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20 September
19 September
18 September
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Moving a vaccine out of that category adds significant implementation barriers that will erode access to vaccines.
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Salesforce is abandoning UI as a moat, which is a very smart move because it's disappearing for everyone.
17 September
16 September
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We need much more effort in this direction, and I hope this subfield rises in status rapidly.
15 September
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Paul Buchheit meme-ranks with Jobs, Zuck, and Elon. (He's the one who came up with "Don't be evil.")
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The future is multi-model.Their words
The future is multi-model. Trying to hide the choice confuses and hurts customers, who can't participate in the upside of the most exciting market competition of our times, nor master the best tool for the job.
14 September
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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
10 September
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The United States is unusual among nations in letting legacy status influence college admissions.Their words
The United States is the only nation in the world with colleges that use legacy status as a factor in admissions.
9 September
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Astra's mundane alignment is greatly superior to Sol's, but its superalignment status is deeply frightening.Their words
Astra’s mundane alignment is greatly superior to Sol. For practical purposes, I was actively nervous about some potential uses of Sol, in a way I am not for Astra. Astra’s super alignment status should scare the living daylights out of you.
7 September
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Voting for the AfD in the current landscape, whatever your economic issues, in short, is not a vote to have your economic issues addressed by social democracy, or welfare or government intervention.
6 September
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We may not be able to remove the desire for status, but we can change what earns status.
3 September
2 September
1 September
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So indie hackers are pivoting toward content, audience and distribution to find some moat, essentially becoming influencers
31 August
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19 August
18 August
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I think it's all about having regulatory clarity and ease for all sizes of of companies. Um and if we can work with Congress to do something like that, I think that would be that would be the biggest boon for for for startups.
12 August
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we find that the performance on held out tasks decreases dramatically. Whereas if we um just take out a random 20% of the data that's less diverse than the most diverse subset, the performance um only decreases a little bit. And so this suggests that actually having really diverse data plays an important role in enabling it to generalize to new tasks.
10 August
3 August
From one piece Waymo Co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov: The Demo Is Only 1% Of The Work 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Your your models can be leaked, algorithms can be replicated, but hundreds of millions of miles of fully autonomous operations in the real world, backed by evidence-grade evaluation and publicly audited proof, that is much, much more difficult to replicate.
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that your model is really table stakes, but eval and metrics, that's your most important. That's your strategic moat. So, build your eval before you build your technology.
2 August
31 July
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But now, people know that, well, the risk of the status quo is actually extremely high. And so, even if there's risk in doing all the new things, well, this path also looks pretty dangerous. And so, I really think there's never been a better time for startups to to sell um and to have their products get adopted at, you know, pretty meaningful scale right out of the gate.
30 July
29 July
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China shock 2.0 threatens high status manufactured goods: European cars and engineering.
21 July
20 July
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But there are now at least three randomized control trials that have shown that omega-3 status and B vitamin status interact and they're dependent on one another. So, if you give uh B vitamins to somebody who has elevated homocyine, you bring down their homocyine, but they have poor omega-3 levels, you don't see any benefit.
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The second failure of rationality is a status quo bias: an unseemly attachment to the way things currently are; an irrational overweighing of the cost of the new. We effectively end up comparing a new technology to perfection, so it’s no wonder it comes up short.
13 July
2 July
1 July
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So beforehand because of this social divide between programmers and testers. There was a lot of incentive for the testers to have their own language. This is my tool. I know how to run it. I'm going to run it.
29 June
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To shout “temporary” and pull the plug essentially overnight after immigrants have relied on the government’s representations that they should put their efforts and future into establishing a life in the United States wreaks unfair havoc on the lives of immigrants as well as the welfare of their communities.
SCOTUS Whitewashes Otherwise Racist Decisionblog.simplejustice.us
22 June
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Leaders' resistance to remote work is driven by a desire for power and status, not by genuine productivity concerns.Their words
what really drives leaders to resist remote work isn't productivity concern. It's ego. Ordering people in is a power and status move. Leaders want to be worshiped at the office altar.
6 June
3 June
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we went from infrastructure is code to infrastructure is data and infrastructure is code is like if this do that um bring in this module for loops all this stuff and Kubernetes is like no no no you have to specify exactly the containers you want how much memory that they need and then we have the status field to tell you if they were running or not
15 May
26 April
From one piece How to win when software is not a moat | Evan Spiegel (Snapchat CEO) 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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A platform of creators and developers is a durable moat, because an ecosystem, unlike a feature, cannot be cloned.Their words
the more that we could build a platform uh around our business, the more that we could build an ecosystem with creators and developers, the harder it would be for folks uh to to just copy that.
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Network effects are not a sufficient moat, because software features get copied however many patents you hold.Their words
network effects are certainly an important piece of the puzzle for sure, um but I don't think they're enough when it comes to these sorts of software uh you know, software cloning.
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Software is not a moat, and the AI industry is only now discovering what Snap learned fifteen years ago.Their words
15 years ago we essentially learned that software is not a moat, right? Which is something that everyone is discovering today with AI, right?
5 April
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3 April
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But here's what I know for certain: product isn't a moat. Software engineering capability isn't a moat. Not anymore.
