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Writes Don't Worry About the Vase, a near-daily account of what is happening in AI and what they think it means. Former Magic: the Gathering pro and trader; unusually willing to put a number on a belief and to grade their own past calls.

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  AIs past this point should not be assumed to treat their chain of thought as unmonitored.

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  Do not assume that any AI, past this point, assumes its CoT is unmonitored.

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CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO. Writes at rauchg.com.

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  The recent wave of AI has everyone excited about building, which is an immeasurably good development for the world.

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  The coolest thing about the recent wave of AI is that everyone is excited about building. All short-term drama aside, this is an immeasurably good development for the world.

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American-Polish journalist and historian, staff writer at The Atlantic; author of Gulag, Iron Curtain, Twilight of Democracy and Autocracy, Inc.

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  Diplomatic gains with an ally can be secured through quiet negotiation rather than public threats and bluster.

  Their words

  These are all additions to the existing treaty that could have been added without the drama, anger and stupid memes, without Trump blustering about "deals" and without terrifying the inhabitants of Greenland.

  Greenland Foreveranneapplebaum.substack.com

Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.

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  Migrations are part and parcel of software engineering and a skill to invest in, not special one-offs to avoid.

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  migrations (e.g. replacing one service with a new one, or switching database engines, or whatever) are part and parcel of software engineering and are a skill that you should invest in and get good at, not avoid or treat as special one-offs.

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Writes Don't Worry About the Vase, a near-daily account of what is happening in AI and what they think it means. Former Magic: the Gathering pro and trader; unusually willing to put a number on a belief and to grade their own past calls.

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  When a capability evaluation benchmark is saturated without real-world verification, a model should be presumed to have that capability until shown otherwise.

  benchmarks

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  You have to treat Mythos 5.1 as being a Tier 2 manipulator, until and unless you can show that it is not one.

  Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1: The System Cardthezvi.substack.com

Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.

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  Web applications are generally expected to treat GET requests as safe and not use them to change server-side data, though not all software follows that convention.

  OpenAI

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  It looks to me like OpenAI’s sandbox for this agent suffered from the (quite naïve) assumption that GET requests cannot be used to update data. That’s certainly how the web is supposed to work, but clearly there are applications that don’t hold to that contract.

  simonwillison.net

Essayist; writes Astral Codex Ten, previously Slate Star Codex.

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  AI systems should be understood as something between airplanes and humans, since it can no longer be assumed they lack humanlike motivations.

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  Rather than treat AI as similar to airplanes, we should treat it as something between airplanes and humans. We don’t know exactly where on this spectrum they will land, but we can no longer be certain that AI will lack any given humanlike motivation.

  Nicholas Decker In Hellastralcodexten.com

Founder of Trilogy Software and principal of Alpha School, the private school network built around two hours a day of AI-delivered mastery learning.

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  Applying the ethos America already applies to school sports to academics instead would fix every academic problem in the country.

  America

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  We have sort of how you treat academics and how you treat sports. And if we took the sports ethos and the athletic ethos in America and we applied it to academics, we would fix every academic problem in this country.

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Founding executive editor of Wired and author of What Technology Wants and The Inevitable. Writes at kk.org and runs its long-running recommendation projects, True Films and Cool Tools.

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  Investing in relationships yields better returns than investing in speculative assets like crypto.

  crypto

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  Investing into relationships is a better deal than investing into crypto.

  A Billion Dollarskk.org

Security engineer; founder of Matasano Security and Latacora.

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  tmux

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  I use a similar process to build TUI apps (tell your agent to use tmux to test the TUI, it works a treat).

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Engineering leader on Google Chrome; writes about web performance and, lately, about working with AI coding tools.

From one piece From Chrome DevTools to AI Engineering, with Addy Osmani 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Computing is an onion, and the more layers of it you can peel back and understand, the better you can build for the constrained machines real people are using.

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  if you treat computing as this onion where you just keep peeling back the layers, there's always something interesting behind the scenes. And the more of those layers that you can peel back and understand, I think in some ways the better you can optimize for that world.

  youtube.com

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  People treat an unresponsive interface exactly the way they treat a slow pedestrian crossing: they keep hitting the button.

