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Something that can be done at any time is often done at no time.
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18 September
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Spending enough time in San Francisco tends to make people want to start their own company.Their words
No matter how much fun you're having at your W-2 job, spend enough time in San Francisco and you may find yourself itching to build something of your own.
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In a conflict, a coherent weaker actor tends to prevail over an incoherent stronger one.Their words
In a contest between a coherent weak actor and an incoherent strong one, bet on coherence.
17 September
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Targeting old 16-bit computers, the authors couldn't afford to build a sloppy, wasteful UI, and so by modern standards the game UI is remarkably fast and responsive.
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10 September
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When you're in a phase of experimentation, it's not particularly surprising that you will feel very generative and, at the same time, that nothing will be of production-grade quality, so to speak.
3 September
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National congressional polling tends to stay stable between Labor Day and Election Day in midterm election years.Their words
midterm races in the modern era tend not to change all that much between Labor Day and Election Day.
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Innovation tends to come from slack time away from firefighting, not from being fully utilized.Their words
Innovation often comes from having time to focus on other work, instead of putting out fires.
31 August
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AI-generated writing tends to repeat the same themes, names, and underlying ideas across different outputs.Their words
AIs don’t just repeat the same sentence patterns but also the same themes (memory is a favorite), names (Elara Voss, Marcus Chen), and underlying ideas.
25 August
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As software evolves, it tends to get slower, more bloated, buggier, and bigger.
6 August
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Obligers, the most common Tendency, tend to work well alongside every other Tendency, which makes them worth having on any team.
5 August
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This is the Jevons paradox in action: making compute cheaper per token in turn tends to lead to greater levels of AI use.
25 July
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If a subway line or a train station or a similar rail megaproject has an internationally renowned architect in charge, it costs too much and is unlikely to be functional.
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13 July
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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.
9 July
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AI tends to flatten outputs toward sameness, so personal taste and perspective become the main way to stand out.Their words
AI flattens everything it touches. The way you stand out is by getting clearer about what you really want, your taste, your perspective, your opinions.
15 June
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the council does not simply keep the best bits from everyone. It keeps a minority of the good ideas, while peer review seems to give consensus ideas an extra push.
10 May
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I call it the force that no one controls but everyone obeys that tends to drag organizations down into mediocrity to the point that we lose control of them. Now, sometimes we lose control of them because we get fired.
5 May
1 May
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An advantage cows have that egg chickens lack is that stress immediately and measurably decreases their economic productivity.
22 April
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A single year tends to look much like the one before it, but a decade can change everything about a person's life.Their words
In one year you'll probably mostly be thinking and doing what you think you'll be doing in a year today. In a decade, EVERYTHING can change.
7 April
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there's sort of there's two types of work that tends to be involved in any kind of creative project. There's routine stuff and there you just want to avoid procrastination. You just want to like, you know, how do I get good at this or how do I outsource it and how do I do it as rapidly as possible? Um and just avoid you know, like getting into a situation where you're prolonging it. Um, and then there's high variance stuff where you actually you need to be willing to to you know take a lot of time.
15 January
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Public scrutiny of a new technology tends to jump only after a deadly incident, otherwise rising slowly over decadesTheir words
Scrutiny typically either jumps several points on any 10-point scale after an incident that kills a bunch of people, or increases very slowly over decades.
5 December 2025
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ChatGPT, in particular, seemed to just want to validate me, tell me how great I was, reinforce any bad beliefs I might have had, and avoid saying anything uncomfortable.
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