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29 April
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korrents.com
iOS should let users rebuild a corrupted Spotlight index themselves, the way macOS doesTheir words
On the Mac, there is a simple procedure to rebuild the Spotlight index. This same affordance is not available on iOS.
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Dislikedrcmnd.app
Spotlight (iOS)Their words
This bug affected the App Library, Mail, Notes, Messages, Settings, and more. Having a device that couldn’t find things was crippling.
From one piece How Anger Shows Up in Anxious Attachment, and What the Work Is 2 beliefs · juliemenanno.substack.com
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korrents.com
Underneath the anger of anxious attachment is unresolved grief about not having been responded to.Their words
Underneath anger is sadness over all your cumulative experiences in life of not being responded to, past and present. The sadness around powerlessness. Unresolved grief.
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When you get angry fast, it usually is not because you are "too much." It is often because your nervous system learned to live on alert.
28 April
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korrents.com
The point of a grueling long-distance hike is to endure hardship, not to enjoy the scenery.Their words
The whole point of the AT, as far as I could tell, was to endure hardship, and I was about to quit before the first rainy hike and the tallest mountain.
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GitHubTheir words
I love GitHub more than a person should love a thing, and I'm mad at it.
27 April
From one piece A (shorter) Three Horizons Framework for Government Reform 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Their words
The forty-page PDF used to feel intolerable. The well-designed web form will start to feel that way too, and faster than the last transition did.
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korrents.com
AI is raising the baseline of what counts as acceptable public service, not just disrupting government from outside.Their words
AI is not only an exogenous shock that government will have to absorb. It is also moving the bar on what counts as acceptable service in the first place.
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Extending the lifespan of a brittle system just means the system eventually fails more spectacularly.
26 April
From one piece How to win when software is not a moat | Evan Spiegel (Snapchat CEO) 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
A platform of creators and developers is a durable moat, because an ecosystem, unlike a feature, cannot be cloned.Their words
the more that we could build a platform uh around our business, the more that we could build an ecosystem with creators and developers, the harder it would be for folks uh to to just copy that.
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korrents.com
Software is not a moat, and the AI industry is only now discovering what Snap learned fifteen years ago.Their words
15 years ago we essentially learned that software is not a moat, right? Which is something that everyone is discovering today with AI, right?
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as we look forward to, you know, sort of these next generation form factors, things like glasses, there's going to be a whole new set of opportunities and a whole new surface for people to build generational consumer companies.
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what really mattered was connecting you to the right people. And so, if you could just connect someone not to all their friends, but to their best friend, to their partner, to their spouse, the people that they cared most about in the world, that that that's where the majority of the value is in the network.
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And I think people don't spend nearly enough time thinking about, you know, distribution and figuring out distribution. And that seems to me uh to be a huge differentiator.
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korrents.com
AI coding assistance now lets a programmer complete in a day work that used to take weeks.Their words
Though now that I can accomplish ~3 weeks of old-way work in a new-way day, this sort of project becomes that much easier to start and finish.
25 April
From one piece Practice Nothing, the most profound of all practices 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
A well-functioning contemplative practice should feel like an engaging encounter with mystery rather than a chore.Their words
But it ought to feel good-like an engaging encounter with the mystery of being, not like a chore.
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Having a fulfilling Nothing practice requires an equal embrace of all present sensation.
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Nothing practice is psychologically thorough: all of your stuff will come up, in an order not determined by you.
From one piece in which more paths are charted towards code independence 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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As the software industry is largely driven by trends and fashion, React's "cool factor" led to a mass amnesia regarding how to make normal, well-designed web apps made of HTML with a sprinkling of scripting on top and everything became one big tangled, brittle mass of Javascript that completely keeled over when scripting wasn't available.
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korrents.com
Dominant companies shape not just their users' choices but the imagination of people actively trying to resist them.Their words
When a company dominates the market, they capture not only their own users but even the imaginations of people actively resisting them.
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We shouldn't replace Github with one site at all; we need the strength and resilience that only comes with diversity
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Inventing the RenaissanceTheir words
Ada Palmer may just be the most bewilderingly talented person I know: a genius sf writer, incredible librettist and singer, wildly innovative educator, and a leading historian of the Renaissance, and last year, she published her magnum opus, Inventing the Renaissance, a stunning book about so much more than history
From one piece My brave new code-signing world 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The most popular use case is code-signing with self-signed certificates, but that actually makes everything worse.
