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20 September
19 September
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Time spent on bureaucratic paperwork is a real economic cost even though it doesn't appear in government budgets.Their words
it is simply ridiculous that a ruinously expensive policy can be budget-neutral if the expense consists of wasted time rather than wasted money. But that's still a cost!
18 September
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A competent, empowered civil service that performs crucial government functions with in-house expertise is good.Their words
One unpopular position I’ve stuck to over the years is that a strong bureaucracy is good. I don’t mean “bureaucracy” as in red tape and regulation; I mean a competent, empowered civil service that can perform crucial government functions efficiently and well using in-house expertise. This is also called state capacity.
16 September
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korrents.com
Lowe's ToughBuilt StackTech tool boxes are overpriced and will go unsold until the line is discontinued.Their words
The prices seemed too high. I foresee the entire line collecting dust until Lowe's moves on (again).
15 September
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So long as Canada is irrevocably plugged into the US economy, military and other arrangements, it's liable to get stuck with choices that run counter to its national interests.
11 September
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4 September
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I think for me, let's go back to the first principle of intelligence. Intelligence is not sitting there stuck and just seeing something or interpreting something when it comes to space and physical space, right? It's really this uh closing the loop between seeing and experiencing and interaction.
3 September
26 August
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So, in my opinion, this is the absolute best time to ever have been an open source software maintainer. Not only do we get this wealth of glorious pull requests made by agents with all the boxes ticked, we also get to tap into a creativity of people who did not have access to contribute to a project before.
25 August
23 August
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korrents.com
A growing fraction of social media is AI slop influencers being replied to by bots — an echo of an echo of an echo.Their words
An increasing fraction of social media consists of slop influencers using AI to make posts and bots replying to them. An echo of an echo of an echo
22 August
19 August
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if I was stuck in this traffic every day in a car, I would go insane. No amount of self driving would change that. We need ACs, but the US badly needs to warm up to public transportation.
12 August
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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.
10 August
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AIs will remain black boxes, hard to understand and hard to predict.
8 August
7 August
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korrents.com
It is very hard to actually get stuck, because the action space is always larger than it appears.Their words
Now, the good news is that in my experience, it's very difficult to actually get stuck. Um, you can get yourself into trouble and the action space is always larger than it appears.
30 July
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korrents.com
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.
27 July
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You don't need slash goal, you don't need slash loop. These help, but really all you need is give the model the task, give it a way to verify the output of its work so it doesn't get stuck, and it will just go.
14 July
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Your Money: Reimagining Wealth in 101 Simple SketchesTheir words
His sketches are often little more than scribbled boxes, circles, and arrows, but many will make you smile, some will make you laugh, and all will make you think.
8 July
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So I did something crazy. I pulled out my typewriter and banged away for an hour.
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the whole industry is is kind of stuck in this world where they make a lot of money because it is this way. But there's zero reason why it should cost 2 or 3%. Just zero.
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31 May
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Selected Poems, 1968--1996Their words
I am a Philistine, because I thought this was just OK. There were some good poems, quite a few which I found boring, and absolutely nothing that has stuck in my memory even a few weeks later.
27 May
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The moment you ship something, you're stuck supporting it forever. And by supporting, it means any future feature you build is going to like interact with it. So you still have to be very conservative with what you put out there. It's hard to undo anything. Just cuz we can ship 10 times more doesn't mean we have 10 times as many good ideas to ship out there.
21 May
7 April
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I mean funnily enough I mean spending time stuck is incredibly important. Um and and I sort of you know, I that used to just be annoying. Now it seems like oh, this is actually um uh uh maybe even the most important part of the whole process.
27 March
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Meanwhile, others like Spotify and Netflix leverage their dominant positions in the market to coerce creators to abandon open podcasts entirely, in favor of proprietary formats that require listeners to be on those platforms — locking in both creators and their audiences so they are stuck as they begin the enshittification process.
22 March
19 March
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if you've always stuck to two programming languages because of the overhead of learning a third, go and learn a third right now. And don't learn it, just start writing code in it.
1 March
12 February
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The US excels at high-volume manufacturing, but not low-volume manufacturing.
24 January
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Purple MattressTheir words
I've always stuck with Purple Mattress
28 December 2025
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Likedrcmnd.app
GPT-5.2Their words
GPT 5.2 goes till end of August whereas Opus is stuck in mid-March - that’s about 5 months. Which is significant when you wanna use the latest available tools.
14 December 2025
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Likedrcmnd.app
Dead WeightTheir words
Dead Weight by Emmeline Clein: Certain parts of this book really stuck with me and changed how I think, like the chapter on the psychological effects of restriction.
8 December 2025
24 November 2025
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Likedrcmnd.app
StarlinkTheir words
If you're stuck on a rock in the middle of nowhere, and you somehow haven't discovered the glory of Starlink, maybe just stick to your old full-disk backup ways.
