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20 September
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The fact that we don't have swarms of drones prefabbing houses in the relatively benign atmosphere of our planet should be evidence that maybe these claims aren't quite matched with reality.
19 September
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If AI is risky like fire, everyone should have it; if it is risky like a nuclear weapon, no one should.Their words
If AI is risky like fire is risky, then you want everyone to have it. If AI is risky like a nuclear weapon is risky, then you want no one to have it.
15 September
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7 September
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Every piece of software is now at major risk, Linux included. But Linux has the collective investment of everyone on the planet throwing tokens at it.
6 September
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This is playing with fire and potentially extremely bad news, both that OpenAI found the technique effective, and that OpenAI chose to use it.
1 September
30 August
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Global warming is destabilizing mountain glaciers, making catastrophic glacial-lake outburst floods more frequent.Their words
As the planet warms, the entire region's frozen mountain slopes are becoming less stable, making glacier collapses-and the catastrophic floods they can unleash-far more likely.
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But if you return fire with fire, the only thing that'll burn is our reputation. The troll who triggered you into flashing your teeth won't face any consequences, but every spectator who saw it will judge you.
26 August
From one piece DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux | Lex Fridman Podcast #501 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Entrepreneurs benefit from setting ambitious goals, even though most people do not need grand ambitions at all.Their words
And I will say I've actually changed my mind on that a little bit. I spent quite a lot of time speaking the other book that there are a lot of people who don't actually need those ambitions. And I also-- That's also true. We don't want 8 billion Elons running around the world. Would be rather crazy, I think. But I've come to realize that for entrepreneurs, it's healthy to have suitable chunky goals.
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Creating life with another human you love is the peak experience of being on the planet.Their words
I'm excited about a lot of things. I love building things, and I love hobbies, and I love all sorts of stuff. But creating life with another human that you love is literally the peak experience of being on the planet.
25 August
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We have made it hot enough on this planet that things are going very wrong.
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People generally underestimate serious natural threats such as pandemics and climate change.Their words
Of course that's true for the rest of the planet, but somehow we don't take natural threats seriously, whether from plagues or climate change.
24 August
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A cabin in literature typically serves as an escape from trouble or a place where new trouble is found.Their words
The cabin is a classic literary setting. It's the getaway spot where characters can flee to escape their troubles or journey to in order to find new ones.
Processing: How Josh Riedel Edited Thirty Cabinscountercraft.substack.com
22 August
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We now know that fires are necessary for healthy forests, that a century of fire suppression in the West has been disastrous.
16 August
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Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful IdeasTheir words
The only regret I have is not reading this book 5 years earlier. Also, not every single teacher on the planet did read this — what a shame.
15 August
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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.
6 August
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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
29 July
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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.
27 July
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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.
22 July
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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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9 July
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Because if you're those three things, if you got fire in your belly, you learn quickly, and you're self-aware, you can kind of get good at anything eventually.
4 July
30 June
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To meet the global population’s protein needs through factory-produced bacterial protein in 2024 would have used more than the total global electricity generated using renewable (hydro, photovoltaic and wind) energy
23 June
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The mind's planning and goal-setting function is only a small fraction of a person's overall intelligence.Their words
The planning part of your mind, the one that generates ambitions and hypothetical situations, is a small part of your overall intelligence.
Surrender as a non-stupid life strategysashachapin.substack.com
17 June
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In the English-language arena, Britten sets the standard for handling writers of inborn musical power-the likes of Shakespeare, Donne, Blake, Keats, Hopkins.
16 June
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When you break that, when you overthrow the ruler, when you dissolve the republic, when you put in a new thing, it doesn't have that same staying power. And so, it's very common when there's one regime change for there to then be five regime changes rapid-fire over and over.
9 June
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One, you're surrounding yourself by failing states. You can look at Russia and China and they're surrounded by some of the most dysfunctional places on the planet and you go, "Gee whiz, are they unlucky or they complicit?"
