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28 May
From one piece Slop Readers 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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There's little point trying to avoid LLMisms as a human, the readers who'll latch onto that don't care what you're saying anyway.
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The prerequisite to good writing is having something you want to tell people about, which AI doesn't.
From one piece RIP Millennial lifestyle brands 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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So it's no wonder that the artists and designers whose livelihoods are threatened by it have begun moving aggressively in the opposite direction, toward the scrawled, the sloppy, the seemingly mistake-riddled.
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The globalization of generative AI models and tools has caused a kind of leveling, as any aspiring creator anywhere can work in the same visual idioms.
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"Slop" is fast becoming the central metaphor for the cultural output of the late twenty-twenties.
From one piece Prime Minister Carney delivers remarks at the Economic Club of New York, 28 May 2026 2 beliefs · pm.gc.ca
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We are advancing a potential pipeline that would carry at least one million barrels of low-emission Alberta oil per day to Asian markets, while creating a new industry of large-scale carbon capture and storage.
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Canada recognised these developments earlier than most, and our response reflects the core lesson we have taken from these tectonic shifts: We have to take care of ourselves and be true to ourselves.
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W.Steps Prime telescoping ladderTheir words
I pulled out my W.Steps Prime telescoping ladder test sample today, and realized that I've grown to really like it.
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RemCTLTheir words
Once you have RemCTL installed with various permissions granted, I recommend asking your agent of choice to install the skill in the repo for itself.
27 May
From one piece Building OpenCode with Dax Raad 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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the strategy that we know how to play really well is to pick one temporary bad guy and then galvanize all their competitors to push something forward against them.
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none of our competitors are crushing us either. Like no one out there is using AI so well that they just like we can't even compete, right? Um, and we're in the coding agent space. All our competitors are super into AI. So you would think in our space there would be like uh a huge gap, but there there just isn't.
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The moment you ship something, you're stuck supporting it forever. And by supporting, it means any future feature you build is going to like interact with it. So you still have to be very conservative with what you put out there. It's hard to undo anything. Just cuz we can ship 10 times more doesn't mean we have 10 times as many good ideas to ship out there.
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If you add that up, you think, "Oh, we shipped a thousand features. Now that adds it to a good product." It actually adds it to a horrible product.
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But I've always thought it's better to think a lot instead of swinging a lot. I think you could you can eliminate a lot of ideas or directions just by, you know, spending a lot of time in your head and with your team talking. Um, obviously AI doesn't speed that part up.
From one piece Time to take AI consciousness seriously 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Consciousness belongs only to simulations, not to the physical brains or computers running them.Their words
neither brains nor computers are conscious, as only simulations can be conscious.
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Pain and pleasure act as motivational backstops that keep reinforcement-learning agents inner-aligned.Their words
valences like pain and pleasure have a natural account as motivational backstops for inner-aligning RL agents capable of mesa-optimization
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I consider the case for frontier AI models having some form of consciousness or subjective experience to be quite strong.
From one piece Why I'm Skeptical About Efforts to Revolutionize Schooling 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Gamified learning is medicine wrapped in candy, and in practice children eat the candy and throw the medicine away.Their words
Gamified learning is a bit like wrapping medicine in candy. Yes, it may help some students swallow some instruction they otherwise find bitter, but in practice it’s easy to pull off the candy, consume it, and throw the medicine away.
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General problem solving abilities are neither learned nor taught. While some problem-solving methods have broader applicability than others (such as the scientific process of hypothesis testing), students learn these methods better when they’re explicitly taught rather than simply giving students projects and hoping they’ll reinvent them on their own.
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The boring truth is that expertise in most subjects is largely a matter of having an enormous library of knowledge and skill.
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To the extent that school becomes more like free play, project-building or acting like a scientist, it will probably be worse.
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Whenever two teaching methods are rigorously compared, strong direct instruction plus practice wins.Their words
In short, whenever we have high-quality evidence that rigorously compares two teaching methods, the research invariably favors strong, direct instruction plus practice
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I think it’s good that the system identified the mechanisms that it did, but I don’t think that the paper does enough to point out that none of these ideas are without precedent - in some cases, a lot of precedent.
