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12 August
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One common question I get now is how much of the standard startup advice is still true in the AI era. So far almost all of it. There's more difference between the advice I give different startups in one batch than between what I've given pre-AI and post-AI startups.
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A lot of founders I talk to are worried about what will happen with AI. So am I frankly. But they're actually better off than anyone else. If the world is going to get turned upside down, the safest place to be is in a small, fast-moving company that can easily change direction.
From one piece Stop being skeptical about AI for development with Charity Majors 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I mean, if you if you think about it, you could generate 10,000 variants of a function faster than you could write it once.
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What I was saying in that piece though was, I think we were right to be skeptical that time. But now, I see the same thing playing out with would you be willing to ship it some code you didn't read? There's no point in arguing about if it will happen or when it will happen. Talk about what it would take.
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And it wasn't actually the models. It was the harnesses. It was all the tooling.
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We can go fast. Let's do same thing faster, you know, just boom. And I've come to feel like that is a very immature description of what better is.
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Team output is still what matters, however hard the industry pushes to measure individual output.Their words
I also believe that, you know, there's been this whole push towards individual output, but teams are still what matter. Teams output.
From one piece I wrote an AI textbook — how long until AI can do it better? 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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So, in 2-5 years I still expect the best textbooks to be heavily crafted by the human hand.
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Something intertwined with this story, which I stumbled upon when thinking about agents, is how your pace of understanding won't increase by using agents.
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Models being stagnant in long-form, non-fiction writing should be alarming to those reliant on models autonomously solving grand, open science problems in the near future.
From one piece Chelsea Finn: This is the State of the Art in Robotics 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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and trying to fold two boxes together isn't useful data that will teach the model how to get better at the task. And so that would be kind of wasting a lot of time on the robot attempting to go down the wrong path for solving the problem. And so instead of spending a lot of time trying to do that task, what we'll do is we'll actually have a human intervene and show the robot what to do and how to recover from that situation.
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Now maybe this isn't completely out of the question but this would be quite challenging uh to do and that's because the calculus is a little bit different. We're not just running compute to optimize for a use case. We're actually running the robot in the real world and using the hardware and attempting the task in the real world.
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Um, and while this generally improves the reliability of the model, uh, people eventually get tired and it's hard to get really, really high reliability with a person that's manually tuning this. And so what would be even better is if the AI system itself can iterate on the scenario in which you want it to have higher reliability where it on its own automatically seeks out places where it needs more data, where it needs more supervision.
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Uh and this means that they're going to be far more useful when they're operating fully autonomously. And as a result, this requires us to develop physical AI systems that make far fewer mistakes than the machine learning systems that have been deployed thus far.
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And in all of these applications, the customer is making a decision based off of the recommendation of the AI model more or less. Uh, and this means that if the customer is ultimately like kind of making the decision, this means that if the system makes a mistake, um, that's okay because usually the person can kind of recognize that or or decide what to do even despite that mistake.
From one piece ♫ Smoke Gets in Your Eyes ♫ 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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This should turbocharge our resolve to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.
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You read that right: The cost of climate-worsened wildfire smoke alone is larger than what earlier studies said every other estimated cost of climate change would be, combined.
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Climate change is absolutely making these wildfires more severe - there should be zero doubt about that.
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ElevenLabsTheir words
The translation & dubbing was a huge amount of work (which I deeply care about) with humans & AI collaborating. Thanks to the amazing team at @ElevenLabs for their help.
From one piece AI’s climate problem is worse than we thought 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Public discourse shapes what form governance and regulatory accountability ultimately take.Their words
Governance inherits the shape of the discourse that informs it,
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AI had to help renewable energy four to five times more than fossil fuels just for emissions to break even.
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they found that Big Oil's use of AI to produce more oil and gas could create 3.3 to 13.3 times more climate pollution than powering AI's data centers.
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High-quality internal tools produce high-quality external products — a form of Conway's law.Their words
A form of Conway's law: high quality internal tools lead to high quality external tools.
From one piece Why can’t we have nice things? Like, specifically? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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When a bureaucracy never issues a formal refusal, there is no decision to argue against, only endless shadowboxing.Their words
If the city said no we could have an argument about procedures and decisions, but as it stands its all shadowboxing.
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In California, lack of money is not what stops public beautification projects from getting built.Their words
The client was hoping for an instruction manual on buying beauty, but at least in California, money isn't the bottleneck.
