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What are the top 5 programming books that changed how I think about code? The litmus test is: Did the book a) change my coding style, and b) was it a sustainable change that made a positive difference? Check out my list here:
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19 September
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A small, sustained reduction in selfishness compounds into a large positive change in a person over years.Their words
Being 10% less of an asshole, compounded over years, has tremendous effects.
Average moments of a long-term meditatorsashachapin.substack.com
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13 September
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Now recently the U.S. economy has experienced a huge positive shock to its Intelligence, with more to come. The core prediction is that this increases marginal returns, employment, and real wages in the Polanyi knowledge sector.
A simple model of AI-aided economic growthmarginalrevolution.com
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2 September
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The deeper lesson is that education has to be research-based and proven to work measurably, not just based on positive emotions or customer satisfaction.
1 September
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Switching to sustainable energy is the one effective, scalable tool available to prevent catastrophic climate change.Their words
"Just switching to sustainable energy" is in fact the one good, scalable weapon we have to fight that
31 August
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The most positive use case if you said, you know, what's the number one thing we could use AI for? It's not giving kids chatbots that's going to work. It's giving them an individualized lesson plan based on their level to catch them up to grade level. And that would be the single best thing we could do to fix education in America.
30 August
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Extremely severe extinction events happen every 100M years or so and just switching to sustainable energy will not be enough to stop them. Space satellites to control temperature and massive geo-engineering will be needed or it will be game over.
27 August
26 August
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I've said like the licensable engine thing kind of was our AI transition already unfortunately and uh I regret to inform you that the news is not probably that positive.
25 August
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And I do think some of that is positive and energizing, but I also think you can certainly go too far with it, and I also think the current pace is not sustainable.
24 August
From one piece How to Improve Motivation & Overcome Procrastination | Dr. Masud Husain 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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It would also help if your manager said, "Well done for getting that bit done." Right? That's that's also a motivation pull to think, "Yeah, actually I don't need to get the whole piece done to get the reward of somebody identified that as a positive thing to have done."
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If you start from a low baseline of performance, you might get some positive boost. It's quite small, but you might get it. But if you are actually quite a high performer, then you risk getting worse. with this is called the inverse U-shaped curve.
16 August
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Digital MinimalismTheir words
Podcast. Cal Newport’s new book is a great distillation of what I’ve come to believe is the right, sustainable, healthy approach to social media, and technology more broadly. Browse less, make the best of it, and live more.
6 August
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If you keep adding deadlines without also checking whether the workload itself is sustainable, you risk what I call Obliger-rebellion-the point where an Obliger who has met, met, met, and met expectations suddenly snaps and refuses to meet any more.
3 August
25 July
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The Rumpelstiltskin effect is not a claim that receiving a diagnosis is a net benefit or a net positive. It is a claim that the mere act of receiving a diagnosis can be beneficial.
20 July
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We kind of expect that we can go to work and we can work really hard for eight hours straight during the day, but like the brain doesn't really work like that.
15 July
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While in mathematics AI agents are starting to have a major positive impact on research (e.g. by resolving the Jacobian conjecture), the situation is very different in hep-th.
13 July
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And actually, more recent research shows that those who have a positive attitude live longer, they're less likely to develop dementia.
30 June
From one piece Saving the world from bad ideas: the continuing failure of food ecomodernism 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
Today's level of city living depends on cheap fossil fuels and is unlikely to survive without them.Their words
However, in our non-ideal biophysical reality, present levels of urbanism are unlikely to be sustainable without cheap fossil fuels, and the human cost of that could be horrific unless we address it urgently.
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a more relevant metric in the long term is the cost, not the efficiency, of food production methods at sustainable levels of energetic and material throughput.
10 June
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korrents.com
People will matter more in an AI future, not less, and giving them better tools is what makes that future a good one.Their words
I think like people are really important and I think we'll be more important in the future and giving people more tools to be more productive is going to be like a critical part of any kind of positive future
26 May
7 April
From one piece Martin Fowler & Kent Beck: Frameworks for reinventing software, again and again 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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But my my experience pairing with a two humans and a genie or multiple genies has been very positive. And the fact that they're kind of slow is really nice. So, every time the models come out and they're faster, I'm like, "Oh, there's less time to talk."
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So, I see a a big trend is the re-soloing of programming. Where a big part of extreme programming is creating a safe social environment for basically antisocial people. Not just asocial, antisocial. And the when I think about the degree of interaction on an XP team, people aren't talking to each other hours a day and happy to be doing so because it's set up for that to be a positive experience.
23 March
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korrents.com
Social media is built so that maximum hyperbole wins, and the negative direction pays better than the positive.Their words
And unfortunately, social media in general is designed in such a way where the maximum hyperbole works, and that’s how you get the most points is by being max hyperbolic.
12 February
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korrents.com
The real cost of the CHIPS Act is the technical talent it ties up, not its fifty-billion-dollar price tag.Their words
The CHIPS Act might still be a positive, but the cost is almost certainly many times the $50 billion price tag.
7 January
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The Power of a Positive No: Save The Deal Save The Relationship and Still Say NoTheir words
. Saying no gracefully and firmly is one of the most important skills for a product manager to develop. This is the classic guide for learning to do so.