From one piece BloombergNEF: The Great Clean Energy Acceleration 2.0 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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We are about to see the Great Clean Energy Acceleration 2.0 - a discontinuity in energy markets as profound as the oil shocks of the 1970s, and one that could bring forward the peak in fossil fuel use and emissions to this side of 2030.
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The Gulf conflict and closure of the Strait of Hormuz will accelerate the global shift away from fossil fuelsTheir words
What the current conflict in the Gulf - in particular the closure of the Strait of Hormuz - is going to do is to provide a further push to global attempts to reduce dependence on fossil fuels.
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Synergy Alpha Elite dumbbell rackTheir words
Summary: Shipping damage. Residue on some of the components. Loud pings and pops from the assembled weight rack. A design that looked great and saved space but was painfully unusable. Restocking fee. Non-refunded shipping fees. Ghosted me about the refund.
26 May
From one piece Who Audits the Auditors? 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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institutions don't fail because people are wicked. Evidence, incentives, discretion, and review rights might be flowing in the wrong direction.
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AI systems however don't need lunch meetings, careers, or envelopes of cash to have an analogous failure.
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audit independence is not a property of the model. It is a property of the system around the model.
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It just is marriage. Turkish fertility started falling super fast after 2013 because Turkish marriage rates started falling super fast after 2013.
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13 years ago, at the Wired 2013 event in London, I was asked when robotaxis would arrive there and as a joke, gave an answer of June 22, 2026 that turned out to be impossibly spot on.
25 May
From one piece Introducing BenchBench 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Considering every lab wants to "eat the world" the focus on how to work in real-world messy situations seems apt as their primary home.
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Designing a good AI benchmark has become a task only the most capable people can do well.Their words
Creating benchmarks is now a job relegated to the smartest and best of us.
24 May
From one piece AI predictions: Job markets, Codex beats Claude, and the death of org charts | Dan Shipper 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The CLI era of AI agents was a short detour — we made GUIs for a reason, and the work is moving back into one.Their words
And when you move into an actual UI for this, you start to realize um we made GUIs for a reason. And it's just nicer to be in a GUI.
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in order for an AI agent to be useful right now, it really needs a human who cares about it. It really needs it like a human personal connection with someone who's like watching what it does and make sure that it's doing the right thing and that it's useful for people.
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The workable model right now is one super agent for a whole company, not a personal agent for every person.Their words
And I have completely flipped. And I I really think that uh the the model for now is going to be a super agent, like one agent for the entire company.
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The second is that most of the work that you do is actually going to happen on your computer in an environment like Codex or Cloud Co-work that becomes the sort of operating system for it becomes the sort of operating system for how how you do all of your work, whether that's your email, the documents you create, like all that kind of stuff.
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Within about a year everyone will have at least one agent they talk to and offload work to.Their words
It's going to bifurcate in two main ways. One is everyone's going to have at least one agent that they talk to, that they can offload work to.
From one piece The Allure of Narcissistic Leaders and the Forgotten Joy of Being Ordinary 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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People gravitate toward arrogant leaders in uncertain times because they mistake swagger for strength and skill.Their words
People are more drawn to arrogant leaders in an uncertain world, because they mistake swagger for strength and skill.
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Wise people don't suppress emotion-they find constructive ways to express it.
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Emotion regulation is about choosing how to respond, not about controlling what one feels.Their words
Emotion regulation is not about controlling what you feel. It's about choosing how you respond.
23 May
22 May
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TermiusTheir words
this just works so well, I'm so fast, and each of my sites is just an open tab in Termius, I've never worked so structured and clean!
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tmuxTheir words
I click it and immediately I'm in my server and I get dropped in a tmux session that's always tied to the corresponding site I wanna log in to
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Claude CodeTheir words
It's just tabs for my sites, all on a VPS, synced with my iPhone via @TermiusHQ (unaffiliated) and usually with Claude Code open to fix or build new things
From one piece Impeach Todd Blanche 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Republican lawmakers have lost the party cohesion needed to shield a Trump ally from an impeachment trial.Their words
My guess is Republicans have lost the necessary cohesion to fall on Trump's sword and block a trial.
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A minority party can peel off enough opposition-party votes to pass impeachment articles despite being outnumbered.Their words
I think it's likely Democrats could peel off enough Republicans to actually pass an impeachment resolution against Blanche.