From one piece Carry Q2 2026 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Human-made promotional shilling can be worse than AI-generated junk because real effort was wasted on it.Their words
There has also been an uptick in product shills, which, in some ways is worse than AI stuff-some human actually put effort into making straight garbage.
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Social media in general has become a flood of garbage posts either with AI visuals or AI text and all of it has almost no value.
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The original brain microglia (Micro1) are replaced by transformed monocytes (Micro 2) that are highly inflammatory.
From one piece Clips from Hacker News Thread 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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AI is conspicuously missing from our 2.0 release, for sure. A 2026 coding tool should have AI tools.
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Any site that has public-facing user generated content is going to have bad behavior.
11 August
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You can literally just wish for the tools you want now. Omarchy has every skill to make them. It’s magical.
From one piece Ryan Greenblatt – What happens once AI can automate AI research? 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Scaling up spending on expert human data has not been a major driver of progress in AI research.Their words
So my sense is that scaling up the amount of effort spent on getting expert human data has not been hugely important for AI R&D in general.
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Basically, the story would end up being that to get five years of AI progress, you're probably going to need around I would say like maybe eight years of algorithmic progress very roughly. Um, which is a lot a lot of algorithmic progress.
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Second, I think ML is a very shallow domain relative to math. So I think in math there's much more of a you find some true deep abstraction um and then like that like if you really understand that thing which is hard to understand then you get somewhere
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I would say that I expect like full automation of AR&D perhaps somewhere around like 2031 2030 and then getting to like the like beats all humans on the job milestone. Maybe I expect median around 2033
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Once AI can do AI research, a single year should deliver four or five years worth of AI progress.Their words
Maybe my sort of median expectation is something like uh four or five years of AI progress in a single year.
From one piece The Sorcerer’s Apprentice 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Human social cooperation is fundamentally norm-governed rather than purely consequentialist.Their words
human sociality is not purely consequentialist but instead highly norm-governed.
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In short, RLVR gives us no reason to expect the normative representations learned in pre-training will acquire motivational force over a given action, especially when post-training repeatedly selects trajectories for terminal task success.
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AI agents will soon reach superhuman, AlphaZero-like performance across a wide range of domains.Their words
we should therefore expect AI agents to achieve AlphaZero-like, superhuman performance in a wide and expanding variety of domains.
From one piece The Great American AI Rebellion 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The fastest-growing political movement in America is dead-set on stopping the construction of data centers, which are critical to the growth of the fastest-growing industry in America.
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The current AI data-center buildout is the biggest and fastest-growing infrastructure project in living memory.Their words
This is the biggest and fastest-growing infrastructure project of our lifetimes.
From one piece Designing Better Working Relationships 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Working relationships need to be intentionally redesigned on an ongoing basis, not defined once and left fixed.Their words
This design work is never done, and one of the goals of this intentional conversation is to open the door to revisiting this conversation as our individual needs and the needs of the relationship change.
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This helped the leader shift from wanting to change Jacob-something they couldn't control-to taking responsibility for changing the relationship-something they could.
From one piece On having more interesting ideas, pt. 2 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The things you arrive at by exploring small seeds, on the other hand, lead you further astray and tend to produce more life.
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Working under a constraint one resents, rather than none at all, produces more creative results.Their words
Giving yourself constraints is helpful when searching for ideas, especially if the constraints are annoying.
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A few months ago I read an essay about silence by Amir Zadnemat in 3 Quarks Daily, called "The Symphony of Silence: An Exploration of the Sound of Absence"*. The most interesting section was a riff on various kinds of silence, especially in spoken language, each communicating something very distinct despite the fact that objectively each silence sounds (or I guess doesn't sound) identical:
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Working Effectively with Legacy CodeTheir words
First, Refactoring, Domain-Driven Design, and the Pragmatic Programmer are all classics for a reason. Amazing books, and mandatory reads. Working Effectively with Legacy Code deserves all its praise, and of course everyone (yes, really) should check out the Mythical Man-Month.
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Let Over LambdaTheir words
Let Over Lambda by Doug Hoyte is perfect for those three people in the world who find The Art of the Metaobject Protocol underwhelming. One of the most impressive books I've read.
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The Design of DesignTheir words
The Design of Design by Frederick P. Brooks. It never received the attention that The Mythical Man-Month got, yet The Design of Design shares many of its qualities. It's a book that grows, and there's a wealth of insights on offer.
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The Little SchemerTheir words
The Little Schemer by Friedman and Felleisen. This book won't teach you Scheme. Rather, it teaches something more valuable: it teaches how to think recursively.
