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🆕✍️ You can make a compelling narrative for almost anything untrue (Rule 4)
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An idea stated in a more fluent or rhyming form seems more true or persuasive than the same idea stated plainly.Their words
An idea expressed in rhyme seems more convincing, which is why "Haste makes waste" is more compelling than "Hurrying fosters error."
15 September
11 September
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Genuine personal enthusiasm for a product is what makes a keynote presentation compelling.Their words
I've long argued that this product enthusiasm was the actual key to the Jobs keynotes.
7 September
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The case for building AGI has always been framed around invention, such as curing cancer or solving fusion energy.Their words
The narrative around why building AGI was a good idea has always been about invention -- "it will cure cancer", "it will solve fusion energy", etc.
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For them to work, the world-building has to be imaginative and believable, and the characters have to be compelling.
My Frustration With Puzzlebox Televisiondanieldrezner.substack.com
2 September
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This story shows that an idea can be many things - compelling, entertaining, romantic, popular, profitable, socially contagious - but that doesn't necessarily mean it's effective.
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The Selfish GeneTheir words
Having an interest in genetics and molecular biology, I was completely enchanted by the narrative.
15 August
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Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence ProgrammingTheir words
Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming by Peter Norvig. Learning the AI described in this book probably won't land you a job today. But reading the code examples will transform how you think about source code. The book shines when it comes to code comments, a topic that I've never seen demonstrated well in other sources. Here we get to see how comments become valuable as a narrative that explains both intent and reasoning. Brilliant, just brilliant.
5 August
31 July
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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.
28 July
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The evidence would show that and it makes perfect sense that AI and automation is creating jobs everywhere. The narrative about AI destroying jobs is exactly backwards. AI eliminate tasks. AI automates tasks away. But it doesn't necessary doesn't necessarily eliminate jobs.
19 July
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I have a hard time picturing entertainment that doesn't have humans at the heart of it. So that that's humans in the creation of the storytelling, which I think is a scarce and valuable skill.
14 July
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Glorious CountryTheir words
I loved this historical biography of America's greatest landscape painter, and not just because I have an intense personal interest in Church. Johnson's writing is luminously beautiful, her assiduous research never impedes the narrative, and the illustrations are spectacular.
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Decisions: Studying and Supporting People Facing Hard ChoicesTheir words
His narrative of the development of decision-making research over the past half-century is rich with personal anecdotes, gentle humor, continuous learning, and profound humility about how prone we all are to misjudge and misunderstand risks.
22 June
From one piece There Are More than Five POVs 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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A first-person 'I' narrator and a collective 'we' narrative voice produce dramatically different narrative effects.Their words
Narratively, there is a dramatic difference between an "I" narrator and a collective "we" narrative voice.
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The traditional five-part POV taxonomy is organized around grammatical person rather than narrative effect.Their words
It's not that the categories are wrong exactly. But they are rooted more in grammar than narrative.
16 June
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A human life has no overall narrative arc, so nothing is lost by refusing to see it as a story that needs an ending.Their words
But there’s no overall narrative arc—it’s just been one thing after another.
Immortality Sounds Pretty Good, Actuallysmallpotatoes.paulbloom.net
4 June
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Some firms are laying people off mainly so as not to look behind on AI, in a cascade of keeping up with the Joneses.Their words
let's say we get into a narrative where like if you're a firm and you're not laying people off, then you're seen as like not adapting AI enough. So like then you'll get you're going to just get a cascade effect of firms like just needing to keep up with the Joneses in terms of like starting to lay people off.
29 May
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Framework Laptop 13Their words
For now, I think Framework's 13" lineup is more compelling if you favor repairability/upgradeability and top-tier Linux support.
7 April
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And so, you have what seem like three very different disconnected phenomena all being explained by this one set of ideas.
12 March
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Everybody thinks our schools are in crisis all the time because they’re being forced to do something they were never meant to do, which is to make everyone college-ready, and they’re being forced to do that because we have seen jobs that provide a living wage without a college diploma evaporate.
11 March
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Small studios are the future of gaming. The big studios basically acquire the small studios for new IP and ideas, and the small studios grow in. The really compelling, new, innovative ideas are gonna come out of small studios.
13 February
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but it's not an infinitely compelling product, and I don't think even AGI or powerful AI or country of geniuses in a data center will be an infinitely compelling product. It will be a compelling product enough maybe to get three or five or 10x a year growth even when you're in the hundreds of billions of dollars, which is extremely hard to do and has never been done in history before, but not infinitely fast.
29 January
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I think the thing that feels the most compelling for me is just like the experience of the transplant patient. It's really I think constricting. It's like you're waiting for a life-changing surgery and you have no idea when it will even be scheduled
14 January
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there are no cliches in actual human life. Cliché is an aspect of narrative, and life is not a narrative.
