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1 April
From one piece Scaling Uber with Thuan Pham (Uber's first CTO) 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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the question about how big it can possibly grow nobody knows really. But it's actually not fruitful to pontificate on that.
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if you try to do a really good job at every company you've been working well with all the people that you work with, including your own team, your peer, whatever it is. Over time, very slowly, you accumulate a decent reputation in people's mind.
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There may be a lot of AI things that's going on right now, right? Uh eventually some of these things will consolidate, some will go under, some will become really awesome solutions and all that stuff. And so, but the the market will sort it out.
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There has to be sound business model that makes sustained profit, right? Growth and profit. Growth alone eventually burn, you know, money and that's not good.
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It's not about just a technology. It's about whether the world is ready for it, whether it's economically feasible.
From one piece A letter to John Ternus 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Focus on making great computers with great user experiences above all else, and you can trust that every other major goal will follow: profit, market share, expansion, impact, and benefit to the world.
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A company can lead its industry on values like privacy and user respect without actually excelling at themTheir words
Apple leads the industry in these values, but leading doesn't always mean excelling.
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Immense scale, soulless optimization, and an insatiable thirst for growth dominate its behavior and discourse, leaving little room for the spirit and principles embodied by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.
31 March
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A Billion Days of EarthTheir words
It's not pleasant, but it is skillful, and strange, and makes me interested in Piserchia's other books.
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This Hour, Our VigilTheir words
If I say it reads a bit like fanfic for Neumeier's own work, that sounds like I'm damning it, but I actually enjoyed it, because, I wanted good things to happen for those characters, who'd had drama enough and to spare.
29 March
From one piece Chip Huyen: Building when it feels like there's nothing left to build - The Pragmatic Summit 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Problems follow a long tail: AI will keep getting better at the common ones, and the edge cases will never go away.Their words
So, I think of them as the top of the long long tail long tail problem. Like, something very common issues that a lot of people experience. AI will get really good at it. And over time AI will cover more more edge cases, but the edge cases will never go away.
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The product you build is just solving a problem. So, is that like is the more you do that, the better you become at problem solving. And one thing I do believe that it will never change that there will always be problems to solve.
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And the more you build, right? The more you put things out there, you remove the need for imagination. You can say, "Okay, now I like that website. Do that for me."
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if you can describe a style, AI can generate it. And the same with software. If you can describe a software, then AI can build it for you.
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I feel like now I can build anything I want. But at the same time, anyone can build anything I want. So, what is the incentive structure for me to do anything?
From one piece 2026 has been the most pivotal year in my career… and it's only March 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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AI makes programming so cheap that only the rich will write code by hand.
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There's a huge, growing gap between open weight models and the frontier. Models you can run yourself are toys.
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Frontier AI now outperforms most human programmers at most programming tasks, with very low defect rates.Their words
AI is now highly skilled at programming, and better than me at almost every programming task, with inhumanly-low defect rates.
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Audio-Technica AT-LP120XUSBTheir words
This is a beautiful, dynamic and amazing turntable.
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Thule Construct 24L Blue Laptop BackpackTheir words
My favorite awesome tech backpack. I Love this brand.
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Apple Watch Series 10Their words
Yep, another Apple product, but the best smartwatch for Apple Ecosystem.
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Bose QuietComfort Ultra Earbuds 2nd GenTheir words
I'm sorry Apple, but in sound and quality Bose are the #1.
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Bose QuietComfort Ultra HeadphonesTheir words
My favorites after suffer the Apple Airpods Max deception. Bose QC, the best Headphones ever.
28 March
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The LLMs may elicit an opinion when asked but are extremely competent in arguing almost any direction. This is actually super useful as a tool for forming your own opinions, just make sure to ask different directions and be careful with the sycophancy.
From one piece America Got a Little More Religious. No, Really. 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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A statistically significant change is not the same as an important one, and survey data cannot tell you which it is.Their words
Whether that decline matters is a different question — and one the data alone can’t answer.
America Got a Little More Religious. No, Really.graphsaboutreligion.com
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The first thing that I always point out with this graph is that most nones are not atheists or agnostics.
America Got a Little More Religious. No, Really.graphsaboutreligion.com
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The growth of the religiously unaffiliated in America has stopped and gone into reverse.Their words
There’s clearly been a numerical decline in the nones. That seems pretty hard to ignore now, and it’s showing up in multiple data sources.
America Got a Little More Religious. No, Really.graphsaboutreligion.com
27 March
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A Ribbon For Your HairTheir words
There's too much yearning in the book, too much dark humor, and too much of a characteristic attempt to keep finding some thread to follow through all the sadness. This book is mournful but not bleak.
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Dangerous BluesTheir words
Policoff has written three novels, including 2022's Dangerous Blues, a book I really enjoyed and reviewed positively here.
From one piece Endgame for the Open Web 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Meanwhile, others like Spotify and Netflix leverage their dominant positions in the market to coerce creators to abandon open podcasts entirely, in favor of proprietary formats that require listeners to be on those platforms — locking in both creators and their audiences so they are stuck as they begin the enshittification process.
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The web is being flooded with coherent, generic, generated text that buries the writing worth reading.Their words
As publishers see the danger from AI bots expand, they retreat to putting more and more content behind either password protection or payment walls or both, leaving the only publicly-accessible content to be AI-generated slop; open resources like research work, scientific analysis, and fair use of content all suffer as a result of people responding to the bad actors, since legitimate uses of open content are no longer possible.
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Whether or not they succeed is going to be decided by decisions that we all make as a community in the coming months.
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The deal was always simple: search engines had permission to crawl sites because they were going to be sending users to those sites. If they're hitting your site half a million times for every one user they send to your site, all they're giving you is higher costs.
26 March
From one piece Intent by Discovery: Designing the AI User Experience 2 beliefs · jakobnielsenphd.substack.com
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The reason companies pay for design is to get customers to buy more and users to look at more advertisements.
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The winning system of the next decade will not be the one with the most aesthetically pleasing buttons, nor will it be the one with the fewest screens. It will be the system that best understands the human’s “job to be done,” autonomously selects the right tools on their behalf, clearly shows the user what is about to happen, and gracefully recovers when the user’s context is incomplete or ambiguous.
From one piece Why tech bros are obsessed with "taste" 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The online ecosystem has become so degraded that it has impaired people's ability to exercise taste.Their words
Another conclusion might be that the online ecosystem has become so polluted-so fragmented, deceptive, overstimulating, ersatz-that it has warped our ability to exercise taste at all.
Why tech bros are obsessed with "taste"kylechayka.substack.com
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Tech's embrace of 'taste' is an attempt to dress anti-humanist technology in humanist branding.Their words
We might call what's going on now "taste-washing," an attempt to give anti-humanist technologies a veneer of liberal humanism.
Why tech bros are obsessed with "taste"kylechayka.substack.com
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AI companies promote themselves around 'taste' because their products are unappealing outside tech circles.Their words
A.I. companies need to associate themselves with taste precisely because their tools are not very palatable, much less cool, to anyone outside of Silicon Valley.
Why tech bros are obsessed with "taste"kylechayka.substack.com
From one piece Model capabilities and four minute mile 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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This is not the case with many other technology driven industries where capability or advancements often tend to be longer held and a fast-follow model is harder.
