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19 December 2025
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when you take money over meaning, you just burn yourself out and end up producing a worse result.
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korrents.com
LLM intelligence should not be understood through an animal analogy; it is a different kind of entity altogetherTheir words
2025 is where I (and I think the rest of the industry also) first started to internalize the "shape" of LLM intelligence in a more intuitive sense. We're not "evolving/growing animals", we are "summoning ghosts".
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Likedrcmnd.app
Claude CodeTheir words
Claude Code (CC) emerged as the first convincing demonstration of what an LLM Agent looks like - something that in a loopy way strings together tool use and reasoning for extended problem solving.
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Nano BananaTheir words
Nano banana is one of the most incredible, paradigm-shifting models of 2025.
18 December 2025
From one piece Notes from the UAE 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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the UAE's tech aspirations are clearly downstream of a deeper affinity with the West.
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korrents.com
Oil-rich Gulf monarchies are effectively post-scarcity societies, with institutions adapted to match that condition.Their words
oil-rich Gulf monarchies are the closest thing to post-scarcity societies on earth today, with the institutional adaptions to match
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There is a close mapping between government ideal types and corporate governance structures given their shared origins in transaction costs.
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Likedrcmnd.app
Starship TroopersTheir words
Hey! There’s a novel called Starship Troopers! It’s pretty good! Coincidentally and unrelated, there’s a movie called Starship Troopers! It’s also pretty good! Not the same, but pretty good.
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Poison Like No OtherTheir words
Recommended reading: "Poison like no other" (on plastics), "In Defense of Food"
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In Defense of FoodTheir words
Recommended reading: "Poison like no other" (on plastics), "In Defense of Food"
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Recommendsrcmnd.app
Poison SquadTheir words
(on food vs. "edible food-like substances"), "Poison Squad"
17 December 2025
16 December 2025
From one piece Are There Fourth Amendment Rights in Google Search Terms? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
Whether the Fourth Amendment protects the terms you type into a search engine is a genuinely close question.Their words
Doctrinally, either answer is at least plausible; even under my own take of what Carpenter means, it's not an easy call.
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korrents.com
A company's terms of service cannot enlarge or shrink your constitutional privacy rights in either direction.Their words
As I have argued here, I don't think TOS alter Fourth Amendment rights—up or down.
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Lovedtheir ownrcmnd.app
Sanity and SainthoodTheir words
The biggest endorsement I can give this book is that I once considered writing a book like this, but now I consider the job done.
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Likedrcmnd.app
Specimen DaysTheir words
Tying them all together is Whitman's love for the American landscape and people, and his unique voice, so fresh he still seems like a contemporary.
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Likedrcmnd.app
The Secret of Our SuccessTheir words
Not every plank in his argument is convincing, and the research has evolved since the book first came out a decade ago, but the ambition is impressive and the framework holds up.
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Likedrcmnd.app
The Wide Wide SeaTheir words
The causes and meaning of those events have been debated ever since, and Sides delivers a careful, sympathetic and engaging account of the entirety of Cook's final expedition.
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I Deliver Parcels in BeijingTheir words
Perhaps the best of the various gig-worker memoirs published in recent years.
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Likedrcmnd.app
Disputing Disaster: A Sextet on the Great WarTheir words
I also enjoyed Anderson's Disputing Disaster: A Sextet on the Great War
15 December 2025
From one piece Statistics made simple 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I mean, sure, you might try to guess people's tastes and only write about what's popular, but that will destroy your soul pretty quickly.
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korrents.com
Raw pageview or reader counts are not actionable information for a writer's editorial decisions.Their words
analytics is not actionable: what difference does it make if a thousand people saw my article or ten thousand?
From one piece 10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis) 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I see no evidence that I'm dragging people along with me. I feel like each each book feels like another startup and that I've got to go out and make it happen almost as if I've not written one.
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That's a really intelligent way place to land because what they will do is woo you with their enthusiasm and then take you down a rabbit hole where you will spend years of your life and have nothing to show.
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korrents.com
An audience is not buying the subject you cover; it is buying your interest in the subject.Their words
They learn to trust you that if you're interested, they'll be interested. That what in fact what they're buying into is not the subject, but your interest in the subject.
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In fact, if most journalists started there, they'd be accused of heography
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you grab the listener like I try to grab a reader and get them to the state of mind where they'll let you take them anywhere uh and teach them about stuff that they don't even know they want to learn about.
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Lovedrcmnd.app
This is Spinal TapTheir words
This is Spinal Tap offers a lot of joy. It is one of the funniest movies ever made, a movie that can make you laugh until you cry, and also, make you laugh even if you have been crying.
14 December 2025
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Lovedrcmnd.app
See's Bridge MixTheir words
See's Bridge Mix. My parents had this at their house when we visited in January and we've been buying them throughout the year whenever we come across a See's. The best box to have around the house.
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Likedrcmnd.app
McCann's Irish OatmealTheir words
McCann's Irish Oatmeal, which I find to be far superior to Quaker. When I make it with whole milk, I could eat the entire bowl plain.
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Tony's Chocolonely Lil BitsTheir words
Tony's Chocolonely Lil Bits (in Milk Caramel Sea Salt and Cookie Mix), which single-handedly got me through this work year. I shudder to think how many bags of these I ate, but I can barely finish an essay without one.
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Lovedsponsoredrcmnd.app
Sézane x New Balance 471 sneakersTheir words
Full disclosure, I got these for free, but have become unexpectedly obsessed. I wear them constantly and really like how they instantly change the mood of an outfit. Can't really say why they stand out since they're pretty basic but people ask me about them all the time.
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Likedrcmnd.app
Uniqlo x JW Anderson sweaterTheir words
It's a beautiful sweater and 100% wool. So far they're pilling a little (to be expected), so I'll definitely be checking in on this one next year. That price is hard to trust.
13 December 2025
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Lovedrcmnd.app
AmapTheir words
But Amap is great! Especially since it can be used in English and I think it transliterates your searches to Chinese and the Chinese place names back to English
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Dislikedrcmnd.app
Google MapsTheir words
Google Maps essentially really doesn't work in China, the location of our hotel Aman in Beijing for example was completely wrong
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Raiders of the Lost ArkTheir words
I am a relic of the 80s as much as Raiders of the Lost Ark, and while I acknowledge how storytelling has changed between now and then, as a storytelling vehicle, in many ways it is still peerless and endlessly watchable.
12 December 2025
From one piece Deciphering Secrets of Ancient Civilizations, Noah’s Ark, and Flood Myths | Lex Fridman Podcast #487 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
Inertia is nearly as strong as evolution, and people who talk about progress have no idea of it.Their words
But actually, that argument is utterly, utterly fallacious, because the process of evolution is stymied left, right, and center by inertia. Inertia is nearly as strong as evolution, and this is something that the people who talk about progress and ideas have no idea about.
