor Costfabricatedknowledge.com
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Extra LifeTheir words
Steven Johnson, Extra Life – Johnson explores the astonishing expansion in life expectancy over the last two hundred years, and asks how we measure it and who – and what – deserves the credit. Wide ranging and a pleasure to read.
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A World Without EmailTheir words
Cal Newport, A World Without Email – this is marketed as a self-help book by a self-help guy, but it’s much more than that.
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RationalityTheir words
Steven Pinker, Rationality – the joy of this book (other than Pinker’s playful wit) is the sheer range.
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The Complete Guide to Absolutely EverythingTheir words
Adam Rutherford and Hannah Fry, The Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything – just delightful, wide-ranging stuff from the surely best science-communication double-act in the world. The perfect gift for the nerd in your life.
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Anthro-VisionTheir words
Gillian Tett, Anthro-Vision – my colleague Gillian Tett makes the case for thinking like an anthropologist in business and in life. The description of how KitKats took Japan by storm is a particular delight.
19 November 2021
17 November 2021
16 November 2021
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Adding a dependency is a serious decision which requires consensus within the team, an audit of the new dependency, an understanding of its health and long-term prospects, and an ongoing commitment to re-audit them and be prepared to change course as necessary.
I will pay you cash to delete your npm moduledrewdevault.com
9 November 2021
From one piece The Future of E-Bikes 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The e-bike market has no cheap standard model, which is what it would take to make the e-bike a mass product.Their words
E-bikes range in price from $1000 to $10,000. The market is still lacking a Toyota Corolla equivalent.
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A hybrid is a poor machine because it carries two complete powertrains, and most e-bikes repeat the same mistake.Their words
Hybrid-electric cars are an engineering abomination. They have both gas and electric powertrains, ensuring they are more expensive and complicated than their competitors.
7 November 2021
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26 October 2021
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20 October 2021
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DynamoDBTheir words
I typically recommend looking at serverless native databases like DynamoDB or Fauna however they do not work for all preferences or workloads.
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FaunaTheir words
I typically recommend looking at serverless native databases like DynamoDB or Fauna however they do not work for all preferences or workloads.
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PlanetScaleTheir words
That said, I'd personally pick Planetscale in this situation.
19 October 2021
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On changing their mind
I believe this needs to change because, as a former longtermist who published an entire book four years ago in defence of the general idea, I have come to see this worldview as quite possibly the most dangerous secular belief system in the world today.
From one piece Against longtermism 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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For example, there’s a good case to make that the underlying commitments of longtermism are a major reason why humanity faces so many unprecedented risks to its survival in the first place.
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Effective altruism is deeply utilitarian in practice, whatever its members say about not being utilitarians.Their words
The fact is that the EA movement is deeply utilitarian, at least in practice, and indeed, before it decided upon a name, the movement’s early members, including Ord, seriously considered calling it the ‘effective utilitarian community’.
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In a phrase: people exist for the sake of maximising value, rather than value existing for the sake of benefitting people.
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The initial thing to notice is that longtermism, as proposed by Bostrom and Beckstead, is not equivalent to ‘caring about the long term’ or ‘valuing the wellbeing of future generations’.
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The short answer is that elevating the fulfilment of humanity’s supposed potential above all else could nontrivially increase the probability that actual people – those alive today and in the near future – suffer extreme harms, even death.
9 October 2021
From one piece How New Managers Fail Individual Contributors 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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great engineers really shouldn’t need to manage large teams to get promoted, and companies lose out on a critical skillset when they push all of their good engineers into management.
How New Managers Fail Individual Contributorselidedbranches.com
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But it is critical that you step back on the technical decisions to make room for the team members to own things and grow.
How New Managers Fail Individual Contributorselidedbranches.com
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Passing tasks to a team without the context behind them tells them they are the doers and the manager is the decider.Their words
When you don’t give your team the context for the work and just pass on tasks and work items to them, you make it clear that they are simply “doers” and your job is the job of “decider.”
How New Managers Fail Individual Contributorselidedbranches.com
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A manager whose own code finishes every project is adding their value rather than multiplying the team’s.Their words
If it’s your code that gets you over the finish line for every project, you aren’t providing multiplicative value for the team, you’re providing the additive value of your work as an engineer.