4 June
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So, like with lawyers particularly, you need some entity to back up the product. You need kind of like an ownership of the product. You need somebody to be able to fire or or hire, like licensing issues. There's a lot of like sort of like regulatory layers that are like also going to be keeping even if there's no relational element human in the loop that have nothing to do with like the ability of the human to actually perform the service.
2 June
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I think that you owe it to in that moral contract to your good employees to fire the weak people. And they're not bad people. They may be really smart. They are not effective in your organization. They are not taking hills.
31 May
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EisenhornTheir words
It's pretty decently adequate, as mind candy. There are places where Abnett shows flashes of real talent. (To avoid spoilers, I'll just say: The first alien planet; the opening scenes with the cranky biologist.) There are other aspects of the novels which are pretty unsatisfying.
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corporations, organizations are the oldest form of artificial intelligence on the planet. They are an example of this emergent intelligence.
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22 March
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AI did not create the bottlenecks in software delivery; it threw gas on processes everybody already knew were weak.Their words
There were a handful of people probably managing a security review process or a launch process or a deployment process or, you know, sometimes reviews were a little slow and they got backed up. Well, now we just threw gas on the fire and so all of that is a problem.
16 March
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Big companies will lose about half of their engineers, because that is where everybody is setting the dial.Their words
And so, what's happening is everybody on average is setting that dial to about 50% and we're going to lose about half the engineers from big companies, which is scary.
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Now part of the skillset is being able to weather like a fire hose of criticism like the world has never seen.
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Intelligence brownouts will be interesting - the planet losing IQ points when frontier AI stutters.
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AI datacenter growth makes performance engineering critical for saving the planet, not just cutting costs.Their words
The staggering and fast-growing cost of AI datacenters is a call for performance engineering like no other in history; it's not just about saving costs - it's about saving the planet.
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Alex Mayyasi, Planet Money: A Guide to the Economic Forces that Shape Your Life is a useful introduction to economic concepts.
1 January
From one piece We replaced our sales team with 20 AI agents—here's what happened next | Jason Lemkin (SaaStr) 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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go fire up your browser. Do it in incognito. Go to your app and do everything with a fresh Gmail address. Try support. See how your support is. Try to contact sales.
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The next constraint on AI adoption is not what the agents can do but how many of them a company can absorb.Their words
And so that's going to be a headwind that today everything seems like it has tailwinds, right? Everything's on fire. But people are going to get exhausted for having so many agents.
29 December 2025
26 December 2025
From one piece 4 Simple Steps to Change Your Life 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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New Year's goals are merely the path toward a person's underlying purpose, not the destination itself.Their words
People make this mistake of setting new goals every January 1st, but forget that goals are the path, not the destination.
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Every person has a purpose in life, and each person gets to define what that purpose is.Their words
The pretty truth is that you have a purpose on this planet. The gorgeous truth is that you get to define that purpose.
27 November 2025
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Widespread AI-driven performance tuning agents will meaningfully reduce global energy waste.Their words
In future there will be AI performance agents that can be run on everything, helping to save the planet by reducing energy usage.
26 November 2025
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A House of DynamiteTheir words
A House of Dynamite. A very tough watch, but I thought this was fantastic as a tour of some of the different kinds of people who hold the fate of every single person on the planet in their hands every damn day. They’re tired, stressed, distracted, at cross-purposes with themselves, set in their ways, more celebs than leaders, and mediocre. And none of them have ever seen Dr. Strangelove? (A)
12 November 2025
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5 October 2025
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And a thousand experiments by itself, like if you just did that, but you didn't learn, you didn't make an impact, and that's kind of a waste of time, right? The whole point of setting a goal is that you can have conversations about what would need to be true to actually hit that goal.
24 September 2025
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EnsorcelledTheir words
Ensorcelled by Eliot Peper is genius. It’s a unique format that can be read in one setting. The writing is beautiful.
4 August 2025
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Grass-fed organic beef is worse for the climate and the planet than beef finished in a feedlot.Their words
We need better beef - which means more efficient beef, not organic grass-fed beef, which is even worse for the climate and the planet than conventional feedlot-finished beef - but in the rich world we also need to eat less beef.
