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18 January
From one piece Why I Stopped Using nbdev 2 beliefs · hamel.dev
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Careful step-by-step thinking is a property of the developer, not something a tool or framework can enforceTheir words
Notebooks don't force you to write clean code. AI tools don't force you to think carefully. Discipline comes from the developer, not the environment.
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korrents.com
Good documentation is produced by effort, not by tooling that keeps code and docs togetherTheir words
This reinforced my belief that good documentation comes from effort, not tooling.
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AmpTheir words
My daily drivers now include Amp, Cursor, and Claude Code. I still enjoy notebooks, but only for data analysis, machine learning, or other exploratory workflows where the iterative, visual nature of notebooks shines.
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CursorTheir words
My daily drivers now include Amp, Cursor, and Claude Code. I still enjoy notebooks, but only for data analysis, machine learning, or other exploratory workflows where the iterative, visual nature of notebooks shines.
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Claude CodeTheir words
My daily drivers now include Amp, Cursor, and Claude Code. I still enjoy notebooks, but only for data analysis, machine learning, or other exploratory workflows where the iterative, visual nature of notebooks shines.
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nbdevTheir words
Because I have invested thousands of hours into nbdev, it's difficult to admit there are better tools for the outcomes I want.
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Next.jsTheir words
I now use different languages for different tasks. For web development, I prefer the Next.js stack.
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JoltedTheir words
Jolted by organizational psychologist Anthony Klotz (March)
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The Other Side of ChangeTheir words
The Other Side of Change by cognitive scientist Maya Shankar (January)
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Politics Without PoliticiansTheir words
Politics Without Politicians by political scientist Hélène Landemore (February)
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We the WomenTheir words
We the Women by journalist Norah O’Donnell (February)
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The Triangle of PowerTheir words
The Triangle of Power by political scientist and head of state Alexander Stubb (January)
17 January
16 January
From one piece Don’t Give Up… Your Assumptions 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
Successful founders are distinguished by knowing what to give up and when, not by refusing to ever quit.Their words
The founders who succeed aren't the ones who never give up-they're the ones who know what to give up and when.
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Advice to never give up becomes dangerous once a venture passes an unknowable tipping point.Their words
"Don't give up" is really, really useful advice-until a certain point. After that, it becomes extremely dangerous.
15 January
From one piece Podcast: На Маке нет никаких шкафов @ Думаем дальше 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Frontend-backend communication should be mediated through a shared database rather than a custom API.Their words
Communication between frontend and backend should be handled by database
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Making programming easier for more people has caused software to become bloated, slow and hard to manage.Their words
Компьютеры стали бытовым прибором, начать программировать легче, чем когда-либо, сложнейшие вещи делаются просто и даже тривиально, написаны горы готового кода. К сожалению, у этого есть и обратная сторона - программы становятся большими, медленными, неуправляемыми, непонимаемыми.
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Local-first software will not become the dominant architecture, and that is an acceptable outcome.Their words
Local-first is not going to win, but that's okay We'll explore the complexities of traditional stack (db-server-frontend), develop a theory of software evolution: which systems succeed and why.
From one piece The Launch of AVERI 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Public scrutiny of a new technology tends to jump only after a deadly incident, otherwise rising slowly over decadesTheir words
Scrutiny typically either jumps several points on any 10-point scale after an incident that kills a bunch of people, or increases very slowly over decades.
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Scrutiny applied to AI is way below other technologies that - even if you totally ignore the doomers - could put far fewer lives at risk than AI in a single incident.
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In short, whether AI is a normal technology or an unusually dangerous one, it doesn't make sense for companies to check their own homework on safety and security.
14 January
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When applications can generate capabilities on demand, the definition of "what this product does" becomes more fluid. Features aren't just what shipped in the last release, they're also what users will ask for in the next session.
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The main reasons for males suffering from a higher burden of global TB cases, compared to females, may be in large part due to population-scale factors, such as employment type, the quantity and type of social contacts they make, and their health-seeking behaviours (e.g. differences in diagnostic and treatment delays between genders).