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Multi-Paradigm Design for C++Their words
Multi-Paradigm Design for C++ by James O. Coplien. Twenty years after reading this, the core techniques are still with me. These are commonality analysis, where the purpose is to identify families of systems, and variability analysis, which focuses on capturing the domain parameters that vary. In essence: the foundation of great software design.
10 August
From one piece Peter Steinberger: "Fun Is Velocity" 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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You know features are the fun part. A new feature is is just a prompt away. The real cost comes after every feature we shipped of course with a configuration option because we didn't want to break everyone's setup.
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Sure, they they like the abstract term of security, but in all practical terms, they updated. I broke something they depended on. I made things slower and I made things more difficult to update.
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We did the the numbers and the numbers are more like 0.3%. We scanned all 67,000. We shipped the we shipped the paper. But you know a correction never travels as far as a scare.
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Everything that everything you can build can be forked or cloned, but your name cannot. So your personal brand is way more important than any single product that you ever will start working on that before you need it.
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Product-market fit shows up as anger when you tell people they cannot have it yet, not as polite interest.Their words
But each time there was a strong emotion and the best part there were quite a few people that really wanted it and like especially to my nontechnical friends I told them no this is not yet for you and they got mad. So if that's not an indicator to have product market fit I don't know what is.
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Claude Haiku is my current least favorite model - it hallucinates wildly, and is out-performed now by other similarly priced models like GPT-5.6-Luna Even worse: it seems to still be used by the Claude Code WebFetch tool, which means hallucination risk any time you fetch a URL!
From one piece Using AI to Increase Your Intelligence & Enrich Humanity | Dr. Fei-Fei Li 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Internet is not some random thing. Internet is the biggest collection of human behavior in multimodal forms.
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that child who learns about what you say kitty cat would not have the chance to download the internet of images of cat. They likely have seen three cats, 10 cats at most, but yet they're able to identify that tail as a cattail instead of a fox tail through a different kind of learning pathway.
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What happened there is actually not as revolutionary as you might think because the bottom line is it's still data.
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So we conjectured that the lack of data was a huge part of the reason that's the lack of progress in AI. So we took a departure from everybody else who are really focusing only on algorithm and said that we need data. we need data to drive these algorithms.
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But the first photoreceptive cells created a evolutionary force that propelled animals to evolve because sensing the external world changes your self-perception changes the way your relationship with the external world.
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Coding isn't yet another application domain -- it's the meta-skill required for AI to automatically develop its own training material, via symbolic world models. That's how the RSI loop actually kicks off.
From one piece Worldbuilding with Spatial Intelligence 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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AIs will remain black boxes, hard to understand and hard to predict.
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It will probably be economically shrewd to lose money on early robot models in anticipation that the data they gather will be worth more later in improving newer versions.
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Many startups are racing to create foundational world models, but I think the first ones to succeed will likely be the platforms in control of this data bank.
From one piece On AI Coding and Its Discontents 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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But if you zoom out, it becomes clear that almost every “breakthrough” since last summer has concerned the narrow domains of computer code and math, which are defined by highly structured languages and come accompanied by massive amounts of specialized training data.
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AI is a normal technology rather than an infinity machine, and it is time we started talking about it that way.Their words
It’s a normal technology, and perhaps it’s time we start talking about it that way.
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Handing all code production to AI leaves junior developers with no path to becoming senior ones.Their words
In addition to reliability issues, it often engenders a mind-numbing workflow and an environment where junior developers will never acquire the expertise to become senior developers capable of designing complex systems.
From one piece AI Slop, Accusations, And A Better Way 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Skipping the struggle in a task also means skipping the growth that struggle would have produced.Their words
That's what I mean when I say that if you skip the struggle, you miss the growth. Sometimes the struggle is all that really matters.
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Pattern recognition and replication is fundamentally what machine-learning systems do best.Their words
So of course AI has adopted it; pattern-recognition/replication is what machines do best.
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AI sucked it all up without discernment, because AI cannot discern.
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Data centre opposition only pushes construction to the parts of America that regulate energy and pollution least.Their words
It seems pretty clear that the only thing data center opposition is doing is pushing data center construction to the (many) places in America that won't regulate energy or pollution. Weird thing to pat oneself on the back for.
From one piece Stitching Up the Creature; Or, the Horrors of Revision 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Because most people read so few books, almost any older book is effectively new to them.Their words
Every old book is new to someone. And, given how few books most people read, probably new to functionally everyone.
