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The winner would then be the AIs, not us. That is not to say that the China issue is not real, hence the export controls and attempted international agreement.
31 August
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Whistleblower actions don't do anything unless the environment responds to it
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26 July
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Turns out paralegals are growing like crazy. And the reason for that is because the backlog of lawsuits is really high, and now these law firms could get a lot more cases through. And in order to do so, you got to hire more people.
12 July
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I think the biggest lack of resources that we have allocated in the economic profession is thinking about middle-income developing countries in the in the age of AI.
2 April
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llama-serverTheir words
As it turned out, ollama was not able to fit Qwen3.5:35B onto my GPU, but llama-server could. Hence, from that day forward, I resolved to cease being a cave-dwelling noob, and use llama-server (via llama-swap to make model swapping easier).
22 February
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The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them BetterTheir words
One of the most common requests I receive is for resources to become a better storyteller. In this book, award-winning novelist Will Storr looks at how the brain responds to stories, and how to captivate your audience and connect with their emotions.
18 August 2025
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if you tell what what jobs are most likely to be automated with the current generation of technology, you would probably put software engineering right at the top. The people building this technology or building the technology that is disrupting their own profession.
14 June 2025
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It's becoming much more a thing of the past. So I think you just have to be adaptable and flexible. I think people will have to get skills that are transferable, like learning one specific programing language or one specific subject of mathematics or something. That itself is not a super transferable skill, but sort of knowing how to reason with abstract concepts or how to problem solve when things go wrong.
21 November 2024
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When a team of 10 AI-enabled super-designers can do the work that used to require a UX department of 100, the need for higher management levels shrivels. I call this the “pancaking” of the design profession.
Design Leaders Should Go “Founder Mode”jakobnielsenphd.substack.com
16 October 2024
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I think it’s partly territorial. I cannot speak of all archeologists, but some archeologists feel very territorial about their profession. They do not feel happy about outsiders entering their realm, especially if those outsiders have a large platform.
8 July 2024
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From the onset, I envisioned small firms of professional maintainers with thematic portfolios, accommodating diverse maintainers and project sizes, just like the specialized firms of other professionals.
20 March 2024
10 March 2024
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China’s World ViewTheir words
Senior academic advisor to the Chinese Communist Party feels most political tensions come from a misunderstanding of China’s world view, hence the subtitle “demystifying to prevent global conflict”, and his intrinsic desire to explain. I love its insights and historical context, especially around “Respect-centered diplomacy” and how the CCP is structured.
25 February 2024
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Someone who can't name what they'd do differently is unlikely to be good at improving over time.Their words
if the person responds to "what would you do differently" with "nothing," or with non-actionable vague platitudes, it's a sign they may not be great at figuring out how to get better at things over time.
28 July 2023
12 October 2022
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Hence, the necessity of shitty first drafts.
11 December 2021
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We as a profession misunderstand and misuse the concept of backwards compatibility, both upstream and downstream, by focusing on narrow legalistic definitions instead of outcomes.
18 January 2021
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Licensing is a political and social construct, so an unlicensed profession can still be doing engineering.Their words
licenses exist because we are part of society and have legal requirements, not because they are essential to what it means to do engineering
16 April 2018
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Hippocratic WritingsTheir words
So right there at the beginning, before there was even a profession such as medicine, there is some writing with a scientific appreciation of the body and how to make it better. There's no dogma here, because they're constantly asking, try this for yourself, prove me wrong! And there is also the beginning of a professional ethic about a group of people who should hold each other to high moral and clinical standards. A few of the writings complain about quacks, who rip people off, and don't pay attention to the high standards.
27 June 2013
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My rule of thumb in this profession: “If the New York Times covers a research paper, the next year we will learn that it’s wrong”.
29 April 2012
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It’s true that systemic design is often underemphasized by the paymasters of the game industry.
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