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Big flat toggle buttons under satisfying tension. Clear affordances. You push them down, not in. One click catches, one doesn't. You can use them with bare hands, oven mitts, fingers coated in slippery whatever. Doesn't matter. Plenty of surface area. Outstanding design. It's all been downhill from there.
From one piece american symbolism 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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there are no cliches in actual human life. Cliché is an aspect of narrative, and life is not a narrative.
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A person's death, more than their life, is what turns them into a viral, revered symbol.Their words
Dying is the ultimate form of virality. The ultimate anointing in the religion of attention.
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this sort of thing is only possible if you view other people as abstractions more than people.
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Almost ThereTheir words
The Academy Is…, one of my favorite bands from this century (and yes, I feel old just typing that out), has recorded their first new album in eighteen years, titled Almost There, and will be putting it out in March.
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On Conan DoyleTheir words
I also read critic Michael Dirda's On Conan Doyle, a lovely short book I'd never heard of that I spotted on the shelf at the library — hooray for the serendipity of the stacks!
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The Hedgehog and The FoxTheir words
Probably the most illuminating thing I read about Tolstoy was Isaiah Berlin's long essay, The Hedgehog and The Fox.
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Art Work: On The Creative LifeTheir words
This book has more of a DGAF tone than Hold Still, I think, and it works best for me when Mann is telling stories instead of trying to extract a lesson for the reader.
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Love is a Mix TapeTheir words
Several people recommended this memoir to me after learning about my monthly mixtape project.
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Deliver Me From Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen’s NebraskaTheir words
I love the beginning of the book when Zane just lists the stuff that Springsteen was into while he was making Nebraska
13 January
From one piece What I Would Do if I Were Gen Z 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
By the time an opportunity is widely known and talked about, it's too late to capitalize on it.Their words
Don't follow what other people are doing. By the time they're crowing about it, it's already too late.
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The guaranteed path to success used to be go to school, follow the rules, get a job, buy a house. That worked for most people who did it. That path is gone now.
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There's never in history been a better time for remote jobs or being an entrepreneur.
From one piece The Agrarian Fall 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Over the past three decades, scholars have identified a massive, unexplained gap in the timeline between the first domestication of crops and the emergence of the first agrarian states, complicating the narrative popularized by authors like Harari and Diamond.
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But the "Fall" into agriculture turns out to be a much more nuanced-and jagged-story than the standard account would have it.
From one piece Many people are individually optimistic but think the world is falling apart 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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People consistently underestimate how many of their compatriots believe in climate change and want action on it.Their words
As I’ve written about extensively, people consistently underestimate how many others in their country “believe” in climate change or support action on it.
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Knowing that poverty and child mortality have actually fallen is what makes people think the future can improve.Their words
Only 17% of those who got no correct answers on historical development changes thought the world would be better off. 62% of those with more than five correct answers did.
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But I do believe that deep-seated, blanket fatalism (which is stronger than pessimism) about our countries, systems and world is unhelpful if we want to improve things.
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When someone is asked to reflect on their own life, they draw on a wide range of experiences. When people are asked about “the world”, they recall a very small number of recent events (the availability bias).
From one piece Personal information firehose 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Explicit filtering rules (e.g. rules features in many email clients): mostly a failure. It's too much work to set up and then manage these, especially since a given person's preferences will change over time.
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Social media recommendation algorithms are only partially designed to serve the people using them.Their words
The weak point of social media algorithms for end users is that they are only partially designed to serve us.
12 January
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I don’t think this is very productive (expert users of a piece of software are notoriously bad at being able to tell if an explanation will be clear to non-experts), so I needed to find a way to identify problems with the man pages that was a little more evidence-based.
7 January
From one piece One Regulation E, Two Very Different Regimes 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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if it walks like a checking account, quacks like a checking account, and is marketed as an alternative to checking accounts, then it is almost certainly within Reg E scope
One Regulation E, Two Very Different Regimesbitsaboutmoney.com
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A consumer fraud dispute is decided by a support agent in about three minutes, not by anything resembling a trial.Their words
It is a CSR clicking a button on their web app’s interface after 3 minutes of consideration, and then entire evidentiary record often fits in a tweet.
