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3 August
From one piece 🌻 no data centers in my backyard 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Most workers vulnerable to AI-driven displacement lack organized representation to negotiate on their behalf.Their words
Most workers in America today, and most who are vulnerable to AI displacement, don't have organized representation.
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Rather, the way that AI companies engage with communities-forcing NDAs, dangling billion-dollar promises, pushing environmental externalities far away from AI's wealthy user base-resembles a classic story about dark money in politics.
From one piece Waymo Co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov: The Demo Is Only 1% Of The Work 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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A working demo is at best one per cent of the work; the nines that follow it are where the real work is.Their words
And a working demo is 1% at best of the work that you have to do. The many nines of performance, the many nines of reliability that follow, that's where the real work happens.
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Given the high cost of errors, you need to have a very high level of safety and a very high level of confidence on day one before you deploy your first robot, before you drive your your first autonomous mile.
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In the physical world a model's mistake is measured in human lives rather than tokens, and there is no retry button.Their words
In the physical world, the cost of a mistake can be measured in human lives, not tokens. There's simply not an undo and a retry button.
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in Silicon Valley, there's a common mantra to move fast and break things. However, when you're dealing with atoms instead of bits, breaking things is not really okay. So, the thing you have to do is to move fast and ship safely.
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That the best AI moments will look like nothing happened. It's just the task got done safely and smoothly.
From one piece Fixing one of climate’s worst plots 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Irrigation cools the surface, and the expansion of agriculture and irrigation in the central U.S. in the middle of the 20th century played a key role in why heatwaves were low in the middle of the 20th century
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The 1930s U.S. Dust Bowl heat wave was caused by destructive farming practices rather than fossil-fuel emissions.Their words
The relevant human activity was not fossil-fuel combustion but bad farming practices that contributed to the Dust Bowl.
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The post-1970s global increase in heatwave frequency is caused by greenhouse gas emissions from human activity.Their words
This differs from the Dust Bowl because it is a global signal, occurring essentially everywhere. This is almost certainly due to greenhouse gas emissions from human activities.
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Are parents better people? Not really. Parental love directs enormous concern toward a few particular people, leaving less for everyone else.
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it helps sending a signal and a reminder that Open Source is to a large extent done voluntarily and even maintainers need a break at times.
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The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error'Their words
This is such a useful book. It makes the case that there's no such thing as "human error" - instead most catastrophes are caused by system issues, misaligned incentives, and unrealistic processes. You are not the custodian of an otherwise safe system that you need to protect from erratic human beings.
From one piece @chamath on X 3 beliefs · x.com
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Marginal costs of all models will go to ~$0.
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Recursive self improvement will dramatically increase capability very quickly from here.
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Looking at the results and capabilities from the various labs over the past few weeks I would say we are firmly in this loop now.
2 August
From one piece This CPO regrets that product management exists | Tom Verrilli (CPO of Whatnot) 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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rather than mapping PMs to teams where you kind of assume that the PM will always do that, we tend to map them to kind of problems or kind of like core projects.
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The engineer-designer-PM pod ratio was an HR artifact of scaling, not something anyone showed a product needed.Their words
somewhere along the line this kind of HR ratio of like a pod popped into being. You know, every time you hire six engineers, you add a designer or you add a PM, you add an EM
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hiring so many PMs infantilizes the engineers and the designers who are perfectly capable of making good decisions, but just never had to because there was always a PM to babysit them.
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The only argument as far as I'm aware for why you would want product management to be a specialist function is really it's a trade, not a qualification.
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A company should hire a product manager only against a specific need, never by default.Their words
we articulate it that way to kind of force ourselves to remember that you don't hire a PM just for the sake of hiring one, you hire one with a really specific need.
1 August
From one piece Zero coronary calcium does not mean zero cardiovascular risk 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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A zero calcium score is reassuring, but it is most reassuring when the rest of the risk profile points in the same direction.
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In other words, the absence of calcium is not the same as the absence of disease—it may simply mean the disease hasn’t reached the stage CAC is designed to detect.
From one piece Real talk about the exchange rate 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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China's tolerance of deflation has caused widespread underemployment and unemployment among its youth.Their words
Policy decisions have condemned a generation of Chinese youth to widespread under- and un-employment.
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Complaining about China's trade surpluses and excess capacity has not worked and will not work.Their words
I think complaining about trade surpluses and excess capacity has not worked, and is not going to work.
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China's real exchange rate should appreciate through higher domestic inflation, not currency revaluation.Their words
My view is that an appreciation of China's REER is very much to be desired, but the real (haha) way to get there is through higher inflation domestically, and that means different macro policies.
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KEF LS LUXETheir words
The LS LUXE offers something arguably more valuable for many listeners: extraordinary performance with almost none of the complexity that has traditionally accompanied high-end audio. It's elegant, beautifully engineered, wonderfully musical, and refreshingly easy to live with.
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Low corrosion resistant steels like K390 are great at holding an edge but only look nice and stay rust free in the driest of environments.
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Spyderco Dragonfly 2 in SPY27Their words
But in the past two years, Spyderco released a SPY27 version of the Dragonfly 2. It is an amazing steel that perfectly fits the role the DF2 serves. It is a S35VN/S45VN that has better sharpenability. The result, in my mind, makes for the absolute best all around DF2 ever made.
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Spyderco Para 3Their words
A similar fate befell various versions of the Bugout and the Para3 (which is still, to this day, the most overrated knife on the market)
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Most people sleep more than they need to, and are better off deliberately sleeping less.Their words, before
I claim that if you sleep as much as you want, you’ll probably sleep too much and become more susceptible to depression.