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korrents.com
How easily an AI agent navigates a UI is objective evidence of how well- or poorly-designed that UI is.Their words
the AI breezes through the GitHub UI, but struggles through the Azure portal - objective evidence of how awful it is.
From one piece My Best Idea: Decision Markets 2 beliefs · overcomingbias.com
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korrents.com
The world is shaped by how consistently incompetent governance is, and competent governance would remake itTheir words
As an econ professor who specialized in governance, I can assure you that the world is greatly structured by the fact that we typically have pretty incompetent governance.
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korrents.com
Decision markets are the idea of mine with the biggest expected impact, though not the deepestTheir words
It’s not my deepest, grandest, beautiful, or hardest won insight, just the one with the biggest expected impact.
24 April
From one piece You should try contra dancing 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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It's pretty common for people to use contra as a gateway into more difficult forms of dance.
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korrents.com
Most forms of dance require weeks of lessons before newcomers are welcomed to dance socially.Their words
Many other forms of dance require weeks of lessons before you're even encouraged to do it socially at all.
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The default mood of a lot of spaces is a sort of ironic detachment.
From one piece Why would ChatGPT "confess" to a crime it didn't commit? 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Canada and much of Europe have adopted different interrogation techniques — such as the PEACE method — which emphasize collecting reliable information over coercion. These approaches still garner confessions; they’re just more reliable.
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korrents.com
A confession stops the investigation that would have cleared the innocent person who gave it.Their words
A confession, though, will sometimes preclude police from doing the very sort of investigation that would prove the confessor’s innocence.
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korrents.com
The dominant American police interrogation method is good at producing confessions and bad at producing true ones.Their words
The Reid technique works at getting confessions. But it’s less successful at getting accurate ones.
23 April
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Construction costs tend to rise at, or above, the level of overall inflation, and it rarely (if ever) gets cheaper to build houses, offices, or other buildings.
From one piece On Monetization 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
Putting a price on creative expression makes it suffer, while giving it away freely lets it thrive.Their words
I know my work will suffer if I put a price on creative expression that is as sloppy and homespun as spaghetti, and I know it will thrive if I give it generously and get messy while making it.
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the economy now asks every creative person to essentially become a small media company, which is a very specific skill set that has nothing to do with why most of us started making things in the first place
22 April
From one piece Designing Data-intensive Applications with Martin Kleppmann 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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You're building higher-level business logic, actually I think it's just fine for people not to care about memory management.
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And now suddenly people are building databases on top of object stores, for example. And now the replication happens at the object store level, no longer at the database level.
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generally, like you just want the the cost and the computing capacity to be roughly proportional to the load that you have. And at the low end, that means actually being able to scale down to something that is extremely cheap to run.
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korrents.com
Scalability is not a property a system has; it is the set of mechanisms it has for coping with a change in load.Their words
Scalability is just like what mechanisms we have for dealing with changes in load. If load increases, how can we add computing capacity to a system, for example, so that the system still continues working?
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for me, reliability means fault tolerance primarily. So, meaning that a system should, on the whole, continue working even if like a network link is interrupted or a node crashes or something like that.
From one piece I am building a cloud 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
VMs are the wrong cloud abstraction because they bundle CPU and memory into fixed-size units.Their words
VMs are the wrong shape because they are tied to CPU/memory resources.
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Agents, by making it easiest to write code, means there will be a lot more software.
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You cannot solve the fundamental problems with cloud abstractions by building new abstractions on top.
From one piece Borrow-checking without type-checking 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Ensuring that moving, borrowing, and sharing don't break the illusion is surprisingly easy to do with a static type system, and surprisingly hard to do with a dynamic type system, or at least hard to do cheaply.
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The dynamic type system provides flexibility and easy meta-programming, while the static type system removes the overhead in most of your code.
From one piece What you can do in a decade 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
A single year tends to look much like the one before it, but a decade can change everything about a person's life.Their words
In one year you'll probably mostly be thinking and doing what you think you'll be doing in a year today. In a decade, EVERYTHING can change.
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The only lasting path to satisfaction, happiness, skin in the game, maximizing learning, is to really study everybody's game, define your own, and then play it to the best of your ability.
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Their words
the world is run by people no smarter than you - and even people that genuinely mean well, end up only prescribing games that you don't want to win.
21 April
20 April
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Lovedrcmnd.app
The Lean StartupTheir words
Eric Ries wrote The Lean Startup in 2011 and changed how a generation of founders thought about building companies.