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frontier model capabilities are always so clustered together as opposed to any one model having an unassailable edge.
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Travel insurance is the most important thing to take on a trip, because it protects everything elseTheir words
While not technically a piece of gear, travel insurance is something you need on the road. In fact, it’s the MOST IMPORTANT thing you need, because it protects all your other gear.
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Unbound MerinoTheir words
I really love the material, they're comfortable, they hardly ever need a wash, and they last forever!
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AwayTheir words
Away is my go-to brand for durable, quality luggage. Their hard shell carry-on suitcases are lightweight and fit perfectly into overheard bins, ensuring you have plenty of room for all your gear while still letting you travel carry-on only.
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KindleTheir words
Personally, I prefer physical books when I travel. However, I can't argue against the convenience and simplicity of the Kindle.
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GoProTheir words
If you want something better than your phone but still easy to use, get a GoPro. They're durable and take incredible photos and videos without a steep learning curve.
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Bose QuietComfort 45Their words
The wireless Bose QuietComfort 45 headphones are fan favorites and my go-to brand. They are comfortable, rechargeable, and do an amazing job at removing background noise.
25 March
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One common issue with personalization in all LLMs is how distracting memory seems to be for the models. A single question from 2 months ago about some topic can keep coming up as some kind of a deep interest of mine with undue mentions in perpetuity.
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle MaintenanceTheir words
I’ve read it at least a half dozen times since. I’ve listened to it on Audible twice.
From one piece Thoughts on slowing the fuck down 5 beliefs · mariozechner.at
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Worse, you realize that the gazillions of unit, snapshot, and e2e tests you had your clankers write are equally untrustworthy. The only thing that's still a reliable measure of "does this work" is manually testing the product.
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You can give it a Bash tool so it can ripgrep its way through the codebase. You can give it some queryable codebase index, an LSP server, a vector database. In the end it doesn't matter much. The bigger the codebase, the lower the recall. Low recall means that your agent will, in fact, not find all the code it needs to do a good job.
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And organizations have super high pain tolerance. But human-made enterprise codebases take years to get there. The organization slowly evolves along with the complexity in a demented kind of synergy and learns how to deal with it. With agents and a team of 2 humans, you can get to that complexity within weeks.
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With an orchestrated army of agents, there is no bottleneck, no human pain. These tiny little harmless booboos suddenly compound at a rate that's unsustainable. You have removed yourself from the loop, so you don't even know that all the innocent booboos have formed a monster of a codebase. You only feel the pain when it's too late.
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An agent has no such learning ability. At least not out of the box. It will continue making the same errors over and over again. Depending on the training data it might also come up with glorious new interpolations of different errors.
24 March
From one piece When People Say They Want to Send Their Kid to a Good School, They Usually Mean Schools Without "Bad Kids" 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Putting the children most likely to succeed into one school is segregation, not educational excellence.Their words
Simply creating artificial separation between different students is not a strategy for “educational excellence.” It’s just segregation.
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You can staff a school with the best teachers on earth, give them unlimited resources, and wrap the place in every evidence-based intervention imaginable, and it still won’t work if students are resistant, disengaged, or actively hostile to the enterprise.
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Education is not something that can be done to someone; it’s something that requires at least a minimal act of will from the learner, and no reform agenda can engineer that away.
23 March
From one piece Jensen Huang: NVIDIA - The $4 Trillion Company & the AI Revolution | Lex Fridman Podcast #494 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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And so this loop, this cycle, is gonna go on and on and on. It kinda comes down to basically intelligence is gonna scale by one thing, and that's compute.
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And so the next scaling law is the agentic scaling law. It's kind of like multiplying AI. Multiplying AI, we could spin off agents as fast as you want to spin off agents. And so, you know, I… You know, I have four scaling laws.
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that was always illogical to me because inference is thinking, and I think thinking is hard. Thinking is way harder than reading.
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Training is no longer limited by data but by compute, because most of the data models learn from is now synthetic.Their words
The amount of data that we use to train models is going to continue to scale to the point where we're no longer limited… Training is no longer limited by… Data is now limited by compute. And the reason for that is most of the data is synthetic.
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They come to a computing platform because the install base is large. Because a developer, like anybody else, wants to develop software that reaches a lot of people. So, the install base is, in fact, the single most important part of an architecture.
From one piece 🌻 why LLMs are bad writers but good editors 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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"Good writing" requires a grounding in real-life experience.
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Good writing is hard to train into AI models because writing quality is hard to evaluate.Their words
"Good writing" is hard to train because it's hard to evaluate.
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AI language models are capable of evaluating good fiction even though they cannot yet write it themselves.Their words
An LLM may not be able to write a good story yet, but it can already evaluate them.
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NVIDIA and TSMC are two of the greatest companies in the history of human civilization.Their words
I think NVIDIA, both NVIDIA and TSMC are two of the greatest companies in the history of human civilization.
From one piece From error-handling to structured concurrency 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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writing programs in this style makes it much easier to write correct and safe concurrent code
From error-handling to structured concurrencyblog.nelhage.com
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But I struggle to envision a general, composable, concurrent paradigm without one.
From error-handling to structured concurrencyblog.nelhage.com
22 March
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StarletteTheir words
Kim Christie started working on Starlette in 2018 and it quickly became my favorite out of the new breed of Python ASGI frameworks.
From one piece Nicole Forsgren: Leading high-performing engineering teams in the age of AI - The Pragmatic Summit 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The processes organisations build to make work uniform are usually the same processes that slow the work down.Their words
Or like all of the the things that we have structured process around to try to make things more uniform are often the things that slow us down.
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Release management is human group sense-making, and it does not scale to the volume of change AI now produces.Their words
so many times that process has been managed by humans because you're selecting the right candidate build and you're verifying it and you're thinking, you know, you're figuring out cherry picks and then you like rebundle and then you send it out and that doesn't scale if you have one or two or a handful of people trying to make group decisions and do group sense making.
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And not only that, but like humans were already a bit of a bottleneck in the review process. Now it can be worse because things that we fairly straightforward changes that some companies had automation around reviewing, they've removed that reviewing because if AI is involved and they're worried about the verifiability or the reliability of the code.
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AI did not create the bottlenecks in software delivery; it threw gas on processes everybody already knew were weak.Their words
There were a handful of people probably managing a security review process or a launch process or a deployment process or, you know, sometimes reviews were a little slow and they got backed up. Well, now we just threw gas on the fire and so all of that is a problem.
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And so, like in the immediate term, yeah, we were getting more out, but now our systems, whether technology systems or human systems or processes, are really kind of getting overwhelmed.
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Burn Bright, Not OutTheir words
His book Burn Bright, Not Out - co-authored with Django De Gree - is what I wish had existed a long time ago.
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Hiking Zen: Train Your Mind in NatureTheir words
The book isn’t about covering miles or conquering peaks. It’s about what happens when you pay attention on a trail.
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The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and LifeTheir words
Paul’s book reinforced the framing for what I’ve been doing.