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while I still believe that the quality of the existing sleep science is extremely low, I advise against trying to decrease the amount of sleep you’re getting based on this article
31 July
From one piece Patrick Collison: Is AI Breaking the Lean Startup Playbook? 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Startup opportunities are not fleeting; Silicon Valley has reliably had a surfeit of them for decades.Their words
You know, in hindsight, I think that um that was a a poor intuition. Uh it's been pretty robustly and reliably the case over many decades in Silicon Valley has a surfeit of opportunities.
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You know, I think a lot of parents think that dropping out is very risky and impune your reputation for the rest of your life and so forth. And as far as I can tell, nobody has ever cared.
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Models can prove monumental theorems and still have never written an essay worth reading.Their words
I mean, it's very interesting, right? Because these can prove the Jacobian conjecture, you know, whatever. Uh and so clearly they're capable of these monumental feats. Um but somehow I still haven't read the LLM essay that I found super compelling.
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there still seems to be an enormous premium on cognitive ability. And so, I wouldn't I I I I think, um, renouncing that before there's evidence that we've saturated, uh, those benefits would be premature.
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That's a hell of a lot slower than knowing it in cognitive L1 cache. And you can have way more round trips in your brain than you can, you know, muttering through, you know, super whisper or typing it out or whatever.
From one piece Politics and emotion at Local-First Conf 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Mainstream software will largely continue to be created by big tech companies, and that is acceptable.Their words
We acknowledge that mainstream software will largely be the creation of big tech companies, and that's ok.
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Technologies from our community - CRDTs, sync engines, universal version control, and good old-fashioned open protocols and file formats - can give a nation more independence and control over its own critical software infrastructure.
From one piece Want to Be a Happier Parent? My “Four Tendencies” Personality Framework May Help. 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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when you remind Rebels to do a task, you're very likely making it less likely that they will do it.
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our Tendency is a hard-wired part of our nature. It's not a product of upbringing, generation, birth order, nationality-it's part of our inborn nature.
From one piece HiFi Perfection? The Benchmark AHB2 and DAC3 HGC in 2026 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The listening room and system setup matter more to sound quality than any individual piece of gear.Their words
Yes, the room and setup will matter more than any measurement, amp, DAC or piece of gear you add later.
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I have always been of the belief, and still have this belief, that audio should be judged by the ear.
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The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real MagicTheir words
Mind candy fantasy: in which an early-21st-century American young woman, whose English-lit thesis and love life are going equally poorly, does a good deed; gets rewarded with three wishes, without realizing it; and, in consequence, wanders off, first into Faery and then into a Fantasyland which is convincingly poor, sexist and dirty, but also magical.
30 July
From one piece The Failure of Bus Grids at the Scale of Los Angeles 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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on-street separated lanes don't go at the speed of rapid transit, and the counterexamples you're thinking about right now are either freeways or things that might as well be freeways.
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But in fact, the scale of buses is rather short, and in a Los Angeles-size city they are hopeless, no matter how much priority they have.
From one piece Why Hansen may end up being right about 2026 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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it tells you that a single warm year, or even two, cannot distinguish between "very rapid acceleration driven by aerosols and high sensitivity" and "the trend and more modest acceleration plus a very strong El Niño."
Why Hansen may end up being right about 2026theclimatebrink.com
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I'd personally give a central estimate closer to 3.5C than Hansen's ~4.5C
Why Hansen may end up being right about 2026theclimatebrink.com
From one piece Jeff Dean: The 1% Rule for Building in AI 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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And um if you build a specialized chip for low precision dense linear algebra and can't do anything else that turns out to be really useful for machine learning inference uh even though it can't run Chrome or Word or whatever.
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Agents can already be run for days or weeks on a single hard problem, and almost nobody has internalised that.Their words
I mean I think um probably one thing is people don't quite realize how possible it is to have you know agent-based systems that can run not just for an hour or two hours on a problem you care about but for some problem domains and with highly capable models underlying them you can get them to run for days or weeks and do really really complicated tasks
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Yeah, I mean it's a little different, but I think uh you're going to see more and more uh uh high performance and um low energy uh inference hardware systems because I think everyone is now realizing that inference is the key to making you know these agent-based systems be available to more and more people and that latency is really important and that specialization of the hardware is a really key way you can make uh things that are more energy efficient and lower latency than more general purpose uh computational devices like say GPUs or TPUs
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you know, because sometimes if you just squint at a problem and you think about not necessarily being anchored on exactly how that problem is solved today, but how you would solve it from first principles, you can come up with really good ideas that are, you know, maybe not what other people are thinking about.
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AI models have reached the level of a junior engineer on longer-running, agent-based coding tasks.Their words
Yeah, I mean I feel like uh the models have been getting a lot better at sort of agent-based longer running coding tasks and it seems pretty clear that they are now actually pretty capable and depending on exactly your definition of of junior engineer it seems pretty spot-on I would say.
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The Signal and the NoiseTheir words
And, in addition, Nate Silver’s earlier book The Signal and the Noise was, I thought, brilliant. I am forever deeply in his debt for his making me better-informed and wiser across a whole bunch of different dimensions.
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On the EdgeTheir words
And yet I did not like Nate Silver’s latest book, On the Edge, much.
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GranolaTheir words
Pedregal is the co-founder and CEO of Granola, which has been my own AI notetaker since shortly after it launched.
From one piece The Power of Self-Cleansing 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Buying beyond what you can comfortably afford leaves people financially weaker and stuck living paycheck to paycheck.Their words
Buying from a position of weakness keeps people in debt and living pay check to pay check.