13 January
From one piece The Agrarian Fall 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Over the past three decades, scholars have identified a massive, unexplained gap in the timeline between the first domestication of crops and the emergence of the first agrarian states, complicating the narrative popularized by authors like Harari and Diamond.
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But the "Fall" into agriculture turns out to be a much more nuanced-and jagged-story than the standard account would have it.
1 January
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Though written accessibly, Segerstrale’s narrative rewards repeat reading, because it is so dense with historical detail that remains relevant today.
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Austria 1867-1955Their words
John Boyer’s Austria 1867-1955 offers parts of the answer, though not in a conceptually organized way. It’s a work of history written for specialists, which means that the narrative serves the footnotes rather than the other way around.
28 December 2025
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BreakneckTheir words
Breakneck by Dan Wang takes you on a fascinating journey through China's engineering state, juxtaposing it against America's lawyerly society in an effort to reveal what each country should learn from the other. I've been a keen reader of Dan's personal blog for many years and am delighted to report that this book, his first, features everything I love most about his writing: his unbounded curiosity, thoughtful analysis, compelling storytelling, self-awareness, offbeat sense of humor, and insights born of lived experience.
21 December 2025
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Best Movie Year EverTheir words
Raftery makes a compelling case that 1999 was the best movie year ever.
21 October 2025
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Fever BeachTheir words
It's screamingly funny, devilishly inventive, and deeply, profoundly satisfying. With Fever Beach, Hiaasen makes a compelling case for Florida as the perfect microcosm of the terrifying state of America, and an even more compelling case for his position as its supreme storyteller.
5 June 2025
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What survives of podcasting once AI delivers information better is the part where you watch a human struggle with it.Their words
I think the element of podcasting or audio books that is about information gathering, that part might be removed, or that might be more efficiently and in a compelling way done by AI. But then it’ll be just nice to hear humans struggle with the information, contend with the information, try to internalize it
24 May 2025
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And so, one of the reasons why you have this narrative that Britain was a bit rubbish and hanging on the shirttails of the Americans and all the blood was spilt in eastern front and Germany had the best army in the world and was only defeated because Hitler was mad and blah, blah, blah, that kind of traditional narrative, that narrative emerges through the prism of what was going on in the 1970s and what was going on in the 1980s and the changing world, rather than looking at it through the prism of the late 1930s or early 1940s.
30 April 2025
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What we're seeing with generative text AI is not only at a level that you could say that it's actually doing a pretty good job of simulating a human, at least humans at the text level, not at the emotional level yet, but at least at the level of words spoken and find more and more ways of training on more and more scenarios that you might have a very, very compelling human simulation going on in the next five years even. I'm not saying it's a good idea, but I think the arc of the technology is inextricably heading in that way, and it's heading at a shocking rate.
23 February 2025
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Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment ResistanceTheir words
(publication date March 18, 2025, Viking) by Laura Delano is a compelling and troubling memoir of psychiatric patienthood, iatrogenic harm, and finding a meaningful and flourishing life outside of the mental healthcare system.
3 February 2025
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I think that they're trying to shift the narrative. They're trying to protect themselves. We saw this years ago when ByteDance was actually banned from some OpenAI APIs for training on outputs. There's other AI startups that most people, if you're in the AI culture, were like they just told us they trained on OpenAI outputs and they never got banned.
17 December 2024
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Every Hand RevealedTheir words
A hand-by-hand narrative of Professional poker player Gus Hansen winning the 2007 Aussie Millions tournament.
9 December 2024
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Understanding the future depends more on imagination and a clear theory of change than on analytical skill alone.Their words
I do not believe that analytical skills are the missing ingredient in thinking about the future. Rather, I believe that imagination about the future and a theory of change that helps to describe it clearly, are what is needed to look ahead in a more compelling way.
7 October 2024
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The Big ShortTheir words
the Big Short is a dramatization of a gang of outsiders (and insiders who are presented as outsiders for narrative convenience, a theme Lewis will return to frequently, not always with self-awareness) who correctly predict the mechanism and course of the global financial crisis.
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The Phoenix ProjectTheir words
The Phoenix Project is actually assigned at some infrastructure companies, because the narrative makes the pedagogy about project management go down more easily.
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Margin CallTheir words
What it is stellar at—almost unmatched in fiction—is depicting archetypes that are both dramatically compelling and reasonably true to those working at various levels in the industry.
29 June 2024
13 June 2024
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Or is it really that we’re building some super machine in a box that’s going to be smart and kill everybody? It’s not even a science fiction narrative. It’s a bad science fiction narrative. I just don’t think it’s actually accurate to any of the technologies we’re building or the way that we should be describing them.
18 April 2024
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