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How to Rule the WorldTheir words
I was entranced, horrified, and amused, often on the same page.
21 May
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Fight ClubTheir words
Fight Club: I liked it the first time years ago, but watching a second time when you already know the end reveal? Elevates it from good to great. So many brilliant details in the screenplay.
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I was entranced, horrified, and amused, often on the same page.
20 May
From one piece Why Rust is different, with Alice Ryhl 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I think this is kind of leads to another way that Rust really helps with reliability, which is that if you're refactoring, I think Rust is really good at telling you all the places you need to update. I've done this sometimes where I would refactor something. I change the code. I change the return type or whatever it is, and then I just fix the compiler errors and until the compiler stops shouting. And then once I've done that, I've updated every place I need to update.
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Now the thing is you can of course write examples in your documentation and Rust makes all examples into tests. This means that if you change the underlying code now your test fails. And so this means that you can't even you can't forget to update your examples in your documentation.
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For a TypeScript team, Rust belongs on the backend — API servers — and not in the front end.Their words
But okay, so to begin with, I think when it comes to TypeScript, Rust fits in as the backend language. That's where I would put it. I wouldn't use it in the front end. I think it's a pretty good fit for backends, API servers.
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I think to have a language that feels this way you have to have a type system. That's where it all starts.
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I think part of what I liked about Rust is this feeling that as you write the code when it compiles it works. I mean this has to be in quotes right because obviously it's possible that there are bugs but this is something a lot of people say about Rust and there's a reason people say it even though it's not necessarily literally true.
19 May
18 May
From one piece Everything I Loved in Spring 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Every act of desire involves giving something up, and we don't usually call it sacrifice because we're too busy being delighted by what we picked!
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Growth is nonlinear and full of contradictions.Their words
Spring in all her manic pixie unpredictability and dreamgirl flakiness models for us that growth is nonlinear and full of contradictions.
From one piece Six levels of complexity in a Codex morning brief 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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A recurring AI workflow improves more through ongoing user feedback than by being fully specified upfront.Their words
This is why I like the thread version more than a generic scheduled report. The brief improves as you complain about it.
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AI agents should draft work on a person's behalf but never send or act as if they were that person.Their words
Level 5 teaches the trust boundary I actually care about: draft the work, do not impersonate me.
17 May
16 May
From one piece Recent Developments in LLM Architectures: KV Sharing, mHC, and Compressed Attention 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Larger language models already have enough capacity that extra per-layer embedding tricks add little benefit to them.Their words
However, larger models already have sufficient capacity where these extra embeddings may not help that much.
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As reasoning models and agent workflows keep more tokens around (for longer), KV-cache size, memory traffic, and attention cost quickly become the main constraints, and LLM developers are adding a growing number of architecture tricks to reduce those costs.
15 May
From one piece Fed Board Members: Stay In Your Seats 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The Federal Reserve will need to raise interest rates rather than cut them to bring down inflation.Their words
I will be surprised if there are any votes for rate cuts, even from Warsh himself. The Fed may need to hike rates this year to tame inflation.
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Federal Reserve Board members have historically often resigned before completing their full terms.Their words
Federal Reserve Board members have often resigned their positions well before their 14-year terms expired, since that's quite a long time to spend in one position in government.
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Waging political war on a central bank does not serve a president's own political interests.Their words
A war on the Fed has not served Trump's political interests and generally does not serve any president's interests.
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For a New LibertyTheir words
This is the chapter that has literally converted thousands of highly intelligent, economically informed people to anarcho-capitalism.
From one piece Bye, Stack Overflow 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
From one piece Converting testthat Tests to testit 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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People only truly grasp the harm of a gatekeeping rule once that same rule is turned against their own work.Their words
All they need before they can truly appreciate empathy and humanity is one thing: have one of their own posts closed and deleted by another group of gatekeepers.
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The point is a user is looking for help, and a maintainer is willing to help and knows a solution. They are all real humans. You guys are hurting them by closing and deleting the question.
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Needing to mock code in tests often signals an underlying design problem that refactoring would fix.Their words
unless the code is completely out of your control, the need for mocking often indicates a design problem-consider refactoring to make the code easier to test directly.