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To be clear, this doesn't mean there will never be bubbles or crashes. There definitely will be. It is just that nobody can predict them.
29 July
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The West's biggest blindspot is repeatedly underestimating China's speed and capabilities.Their words
The West's biggest blindspot is repeatedly underestimating China's speed and capabilities
From one piece Formal methods with Hillel Wayne 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Version control is the one thing every traditional engineer wishes their old field had.Their words
Yeah, I interviewed like 20 people on this. I think all 20 mentioned version control as the thing they wish they had in their old field.
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Software is kind of unique in having the third kind of the practitioner conference where we are just meeting to get better at what we do. We also are really the only kind to really focus heavily on like open source in making our knowledge freely available.
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Software did not invent iterative development: mining engineers had their Agile revolution in 1960.Their words
And the first thing he pointed out to me was that they had their Agile revolution in 1960.
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The core tension of engineering is between how expensive it is to make a mistake and how quickly you can iterate. The faster you can iterate, the less planning you need to do before you iterate, and the more expensive it is, the more planning you need to do.
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If I had to summarize what I found in general, I'd put it like this. Everybody hates waterfall.
From one piece Wildfires are remaking the world 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The transformation to come will be decidedly nonlinear, meaning it will not occur as small impacts over many years but rather a series of infrequent, huge events of enormous destructive power.
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Cooling or warming global temperature by around 10°F would produce an unrecognizably different planet.Their words
If you cool the Earth by 10 degrees Fahrenheit, you end up with a completely different planet.
From one piece Alexandr Wang: “This is a Once-in-a-Civilization Opportunity” 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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And now I actually think with the power of agents um and AI broadly speaking, it's much closer to Goliath versus Goliath. Like I think but maybe the startup is like a Mecca Goliath that is like vastly enhanced by the power of agents and AI and you know, the the large companies are the sort of like more traditional Goliath, so to speak. But I think that startups now like if you properly embrace AI agents and um figure out the way to leverage their strengths in the most like ambitious ways, you can easily outcompete incumbents.
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This is a once-in-a-civilization opportunity to have a vision and impose it on the world by building something.Their words
it's probably a like once in a civilization opportunity to be a dreamer and to have a vision and to have ambition and to impose a view of how the future world should look by building something amazing.
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I think we're at this like in amazing moment in the world where the bottleneck is not the progress of the AI models, the bottleneck is diffusing that through the rest of the world and and helping the world adapt to this amazing technology that already exists. Like I think if the models didn't improve at all from today, there would still be like decades and decades of like total upheaval and change in the economy and how the world operates and and everything around us
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you just you can't base your business decisions based on what everyone else is saying around you. Like, if you go too much with the herd, you will get immensely confused and you will end up nowhere. And so you have to develop your own compass of what you think the future is going to look like because everyone else will just confuse you.
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I think the the key thing is you need to develop conviction in a set of beliefs that nobody else um agrees with. Like, I think if you look at all the most successful companies in the world, um they were started at a time long before the sort of like core idea was popular.
From one piece Chartbook 462: China shocked - beyond 1.0 and 2.0 to the "Big One". 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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China's industrial lead was manufactured by deliberate state industrial policy rather than by market forces alone.Their words
What China is delivering in the 2020s is an industrial policy shock of global scale.
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It wasn’t just the West that drew conclusions from China shock 1.0. Beijing learned from China Shock 1.0 too.
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The original point of the China Shock 1.0 discourse was not to foreground the unfairness of Chiense competition, so much as the malfunctioning of US policy and societal institutions in the face of concentrated globalization shocks.
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China shock 2.0 threatens high status manufactured goods: European cars and engineering.
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The second China shock is landing on Europe, where the first one landed on the United States.Their words
In China shock 1.0 the key target was the US. In China shock 2.0 it is Europe.
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GhosttyTheir words
I have no intention of ever commercializing Ghostty. To solidify this, I donated the entirety of Ghostty to a federally recognized non-profit in 2025.
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SuperlogicalTheir words
Superlogical will begin by shipping a terminal multiplexer. I'm pouring my years of experience building a terminal and studying the potential and limitations of other multiplexers into something new, powerful, and, of course, fast.
From one piece On child birth 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Deepening your understanding of a situation helps you maintain a sense of control over it.Their words
It is always useful to deepen your understanding, to maintain a sense of control.
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So if you experience stress or fear, your contractions will often grow weaker and less coordinated, slowing the labor, sometimes stalling it.
28 July
From one piece Sam Altman: "Never a Better Time to Do a Startup" 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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but I would I would bet that this generally will cut against many years of experience in favor of people who have a lot of fluency with the tools.
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the great startups tend to cluster when the ecosystem shifts and incumbents lose a lot of their advantage.
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I think startups tend to win when um the sort of like technology landscape is moving very quickly. uh when costs are coming down when cycle times are short and all of those things are happening right now.
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In fact, if if we are right that AI is going to be such a big change, startups will be much more important to making sure that the power of this technology gets widely distributed throughout the economy and society and is not just concentrated in a few companies or models.
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I think startups are really like the main thing that keeps the economy from becoming stagnant. Um I think companies do just like drift towards suckiness and startups will continue to be important forever.
From one piece Blake Scholl: How 50 People Built a Supersonic Jet 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Well, no. They're not even building new airplanes anymore, let alone innovative new airplanes.
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Those first jetliners truly did double the speed of what had come before them. And was they doubled the speed of air travel, the most important changes were on the ground. Hawaii was simply not a tourist destination before the speed of the jet.
