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And what we consider a smart model today will be considered very dumb in the future. But a smarter model makes less mistakes, needs fewer turns.
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The current US government uses false antisemitism accusations to damage and control institutions it views as enemies.Their words
The Fascist regime now ruling the US both enables this and has effectively used bogus accusations of "antisemitism" to damage and exert control over prominent institutions they consider to be enemies.
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Happier couples respond to a partner's lapses by assuming distraction or tiredness rather than indifference.Their words
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.
31 August
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Individualized tutoring is the best model. A one-on-one model is the best model. A mentorship model, an apprentice mentor, that is the best model. It's not cost-effective.
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The specific vaccine brand or formulation matters less than simply getting vaccinated at all.Their words
There are nuances to consider for those seeking maximum protection, but ultimately, the best vaccine is the one you receive.
Your guide to fall 2026 vaccinesyourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com
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So the good news is in order to write software that's much better than a lot of the software you use today, you don't have to know that much.
24 August
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You can either increase the reward or change it in some way in terms of something that's meaningful for the person or you change the effort required to accomplish maybe part of the task or perhaps start you know just initiate the task and often starting can be a huge motivational pull.
17 August
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I believe that we are now entering a era of comparable turbulence in mathematics. This time, though, what is being stress-tested is not our foundational framework for mathematical truth, but rather the largely implicit framework of mathematical values and practices: what we consider a contribution to be, what we reward, what we regard as understood, and who - or what - we regard as having done the work.
14 August
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there's so many people that are not willing to fight for the best idea because they're going to upset somebody else. And if you don't fight for the best idea, then what idea are you fighting for? You're fighting for the mediocre idea, the politically expedient idea
11 August
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Scaling up spending on expert human data has not been a major driver of progress in AI research.Their words
So my sense is that scaling up the amount of effort spent on getting expert human data has not been hugely important for AI R&D in general.
10 August
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Pick something hard and boring: fun problems are the crowded ones now that anybody can prompt a thing into existence.Their words
Maybe I would pick something again that's that's in the category hard and boring because that's usually a category that is a little bit easier to actually find people that will appreciate when you solved something. If you pick something that is fun, even if it's hard, you're gonna have a very tough time, especially in a time where people can just prompt things into existence.
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28 July
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I think if you can't find anybody else that shares your belief, you should pay attention to that. Um, and it's also very hard to do a startup on your own and very lonely. But I don't think you need to find a lot of people. And in fact, if everybody believes it, that's also like a bad a bad sign.
From one piece Blake Scholl: How 50 People Built a Supersonic Jet 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Cheaper software has increased the number of software engineers a company needs, not reduced it.Their words
At boom we need far more software engineers in a postAI world than we need in a pre-AI world. Why? Because the cost of software development has dropped. anybody including hardware engineers can now become a coder and we need software engineers to make sure the architectures are right and make sense and are coherent.
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“Work on what you know” is the worst advice there is: knowledge can be acquired, but what you love cannot be changed.Their words
So I think the worst advice is like work on what you know. Uh what you know can be changed. Particularly in a world where you everyone has personalized AI tutors. Anybody with passion and dedication can learn new knowledge and learn new skills. But what you can't change easily is what you love.
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You can't get to product market fit on a supersonic jet by building it and seeing if anybody likes it. You have to analyze very carefully the art of the possible and also what will maximize the market opportunity.
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Becoming a deep expert makes you useless, because what an expert is steeped in is the past.Their words
don't try to become a deep expert. The moment you become an expert, what you're steeped in is the past and then you're completely useless.
24 July
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The simple answer is what the study showed was that 10,000 hours was the average amount of time that an expert violinist had spent practicing by the time they reached 20 years old. That's what the study showed. They weren't even experts by that point.
19 July
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So, we are hiring more people who can look across all the business domains and abstract that to here's the building blocks we're going to need in a world with AI.
1 July
From one piece How Kent Beck shapes the software engineering industry 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Your understanding of somebody else's problem is bounded because you're not in the middle of it. You don't have the same skin in the game. If you're not semiconductor test engineer, you don't have as much skin in the game as somebody who is because they're going to have to be using this interface for a long time after you're gone.
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Promising twice the work in half the time without the hard-won technical skills is simply a lie.Their words
And there were people who were willing to say, "Nah, no, no, don't worry about that. This is easy. You can do this. Anybody can do this. Twice the work in half the time." From my perspective, that's just a lie.
30 June
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but that's my guess on what most of the useful progress uh from these models will look like like in the next five years is just really filling in that landscape of like connections that you can draw if you're an expert in multiple fields.
29 June
26 June
From one piece Really Big Test-Time Compute in AI Changes Benchmarks, Safety and Research with OpenAI's Noam Brown 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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On everyday high-stakes questions, a model's answer can now be trusted more than an expert human's.Their words
And I think they're at a point now where they've actually been at a point for a while now where I feel like I can just trust the outputs arguably more than I could trust the output from from a human,
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And then I was like, okay, can you come up with an algorithm that is better than the algorithms that I came up with or that anybody else came up with and go ahead and like look at all the published work and synthesize that and then try to come up with something novel and it it's not able to do it. And I can give it a lot of time and it's it's still not able to do it.
24 June
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I don't understand why anybody would learn the CAP theorem when that theorem exists because it's just more complete. It's not that much more complicated. I think it's more simple to understand.