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A tool's popularity can become a self-reinforcing network effect rather than a sign of technical merit.Their words
The popularity feeds the tooling, and the tooling feeds the popularity. That's not a technical argument-it's a network effect.
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I still believe that unit testing should be nothing more than "tell me if something unexpected happened."
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Tailwind is a good way to build a site you're happy with, even without strong CSS skills of your own.Their words, before
I ended up making this site with Tailwind CSS, and it helped me make a site I felt pretty happy with my minimal CSS skills and just 2 evenings of work!
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I’m a lot better at CSS than I was when I started using Tailwind Ultimately Tailwind is limiting: if you want to do Weird Stuff in your CSS, it’s not always possible with Tailwind. Those limits can be extremely useful (a lot of this post is about me reimplementing some of Tailwind’s limits!) but at this point I’d like to be able to pick and choose.
14 May
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I wish Tensor the best, but I think this is going to be a hard sell.
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Gemini (Mac app)Their words
I will now, needless to say, delete the Gemini app, and don't intend to ever install it again.
13 May
From one piece TypeScript, C# and Turbo Pascal with Anders Hejlsberg 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I think early on we decided that we want to have a team of people design this language, not just one.
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Well, like I said, I mean the the overarching thing was this: power and productivity of C++ with the ease of use of Visual Basic in a sense, right?
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It is a bad strategy to bet your development platform on technology licensed from a competitor.Their words
And so, we kind of realized at that point, too, that maybe it's not a great strategy to to place your your development platform bet on on technology that's licensed from a competitor.
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It was just better than all the competition. It was faster. It was smaller. Um it was more interactive and it was also cheaper. So, it was like 10 times better at a tenth of the price of the of the competition, right?
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That was always the idea, and that that goes back even to the predecessor of Turbo Pascal, this idea that it's not just a compiler. It's an experience, right? I mean, you don't just compile your programs. You also edit them. You also run them. You also debug them. You also have a runtime library. It all has to like fit together.
From one piece 🌻 notes on AI, labor, and China 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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First, because it signals how much collateral damage the A.I. companies will tolerate en route to A.G.I. And second, because the production of a social underclass is a policy choice.
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Whether AI augments or automates workers depends on a firm's economic context, not on the technology itself.Their words
The same technology that augments workers in a growing firm automates workers in a shrinking one.
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AI marketed as a pure augmenting 'tool' will end up automating jobs anyway, since firms control how it's used.Their words
Unfortunately, I think building "tool AI" is basically cope.
From one piece Why Anthropic’s ultra-dirty deal shouldn’t surprise you at all 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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It was already clear a while ago that Anthropic mostly do not care about climate, environment or air pollution in any material way, even if they care a little bit more about bad PR than Elon Musk does.
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there is nothing fundamentally inherent to the concept of a building full of computers that causes choking air pollution, water impacts and climate change.
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The fundamental drivers of this change are panic and impatience, and that is what is behind the worst impacts of data centre growth, including a material risk to decarbonisation and climate action.
12 May
11 May
From one piece Practice method, not results. METHOD NOT RESULTS. 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The New Age community, where people pretend to be benevolent Teletubbies, but behind the scenes are as money-hungry, power-seeking, and gossip-spreading as anyone.
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Almost any time I hear that someone has had a damaging experience with meditation, I find that it's because they're violating this rule.
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I think it's one of the most important warnings in contemplative practice, a warning sticker that should go on every single meditation book.
10 May
From one piece Is Europe in Economic Decline? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Europe, along with China and the United States, is an economic superpower. And, at this point in time, it is arguably the world’s only democratic superpower.
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Europe is not in economic decline; by the measures that matter most it is keeping up with the United States.Their words
Moreover, by many measures — arguably the most important measures — Europe is, in fact, keeping up with the United States.
From one piece How Anthropic, Costco, and Patagonia all build incorruptible companies | Eric Ries 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Was it ever the right time? No, it is never the right time to do this. If you put this off, you will eventually find yourself in a situation where you can no longer do it. You will have lost the leverage. Success will not protect you because success is what makes you a target.
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According to Harvard Law School, among venturebacked companies that have the standard best practices set up that you got from your lawyer, okay, only 20% of founders are still the CEO 3 years after going public.
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If you don't get this right, no other decision you make about your company will matter for the long term because you're not going to be the one making it.
