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Psychologist and writer. Author of the memoir Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class, and of a newsletter on human nature, psychology, social class and what he calls luxury beliefs.

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  Happier couples respond to a partner's lapses by assuming distraction or tiredness rather than indifference.

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  Happier couples tend to give each other the benefit of the doubt. Rather than assuming "My partner doesn't care," they're more likely to consider that the other is tired, distracted, overwhelmed or simply unaware of the impact of their behavior.

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Mathematician and Senior Lecturer in the Mathematics department at Columbia University. Author of the book Not Even Wrong and of the long-running physics blog of the same name.

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  AI-generated junk papers risk overwhelming the hep-th physics field with worthless content.

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  The result is something completely worthless, but not obviously distinguishable from many other things on hep-th, which is in serious danger of going from something sad and unhealthy to something completely overwhelmed with crud.

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Researcher on developer productivity; co-wrote Accelerate and the DORA research, and created the SPACE framework.

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  AI sped up the part of software work we could see, and it is the delivery systems downstream that are now being overwhelmed.

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  And so, like in the immediate term, yeah, we were getting more out, but now our systems, whether technology systems or human systems or processes, are really kind of getting overwhelmed.

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Designer and co-founder of Lux, makers of Halide, Spectre and Kino; formerly a designer at Apple.

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  Opaque, inert, obstructive interface elements will become as niche as the full-screen command line once interfaces are infused with dynamic materials.

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  Opaque, inert and obstructive elements might occupy the same place as full-screen command line interfaces — a powerful niche UI that was a marker in history, passed on by the windowed environment of the multi-tasking, graphical user interface revolution.

  Physicality: the new age of UIlux.camera

Founded CD Baby in 1998 and sold it in 2008, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. Since then a writer and speaker: five books and 550+ articles, published first at sive.rs, which they hand-code and keep free of advertising.

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  Hell yeah or no is a situational tool for when overwhelmed by too many options, not a constant life approach everyone should always use.

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  the tool is used when you are overwhelmed with too many options. You've said yes to too many things, and you need to raise the bar all the way up so that almost everything doesn't pass the bar. It's a tool for a certain situation so I rarely use it. I would not call it a approach to life that everyone should use all the time.

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Founder of Terraform Industries and formerly a physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; writes about energy, space and manufacturing.

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  A solar panel is a manufactured object that produces wealth rather than consuming it, at a hundred times the rate of the best farmland.

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  Inert glass rectangles that, placed on the ground, print out wealth, at roughly 100x the rate of the best farm land.

  Solar and batteries for generic use casescaseyhandmer.wordpress.com

Monetary economist known for NGDP-level targeting. Wrote TheMoneyIllusion until it closed in 2024 and now writes The Pursuit of Happiness.

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  Coup de Chance

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  Coup de Chance (France) 3.0 Full of tastefully done scenes filmed by Vittorio Storaro, but somewhat inert and lifeless. For a major director, Woody Allen has surprisingly little feel for the art of cinema—a fact that is usually covered up by his clever dialogue. Working in French he seems out of his comfort zone (or is it the subtitles?) The dialogue seems less sharp, more predictable.

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Software engineer who writes the blog Made of Bugs about performance, debugging and understanding computer systems. Previously worked at Anthropic on interpretability, at Stripe on Sorbet, and at Ksplice.

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  A profiler measures time already spent in an operation, not how much time would be saved by optimizing it.

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  a profile tells you how much time a program spent in a given operation; but not how much time it would spend if you optimized that operation.

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