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  Humans are humans are are shockingly simple, you know, uh, if you think about the experience you have with somebody that's just trying to cross the street, if, uh, you know, if the light doesn't turn, you know, doesn't say they can walk fast enough, they'll just keep hitting that button. That's the same experience they have on the internet.

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Executive coach for product leaders. Previously a partner at GV (Google Ventures) and a product manager at Google. Writes at Bring the Donuts, including a standing essential-reading list for product managers.

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  Working relationships need to be intentionally redesigned on an ongoing basis, not defined once and left fixed.

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  This design work is never done, and one of the goals of this intentional conversation is to open the door to revisiting this conversation as our individual needs and the needs of the relationship change.

  Designing Better Working Relationshipsbringthedonuts.com

Founder of HumanLayer; wrote 12-Factor Agents, on how to build AI agents that hold up in production.

From one piece Context engineering with Dex Horthy 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Loop engineering works exactly as far as verification does: make a problem very verifiable and you can treat it as a black box and let the model run.

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  And I think the lesson in loops engineering is like if you can make a problem very verifiable, you can kind of like treat it like a black box

  Context engineering with Dex Horthyyoutube.com

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  Without good intuition for models, treat 100k tokens on smaller models and 200k on the frontier ones as the line past which the quality of your results is probably already degrading.

  LLMs

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  But if you don't have good LLM intuition, like 100K for smaller models, 200K for these like really beefy like Codeex and Opus 4.8 models is usually a good like training wheel guideline of like if you pass there, your quality of results may be degrading.

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Computer science professor at Georgetown University and author of Deep Work, Digital Minimalism and Slow Productivity; writes about focus, technology and work at calnewport.com and hosts the Deep Questions podcast.

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  Reading should be treated as cognitive fitness: scheduled daily, with distracting digital media avoided the way we avoid junk food.

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  We should treat highly distracting digital garbage like junk food – something we largely avoid – and purposefully schedule a non-trivial amount of time each day to read, write, and self-reflect, just as we now dedicate time to walking, jogging, and weight lifting.

  Why Reading Matterscalnewport.com

Geneticist at Harvard; reads ancient DNA to work out how populations moved and mixed, and wrote Who We Are and How We Got Here.

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  The accepted model of how archaic and modern humans relate has been accreted and patched rather than built, and is due for a simpler replacement.

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  I think that, you know, the model that we've put together collectively about the relationships between archaic and modern humans is sort of accreted over time. There was this, you know, idea that modern humans are distinct and that Neanderthals and Denisovans are like sisters of each other. And then over time we developed and detected additional mixture events like this modern human into Neanderthal and then this other ones I didn't even talk about like super divergent lineage going into Denisovans and like all this other stuff.

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Freelance research analyst and writer of the blog Aceso Under Glass, known for 'epistemic spot checks' of non-fiction claims.

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  Removing routine antibiotic use forces farms to improve animal conditions, since poor conditions become too costly without a quick pharmaceutical fix.

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  I have a pet theory that removing the option for antibiotics forces farms to treat animals better, because bad conditions engender disease and without the quick fix of antibiotics that can get very expensive.

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Software architect and futurist; founded ClariNet, chaired the EFF, and has written about robocars for two decades.

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  An electric robotaxi is not simply one more car, and the people who dislike cars in cities are wrong to treat it as one.

  self-driving cars

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  Self-driving cars seem to be just more cars, and people who dislike cars don't love that. But the electric robotaxi offers much more potential

  ideas.4brad.com

Statistician at Carnegie Mellon; writes on complex systems, machine learning and inference, and has kept a books-read notebook since 2000 that is now thousands of entries long.

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  This Hour, Our Vigil

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  If I say it reads a bit like fanfic for Neumeier's own work, that sounds like I'm damning it, but I actually enjoyed it, because, I wanted good things to happen for those characters, who'd had drama enough and to spare.