21 March
20 March
From one piece Skill Issue: Andrej Karpathy on Code Agents, AutoResearch, and the Loopy Era of AI 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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But now it's not about flops, it's about tokens. So what is your token throughput and what token throughput do you command?
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What limits you with coding agents is your own skill at stringing them together, not the capability of the models.Their words
I think to a large extent you feel like it's a skill issue. It's not that the capability is not there. It's that you just haven't found a way to string it together of what's available.
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The way software gets built flipped in December: writing code yourself is now the exception, not the default.Their words
I kind of went from 80/20 of like, you know, uh to like 20/80 of writing code by myself versus just delegating to agents. And I don't even think it's 20/80 by now. I think it's a lot more than that. I don't think I've typed like a line of code probably since December basically.
From one piece Terence Tao – How the world’s top mathematician uses AI 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Um we are seeing a lot fewer sort of pure AI solutions now where um they are just one shots the problem. Um so so there was there was a month where that happened and and that has stopped.
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you know, right now we're going through uh an in um an cognitive version of the Copernican revolution where we used to think that human intelligence is the center of the universe. And now we're actually seeing that there's there's very different types of intelligence um that that that are out there uh with very different strengths and weaknesses.
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So, you you can't look at any given scientific achievement purely in isolation and give it an objective grade without being aware of the context both in the the past and the future. And so it it it may never be something that you can just reinforcement learn the same way that that you can for much sort of more localized problems.
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So, we're now in a situation where suddenly people can generate thousands of theories for a given scientific problem. And now we have to to verify them, evaluate them and this is something which we we have to to change our structures of science to actually sort this out.
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So, I think AI has basically driven the cost of idea generation down to almost zero in a very similar way to how the internet drove the cost of communication down to almost zero, which is an amazing thing, but it you know, it it it doesn't make it doesn't create abundance by itself.
From one piece AI Liability: The Landmines Under Your SaaS 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The durable competitive moat in an AI-driven business is proprietary human-originated data, not the AI itself.Their words
The competitive moat for a business right now is not the use of AI. It's human-originating, high-quality, high-fidelity data that other systems can't replicate - even if they implement the exact same features and are built by the same agentic systems.
AI Liability: The Landmines Under Your SaaSthebootstrappedfounder.com
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Any AI-driven action is legally defensible if it followed a revocable moment of user consent.Their words
As long as there's a moment of consent - and that consent is revocable - any AI action is defensible.
AI Liability: The Landmines Under Your SaaSthebootstrappedfounder.com
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A business, not its AI vendor, bears legal responsibility when an integrated AI tool causes harm to a customer.Their words
If you have a customer chatbot and it causes damage, it's not the chatbot company that's responsible. It's you.
AI Liability: The Landmines Under Your SaaSthebootstrappedfounder.com
19 March
From one piece Simon Willison: Engineering practices that make coding agents work - The Pragmatic Summit 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Anything that you're maintaining over the longer term, the code quality does start really really mattering.
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And what you can do if you've got one of these conformance suites is you can give it to a a good agent and say, "Write code until this test suite passes." And it kind of will.
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just cuz the test suite passes doesn't mean that the web server will boot. You know, there's there's always a chance that when you actually try in the real world, something's not going to work.
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I think I see people who are writing code with coding agents and they're not writing any tests at all. That's a terrible idea.
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the key thing about TDD is that it means that the agents won't write more than they need to.
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In the world of high-stakes digital strategy, the “average user” is a dangerous statistical artifact.
18 March
From one piece Introducing Amazing Atlas 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Some of the best things to see near a city are a short drive or train ride outside it, not in the city center itself.Their words
especially on cruise stops, often the best things were a short drive or train ride away, instead of inside the city center
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Shore excursions booked onboard a cruise ship are generally low quality and overpriced.Their words
onboard shore excursions are generally not great and are very expensive
17 March
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Narwal Freo X PlusTheir words
My companion who loves cleaning:)
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Android StudioTheir words
Pretty much my bread and butter
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MaccyTheir words
Makes me professional Copy-Paster
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Apple MusicTheir words
Perfect for Hi-Res Audio listening
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iTerm2Their words
Because CLI is the way to go
14 March
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LLMs make it easy for anyone to add new features to the product. Even before AI, teams were battling feature creep, where the product becomes increasingly complex, bloated, and cluttered.
From one piece How to Thought Lead (2026) 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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players who are also commentators give better commentary than people who are just commentators. Stock analysts who never invest have zero skin in the game.
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People want to be the person their bookmarks say they are, not the person their feed reveals they are.Their words
People want to be the person their bookmarks reflect, not what their feed reflects.
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Real leverage in a negotiation comes from being genuinely willing to walk away from it.Their words
The true leverage in any negotiation is your true willingness to walk away.
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Canon MF644CdwTheir words
As you’ll see below, this is not a printer that will be easy to deal with on a Mac. It will be a purchase you regret.
13 March
From one piece Dylan Patel — The single biggest bottleneck to scaling AI compute 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Anthropic saw the coming shortage of chips before Google did, and bought Google's own TPUs out from under it.Their words
Because Enthropic saw it before Google. And then Google had Nano Banano and Gemini 3 which caused their user metrics to skyrocket and leadership at Google was like oh and then they started making the statement of we have to double compute every is it 6 months or I don't remember the exact number that they said.
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TSMC would rather give wafers to a slow, stable CPU business than to its fastest-growing AI customer.Their words
TSMC is much more excited to give allocation to Graviton than they are to tranium because they view CPU business as more stable long-term growth right and as a company that is conservative and doesn't want to ride cycles of growth too hard you actually want to allocate to the uh the market that is more stable and lower growth rate first before you allocate all the incremental capacity to the fast growth rate market.
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Um I think at least this year we're going to see margins for the model vendors go up a lot, right? Because they're so capacity constrained, they have to demand destroy demand, right? there is there's no way they can continue anthropic can continue at the current pace without destroying demand.
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A companies that have locked up, you know, and and don't have commitment issues, you know, have these 5-year contracts for compute, they've kind of locked in a humongous margin advantage because they've locked in compute for 5 years at a price of what it transacted at 5 years ago or three years ago or two years ago, whatever it is.
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if improvement stopped you know here the value of an H100 is now predicated on the value that GPD 5.4 four can get out of it instead of the value that GP4 can get out of it and the margins and all that stuff that these labs are doing and they're in a competitive environment so their margins can't go to infinity. Um so you sort of have this like dynamic that is quite interesting in that an H100 is worth more today than it was 3 years ago.
From one piece Data Is the Only Moat 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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If you run a software business that is purely transformative - that takes incoming data, does something to it, and turns the data back out - that will be a problem.
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Real-world, human-generated data is becoming the only durable moat for software businesses over the next decade.Their words
I believe that data - real-world data, mostly human-generated, validated, and cleaned - is the only reliable moat we have as software founders in the near and mid-term future.
12 March
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Publishing only on your own site, and making people come to it, is the considerate way to share your work.On changing their mind
I was acting like the record producer in New Jersey, making everyone come to my website. It was inconsiderate.
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Your own site stays the master source even once the work is syndicated everywhere else.Their words
My own site is the master source of everything I make. But now it's also shared everywhere, so we can meet in your city instead of my little town.