How New Managers Fail Individual Contributorselidedbranches.com
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As a manager, your output is not measured by your individual work. Rather, your output is measured by the work of your team and the people that you influence.
How New Managers Fail Individual Contributorselidedbranches.com
8 October 2021
6 October 2021
From one piece Opinion: Manipulating viruses and risking pandemics is too dangerous. It's time to stop. 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Like nuclear physics, with its potential for global catastrophe when put to destructive ends, the proliferation of pandemic biology ought to be considered a matter of international security.
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But perhaps the biggest question of all isn’t being asked insistently enough: Why is anyone trying to teach the world how to make viruses that could kill millions of people?
5 October 2021
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19 September 2021
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Martyr MadeTheir words
I started listening to Darryl Cooper's Martyr Made last year as part of a deep dive on cults, but kept going because I found him incredibly insightful.
13 September 2021
From one piece The future of the App Store 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Credit cards provide stronger fraud protection and easier recourse for unwanted charges than app stores do.Their words
most credit cards themselves provide stronger fraud prevention and easier recourse from unwanted charges than the App Store ever has
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Most people use a Facebook-owned app not because it's a good app, but because it's a means to an important end in their life.
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The realistic alternatives to Apple's App Store would end up worse than the App Store itself.Their words
Apple's App Store is the devil we know. The most viable alternatives that would crop up would be far worse.
12 September 2021
11 September 2021
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Falling fertility is transmitted by the values that mass media spread, not by how rich any individual is.Their words
It seems to be correlated strongly with societal (not individual) wealth, and mediated by norms transmitted via mass media.
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Klara and the Sun: A NovelTheir words
Klara and the Sun is an absolutely remarkable example of how to develop this understanding.
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Never Let Me GoTheir words
I loved his Never Let Me Go, which I thought was beautifully delicate and raw and powerful.
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Other MindsTheir words
There's a book, which isn't in the five I've chosen (though it could well have been), Peter Godfrey Smith's Other Minds, which I think is a beautiful exploration of other minds.
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The Feeling of Life ItselfTheir words
His book, The Feeling of Life Itself, is a very accessible, authoritative and up-to-date manifesto for IIT.
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The Mechanical Mind in HistoryTheir words
There are a couple of other books I'd have loved to have included here. My PhD supervisor, Phil Husbands, and Owen Holland, have a recent book called The Mechanical Mind in History
10 September 2021
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Disarming the NarcissistTheir words
Now a self-help classic, Disarming the Narcissist is a practical, step-by-step communication guide to help you cope with and confront the narcissist in your life.
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Schema Therapy Online CommunityTheir words
This online community is a powerful way to stay in touch with other schema therapists around the globe, on a regular basis; to be part of the ever-growing ST community.
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Schema Therapy Training Institute video seriesTheir words
This video series is grounded in an understanding, both conceptually and practically, of the essential value of the therapy relationship in schema therapy
7 September 2021
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James Hoffmann's AeroPress videosTheir words
I highly recommend watching all three of his videos, because the tests and discussions he presented are of a very high quality.
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AeroPressTheir words
While I have enjoyed the AeroPress a lot in the past especially when travelling, I have always had one big complaint about it: getting a thick coffee bed to minimize uneven flow when pressing out the water limits the brew ratios that can be used.
6 September 2021
3 September 2021
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The Listening BookTheir words
Everyone should read this book of little essays about listening. It teaches your ears to pay more attention. It calls your attention to sounds you hadn’t noticed. It’s beautifully written, and makes your life better. I read it twice, 24 years ago, and reading it again this week, it was even better than I remembered.
1 September 2021
31 August 2021
30 August 2021
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The World After CapitalTheir words
That means I will read it again and you should too.
21 August 2021
19 August 2021
From one piece 3 Steps for Effective Translation to Learn Any Language 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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In traditional classroom settings, the development of skills often gets overlooked in favor of facts. Facts in the form of conjugation tables, word lists, grammar explanations, the names of verb tenses, and so on. All of these things are related to language, but it’s important to realize that knowing these things has nothing to do with speaking and using a language productively.
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This is an important detail that often gets overlooked, because language learning is, first and foremost, about acquiring skills. About learning how to read, write, speak, and listen, along with all of the countless subskills that any competent language speaker has in his or her toolbox.