14 June 2025
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Setting a worse task against the one you are avoiding is a procrastination hack that actually works.Their words
It’s when you really don’t want to do a thing that you imagine a thing you don’t want to do more that’s worse than that and then in that way, you procrastinate by not doing the thing that’s worse. It’s a nice hack, it actually works.
5 June 2025
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Many years ago, I think it might've been 2017 or 2018, I said at the time, AI is the most profound technology humanity will ever work on. It'll be more profound than fire or electricity. So, I have to back myself. I still think that's the case.
24 May 2025
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I think whoever fired first was not decided at that point, but I do think that from the moment that Hitler takes power in 1933, a conflict between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany is inevitable.
21 March 2025
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The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate AmericaTheir words
A unique lens on work in the late 90s that still resonated when I read it in 2018. It's a soulful exploration of how to maintain your humanity, creativity and inner fire in environments that often prioritize conformity and efficiency.
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Good Work: Reclaiming Your Inner AmbitionTheir words
A personal exploration of how to reclaim that fire inside of you and steer it toward your 'good work' while still being true to yourself.
13 March 2025
3 February 2025
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Arizona is a paperweight. If Hsinchu disappeared off the face of the planet, within a year, couple years, Arizona would stop producing too.
22 December 2024
From one piece Adam Frank: Alien Civilizations and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #455 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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There's the first law of thermodynamics, which is just about the different forms of energy. Then there's the second law, which is about when you use that energy, Kardashev wasn't thinking about the second law. If you get all that energy and you use it, there is waste heat. You don't get to use it all.
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Life and the Earth co-evolve. That's what Brandon Carter didn't see is that actually, the fate of the Earth the fate of life are inextricably combined. This is really important for astrobiology, too. Life doesn't happen on a planet, it happens to a planet.
17 November 2024
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16 October 2024
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So the suggestion is that it wasn’t one impact, it wasn’t two impacts, it wasn’t three impacts, it was hundreds of air bursts all around the planet.
30 September 2024
From one piece Ed Barnhart: Maya, Aztec, Inca, and Lost Civilizations of South America | Lex Fridman Podcast #446 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The Inca stones were not fitted by patient pecking with hammer stones; they were fused with acid.Their words
The common archeological wisdom that you’d find out of a textbook is that they just kept pecking away at it with hammer stones and setting them and resetting them until they were perfect, which has to be bullshit, that there is no way that they just were that meticulous. I mean, everybody’s got a hammerstone. I personally think it’s acids.
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I mean, if that’s right, that means the Maya and the people of Mesoamerica will all share it together, when they thought about, “We need a count of time for us,” they didn’t look up into the heavens, they looked into their bodies. “What’s the first cycle that we actually go through as humans?” and they picked this nine-month thing. It really is our cycle, and no other culture on the planet looked inside themselves to create their calendar like that.
2 September 2024
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F.I.R.E for dummiesTheir words
I stand in awe of what author Jackie Cummings Koski has done here. This is a comprehensive overview of what FIRE is and how it is done, fashioned in the famous "for dummies" template. I wouldn't have known how to even begin to pull this together, let alone gotten it over the finish line in such fine form.
13 June 2024
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And so for me, I think life is the process of how information structures matter over time and space, and an example of life is what emerges on a planet and yields an open-ended cascade of generation of structure and increasing complexity. And this is the thing that life is. And any individual is just a particular instance of these lineages that are structured across time.
22 March 2024
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Because we have that policy, Launch on Warning, which is exactly like it says. It means the United States will not wait to absorb a nuclear attack. It will launch nuclear weapons in response before the bomb actually hits.
24 February 2024
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Theft of FireTheir words
Theft of Fire offers a plausible and realistic universe. The characters, Marcus Warnoc and Miranda Foxgrove, are not mere archetypes; they are complex, flawed, and deeply human. Their struggle to trust one another and overcome their own demons is a powerful allegory for the modern human condition.