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And it’s obvious, it’s obvious that they had writing on a perishable material. They can’t just have had inscribed stone seals, and many parts of India today write on palm leaf.
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There was writing at Gobekli Tepe, thousands of years before Sumer, and one stamp seal is enough to infer it.Their words
Well, that seal from Gobekli Tepe is a raindrop from which I infer writing, and it’s perfectly possible they all wrote on flat leaves.
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And my hunch is that the archaeological evidence that we have on this score is ultimately misleading, because I think this: that probably for a very, very long time before the Sumerians, people in the world, the world of what we call the Middle East, were in contact.
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korrents.com
The genius of writing was the moment somebody realised a picture could stand for a sound rather than for a thing.Their words
And once they had the idea that you could write sounds with pictures, that’s the crucial thing, that a picture of a foot not only meant foot but it meant the sound of the word for foot.
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Likedrcmnd.app
Good Hang with Amy PoehlerTheir words
Good Hang with Amy Poehler: I think this is a wildly popular one now for a reason, it's very fun and I just love how it's chill and mostly comedians hanging out.
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Likedtheir ownrcmnd.app
OvercommittedTheir words
Overcommitted: Put simply, thoughtful tech conversations from thoughtful tech people. I'm biased towards this one because it's run by some coworkers, but they are awesome coworkers and it's fun and interesting!
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Lovedrcmnd.app
CodePen RadioTheir words
CodePen Radio: This one was gone for YEARS and then they came back and I am so happy they did.
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Likedtheir ownrcmnd.app
GitHub PodcastTheir words
GitHub Podcast: Another biased one because it's my place of work, BUT it's still good!
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Likedrcmnd.app
VeggieTales PodcastTheir words
VeggieTales Podcast: Okay this is more for my children than me, but it's a good one for talking about how it's important to be "nice" and stuff (what a concept), and it's been great on roadtrips to visit family!
11 December 2025
From one piece Stagnant Construction Productivity Is a Worldwide Problem 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The US has a lot to learn from other countries for how to catch up to the efficient frontier, especially for certain types of construction (ie: transit) and in certain places in the country (ie: expensive coastal metros).
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Sweden, for instance, is often praised for its high adoption of prefabricated construction, but since the 1990s Sweden has had roughly flat construction labor productivity, even as it has made more extensive use of prefabrication.
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Overall, my take when looking at this data is that stagnant construction productivity is an extremely widespread problem.
10 December 2025
From one piece Australia's New Social Media Regulations Put Childhood First 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The goal is not perfect enforcement. Some kids will still find workarounds. The goal is to shift the environment so children are not pressured into digital spaces they don’t want, simply to avoid being left out.
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Parents want this. They know social media can harm their children, yet many feel trapped because everyone else’s kids are already online.
From one piece Summon Your Courage and Buy Stocks 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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With so many professional money managers afraid to act, with most of the public in the grip of fear and anger, you should put your cash and your courage to work.
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In short, investors' view of the decade to come is being shaped by the events of the last few days.
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In form and tone it resembles a business class airport book—and this comparison is insulting to the airport paperbacks.
9 December 2025
From one piece Marketing Expert: The Playbook Behind Every Great Campaign | Rory Sutherland 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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probably 50% of the time, I would advise to a client, take 10 to 20% of your marketing budget and spend it on upgrading the call center. Pay the people too much. Get the best practitioners.
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korrents.com
Cutting a job defined by its narrowest function destroys the tacit value that job was quietly creating.Their words
the dorman was doing multiple things, many of which were human and kind of tacit. Security would be one. You know, there are no vagrants to sleep in the doorway, hailing taxis, dealing with luggage, recognizing regular guests, providing status to the hotel. There are loads and loads of value creation components to that dorman which aren't captured in the open the door definition.
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But when you pursue efficiency generally you start looking at numerical or mechanical factors and of course in the process you disregard psychological factors where the greater gains may be found and so you focus too heavily on cost reduction and too little on value creation.
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When you allow tech bros too much power over decision-making along with their running dog lackey in kind of management consultancy, you're optimizing for something which may be very very distant from what your real world customers really care about.
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korrents.com
People cannot choose without comparison, so an AI that hands over one perfect answer will not satisfy them.Their words
people don't decide like that at the very least you'll have to show them three or four or five skiing holidays from which they choose because we can't really choose in the absence of comparison.
From one piece Is It a Bubble? 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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There can be no way to participate fully in the potential benefits from the new technology without being exposed to the losses that will arise if the enthusiasm and thus investors’ behavior prove to have been excessive.
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There’s a consistent history of transformational technologies generating excessive enthusiasm and investment, resulting in more infrastructure than is needed and asset prices that prove to have been too high. The excesses accelerate the adoption of the technology in a way that wouldn’t occur in their absence.
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If that enthusiasm doesn’t produce a bubble conforming to the historical pattern, that will be a first.
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A bubble can only be identified in retrospect, so arguing about whether one is happening now cannot be settled now.Their words
Bubbles are best identified in retrospect.
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Given the vast potential of AI but also the large number of enormous unknowns, I think virtually no one can say for sure.
From one piece Can we break the human development-environment trade-off? 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
Cheap clean energy has broken the old trade-off between raising living standards and cutting environmental harm.Their words
The rapid drop in renewable energy costs in the last decade (alongside huge improvements in battery technologies) has started to break this deadlock.
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Here, I always emphasise that it is an opportunity, not an inevitability. There’s no law that says this will happen.
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By this broader definition, humans have never been truly sustainable.
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My argument is simple: for the first time in history, we can improve human wellbeing while reducing our environmental impact.
From one piece writing with your eyeballs 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
Literary criticism is itself a form of literature.Their words
I know that this is a contested idea, but my favorite books of the last five years have all been books of criticism, so...I mean, it's literature to me!
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korrents.com
Rachel Cusk's prose imitates the surface techniques of W.G. Sebald without adopting his underlying artistic aims.Their words
I believe that Cusk's own style apes the externalities of W.G. Sebald's style without carrying over his internals.
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But for me, style is always an external manifestation of a disposition toward life.
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Likedrcmnd.app
DatawrapperTheir words
I instead use Datawrapper to create interactive charts very quickly. They follow great data visualization principles, have influenced my work, and their styles look great.
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Usesrcmnd.app
ggplot2Their words
I download the data and write up code in R , using ggplot2 to create a graph
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Usesrcmnd.app
FigmaTheir words
I then export the graph as an .svg file, and open it up on Adobe Illustrator or Figma
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Usesrcmnd.app
Adobe IllustratorTheir words
I then export the graph as an .svg file, and open it up on Adobe Illustrator or Figma
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Strictly BallroomTheir words
In fact, I will say this: Strictly Ballroom is, in its way, an absolutely perfect movie.