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all kinds of famous companies where the thing that destroyed them was not competition. It was not someone else came up with a better product. No, their very success became a liability because the more golden the goose, the greater the temptation to butcher.
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I call it the force that no one controls but everyone obeys that tends to drag organizations down into mediocrity to the point that we lose control of them. Now, sometimes we lose control of them because we get fired.
From one piece Codex-maxxing 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Files force the agent to compress experience into a form that can survive the thread.
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Execution is only as good as the goal and the verification you give it. Ambition without verification is just a wish.
9 May
8 May
From one piece How to build a lunar mass driver 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Starship will bring the price of low Earth orbit down to roughly a hundred dollars a kilogram.Their words
Starship promises a near future with launch costs to LEO of perhaps $100/kg.
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At even $500/kg, launch cost is only 5% of the total satellite deployment cost, so a lunar mass driver is unlikely to drastically improve the economics of space-based AI, by reducing launch costs.
From one piece David Reich – Bronze Age shock, the Neanderthal puzzle, & the sudden spread of farming 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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And really from a statistical point of view, what happens at these times of migration is there's just huge fluctuations in frequencies, and these are extremely uninformative times for looking and detecting natural selection.
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It may still be the case, and I guess it is, that immune traits are the most selected category, but is not at all the case, and in fact, we can prove it's not the case that behavioral traits are not selected.
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The Bronze Age, not the invention of farming, was the shock the human genome reacted to most strongly.Their words
our cartoon picture is that the big transition is farming, but the genetic data, the biological readout is saying our genome is reacting much more strongly to this these events that happened 5,000 years ago.
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Uh and 98% of it is other factors, especially genetic drift. So it's overwhelmingly migrations and population structure causing fluctuations in frequency.
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In fact, multiple analyses we do suggest that the genome is vibrating with natural selection, and uh there's all sorts of weaker effects that are there that would be picked up in larger studies even than we've done. Uh and that uh in fact, almost every position in the DNA is uh correlated to a position that in being dragged in one way or the other uh by natural selection. Instead of being quiescent, natural selection is everywhere.
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The perceived danger of bears to hikers is exaggerated in order to enforce safe food-storage habitsTheir words
I think the danger of bears is exaggerated to make sure people do smart things like hanging/locking up food so that bears don't become an actual problem.
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CannonTheir words
The result is something that's beautiful, sharp, critical and lingering. Long after I closed the cover, I found myself mulling over the delicate ways that Lai raised the contradictions, sorrows and beauty of queer love, racial identity, camaraderie, self-control, and self-indulgence. Lai's characters have no answers, only questions that can never be fully resolved. Instead, these questions are the defining puzzles, defeats and triumphs of their lives.
7 May
From one piece The agent principal-agent problem 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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there is no principal-agent problem, because the human driving the machine takes on the responsibility for its actions by owning the deployment.
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There is no incentive for the human driving the agent to actually read the code or spend time thinking about what the reviewer says.
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the reviewer is the principal, the contributor is the agent, and code review only worked because the reviewer could cheaply infer effort from reading the code. Agents collapse that signal.
6 May
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The Cherokees in War & at Peace 1670-1840Their words
An excellent book, one of the two best books on a single Native American tribe I have read.
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Preparing for War: The Making of the Geneva ConventionsTheir words
A very good look at the negotiations behind the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and just how driven by national self-interest they were, including colonial motives from the major colonial powers, who wished to retain stronger rights to put down uprisings.
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Where the Music Had To Go: How Bob Dylan and the Beatles Changed Each Other — and the WorldTheir words
An excellent and engaging book, which even serious fans can learn from.
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Beyond Beauty: A Portrait of John Singer SargentTheir words
There is also Devon Cox, Beyond Beauty: A Portrait of John Singer Sargent
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Where the Music Had To GoTheir words
An excellent and engaging book, which even serious fans can learn from.
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How NOT to InvestTheir words
The TL:dr summary of the key points might whet your appetite for all of the fun stories and anecdotes in the book. Enjoy!
5 May
From one piece How to make friends 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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A person does not need a friend group to find people for everyday activities and errands.Their words
That said! I don't believe you need a group for the activity partners you're looking for. I don't even think you need friends per se for these day-to-day adventures.