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But if we fast forward half a century, this is the 787, their latest airliner, which by the way was launched more than 20 years ago. You can't spot the difference. It doesn't fly any faster. It doesn't make the world any more accessible.
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It now takes Lockheed more than two years to build a new Patriot missile interceptor. This is crazy. This is no way to build the future and this is no way to win a war.
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In 1969, we landed on the moon for the first time and the same year we flew Concord, the faster than the speed of sound airliner. The future was supposed to be faster and better. where we're supposed to look forward to innovation in air and in space. And yet, half a century later, we can't go to the moon and we can't fly faster than the speed of sound.
From one piece The Problem with Optionality 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Refusing to commit is the right strategy inside a portfolio and the wrong one everywhere else in life.Their words
In investing, non-commitment leads to better than average outcomes for the typical investor.
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Every year spent keeping your options open is a year not spent on whatever you eventually commit to.Their words
Every year you spend with options is another year you don’t spend on the thing you eventually commit to.
27 July
From one piece Boris Cherny: We Cut 80% of Claude Code's Prompt 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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for people that aren't building agentic products, but you're using Claude code, every 6 months delete your Claude MD. Delete your skills. Delete your hooks.
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And what's interesting is that the model is actually a little bit more intelligent without these prompts.
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And the reason is every model is very different. So, something that you did for one model maybe 3 months ago, it just might not translate at all to the next model.
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it's it's literally we're looking at neurons in the model's brain that light up when prompt injection happens. So the model won't even tell you but we can actually see those neurons and we can figure out and diagnose that it's happening. And then you combine that with the auto mode classifier and with these three layers we just cannot demonstrate prompt injection anymore.
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the model does not seem to be prompt injectable anymore.
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NeuromancerTheir words
Neuromancer is a book I love without reservation and have loved for a long time, and not only has it never been successfully adapted
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Burning ChromeTheir words
He'd already coined "cyberspace" in a 1982 short story, "Burning Chrome," which was later included in his excellent collection of the same name. (I have recommended people read "New Rose Hotel" from that collection more times than any other short story, I'd wager.)
From one piece How To Secure More Speaking Gigs 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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And at the beginning, free is how you build your reputation. Free is how you ultimately get paid.
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AI writing tools can be used for editing help without letting them take over work that has personal meaning.Their words
You can use AI without handing it the work you love doing, or the work that means something to you.
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Litigation is the wrong instrument for a public health problem that comes from what people choose to buy.Their words
Yes, our supersize culture is a health disaster, but the cure isn’t lawsuits against companies that sell us what we want for a price we’re all too happy to pay.
Are Courts The Answer To “Ultraprocessed” Food?blog.simplejustice.us
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When patients don't get the help they need, they don't come away thinking, I didn't get good treatment. They come away thinking, I am too broken to be helped. They leave more hopeless and demoralized than when they came. That is harm.
When Compromised Care Becomes "Best Practice"jonathanshedler.substack.com
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Lock LauncherTheir words
my favorite “launcher” app for iOS is a utility called Lock Launcher, which I’ve been using on and off for the last couple of years.
26 July
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I cancelled and then vibecoded 100% of my SaaS subscriptions I only pay for domains, server hosting and storage and AI APIs
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I'm seeing a trend here of declining revenue and traffic with indiehackers On my own projects too Maybe big VC products too but I wouldn't know cause they don't share revenue To me it seems clear BigAI is cannibalizing everything that used to be apps
From one piece Jensen Huang: The Mindset That Built NVIDIA 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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the the breakthrough for us was realizing that AlexNet was not AlexNet. That AlexNet was an approach with deep deep learning that allows you to learn any function.
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You don't invest in companies, you invest in people.
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we realized early on uh that it's not about building a great chip, it's about accelerating an algorithm domain.
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one of the things I've always believed believed in is what makes great companies is a unique perspective about the world that you deeply believe in. It's not so much the technology, it's not so much uh the market even.
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the the big lesson is that for me is technology is changing all the time, and so long as you're able to confront the reality, so long as you are able to learn, the technology itself actually doesn't matter.
From one piece Requiem for a Field? 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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in an intellectually dead field, AI will just produce worthless junk. If what you feed it is decades of complicated and meaningless computations, it will just produce even more complicated and meaningless ones.
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The results have surprised me: these things are a lot more capable than I had expected.
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So far I haven't seen AI agents doing anything new and important that I would care about, but maybe that's just a matter of time...
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world building can't simply be decoration. It has to be integral to the plot.
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Dungeon Crawler CarlTheir words
I’ve savored this series for the past eight months, listening to about one a month on Audible while I run.
25 July
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If a subway line or a train station or a similar rail megaproject has an internationally renowned architect in charge, it costs too much and is unlikely to be functional.
Conflict About the FRA Study on Penn Stationpedestrianobservations.com
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ClaudeTheir words
So by far the funniest thing about using Claude and Codex together is how Codex is very earnest and businesslike while Claude treats Codex like an inferior but hard-working subordinate
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CodexTheir words
So by far the funniest thing about using Claude and Codex together is how Codex is very earnest and businesslike while Claude treats Codex like an inferior but hard-working subordinate
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The Rumpelstiltskin effect is not a claim that receiving a diagnosis is a net benefit or a net positive. It is a claim that the mere act of receiving a diagnosis can be beneficial.
24 July
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Claude Opus 5Their words
Opus 5 is a great model for coding, data analysis, design, biology, knowledge work.
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A reader's own mental image of a character is as valid as the author's depiction of them.Their words
Some readers like this, others don't, and if the Samantha in your head looks nothing like the one on the page, yours is the correct one.