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Capital Evolution: The New American EconomyTheir words
Seth and his co-author, Elizabeth MacBride, do an outstanding job of defining capitalism clearly and explaining how it evolved into today’s approach.
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Lovedrcmnd.app
NARS soft matte concealerTheir words
NARS soft matte concealer. This is the BEST concealer. I've used this for many years and I will never quit it. There is no comparable one for acne.
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Likedrcmnd.app
Olaplex conditionerTheir words
Olaplex conditioner. I have the shampoo too but I'm pretty sure the conditioner is what makes my hair bizarrely soft.
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Nippon Kodo Mori-no-KOH incenseTheir words
Nippon Kodo Mori-no-KOH incense. I love this! Incredible bang for your buck, the little box feels so fancy, it smells insane. I'm burning it right now as I write.
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Clarins lip comfort oilTheir words
Clarins lip comfort oil. Maybe my favorite lip tint, and I own like 35.
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Likedrcmnd.app
COLOR WOW Raise the Root sprayTheir words
COLOR WOW Raise the Root spray. I found out about this on TikTok. I spray when damp and it DOES give my flat Asian hair volume. I don't know how it works, but it does.
8 December 2025
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we will see batteries aggressively displace transmission as the most cost-effective way to ensure continuity of electricity supply, leading to an eventual pruning of the grid and drastic reduction in the average distance that power travels between production and consumption, even as the average time that power is stored increases.
Their words now
Do we need to drastically expand the grid in order to metabolize renewables? No.
From one piece Energy Predictions 2025 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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By 2045, natural gas will be used as LNG primarily for high performance supersonic aviation, shipping, and industrial heat.
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The only highly populated industrial country unable to trivially meet its electricity and synthetic fuel needs with solar alone is the United Kingdom, due primarily to a high population density and high latitude. The Nordic and Baltic countries are tiny by comparison. Among other problems, the UK needs to decide if it wants the future where energy is cheap and it is rich, or the future where energy is expensive and it is poor. If the former, it is time to get serious about large scale deployment of wind power, using home-grown vertically integrated technology at prices as low as $10/MWh.
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While heat pumps can achieve higher efficiency, consumer uptake has been much lower than expected because fundamentally, a heat pump is a 20 year bet on future power prices that most homeowners are unwilling to make.
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Storing electricity for months is economically difficult, but storing heat is easy.
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On the flip side, these captive solar power plants will be curtailing approximately 75% of their generated power and will be able to provide net power on all but a few days per year.
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Lovedrcmnd.app
The Decline of DevianceTheir words
My favorite recent piece on our cultural stagnation is Adam Mastroianni’s
7 December 2025
From one piece How To Podcast 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
The best follow-up questions in an interview push back and challenge what the guest just said.Their words
The highest art of followup is disagreement - challenging what they said, pushing back on it.
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korrents.com
Promoting a cause builds audience loyalty.Their words
When you have a Cause you promote - whether relevant to your listeners' lives or work or sense of self, you have loyalty.
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korrents.com
Podcasting works best as edutainment, and fails when it becomes too highbrow or purely educational.Their words
Podcasting is edutainment. If you try to have too highbrow a view of yourself, and only do education, you will lose.
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Recommendsrcmnd.app
CocoTheir words
(Coco is wonderful, though, you should absolutely see it if you have not).
6 December 2025
5 December 2025
From one piece The Problem With AI Life Coaching—and My Solution 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
Living according to a genuine purpose brings sacrifice, stress and pain rather than constant enjoyment.Their words
Because when you believe in something, when you become obsessed with something, you sacrifice yourself to it. And that sacrifice actually feels like pain and stress and doubt. Not fun.
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ChatGPT, in particular, seemed to just want to validate me, tell me how great I was, reinforce any bad beliefs I might have had, and avoid saying anything uncomfortable.
4 December 2025
3 December 2025
From one piece Trillion Dollar Market Caps: Fairy Tale Pricing or Business Marvels? 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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investors at many tech companies, including most on the large cap list, have given up their corporate governance rights, often voluntarily (through the acceptance of shares with different voting rights), to founders and top management in these companies
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The revenue growth and margins needed to justify Nvidia’s and OpenAI’s late-2025 pricing are improbable.Their words
I think that the pathway that you would need (in terms of revenue growth and profitability) to justify Nvidia's and OpenAI's current pricing is improbable, but that is just my view
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the delusion comes from the reality that if you aggregated these breakeven revenues across companies, the market is not big enough to sustain all of them
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If you are an investor who considers any highly priced company to be overvalued, I hope that this post leads you to reconsider.
2 December 2025
1 December 2025
From one piece Why Most Cryptocurrencies Won’t Accrue Value 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
Decentralized finance mainly converts custodial risk into technical risk rather than eliminating risk altogether.Their words
While there is some utility value in DeFi, it basically lets users transform custodial risk into technical risk (e.g. bridge protocol hacks), which is not a free lunch.
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korrents.com
Bitcoin's roughly $2 trillion market capitalization is still early relative to its long-term adoption potential.Their words
In my view, Bitcoin at a ~$2 trillion market capitalization remains rather early.
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Utility protocols face heavy competition, and thus their value trends toward their marginal cost of operation.
From one piece The Devil's Plan to Ruin the Next Generation 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
Spirituality is a real part of human nature and central to flourishing, whether or not God exists.Their words
I approach spirituality as a social scientist who believes that whether or not God exists, spirituality is a deep part of human nature, shaped by natural selection and cultural evolution, and central to human flourishing and self-transcendence.
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korrents.com
The share of American teenagers who say that life often feels meaningless surged as Gen Z entered adolescence.Their words
But as soon as Gen Z entered the dataset, around 2013, meaninglessness surged.
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So many of us in the education world have seen this precise change in our students over the past decade: They have more difficulty reading books, sitting through a 75-minute class, or doing their homework.
From one piece get good 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
Americans tend to be aggressive yet thin-skinned, sure of their own rightness while doubting everyone else.Their words
Americans are mean, but fragile. Bullies, but babies. They are right, always, but also skeptical of every one else.
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korrents.com
Coaches who depend on clients paying them repeatedly avoid the corrections that might drive those clients away.Their words
American tennis coaches do not want to get fired. They want you to continue to pay them.
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Lovedrcmnd.app
ReederTheir words
I love RSS! Reeder has been installed on my devices for many years now and has become my primary RSS reader in 2024.
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Sublime TextTheir words
After many years, Sublime Text remains one of my favourite code editors. I still often use it to edit huge files or to make heavy edits through its powerful find and replace feature.
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Likedrcmnd.app
Mac OSTheir words
Both OS have their flaws. macOS just works better for me and my workflow.