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Recommendsrcmnd.app
IncorruptibleTheir words
The Lean Startup helps you build a valuable company. Incorruptible is about how and why to protect it, keeping a company mission-driven over the long term instead of letting it rot from the inside.
19 April
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Their words
There will be negative second-order effects of almost every widely distributed technology.
18 April
17 April
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Lovedrcmnd.app
For a New LibertyTheir words
In all honesty, I think that these are the best eight pages of economics I’ve ever read.
16 April
From one piece Build to Learn vs Build to Earn 2 beliefs · svpg.com
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korrents.com
The real bottleneck in product work is discovering a solution worth building, not building it.Their words
Now, it’s clear that the real bottleneck is in discovering a solution that’s worth building.
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korrents.com
Cheap delivery turned the roadmap-of-features model into a feature factory that produces bad products faster.Their words
Much of the product world now recognizes the project model as a turbo-charged feature factory, capable of producing more bad products, faster, than ever before.
15 April
From one piece Jensen Huang – Will Nvidia’s moat persist? 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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And so none of that my point is that none of the bottlenecks last longer than a couple 2 three years. None of them.
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korrents.com
The doomers said radiology would be the first career to go; a decade later the world is short of radiologists.Their words
You know, radiology is is going to be the first career to go. Nobody's the world's not going to need any more radiologists. Guess what? But we're short of radiologists.
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Now why are they willing to make the investments for me and not someone else and the reason for that is because they know that I have the capacity to buy it buy their supply and sell it through my downstream.
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korrents.com
AI will not commoditise software tools; it will multiply them, because every new agent is another tool user.Their words
I actually see the opposite of what people see I think the number of agents are going to grow exponentially. The number of tool users are going to grow exponentially and it's very likely that the number of instances of all these tools are going to skyrocket.
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my mental model of our company the input is electron the output is tokens that is in the middle Nvidia and our job is to to do as much as necessary as little as possible to enable that transformation to be done at incredible capabilities
From one piece Church Planting: Lessons from the Comments 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Creative destruction is even more built into evangelism than I thought.
Church Planting: Lessons from the Commentsacesounderglass.com
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The link between venture capital and evangelical Christianity was closer than I thought. They're not just analogous; they deliberately cross-pollinate.
Church Planting: Lessons from the Commentsacesounderglass.com
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But without the handoff, everyone builds. And that makes all the difference.
14 April
From one piece How to Spot a World-Class Designer 2 beliefs · lg.substack.com
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Excellence in design is not just about craft quality. It is about whether a designer is both willing and allowed to create impact.
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korrents.com
Okay design improves what is put in front of it; excellent design changes what is possible.Their words
Okay design improves what is put in front of it. Excellent design changes what is possible.
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Pirate WiresTheir words
Yesterday, I spoke with Mike Solana of the excellent newsletter Pirate Wires, one of the best places anywhere to find some truly heterodox takes about the relationship between tech and politics.
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Self-driving cars seem to be just more cars, and people who dislike cars don't love that. But the electric robotaxi offers much more potential
13 April
From one piece 🌻 AI populism's warning shots 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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That's why I don't think accelerationist steamrolling will work. The only way this conflict resolves peacefully is some kind of grand bargain: a flagship policy plan that directly addresses the public's top fears about AI and meaningfully redistributes the gains.
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Backlash is also the inevitable consequence of AGI-pilling the nation.
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From now until forever, most people regulating, protesting, and talking about AI will not be interested in AI per se, but rather how it impacts their preexisting belief systems and political agendas.
From one piece What Is Second Language Acquisition? 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
The practical instruction that follows from the research is simple and hard to do: listen and read a great deal.Their words
The practical takeaway from SLA research is both simple and demanding: you need to listen and read a lot.
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Most people hear that story and think: he must have lacked talent, or commitment. I don’t think that’s the right conclusion. I think he was never taught how second language acquisition actually works, and so he spent hundreds of hours doing the wrong things.
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Classroom activities like grammar drills and vocabulary tests feel productive. You are doing something. But none of it builds the network your brain actually needs.
From one piece Integrated information theory: the good, the bad and the misunderstood (with 6 co-authors) 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Fifth, for IIT to fit with current successful theories in fundamental physics, a reformulation in terms of continuous fields would be needed.
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Fourth, so far only proxies for IIT measures have been computed, and not approximations.
