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18 September
14 September
From one piece The Dollar Will Be the Last Pillar To Fall 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The Trump administration is accelerating the decline and fall of American global hegemony.Their words
I honestly do not know if the Trump administration will be able to completely eviscerate American power over the next two year - but damn they sure seem to be accelerating the decline and fall of American hegemony.
The Dollar Will Be the Last Pillar To Falldanieldrezner.substack.com
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The U.S. dollar's continued global dominance is a lagging indicator, not proof that American hegemony remains intact.Their words
the dollar's status is not a harbinger of U.S. hegemonic decline - it's a lagging indicator.
The Dollar Will Be the Last Pillar To Falldanieldrezner.substack.com
11 September
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I do not see AI as driving these changes, but an interesting result nonetheless
20 August
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we really do have a good causal model of how to think about fertility decline!
We Actually Know A Lot About Fertility Declinelymanstone.substack.com
16 August
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Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration Into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time TravelTheir words
It’s a very interesting book, but for some reason Michio Kaku’s style doesn’t spark me as much as Briane Greene’s or Stephen Hawking’s or Neil deGrasse Tyson’s.
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Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without ReligionTheir words
Good, concise and straight-forward exploration of spirituality. Loved it.
13 August
12 August
11 August
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A few months ago I read an essay about silence by Amir Zadnemat in 3 Quarks Daily, called "The Symphony of Silence: An Exploration of the Sound of Absence"*. The most interesting section was a riff on various kinds of silence, especially in spoken language, each communicating something very distinct despite the fact that objectively each silence sounds (or I guess doesn't sound) identical:
29 July
23 July
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RoombaTheir words
matic vacuum (they gave me one so I have to disclose but it's GREAT, all the Roomba and Chinese ones suck)
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Matic vacuumTheir words
matic vacuum (they gave me one so I have to disclose but it's GREAT, all the Roomba and Chinese ones suck)
20 July
From one piece Accelerate Learning & Increase Cognitive Capacity | Dr. Tommy Wood 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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And what they [snorts] found was that the most important predictor of how well somebody performed at those piano specific skills was not their age, it was how much they practice.
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Cognitive decline is a staircase rather than a slope: the big drops happen after episodes of serious illness.Their words
cognitive function doesn't just decline sort of linearly or steadily with age. It goes down, you know, a little bit on average, but the biggest decreases sort of happen stepwise after periods of significant illness.
16 July
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From one piece How to Improve Your Memory & Cognitive Function at Any Age | Dr. Alan Castel 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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but as you get older that tends to decline with age which I thought was kind of perplexing because I you know a lot of curious people but we found that levels of state curiosity when I give you some interesting bit of information but I don't give you the answer if it's something you care about that actually increases with age your level of curiosity and learning.
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Happiness across a life is a curve rather than a decline, and its lowest point is midlife, not old age.Their words
there's some interesting work on you know happiness being more curve linear like midlife is actually some of the lowest levels of happiness and life satisfaction
8 July
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Europe is not in economic decline; by the measures that matter most it is keeping up with the United States.Their words
Moreover, by many measures — arguably the most important measures — Europe is, in fact, keeping up with the United States.
7 April
From one piece Michael Nielsen – Why aliens will have a different tech stack than us 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I'm willing to buy it sort of low enough down when, you know, progress is relatively simple, um, but but higher up you start to get to shape the way in which you you do the exploration and it's interesting, you know, people we are starting to shape it in in in interesting ways.
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Um, there's just too many interesting ways of combining things. There's too many sort of deep ideas waiting to be uh, discovered and when it you know, not only we, but but nobody ever is going to to discover most of them. So, choices about how to make how to do the exploration actually matter quite a bit.
28 March
From one piece America Got a Little More Religious. No, Really. 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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A statistically significant change is not the same as an important one, and survey data cannot tell you which it is.Their words
Whether that decline matters is a different question — and one the data alone can’t answer.
America Got a Little More Religious. No, Really.graphsaboutreligion.com
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The growth of the religiously unaffiliated in America has stopped and gone into reverse.Their words
There’s clearly been a numerical decline in the nones. That seems pretty hard to ignore now, and it’s showing up in multiple data sources.
America Got a Little More Religious. No, Really.graphsaboutreligion.com
26 March
12 February
11 February
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A World Appears: A Journey into ConsciousnessTheir words
a panoptic exploration of consciousness—what it is, who has it, and why—and a meditation on the essence of our humanity.
9 February
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The United States' share of global GDP and equity markets will keep shrinking, and that decline is accelerating.Their words
For these reasons, I see that declining trend of the US share of the world economy described above accelerating.
25 December 2025
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Rebuilding American manufacturing is a decades-long educational and cultural project, not something tariffs can do.Their words
America needs an educational and cultural transformation to compete with China and reverse the decline in living standards that Americans have suffered over decades.