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Truly perfect friends do not exist.Their words
Perfect friends are not possible. Instead of wondering how to change them, perhaps try being just a tiny bit more patient, and see how they might end up surprising you.
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Making friends does not get harder after your 30s.Their words
You see, I don't think making friends is hard after your 30s. And, I made several of my best friends after they got divorced.
4 May
From one piece How to choose a grind setting 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Poorly aligned grinder burrs are far more common than the coffee community acknowledges.Their words
If a burr set is poorly aligned, which is much more common than is discussed, the grounds will include more fines and more boulders.
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Coffee processing method's effect on fines production is much smaller than popularly believed.Their words
Many people believe coffee processing affects fines production, and sometimes it does a little, but its effect is drastically overstated.
3 May
From one piece Netizen 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Not monetizing what you put online now reads as strange behaviour that has to be explained.Their words
Slowly the culture around me changed, so now it seems I need to explain my strange behavior — why I don't monetize everything like everyone else.
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Like picking up trash where you walk, even if the rest of the world is full of litter. You keep doing what you can to make things better.
From one piece How to Work and Compound with AI 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The bottleneck has shifted from doing the work to writing clear specs and reviewing outputs fast enough to keep the pipeline moving-the middle is hollowing out.
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You can't delegate what you can't verify, so this requires first defining success criteria and metrics.
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none of this is specific to AI. It's simply how you onboard and work with any new collaborator.
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Victorinox CompactTheir words
There is no perfect SAK, but the Compact is the best SAK. And this is not a "smartest Kardashian" scenario. Over the years I have genuinely loved carrying the Compact. Adding the pocket clip and the excellent PDW scales has made it one of my most frequently carried items.
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Jon GadgetTheir words
If you haven't found Jon Gadget on Youtube, you need to go subscribe now.
2 May
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Airthings PlusTheir words
I been through so many air sensors, and I really think this is the best one so I bought one for living room and then another one for bedroom, and will get another one for my coworking
From one piece You can judge a book by its cover 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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People who are openly power-hungry tend to eventually lose their power or never gain it.Their words
Sure, some skilled sociopaths run amok. But most of those who are crudely, blatantly power-hungry in the long term lose it, or never gain it in the first place.
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you become aware that others are engaging in a similar sorting process, such that the total human network does reward virtue.
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This post is about whether data centers waste the land they’re on relative to what they compete with, and my claim is that they mostly don’t compete with things we need more of (housing) and mostly compete with things we need less of (farmland).
1 May
From one piece The exact wrong lesson to learn from data centre infrasound fears 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Data centres are being built in such number, size and speed that the industry cannot realistically be reformed.Their words
There are simply too many data centres being built, and they're too big, being built too fast.
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AI data centres cannot be meaningfully reformed without a fundamental change of course and ideology in the industry.Their words
Reformation is impossible for AI data centres, at least, not without a massive change of course and an ideological reckoning.
From one piece Dairy cows make their misery expensive (but their calves can’t) 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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if we can't solve the sadist problem in nursing homes I don't see how we can assume it's solved in cows.
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I have a pet theory that removing the option for antibiotics forces farms to treat animals better, because bad conditions engender disease and without the quick fix of antibiotics that can get very expensive.
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An advantage cows have that egg chickens lack is that stress immediately and measurably decreases their economic productivity.
30 April
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Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World EconomyTheir words
With that disclaimer out of the way, this is a great book, which simultaneously illuminates some very, very important phenomena, and is very well-written.
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The Bitter TwinsTheir words
Mind candy fantasy: sequel to The Ninth Rain (in my backlog; suffice to say: good), and continuing the high standard of that book.
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Orlando Furioso: A New Verse TranslationTheir words
I can have no opinion about whether the translation is accurate, but it is pretty good English verse.
29 April
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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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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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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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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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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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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There will be negative second-order effects of almost every widely distributed technology.
18 April
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From one piece Build to Learn vs Build to Earn 2 beliefs · svpg.com
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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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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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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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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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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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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 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Intel Panther LakeTheir words
Intel really delivered with Panther Lake.
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
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
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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Usesrcmnd.app
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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Usesrcmnd.app
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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Likedrcmnd.app
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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Dislikedrcmnd.app
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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Dislikedrcmnd.app
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
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