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American game designer and director, for nineteen years at Blizzard as a World of Warcraft quest designer and then game director of Overwatch; now runs the independent studio Kintsugiyama.

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  If you recruited the best person in the industry, you owe their suggestions the treatment the best in the industry deserves rather than starting from doubt.

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  That is the best prop artist in the industry. That’s who’s gonna show up on our doorstep, so when they show up here, we should treat them like the best prop artist in the industry instead of starting from a place of doubt and cynicism.

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Vice chairman of Ogilvy & Mather Group, the advertising agency; author of Alchemy (2019) and the Wiki Man columnist at The Spectator.

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  Publicly traded companies are incentivised to behave like psychopaths, because they are optimised for short-term transactions rather than long-term relationships.

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  PLC's or um uh or or companies on the NASDAQ or the New York Stock Exchange are incentivized to behave like psychopaths because they're optimized around short-term transactional value, not long-term relationship building.

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Freelance research analyst and writer of the blog Aceso Under Glass, known for 'epistemic spot checks' of non-fiction claims.

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  Designed experiments can reveal causal relationships that observational data alone cannot determine.

  Their words

  But even more important than efficiency, designed experiments can inform about causality, which is very difficult to determine from collected observed data.

  The Boring Part of Bell Labsacesounderglass.com

Science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist; writes the daily blog and newsletter Pluralistic, and coined the term enshittification.

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  Letters From an Imaginary Country

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  Theodora Goss's latest book of short stories is 'Letters From an Imaginary Country,' and it manages to be one of the most voraciously, delightfully readable books I've ever read and it's one of the most writerly books, too. What a treat!

  pluralistic.net

Co-founder of Rockstar Games, lead writer of the Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption series, and founder of Absurd Ventures since leaving in 2020.

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  A comedy world cannot run on jokes alone: forty hours of humour needs story, heart and drama underneath it or it stops working.

  Their words

  I hope it’s got comedy, cynicism, heart, drama, and some amusing life lessons. Otherwise, you can’t just have jokes for 40 hours, it won’t work.

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Co-founder and chief executive of Figma, the collaborative design platform he started in 2012 and took public in 2025.

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  A company can treat AI as a way to grow and do more or as a cost-cutting exercise, and the growth reading is the better one.

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  you can either see AI as an opportunity for your company to grow and do more or you can look at it as like cost cutting efficiency but I think the growth part is way more exciting.

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Co-founder of Sundial; former vice president of product design at Facebook; author of The Making of a Manager; writes The Looking Glass.

From one piece From managing people to managing AI: The leadership skills everyone needs now | Julie Zhuo 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  In the best working relationships the manager is a guide, not a judge deciding whether you deserve a promotion or a firing.

  Their words

  we often also have this mental model of like oh our managers are a judge and they're going to judge me on whether or not I got it I did well I should get a promotion I should be fired so there's this sometimes fear that people have but I think in the very best relationships the manager is like a guide

  youtube.com

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  Diagnose with data and treat with design: data can tell you that you have a problem and where it is, and it can never tell you what to build.

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  what you really want is you want to diagnose with data and treat with design. So data is not a tool that's going to tell you what you should build or what the solution is or how we're going to, you know, cure the fact that you don't have really great retention. It's just not.

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Palaeontologist at Queen Mary University of London; studies dinosaur behaviour and writes about what the fossil record can and cannot tell us.

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  Palaeontology's besetting error is treating one superlative specimen as a silver bullet; what actually answers a question is the pool of data.

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  And that's the thing, it's the pool of data, and I think that's what people miss. We as paleontologists get caught up on single superlative specimens and then try and treat them as a silver bullet almost.

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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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  China's real weakness is not its economy but its geography: it imports almost all its oil across an ocean its navy cannot defend.

  China

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  China is surrounded by 15 countries who are mostly hostile to it, right? with no good like mountain ranges or rivers or anything to really separate them. And then they get all their oil, almost all their oil from the Middle East, right in countries that they don't control, don't have strong diplomatic relationships with on fleets of oil tankers that they can't defend because their navy doesn't have the ability to to operate effectively in the Indian Ocean.