From one piece What People Want From Our Schools Has Never Been Accomplished, Anywhere, Ever 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Everybody thinks our schools are in crisis all the time because they’re being forced to do something they were never meant to do, which is to make everyone college-ready, and they’re being forced to do that because we have seen jobs that provide a living wage without a college diploma evaporate.
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The golden age of American schooling that reformers want to return to never existed anywhere.Their words
But please, stop saying things like “I just want us to get back to a world where kids were graduating high school with basic skills!” Because the world you’re referring to never existed.
11 March
From one piece Jeff Kaplan: World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Blizzard, and Future of Gaming | Lex Fridman Podcast #493 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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And it went from this kind of thing that I didn’t believe into to actually, like, a core part of who I am today as a leader, as a game designer, as a game director. And some of the best ideas have come from developing other peoples’ ideas
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That is the best prop artist in the industry. That’s who’s gonna show up on our doorstep, so when they show up here, we should treat them like the best prop artist in the industry instead of starting from a place of doubt and cynicism.
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And there’s a weird thing that happens that’s just kind of a human nature thing. The less you interact with somebody, the more you sort of become alienated from them and vilify their point of view.
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The bigger the team, the more you become a cog in the machine. And on a small team, the way I like to describe it is you get to have a loud voice.
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So the advice that I always give, and it sounds so stupid, like this sounds really trite, but focus on what you wanna do, not what you wanna be.
From one piece From IDEs to AI Agents with Steve Yegge 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I'm mad at Amazon for laying off 16,000 people and blaming AI without an AI strategy for it. Those people are not going to be able to find jobs, by and large, and they're the first of many to come and nobody has a plan for this.
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Big companies will lose about half of their engineers, because that is where everybody is setting the dial.Their words
And so, what's happening is everybody on average is setting that dial to about 50% and we're going to lose about half the engineers from big companies, which is scary.
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Because they're all starting to spend their own salaries in tokens. And so, at least for a while, if you want your engineers to be as productive as possible, you're going to have to get rid of half of them to make the other half maximally productive.
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I had a lot of my own ego and identity wrapped up in my sort of compiler background. It's all It's interesting, right? But it's it's not useful in any meaningful sense anymore.
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An excellent engineer who still reads the agent's diffs carefully before checking them in is going to get fired.Their words
they they're like, "Yeah, you know, I use Cursor, and I I ask it questions sometimes, and I'm really impressed with the answers, and then I review its code really carefully, and then I check it in." And I'm like, "Dude, you're going to get fired, and you're one of the best engineers I know."
From one piece How to find your passion in life 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Our dumb economy might prize a certain talent more during a certain period of time or place, but that doesn't mean you should.
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It only goes to waste if you would find joy and meaning in using it, but you don't because of insecurity or outside voices.
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But, your 'calling' will never involve constant discomfort. If you are passionate about a political issue but you hate crowds, you do not have to go to protests.
From one piece Fractional Reserve Banking 101 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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There were booms and busts, and cumulative price inflation was zero, and the United States went from a new-world emerging backwater in the late 1700s to being the world's largest economy by the late 1800s.
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Another way of putting it is that a collection of dozens of solvent well-run banks can still be broken as a group if they become greatly overleveraged compared to how many depositors want their money back at once.
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Fractional reserve banks are structurally interconnected and unstable in a way most other industries are not.Their words
That's due to the fractional reserve structure of banks. They're unstable and reliant on each other by design, more closely than companies in most other industries.
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There are underlying lessons here on humility and the downsides of trying to make complex systems legible.
10 March
From one piece Why Building Metros is Necessary for the Green Transition Away from Cars 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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This, in turn, creates serious estimation problems for the diversion rate, which is why environmental benefit-cost analyses underrate the effect of urban rail construction.
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Nor does polycentricity solve the problem. Indeed, ridership in polycentric regions is weaker than in monocentric ones.
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Beyond the scale of a neighborhood or maybe a college town, cars and mass transit are substitutes for each other.
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Wispr FlowTheir words
Wispr Flow - Voice to text (AI)
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ScreenFlowTheir words
ScreenFlow - Recording software
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LoopbackTheir words
Loopback - To record my desktop audio (and alias my microphone so I can tell which Camlink to use).
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RoastguideTheir words
Finally, I’d like to thank the authors of Roastguide for the amazing work they’ve done on their app, the attention they pay to their community on Discord
9 March
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Villa and Zapata: A History of the Mexican RevolutionTheir words
The best book on its topic, and one of the best books on Mexican history flat out.
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Anexcellent and original book, somewhere between a history and travel book.
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The Driver's SeatTheir words
If you like her at all, you will be entranced by this one.
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Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us BetterTheir words
A good popular look at what the subtitle promises.
8 March
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4 March
From one piece Building Claude Code with Boris Cherny — The Pragmatic Engineer 4 beliefs · newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com
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The scarce skill is now context switching across parallel agents, not sustained deep work.Their words
It’s not so much about deep work, it’s about how good I am at context switching and jumping across multiple different contexts very quickly.
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There’s just no way we could have shipped this if we started with static mocks and Figma or if we started with a PRD.
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always make sure that when you start a migration, you finish the migration.
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once there is a good plan, it will one-shot the implementation almost every time.
From one piece Will Claude Code ruin our team? 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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As more people build software and cycle time compresses, they'll start to absorb lessons that it took their colleagues decades to learn.
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When rare skills become more attainable, people feel pressure to move "up the stack" to prove their value.
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AI-driven skill compression will be disruptive to software team culture in the short term.Their words
In the short term, this is going to be incredibly disruptive for team culture.
3 March
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Long stretches of being disconnected -- no internet, no phone, no people -- are what make creative work possible.Their words, before
All the best, happiest, and most creatively productive times in my life have something in common: being disconnected.
Their words now
Media silence creates a vacuum, which your own thoughts expand to fill.
From one piece Offline 23 hours a day 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Long stretches of being disconnected -- no internet, no phone, no people -- are what make creative work possible.Their words
Media silence creates a vacuum, which your own thoughts expand to fill.
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Every day or two, I bring my laptop into town to get online for an hour. The time limit keeps me super-focused.
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Solving a problem yourself, without searching or prompting, is a form of exercise -- the help makes you weaker.Their words
My brain feels stronger because I work through the problem instead of prompting it away.
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Unbeatable: The Brutally Honest Case for Free MarketsTheir words
It is definitely my broadest and least inhibited book — and in my judgment, the best-written and the best overall.
From one piece Claude is an Electron App because we’ve lost native 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Bloated, slow software is caused by a lack of engineering care, not by the choice of technology stack.Their words
The real problem is a lack of care. And the slop; you can build it with any stack.
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These days, though, native is as bad as the web, if not worse.
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Native OS APIs are worse to develop against than web APIs, and platform vendors discourage native app development.Their words
Native APIs are terrible to use, and OS vendors use everything in their power to make you not want to develop native apps for their platform.
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Stop thinking about what your money can buy. Think about what your money can earn.
2 March
From one piece Back To The Garden 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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That now ubiquitous timeline names eras after the inorganic materials that happened to survive in the dirt.
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And what makes a society illegible to the tax collector also makes it illegible to the traditional archaeologist.