One Regulation E, Two Very Different Regimesbitsaboutmoney.com
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Companies should offer dual career tracks so product managers can advance without becoming people managers.Their words
Companies should embrace multitrack job ladders for product managers who prefer product leadership to people management.
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ClaudeTheir words
I’m going to be speaking about Claude directly, because it’s the tool I use the most, but a lot of this should apply to other platforms as well.
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Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the FactsTheir words
A product manager will be called upon to make scores of decisions every day. In none of these cases will you have all of the information you want, and you’ll rarely be 100% confident. Poker champion turned decision researcher Annie Duke will help you learn how to be comfortable with uncertainty.
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Thinking, Fast and SlowTheir words
When does our animal brain make decisions for us before our more analytical brain has a chance to think through the consequences? From Nobel laureate Kahneman, this is one of the most important psychology books ever written.
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Transformed: Moving to the Product Operating ModelTheir words
The third book in Cagan’s trilogy, this one focuses on how companies can transform their cultures from project- to product-oriented. This book is probably less useful for the individual contributor, but it offers hope for anyone trapped in a feature team that something better is possible. Buy it for your boss or CEO.
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Work Rules!Their words
Laszlo and his team at Google reinvented the role of human resources. This book is a terrific overview of what makes Google Google, from culture, to hiring, to making decisions.
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Yes to the Mess: Surprising Leadership Lessons from JazzTheir words
Jazz is messy, and musicians seem to court disaster night after night. What can product leaders learn from how these artists approach their art? Barrett’s entertaining book formed the backbone for
6 January
From one piece A Few Things I’m Pretty Sure About 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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When most people expect a top-five-per-cent outcome, mass disappointment is guaranteed.Their words
But when a majority of people expect a top 5% outcome the result is guaranteed mass disappointment.
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Cycles are so hard to predict, because it’s easier to forecast in straight lines.
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The internet is unusual among universal technologies in having made about as much worse as it made better.Their words
The internet is unique in the history of technology because there’s a list of things it improved (communication, access to information) but another list of things it likely made worse for almost everybody
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The right response to housing costs is to build millions more homes as fast as possible.Their words
Every economic issue is complex, but this one seems pretty straight forward: we should build more homes. Millions of them, as fast as we can.
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I think the majority of society problems are all downstream of housing affordability.
5 January
From one piece Cześć 2025 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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It's such a pointless achievement and yet when you're at 99, all you think of is going to one more country so you can never think about the number of countries you've been to again.
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Everyone knows they break a lot and are expensive, but they never realize that boat owners know this better than anyone and they still have boats.
From one piece It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
There is no good icon metaphor for every possible action, no matter how much effort goes into finding one.Their words
It's delusional to think that there's a good icon for every action if you think hard enough. There isn't.
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Human-interface design principles from decades ago remain valid because human cognition hasn't changed.Their words
But the principles-as long as they are good principles-still apply, because they are based on how humans work, not how computers work.
From one piece Beliefs are not facts 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Anything introduced with “I believe” is, by that fact alone, not something everyone can see to be true.Their words
Whenever someone says, “I believe …”, then whatever they say next is not true.
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No belief is true: the moment something is proven it stops being a belief and becomes a fact.Their words
No beliefs are true. If a belief was proven true, it would no longer be a belief.
4 January
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Why Immigration Policy is Hard and How to Make it BetterTheir words
Alan Manning, Why Immigration Policy is Hard and How to Make it Better is a thoughtful and balanced look at its topic, recommended.
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Alex Mayyasi, Planet Money: A Guide to the Economic Forces that Shape Your Life is a useful introduction to economic concepts.
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The Elements of Power: A Story of War, Technology, and the Dirtiest Supply Chain on EarthTheir words
Nicolas Niarchos, The Elements of Power: A Story of War, Technology, and the Dirtiest Supply Chain on Earth is a good treatment of minerals issues as they relate to the Congo today.
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The King and I: The Uncensored Tale of Luciano Pavarotti's Rise to Fame by his Manager, Friend, and Sometime AdversaryTheir words
This one actually is fantastically fun.