3 February 2024
3 January 2024
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SolarisTheir words
Classic scifi. Guy shows up on a research station above a planet with a strange (alive??) ocean
20 November 2023
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Not the End of the WorldTheir words
His life and work have influenced my own tremendously—and just a few pages into Ritchie’s essential and hopeful new book, Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet, it became clear that she was carrying on his tremendous legacy.
9 November 2023
4 November 2023
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ZojirushiTheir words
Turn on the rice cooker for normal or quick cooking (I have a Zojirushi, either setting works).
1 November 2023
28 May 2023
From one piece Fantasy Farming 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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A romantic, low-yield farming system would need far more land and would produce more hunger, not less.Their words
But it leads, if enacted, to hunger, ecological destruction or both, on a vast scale. Our arcadian fantasies devour the planet.
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Pasture-fed meat cannot be scaled up to feed the world, because there is not enough land on Earth for it.Their words
Their solutions, such as pasture-fed meat, with its massive land demand , are impossible to scale without destroying remaining wild ecosystems: there is simply not enough planet.
2 March 2023
From one piece Choose People 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Labour-saving innovation in rich countries is aimed at the only asset most of the world’s poor have to sell.Their words
Therefore, we have the perverse situation that the richest people are hiring some of the most talented and technologically sophisticated people on the planet to engage in innovation aimed at driving down the demand for labor—the major and often only asset of the world’s poor.
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My key argument is that in the current global economy we have some of the scarcest resources on the planet devoting themselves to economizing one of the most abundant resources on the planet.
17 January 2023
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My column is about how we’re going to need plant-based meat, cultivated meat, and all kinds of futuristic genetic engineering to grow enough food to feed humanity without frying the planet.
5 November 2022
13 October 2022
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The Black CompanyTheir words
I enjoyed the first book a great deal: it’s in a fairly stock medieval setting, but it handles the dark fantasy well
7 September 2022
From one piece Nick Lane: Origin of Life, Evolution, Aliens, Biology, and Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #318 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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But the thing is, you can’t have this if you don’t have an oxygenated planet because it’s all, in the end, it’s about how much energy can you extract from the food you eat? And if you don’t have an oxygenated planet, you can get about 10% out, not much more than that. And if you’ve got an oxygenated planet, you can get about 40% out.
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So, there is no necessary trajectory towards great complexity in human beings at the end of it. It’s very easy to imagine that without photosynthesis arising or without eukaryotes arising, that the planet could be full of bacteria and nothing else.
9 August 2022
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in 1985, um my colleagues and I came up with a description of how people actually make life-and-death decisions under extreme time pressure and certainty. And we called it the recognition prime decision model. And it's a blend of intuition plus analysis. And we found we studied firefighters. We found that most fire that accounted for almost 90% of the tough decisions firefighters made.
6 June 2022
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The Lincoln HighwayTheir words
Once again, I was wowed by Towles’s writing—especially because The Lincoln Highway is so different from A Gentleman in Moscow in terms of setting, plot, and themes.
19 April 2022
11 January 2022
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The World-Ending FireTheir words
After years of people recommending him to me, I finally took the plunge into the literary world of Wendell Berry. Now I can't help but wonder what took me so long. This 2018 collection of Berry's best essays is a fantastic introduction into his genre-defining polemic style, which mixes razor-sharp commentary with a poetry grounded in lived experience, to argue on behalf of land, the environment, and a slower, richer approach to life.
16 August 2021
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The only thing a productivity system can do for you is help you choose slightly better what to do right now.Their words
In the end, the only point of any personal productivity system, goal-setting technique or "life planning" exercise is to help you make a slightly better decision about what to do, right now
20 October 2020
20 January 2019
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A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance – Portrait of an Age by William Manchester
1 January 2018
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Halt and Catch FireTheir words
Halt and Catch Fire is extraordinary. It’s the best fictional portrayal of what a tech start up is actually like.
27 September 2017
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