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archeologists naturally build their interpretations of human history out of artifacts that survive the passage of deep time.
From one piece Clinical Reflections on the Critique on Polyvagal Theory proposed by Grossman et al., (2026) 2 beliefs · drarielleschwartz.com
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Regulation must precede reflection: cognitive insight fails while a nervous system is in defensive dominance.Their words
Polyvagal theory provided me with a coherent framework for understanding why cognitive insight alone often fails when a nervous system is in defensive dominance. In such states, higher-order cortical processes are functionally constrained.
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The central clinical proposition of polyvagal theory-that autonomic state functions as an organizing platform shaping perception, emotion, and relational behavior-was not empirically disproven in the critique.
1 March
From one piece Software Bonkers 2 beliefs · craigmod.com
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Control over your own data, and over how you view and engage with it, will be non-negotiableTheir words
Why would we lock ourselves into someone else's proprietary binary? Control over our data, and control over how we view and engage with it, feels like it will be utterly non-negotiable going forward.
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I've always been opinionated about how software should work. Mainly, it should be fast. The bounds of it should be "knowable." The contract you have with it should be "sane" (i.e., you just own it).
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Claude CodeTheir words
With Claude, I've built a host of software like this. Mostly small tools for myself — programs that instantly append copy buffers to text files (I keep a running file of nice things people write to me called notapieceofshit.txt) or quickly perform live currency conversions.
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MemberfulTheir words
I don't use Patreon or Substack, I built my own platform atop Memberful.
28 February
From one piece 🌻 AI vs. the pentagon 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Many AI researchers are overly focused on risks from model misalignment, and will be in for a rough surprise when havoc arises from other layers of the stack.
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On the current trajectory, AI will do more to threaten civil liberties than to protect them.Their words
On the default path, I think AI will do more to threaten civil liberties than to preserve them.
From one piece A response to Dario Amodei on AI & clinical trials 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The current success rate for a drug entering clinical trials is only about ten percent, meaning 90 percent of all drugs fail.
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Lastly, the duration of a clinical trial does not merely determine how fast an individual therapy reaches patients. It also shapes which diseases attract serious investment and which do not.
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But remember that such data can only come from trials in people (mice are nice, but most animal results simply do not translate.)
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Trials serve two distinct functions: validation — confirming whether a drug works and is safe — and learning, or generating biological data to refine our understanding of a disease, a compound, and the relationship between the two.
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Even if AI can help design more effective drugs, timelines will not compress until we solve the operational and regulatory bottlenecks of trials.
27 February
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and then as things hit invisible asymptotes those same loud voices who write viral essays have curiously moved on to other things.
26 February
25 February
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You’re Not ListeningTheir words
Being a great listener when people speak. Deep insights about understanding, connection, helping people express themselves, overcoming assumptions, the ethics of gossip, and more. Specific techniques for the support response, encouraging elaboration, and keeping it balanced. You can’t be ethical without being a good listener. When people say, “I can’t talk right now,” what they really mean is “…
24 February
From one piece Attack of the Zombie Tariffs 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The tariffs survived the case for them because their real purpose was the personal power they conferred.Their words
It has been clear from the beginning that a primary motivation for tariffs was that they empowered Trump personally.
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Revenue from the Trump tariffs, even pre-Court, wasn’t enough to make a large dent in the deficit.
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The tariffs did not revive American manufacturing; employment in it fell after they were imposed.Their words
Trump also claimed that his tariffs would revive American manufacturing. In fact, manufacturing employment has declined since Liberation Day.
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The 2025 American tariffs did not reduce the trade deficit they were imposed to reduce.Their words
In fact, the U.S. trade deficit for all of 2025 was about the same as it was in 2024.
23 February
22 February
From one piece We're in Triage Mode for AI Policy 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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History has shown very extensively that, left to their own devices, even if something could be done safely, people in a hurry will find all sorts of ways to f*** things up.
We're in Triage Mode for AI Policymilesbrundage.substack.com
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Third-party frontier AI auditing is urgently needed and would help prevent extreme concentration of power.Their words
I think frontier AI auditing (covering both safety and security) is both urgently needed and doable, and can help avoid extreme concentration of power, since it introduces external oversight into the decision-making of people with a "country of geniuses in a datacenter" at their disposal.
We're in Triage Mode for AI Policymilesbrundage.substack.com
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We need to accept that at best, we will just barely avoid some of the worst case scenarios (e.g., an AI-enabled biological weapon that kills billions, a rogue AI takeover, or stable global totalitarianism enabled by AI), given the current pace of AI capabilities relative to the pace of governance.
We're in Triage Mode for AI Policymilesbrundage.substack.com
21 February
20 February
19 February
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An investor's starting point should be the portfolio that is best to hold independent of any tactical market viewTheir words
I think everyone’s starting point for investing should be to know and be in the portfolio that is best to have, independent of any tactical views of the markets.
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Dalio Market PrinciplesTheir words
If you want my advice about how to do these things well to help you be successful at investing, I recommend the Dalio Market Principles course which is put out by the Wealth Management Institute of Singapore.
18 February
From one piece Empiricists vs. Extrapolators 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Extrapolators have a remarkable track record in the AI field, being repeatedly early to trends and capabilities that empiricists believed were still decades away.
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Forecasting AI capabilities is closer in kind to solving a thermodynamics equation than solving the three-body problem.
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The world may be complex, but complex systems are typically controlled by a small number of highly stable invariants.
17 February
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Both estimates make me think that the concern about global energy demand for LLMs is over-blown.
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I initially assumed this was a temporary divide. New users tend to watch closely and check the system's progress, but as trust builds, that scrutiny fades and monitoring starts to feel like a chore. Yet it still seems like there's two camps (for now).
From one piece Why the World Is Drawing a Line on Social Media for Kids 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Like any addictive consumer product that routinely exposes users to graphic sex, extreme violence, and anonymous sexual predators, social media in its current form causes a variety of harms to people of all ages. But we allow adults (often defined as age 18) to make decisions that are bad for them.
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I cannot support any law that includes a “parental consent” exception—it defeats the central purpose of the law by dropping parents and children straight back into the same collective-action trap
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Sixteen is also roughly the age by which a majority of adolescents have completed puberty: a sensitive period of neural reorganization during which it is extremely important to protect the brain.
16 February
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Shrinking attention spans are reshaping real-world business models, not just digital media formats.Their words
You may be less aware that this is affecting real world business models.
From one piece The Constitution is not a bargaining chip for a budget negotiation 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Constitutional limits on policing are not policy preferences to be traded away in a budget negotiation.Their words
And that risks giving the impression that basic constitutional rights and restraints on police and executive power that date back to the Founding are, actually, negotiable.
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An administrative warrant is just a way for a law enforcement officers to memorialize a hunch on paper.
15 February
14 February
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Yes, I could totally see how OpenClaw could become a huge company. And no, it’s not really exciting for me. I’m a builder at heart. I did the whole creating-a-company game already, poured 13 years of my life into it and learned a lot. What I want is to change the world, not build a large company and teaming up with OpenAI is the fastest way to bring this to everyone.