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From one piece Predictions Scorecard, 2026 January 01 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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As with self driving cars, most of the early players in humanoid robots, will quietly shut up shop and disappear. Those that remain will pivot and redefine what they are doing, without renaming it, to something more achievable and with, finally, plausible business cases.
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Tesla's robotaxi service is a facade rather than a real driverless service, and it is not on a path to becoming one.Their words
Tesla (owned by Tesla) has put on a facade of being operational, but it is not operational in the sense of the other two services, and faces regulatory headwinds that both Waymo and Zoox have long been able to satisfy. They are not on a path to becoming a real service.
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Systems which do require remote operations assistance to get full reliability cut into that economic advantage and have a higher burden on their ROI calculations to make a business case for their adoption and therefore their time horizon to scaling across geographies.
From one piece We replaced our sales team with 20 AI agents—here's what happened next | Jason Lemkin (SaaStr) 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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a lot of old school GTM leaders are like, you know, AI isn't going to hurt sales reps. It's just going to make them give them superpowers. The best ones, yes, the mediocre are just going to be like more mediocre, right?
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Having a human qualify inbound leads is already obsolete, and the role should be extinct within a year.Their words
The contact mess that we see, we have no need for them today. They should be extinct next year.
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The email-based sales development rep will be ninety percent displaced by AI within a year.Their words
The emailbased cadence SDR will be 90% displaced by AI next year.
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AI is replacing the jobs people don't want to do today, and it is displacing the midpack and the mediocre.
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The go-to-market plays all still work; it is the playbooks built around them that have stopped working.Their words
So, so many of these GTM books are playbooks, especially folks selling courses and stuff, but they're playbooks. Run from the playbooks. Embrace the plays.
From one piece The Silent Cost of Bad Habits | James Clear 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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And so many behaviors are like that. It's like, well, did you want it or not? You know, like in the one sense, you wanted it so bad that you would check it every 3 minutes when it was next to you, but in another sense, you never wanted it bad enough that you would work for 30 seconds and walk down the hall to get it. And so, a little bit of friction can sometimes go a long way in shaping a behavior.
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You want to you want to be able to walk into the rooms that you're in each day, and the good habit is the path of least resistance. It's the easiest thing to do. And a lot of the time you walk into rooms and it's the distractions that are easier to do and you feel like you're swimming upstream and trying to fight your environment to make a change happen.
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there's also a flip side to this or a dark side, a shadow side to identity, which is the tighter you cling to an identity, the harder it becomes to grow beyond it. And so once you have started to identify as a certain type of person, once you adopt that label, oh, I am a member of this group or I am the type of person who believes this thing, it becomes hard to stretch and grow outside of that.
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behavior and belief is like two-way street. You know, what you believe will influence the actions that you take, but the actions that you take can also influence what you believe about yourself. And you know, every time you show up and do it in some small way, you prove to yourself a little bit, hey, maybe I am that kind of person. And so, my encouragement, my suggestion is to let the behavior lead the way.
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So one of the core lessons of atomic habits is that every action you take is like a vote for the type of person you wish to become. So, when you show up at the gym today, you are casting a vote for being the type of person who doesn't miss workouts. When you sit down and make one sales call, you are casting a vote for being a salesperson. When you write one sentence, you are casting a vote for being a writer. And no, doing one push-up does not transform your body, but it does cast a vote for that identity.
From one piece The Adolescence of Technology (January 2026) 4 beliefs · darioamodei.com
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Even more recently, we’ve begun to use mechanistic interpretability techniques to improve our safeguards and to conduct “audits” of new models before we release them, looking for evidence of deception, scheming, power-seeking, or a propensity to behave differently when being evaluated.
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To be clear, speed in itself does not mean labor markets and employment won’t eventually recover, it just implies the short-term transition will be unusually painful compared to past technologies, since humans and labor markets are slow to react and to equilibrate.
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By contrast, AI is increasingly matching the general cognitive profile of humans, which means it will also be good at the new jobs that would ordinarily be created in response to the old ones being automated.