8 December 2025
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The Decline of DevianceTheir words
My favorite recent piece on our cultural stagnation is Adam Mastroianni’s
23 November 2025
From one piece China bows to de-industrialization 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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There's even a case to be made that those policies actually depressed the manufacturing share of GDP: by boosting output and capacity above where they would have been otherwise, subsidies probably contributed to the sustained decline in prices for China's manufactured goods over the past few years, weighing on their share of nominal output.
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A declining manufacturing share of GDP as an economy matures reflects economic success rather than decline.Their words
Both of these trends are a consequence of economic success, in terms of higher output and productivity: at least some of what is decried as "de-industrialization" is good actually. It is also good for China's planners to recognize that reality and not distort the economy in pursuit of an impossible outcome.
6 November 2025
5 October 2025
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If you do too much exploration, you can have your team feel a little bit too scattershot, just trying a 100 different random ideas. What's the through line? What's the strategy? How do you pattern match, you know, successes across them? And if you do too much in exploitation, which is often the MMO of growth teams, it can lead to this like saturation and stagnation where you're just locally maximizing a thing.
7 September 2025
4 September 2025
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But yeah, there's been a back and forth about whether dinosaurs were already on their way out or were they a bit limited by the very end of the Cretaceous. I think the more recent analyses have shown that's probably not the case, because in other words, they were basically doing fine right up to the extinction event. And so yeah, if the asteroid hadn't hit, there's no reason to think that they were on some kind of terminal decline.
18 August 2025
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so it's not a simple matter of programming it's not you know typing into a keyboard until or or I guess asking cursor to do something until a piece of software emerges, it's exploration, it's discovery, it's posing hypotheses and validating or invalidating those again and again and again.
29 July 2025
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Morowali’s poverty rate has seen a modest decline since 2016, from around 15% to 12%, but this puts it squarely in the middle of the pack of other Sulawesi districts—and not far from the decline in the national average, which fell from 10.9% to 8.6% over the same period.
22 July 2025
17 July 2025
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However, current understanding and evaluation of world models in artificial intelligence (AI) remains narrow, often focusing on static representations learned from training on massive corpora of data, instead of the efficiency and efficacy in learning these representations through interaction and exploration within a novel environment.
15 July 2025
From one piece There Is No Long Decline in Fertility 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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the key point is that as child mortality declines, live births can be allowed to decline without changing desired family size
There Is No Long Decline in Fertilitylymanstone.substack.com
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What you can see is that the “long decline” of TFR since the late-19th century is… an illusion! It isn’t real!
There Is No Long Decline in Fertilitylymanstone.substack.com
12 May 2025
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Conversational UIs are great at quickly getting to the first 70%, but suck at offering easy controls over narrower areas for iteration.
24 April 2025
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In my view, without smoking, we probably would have seen cancer mortality decline much earlier.
15 April 2025
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Standardised testing is a good idea badly executed: the tests in common use are the problem, not testing itself.Their words
Standardized testing is glorious, but many standardized tests royally suck.
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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MasteryTheir words
A deep exploration of what mastery looks like in practice, often involving many more challenges than we imagine. No one goes deeper than Greene.
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The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and LifeTheir words
My personal exploration of breaking free from conventional career paths to discover a more intentional and meaningful way of working and living.
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Vow of Aliveness: Saying YES to the mess and magic of a true lifeTheir words
A powerful personal story from a friend Ravi, who reinvented his life through the lens of activism, entrepreneurship, and life exploration.
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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.
20 February 2025
From one piece Why are Marriage & Fertility Plummeting in MENA? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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But over the past 50 years, there has been a massive decline in fertility. This entails fewer cousins of a suitable age.
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The Middle East, North Africa and Anatolia are witnessing a rapid decline in coupling and fertility. This should rock your priors.
19 January 2025
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If you have the overall business slowing down, your head of growth is destined to fail because the reason business is slowing down is much deeper than not having a growth team.
27 December 2024
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Recommendstheir ownrcmnd.app
SupercommunicatorsTheir words
A simple and tested method for communicating and connecting with anyone, Supercommunicators is an exploration of the psychology and neuroscience of communication — and how to use those skills at work, home and in life.
22 December 2024
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Like, okay, there's an advanced civilization that is visiting Earth regularly. They don't want to be detected. They've got super powerful technology, but they really suck at using it because we keep seeing them, we keep seeing them, but then they disappear. I mean, explain to me what rational world that works under.
1 November 2024
From one piece Why is Fertility Collapsing, Globally? 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Government payments and benefits aimed at raising birth rates do not reverse the decline.Their words
Across the OECD, governments are upping their spending. But a wealth of research suggests these fail to mitigate the downward trend.
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The fall in childbearing in rich countries is concentrated among the less educated, not among female graduates.Their words
Slurs of ‘childless cat ladies’ usually target female graduates, but in the US, Sweden and Finland the real decline is happening among people with less education.
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From the 1960s, US fertility fell primarily due to fewer births among couples. In that context, baby bonuses might raise fertility. But today, the major contributing factor is the decline of coupling.