12 December 2025
9 December 2025
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By this broader definition, humans have never been truly sustainable.
14 November 2025
14 October 2025
From one piece Falling Fertility Is Not About Opportunity Cost 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Although the cross-sectional relationship between national income and fertility is negative, the longitudinal relationship between national income and fertility is positive: economic booms create baby booms, economic busts create baby busts.
Falling Fertility Is Not About Opportunity Costlymanstone.substack.com
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the shift from 50th to 99th percentile earnings has no negative effect on women’s fertility, and unearned income for women has a neutral-to-positive effect
Falling Fertility Is Not About Opportunity Costlymanstone.substack.com
8 October 2025
1 October 2025
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BraintrustTheir words
The panel had a generally positive view of Braintrust, highlighting its clean UI and structured approach to evaluations. The tool’s emphasis on human-in-the-loop workflows was a significant strength.
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Arize PhoenixTheir words
The panel had a generally positive view of Phoenix, with one panelist calling it one of his “favorite open source eval tools.” The tool is positioned as a developer-first, notebook-centric platform.
22 August 2025
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korrents.com
Diagnoses that have therapeutic effects are medical interventions and should be treated and researched as such.Their words
If a clinical diagnosis can have a therapeutic effect, then, at least in some instances, diagnoses are medical interventions in themselves and ought to be treated and researched as such, with an eye to both positive effects and potential iatrogenic harms.
15 August 2025
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And the impact of solar array on desert is arguably positive because it shades the ground and improves like soil moisture retention. Um there like if you wanted to reverse desertification, you would basically just deploy solar panels on it and that would pay for the process.
16 July 2025
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The state-of-the-art today can be more accurately described as "last-minute, black-box product testing" rather than auditing, and I think this situation threatens public safety, international stability, and sustainable commercial adoption of AI.
5 June 2025
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I almost feel the term doesn't matter, what I know is by 2030 there'll be such dramatic progress. We'll be dealing with the consequences of that progress, both the positive externalities and the negative externalities that come with it in a big way by 2030. So that I strongly feel.
3 June 2025
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I had always thought that all "Intelligent Investing" is "Value Investing". And that true value is always sustainable. In otherh words, "All Intelligent Finance is Sustainable Finance."
21 May 2025
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the definition of a “good business” has changed from one that makes good products at a fair price to a sustainable and loyal market, to one that can display the most stock price growth from quarter to quarter.
10 August 2024
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korrents.com
Prosumer software needs tens or hundreds of thousands of users for its development costs to be sustainable.Their words
You need tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, to make the cost of development sustainable.
20 November 2023
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Not the End of the WorldTheir words
His life and work have influenced my own tremendously—and just a few pages into Ritchie’s essential and hopeful new book, Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet, it became clear that she was carrying on his tremendous legacy.
9 November 2023
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So energy usage right now is roughly one third, very rough terms, one third electricity, one third transport, one third heating. And so in order for everything to go sustainable, to go electric, you need to triple electricity output.
12 August 2023
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Reading the book had not changed my fundamental belief that, in balance, we were on a good trajectory with AI research: good for science and good for society with expected positive impacts in many domains.
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I now believe that I was wrong and short-sighted to ignore that dual-use nature. I also think I was not paying enough attention to the possibility of losing control to superhuman AIs.
2 February 2023
From one piece I’m Now a Full-Time Professional Open Source Maintainer 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Volunteerism is self-evidently not sustainable, as people’s life circumstances change.
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Maintainers of widely used open source software are not adequately funded, and that is a real and unsolved problem.Their words
This experiment started from the observation that despite being critical for the functioning of the Internet—and, by extension, the economy—the role of open-source maintainer has not yet found a sustainable manifestation.
27 December 2022
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We know how easily these practices can distort the scientific record and give us false-positive, nonsense results.
9 August 2022
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korrents.com
Decision-bias research is itself biased, studying only how heuristics fail and never the strength they supply.Their words
Um but nobody has done research on the positive side of these heuristics. And so, I think that's a bias on the part of the decision bias researchers that they're only looking at the down arrow. How do these heuristics get us in trouble? And they're not looking at the strength of these heuristics.
30 June 2022
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The ideal on-call rotation has seven to eight people; five people is a bare minimum.
1 June 2022
From one piece Fiscal Policy under Low Interest Rates 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Multipliers are likely to vary a lot over time and space, but the bulk of the evidence is that they are different from zero, positive for spending, negative for taxes, and that they are stronger when monetary policy does not or cannot react to fiscal policy.
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assessing debt sustainability is as much art as it is science.
2 April 2021
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There won’t be enough of it for the 25,000 planes flying each day, the feedstock will compete with food production.
11 January 2021
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Not only are the traditional staples of classic value investing (readily discernable quantitative measures of cheapness in the here-and-now) no longer likely to produce a sustainable edge on their own, but the world has gotten more complex, with many more dynamics that can drive a decoupling of near-term metrics from valuation, both to the positive and negative.
Something of Value (memo to Oaktree clients)oaktreecapital.com
9 September 2020
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korrents.com
There is no best or fastest way to learn a language; the question has no general answer.Their words
after 30 years of learning languages and 10 years of coaching people to do the same, I am 100% positive when I tell you that there is no absolute best and fastest way to learn a language.
24 June 2019
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