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I paid zero attention to tweets about the FAA NOTAM outage today. Speculation from a distance and hindsight-driven attempts at being insightful in these situations are never worth the cost on attention.
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Creativity, IncTheir words
I didn’t expect it to be this interesting and insightful. Great book. Recommended to anyone in the creative and managerial industry.
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Startup opportunities are not fleeting; Silicon Valley has reliably had a surfeit of them for decades.Their words
You know, in hindsight, I think that um that was a a poor intuition. Uh it's been pretty robustly and reliably the case over many decades in Silicon Valley has a surfeit of opportunities.
28 July
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Y Combinator's much-mocked insistence that founders move to San Francisco was, in hindsight, plainly correct.Their words
it used to be very heretical that YC told people they had to move to San Francisco. And looking back, it was clearly right.
14 July
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UnwildedTheir words
He's particularly insightful and inspiring on the natural world, so I was excited to hear about his latest book, Unwilded.
24 June
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It was naive to think a sufficiently powerful AI system could be safely contained in a 'box'.Their words
In hindsight, it was childish to think that we'd put it in a box at all.
1 April
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I don't mind if we think we can do something of our own problem it's terrifying when we have a major problem and we depend on somebody else
10 December 2025
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Advice is unreliable because it reflects hindsight, survivorship, and confirmation bias.Their words
Advice is prone to hindsight, survivorship, and confirmation biases.
A How to Hire a Product Manager Retrospectivebringthedonuts.com
26 January 2025
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Claude 3.5 SonnetTheir words
and really only has one model you care about - Claude 3.5 Sonnet. But Sonnet is very, very good. It often seems to be clever and insightful in ways that the other models are not.
30 December 2024
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Less Than OneTheir words
This book is a collection of essays, and some of them are quite profound. One of his essays on Dostoevsky is particularly insightful; it left such an impression on me that I reflected on it and wrote an essay of my own.
16 December 2024
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Not everyone gets a trophyTheir words
Tips and observations on how to manage the Millenial generation better. Some of these I found insightful, some were less of a surprise.
6 November 2024
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Rules of PlayTheir words
A comprehensive and insightful analysis of interactive design.
20 July 2024
1 October 2023
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Not only did Mill consider the topic of women, but virtually everything he claimed turned out to be true, and insightful, even though it was highly controversial at the time. It is one of the best and most important and most original books of the nineteenth century.
9 August 2022
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I don't like the idea of decision biases. I know my sense of the literature is that there's been little if any success in debiasing people. And I think that's a good thing. Because the biases that get identified are essentially related to the heuristics that we've learned and are part of the experience that we have. And they only look like biases in hindsight once one of them doesn't work.
15 June 2022
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In prioritizing a list of tasks, the closest calls matter least while getting the very top item right matters mostTheir words
In hindsight, the hardest comparisons are in fact the least useful - if I do the fourth most important task before the third most important, that's no big deal, but doing the tenth before the first is a screw-up!
19 September 2021
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Martyr MadeTheir words
I started listening to Darryl Cooper's Martyr Made last year as part of a deep dive on cults, but kept going because I found him incredibly insightful.
1 January 2016
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Start with WhyTheir words
We tend to focus on the “what” and “how” of our companies and products. This manifesto reminds us to always start with “why” — the reason we do the things we do, to let that guide our decisions, the whats and hows. Personally, I found the book neither very insightful nor inspiring, but YMMV.
31 August 2015
From one piece Calculus on Computational Graphs: Backpropagation 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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An idea can look obvious in hindsight only because the insight that makes it obvious was itself the hard discovery.Their words
It also wasn't obvious that derivatives were the right way to train them. Those are only obvious once you realize you can quickly calculate derivatives. There was a circular dependency.
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That's the benefit of hindsight. Once you've framed the question, the hardest work is already done.
16 December 2012
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