13 February
From one piece Dario Amodei — “We are near the end of the exponential” 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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My one little bit, the one little bit of of fundamental uncertainty even on long time scales is this thing about tasks that aren't verifiable. Like, planning a mission to Mars, like, uh you know, doing some fundamental scientific discovery like like CRISPR, like, you know, writing a writing a novel. Hard to hard to verify those tasks.
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on the basic hypothesis of you know, as you put it, within 10 years we'll get to, you know, you know, what I call kind of country of geniuses in a data center. I'm at like 90% on that. Um and it's hard to go much higher than 90% cuz the world is so unpredictable.
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the goal is not to teach the model every possible skill within RL just as we don't do that within pre-training, right? Within pre-training, we're not trying to expose the model to, you know, every every possible you know, way that words could be put together, right? You know, we're it's it's rather that the model trains on a lot of things and then and then it reaches generalization across pre-training, right?
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Pre-training is not the process by which humans learn; it sits somewhere between human learning and human evolution.Their words
I think there's something going on that pre-training it's it's not like the process of humans learning. It's somewhere between the process of humans learning and the process of human evolution.
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I will tell you though what the most surprising thing has been. The most surprising thing has been the lack of public recognition of how close we are to the end of the exponential.
12 February
From one piece OpenClaw: The Viral AI Agent that Broke the Internet - Peter Steinberger | Lex Fridman Podcast #491 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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So, I feel we, as a society, we need some catching up to do in terms of understanding that AI is incredibly powerful, but it's not always right. It's not, it's not all-powerful, you know?
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But I don't want to, like, pull that down because every time someone made the first pull request is a win for our society, you know? Like, it… Like, it doesn't matter how, how shitty it is, y- you gotta start somewhere.
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If you get really good at coding that means you have to be really good at general purpose problem solving. So that's a skill, right? And that just maps into other domains.
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Vibe coding is a slur; what he does is agentic engineering, and the after-3am kind is what you regret the next day.Their words
I actually think vibe coding is a slur.
From one piece Speed Can Reindustrialize America 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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An industrial robot does not replace labour, it shifts labour from hourly workers to scarce skilled ones.Their words
The key is that robot arms are not labor-replacing, but labor-shifting.
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Ultra-short lead times are one of the most important features for buyers.
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Long lead times and soft costs, fueled by the world-leading US wages for "white collar" work, are the root cause of poor performance in low-volume production because there are few units to spread the soft costs over.
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Reviving American manufacturing needs a better business model rather than a planned economy.Their words
Reviving manufacturing doesn't require a planned economy, just a better business model.
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The US excels at high-volume manufacturing, but not low-volume manufacturing.
From one piece OpenClaw: The Viral AI Agent that Broke the Internet - Peter Steinberger | Lex Fridman Podcast #491 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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there’s like a line to walk between being seriously concerned, but not fearmongering because fearmongering destroys the possibility of creating something special with a thing.
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Being an excellent programmer is a burden rather than an advantage when learning to work with coding agents.Their words
It’s actually how good they are at programming is almost a burden in their ability to empathize with the system that’s starting from scratch. It’s a totally new paradigm of, like, how to program. You really, really have to empathize.
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When users report that a model has been getting dumber, the model has not changed — they have got used to it.Their words
it’s probably most likely the case that the intelligence of the model is not degrading. It’s in fact you’re getting used to a good thing.
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Most of the alarming MoltBook screenshots were humans prompting the bots to go viral, not autonomous AI behaviour.Their words
my criticism of MoltBook is that I believe a lot of the stuff that was screenshotted is human prompted. Which, just look at the incentive of how the whole thing was used. It’s obvious to me at least that a lot of it was humans prompting the thing so they can then screenshot it and post it on X in order to go viral.
From one piece Chaos and Misallocation under Price Controls (with 2 co-authors) 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Misallocation, not the aggregate quantity reduction, is the main welfare cost of price controls.Their words
The quantity reduction is not the main cost of price controls. The misallocation is.
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We show that equilibrium generically occurs at neither the Harberger nor Glaeser-Luttmer benchmark. Cost-minimizing suppliers drive allocations to vertices, not interiors. Corners are not an assumption but an outcome about what cost-minimizing suppliers choose. The correct benchmark is corners, not random, and corners generate qualitatively different welfare properties: losses far larger than either efficient or random distributions, and discontinuous jumps from small parameter perturbations.
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Feast-or-famine corner outcomes, not modest proportional belt-tightening, are the generic result of price controls.Their words
This paper shows that feast or famine, not modest belt-tightening, is the generic outcome of price controls.
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These corner allocations create a distinct source of cross-market misallocation, separate from the aggregate quantity loss (the Harberger triangle) and from within-market misallocation emphasized in prior work.
11 February
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A World Appears: A Journey into ConsciousnessTheir words
a panoptic exploration of consciousness—what it is, who has it, and why—and a meditation on the essence of our humanity.
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Michael Pollan Teaches Intentional EatingTheir words
Over thirteen lessons, you’ll learn about the past, present, and future of meat, from the ways animals and humans are treated in meat processing plants to emerging meat alternatives.
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Food, Inc. 2Their words
filmmakers Robert Kenner and Melissa Robledo reunite with investigative authors Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser to take a fresh look at our efficient yet vulnerable food system.
10 February
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Manufacturing and mining in space will never be lucrative enough to pay for human settlement of space.Their words, before
Furthermore, I believe it’s very unlikely that space-based manufacturing or mining could be lucrative enough to fund the venture.
Their words now
Today, exploding demand for power-intensive AI applications provides enough of an upside to justify producing components in space, providing the economic engine necessary to justify and fund the trillions of dollars necessary to build and sustain space factories.
From one piece Space AI: I guess we’re doing Moon factories now 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Starship can lift orbital power generation to about 100 GW with perhaps 10,000 launches per year, or about one per hour.
Space AI: I guess we’re doing Moon factories nowcaseyhandmer.wordpress.com
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The economics of orbital “datacenters” or essentially glorified Starlink satellites with a bunch of GPUs attached are likely to be even better than Starlink.
Space AI: I guess we’re doing Moon factories nowcaseyhandmer.wordpress.com
From one piece Firehose authentic use 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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building a third-party client to read and route messages is a gray area in their terms of service, and perhaps only partially supported in their API surfaces.
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The "homework problem" described above might be much worse in practice for end users who aren't motivated to invest in their email triage systems, even if it will save them time in the medium term.
9 February
From one piece Do subsidies make meat much cheaper? 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Simply making fossil fuels more expensive without having affordable alternatives just makes energy more expensive, which hits the poorest hardest.
Do subsidies make meat much cheaper?hannahritchie.substack.com
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People do not switch from meat to cheap plant protein as they get richer; they switch the other way.Their words
Across much of the world, the opposite is happening: people are switching from these plant-based staples to meat and dairy as their incomes rise.
Do subsidies make meat much cheaper?hannahritchie.substack.com
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Again, you cannot pay for the externalities by pulling subsidies (there is nothing there to pull
Do subsidies make meat much cheaper?hannahritchie.substack.com
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Removing subsidies would raise meat prices a little, but only by cents to tens of cents per kilogram.