18 August 2021
From one piece Product Discovery Basics: Everything You Need to Know 2 beliefs · producttalk.org
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The product trio—comprised of a product manager, design lead, and tech lead—is responsible for product discovery.
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Product discovery is a decision-making process, and good discovery keeps the customer inside that process.Their words
Product discovery is a decision-making process. Good product discovery includes the customer throughout that process.
From one piece The truth about distraction 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Work that matters requires tolerating discomfort and boredom rather than escaping into distraction.Their words
Consider the possibility that mild discomfort – butterflies in the stomach, a sense of difficulty, a moment of boredom – might simply be the price of doing things you care about.
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This is why most anti-distraction hacks – web-blocking apps, noise-canceling headphones, personal rules – never seem to work very well.
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you don’t get dragged away against your will. You surrender willingly.
16 August 2021
From one piece There's no such thing as a fresh start 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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the perfectionist's fantasy of reaching her deathbed with a perfect record of accomplishments under her belt isn't just extremely unlikely, but doomed from the start
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Life change never comes from one transforming plan; it comes from small adjustments to the life you already have.Their words
This, in my experience, is the only way personal change ever really happens: by first seeing that it's always a matter of rebuilding the ship mid-ocean, making adjustments to a life you can't ever take back to port or trade for another.
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We are transitioning from a world where everything is made in China, to one where everything is designed and sold by China too.
15 August 2021
14 August 2021
12 August 2021
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On changing their mind
Five years later, the facts on the ground have finally changed. I no longer believe that this bargain is worth it for most new applications.
11 August 2021
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From the River to the SeaTheir words
Sedgewick was more successful in developing his characters, and I also appreciated that he took regular tangents into other related and interesting matters like the Leadville mining boom, the growth of Los Angeles, and the business maneuvers of other railroad barons like Jay Gould and Collis Huntington.
9 August 2021
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CalTopoTheir words
My own platform-of-choice has become CalTopo, and I think it's now the clear winner for those who have similar needs.
6 August 2021
5 August 2021
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First Round ReviewTheir words
A treasure trove for consumer and enterprise technology companies.
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Remains of the DayTheir words
He always has an interesting take on products.
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How I Built ThisTheir words
Like my startup books, each of these podcasts gives insight into product and strategy.
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How to Build an Iconic CompanyTheir words
These are three-minute podcasts that talk about startups, leadership, management, and strategy.
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Lenny’s NewsletterTheir words
A weekly Substack product newsletter that pulls together lots of highly relevant resources.
3 August 2021
2 August 2021
1 August 2021
From one piece Thinking about “traceability” 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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This brings us to the central challenge of all content tracing proposals so far: to make tracing possible, a tracing system needs to turn every WhatsApp user (including the originator) into a cooperative green circle — regardless of whether users actually want to cooperate with police.
Thinking about “traceability”blog.cryptographyengineering.com
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Information revealed about “who sent what” in an E2E system is not the same as metadata.
Thinking about “traceability”blog.cryptographyengineering.com
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In short: traceability can really screw with the “who sent what” side of content confidentiality.
Thinking about “traceability”blog.cryptographyengineering.com
31 July 2021
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Elgato FacecamTheir words
previously I used a GoPro as a webcam, but since Elgato released this webcam, I switched to it.
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Elgato Wave 3Their words
The main microphone I use for sessions and meetings. I use it in combination with the Elgato Wave Pop and Elgato Wave Shock Mount.
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Logitech MX KeysTheir words
Great keyboard, bought it in the US, as the US International (available in EU) is not the same as US English.
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Rode microphone boom armTheir words
Just a great and flexible microphone boom arm.
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Front MatterTheir words
When I switched to Hugo, I needed to have an extension which allows me to keep my article front matter up to date.
29 July 2021
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15 July 2021
From one piece Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold (with 33 co-authors) 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Despite these advances, contemporary physical and evolutionary-history-based approaches produce predictions that are far short of experimental accuracy in the majority of cases in which a close homologue has not been solved experimentally and this has limited their utility for many biological applications.
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Here we provide the first computational method that can regularly predict protein structures with atomic accuracy even in cases in which no similar structure is known.