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This is a topic that I warned about very publicly in 2025 , where I predicted that AI could displace half of all entry-level white collar jobs in the next 1–5 years, even as it accelerates economic growth and scientific progress.
From one piece The Year That Kicked My Ass 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I know that stating your objectives is the best way to meet them.
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The brain cannot process more than one source of pain at a time, so a stronger pain masks a weaker one.Their words
It turns out the brain can't handle more than one pain input at a time - the broken ribs put the nerve pain on the back burner.
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Number Go UpTheir words
I didn't read much non-fiction this year, but the best of what I did read was Zeke Faux's Number Go Up about the cryptocurrency bubble. This book will not change anyone's mind, but it's a readable and entertaining summary of some of the more obvious cryptocurrency scams. I also had enough quibbles with it to write an extended review, which is a compliment of sorts.
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This Brutal MoonTheir words
The best book I read this year was also the last book I reviewed (and yes, I snuck the review under the wire for that reason): Bethany Jacobs's This Brutal Moon, the conclusion of the Kindom Trilogy that started with These Burning Stars. I thought the first two books of the series were interesting but flawed, but the conclusion blew me away and improved the entire trilogy in retrospect. Like all books I rate 10 out of 10, I'm sure a large part of my reaction is idiosyncratic, but two friends of mine also loved the conclusion so it's not just me.
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Politics on the EdgeTheir words
The stand-out non-fiction book of the year was Rory Stewart's Politics on the Edge. I have a lot of disagreements with Stewart's political positions (the more I listen to him, the more disagreements I find), but he is an excellent memoirist who skewers the banality, superficiality, and contempt for competence that has become so prevailing in centrist and right-wing politics. It's hard not to read this book and despair of electoralism and the current structures of governments, but it's bracing to know that even some people I disagree with believe in the value of expertise.
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The Scavenger DoorTheir words
I also finished Suzanne Palmer's excellent Finder Chronicles series, reading The Scavenger Door and Ghostdrift. This series is some of the best science fiction I've read in a long time and I'm sad it is over (at least for now).
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GhostdriftTheir words
I also finished Suzanne Palmer's excellent Finder Chronicles series, reading The Scavenger Door and Ghostdrift. This series is some of the best science fiction I've read in a long time and I'm sad it is over (at least for now).
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Though written accessibly, Segerstrale’s narrative rewards repeat reading, because it is so dense with historical detail that remains relevant today.
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The Fall of Rome and the End of CivilizationTheir words
The genius of this work is its interdisciplinary scope.
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The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us SmarterTheir words
A decade on, it already feels possible that in the future, commentators will argue that this specific fruitful synthesis lit the fuse on evolutionary cultural anthropology’s explosion (with due apologies to earlier books from L. L. Cavalli-Sforza, E. O. Wilson, Peter Richerson and Robert Boyd).
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Few will deeply read as many works of literature across the Western canon as Barzun did, given his exceptionally long career in academia, but From Dawn to Decadence grants the humble reader an extraordinary vantage, thanks to Barzun’s vast corpus of knowledge and his perspicacious observations about cultural currents across half a millennium.
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Intelligence: All That MattersTheir words
and there’s a good chance you may never need another work of psychometrics to be up to speed.
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Austria 1867-1955Their words
John Boyer’s Austria 1867-1955 offers parts of the answer, though not in a conceptually organized way. It’s a work of history written for specialists, which means that the narrative serves the footnotes rather than the other way around.
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1913: The Year Before the StormTheir words
1913: The Year Before the Storm presents a whimsical slice of Central Europe. Art historian Florian Illies collates fragments of leading figures month by month, diary-entry style.
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The Chinese Tragedy of King LearTheir words
Nan Z. Da’s The Chinese Tragedy of King Lear also has an experimental form. Da is a professor of literature at Johns Hopkins who emigrated from Hangzhou before she was 7.
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PiranesiTheir words
I’d like to read more experimental books like this one. Susannah Clarke’s Piranesi is a glittering jewel.
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The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with CommentaryTheir words
There is something deeply satisfying with reading out loud phrases like: “for in mere breath did it come, and into darkness it goes, and in darkness its name is covered.” Though King James is iconic, Robert Alter better conveys overall the literary power of the Hebrew Bible.