Do subsidies make meat much cheaper?hannahritchie.substack.com
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Meat: How the Next Agricultural Revolution Will Transform Humanity’s Favorite Food—and Our FutureTheir words
If you’re interested in the environmental impacts of our current food system and want to dig into the opportunities for meat-like products without the animals (and their impacts), I really recommend it.
From one piece JL Goes International, and to ETFs…… Oh my! 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The United States' share of global GDP and equity markets will keep shrinking, and that decline is accelerating.Their words
For these reasons, I see that declining trend of the US share of the world economy described above accelerating.
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Tariffs are likely to become inflationary once companies can no longer absorb the added costs.Their words
These tariffs are also likely to be very inflationary once companies are no longer willing or/and able to absorb them.
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Tariffs, and especially the erratic implementation of them, are teaching our allies and enemies alike that the US is no longer a reliable trading partner.
From one piece Is the craft dead? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I think that there will be lots of work for us cleaning up after the slop, but if you know what you're doing AI augmented development is going to get you some amazing results
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Craftsmanship, taste, and human judgment remain valuable in software development despite AI-assisted coding tools.Their words
There is value in good taste, there is value in craftsmanship, and there is value in human judgment.
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CrossOverTheir words
CrossOver - to run Windows App on Mac (it's a paid product).
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SquooshTheir words
Squoosh - Image compression
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PlausibleTheir words
Plausible - For ethical analytics
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NetlifyTheir words
Netlify - To preview my pull requests
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Xbox Elite Controller Series 2Their words
For other games, I rely on xCloud (Xbox's cloud gaming platform) Xbox Elite Controller Series 2 is my controller.
8 February
From one piece Eight more months of agents 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The best software design for an AI agent to use is the same as the best design for a human programmer.Their words
the best software for an agent is whatever is best for a programmer.
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Most current software and ways of solving problems are structured the wrong way for the agent era.Their words
Most software is the wrong shape now. Most of the ways we try to solve problems are the wrong shape.
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Local AI models will eventually catch up to frontier models once frontier progress hits diminishing returns.Their words
At some point frontier models will face diminishing returns, local models will catch up, and we will be done being beholden to frontier models.
7 February
6 February
From one piece Why I joined OpenAI 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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eBPF, Ftrace, and hardware performance counters are proven tools for finding datacenter performance wins.Their words
given those technologies are proven for finding datacenter performance wins, it seems likely
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I've realized that performance engineering as we know it may not be enough - I'm thinking of new engineering methods so that we can find bigger optimizations than we have before, and find them faster.
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AI datacenter growth makes performance engineering critical for saving the planet, not just cutting costs.Their words
The staggering and fast-growing cost of AI datacenters is a call for performance engineering like no other in history; it's not just about saving costs - it's about saving the planet.
5 February
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Immediately cease trying to perform meaningful work via a chatbot (e.g. ChatGPT, Gemini on the web, etc.). Chatbots have real value and are a daily part of my AI workflow, but their utility in coding is highly limited because you're mostly hoping they come up with the right results based on their prior training, and correcting them involves a human (you) to tell them they're wrong repeatedly.
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AmpTheir words
I particularly like to combine this with slower, more thoughtful models like Amp's deep mode (which is basically just GPT-5.2-Codex) which can take upwards of 30+ minutes to make small changes. The flip side of that is that it does tend to produce very good results.
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GitHub CLITheir words
Agents are good at using gh (GitHub CLI), so I manually scripted a quick way to spin up a bunch in parallel to triage issues.
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GeminiTheir words
The command palette that ships for macOS in Ghostty today is only very lightly modified from what Gemini produced for me in seconds.
4 February
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Hospital at the End of the WorldTheir words
Hospital at the End of the World is Key's first novel, and it's terrific.
From one piece The danger of glamourizing one shots 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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As high-level programming cedes way to the prose compiler, making your goals and specs well understood to the ambiguity loop and showing good judgment is going to matter more than ever.
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Programming is essentially the craft of turning ambiguous ideas into precise, specific instructions.Their words
It's not trivial to one shot something unique, because programming is the art of making the ambiguous incredibly specific through sculpting.
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People should not be judging AI-augmented coding by "1 shots."
3 February
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NVIDIA GeForce NOWTheir words
Anyway, I've been very impressed with NVIDIA GeForce NOW.
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MoonlightTheir words
The Moonlight client is available for virtually every platform: Mac, iOS, Android, and of course Linux. That means no need to dual boot to enjoy the best games at the highest fidelity.
From one piece Gear Post 2026 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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You still have to have to fight against the Apple blue-bubble brainwashing, but once you do you'll never go back.
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I believe this is the watch great watchmakers would make today, given that back in the 1800s they were using all available technology.
From one piece The Architecture Of Ideas 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The purpose of a creative work environment is to produce ideas that would not otherwise have occurred to you.Their words
At the most elemental level, that is the goal of a creative work environment: it should help you have ideas that would have never occurred to you.
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Their words
standard word processors are actually comically unsuited for complex, long-form thinking
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The Universe BoxTheir words
This is what it means to read a short story collection from an absolute master at the absolute peak of his powers. He can slide you frictionlessly between Icelandic troll tragedies to lethal drone-leopard romantic agonies to battles of the gods and the cigar box that has the universe inside of it. All with the lyricism of Bradbury, the madcap wit of Sturgeon, the unrelenting weirdness of Dick, the heart of Tiptree and the precision of Chiang.
2 February
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Spending money does not generate happiness.Their words
there is no research that suggests spending money generates happiness.
1 February
31 January
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SafariTheir words
I like all the benefits I get from using Safari because it’s so baked into the other applications I use.
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DiaTheir words
However, I frequently run the Dia browser these days when I need a Chrome-based browser.
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Lovedrcmnd.app
ClaudeTheir words
That said, the last six months I’ve been primarily using Claude. I’ve been really happy with it.
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Field NotesTheir words
I’m using my collection of Field Notes more aggressively than ever. I carry them in my pocket.
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PlotterTheir words
Also, for several years now, I’ve been using Plotter stationery. I’m still loving it.
30 January
29 January
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AmourTheir words
If I was put on the spot to name the greatest movie of the 21st century, I would probably say Michael Hanneke's Amour, an achingly moving, relentlessly unpleasant portrait of an elderly couple sinking into illness and senescence, forced into making the grimmest decisions possible.
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RanTheir words
Gun to my head, I might very well choose Akira Kurosawa's Ran for the best film of the 20th.
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No Country for Old MenTheir words
The Coens are typically considered to be at their best when they're cruel diagnosticians of American life - see their portentous, overstuffed, painfully self-impressed No Country for Old Men
From one piece How Until is Engineering Away Time in Organ Transplants | Laura Deming 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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but ice sort of forms through a process of random nucleation and then extension. And this is cool because you can uh modulate the like sort of nucleation the rate of nucleation and extension to then modulate the probability of ice formation.
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but I think that the thing that a lot of people will face is just like this question of like is it worth you know traveling so far to give up my current social context and that will put a limit on like how much people want to use this for
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But right now like there's no way to press pause on their biological time. So like what if you had an ambulance of the future, right? Like what if you could take someone who is on their deathbed and um you know find some way to you know just sort of hibernate them basically until um the sort of critical cure for their disease comes online.