From one piece Printing tiny photos for paper journals 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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AirPods' reliability comes from using a proprietary protocol rather than standard Bluetooth.Their words
AirPods work flawlessly because they're cheating with a proprietary Apple-only protocol.
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For Chinese-based consumer electronics like this, the hardware is usually a lot better than the software.
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Bluetooth technology is generally unreliable.Their words
Virtually nothing that uses Bluetooth is reliable, and this is no exception.
From one piece Mistaking making for the thing you've made 2 beliefs · world.hey.com
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Confusing how something was made with what was made is confusing the kitchen for the mealTheir words
Mistaking making for the thing you've made is like confusing the kitchen for the meal or the blueprint for the building. They're connected, but they're not the same thing. One of them matters a whole lot more than the other.
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The speed at which a product is developed doesn't inherently make the product better or worse. The number of commits doesn't make the product better or worse. The number of people or agents working on it doesn't make it better or worse.
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Calling an intelligent, self-aware being legal property does not resolve whether it has an interest in freedom.Their words
But it recognizes that calling an intelligent, self-aware, emotionally complex being "property" does not answer the question of whether that being has an interest in freedom.
“KEY OUT”: When a Chimpanzee Asks to Be Freeboldreasoningwithpetersinger.substack.com
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PompeiiTheir words
I recommend visiting Pompeii because it’s one of the few places left where you can touch history itself.
23 July
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Harvia saunaTheir words
harvia dry sauna, and if outside, add a little changing room to it so you don't exit in the cold outside!
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Concept2Their words
a gym bike like concept2, maybe concept2 rowing machine too, with that you can do almost anything to stay fit!
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Fellow Ode 2Their words
fellow water kettle, fellow ode 2 coffee grinder
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LG TVsTheir words
LG makes the best TVs, end of story, but their software is shit and spies on you, NEVER connect them to the internet/WiFi, instead buy an Apple TV box and connect that, that doesn't spy on you and has no ads, then connect it with HDMI and you're good, also no annoying LG TV updates
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Apple TVTheir words
LG makes the best TVs, end of story, but their software is shit and spies on you, NEVER connect them to the internet/WiFi, instead buy an Apple TV box and connect that, that doesn't spy on you and has no ads, then connect it with HDMI and you're good, also no annoying LG TV updates
From one piece Cozy Summer 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Adult people are comfortable when their expectations match reality, which is not how the child world works.
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When two truths conflict and both are hard to accept, people resolve the tension by discarding one of them.Their words
Reality hands us two truths at once, and when we can't stomach both, we eliminate one.
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In the current social media zeitgeist, pain is regularly rewarded over joy.
From one piece How to Stop Arguing About Household Chores: 13 Strategies for Couples 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Changing your own behavior can shift a relationship or household atmosphere and lead others to change too.Their words
But it's also true that when I change, a relationship changes; when I change, the atmosphere of my household changes; when I change, others may imitate me.
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People tend to unconsciously overestimate how much they personally contribute to shared work compared to others.Their words
In unconscious overclaiming, we unconsciously overestimate our contributions relative to others.
From one piece An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff 3 beliefs · oneusefulthing.org
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Microsoft Copilot is adequate for office document work but significantly behind in agentic capabilityTheir words
Copilot, which uses a mix of AI models and is okay for working with office documents but lags badly in terms of its agentic abilities.
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Higher-priced AI subscription tiers mainly buy more hours of agent usage rather than a smarter underlying modelTheir words
The more expensive plans are mostly buying you more hours of AI labor, not smarter AI.
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Google currently has no leading frontier AI model and no agentic coding tool comparable to Codex or Claude CodeTheir words
Google, which led on benchmarks not that long ago, has fallen behind where it now counts: it has no leading frontier model and it has nothing close to Codex and Code.
22 July
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France and Germany will ban Tesla's full self-driving to protect their own car industry.Their words
The French and Germans will ban Tesla FSD to protect their car industry that's being decimated by Chinese EVs and Tesla Allowing Tesla full self driving would make it so popular that it'd probably the end of their car industry Because no French or German car has self driving like Tesla, many customers would probably flock to Tesla
From one piece Finding Alpha: What’s Worth Consuming in the Age of AI 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Details are the essential substance of human communication, creativity and productivity.Their words
Details are the very heart and substance of human communication, creativity, and productivity.
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Language models cannot hold a genuine perspective or take a stand for what they believe.Their words
But for LLMs, it shows that they have no skin in the game and will never take a stand for what they believe in regardless of what it costs. They are perspective generators, not perspective holders.
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They've given us broad, passive exposure to the market average, but at the cost of suppressing upside
From one piece Hot days, cold thermometers 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Third, raw daily data is the wrong tool for this question. Time of observation changes and the 1980s switch to MMTS sensors both suppress modern hot day counts relative to the past, and the raw and homogenized series diverge almost exactly when the instrument transition happened.
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The US warming trend since 1970 is consistent across raw, adjusted, satellite, and surface temperature datasetsTheir words
The overall US warming trend (around 0.5F per decade since 1970 in max, min, and mean temperatures) is robust in every dataset, raw or adjusted, satellite or surface.
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A record set during an ecological disaster in one part of the country is not evidence that the whole country, much less the planet, was hotter.
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If you had asked me this question in the lead up to my 2019 book, Ultralearning, I would have said no. I was a strong advocate for doing hard problem solving and the associated mental effort it requires as a way to learn difficult skills.