31 December 2025
From one piece 2025: The year in LLMs 2 beliefs · simonwillison.net
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I run in YOLO mode all the time, despite being deeply aware of the risks involved. It hasn’t burned me yet... ... and that’s the problem.
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The reason I think MCP may be a one-year wonder is the stratospheric growth of coding agents. It appears that the best possible tool for any situation is Bash—if your agent can run arbitrary shell commands, it can do anything that can be done by typing commands into a terminal.
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The Normalization of Deviance in AITheir words
One of my favourite pieces on LLM security this year is The Normalization of Deviance in AI by security researcher Johann Rehberger.
30 December 2025
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FlexiSpot standing deskTheir words
I use a FlexiSpot adjustable / motorized standing desk standing desk and stand about 90% of the time. Been doing this for about a decade. I liked it so much that I have 2 of them
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Microsoft PowerToysTheir words
For launching applications, I used Keypirinha in about 2017 and then I switched to Microsoft PowerToys in May 2020.
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KeePassXCTheir words
For password management I used a command line tool called pass. I switched to KeepassXC in mid-2025.
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FirefoxTheir words
I used Opera as a browser in 2006 for ~8 years, then I tried Firefox and went to Chrome until March 2025 when finally I switched back to Firefox.
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Toshiba Chromebook 2 CB35Their words
It’s great for a portable device which doubles as a $350 laptop capable of doing development work on the go.
29 December 2025
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God Save TexasTheir words
As a Californian, it was fascinating to see Texas through Wright’s eyes.
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The NVIDIA WayTheir words
Kim’s portrait reveals a CEO who spends late nights alongside his team, torturing them into greatness.
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The Unaccountability MachineTheir words
Davies argues that modern organizations function like runaway AIs, making decisions no human intends.
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Karla’s ChoiceTheir words
His son Harkaway picks up where his father left off, adding a bracing entry to the canon.
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Titanium NoirTheir words
Curious about his earlier work, I was not disappointed.
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Apollo 13Their words
Every film ages, but it seems to me that 30 years on, Apollo 13 has aged rather less than other films of its time
28 December 2025
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Genentech: The Beginnings of BiotechTheir words
This amazing book traces the development of genetic engineering, and how Herbert Boyer and Robert Swanson turned the science into a commercial product by developing recombinant insulin.
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The Butchering ArtTheir words
Joseph Lister, the pioneer of antiseptic techniques in surgery, had a fascinating life that I didn’t know anything about until I read this book.
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The Code BreakerTheir words
I mistakenly expected this to be a somewhat shallow, generic popular science book, but it was a very thorough account of how CRISPR gene editing emerged from decades of obscure basic research into bacterial immune systems.
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A History of ImmunologyTheir words
I loved this book. I enjoyed learning about the early, often wildly speculative theories of immunity, how blood groups and allergies were discovered
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Hard DrugsTheir words
And if you prefer podcasts, may I suggest Hard Drugs
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GoTheir words
My go-to languages are TypeScript for web stuff, Go for CLIs and Swift if it needs to use macOS stuff or has UI. Go wasn’t something I gave even the slightest thought even a few months ago, but eventually I played around and found that agents are really great at writing it, and its simple type system makes linting fast.
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SwiftTheir words
Swift’s build infra is good enough for most things these days. codex knows how to run iOS apps and how to deal with the Simulator. No special stuff or MCPs needed.
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Jump DesktopTheir words
I usually work on two Macs. My MacBook Pro on the big screen, and a Jump Desktop session to my Mac Studio on another screen.
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Mac StudioTheir words
I usually work on two Macs. My MacBook Pro on the big screen, and a Jump Desktop session to my Mac Studio on another screen.
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Claude OpusTheir words
I use it for most of my computer automation tasks and ofc it powers Clawd🦞.