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Despite recent progress10-14, existing methods fall far short of atomic accuracy, especially when no homologous structure is available.
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Accurate computational approaches are needed to address this gap and to enable large-scale structural bioinformatics.
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Pereira MaintainsTheir words
I think it's the most wonderful novel of the last 20 years. I can't think of anything I admire more.
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The Summer BookTheir words
Sophie and her grandmother spend a lot of time pottering about and playing and building little Venetian lagoons for the ants to go into and that sort of thing. It's very funny and very charming. And you think that's all it is—a sweet little book about a child and her grandmother.
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The Jeeves Omnibus - Vol 1Their words
I read it because it was a book, and books were fun. I thought it was terrific. Really wonderfully funny. I've gone on thinking that for the subsequent 60 years or so.
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Oxford historical thesaurusTheir words
Have you seen the Oxford historical thesaurus? Fantastic. It must be one of the last great books produced as a printed object.
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The Chambers DictionaryTheir words
This dictionary is a great thing to have. It's just so fascinating.
10 July 2021
9 July 2021
6 July 2021
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First FriendsTheir words
If you enjoy history books and/or are a student of the US Presidency, you should grab this book and give it a read.
29 June 2021
From one piece Do you think it is more important to find inspiration or to get to work and write? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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A maker cannot summon the good line, only be at the desk when it arrives, and the outcome is not theirs to influence.Their words
Pen poised, I sit to attention, in my suit, on the edge of my imagination, prepared for the beautiful line to arrive. Sometimes it does, sometimes it does not — either way I am powerless to influence the outcome.
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I also have an affinity with artists who treat their craft as a job and are not dependent on the vagaries of inspiration — because I am one of them. Like most people with a job, we just go to work.
21 June 2021
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Startup CXOTheir words
It is the kind of book you will keep by your desk and pull out from time to time to figure out how to approach an issue or to help one of your senior leaders figure out how to do that.
7 June 2021
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VimTheir words
For writing software I full-screen a terminal and use Vim. Ctrl+Z for a shell.
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VS CodeTheir words
Every now and again I go searching for a replacement IDE. VSCode came closer than anything else in the last two decades to replacing Vim, but somehow I am back here.
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QSFP+ 40gbit hardwareTheir words
The router and Proxmox machines are attached with some QSFP+ 40gbit hardware I got off eBay. It's fun! I highly recommend playing with second-hand network hardware.
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iMac 5kTheir words
The 2014 iMac 5k I dedicate to video conferencing, mostly Hangouts and Zoom.
3 June 2021
1 June 2021
31 May 2021
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Somewear Global HotspotTheir words
Conclusion: If you expect to regularly carry the device but not a smartphone, which is the case with very few people, the inReach is the better option. Otherwise, the Somewear is more attractive: its seamless messaging and cost-savings more than offset the 0.5-ounce weight penalty and its slightly larger size.
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Gaia GPSTheir words
And for your mapping, I highly recommend instead the Gaia GPS or CalTopo apps.
21 May 2021
20 May 2021
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Publishing a standing list of your own mistakes, and correcting them, is part of doing science honestly.Their words
I make mistakes, and acknowledging and correcting them is an important part of how I grow.
10 May 2021
5 May 2021
4 May 2021
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The New BuildersTheir words
My friend Seth Levine and Elizabeth MacBride have written an important book about the changing face of entrepreneurship in the US.
1 May 2021
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The Copernican RevolutionTheir words
but I also recommend his Copernican Revolution
24 April 2021
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14 April 2021
From one piece Mailbag #2 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Many films are the most fun the first time because a part of our brains loses itself in the plot and actually experiences what the characters are experiencing, to an extent.
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People should feel free to enjoy art they love regardless of the artist's personal failings or beliefs.Their words
I think in most cases, we should feel fine loving the art we love, regardless of who the artist is, what they did, or what they believed.
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Clearly something other than the current type of healthcare advances will be needed to crack through the natural human lifespan ceiling-it'll take some deeper recoding of the human genome.
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Hardcore HistoryTheir words
Currently hooked on Dan Carlin's Hardcore History . 100 people recommended it to me and I kept putting it off and finally listened to the 6-part WWI series and that was that for me.