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Usesrcmnd.app
SafariTheir words
I switched to Firefox when Safari 15 was released. John Gruber summarized the issues I had with it perfectly. Since Apple reverted their design changes in recent releases, I'm back at using Safari as my primary
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Mixed onrcmnd.app
FirefoxTheir words
I switched to Firefox when Safari 15 was released. John Gruber summarized the issues I had with it perfectly. Since Apple reverted their design changes in recent releases, I'm back at using Safari as my primary
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Lovedrcmnd.app
The Singer of TalesTheir words
That question is explored in another extraordinary book, Albert B. Lord’s The Singer of Tales
30 November 2025
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28 November 2025
From one piece The Importance of Bed Depth 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
A deeper coffee bed reduces astringency by trapping long molecules on particle surfaces, not by pore-size filtration.Their words
the coffee bed would act on these molecules by filtering them out a bit like oxygen adsorbers keep oxygen in; it just provides a gigantic maze of free surface area for them to stick on, and hopefully the microscopic fluid velocity is gentle enough to not drag them along.
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the depth of a coffee bed, contrary to the width of the coffee bed, is a variable that impacts the flavor of the coffee being brewed significantly, and in a way that you cannot easily compensate for by changing other brew variables.
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korrents.com
Dripper diameter, with other brew variables held fixed, does not change extraction or taste — only batch size.Their words
changing the dripper diameter, keeping all other important variables fixed, has no impact on the brew mechanics and the resulting cup, in an "idealized" scenario
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Lovedaffiliate linkrcmnd.app
LoveveryTheir words
Lovevery Kits are just the ultimate. We have this play gym (as does everybody?!) which works with the Montessori toys they make. They have kits for different age groups from newborn through 51 months (I cannot even begin to calculate how old that is) and they have taught me so much about baby development!
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Merlin SuitTheir words
Merlin Suit: I dunno what Merlin knows about babies but this sleeping suit is a MIRACLE.
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Lovedrcmnd.app
RadioooooTheir words
Not a podcast, but Radiooooo is a world map where you can click on countries and pick a decade to listen to popular music from that place and time. What will they think of next!
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Lovedrcmnd.app
FrancieTheir words
Fancy in Brooklyn: Francie is my favorite restaurant in Brooklyn (actually, all of NYC). I also die for Celestine, where I got married!
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Pop PantheonTheir words
Here are some favorites I listen to consistently: Pop Pantheon (music)
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Pulsar MiniTheir words
In other words, I still use exactly the same recipe that I developed for the Pulsar when I brew with the mini, I just brew with a dose smaller by a factor 0.6 (e.g., 15 grams instead of 25).
27 November 2025
From one piece On "AI Brendans" or "Virtual Brendans" 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
Widespread AI-driven performance tuning agents will meaningfully reduce global energy waste.Their words
In future there will be AI performance agents that can be run on everything, helping to save the planet by reducing energy usage.
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korrents.com
Relying on AI to replace performance engineers reduces an organization's overall technical expertise over time.Their words
If a company spends less on performance engineers as it's considered AI'd, it will reduce the company's effective "performance IQ."
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korrents.com
AI agents trained on an expert's published work can only automate a small fraction of that expert's actual job.Their words
These would only automate about 15% of what I do as a performance engineer, and will go out of date if I'm not training it to follow industry changes.
26 November 2025
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Mark Steel’s in TownTheir words
Every episode he goes to a small town in England and he does a comedy set in a local venue about the history of the town. And so he does very deep research... I love that sort of like hyperlocal, like comedy, that sort of British culture thing.
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Usesrcmnd.app
NetNewsWireTheir words
I’ve got a GitHub actions thing that runs a piece of software I wrote called shot-scraper that runs Playwright, that loads up a browser in GitHub actions to scrape that webpage and turn the results into JSON, which then get turned into an atom feed, which I subscribe to in NetNewsWire.
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shot-scraperTheir words
I’ve got a GitHub actions thing that runs a piece of software I wrote called shot-scraper that runs Playwright, that loads up a browser in GitHub actions to scrape that webpage and turn the results into JSON, which then get turned into an atom feed, which I subscribe to in NetNewsWire.
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Iyoshi ColaTheir words
Iyoshi Cola. Craft colas are often disappointing, but this one was absolutely delicious. Wish I could get it in the States for less than $14 a can. (A)
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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (season three)Their words
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (season three). Maybe didn’t enjoy this quite as much as the previous two season, but I love spending time with these people and look forward to doing more of that when season four drops. (B+)
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Tron: Ares soundtrackTheir words
Tron: Ares soundtrack. Better than the movie. (A-)
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Fantastic FourTheir words
Fantastic Four. It was ok? Aside from a few things, I’m having trouble getting excited about post-Infinity Saga Marvel. There was just a special alchemy about that whole arc that is proving impossible to reproduce. (B)
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Total RecallTheir words
Total Recall. First time! Maybe a little too Verhoeven/B-movie for me. (C+)
25 November 2025
From one piece Ilya Sutskever – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I want to like emphasize that I think the value function is something like it's going to make RL more efficient and I think that makes a difference but I think that anything you can do with a value function you can do without just more slowly.
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The thing which I think is the most fundamental is that these models somehow just generalize dramatically worse than people.
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There is no human analogue to pre-training — neither childhood nor evolution is the same thing as it.Their words
I don't think there is a human analog to pre-training.
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The models are much more like the first student but even more because then we say okay so the model should be good at competitive programming so let's get every single competitive programming problem ever and then let's do some data augmentation so we have even more competitive programming problems
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And one of the one thing you could do, and I think that's something that is done inadvertently, is that people take inspiration from the evals.
From one piece On contrarian history 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Further, the fact that there is no such thing as a ‘Dark Ages’ and that a term we used for source survival has escaped containment and been rendered meaningless by a bunch of poorly read self-congratulatory dolts is, in fact, what we call ‘settled academic fact’.
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Because of how source survival works, or indeed, how architectural survival works, we are often encouraged to think of the past as a place populated entirely by the wealthy elite.
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The Roman Empire, therefore, is actually not necessary for keeping industry going.
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There is no such thing as revisionist history. Writing history is a constant process of re-evaluation of sources and attempts to control for the biases of the past as well as our own.
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Framework DesktopTheir words
It's an incredible machine, but in the day-to-day, I've actually found I barely notice the difference compared to a $500 mini PC from Beelink
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Give First: The Power of MentorshipTheir words
Give First is now available to pre-order in Audiobook format
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Clearing the AirTheir words
If you want a book that explains the climate challenge without doom or denial, Clearing the Air is a must-read.
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Remarkably Bright CreaturesTheir words
I think anyone who enjoys fiction would enjoy this book, but it’s a must-read for people who grew up in Western Washington like I did.
