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20 September
Former L8 engineer at Meta, Microsoft and Atlassian, now writing and building solo on agentic engineering. Writes Kun's Field Notes and posts a lot about AI coding agents on X.
19 September
American science fiction novelist (Old Man's War, Redshirts, The Kaiju Preservation Society); has run the blog Whatever since 1998.
Nope, that's accurate. I started making myself reach for the handrails when I turned 40 so it would be muscle memory when I got older, and it's already saved my ass a couple of times when I've slipped on the stairs. Quoting @allouryesterdays.bsky.social @scalzi.com - for reasons I can't explain, my brain remembers you urging people to use handrails, because stairs are a technology actively trying to kill you. If I've misremembered this, sorry. Related
18 September
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16 September
Author of Shape Up; formerly head of strategy at Basecamp, where he worked on product design for seventeen years; now runs Felt Presence.
Keen observation from Michael Backes re: AI and mentoring: "routine, lower-stakes work — drafting, debugging, first-pass review, data entry — was never just throughput. It was the cheapest way a junior employee built pattern recognition before anyone trusted them with an ambiguous, high-stakes call." Related
15 September
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companies that adopt AI more end up hiring MORE entry-level workers
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13 September
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I've been checking the source of quotes for my forthcoming book, and the performance of Gemini is extraordinary. I paste the quote into Google, and Gemini will barge in with the wrong answer over and over again. It's not an occasional thing - it's reliably wrong. Very odd. Quoting @TimHarford Twice in past week I've pasted quote into Google to check the source, and Gemini has barged in with the wrong answer. CS Lewis quote from The Seeing Eye (1967) was placed in The Screwtape Letters (1942). Alfred Loftus quote (1857) attributed to Austen Layard (1849). Gemini 0/2. Google Related
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American author of The Obstacle Is the Way, Ego Is the Enemy and Stillness Is the Key. Writes the Reading List book-recommendation email (started 2008) and owns The Painted Porch bookstore in Bastrop, Texas. Hosts The Daily Stoic podcast.
The heart is a muscle. You must make it strong. Strong, not hard and brittle. Strong enough to love everything and everyone in all situations. Strong enough to not break along with the world. Related
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Made out with this super fuckin hot muscle Sir and licked his boots and then he punched on me and whipped me and oh man, I needed quality sub time. Very happy. Related
11 September
Writer and podcaster; co-author of Abundance with Ezra Klein, a staff writer at The Atlantic from 2008 to 2025, and host of the Plain English podcast.
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Artificial intelligence has unleashed a torrent of cheating on campus and created chaos in the job application process, as both students and employers use large language models: the former, to write hundreds of AI-assisted applications; the latter, to screen those AI-written applications with AI-written filters, thus removing from the process of finding a first job those procedural frictions sometimes known as "people."
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Writes Stratechery, a subscription newsletter on the business and strategy of technology, and hosts the Dithering and Sharp Tech podcasts.
10 September
Front-end developer and writer; co-founder of CodePen, founder of CSS-Tricks, and co-host of the ShopTalk Show podcast.
Super neat. Already have a use case. knap.md just needs a favicon! Feel free to snag one copy-and-paste style. favicons.codepen.school
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8 September
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Trivially share markdown. Pi, Amp, Claude, and chatbox integrations. Agents can now share markdown via privacy-preserving URL (with other agents or people). This maps to a constant pattern where I generate a markdown doc, copy to my buffer, paste into gist.github.com and share mdsnd.freeq.at
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2 September
Professor of finance at NYU's Stern School of Business, known for his work on valuation. He publishes his data, spreadsheets and classes free at Damodaran Online and writes the Musings on Markets blog.
1 September
Software design writer and chief scientist at Thoughtworks; wrote Refactoring and Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture.
Fragments: September 1 Like many readers, I’m wary of AI generated prose. Simon Wilison has written an LLM cliché highlighter - paste in some text, or a URL, and it will flag various patterns common to LLMs. It references a wikipedia page of…
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24 August
Usability pioneer; co-founder of Nielsen Norman Group and founder of UX Tigers; author of the ten usability heuristics and of Jakob's Law.