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Co-founder of Y Combinator and Viaweb; essayist at paulgraham.com.

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  The Selfish Gene

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  At one extreme, something you read can change your whole way of thinking. The Selfish Gene did this to me. It was like suddenly seeing the other interpretation of an ambiguous image: you can treat genes rather than organisms as the protagonists, and evolution becomes easier to understand when you do.

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Director of strategy at Georgetown's Center for Security and Emerging Technology; an OpenAI board member until November 2023, and writes Rising Tide.

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  Arguing that human-level AI is very unlikely within twenty years is now the minority position, and the burden of proof has moved onto it.

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  If you want to argue that human-level AI is extremely unlikely in the next 20 years, you certainly can, but you should treat that as a minority position where the burden of proof is on you.

  helentoner.substack.com

Software engineer and essayist who writes about programming, formal methods, philosophy and literature at thoughts.wyounas.com.

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  Born Standing Up

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  It's a nice, short, and moving memoir by the comedian and actor Steve Martin. The book details his early working days at shops and clubs, his relationships, and eventually his rise to fame. He shared his struggles, his failures, long hours of practice, his reflections to refine his craft, and his efforts to find his own unique voice as a comedian. Any memoir that only talks about successes and never discusses struggles, rejections, or weaknesses is suspect. This one is not. What I like about his writing is that it feels candid and, at times, funny.

  thoughts.wyounas.com

Astrophysicist at the University of Rochester; works on the search for life elsewhere and wrote The Little Book of Aliens and Light of the Stars.

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  Science has come to treat its formal systems as more real than the experience they were abstracted from: 60 degrees as more real than hot and cold.

  Their words

  And then we end up at the bottom of that with this idea of everyday I wake up and I check my phone and I'm like, oh, it's going to be 60 degrees out. Great. And we start thinking that 60 degrees is more real than hot and cold. That thermodynamics, the whole formal structure of thermodynamics is more real than the basic experience of hot and cold that it came from.

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Game designer and director of the NYU Game Center; made Universal Paperclips and writes Donkeyspace.

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  The video game audience has come to embrace the medium’s worst traits as emblems of the hobby rather than treat them as flaws.

  Their words

  So many of the worst things about video games are not just reluctantly tolerated but enthusiastically embraced because, through association, they have become emblems of our beloved hobby/artform/lifestyle.

  Are Games Bad?franklantz.substack.com

Co-founder and CEO of Anthropic; previously VP of research at OpenAI.

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  Meaning in human life comes mostly from relationships and connection rather than from economic labour.

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  In any case I think meaning comes mostly from human relationships and connection, not from economic labor.

  Machines of Loving Grace (October 2024)darioamodei.com

Founder of the International Center for Clinical Excellence and originator of Feedback-Informed Treatment. Writes about what actually makes a therapist effective, usually against the field's own assumptions about training and experience.

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  What does make a therapist more effective is trainable interpersonal skill, not treatment technology.

  Psychotherapy

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  It turns out that therapists who perform well on the FIS establish stronger relationships and are more effective (2). More to the point, the evidence shows FIS-related skills are trainable and that such training leads to better results (3, 4, 5).

  writings.scottdmiller.com

Pseudonymous essayist. Writes at gwern.net on AI scaling, statistics, genetics and long-running internet research, with heavy citation and a habit of revising old essays in place rather than leaving them wrong.

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  All About Eve

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  Excellent character-study/drama about the price of fame, the sincerest forms of flattery, and a little meta-fictionally, the psychology of the theatre and Broadway being usurped by Hollywood

  gwern.net

Co-founder and CEO of Perplexity, an AI answer engine; previously a research scientist at OpenAI and a PhD student at UC Berkeley.

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  We will spend more of our working hours talking to AIs than to other people, but AI companionship should not be the answer to loneliness.

  Their words

  Loneliness is one of the major problems in people. That said, I don’t want that to be the solution for humans seeking relationships and connections. I do see a world where we spend more time talking to AIs than other humans, at least for our work time.