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When Everyone Knows That Everyone KnowsTheir words
If you are interested in learning more about how humans communicate and work together, I highly recommend reading When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows.
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Who KnewTheir words
This part of Who Knew is raw and honest in a way most business memoirs usually aren’t.
24 November 2025
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DropboxTheir words
Yes, I use Dropbox and GitHub to hold all the data that I care about, but the beauty of these systems is that they work with local copies of that data
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StarlinkTheir words
If you're stuck on a rock in the middle of nowhere, and you somehow haven't discovered the glory of Starlink, maybe just stick to your old full-disk backup ways.
23 November 2025
From one piece Product Evals in Three Simple Steps 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Human annotators can miss up to half of defects due to fatigue when reviewing large volumes of samples.Their words
And human annotators can miss as many as 50% of the defects due to fatigue after looking at hundreds of samples.
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The main advantage of an LLM evaluator over human annotators is scalability, not higher accuracy.Their words
In my opinion, the true benefit isn't higher accuracy than human annotators-it's scalability.
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The benchmark is human performance, not perfection. We sometimes get requirements for 90%+ accuracy.
From one piece China bows to de-industrialization 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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There's even a case to be made that those policies actually depressed the manufacturing share of GDP: by boosting output and capacity above where they would have been otherwise, subsidies probably contributed to the sustained decline in prices for China's manufactured goods over the past few years, weighing on their share of nominal output.
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A declining manufacturing share of GDP as an economy matures reflects economic success rather than decline.Their words
Both of these trends are a consequence of economic success, in terms of higher output and productivity: at least some of what is decried as "de-industrialization" is good actually. It is also good for China's planners to recognize that reality and not distort the economy in pursuit of an impossible outcome.
22 November 2025
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Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the FutureTheir words
Dan Wang, Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future
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Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical LifeTheir words
Agnes Callard, Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life
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The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019-2025Their words
Dwarkesh Patel, and others, The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019-2025
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The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the FutureTheir words
Keach Hagey, The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future
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John & Paul: A Love Story in SongsTheir words
Ian Leslie, John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs
21 November 2025
From one piece Intel is listening, don't waste your shot 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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It isn't easy dealing with peer pressure and a room of warm and friendly staff begging you say something, anything nice about their terrible product for fear of losing their jobs -- and realizing you must be brutal to their faces otherwise you're not helping the vendor or your own company.
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If you are in regular meetings with a hardware vendor as a customer (or potential customer) you can accomplish a lot by providing firm and tough feedback, particularly with Intel today.
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TANK® M3 Push SledTheir words
This is, bar none, the best sled I have ever used for pushing or pulling. It isn't cheap, but I use it infinitely more than the cheaper sleds I've bought in the past.
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The WayTheir words
Using the app for just 10–20 minutes a day has reduced my anxiety more than I would have thought possible with any app.
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Elgato Wave 3Their words
Most impressive to me, it seems to cancel bounce and echo far better than my pro studio gear.
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ManukoraTheir words
I love this smooth and creamy Mānuka honey, and I use it before bed to help with sleep.
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and TomorrowTheir words
Fiction, 416 pages, which go very quickly. #76 on the NYT's list of The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. This was a new find in 2025.
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EnshittificationTheir words
I’ve been a long-time Cory Doctorow fan. His new book Enshittification is delicious.
20 November 2025
From one piece Was the United States Once a Global Leader in Educational Metrics? Have We Fallen From Those Lofty Heights? No and No 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Learning loss is a global phenomenon, exacerbated by a catastrophic event, not a structural flaw unique to the American education system.
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We have never, ever done well in international educational comparisons.
19 November 2025
18 November 2025
From one piece Will AI Make Us Stupid? 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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AI translation will stop you learning to speak a language, exactly as AI summaries stop you understanding a book.Their words
Similarly, AI translation will prevent you from learning to speak another language, AI summaries will block you from really understanding the arguments laid out in a book, and AI analyses of your personal problems will make it harder for you to think through solutions to your own problems.
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You cannot learn to code by having a model write it: the mental models only come from writing programs by hand.Their words
The answer, I believe, is not too different from before: if you want to learn to code, you need to start by creating programs by hand.
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Very often, learning skills that are automated in practice is a necessary stepping stone to cultivating uniquely human skills.
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Knowledge is dead if it’s not in your head.
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Solving a problem yourself, without searching or prompting, is a form of exercise -- the help makes you weaker.Their words
Learning requires an investment of effort, and AI will make us stupider if that effort is avoided.
From one piece Frozen's Lie: How a Tiny Detail Can Ruin a Story 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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A twist works best when it is discoverable on rewatch rather than achieved by directly misleading the audience.Their words
Instead, the filmmakers directly misled the audience rather than crafting a clever deception discoverable on rewatch.
Frozen's Lie: How a Tiny Detail Can Ruin a Storynateliason.com
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The effectiveness of a plot twist depends on how carefully a story's point of view relates to its audience.Their words
Point of view is essential for effective twists. Contrast Frozen with Fight Club, where the narrator's unreliability works because the entire story flows through his perspective and he maintains a direct relationship with the audience through fourth-wall breaks.
Frozen's Lie: How a Tiny Detail Can Ruin a Storynateliason.com
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The LoserTheir words
You can't go wrong with the short The Loser (trans. by Mark M. Anderson) as an introduction to Thomas Bernhard.
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SulaTheir words
Toni Morrison's brief Sula—rereleased with a new cover this month—is one of her best works and a great starting place for her lush and lyrical style.
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Child of GodTheir words
Cormac McCarthy's Child of God is the perfect starter book to see if you enjoy McCarthy's maximalist prose and macabre images before tackling the longer Blood Meridian.
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Pedro PáramoTheir words
Some excellent short novels that fit this include Juan Rulfo's haunted and brilliant Pedro Páramo
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Metallic RealmsTheir words
A reminder that my novel Metallic Realms is available at a bookstore near you. Reviews call it "brilliant" (Esquire), "a total blast" (Chicago Tribune), "unrelentingly smart and inventive" (Locus), and "just plain wonderful" (Booklist). Maybe the perfect holiday gift for the booklover in your life?
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Concept2 RowErgTheir words
The Concept2 RowErg is one of the highest quality products I've ever used. Had one for years now, feels like it'll last another 100.
17 November 2025
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Only the US and China have substantial startup activity left; the rest of the world cannot really do startups.Their words
I just realized the only 2 countries left with actual substantial startup activity now are literally only the US and China The rest of the world can't really do startups, doesn't have the funding, can't grow them and it's more like performative hobby projects for their governments Which might tell us where the future wealth will be concentrated in the world
From one piece Verifiability 2 beliefs · karpathy.bearblog.dev
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A verifiable task can be optimised by reinforcement learning until a neural network performs it extremely well.Their words
If a task/job is verifiable, then it is optimizable directly or via reinforcement learning, and a neural net can be trained to work extremely well.