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Gravity BlanketTheir words
But Instagram has gotten pretty good at it and now I own a gravity blanket , a moon pod , stretchy jeans , a great hoodie , and like 19 fidget toys and physics toys and other stupid things that make me happy .
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Moon PodTheir words
But Instagram has gotten pretty good at it and now I own a gravity blanket , a moon pod , stretchy jeans , a great hoodie , and like 19 fidget toys and physics toys and other stupid things that make me happy .
10 April 2021
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The Beginning of InfinityTheir words
I’m currently stuck in a loop where, at least in science, I’m only going to read The Beginning of Infinity and The Fabric of Reality over and over again until I understand them fully.
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The Fabric of RealityTheir words
I’m currently stuck in a loop where, at least in science, I’m only going to read The Beginning of Infinity and The Fabric of Reality over and over again until I understand them fully.
9 March 2021
6 March 2021
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Understanding ComicsTheir words
Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud: I believe I first saw this book being recommended highly by Bret Victor aka worrydream. I think I then encountered a few screenshots of it on the Internet that made me really like it. It's very worth reading even if you don't really care all that much about comics.
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Masters of DoomTheir words
I was really excited when a friend sent me this book, because it gets right into the details of the history and production of these games that meant so much to me.
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The Nasty BitsTheir words
The Nasty Bits, by Anthony Bourdain. I read this book not too long before Anthony Bourdain died. I remember really enjoying his voice, his style, his sense of flair.
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Predatory ThinkingTheir words
Predatory Thinking, by Dave Trott. I found this book in a bookshop at some point and I found it really compelling. It includes a story about neutrinos that I love.
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DuneTheir words
The book is worth reading for its own sake, and it's particularly worth reading (in my opinion) to get a sense of how it has impacted so much of sci-fi and pop culture.
3 March 2021
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Shoe DogTheir words
A must-read for anyone who wants to start a business, has started a business, wishes they started a business or has ever thought about starting a business.
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Why We SleepTheir words
A flawed but really useful book. Some of the data here is exaggerated, it appears.
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GreenlightsTheir words
I was impressed with the depth and insight in this memoir. I hate to say it, but you rarely expect much from celebrity books. This one delivered though.
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EducatedTheir words
Don’t get me wrong, it’s very good and a great story. But much like Hillbilly Elegy a few years ago, I was left wondering, “What’s everyone going on about?”
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BecomingTheir words
Former first lady. Well written. Some really interesting parts. Some not-so-interesting parts. What else is there to say?
24 February 2021
23 February 2021
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Freedom from the MarketTheir words
Mike Konczal of the Roosevelt Institute has a wonderful new book: Freedom from the Market
20 February 2021
16 February 2021
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Direct TruthTheir words
It moves around. Keep coming back to I Am That, Direct Truth, Vasistha's Yoga, Jed McKenna, and Ashtavakra Gita.
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Vasistha's YogaTheir words
It moves around. Keep coming back to I Am That, Direct Truth, Vasistha's Yoga, Jed McKenna, and Ashtavakra Gita.
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Ashtavakra GitaTheir words
It moves around. Keep coming back to I Am That, Direct Truth, Vasistha's Yoga, Jed McKenna, and Ashtavakra Gita.
15 February 2021
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MacBook Air (M1)Their words
This is an amazing laptop. Its battery life is iPad tier. I can run iPad and iPhone apps seamlessly.
13 February 2021
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First, it justifies various psychotherapies - EMDR and coherence therapy seem to come out especially well here - that focus on trying to get the brain to pay unusually precise attention, under unusually safe conditions, to something it usually represses.
5 February 2021
1 February 2021
From one piece Does energy imbalance (calories in > out) cause obesity? 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Body fat is biologically regulated, so losing weight provokes a starvation response that pushes the weight back on.Their words
This is a phenomenon I call the “starvation response”, and it happens because body fat mass is biologically regulated.
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In people living their normal lives, circulating insulin level, and the insulin response to carbohydrate, don’t reliably predict who will gain weight and who won’t.
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The brain, not insulin or fat tissue, is what ultimately controls the energy balance equation.Their words
However, whichever side of the energy balance equation is giving orders, the brain appears to be the commander-in-chief of the equation as a whole.
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No matter what your model of obesity is, in order to explain the development of an obese body, energy imbalance has to be a link in the model’s causal chain.