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Second, we describe with nuance the distinct flavour of panpsychism implied by IIT - whereby space (and time) are tiled with substrates of (proto-) consciousness - and find this is not problematic for the theory.
12 April
11 April
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Likedrcmnd.app
Peace and WarTheir words
I am quoting Raymond Aron, who wrote a very important book published in the 1960s called Peace and War
From one piece 20 Years on AWS and Never Not My Job 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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exceptions are an inherently poor way of handling errors because they make it easier to write bugs which won't be immediately obvious on casual code inspection
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but I still think the model of Eventually Known Consistency is the better theoretical model even if it is harder for users to reason about.
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With requests going over TLS it is obviously less critical now, but end-to-end signing is always going to be better than transport-layer security.
10 April
9 April
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TLDR the people in these two groups are speaking past each other.
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Likedrcmnd.app
OpenAI CodexTheir words
these free and old/deprecated models don't reflect the capability in the latest round of state of the art agentic models of this year, especially OpenAI Codex and Claude Code.
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Likedrcmnd.app
Claude CodeTheir words
these free and old/deprecated models don't reflect the capability in the latest round of state of the art agentic models of this year, especially OpenAI Codex and Claude Code.
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Privacy's DefenderTheir words
This book is a beautiful capstone to a brilliant career that defined the fight for cyber rights, and a deep, accessible dive into the defining tech and human rights battles of this century.
8 April
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Their words, before
I know this from experience because I've been trying to build a lot of other businesses since. And some of them have been moderate successes, even good successes, none of them have been Basecamp. It's really difficult to do that twice.
Their words now
And I have no shame in saying that Base Camp was the best idea objectively in terms of a business that we've ever had.
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But I have come to realize that as a web developer, Linux is just better. Linux is just better. It's closer to what I deploy on. The tooling is actually phenomenal.
Their words now
anyone who's working with the web, who's working with Ruby, who's doing DevOps, they should be on Linux because first of all, that's closer to what we deploy.
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Mojito Island is a mirage. It always was. There is no retirement for ambitious people. There is no just sitting back on the beach and sipping a mojito for what? For two weeks before you go damn crazy and wanna get back into the action?
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I think that's the other big misconception that some people have about wealth is that they conceive of it as some sort of checkpoint. Like once you've made it, then you can just kick back in leisure as though that was happiness.
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It may no longer have as much economic value as it once did. I think that I'm quite convinced is true that we perhaps have seen the peak.
Their words now
So, I do think it is correct for the average programmer to think maybe we've seen the best of the golden days.
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Their words, before
The joy of a programmer, of me as a programmer, is to type the code myself. If I elevate myself, if I promote myself out of programming, I turn myself into a project manager. A project manager of a murder of AI crows as I wrote the other day.
Their words now
I have been hyper accelerated as a programmer. It's a different kind of programmer, but it still has the same affinity to aesthetics, at least when I'm producing Ruby code.
7 April
From one piece Martin Fowler & Kent Beck: Frameworks for reinventing software, again and again 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Yeah, AI is an amplifier. And if uh if you're young and learning quickly, AI is going to amplify that or can amplify that. So, I I personally think this is this is the golden age of the junior programmer.
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That's a You know, people want the answer, and the answer is changing. So, you can't possibly in this environment have the answer. Now, that's the bad news. The good news is nobody else has the answer either. So, you're just as smart as everybody else because you're just as ignorant as everybody else.
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Yeah, what what's the smallest experiment I can run to verify to my own satisfaction and everybody's level of satisfaction is going to be different whether or not this claim is true. That's That's the skill that is suddenly in the last year become a thousand times more valuable is that skill of saying, "What's the least I can do to validate for my to my own satisfaction whether this claim is true?
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So, as seniors, I figure it behooves us to demonstrate not just how to use these tools effectively, but how to figure out how to use these tools effectively, cuz that's a whole different set of skills.
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And one of the things I noticed is for 25 years we've kind of had the answers. Somebody comes to us and says we have too many bugs or like, all right, well, here's how you write tests. Oh, I can't write tests. Well, here's how you design so you can write tests. It's just kind of press play uh on the recorder. And the thing that's changed is at this moment nobody knows the answers to anything.
From one piece Michael Nielsen – Why aliens will have a different tech stack than us 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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and in some sense Darwin's genius wasn't in having that idea. It was understanding just how central it was uh to to to biology.
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the point is that where we always get bottlenecked is where the the previous processes and and and heuristics don't apply. Right? Like that's almost sort of definitionally what causes the bottlenecks.