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How verifiable a task is now predicts how automatable it is, the way specifiability predicted it in the 1980s.Their words
The more a task/job is verifiable, the more amenable it is to automation in the new programming paradigm.
16 November 2025
From one piece How FOSS Won and Why It Matters 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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It significantly lowered the bar to production. It is how we got the whole society to run on software. If you make it harder for hobbyists maintainers, you are going to crash society.
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Making licenses suddenly commercial for big entities? You are forcing people to go back through the Procurement process. They will shift over time back to a FOSS solution, even if it is less good.
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You cannot go back. If the solution you offer recreate any of the Supply Chain framework problem, then your solution is Dead On Arrival.
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FOSS solve that problem far more than it solves “we don’t want to pay”. Most corporations would be surprised by how cheap it would cost them to pay for the FOSS software they use.
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AI has been compared to various historical precedents: electricity, industrial revolution, etc., I think the strongest analogy is that of AI as a new computing paradigm (Software 2.0) because both are fundamentally about the automation of digital information processing.
15 November 2025
From one piece The Boring Part of Bell Labs 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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There is a feeling that a lot of tail-chasing in industrial improvement is due to interactions not being recognized.
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Designed experiments can reveal causal relationships that observational data alone cannot determine.Their words
But even more important than efficiency, designed experiments can inform about causality, which is very difficult to determine from collected observed data.
14 November 2025
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12 November 2025
From one piece Satya Nadella – How Microsoft thinks about AGI 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Coding is a software-factory category that may end up bigger than knowledge work itself.Their words
this fundamentally this category of coding and AI is probably going to be one of the biggest categories right it is a software factory category in fact it may be bigger than knowledge work
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So this AI thing will be that right. So if you take coding um what we built with GitHub and VS code in over whatever decades uh suddenly the coding assistant is that big in one year and so that I think is what's going to happen as well which is the market expands massively.
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What the industrial revolution took 70 to 150 years to deliver, AI may deliver in 20 to 25.Their words
whatever what took 70 years maybe 150 years for the industrial revolution may happen in 20 years 25 years
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even if the tech is diffusing fast uh this time around for true economic growth to appear it has to sort of diffuse to a point where the work the work artifact and the workflow has to change and so that's kind of one place where I think uh the change management required for a corporation to truly change I think is something we shouldn't discount
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AI is a tool and not something mystical: plenty of past technologies also took over things only humans had done.Their words
But that has been the case with many technologies in the past. only humans did a lot of things and then we add tools that did them.
From one piece I Canceled My Family's Health Insurance (and joined CrowdHealth) 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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People are not obligated to help cover healthcare costs that result from others' lifestyle choices.Their words
But if someone has made poor lifestyle choices, that's not my problem.
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Excluding less healthy members from a health cost-sharing pool makes it cheaper for the remaining healthy members.Their words
And by excluding unhealthy people, they've created a better, cheaper option for healthy people.
11 November 2025
From one piece Bed depth: why it matters 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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In coffee brewing, channels that reach the bottom of the coffee bed carry astringency-causing compounds into the cup.Their words
Channels that manage to reach the bottom of a coffee bed carry larger, astringency-causing compounds out of the bed and into the cup.
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If a bed is too deep, one has to use a very coarse grind. The result in the cup may or may not be good enough, but the extraction level will be low, which is inefficient, in the sense of wasting coffee material.
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Letters From an Imaginary CountryTheir words
Theodora Goss's latest book of short stories is 'Letters From an Imaginary Country,' and it manages to be one of the most voraciously, delightfully readable books I've ever read and it's one of the most writerly books, too. What a treat!
10 November 2025
9 November 2025
8 November 2025
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Automation is a lie: every automated thing needs a human on top of it making sure it is working.Their words
That's great, but I don't think it can replace a human poking at virtual machines; my experience with EC2 is that images break in all sorts of wild ways, and nothing beats a human for saying "huh, I have no idea what's going on here but something seems weird".
7 November 2025
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5 November 2025
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Science Comics Computers: How Digital Hardware WorksTheir words
In Science Comics Computers: How Digital Hardware Works, legendary cypherpunk Perry Metzger teams up with Penelope Spector and illustrator Jerel Dye for a tour-de-force young adult comic book that uses hilarious steampunk dinosaurs to demystify the most foundational building-blocks of computers. It's astounding
4 November 2025
3 November 2025
From one piece Game design is simple, actually 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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A game is a machine built around uncertainty.Their words
Games are machines built around uncertainty.
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People learn best when the problem in front of them is just past the edge of what they can already do.Their words
People learn best when the problem they are tackling is right past the edge of what they can do.
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Lavish feedback wrapped around no real problem is shallow entertainment at best and exploitation at worst.Their words
At minimum you’re making shallow entertainment. At worst, you are building exploitative entertainment.
2 November 2025
1 November 2025
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SiloTheir words
Silo has the aura of a future classic.
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Dandelion ChocolateTheir words
Dandelion Chocolate Dandelion Chocolate Don’t mess around.
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Piment d’VilleTheir words
Their Piment d’Ville is a pantry staple.
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Boonville Barn Collective beansTheir words
The Boonville crew rotates beans through their fields, and we are the beneficiaries.
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The Fat Gold Gift SetTheir words
Consumable gifts Fat Gold The Fat Gold Gift Set My work life has two great lobes.
31 October 2025
From one piece Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming | Lex Fridman Podcast #484 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I think the power and money corrupted him in the end as well, but I also think that there’s something fundamentally anti-human about people who want to build utopias or paradises or heavens, because what they’re saying is, “I like humans apart from the bad bits.”
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And then how do they speak? You know, because fundamentally, it doesn’t really matter what’s going on in their head; they haven’t actually got one, but what they say is what’s going to make you realize who they are.
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Because I always thought that the games were kind of a mathematical equation. They were the personality of the world, you know, multiplied or divided by the personality of the protagonist.
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You know, you were in, you were in these worlds, and you went there as a visitor, and they existed almost independent of you. It felt like when you turned up, the world was running. It didn’t feel like you’d started it.
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I hope it’s got comedy, cynicism, heart, drama, and some amusing life lessons. Otherwise, you can’t just have jokes for 40 hours, it won’t work.
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Queen DemonTheir words
I do not think this book could really be enjoyed without the previous book, but with it, it's lots of skillfully-written fun, and leaves me eager for more.
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Inequality: A Genetic HistoryTheir words
I think a great book could be written on all this. (Among other things, it should be catnip to anyone who wants to call themselves a historical materialist.) This book, however, is merely OK.