21 August
Belgian engineering lead, Microsoft MVP and public speaker. Creator of Front Matter, a headless CMS extension for Visual Studio Code.
Front Matter CMS 10.12.0 is out. Three things worth knowing about: 📋 Paste images 🌍 New translate field property. 🔀 The .frontmatter/database files are now Git-friendly. Full notes: frontmatter.codes
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14 August
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2 August
Chief product officer at the live-shopping marketplace Whatnot, previously chief product officer at Twitch and a product lead on growth at Twitter.
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you can have one very senior PM across more things and they can be more efficient than having, you know, three relatively entry-level PMs.
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27 July
Writer, editor and executive coach; co-founder and editor of A Book Apart and a former contributing editor at A List Apart.
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17 July
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14 July
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Earning taste and judgment Taste used to be a byproduct of the reps. Agents took the reps. So if you're junior you now have to go get the taste and judgment on purpose. A builder's look at the weakening entry level, the two debts we now owe, and…
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19 May
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this looks super cool, i like how in open-props-ui.netlify.app/html/compone... you can literally copy and paste all the html/css for that component (minus the base theme stuff) and it seems like a reasonable size Quoting @chriscoyier.net "Like if shadcn and Open Props had a baby." open-props-ui.netlify.app/html/ CSS Related
17 April
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13 February
Co-founder and CEO of Anthropic; previously VP of research at OpenAI.
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The way you get industries in which there are small number of players are very high costs of entry, right? Um so, you know, uh cloud is like this. I think cloud is a good example of this. You have three, maybe four players within cloud. I think I think that's the same for AI, three maybe four.
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22 January
Law professor at Berkeley and the leading scholar of the Fourth Amendment as it applies to computers; writes at the Volokh Conspiracy.
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Back when the Fourth Amendment was enacted, the most fundamental remedy for an unlawful government entry into your home was a civil suit for trespass against the officers.
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1 January
Co-founder and CEO of Anthropic; previously VP of research at OpenAI.
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1913: The Year Before the Storm presents a whimsical slice of Central Europe. Art historian Florian Illies collates fragments of leading figures month by month, diary-entry style.
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His son Harkaway picks up where his father left off, adding a bracing entry to the canon.
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This year's PRGE haul: a Lost Treasures of Infocom box set, Music Construction Set, Pinball Construction Set, and of course EA's most famous franchise: Battlefield 6. No, just kidding: the Cut & Paste word processor. #retrocomputing Related
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1 October 2025
Independent game developer, creator of the colony simulation RimWorld and author of Designing Games: A Guide to Engineering Experiences. Previously worked on BioShock Infinite.
The idea of 5 senses is so wrong. We have at least 14. sight hearing taste smell touch temperature hunger/satiety thirst thoughts - you can tell what you are thinking proprioception - position of your body nociception - damage detection muscle fatigue - tired muscles and lactic acid buildup acceleration - via the inner ear, used for balance CO2 - your lungs detect carbon dioxide directly to make you breathe A likely more I haven't even thought of. Related
30 September 2025
Founder of Telegram, and before it of VK.
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I think the main muscle you can exercise is this muscle, the muscle of self-discipline. Not your biceps or your pecs or anything else. Because if you get to train that one, everything else just comes by itself.
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13 September 2025
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6 September 2025
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All of it is written with a much lower barrier to entry than my work, and I find the writing consistently strong and interesting.
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9 June 2024
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A korrent is a belief a person has stated in their own words: one
sentence stating the claim, backed by a quote and a source, kept at
korrents.com .
Under a name here, the quoted block is what they actually said.
The korrent beneath it is the claim those words support, in
korrents' wording — tap it to see the record, its source, and who
else holds it.
Nobody here wrote their own korrents. They are compiled from public
statements, and a person can change their mind, which is recorded too.
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About the English under a post
Some people here publish in a language other than English. Where they
do, this site shows a machine translation beneath the post, in
this typeface — the site's own, not theirs.
The post itself is never changed, moved or hidden: what is set in the
serif above is exactly what the person published, and it is what to
quote them on. A translation can be wrong in ways that matter,
especially about tone.
Only the post's own words are translated. A quoted post, a linked
article and a belief on korrents.com
are left in their original language.
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