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And like, this idea that people have that that that Newton was um sort of the the first modern scientist is is somehow wrong. He I mean, it's there's some truth to it, but he really had this very different way um of of looking at the world that was part sort of superstitious um and part modern. It was a funny hybrid.
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And so, you have what seem like three very different disconnected phenomena all being explained by this one set of ideas.
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his expertise seems to be getting in the way. He knows so much, he understands so much, um and then he's not able to let go of these these things.
From one piece Martin Fowler & Kent Beck: Frameworks for reinventing software, again and again 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Um I think another similarity is I mean, the core notions uh behind Agile and extreme programming are solid and good, but a huge snake oil industry appeared around it, the Agile industrial complex as I like to refer to it. Um and that will happen. That is happening with AI right now, and it's often hard to see the difference between where is the snake oil and where is the real stuff.
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one of the things that I took from that was to use this tool well, you have to learn how to use it well, which was also something very true of object orientation.
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My skepticism has to be absolute and total, which means I have to be skeptical about my skepticism. And that requires that curiosity.
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but the thing about AI is that, you know, all of many of these things we were talking about how important they were and how valuable were and trying to persuade people of the importance of them. Yes, even the internet. That may sound surprising, but there were people who would weren't thinking that was important. Um but AI, there's kind of no argument about how important it is. People can't can I mean, you cannot put blinkers on to deny the importance of this thing.
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Well, nothing has hit with the magnitude of AI. That's I mean, this is a a whole size difference from anything that we've faced before.
From one piece 0058: borrow-checking surprises, books, links 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Libertarians always want to let industries regulate themselves, arguing that if they do harmful things then the market will respond. But the market will only notice immediate, severe harm.
0058: borrow-checking surprises, books, linksscattered-thoughts.net
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korrents.com
Ultra-processed foods have epidemiological evidence of harm comparable to what existed for smoking.Their words
There's strong epidemiological evidence associating ultra-processed foods with a range of negative health outcomes, at least on par with the evidence we had for smoking.
0058: borrow-checking surprises, books, linksscattered-thoughts.net
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korrents.com
Formalizing math is a translation task, so AI will boost top mathematicians' productivity more than top writers'.Their words
I expect AI to increase productivity of top mathematicians much more than that of top writers, because formalization is a kind of translation task, it doesn't require much judgement, and as long as it compiles noone needs to read the result.
0058: borrow-checking surprises, books, linksscattered-thoughts.net
From one piece dcmake: a new CMake debugger UI 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
Frontier AI models still cannot handle certain deep technical implementation details without human guidanceTheir words
This took some special care, in particular avoiding any C++ standard library I/O functionality. Current frontier AI cannot handle this detail on their own.
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korrents.com
AI tools are now highly effective at generating UI code from a rough natural-language descriptionTheir words
This is just one of many situations I've used AI the past month for UI development, and it's been shockingly effective.
From one piece Should Designers "Code"? 2 beliefs · lukew.com
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For years, it was faster to mock up software than to ship it. Designers stayed "ahead" of engineering with prototypes. Now AI coding agents make development so much faster that the loop has flipped.
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There's a question that never goes away in design: should designers code? My answer has always been yes. But for a decade or so, the complexity of front-end development made it impractical for most. Thankfully, AI coding agents have reopened the door.
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Principles for Dealing with the Changing World OrderTheir words
Many of the indicators I use to track unfolding events are explained in Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order. I especially recommend Chapter 6, “The Big Cycle of External Order and Disorder,” and, if you are interested in the unimaginable-in-peacetime investment-related developments that typically happen during wars, I recommend Chapter 7, “Investing in Light of the Big Cycle.”
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This book is so full of wisdom and insight. I pulled down my copy just now and it's filled with underlines and margin notes.
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Lovedrcmnd.app
The Power of MythTheir words
I discovered Campbell's work during that great transitional period of my life (in my early 30s, when I left the wrong career and the wrong relationship, and set sail into the unknown) and it has been a mainstay ever since.
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Gone: A Girl, A Violin, a Life UnstrungTheir words
This is one of the most extraordinary memoirs I've ever read.
6 April
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Dell XPS (Panther Lake)Their words
Give the new Dell XPS series, or any of the other laptops shipping with Panther Lake, a try. I think you'll be as impressed as I've been.
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Intel Panther LakeTheir words
Intel really delivered with Panther Lake.