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Likedrcmnd.app
The Moon is a Harsh MistressTheir words
AI was in the air in the mid 1980s, but there were two things especially that made me want to work on it: a novel by Heinlein called The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
29 January 2021
From one piece How TSMC Might Spend $28 Billion 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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TSMC raises capital spending when it believes a wave of demand is coming, rather than after the demand has arrived.Their words
I think TSMC thinks a fat pitch is coming.
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TSMC's real advantage over its foundry rivals is that it can outspend them, not that it is technically ahead.Their words
Unlike Chartered and SMIC, they have the power of the purse and they leverage it like few other companies can.
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Well, this $20 billion in retrospect was far too little.
24 January 2021
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Usesrcmnd.app
Audio HijackTheir words
I record all my podcasts using Audio Hijack.
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Ferrite Recording StudioTheir words
On the iPad, I write using 1Writer or Drafts, and edit podcasts using the Apple Pencil and Ferrite Recording Studio, which is the best podcast editing app I've found on any platform.
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Uplift V2Their words
I recently bought a new desk, the Uplift V2, with a reclaimed wood desktop, and I love it.
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iPad ProTheir words
When I'm not at my desk I primarily use a 12.9-inch iPad Pro.
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Uplift V2 standing deskTheir words
I recently bought a new desk, the Uplift V2, with a reclaimed wood desktop, and I love it.
23 January 2021
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On changing their mind
When I first heard the stagnation hypothesis, I was skeptical. The arguments weren’t convincing to me.
From one piece Technological stagnation 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Stagnation does not mean no progress; it means progress slower than the late 1800s to mid-1900s peak.Their words
Stagnation just means slower progress. And not even slower than that pre-industrial era, but slower than, roughly, the late 1800s to mid-1900s, when growth rates are said to have peaked.
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It’s that we went from five simultaneous technology revolutions to one.
20 January 2021
From one piece Fund people, not projects IV: Scientific egalitarianism and lotteries 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The cost of peer review is largely dominated by applying for grants, not peer reviewing.
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The way I see this is that reviewers can identify what's obviously not great and what is obviously great (Perhaps identifying the latter is easier than the former). But there is a "messy middle" where it is unclear what to fund.
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Pre-grant peer review predicts which research will have impact substantially better than chance does.Their words
I have reviewed before the effectiveness of peer review at figuring out "what's good" in the context of grant awards, finding that peer review as currently practiced does substantially better than chance at predicting future impact, especially for the most impactful of the papers; but at the same time is is far from perfect, leaving plenty of variance unexplained.
From one piece We Are Not Special 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Rather than fix a trad issue with trad engineering, Boeing opted for the software kludge, and then people died.
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We can change software much faster than anybody else can change their systems.
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Software is far more consistent than any other kind of engineering.
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Software is not uniquely unpredictable; other engineering disciplines are hit by the same surprises and overruns.Their words
To assume that software is uniquely unpredictable is a special kind of arrogance.
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Almost nothing programmers believe is unique to software is actually unique to software.Their words
Almost everything we think is unique about software appears in every other field of engineering.
19 January 2021
11 January 2021
From one piece Something of Value (memo to Oaktree clients) 3 beliefs · oaktreecapital.com
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Not only are the traditional staples of classic value investing (readily discernable quantitative measures of cheapness in the here-and-now) no longer likely to produce a sustainable edge on their own, but the world has gotten more complex, with many more dynamics that can drive a decoupling of near-term metrics from valuation, both to the positive and negative.
Something of Value (memo to Oaktree clients)oaktreecapital.com
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The value-versus-growth distinction does not serve investors well in a fast-changing world.Their words
My extensive discussions with Andrew led me to conclude that the focus on value versus growth doesn’t serve investors well in the fast-changing world in which we live.
Something of Value (memo to Oaktree clients)oaktreecapital.com
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Rather than being defined as one side of this artificial dichotomy, value investing should instead consist of buying whatever represents a better value proposition, taking all factors into account.
Something of Value (memo to Oaktree clients)oaktreecapital.com
9 January 2021
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Rising cost, not lost skill, is what drove all but three firms out of leading-edge chip manufacturing.Their words
But over time things got more and more expensive and people started dropping out.
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