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this is one reason why I'm skeptical of outsourcing your creativity to LLMs.
From one piece Joining Cursor 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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GitHub's workflow, review process and merge queue are built for a pre-agent era and don't fit how agents work.Their words
Anyone using GitHub knows that it isn't cut out for agents. The workflow, the review process, the merge queue and many things are made for the previous era.
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Developers today mostly plan, debate, implement and review with AI agents rather than write code themselves.Their words
Nobody writes the code anymore. Instead you're basically planning, debating, implementing and reviewing with Agents.
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Agents are the future of how software gets built.Their words
Agents are the future of how we build software, and the ecosystem is moving faster than anything I've seen.
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Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive!Their words
I never dreamed that microtonal odd-metered tunes would come so far. But this group’s latest release will show up on many best-of-year lists in 2026 (mine included).
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The Holy LiftoffTheir words
It sounds like a celestial flute choir inviting you into a dream landscape.
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Ben’s article serves as a great reminder of why the product role is so essential, and is likely to remain essential.
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Reylight Dawn MaxTheir words
The Reylight Dawn Max titanium flashlight is very throwy, but still identifiable as a Dawn. I always liked Dawns, so this is a very good combination.
9 August
From one piece John Crowley has died 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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John Dee, who appeared in Flint and Mirror as well as several other Crowley novels, was not just a wizard but an imperial propagandist.
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Ireland's colonial wars helped set the template Britain later applied elsewhere in its empireTheir words
The brutal war and its aftermath set some of the parameters for what Britain did later in other parts of the world.
From one piece 🌻 abdul el-sayed on AI 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Opposition to data center buildouts is fundamentally driven by public anger about money in politics.Their words
His Lansing rally with Bernie and AOC, more than anything else, crystallized the connection between data center opposition and voters' anger about money in politics.
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Voters are increasingly drawn to fearless, populist 'fighter' candidates over establishment figures.Their words
Abdul's victory is a blow to the Democratic establishment in a crucial swing state-and a lesson in the kinds of fearless, populist, "fighter" candidates that today's voters increasingly want to support.
From one piece The Truth About People Pleasing 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Saying no and setting boundaries are acts of self-preservation, not selfishness or letting others down.Their words
Saying no is not selfish; it's an act of self-preservation. Setting boundaries is not about letting others down-it's about standing up for yourself.
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People pleasing develops as an insecure attachment strategy learned from being valued only for submissiveness.Their words
People pleasing is based on insecure attachment. We become people pleasers when we discover that others only value us when we're cooperative to the point of being submissive and deferential.
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Chronic people pleasing stems from a need for others' approval, not genuine concern for them.Their words
The root of chronic people pleasing is not concern for others. It's concern for their acceptance and approval.
From one piece The Uses Of Terror 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The Sea Peoples did not invade lands to claim them as their own, or extract treasure or slaves to bring back to their homeland. They seemingly torched the great capitals of the Bronze Age just to watch them burn.
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To be a true pirate implies a broader disavowal. The pirate renounces the long-distance authorities of nations and empires.
From one piece every company needs a cassandra 3 beliefs · sunilpai.dev
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“you are a devil’s advocate, disagree with everything” is probably the worst possible prompt for this agent. within a week everyone would ignore her. she’d become the slack equivalent of a smoke detector that goes off whenever somebody makes toast.
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an ai is oddly well suited to this job. cassandra doesn’t want a promotion and doesn’t need the people in the channel to like her. disagreeing with the vp three times this month won’t show up in a performance review. she doesn’t have an ego invested in being right either.
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we say we want disagreement, but every disagreement costs the person making it a little social/political capital. do it often enough and you become the negative person. people stop evaluating the argument and start evaluating the source.
From one piece The Argument Against AI Writing Is At Least 2,400 Years Old 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The ethical failure in using AI to write is publishing unread, unowned work, not using the tool itself.Their words
The transgression isn't using the machine. It's hitting a button, not reading what comes back, and publishing it under your name.
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New technologies raise the ceiling for skilled practitioners instead of diminishing them.Their words
What actually happened each time a new technology was introduced is that the ceiling went higher.
From one piece Sample Roesting 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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When it comes to cafe operations and roasting, efficient workflow is critical to profit margins.
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Most air roasters perform best near full capacity because larger batches reduce air bypass.Their words
Air bypass is the reason most air roasters function best near full capacity (larger batches allow less air bypass.)
