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19 September
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The most obvious problem is that Marco Rubio continues to hold both the Secretary of State and national security advisor positions. This has been going on for nearly 18 months now and it's obviously not working well at all.
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Basically, what I'm saying is, don't use ismap unless you're absolutely sure that there will be no CSS shenanigans. Even then, it probably isn't worth the risk.
12 September
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the more that we see actors looking to weaponize without any very good maps of how and what they are doing or what kinds of unexpected repercussions might happen, the more we can expect not simply increased risks of tension and worry, but also people screwing up, doing dumb stuff.
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26 August
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The current tech layoffs are pandemic over-hiring correcting itself, with AI as the convenient excuse.Their words
And I think what we're seeing right now with some of the layoffs is a testament to that, not AI. It's just that during the pandemic, a bunch of overhiring went on, and now AI is a convenient excuse to slim down. But I do also think AI is going to expose some roles as just not being productive ways for humans to spend their time, and therefore we must come up with new ways of spending their time.
23 August
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19 August
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And if you can show employers that you are not just a builder, but you are someone that can help them as these roles start to become a little bit fuzzier. I think that you can be successful in these times. Don't just be an engineer.
14 August
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Treating ordinary people as an oppressor class that must repent is incompatible with left populism.Their words
This worldview - that the masses, basically everyone except the most marginalized and most oppressed, must reckon with their roles as oppressors and repent2 - is incompatible with the populism that has since risen on the left.
12 August
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Kind leaders usually do beat sociopaths in the same role, but only if they are also good at business.Their words
it's it's not enough to be a good person. I believe that people who are kind and care about people can and and usually do do better than sociopaths in the same roles, but only if they're good at business.
29 July
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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.
28 July
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People talk about isn't it a bad idea to build in a regulated industry? Turns out you can change the regulations. And the way you do it is just by building the thing and communicating why it's okay.
23 July
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When two truths conflict and both are hard to accept, people resolve the tension by discarding one of them.Their words
Reality hands us two truths at once, and when we can't stomach both, we eliminate one.
24 June
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Yelling and nagging at children produces compliance in the moment but costs tension, sulking, and guilt.Their words
Yelling and nagging may seem effective in the moment ("I'm getting them to put on their shoes!"), but the cost is tension, sulking, and guilt.
23 June
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Dreading a future experience causes much of human suffering by making that imagined suffering happen now.Their words
A large percentage of human suffering is anticipatory tension, or dreading a future experience such that you actualize its potential suffering in the now.
Surrender as a non-stupid life strategysashachapin.substack.com
20 June
11 June
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We freeze into roles because we need some predictability, but we're also changing internally all the time, so our roles eventually become confining.
9 June
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Optimising a single metric is a trap, because the second-order consequences of the change only surface much later.Their words
you got to be really conscious of the consequence and not get too deterministic about a single metric or a single variable and know what's important and what's on top.
5 June
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The value of bureaucracies will go down, and the value of founders will go up.
30 May
8 April
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Where I get fired up, and this ties back to the AI discussion, is when that's turned into this meme, that programmers no longer have to be competent. I mean the AI is gonna figure it out. The generators is gonna figure it out. I don't need to know SQL, active record is gonna abstract it away from me. No, no, no dude, hold up. The path here is competence.
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really good programmers are currently more valuable than ever because they're the ones who are able to get the most out of the AI acceleration.
7 April
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So you kind of got these two separate things that just for historically contingent reasons had both sort of matured around sort of let's say 1980 or so.
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11 March
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So the advice that I always give, and it sounds so stupid, like this sounds really trite, but focus on what you wanna do, not what you wanna be.
3 March
17 February
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I cannot support any law that includes a “parental consent” exception—it defeats the central purpose of the law by dropping parents and children straight back into the same collective-action trap
14 January
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Big flat toggle buttons under satisfying tension. Clear affordances. You push them down, not in. One click catches, one doesn't. You can use them with bare hands, oven mitts, fingers coated in slippery whatever. Doesn't matter. Plenty of surface area. Outstanding design. It's all been downhill from there.
7 January
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Escaping the Build TrapTheir words
Melissa Perri explains how laying the foundation for great product management can help companies solve real customer problems while achieving business goals. By understanding how to communicate and collaborate within a company structure, you can create a product culture that benefits both the business and the customer.
28 December 2025
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There Is No Antimemetics DivisionTheir words
There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm is a mind-bending psychological thriller about a secret agency tasked with fighting dangerous "antimemes"—ideas that refuse to be remembered. Plenty of stories start with a clever high-concept premise and just let it play out. This one pushes its premise to extremes I never imagined possible, ratcheting up an astonishing amount of tension along the way.
10 December 2025
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Parents want this. They know social media can harm their children, yet many feel trapped because everyone else’s kids are already online.
18 November 2025
12 November 2025
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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.
21 September 2025
From one piece From managing people to managing AI: The leadership skills everyone needs now | Julie Zhuo 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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And so the main thing that I felt so excited about and this is something I tell my team all the time is we need to dissolve the boundaries of these traditional roles.
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You can shortcut like hard feelings because now you can just watch TikTok instead of actually dealing with the very difficult emotion or tension that you had with a colleague or with your partner or with your children.
18 August 2025
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And the reason this is important is what we're trying to do in a way is resolve this age-old tension between the cost and quality of customer experience where I think every great business wants to deliver an amazing experience to their customers. But unless you're like Hermes or the Four Seasons, it's too expensive to do.
15 August 2025
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because it's not competing against humans for most of those roles, it would be competing against the other labs, right? And so you'd actually see like the cost pushed down to, you know, a mult a small multiple of whatever the marginal production cost of those tokens is.
12 July 2025
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it's a luxury good like you're not paying the penalty for that the people who embrace it and think that they can just ask AI for everything or they can just look everything up but they don't have to understand the copy pasta that they slam into their project they're the ones who going to suffer
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Where I get fired up, and this ties back to the AI discussion, is when that's turned into this meme, that programmers no longer have to be competent. I mean the AI is gonna figure it out. The generators is gonna figure it out. I don't need to know SQL, active record is gonna abstract it away from me. No, no, no dude, hold up. The path here is competence.
25 March 2025
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Welcome to the era of AI-native companies, where individual contributors (ICs) reign supreme.
The Death of Product Development as We Know itlg.substack.com
21 January 2025
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On changing their mind
Having fallen into the East Asia - Africa Trap before, I can tell you precisely why so many people make this mistake.
6 December 2023
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Opportunity solution trees help product trios: Resolve the tension between business needs and customer needs
25 September 2023
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7 July 2023
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Product management is merging with the GM role as more companies become software companies, not disappearing.Their words
As more and more companies become predominately software companies, I believe the Product Management role and GM roles are going to merge.
14 June 2023
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