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20 September
18 September
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There are legitimate ways to improve our systems, but what they're likely planning isn't one of them.
16 September
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These mocha-ordering fellow humans must fall into one of these categories: They don't know that it's rude They don't care that it's rude They disagree that it's rude
12 September
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What the United States needs, now more than ever, is general disengagement from the Middle East — an end to military adventures, a dialing back of support for Middle Eastern “allies” (including Israel), and a forceful rejection of Middle Eastern issues in American domestic politics.
7 September
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The AI jobs prediction so far is playing out the opposite of what many thought.
26 August
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I also see people attacking major product categories now with performance-based pitches. Things like File Pilot or the Blick video editor, like things like this that have been coming out lately where it's like, oh, really performant software to try to take on uh incumbents in a space and they've been getting traction.
21 August
12 August
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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.
11 August
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One concern you might have is there are like large categories of reward hacks which humans can't detect well and which we consistently fail to detect and which consistently get reinforced and then this category is sufficient to cause the most natural behavior for the AI to learn to be like cheat when the humans can't find out
6 August
1 August
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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.
28 July
15 July
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there's a different kind of intuition that you that you develop over years as a software engineer and uh there's many categories of it but the one I'll I'll call attention to that is like a thing that you cannot teach you cannot do you cannot learn in a textbook. The only way to learn it is like I know bad patterns in software because I have debugged them at three in the morning.
22 June
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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.
1 May
15 April
12 February
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For small strategic materials markets like rare earths the right policy is a stockpile, not domestic production.Their words
Stockpiles provide insurance while conserving our valuable labor.
24 January
1 January
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So, add all that up, 5%. In many categories, we're north of 50% in market. So, that just totally changes.
12 November 2025
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Coding is a software-factory category that may end up bigger than knowledge work itself.Their words
this fundamentally this category of coding and AI is probably going to be one of the biggest categories right it is a software factory category in fact it may be bigger than knowledge work
8 September 2025
23 March 2025
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you can classify anything that you build in a company into one of two categories. Solution deepening and market widening. Now solution deepening means making your product better for its existing users but not making it available to more users. Whereas market widening means making your product available to more users but not making the product itself any better.
20 January 2025
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America will be a manufacturing nation once again, and we have something that no other manufacturing nation will ever have — the largest amount of oil and gas of any country on earth — and we are going to use it.
22 July 2024
21 July 2024
28 February 2024
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The MVP as a practice of building a hacky product as quickly and cheaply as possible to validate the product does no longer work. Many product categories are already saturated with a variety of alternatives, and to truly test the viability of any new idea you need to build something that is substantially better.
9 February 2024
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Augmented reality and virtual reality are no longer separate categories, but points on one continuum.Their words
And it's a general reminder that AR and VR2 being separate categories is a thing of the past.
All My Thoughts After 40 Hours in the Vision Prowaitbutwhy.com
2 September 2023
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A puzzle whose categories can only be seen by the broadly educated is elitist by construction.Their words
But it’s fundamentally elitist — it basically requires you to have a broad education to find the categories in the first place.
1 January 2022
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The US focus on efficiency has revealed the brittleness of its economy, which has neither the manufacturing capability to scale up domestic production of goods nor the logistics capacity to handle greater imports.
1 January 2017
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This Is Your Brain on ParasitesTheir words
Another biology-related book. Explores the role of parasites (and bacteria, disease, disgust) in human behavior, attraction, even politics, morality, religion. Some of this is is cutting-edge, speculative, or not fully proven — but very interesting stuff indeed.
5 December 2009
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I’ve come to a disconcerting conclusion: design research is great when it comes to improving existing product categories but essentially useless when it comes to new, innovative breakthroughs.
1 January 2009
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