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Consistent roast color in sample roasting is essential for making fair, informed green-coffee buying decisions.Their words
Roast quality and color can have a big impact on perceived cup score and buying decisions, so if you are serious about choosing the right green for your company, it is a good idea to do your own sample roasting, using a system that yields your preferred roast level consistently.
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PressureTheir words
Who would have thought that someone could make a gripping movie about predicting the weather? Nevertheless, Pressure delivers.
8 August
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If nobody creates content any more because everyone just asks an AI, there is nothing left for AI to train on.Their words
The problem is if nobody creates new content anymore and just asks their AI every question, the AI has nothing to train on anymore
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Wireheads: An Unnatural History of Technology in the BrainTheir words
An excellent book, substantive on every page, and it will make you want to read some of the works he cites.
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From the Front Line, Stalingrad-Treblinka-Berlin 1941-1945Their words
Self-recommending, the best third of this volume is just stunningly good.
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Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold SeasonTheir words
I usually do not enjoy poetry in translation, but this is so fiery and full of passion that I am happy to recommend it.
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NadjaTheir words
It is short, and fun enough to read.
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Servus: How Slavery Made the Roman EmpireTheir words
A very good and aggressively readable book about how terrible slavery was in the Roman Empire.
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I REALLY want to believe that this fixes prompt injection risks for coding agents, but I'm just not there yet
From one piece We're stuck in Philip K. Dick's imagined universe 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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All of these grand visions hide truths that are messier, more sordid and more contingent.
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A writer can be artistically important for revealing new possibilities without being technically skilled at prose.Their words
you can be a great writer, revealing possibilities that others haven't seen, without always being a good one.
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Increasingly, it is looking much more like the one anticipated by the drugged-up 1960s oeuvre of Philip K Dick, filled with deranged billionaires, machines that claim consciousness, hallucinated worlds and political breakdown.
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Masters in BusinessTheir words
Be sure to check out our Masters in Business next week with Dr. Ankur Crawford, EVP and Portfolio Manager at Alger.
7 August
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we do not think it is a good strategy to keep powerful models to a chosen few.
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Giving consumer-facing models and API models separate brand names is needlessly confusing.Their words
I really do think that having separate brand names for the consumer-facing models and the API models is needlessly confusing
From one piece Max Hodak: Average Is Not Good Enough 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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There is no right hiring process, but there is a wrong one: not having something you do religiously as a company.Their words
there's no one right answer, but this is a thing where you need a really defined process. There is no right answer, but a wrong answer for sure is not having something that you do very religiously as a company.
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I think the best companies in my experience come from what might be characterized as scenes. There's like a moment that enables a new company to be born and there's a bunch that comes together that really creates this like unique nucleation for the new company.
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And so if nobody knows how much an experiment costs, like every time you like grow up a new cell line or every time we make a new a new probe in in the fab, how much does that loop cost? Nobody knows. Therefore, experiments are free. Um, it doesn't cost dollars. It costs media. And media comes from the fridge.
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And so what you realize is not only is this very hard to keep burn under control, but also it's just this is the inappropriate place to exercise spending review. Spending review has to come earlier. You have to have some concept of budgeting.
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Making a highly paid team wait a week to buy a tool at half price destroys far more value than it saves.Their words
then you also remember that you've hired some very highly paid and talented employees. And are you saying they can't get the tools that they need? That you're spending $100,000 a week. If you wait a week to get a power supply half off, you have certainly dwarfed any possible benefit from getting it.
From one piece Electrification Costs and Confounders 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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one should never apportion the cost of the RER or Stammstrecke tunnels to the cost of surface electrification
Electrification Costs and Confounderspedestrianobservations.com
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electrification in Germany is usually bundled with other projects that end up costing that in total
Electrification Costs and Confounderspedestrianobservations.com
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In the era of base LLM scaling (2022-2024), I believed the LLM line of research would reach a capability plateau (as later seen with base LLMs). In late 2024, after the o3 test-time compute demo, I changed my views: the new models were showing genuine fluid intelligence, and with this new line of work, the LLM line of research could achieve unbounded capability scaling. "There will be no wall."
From one piece @fchollet on X 2 beliefs · x.com
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I believe current techniques are 4-6 orders of magnitude away from optimality in terms of data efficiency and test-time compute efficiency. But far future AI will be near-optimal.