12 November 2025
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korrents.com
Building capacity at massive scale on a single hardware generation is the trap; pacing matters more than gigawatts.Their words
Oh by the way the other thing is I didn't want to get stuck with massive scale of one generation.
16 October 2025
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take prompting and as an engineer, there's a range of prompting abilities. uh the way you discretize and split up your task matters. And if you assume that uh a model can do more than it can do, then you're going to have a bad time.
30 September 2025
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Action comes before motivation: you do first and feel afterwards, not the other way round.Their words
If you’re stuck in a depressive cycle, even when you really, really, really, really don’t want to do anything, to do something. Try to make progress because the good feeling comes on the end of that. The whole point is to do first and then feel, not feel and then do.
4 August 2025
31 July 2025
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I think that sedentary armies, sedentary civilizations, they get stuck in ways, this is how we do it. And we're going to make it a little faster, we're going to make it a little bigger, a little stronger but this is how we think. Genghis Khan had no set way to think and, when he encountered the first walled cities around 1209 after founding his nation in 1206, he went out on these raids and I really think there were raids not wars at first.
28 May 2025
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You should not try to create a ladder that functions as a pure checklist or scorecard that guarantees promotion if people check enough boxes; promotions are as much about the needs of the organization as the skills of the employees.
24 May 2025
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Yet actually they’re a comparatively small proportion of the army. So no more than 14 to 15% of any army, Allied army, is infantry. 45% are service corps, service troops, driving trucks and cooks and bottle washers and people lugging great big boxes of stuff.
29 November 2024
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1 September 2024
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Whatever founder mode consists of, it's pretty clear that it's going to break the principle that the CEO should engage with the company only via his or her direct reports.
20 August 2024
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They could have shipped ChatGPT for example, I heard, in 2019. And they never shipped it because they were so stuck in bureaucracy. But they had everything. They had the data, they had the tech, they had the engineers and they didn’t do it.
14 July 2024
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Likedrcmnd.app
1PasswordTheir words
1Password password manager which really checks off all the right boxes
13 May 2024
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Clear and Simple as the TruthTheir words
When I’m stuck and hate myself and my work, I pick up Francis-Noël Thomas and Mark Tuner’s short and wonderful book
26 March 2024
From one piece Seth Godin: "Failure is Learning on Your Way to Mastery" and Other Advice for Creativity (The Knowledge Project #105, published 23 February 2021) 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The only way to learn is by doing things. That we can read about how to swim and we can read about how to make uh uh uh a vegetarian maki roll, but you will not learn how to do it until you do it. And the reading, the listening is important preparation, but learning is the act of failing on our way to mastery.
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korrents.com
Leaving an old relationship for a new one is usually shopping for novelty rather than refusing to honour a sunk cost.Their words
a new relationship is like fresh powder. It is new and shiny and exciting but it will not be a new relationship for long. And then you're still stuck with an old relationship and the question is will your old relationship a year from now be better than your old relationship that you currently have is? And if the answer is yes then yes sunk costs completely apply. But if the answer is no then what you're really doing is shopping for novelty not ignoring sunk costs.
16 January 2024
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29 June 2023
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We’re actually going to build that, I think, but it’s not going to be one static tape. I think the human brain is too complex to be stuck in one static tape like that. If you look at ant brains, maybe they can be stuck on a static tape, but we’re going to build that using generative models. We’re going to build the TikTok that you actually can’t look away from.
9 May 2023
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Lovedrcmnd.app
ArcTheir words
I know it doesn’t click with everyone, but as someone who lives in their browser most of the day, I really need one that’s fast, reliable, and a joy to use, and Arc checks all those boxes for me.
7 September 2022
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So they have explored genetic sequence space far more thoroughly than eukaryotes ever did because they’ve had twice as long at least, and they’ve got much larger populations, and they never got around this problem. So why can’t they? It seems as if you can’t solve it with information alone. So what’s the problem? The problem is structure.
19 August 2022
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Consequently if everything else about our understanding of Sparta is made less exceptional, is made more like a normal Greek polis, we are still stuck with this absolutely wildly high percentage of enslaved persons in this society.
9 August 2022
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So we we want people, that's the way we break out of fixation, is we notice the anomalies. The way we get stuck in fixation and making fixation errors is we explain away the anomalies, hold on to the original wrong impression until it's far too late.
13 May 2022
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Snow CrashTheir words
I stuck it out to the end for a deus ex machina and that was some bullshit. This book would have been a perfect short story about pizza delivery.
10 March 2021
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The Beginning of InfinityTheir words
I’m currently stuck in a loop where, at least in science, I’m only going to read The Beginning of Infinity and The Fabric of Reality over and over again until I understand them fully.
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The Fabric of RealityTheir words
I’m currently stuck in a loop where, at least in science, I’m only going to read The Beginning of Infinity and The Fabric of Reality over and over again until I understand them fully.
23 January 2021
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It’s that we went from five simultaneous technology revolutions to one.
22 September 2020
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