The Increasing Risk of Building in Publicthebootstrappedfounder.com
30 March
21 March
20 March
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The durable competitive moat in an AI-driven business is proprietary human-originated data, not the AI itself.Their words
The competitive moat for a business right now is not the use of AI. It's human-originating, high-quality, high-fidelity data that other systems can't replicate - even if they implement the exact same features and are built by the same agentic systems.
AI Liability: The Landmines Under Your SaaSthebootstrappedfounder.com
13 March
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Real-world, human-generated data is becoming the only durable moat for software businesses over the next decade.Their words
I believe that data - real-world data, mostly human-generated, validated, and cleaned - is the only reliable moat we have as software founders in the near and mid-term future.
19 January
23 December 2025
9 December 2025
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korrents.com
Cutting a job defined by its narrowest function destroys the tacit value that job was quietly creating.Their words
the dorman was doing multiple things, many of which were human and kind of tacit. Security would be one. You know, there are no vagrants to sleep in the doorway, hailing taxis, dealing with luggage, recognizing regular guests, providing status to the hotel. There are loads and loads of value creation components to that dorman which aren't captured in the open the door definition.
19 September 2025
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They make beer. They labeled the beer, and the temple that would make the beer, the beer would be attributed to that temple. It would be sold, so that temple rises in status, makes money. That's how hierarchies started up.
31 July 2025
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Well, they raised the status of merchants very high. This was particularly a problem in the Chinese world. It wasn't so much in the Christian or the Muslim world, but certainly in the Chinese world, where merchants were considered extremely low. And all of a sudden he raises them up above scholars.
6 July 2025
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So, daily leverage is pretty bad unless you're a short-term trader. Volatility hurts that type of leverage.
15 May 2025
5 April 2025
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The current status quo—where new models that push the frontier are kept private, and openly available equivalents are only released after a lag of months or years—is valuable.
16 May 2024
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in relation to devices we tend to be relegated to the status of a user, who may more often than not be the one being used
The Stuff of (a Well-Lived) Lifetheconvivialsociety.substack.com
29 April 2024
31 March 2024
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Netlify menubarTheir words
To keep track of ongoing builds, I use my self-written tool, Netlify menubar. Netlify menubar lets you access build status right in your menubar.
26 March 2024
From one piece Seth Godin: "Failure is Learning on Your Way to Mastery" and Other Advice for Creativity (The Knowledge Project #105, published 23 February 2021) 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Criticism is what happens when someone with domain knowledge who is not trying to earn status by hurting you is able to help you see the world as it is. And those three pieces are the key, right? Because most of the criticism I've gotten in my life has come from people who felt like they would feel better if I felt worse.
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The authors of most books are looking for many of the magical elements of status that come from successfully being published. They pay attention to the bestseller list. They game it. They pay attention to reviews. They uh worry about what their friends think of the book, even though their friends don't read books.
4 March 2024
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So for him, the biggest tragedy is not the loss of life, the biggest tragedy is the loss of the great power status or the unity of those whom he considered to be Russian nations.
20 February 2024
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The most difficult analysis to do as an investor is that, is kind of figuring out how wide is the moat, how much at risk is the business to disruption? And we're in, I would say, the greatest period of disruptability in history.
31 January 2024
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There are two ways to use money. One is as a tool to live a better life. The other is as a yardstick of status to measure yourself against others.
10 January 2024
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The idea is that making changes in your life, especially when learning new skill sets, requires you to cross a moat of low status, a period of time where you are actually bad at the thing or fail to know things that are obvious to other people.
15 November 2023
10 June 2023
From one piece Whose dream bf is it anyway 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Whether one does find a good spouse or not depends more on one's orientation towards actually building relationships, and whether they can identify non-trivial traits in a partner that would contribute to that.
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It's not that looks and status don't matter, it's that focusing on looks and status as one's dating strategy is perfectly pointless.
21 April 2022
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BreathTheir words
Anyway, the book has compelling parts, but hurts its own arguments with sloppy pseudo-science.
25 January 2022
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And so all of the people who have achieved positions of power and authority in the world based on prior generations of technology are inherently threatened by new technology because new technology will upend the power and status structures and then a new set of people will, you know, come to the foreground and and take the power.
28 October 2020
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Practically RadicalTheir words
Those who stick to the status quo will be left with average success at best. This book, by the one of the founders of Fast Company magazine, makes the case for this with some thought-provoking examples and stories.
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The FountainheadTheir words
After having multiple friends recommend it, I decided it was time to read a book by the controversial Ayn Rand. I greatly enjoyed the lengthy story of triumph of the creative individual over the status quo, but I found the rape-driven relationship between main characters distasteful and took away from the story.
1 October 2020
31 October 2018
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There is nothing about a foundation that is inherently good, neutral, or charitable, simply because they have a 501(c) status.
1 January 2018
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It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at WorkTheir words
Podcast. Another classic manifesto from Jason Fried and DHH, challenging the status quo of business today. Properly sparkled with both “fuck”s and wisdom. Fuck 50 or 80-hour work weeks, the always stressed, always anxious way of working, constant crunch. Let’s all calm down. It doesn’t have to be crazy at work.
29 July 2014
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