5 September 2024
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American shipbuilding has been uncompetitive for a century; it is not a recent decline.Their words
The situation we face today, with U.S. ships costing at least twice as much to build as ships built elsewhere, is not a recent development; it’s been the norm for at least the past 100 years.
25 May 2024
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about this idea that really when you’re older in most societies, your job is no longer to form new episodic memories, it’s to pass on the memories that you already have, this knowledge about the world, what we call semantic memory, to pass on that semantic memory to the younger generations, pass on the culture.
18 March 2024
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I expect that the delta between 5 and 4 will be the same as between 4 and 3 and I think it is our job to live a few years in the future and remember that the tools we have now are going to kind of suck looking backwards at them and that’s how we make sure the future is better.
2 January 2024
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The long decline in mortality is not guaranteed to continue: new shocks and old unsolved diseases can reverse it.Their words
None of these trends are a given.
11 October 2023
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A number of commentators have consistently predicted that solar cost improvements will level out “this year” since about 1990, and yet if anything deployment, cost decline, and the learning rate have only improved.
30 August 2023
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Synthetic fertiliser is a serious climate and pollution problem and also the reason half the people alive are alive.Their words
They suck! But they also feed the world. Half the people alive today would be very not alive if fertilizers manufactured from natural gas weren’t super-sizing our harvests.
7 June 2023
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30 May 2023
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and TomorrowTheir words
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow resonated with me for personal reasons, but I think Zevin’s exploration of partnership and collaboration is worth reading no matter who you are.
29 May 2023
11 October 2022
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Published effect sizes shrink as more studies are done, and that decline is what the replication crisis is made of.Their words
The decline effect is the idea that scientific findings get smaller over time. That is, initial findings tend to report effect sizes that then crumble away—sometimes to nothing—with subsequent research.
From one piece Review of DeLong's "Slouching Towards Utopia" 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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What I’m nitpicking here is that this decline in fertility deserves equal billing with the research lab, corporation, and globalization.
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It was an acceleration in productivity combined with a decline in population growth that put us on a slow trudge towards utopia.
2 September 2022
30 June 2022
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Engineers should own their code in production, and it is management’s job to make sure that on-call does not suck.Their words
It is engineering’s job to own their code in production. It is management’s job to make sure it doesn’t suck.
1 June 2022
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Real interest rates have steadily declined in all major economies for more than three decades. This decline was not caused by the Global Financial Crisis or the Covid crisis.
19 March 2022
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Moonwalking with EinsteinTheir words
The book Moonwalking with Einstein explores humans' relationship to memory, our ideas of knowledge, and how that's shifted over time. But it begins with an exploration of competitive memorization and the techniques used by memory champions.
22 November 2021
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Likedaffiliate linkrcmnd.app
The Art of FairnessTheir words
David Bodanis, The Art of Fairness – A delightful and moving exploration of nice guys, nasty guys, and what it takes to succeed without being a jerk.
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ShapeTheir words
Jordan Ellenberg, Shape – A really fun, witty exploration of ideas in geometry and their surprisingly wide-ranging application.
11 September 2021
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Other MindsTheir words
There's a book, which isn't in the five I've chosen (though it could well have been), Peter Godfrey Smith's Other Minds, which I think is a beautiful exploration of other minds.
31 August 2021
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Boeing's decline began when its management moved away from the factory and the engineers stopped running it.Their words
The changes separated its management and board from the day-to-day processes at the heart of its business.
America's Aerospace Industry is Regeneratingaustinvernon.site
1 August 2020
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SlackTheir words
A special dishonorable mention goes to Slack, which can easily suck away a quarter of your time without you noticing. If you use Slack and you haven’t disabled the “unread messages” badge, stop reading this post and do it now.
14 May 2020
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Average solar electricity prices in sunny parts of the world will fall to one or two cents per kwh by 2030 or 2035.Their words
This incredible pace of solar cost decline, with average prices in sunny parts of the world down to a penny or two by 2030 or 2035, is just remarkable.
15 October 2019
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MacBook AirTheir words
I use a MacBook Air that's four or five years old. (My god, I hope it never breaks because the new MacBooks suck.)
8 April 2019
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Digital ApolloTheir words
I honestly don't recall that much from this book. I read it fairly early on in my Apollo exploration. I'd recommend Eyles' Sunburst and Luminary, above, as a better starting point if you're interested in the computers that flew Apollo.
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The Last Man on the MoonTheir words
This documentary was a solid telling of the story of that mission, and of the later-in-Apollo scientific goals and geological exploration that was achieved, as well as a wistful look back at the story of the last humans, to date, to set foot on the moon.
20 December 2018
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Compassionate Inquiry Online TrainingTheir words
Compassionate Inquiry is an in depth teaching and distillation of the approach I have developed to working with human beings beset by personal issues, health problems that need gently guided exploration, mental health challenges, addictions, relationship difficulties and, above all, an unhealthy relationship to their own selves.
30 July 2018
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