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Jonathan Livingston SeagullTheir words
Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach is a beautiful fable about a seagull who wants to fly for the pure joy of flight, rather than simply to find food, as most gulls do. Ostracized from his flock for his eccentric behavior, Jonathan embarks on a quest for aerodynamic perfection that doubles as a moving spiritual allegory. You've never read a book quite like this one before, and it'll stick with you long after you reach the end.
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BreakneckTheir words
Breakneck by Dan Wang takes you on a fascinating journey through China's engineering state, juxtaposing it against America's lawyerly society in an effort to reveal what each country should learn from the other. I've been a keen reader of Dan's personal blog for many years and am delighted to report that this book, his first, features everything I love most about his writing: his unbounded curiosity, thoughtful analysis, compelling storytelling, self-awareness, offbeat sense of humor, and insights born of lived experience.
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Jurassic ParkTheir words
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton is a surprisingly weird and weirdly underrated novel given how many copies it sold and the popularity of the blockbuster franchise it spawned. The story weaves together many apparently disparate threads and there are extensive speculative digressions into the biotechnology, business interests, and institutional dynamics that make the park possible and its dissolution inevitable. If the movie is supremely entertaining, the book is supremely thought-provoking.
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There Is No Antimemetics DivisionTheir words
There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm is a mind-bending psychological thriller about a secret agency tasked with fighting dangerous "antimemes"—ideas that refuse to be remembered. Plenty of stories start with a clever high-concept premise and just let it play out. This one pushes its premise to extremes I never imagined possible, ratcheting up an astonishing amount of tension along the way.
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EnsorcelledTheir words
Ensorcelled is the best book I wrote in 2025, and if you enjoy this newsletter, you'll love it.
27 December 2025
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MistbornTheir words
If you’ve never read him, Mistborn is a great place to start.
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Alita: Battle AngelTheir words
None of this is brilliant filmmaking, even if it is efficient, and much of it isn’t even necessarily good, but damned if I can’t stop watching it.
26 December 2025
From one piece 4 Simple Steps to Change Your Life 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Every person has a purpose in life, and each person gets to define what that purpose is.Their words
The pretty truth is that you have a purpose on this planet. The gorgeous truth is that you get to define that purpose.
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New Year's goals are merely the path toward a person's underlying purpose, not the destination itself.Their words
People make this mistake of setting new goals every January 1st, but forget that goals are the path, not the destination.
From one piece Books I Read in 2025 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I believe we should sometimes expose ourselves to completely different experiences.
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I realized that some people who influenced and created objects that lasted for decades will be forgotten no matter what.
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And just like with social media, we're very easily affected by the bombardment of small pieces every single day, without realizing how bad it is for us.
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How to Read a BookTheir words
I had some high hopes for this book, but I'm not sure I liked it that much.
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From Nerd to ProTheir words
I really enjoyed it, and it gave me a very different view of the coffee world. Definitely worth reading if you're into coffee.
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Amusing Ourselves to DeathTheir words
It's a little outdated, but still worth reading just to see how the world has, or hasn't, changed in the past 40 years.
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A Dog's HeartTheir words
It wasn't my favorite, but it was very different. Like eating food that tastes nothing like what you're used to. For that reason alone, I'd recommend it.
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What You Are Looking for Is in the LibraryTheir words
I enjoyed the themes. It's a very easy read. The topics aren't very deep, and you shouldn't expect anything literary.
25 December 2025
From one piece Chinese Labor Isn't Just Cheaper; It’s Better. We Need to Fix That. 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Rebuilding American manufacturing is a decades-long educational and cultural project, not something tariffs can do.Their words
America needs an educational and cultural transformation to compete with China and reverse the decline in living standards that Americans have suffered over decades.
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Between 2015 and 2025 US manufacturing wages rose 40%, while the cost of purchasing a home rose 93%.
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Even so, the flexible adaptable human will be working in manufacturing (alongside machines) for decades to come.
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Yes, the labor is cheaper, but that’s not really why.