From one piece We Need Guidelines for Learning and AI 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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AI has the potential to assist with both the first and last element of that loop. What it cannot replace is the middle step—doing the work for yourself.
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Asking AI for help on a first attempt robs you of the experience that builds your own judgement about the problem.Their words
Asking an AI for help with the start of an essay, for instance, will invariably shape what direction you end up following, robbing you of the crucial experience of building your own judgement around a topic and selecting your own path to research and argue.
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You cannot learn from work you did not do yourself.Their words
But having AI do your homework is self-defeating. You can’t learn without doing the work.
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I genuinely believe that if you took an open weights model from 2025 and built a pentest harness for it, it could do this kind of sandbox escape and scan/hack in most networks. This is only surprising because you assume OpenAI has sounder sandboxes.
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PB Swiss hex keysTheir words
I have had great experiences with PB Swiss Tools over the years, especially their hex keys.
21 July
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So you went from a business chain of customer > app > ai model provider To customer > ai model provider The app layer is possibly getting removed!
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How to Survive Boiling WaterTheir words
"How to Survive Boiling Water" is a quintessential effort post. Cook accidentally drinks some probiotic tea, and then she's like, wait, how could "probiotic tea" possibly be a thing?
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Magical ConstitutionalismTheir words
SECOND PLACE ($250): Magical Constitutionalism by Ricardo López Cordero
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Remembering Indonesia from My GrandpaTheir words
What stands out about Hsieh's version is that her roots occupy such a unique spot in history: her grandparents were Chinese born in Indonesia, which means they got caught between the rock of the Cultural Revolution and the hard place of anti-communist backlash.
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Chatting AloneTheir words
Martsinovich argues, via code snippets, that there is no such thing as a "conversation" with a chatbot. The AI is born anew every time it speaks, and it simply reads the dialogue so far and then tries to write the next line:
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PangramTheir words
For the first time, I ran all potential winners through Pangram, which is an AI-writing detector.1 So according to the machine (and to my ear), all of the winners are 100% human-written.
From one piece The fossil fuel money behind the GOP’s wildfire blame game 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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It is uncontroversial in the scientific community to say that climate change is intensifying these explosive wildfires, particularly in the Canadian boreal forests.
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The fossil fuel industry's great political achievement is not that it has persuaded every Republican that climate change is a hoax. It is that it has made the truth unspeakable among Republican politicians-even when their constituents are choking on it.
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fossil fuel money is an immensely powerful, intensely corrupting force in American politics that limits not only what conversations we can have about massive problems, but what we can do to solve them
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Kill StickyTheir words
I've been running gala8y's version for a year now with no problems, and I recommend it as your second line of dickover defense (after Reader Mode)
From one piece Intelligence is not the main bottleneck 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Take Eroom’s Law: the number of new drugs approved per dollar of R&D has fallen for decades, even as our scientific tools have grown vastly more powerful, the exact opposite of what the existence of more raw capability would predict.
Intelligence is not the main bottleneckwritingruxandrabio.com
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A capability existing is not the same as a capability being absorbed into institutions, and, perhaps most important of all, translated into outcomes people care about.
Intelligence is not the main bottleneckwritingruxandrabio.com
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The patent system then further disincentivizes companies from taking target risk, because it rewards novel chemical matter, not novel biology.
Intelligence is not the main bottleneckwritingruxandrabio.com
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Drug companies pile onto the same few already-validated targets, so far less of biology gets explored than could be.Their words
In biomedicine we have a problem called target herding: most companies chase the same biological targets because they are de-risked, which means we explore far less of the biological space than we could.
Intelligence is not the main bottleneckwritingruxandrabio.com
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I told him what I believe: that in the age of AI, medicine will be bottlenecked more than ever by regulation and the grind of clinical trials, and that billions poured into faster pre-clinical research won’t touch that problem, unsexy as it is.
Intelligence is not the main bottleneckwritingruxandrabio.com
20 July
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Now that everyone can build apps with AI, distribution is the thing that separates who wins.Their words, before
I think the challenge is that everyone can now build apps But 1) almost nobody has distribution (like an audience), or 2) the money to pay for distribution (ads or UGC), or 3) the creative genius to get distribution for free (classically called guerilla marketing)
Their words now
I thought it'd be distribution but who knows, obviously creativity and ideas, but if you can copy a successful app in an hour, then how does that differentiating work?
From one piece Accelerate Learning & Increase Cognitive Capacity | Dr. Tommy Wood 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Even if you're doing hard ones, if you look at the work of people like uh Gloria Mark, the things like crossword and sudoku, they're less of like a true cognitive challenge, right? It's it's almost has more of like a meditation meditative like effect, right? Which can be a good thing, right? So you're focused but not challenged really.
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They just published a secondary analysis of the active trial that showed that um those who did processing speed training with uh booster sessions at one and three years had a significantly decreased risk of dementia 20 years later.
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However, there's an increasing body of literature that shows that by engaging older adults in novel cognitive activities, you see improvements in function. So that can be language learning. Uh that can be uh complex like coordinative movement or exercise. You see the same things with um like musical training like people learning a new musical instrument or learning um musical theory trying to identify different patterns in music. And you see in randomized control trials improvements particularly in executive function that seems to be most common across those different interventions.
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A lot of people don't realize that particularly brain development, but then also the refining of functions in the brain through neuroplasticity includes the pruning or removal of signapses. Often we think about it's all about growth and new connections, but actually it also involves the refining or removal of of other connections that aren't needed.
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But just because we have a fixed relatively fixed number of cells doesn't mean that we can't change the connections between those cells. And that's happening all the time. And that is, you know, the main principle of neuroplasticity.