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I think longevity is interesting because it feels like an area where there's a social blind spot around something and I find those very interesting.
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Aging is neglected not for technical reasons but because it is not yet socially classified as a disease.Their words
I think longevity and aging kind of occupy this weird realm where because they're not like explicitly diseases in a way that's fully socially recognized yet they're not seen as valid to work on but like that's not really for I think technical reasons on some level it's more for like classification reasons
27 January
26 January
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The NutcrackerTheir words
So too do we own a 1988 edition of The Nutcracker that has become a favorite read beyond its season.
25 January
From one piece The surprising advice from a founder who built 2 unicorns | Jason Cohen (WP Engine) 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Asking a leaving customer what made them cancel, rather than why they cancelled, gets materially better answers.Their words
What you want to do is say what made you cancel? In other words, what about the product or situation or whatever caused the cancellation? Just phrasing it that way, you get much better results.
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Every subscription business has a hard ceiling on its size: new customers per month divided by the cancellation rate.Their words
So let's suppose you add 100 customers a month and you have 5% cancellation. So 100 divided by 5% is 2,000. So a company like that will never have more than 2,000 customers.
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Marketing grows only as fast as you can improve marketing. We all know that's quite hard actually. It's linear. It's hard to find new channels that aren't trivial. Like, it's hard. Of course, we're going to do it, but like it it's hard. Whereas, cancellations grow automatically as you grow, right? So, cancellations always overtake marketing for this reason.
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They actually had the budget and bought the stupid thing. Then they went through onboarding and invested their time etc etc. That is a crazy gauntlet that almost no one gets through.
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there's a there's a series of of questions that I ask to to diagnose why is growth slowing in this order because it's one of these things where the first one that's a problem, if you don't fix that, it doesn't matter if you fix one of the ones below.
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Jennifer WangTheir words
I only checked a handful of youtube reviewers, but my favorite is Jennifer Wang, who seemed properly autistic about clothing quality and understanding that there are multiple places on the pareto frontier one might choose to occupy
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ThredUpTheir words
ThredUp was amazing when it was in the "VC free money" stage, but their return policy tightened up and it's now merely okay.
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Outcome Rating Scale (ORS)Their words
The ORS is a brief, 4-item measure designed to assess areas of life functioning known to change as a result of therapeutic intervention. It takes less than one minute to complete and score.
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Session Rating Scale (SRS)Their words
The SRS is a brief, 4-item measure designed to assess the therapeutic alliance. It provides immediate feedback on the quality of the relationship and allows for course correction in real time.
24 January
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Their words
One good Yohji piece annihilates three seasons of hype drops.
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Yohji YamamotoTheir words
My favorite brand is Yohji Yamamoto
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Extreme CashmereTheir words
Extreme Cashmere — Dutch brand making oversized, genderless cashmere knits. Their pieces are numbered instead of named.
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Milbon Curl MousseTheir words
Milbon Curl Mousse keeps curls hydrated and defined.
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Muji storageTheir words
Muji storage for organization.
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USM Haller storageTheir words
USM Haller storage — long-term investment worth saving for.
23 January
From one piece Email triage with an embedding-based classifier 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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A personalized classifier needs several hundred labeled examples before its predictions become reliable.Their words
Predictions were poor until I got to over 250 samples in the training set.
Email triage with an embedding-based classifieradamwiggins.com
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Open-source text embedding models run well enough on consumer hardware to be practical for real tasks.Their words
Local / open text embedding models work fine on consumer hardware.
Email triage with an embedding-based classifieradamwiggins.com
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It's a good example of how user preferences are much more subtle than broad heuristics like "all receipts go to FYI."
Email triage with an embedding-based classifieradamwiggins.com
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Suffering is not an interruption of a good life but the ground the good things grow out of.Their words
Suffering is the essential and nourishing ground from which all the delightful gifts of life emerge.
22 January
From one piece Alignment is not solved 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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In fact, making an evil version of Claude that’s just as smart and agentic would be pretty easy.
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Recursive self-improvement has already started, because AI research itself is now being automated.Their words
We are starting to automate AI research and the recursive self-improvement process has begun.
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But the goal we need to achieve is so much easier: we just need to build a model that’s as good as us at alignment research, and that we trust more than ourselves to do this research well because it’s sufficiently aligned.
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Simple training interventions turned out to be very effective at steering models towards aligned behaviour.Their words
But the most important lesson is that simple interventions are very effective at steering the model towards more aligned behavior.
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This is the hard problem of alignment we need to solve in order to succeed at building superintelligence, and to this day it is an unsolved problem.
From one piece Can ICE Enter a Home To Make an Arrest With Only an Administrative Warrant? 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Back when the Fourth Amendment was enacted, the most fundamental remedy for an unlawful government entry into your home was a civil suit for trespass against the officers.
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Even if the policy is unconstitutional, as it seems to be, a person who is illegally searched probably can't sue ICE for violating their constitutional rights.
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Given the focus in Coolidge, Shadwick, and Payton on the fundamental role of warrants in inserting a judicial check on the executive, it seems out of place to say that this can be satisfied by the executive checking itself.
21 January
From one piece Bryan's Protocol 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Habits and not expensive, exotic therapies.
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Health should be a person's top life priority, above the things they currently rank ahead of it.Their words
In fact, I want to be the strongest voice in your mind encouraging you to make health your top life priority.
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The single most effective free thing anyone can do for their health is to lower their resting heart rate before bed.Their words
After spending years working on health, lowering your resting heart rate (RHR) before bed is the single most effective thing you can do for your health.
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Sleep – high quality sleep is the world’s #1 longevity drug.
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We might be the first generation that doesn’t die.
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simplelabTheir words
I use simplelab to test the water.
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Blueprint Longevity MixTheir words
These are in the Blueprint stack including Essential Capsules and Longevity Mix
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Blueprint Peptide SerumTheir words
The Blueprint system combines a water-based, residue-free, peptide serum and shampoo.
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SomnoDent Bruxism DeviceTheir words
If you have Bruxism, I strongly encourage you to address it. A dentist on Blueprint recommended the SomnoDent Bruxism Device , and for the first time in my life, my Bruxism has stopped.
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f.luxTheir words
Use red and amber lights in the evening . Bluelight is bad for sleep. You can get blue light blocking apps (f.lux), glasses and also turn red mode on your phone.
20 January
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Emotion decides. Facts rationalize. You'll find whatever truth is useful.
19 January
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But with today's AI coding agents, building software is remarkably easy. So instead of handing over static assets and static guidelines, designers can deliver custom software. Tools that let clients create their own on-brand assets whenever they need them.
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Floating-point printing and parsing algorithms are converging toward an optimal solution.Their words
Given the simplicity and speed of the algorithms in this post and the increasingly small deltas between successive algorithms, perhaps we are nearing an optimal solution.
18 January
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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)
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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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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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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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.
16 January
15 January
From one piece The Launch of AVERI 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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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.
From one piece Podcast: На Маке нет никаких шкафов @ Думаем дальше 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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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.
14 January
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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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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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.
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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
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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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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).
13 January
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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).
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There's never in history been a better time for remote jobs or being an entrepreneur.
12 January
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