24 December 2025
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Best books I read in 2025: Just a note that these books weren’t all necessarily published this year (though some were). A Story is a Deal: How to use the science of story to motivate and persuade by Will Storr
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Bringing Up Baby: An Evolutionary View of PediatricsTheir words
Best books I read in 2025: Just a note that these books weren’t all necessarily published this year (though some were). A Story is a Deal: How to use the science of story to motivate and persuade by Will Storr Bringing Up Baby: An Evolutionary View of Pediatrics by Paul Turke
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Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing UpTheir words
Best books I read in 2025: Just a note that these books weren’t all necessarily published this year (though some were). A Story is a Deal: How to use the science of story to motivate and persuade by Will Storr Bringing Up Baby: An Evolutionary View of Pediatrics by Paul Turke Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up by Abigail Shrier
23 December 2025
22 December 2025
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Colors of Asia: A Visual Journey, Photos and DesignTheir words
There is Kevin Kelly, Colors of Asia: A Visual Journey, Photos and Design
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Notting HillTheir words
Notting Hill, in addition to being just a lovely little romantic comedy about two people from entirely mismatched stations in life, trying to negotiate a space in the world they might get to call their own, is one of the best films out there showing at least a little bit of what it’s like to be famous to everyone, everywhere, all the time, forever and ever, amen.
21 December 2025
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Our Dollar, Your ProblemTheir words
This book manages to pull all of that together in a way that's genuinely readable and engaging, helped along by anecdotes from his own policymaking experience that both clarify the arguments and make them feel concrete and accessible to a much broader audience.
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Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the FutureTheir words
It's powerful because it's simple without being simplistic and, like Rogoff's book, is interspersed with engaging personal stories that deepen the substantive argument.
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It had the best opening sentence of any nonfiction book I read this year: "In 2012, 146 million children were born. That was more than in any prior year. It was also more than in any year since. Millions fewer will be born this year. The year 2012 may well turn out to be the year in which the most humans were ever born—ever as in ever for as long as humanity exists." Such a simple and obvious fact but I had not known it before. I had to keep reading.
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Fixed: Why Personal Finance Is Broken and How to Make It Work for EveryoneTheir words
But it also is exciting and refreshing to see it addressed with such originality and cutting-edge research.
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The Wealth of NationsTheir words
I first read it in college and recently, as we approach this milestone, decided to re-read it and was amazed about how fresh and vivid it felt, as well as how nuanced and humane it is.
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The Four Things That Matter MostTheir words
Someone recommended this book after my brother passed away. I didn’t want to read a bunch of books about grief, but this one struck a chord. I wish I had read it before he died.
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11/22/63Their words
11/22/63 by Stephen King Somehow this was my first Stephen King novel.
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The Handmaid’s TaleTheir words
I liked the book a lot more than the show but watching the show helped me appreciate the book more.
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High FidelityTheir words
However, the book gave the main character far more depth than the movie.
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Good MaterialTheir words
Good Material by Dolly Alderton A simple story about a struggling stand-up comedian going through a difficult break-up. A funny, sweet book. I enjoyed it.
20 December 2025
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ezaTheir words
eza: a modern, maintained replacement for ls.
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yaziTheir words
yazi: blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O.
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Lily58Their words
Lily58: split keyboard, I forced myself to get used to this kind of keyboard model. So far I'm very happy, I just need time to get used to it.
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Mac mini M4Their words
Mac Mini M4 (16/256GB): I found it very value for money. It's also my first device from Apple and I'm very satisfied using it as a personal computer at home.
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Macbook Air M4Their words
Macbook Air M4 (16/256GB): daily driver. Get things done. It's also my second device from Apple and I'm very satisfied using it as a mobility solution.
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A Fish Called WandaTheir words
I have thought a number of films have been riotously funny, but only A Fish Called Wanda made me laugh so hard that I was in very real danger of pissing myself right there in the movie theater.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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.
14 December 2025
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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GitHub PodcastTheir words
GitHub Podcast: Another biased one because it's my place of work, BUT it's still good!
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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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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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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.
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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 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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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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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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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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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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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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Clarins lip comfort oilTheir words
Clarins lip comfort oil. Maybe my favorite lip tint, and I own like 35.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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Mac OSTheir words
Both OS have their flaws. macOS just works better for me and my workflow.
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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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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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From one piece The Importance of Bed Depth 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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