From one piece Surprises of Motherhood 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I don't think the continuation of the species is some niche, selfish lifestyle choice, nor do I think people without children should have to constantly absorb the consequences of a structure that isn't helping either of us.
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Whenever humans experience situations where we are closer to our animal selves than usual (needing to use the bathroom, having periods, giving birth, raising a baby, being sick), we usually behave as animals do: instinctively, urgently, and impolitely.
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I no longer think the problem is individual behavior so much as structural failure: a world with so little margin, tenderness, or infrastructural mercy that people are forced into constant friction.
From one piece The term “AGI” is almost useless at this point 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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This makes it likely that there could be big gaps between when different definitions of AGI are fulfilled.
The term “AGI” is almost useless at this pointhelentoner.substack.com
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Today’s best AI systems are good enough that they’re now inside the fuzzy conceptual cloud of “AGI-ish”: that is, they’ve surpassed some people’s definitions of AGI, while falling well short of others’.
The term “AGI” is almost useless at this pointhelentoner.substack.com
5 April
4 April
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Something I've been thinking about - I am bullish on people (empowered by AI) increasing the visibility, legibility and accountability of their governments.
3 April
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The Mind of South Africa: The Story of the Rise and Fall of ApartheidTheir words
Definitely recommended, written at the very end of the apartheid era which gives it yet another angle of interest.
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Likedrcmnd.app
The Bomb: South Africa's Nuclear Weapons ProgrammeTheir words
I had been looking for a book on this topic for a long time, and finally I found the right one in a South African bookshop.
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Lovedrcmnd.app
The Four Heavens: A New History of the Ancient MayaTheir words
We keep on learning lots about the Maya, and this is the best book to follow what has been going on.
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Exit Stalin: The Soviet Union as a Civilization 1953-1991Their words
This one is well written, broad in scope, and yet rich in detail, treating the covered era as a living, breathing time in human history.
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A very useful book about the history of proving math theorems by computer.
From one piece The Increasing Risk of Building in Public 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Deep, relationship-based customer moats remain something AI coding tools cannot replicate for a competitor.Their words
No agentic coding tool is going to replicate that for your competitor.
The Increasing Risk of Building in Publicthebootstrappedfounder.com
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the likelihood of inspiring someone to build a competitor was too high, and the return on sharing was too low to justify the exposure. That threshold has effectively collapsed to zero.
The Increasing Risk of Building in Publicthebootstrappedfounder.com
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But here's what I know for certain: product isn't a moat. Software engineering capability isn't a moat. Not anymore.
The Increasing Risk of Building in Publicthebootstrappedfounder.com
From one piece The Legible Society 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Writing originated from flattening physical accounting tokens into two-dimensional signs pressed into clay.Their words
By transforming a physical, three-dimensional counter into a two-dimensional sign, these early accountants made a momentous step towards history's inaugural information technology: writing.
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Root crops resist state taxation better than grain because they can be harvested piecemeal and stored underground.Their words
Even other domesticated foods like root crops and tubers proved remarkably resistant to the tax collector, because they grow underground and can safely be left in the soil for months, even years.
2 April
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BubblewrapTheir words
Sandboxing To keep my LLMs in check, I do most of my LLM usage from inside of a sandbox. I use bubblewrap for this.
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SearXNGTheir words
I gave pi a skill for using the search engine SearXNG (which aggregates many search engines together at the same time), and one for calling into a daemon that I wrote that gives it access to read my email and Signal messages, and send-to-self, and send to others only with human confirmation.
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piTheir words
The verdict: pi plus a basic searxng skill outperformed Local Deep Research. Also, pi is just much more configurable: I can easily just tell it to use not just internet searches, but also my own world_knowledge directory.
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Local Deep ResearchTheir words
Its responses are, in my view, pretty bland and not very high-quality. I did a side-by-side test of asking Local Deep Research a question, then asking pi the same question (telling it to use searxng to make as many internet searches as needed), and I fed both outputs into an LLM to ask which is better.
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NVIDIA DGX SparkTheir words
I was not impressed with the DGX Spark; it's described as an "AI supercomputer on your desk" but in reality it has lower tokens/sec than a good laptop GPU - and on top of that, you have to figure out the networking details of how to connect to it from your actual work device etc.
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?
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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 🌻 why LLMs are bad writers but good editors 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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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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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
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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 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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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) 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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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.
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 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
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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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MemberfulTheir words
I don't use Patreon or Substack, I built my own platform atop Memberful.
28 February
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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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
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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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