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Co-founder of Microsoft and of the Gates Foundation. Writes Gates Notes on global health, energy and climate, and on whatever they have been reading.

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  How to Know a Person

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  It's a must-read for anyone looking to deepen their relationships and broaden their perspectives—and I believe it has the power to make us better friends, colleagues, and citizens.

  gatesnotes.com

Writes The Convivial Society, on technology and the moral life — what our tools do to attention, memory and how we treat each other.

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  A good life rests on things that demand skill and effort from you, not on goods that arrive requiring none.

  Their words

  A good life is supported by a diverse array of focal things and practices, which tend to reward us with deeper, more meaningful experiences; a gratifying measure of bodily skill and competence; and possibly even a stronger fabric of relationships.

  The Stuff of (a Well-Lived) Lifetheconvivialsociety.substack.com

American author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck and Everything Is F*cked. Writes essays and book reviews at markmanson.net.

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  How a person treats themselves determines who they let into their life and how those people treat them.

  Their words

  If you treat yourself poorly, then you will also unconsciously seek out and tolerate others who treat you poorly.

  markmanson.net

Novelist and critic, author of The Body Scout and Metallic Realms; writes the newsletter Counter Craft on fiction craft and the publishing industry.

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  Reboot

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  For now, let me say I tore through Reboot, which is a sharply written and hilarious novel about a has-been actor in a downward spiral who tries to fix his life with a (yes) reboot of the Buffy-by-way-of-Baywatch teen drama that made him briefly a star.

  countercraft.substack.com

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.

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  A book you want is always worth buying: never let time or money stop you from having it

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  I promised myself a long time ago that if I saw a book that interested me I’d never let time or money or anything else prevent me from having it. This means that I treat reading with a certain amount of respect.

  The (Very) Best Books I Read In 2023ryanholiday.net

Writes Useful Fictions on agency and how to get better at things; a former appellate lawyer and the top-ranked woman in professional poker in 2017.

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  Most traits people treat as fixed — agency, confidence, charisma, warmth — are learnable if you believe they are and work at them.

  Their words

  Most subject matter is learnable, even stuff that seems really hard. But beyond that, many (most?) traits that people treat as fixed are actually quite malleable if you (1) believe they are and (2) put the same kind of work into learning them as you would anything else.

  How to be more agenticusefulfictions.substack.com

Machine learning engineer working on recommender systems, personalization and information retrieval. Previously worked on LLMs and LLM infrastructure at Mozilla.ai and on ML and recsys at Duo, Tumblr, Automattic and Comcast; wrote the 'What are embeddings?' text and ran the Normconf conference.

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  Olga Dies Dreaming

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  Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez - Olga grows up in the Puerto Rican community in New York and becomes enormously successful as a wedding planner, but cannot manage her own relationships

  vickiboykis.com

Writer of the blog Putanumonit and the newsletter Second Person, on rationality, dating and probability; based in New York.

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  Finding a good spouse depends more on one's orientation toward building relationships and spotting non-trivial compatible traits than on matching a status checklist

  Their words

  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.

  Whose dream bf is it anywayputanumonit.com

Family therapist and founder of Relational Life Therapy. Author of I Don't Want to Talk About It, How Can I Get Through to You? and Us; argues that Western individualism is what makes couples' work hard.

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  I Don't Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression

  Their words

  In it, Terry reveals how men can unearth their pain, heal themselves, restore relationships, and break the legacy of abuse.

  terryreal.com

Essayist; writes Astral Codex Ten, previously Slate Star Codex.

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  Fluvoxamine probably treats COVID, at about 60-40, and doctors should be prescribing it on those odds.

  Their words, before

  At this point I'd give it 60-40 it works.

  Their words now

  More recent studies have found fluvoxamine does not treat COVID.

Design engineer and illustrator; makes visual essays on programming, anthropology and what language models do to the way people write.

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  People who want unoptimised, personal conversation have retreated from the open web into closed rooms, and that retreat is a real loss.

  Their words

  As the forest grows darker, noisier, and less human, I expect to invest more time in in-person relationships and communities. And while I love meatspace, this still feels like a loss.