From one piece North Carolina’s bold move on civil service 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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While I don't think compensation is the core challenge of civil service systems, of course it matters.
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AI is raising public expectations of government service at the same time it changes what government must deliver.Their words
Every state, and the federal government right along with them, is about to be asked to do a lot more than keep the lights on.
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These wins are not proof that the system works; in fact, they are clear evidence that the system only works when it is circumvented.
From one piece Death by AI 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I agree with Koopman that people really are swayed by such cases. I also think it’s a dumb-ass gut response that we should try our best to get over.
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The second failure of rationality is a status quo bias: an unseemly attachment to the way things currently are; an irrational overweighing of the cost of the new. We effectively end up comparing a new technology to perfection, so it’s no wonder it comes up short.
From one piece Comprehensible Input: How It Helps Language Learning 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Past the beginning, learn from whatever you actually care about rather than from material written for learners.Their words
Don’t limit yourself to material designed for language learners. Read and listen to content that you genuinely care about.
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A beginner cannot learn from material made for native speakers: at the start, authentic media is noise.Their words
If you are starting a language completely from scratch, authentic media is just noise. You’ll absorb very little. You need highly repetitive, simple input.
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Learning from input does not mean refusing grammar books; the point is to notice patterns, not to master the rules.Their words
Some people think CI means you reject grammar books. I disagree. I often reference grammar materials and find these explanations useful. However, the focus of my learning is not to “master the rules”. Grammar resources simply help me notice and make sense of patterns in the language.
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Sure, language classes can provide social benefits and feedback. But the real means of learning a language is consistent, ample amounts of listening and reading.
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I came to the same conclusions independently before I encountered Krashen's work, and decades of learning across 20+ languages have only reinforced them. The research supports the intuition: input is where acquisition happens.
19 July
From one piece Why Netflix is betting on systems thinkers—not specialists—in the AI era | Elizabeth Stone (CPTO) 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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In a world of AI with agents operating across multiple systems, wanting source of truth data, the importance of having preferred paved paths that get the most of the benefits and produce some guardrails so we can make sure we're doing good work, common infrastructure, common paved paths, solving problems once with a core set of capabilities becomes more important.
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So, we are hiring more people who can look across all the business domains and abstract that to here's the building blocks we're going to need in a world with AI.
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Craft excellence within each discipline is not going away, however much AI blurs the work across functional lines.Their words
I still see a craft excellence that's really important in the disciplines that I don't think is going away anytime soon. Even if there's fluidity or blurring of the work across the functional lines.
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That AI lets anyone prototype does not mean everyone should be shipping code to production.Their words
Do I believe that means anyone should be shipping code to production? That everyone should actually be doing everything? Probably not. But I think that it's good for people to be exploring what's possible.
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I think anytime a new technology comes along, especially one that's as transformative as GenAI, you go through a storming phase before you go through the forming phase of things. And I think we are in the middle of that right now.
18 July
From one piece Controlling Reasoning Effort in LLMs 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Pushing an LLM's reasoning budget higher eventually yields diminishing returns and becomes uneconomical.Their words
This saturation can be seen more clearly for the GPT 5.6 Sol model, which also shows that increasing reasoning budgets can become uneconomical at some point.
Controlling Reasoning Effort in LLMsmagazine.sebastianraschka.com
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a smaller model at a higher reasoning effort can sometimes reach a similar score as a larger model at a lower reasoning effort
Controlling Reasoning Effort in LLMsmagazine.sebastianraschka.com
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These <think> and </think> tags are cosmetic with respect to reasoning ability. They do not make the model reason, and they are not required to achieve good reasoning performance.
Controlling Reasoning Effort in LLMsmagazine.sebastianraschka.com
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A City on MarsTheir words
They excel at making the dull delightful. There are a lot of big and serious facts to get through, but they have a gift for communicating them simply and eloquently. I just wish they'd've come to a different conclusion.
17 July
From one piece Permanent Daylight Saving Time Is the Perfect Stupid Idea for Our Stupid Time 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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politicians acting based on what they think polls well, rather than based on what will actually produce results that make voters happy
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the increasing unreasonableness of an electorate that wants all its groceries in one bag and also doesn't want the bag to be heavy is a primary driver behind permanently low approval of politicians in both parties
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Modern technology has made seasonal clock changes far less burdensome than they were decades ago.Their words
the main relevant difference between 1974 and now is that technology handles clock changes on our behalf, so time changes are less burdensome than they used to be.
From one piece Another stolen summer day 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Forest management alone cannot offset the hotter, drier conditions that climate change has brought to wildfires.Their words
It is not enough to manage away the hotter, drier conditions that have turned fires into continent-spanning hellscape smoke events.
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Polluters and their cronies are not trying to win the climate argument, merely to prolong it in perpetuity so there's never enough public consensus for action.
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Unlocking the Past: A Yogic Perspective on Healing Intergenerational TraumaTheir words
Join my on-demand course with @YogaUOnline—Unlocking the Past: A Yogic Perspective on Healing Intergenerational Trauma, exploring how yogic approaches can resolve inherited trauma.
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Their words
I read a bunch of blog posts about how it is totally fine to use SQLite in production for a small site and I think it is totally fine, but what I did not fully appreciate is that SQLite is still a database, databases are complicated, and I do not know a lot about operating databases.
16 July
From one piece My speech at Borgo Laudato Si’ 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Competitive pressure among AI developers could cause loss of control even without anyone intending itTheir words
But in a climate of rushed decisions and fierce competition, we could lose control over AI even if almost no one wants that outcome.