30 October 2025
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9 Times My Work Has Been Ripped OffTheir words
Raymond Biesinger's new book 9 Times My Work Has Been Ripped Off is a masterclass in how creative workers can transform the endless, low-grade seething about the endless ripoffs of the industry into something productive and even profound
27 October 2025
26 October 2025
From one piece The Rise of Renewable Energy 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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But politics aside, what’s notable about that 2001 report, put together by men who regarded themselves as hard-headed realists, is that it envisaged an energy future reliant almost entirely on fossil fuels plus a bit of nuclear energy.
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Renewables now account for the bulk of the growth in electricity generation, whatever their opponents believe.Their words
there are many people who still refuse to believe that renewables can be practical even as renewables keep growing around the world, in fact accounting for the bulk of growth in electricity generation
25 October 2025
From one piece A note on tariffs from the real world 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I suspect higher prices make people leave more quickly than lower prices make them come.
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Businesses raise prices only when their accounts force them to, not when they can see the cost coming.Their words
Business only raise prices when accounting losses force them to do so.
24 October 2025
From one piece Tales from Toddlerhood 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Young children learn a new language through immersion far more effectively than adults do.Their words
If I took my daughter to China for a year, and we just lived there with no language instruction, I'd come back knowing approximately six Mandarin words and she'd be fluent.
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Toddler parenthood is a reality distortion zone that makes it hard to remember that most people find your toddler breathtakingly uninteresting.
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Toddler parents can take solace in the fact that parenting probably matters less than we think it does.
23 October 2025
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durable workflows are scaling errors as values to your infrastructure. errors as values lead to predictable, maintainable, and scalable software.
22 October 2025
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A company's quality is bounded by its team's quality, and a team's quality is bounded by its founders.Their words
We believe that a company is only as good as its team, and a team is only as good as its founders.
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An idea I'm trying to hold tighter is that the only way to be useful here is to risk offending people. And perhaps if you're not taking any risk offending people then it's unlikely you're saying something useful.
From one piece You Don't Have to End Homelessness To Make Cities Safer 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Read this in the context of Christopher et al., and the reasonable conclusion is that many of the problems associated with homelessness are the result of unsheltered homelessness.
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It turns out that simply getting people into temporary shelter—often derided by the homelessness-industrial complex as a band-aid—significantly reduces both social and individual harms of unsheltered homelessness.
From one piece ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I had typed "Taylor Swift" in a browser, and the response had literally zero links to Taylor Swift's actual website. If you stayed within what Atlas generated, you would have no way of knowing that Taylor Swift has a website at all.
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Atlas is a browser, but it is not a web browser. It is an anti-web browser.
21 October 2025
From one piece Solving regex crosswords with Z3 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I suspect the pattern generalizes: If Z3 has first-class support for your problem domain, it's worth starting there!
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Augmenting a general-purpose solver with domain-specific heuristics commonly gives it a meaningful performance boost.Their words
My sense is that this hybrid is fairly common in practice; solvers aren't magical and if you can deduce additional structure using domain-specific analysis, it will often give the solver an important boost.
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If human beings can dismiss academic arguments merely because they lead to politically unwelcome conclusions, what’s the point of having academic arguments about politically-charged subjects?
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Fever BeachTheir words
It's screamingly funny, devilishly inventive, and deeply, profoundly satisfying. With Fever Beach, Hiaasen makes a compelling case for Florida as the perfect microcosm of the terrifying state of America, and an even more compelling case for his position as its supreme storyteller.
20 October 2025
From one piece Beyond the Machine 4 beliefs · frankchimero.com
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An average email or line of code is fine. Average art isn’t. To make something alive with AI, we have to resist its pull towards average by working beside it, shaping what it gives, and listening for what’s missing.
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So while vibe coding may be useful for short-term work, it’s not a suitable approach for anything intended to last longer than a tub of yogurt. Time saved is not strength gained, so I went looking for other examples about how to work with the machine.
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The fractures fell neatly along disciplines: engineers using AI to wish away designers, designers wishing away engineers, product managers wishing away both. In this climate, AI becomes frenemy identification technology, another way to avoid working together.
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You use a tool, but you play an instrument. It’s a more expansive way of doing, and the doing of it all is important, because that’s where you develop the instincts for excellence. There is no purpose to better machines if they do not also produce better humans.
19 October 2025
From one piece Advice for New Principal Tech ICs (i.e., Notes to Myself) 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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With great freedom comes great responsibility. You have the autonomy to choose what to work on, but there's the expectation of accountability and impact.
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Being right is less than half the battle. You also have to convince others that you're right, and more importantly, convince them to care enough to act on it.
From one piece Exams are everything in China 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Centralized, hierarchical competitive tournaments are effective at creating strong incentives.Their words
Also, centralized hierarchical tournaments seem to be good at creating very effective incentives.
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A government's political legitimacy depends on providing a fair, merit-based channel for social advancement.Their words
One possible reading of the last century or so of political history in China, therefore, is that governments who provide a meritocratic channel for social advancement have legitimacy and popular support, and governments who do not provide one, do not.
18 October 2025
17 October 2025
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So like they don't have enough intelligence. They're not multimodal enough. They can't do computer use and all this kind of stuff. And they don't do a lot of things. You know, they don't have continual learning. You can't just tell them something and they'll remember it. And they're just cognitively lacking. And it's just not working. And I just think that it will take about a decade to work through all of those issues.
16 October 2025
From one piece Figma’s CEO: Why AI makes design, craft, and quality the new moat for startups | Dylan Field 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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A lot of people can match a framework for taste; almost nobody can create one, and creating one is the rare skill.Their words
I think that for those who can create and then articulate a framework around what is taste for us that is really a important skill and uh then I think people can a lot of people can basically match a framework not many people can create the framework.
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It's just this loop of okay, I'm having an experience of any sense. Maybe I'm looking at art, maybe I'm hearing music, maybe I'm literally eating food and tasting something, you know, but like do I like it? Do I not like it? Why?
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we're looking for high judgment individuals, people that are going to roll up their sleeves and do a lot, whether they're IC's or managers, and people that are going to get the details and perfect their craft, because we know that's how we're going to win is by having the best craft, the best design.
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I think in this world where software can be created more easily, design matters so much and designers matter so much. I think designers are going to be the leaders of the future and I think that more designers need to speak step into that leadership role
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if you want to win in the game of software, you need to differentiate through design. Like that's again how you win or lose. Craft matters. And so we're no longer in this era of good enough is fine. It's like good enough is not enough.
15 October 2025
14 October 2025
From one piece Falling Fertility Is Not About Opportunity Cost 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The empirical evidence strongly refutes the idea that rising opportunity costs of childbearing are driving low fertility. Declining marriage due to exogenous technology and economics shocks is tanking fertility irrespective of child direct or opportunity costs.