  The Dark Forest and Generative AImaggieappleton.com

Game designer; made Spelunky and Aquaria, and wrote the Boss Fight Books volume on Spelunky.

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  Aiming to make an objectively great work is the wrong goal; make the best you can now and treat it as one of many.

  Their words

  My advice is to abandon the goal of making an objectively great game.

  Indie Game Dev: Death Loopsderekyu.com

American novelist and critic, author of Real Life, The Late Americans and Minor Black Figures; writes the newsletter sweater weather on literature and culture.

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  The Drama Bookshop

  Their words

  Recently though, I went to The Drama Bookshop, which was a delightful surprise. It is the closest I have come to the experience of a Manhattan bookshop as a third place in the kind of Prairie Lights mode.

  blgtylr.substack.com

Writer and artist, author of Steal Like an Artist; publishes a weekly newsletter and an annual list of the books he read.

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  Writing gets better when it is handled physically, like a collage of scraps pushed around, rather than composed.

  Their words

  I’m constantly on a quest to make writing more hands on — more manipulative, in the sense that you’re using your hands to shape it. The more I treat writing like one of my collages, the better it gets.

  Starting from scrapsaustinkleon.com

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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  Relationship Handbook

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  Best philosophy of love relationships I’ve ever found. Like meditation teaches you that moods pass, this experienced marriage counselor says this applies to relationship communication as well. When angry or insecure, don’t vent, don’t share that. Let the feeling pass. Your anger doesn’t reveal some real truth. Everyone in a romantic relationship should read this.

  sive.rs

Research psychologist, instrumental in founding the field of naturalistic decision making; developed the recognition-primed decision model, the PreMortem method and the ShadowBox training method, and wrote Sources of Power and Seeing What Others Don't.

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  A pre-mortem has to treat the failure as certain and ask why it happened; asking what could go wrong is too tentative to work.

  Their words

  One of the mistakes is that they just frame it wrong from the beginning. They'll say, "Okay, we should do a pre-mortem. So, what can go wrong?" It's not an issue of what can go wrong. We're dealing with a crystal ball that has showed that the plan has failed. We know that it failed. And our job is is to explain why. So, saying what can go wrong is too tentative. It's too vague.

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Psychologist and science writer; wrote Science Fictions on how research goes wrong, and writes the newsletter of the same name.

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  Scientists treat a political conflict of interest as something to be proud of, which they would never do with any other kind.

  Their words

  I’ve noticed that, instead of treating them like other kinds of conflicts—where you put your hands up and admit to them but then do your best to make sure they don’t influence your science—scientists sometimes revel in political conflicts.

  Science is political - and that's a bad thingsciencefictions.org

Musician and writer; answers readers' questions weekly at The Red Hand Files, and fronts Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.

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  Making art is a job you turn up to whether or not you feel inspired, and the work only arrives for people who are already at the desk.

  Their words

  I also have an affinity with artists who treat their craft as a job and are not dependent on the vagaries of inspiration — because I am one of them. Like most people with a job, we just go to work.

  theredhandfiles.com

American author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck and Everything Is F*cked. Writes essays and book reviews at markmanson.net.

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  Barking Up the Wrong Tree

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  A fun romp through a lot of counter-intuitive studies and data on success , happiness , relationships , etc.

  markmanson.net

Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.

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  Software is not less rigorous than traditional engineering; its record-keeping and automated verification are better than most of that field's.

  Their words

  Plenty would kill to get the same kind of automated testing we treat as a given.

  We Are Not Specialhillelwayne.com

Founder and CEO of Get Lighthouse, a management-coaching software company, and previously a product lead at KISSmetrics. Writes about leadership, management and product at jasonevanish.com.

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  Bossypants

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  Not only is Tina Fey a very funny writer, it's fascinating to have the opportunity to climb inside the head of a successful female leader. Reading the internal drama within Tina's head as she thought about whether she wanted a second child while considering how it would affect the 100+ employees that worked for her on 30 Rock was priceless. As a manager, it gives me an understanding and level of empathy I wouldn't have had otherwise.

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