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AI is developing at a very rapid pace, far more rapidly than most outside of the industry fully understand, and far more rapidly than almost anyone in the industry predicted.
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Loss of control is a risk for the next few years, not the next few decades as many experts once thought.
From one piece Notebooks And The Extended Mind 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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the most pressing question is not whether the machines are on the verge of sentience, since the likelihood of that seems low.
Notebooks And The Extended Mindadjacentpossible.substack.com
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the external tools that we use to help us reason, remember, associate, calculate-from counting on our fingers to chatting with an advanced LLM-should be properly understood as extensions of our own cognitive process.
Notebooks And The Extended Mindadjacentpossible.substack.com
From one piece Is the Age of Reading Actually Over? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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A shift toward faster media formats changes how people read rather than ending reading altogetherTheir words
Faster formats don't automatically destroy reading. They change it.
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As everything else becomes faster and cheaper, things that require sustained attention become more valuableTheir words
When everything else gets faster and cheaper, the stuff that requires real-time and attention becomes more important, more valuable.
From one piece Workshop Basel day three 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Today's live-streamed TV broadcasts have higher latency than the 1969 moon landing broadcast.Their words
The moon landing was broadcasted with less latency than current live-streamed TV
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The feature is disabled by Google in ChromeOS, Android and in production Google servers which certainly holds back some use of it.
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I have the Wigglesworth and Moore books on my desk, queued up for my hammock reading
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How to Get Rich in American HistoryTheir words
I have the Wigglesworth and Moore books on my desk, queued up for my hammock reading
15 July
From one piece Corridor Zoning is not Transit-Oriented Development 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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the explicit purpose of corridor zoning is to concentrate both air pollution and the perceived social pollution of apartment dwellers in quarantine zones that single-family homeowners can avoid
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The reason is simple: TOD doesn't care about corridors but about the underlying transit, which is a subway, not a bus stopping every block.
From one piece Context engineering with Dex Horthy 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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But it's also your instruction budget is like if you give the model too many instructions and especially too many conflicting instructions and that's in your initial prompt and also like if you have a conversation you start going down a path and then you change your mind and you start going down a different you actually I don't want to do any of that I want to do this. It's like a it's a lot of computation the model has to do to notice that it has to ignore that whole thing.
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You're not actually getting a like smarter model. like the intelligence of the model is is what drives its ability to attend to all of the tokens in the context window to figure out on the next turn which parts of this 100k or 200k context window are the most relevant to making the decision of like what is the next tool we call and doing that over and over again in a loop.
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I think context engineering has been so long lived because it's it's grounded in the fundamentals of how transformer attention works and until we have post transformer models or linear attention or whatever it is which who knows when that's going to happen context engineering will be interesting and important to anyone building on AI
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Well, harness engineering just is like how do I raise the floor so that every single turn of this thing, the results are as good as possible.
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And at the end of the day, they're all like different ways to pass tokens into a model and ask it to produce usually some structured output. And understanding that is a lot more powerful than trying to learn memory and trying to pick some agent framework off the shelf and some memory framework off the shelf.
From one piece Operation Gallavant: An Overlanding Journey Through Latin America 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Under rising uncertainty, people should shorten their planning horizon rather than invest in a distant future.Their words
When uncertainty rises, your horizon should become shorter-term.
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AI's transformation of society will unfold gradually over decades, not in a single moment of takeoff.Their words
AI will take many decades to ripple through society. We won't see the end of it in our lifetimes.
From one piece An Alternative to Private Equity: Introducing ORANGE JUICE 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Privately held businesses in the United States are collectively worth trillions of dollars, and demographically speaking, they have an aging set of owners who are seeking liquidity or diversification as they explore how to pass on what they've built.
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PE funds optimize for a 4-7 flip and typically resort to aggressive cost-cutting and near-term optimization at the cost of the "soul" of the business or what made it successful in the first place.
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Businesses acquired by private equity funds fail more often than average because of the leverage loaded onto them.Their words
Businesses that emerge out of PE funds have higher failure rates than average, thanks to being saddled with a lot of leverage.
From one piece Labor is Now Free. Make Something. 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The difference in performance between horse and buggy and a modern car is far less than hand coding and AI coding.
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This will become normal and commonplace 12-24 months from now, but right now no one really knows.
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Now is the best time ever to start a small business, thanks to AI making labor essentially free.Their words
There has never been a better time to start a small business.
From one piece Open source models are having a moment 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Geo-politically, countries will be weighing open weight models as a way to get frontier-level tokens inside controlled environments that may not be otherwise possible.
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Organizations will trade some access to frontier-level AI capability for greater control over how their data is used.Their words
Organizations are increasingly looking for control over how their data is used and are willing to trade off some access to frontier level tokens for this control.
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The future is multi-model.Their words
it is clear we are going to have a diverse ecosystem of models at least on coding and agentic use.
From one piece Various and Sundry 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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While in mathematics AI agents are starting to have a major positive impact on research (e.g. by resolving the Jacobian conjecture), the situation is very different in hep-th.
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I see nothing that looks like a significant new idea or any evidence this isn't a dead field.
14 July
From one piece Some Summer Reading 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Behavioral economics is not a cure-all, but it is a useful tool for individuals and for systemic change alike.Their words
My view: Behavioral economics is no panacea, but it can be an extremely useful tool for individuals and for systems as well.
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As I've often written, money isn't really about numbers; it's about emotion.
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Good economic times tend to produce bad financial ideas, while bad times produce good ones.Their words
My own theory is that good times foster bad financial ideas, and bad times engender good ones.
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