Falling Fertility Is Not About Opportunity Costlymanstone.substack.com
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the shift from 50th to 99th percentile earnings has no negative effect on women’s fertility, and unearned income for women has a neutral-to-positive effect
Falling Fertility Is Not About Opportunity Costlymanstone.substack.com
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Although the cross-sectional relationship between national income and fertility is negative, the longitudinal relationship between national income and fertility is positive: economic booms create baby booms, economic busts create baby busts.
Falling Fertility Is Not About Opportunity Costlymanstone.substack.com
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immigration is mathematically irrelevant to the central policy problem of low fertility
Falling Fertility Is Not About Opportunity Costlymanstone.substack.com
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I don’t see population collapse or lack of workers as the central policy problem: the central policy problem is human happiness, human flourishing, and the freedom to live life well.
Falling Fertility Is Not About Opportunity Costlymanstone.substack.com
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AmpTheir words
codex gets me far better results than amp. I have to give them kudos tho for session sharing, they push some interesting ideas ahead.
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CursorTheir words
Cursor… it’s tab completion model is industry leading, if you still write code yourself. I use VS Code mostly, I do like them pushing things like browser automation and plan mode tho.
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GLM 4.6Their words
I keep an eye on China’s open models, and it’s impressive how quickly they catch up. GLM 4.6 and Kimi K2.1 are strong contenders that slowly reach Sonnet 3.7 quality
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Kimi K2.1Their words
I keep an eye on China’s open models, and it’s impressive how quickly they catch up. GLM 4.6 and Kimi K2.1 are strong contenders that slowly reach Sonnet 3.7 quality
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Usesrcmnd.app
ccusageTheir words
I used some token counting tools like ccusage and it’s all somewhat imprecise, but even if it’s just 5x it’s a damn good deal.
13 October 2025
From one piece The Biochemical Beauty of Retatrutide: How GLP-1s Actually Work 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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In rodent studies, semaglutide and tirzepatide were both found to increase the rate of thyroid tumors.
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empirically cortisol promotes fat storage and muscle breakdown, and increases insulin resistance.
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In general your body would rather use glycogen than fat, because glycogen loses almost no energy in the conversion from and to sugar and fat loses a lot.
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Over the past few decades, journal editors and peer-reviewers have increasingly insisted that papers must present large datasets that have been treated using complex statistical methods in order to make even the mildest claims about what caused what.
12 October 2025
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modern instruments generally have more reliable tone, wider range, and better projection than traditional instruments-they are better as instruments.
First explorations in Indian classical musicandrewbatson.com
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Lovedrcmnd.app
CleanShot XTheir words
This is the best screenshot utility for Macs. You’d think how much can there be in a screenshot utility, and CleanShot X will still color you surprised.
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Pixelmator ProTheir words
is an Incredible image & photo editor. I switched to it completely from Photoshop about a year ago and haven’t looked back.
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Mixed onrcmnd.app
PhotoshopTheir words
is an Incredible image & photo editor. I switched to it completely from Photoshop about a year ago and haven’t looked back.
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UnreadTheir words
I was using Reeder 5 for the longest time, but since that seems to have been abandoned, I’ve switched to Unread as my RSS app recently.
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Raindrop.ioTheir words
One of the best bookmarking services available today.
11 October 2025
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This is intentional and I believe good AI drivers are experts in their domains and utilize AI as an assistant, not a replacement.
From one piece The AI water issue is fake 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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It’s very common that I’m told that data centers poison the water around them.
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korrents.com
A data centre earns its county far more tax revenue per gallon of water than a golf course does.Their words
Data centers are so much more efficient with their water that they generate 50x as much tax revenue per unit of water used than golf courses in the county:
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So AI consumes approximately 0.04% of America’s freshwater if you include onsite and offsite use, and only 0.008% if you include just the water in data centers.
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Likedrcmnd.app
Echoes of OctoberTheir words
I approached Echoes of October with trepidation. A graphic novel about violence and grief isn’t easy terrain. But it succeeds in a haunting, urgent way.
10 October 2025
From one piece 'As Long as it Takes': What does it mean to commit to Ukraine's security? 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
The 'coalition of the willing' for Ukraine is not a security guarantee and should stop being described as one.Their words
In all of this what may have been missed is that the plan now connected with a coalition of the willing is not a security guarantee.
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korrents.com
What makes a security guarantee credible is an alliance that is active in peacetime, not the wording of the treaty.Their words
It works because it is an active alliance, and not left dormant until an emergency arises.
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Despite its lack of automaticity this remains the gold standard for security guarantees.
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NATO enlargement was driven by the demand of the countries that wanted in, not by an alliance pushing east.Their words
Enlargement was demand and not supply led.
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korrents.com
The West is not doing Ukraine a favour by helping it resist Russia; Ukraine is doing the West a favour.Their words
The West is not doing Ukraine a favour by helping it resist aggression; it is Ukraine doing the West a favour.
From one piece Data centers & electricity - part 1: as of 2025 they haven't raised national prices 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
The American states with the fastest electricity load growth saw prices fall rather than rise.Their words
A Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory study found that state-level load growth from 2019 to 2024 — including growth driven by data centers, manufacturing, and electrification — was associated with lower average retail electricity prices, not higher ones.
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inflationdata centersenergyAmerica
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This is the first conclusion of my deep dive: Data centers have (so far) not affected national average household electricity bills.
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Recommendsrcmnd.app
Money StuffTheir words
For much more on that side of things, you should read Money Stuff or listen to Odd Lots, which cover “private credit is the new bank lending” all the time.
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Odd LotsTheir words
For much more on that side of things, you should read Money Stuff or listen to Odd Lots, which cover “private credit is the new bank lending” all the time.
9 October 2025
8 October 2025
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Lovedrcmnd.app
LightburnTheir words
Lightburn is my favorite way to control a laser cutter.
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Likedrcmnd.app
BitwardenTheir words
Bitwarden is a well crafted password manager, and it's very cheap.
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Nisus Writer ProTheir words
Nisus Writer Pro is a delightful word processor for the Mac. Not distracting or showy, it simply works great.
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Lovedrcmnd.app
GitKrakenTheir words
My favorite software for Git version control.
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Usesrcmnd.app
Asus ROG Strix XG49VQTheir words
Main monitor on my desk. Huge screen real estate for multitasking.
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Likedrcmnd.app
Apple AirPods MaxTheir words
Amazing sound quality and noise cancellation.
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Usesrcmnd.app
Windows TerminalTheir words
Modern terminal for Windows with tabs, split panes, and customization.
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Usesrcmnd.app
Elgato Stream Deck+Their words
Used for streaming and daily automation tasks.
7 October 2025
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Their words
In some cases, design is what something looks like. In other cases, design is how something works. But the most interesting designs to me are when design changes your behavior. Even the smallest details can change how someone interacts with something.
6 October 2025
5 October 2025
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