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Future AI, say in fifteen years, will not be built on the LLM stack; it will have to move to symbolic learning.Their words
However, looking ahead, I still do not believe that future AI (say, in 15 years) will be based on the LLM stack. I believe it will necessarily have to move closer to its optimal, final form -- symbolic learning. Obviously this is a risky and contrarian belief -- the safe bet would be LRMs. But let's see.
From one piece Thinking the unthinkable 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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There is suddenly political will and leadership on these issues, which makes change now possible, but the administrative state is not going to reform itself.
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we've both come to believe that when transformation fails repeatedly, it's time for something different, and one of the tools that leaders need to add to their tool belts (and probably use a lot more frequently than they do today), is starting fresh, creating new entities (agencies and departments, for example) and either endowing them with new authorities or transferring authorities from legacy institutions to the new ones.
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Philanthropy can never operate at the scale of government, no matter how well-funded it becomes.Their words
Even with the influx of funding that may come with the AI companies' IPOs, philanthropy can never act at the scale of government.
From one piece The 9 Questions I’m Obsessed With Right Now: AI, Politics, Movies, Drugs, and Western Civilization 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Combined with Nietzsche's observation, I think you could argue that moderns are both more selfish and more guilt-stricken than our ancestors.
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The long-term risk for Hollywood is that an age of original blockbusters raises the bar for success.
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it's not out of the question that Anthropic or OpenAI-which barely had any revenue before 2023-could equal or surpass the revenue of all of Musk's public companies some time in the next 12 to 24 months.
6 August
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The "private equity is buying up all the houses" argument is both wrong and an excuse for deferring zoning reform.Their words
Progressive slopulism really fucked us with this "Private equity is buying up all the houses" argument. It's a fractally stupid concern AND an excuse for deferring zoning reform.
From one piece What’s the Right Mix of The Four Tendencies in a Team? 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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If you keep adding deadlines without also checking whether the workload itself is sustainable, you risk what I call Obliger-rebellion-the point where an Obliger who has met, met, met, and met expectations suddenly snaps and refuses to meet any more.
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Obligers, the most common Tendency, tend to work well alongside every other Tendency, which makes them worth having on any team.
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But this concentration weakens a team, because you end up with too much of certain qualities, and not enough of others.
From one piece On the Perils of Self-Assessing... 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The only style worth having is the one you cannot help; setting out to develop a personal style is the wrong goal.Their words
And that there might come a moment, while reading a new, just-edited-for-the-thousandth-time draft, where that true self, or voice, pops out at you, suddenly revealed, as if someone else, not you, had done it.
On the Perils of Self-Assessing...georgesaunders.substack.com
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Write something, in any old mood – feeling great about it or terrible, doesn’t matter.
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Going to read work you know is good when your own is going badly is legitimate recalibration, not theft.Their words
I do, yes, get into “funks like that” and I do just what you describe: I go find some writing that I know is good and check in against that.
On the Perils of Self-Assessing...georgesaunders.substack.com
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A first draft should not be graded good or bad; it is only the material that taste then gets to act on.Their words
Just don’t do it. Accept it, whatever it is, as a starting place in the long game of exerting your taste on your own prose.
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What matters is not how the writer felt while writing it but how the reader will feel while reading it.Their words
What matters is not how we felt on reading what you’re written, but how the reader is going to feel on reading it.
On the Perils of Self-Assessing...georgesaunders.substack.com
5 August
From one piece The real energy use of agentic AI 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Unlike aviation, this is an end-use we already know how to decarbonize.
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Which is why the lever that actually matters most is the carbon intensity of the electricity.
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This is the Jevons paradox in action: making compute cheaper per token in turn tends to lead to greater levels of AI use.
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Hot take: there are multiple valid ways to build quality software
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If you learn key consensus results from many different fields, you will often find that they are in conflict, in ways one or both fields are unaware.
4 August
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i would rather be an optimist and work hard than a pessimist posting about why things won't work. it's much more difficult and the most likely path is failure, but society fails if people don't try. no amount of "it will never work" essays will drive society forward.
From one piece Why $100 in Your 20s is Worth $500 in Your 60s 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Blowing all your money while young isn’t a smart move, but hoarding money now that you won’t spend later is worse.
Why $100 in Your 20s is Worth $500 in Your 60sofdollarsanddata.com
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The habituation to novel experiences makes spending money earlier in life more valuable than later in life.
Why $100 in Your 20s is Worth $500 in Your 60sofdollarsanddata.com
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 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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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.
Their words now
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 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" 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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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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I’ve savored this series for the past eight months, listening to about one a month on Audible while I run.
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