16 June
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And so Machiavelli is suddenly useful not to people who sympathize with him but to people who see him as an enemy.
14 June
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And I like to say we we don't we haven't earned the right to innovate on the camera until we are the world's leading PhD on the best mobile cameras that already exist.
7 June
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Make sure you're not trying to addict your users. And if anybody is, there's always other jobs, and there's always other better companies. And don't chase the money for tearing apart what it is, the fabric of the society that we built.
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27 May
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I consider the case for frontier AI models having some form of consciousness or subjective experience to be quite strong.
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But you if you also become an expert in a specific industry, that's like a deadly combo. Um if you are like just pick any industry, let's say let's say farming, let's say you understand that farming industry really well and you're also a decent software engineer, you're probably like the top 10 people in the world for that combination that the whole industry will want to hire.
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Needing to mock code in tests often signals an underlying design problem that refactoring would fix.Their words
unless the code is completely out of your control, the need for mocking often indicates a design problem-consider refactoring to make the code easier to test directly.
1 April
From one piece Scaling Uber with Thuan Pham (Uber's first CTO) 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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the philosophy we all operate at the time was no one should be blocking anybody else. No one can block anybody else.
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when you have team A, team A will just want to hire more A level players and yeah, they just intolerant of anybody who's not performing,
23 March
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They come to a computing platform because the install base is large. Because a developer, like anybody else, wants to develop software that reaches a lot of people. So, the install base is, in fact, the single most important part of an architecture.
20 March
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so for example, micro GPT, like I asked I tried to get an agent to write micro GPT. So, I told it like try to boil down the simplest things. Like try to boil down my um neural network training to the simplest thing and it can't do it.
11 March
From one piece Jeff Kaplan: World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Blizzard, and Future of Gaming | Lex Fridman Podcast #493 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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And we failed horribly, and we had the best of the best on that team. And it’s because everybody was too much of an expert on how to make a groundbreaking phenomenon MMO.
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I don’t think executives who take off and work 40-hour weeks should be telling anybody to stay late. I think that’s wrong and immoral. But to me as an individual, as long as I’m not telling other people to do it, my life’s work is my passion and I want to do it as much as possible.
21 January
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Eight SleepTheir words
Consider using a noise machine to offset environmental sounds or earplugs if necessary. Temperature controlled mattresses such as Eight Sleep are great.
16 January
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I don’t think this is very productive (expert users of a piece of software are notoriously bad at being able to tell if an explanation will be clear to non-experts), so I needed to find a way to identify problems with the man pages that was a little more evidence-based.
7 January
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In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our LivesTheir words
Levy was given unprecedented access to Google, and the result is what I consider to be an accurate depiction of how the company operates. A good overview of how Google product managers work.
18 December 2025
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LocaleTheir words
Consider getting a home delivery service, e.g. I currently like and use Locale
16 December 2025
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Sanity and SainthoodTheir words
The biggest endorsement I can give this book is that I once considered writing a book like this, but now I consider the job done.
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AI agents trained on an expert's published work can only automate a small fraction of that expert's actual job.Their words
These would only automate about 15% of what I do as a performance engineer, and will go out of date if I'm not training it to follow industry changes.
17 November 2025
17 October 2025
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a lot of my times the value that I brought to the company was telling them not to use AI.
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From one piece There Are No Miracles in Education 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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That makes perfect sense when you consider that schools control 10% or less of the variance in student academic outputs.
There Are No Miracles in Educationfreddiedeboer.substack.com
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Academic talent is normally distributed, so some students failing is inevitable rather than anybody's fault.Their words
Academic talent is normally distributed throughout the population, and so some degree of failure is literally inevitable.
There Are No Miracles in Educationfreddiedeboer.substack.com
19 September 2025
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LSD was made illegal because the head of MKUltra wanted to own it, not because anyone thought it was dangerous.Their words
And this is basically the reason why LSD at one point became illegal, because it did not get the chance. Stoll still wanted to put it on the market, but Sidney Gottlieb, the head of MKULTRA, he really didn't want LSD to be on the market. He didn't want it because he thought it's not good or dangerous for anybody, he just wanted to control LSD.
18 September 2025
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A job title is a calcification of how a company once solved a problem, not a description of what a person is.Their words
you are you are a sales operations expert, right? Like what is that? That's that's that that's like a title for a particular way how companies end up solving a particular operational problem they had at some point.
12 September 2025
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So here's what I would say that deep down at a very fundamental level the synthetic experience that you create yourself doesn't allow you to learn more about the world. It allows you to rehearse things. It allows you to consider counterfactuals but somehow information about the world needs to get injected into the system.
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31 July 2025
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We really don't have any well-documented case of anybody, say, from China visiting Europe or Europe visiting China before the Mongols. But since Chinggis Khan, there's never been a year without contact between east and west. It was permanent. Once he created it, it was permanent.
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Anyone who thinks large language models are a direct route to transformative AGI is kidding themselves.Their words
But anybody who thinks LLMs are a direct route to the sort AGI that could fundamentally transform society for the good is kidding themselves.
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Expert C ProgrammingTheir words
Expert C Programming - Peter van der Linden (Prentice Hall, 1994)
21 May 2025
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Once shareholder value is the only goal, nothing else — the customer, the product, the workplace — is anybody’s job.Their words
When you care only about shareholder value, the only job you have is to promote further exploitation and dominance — not to have happy customers, not to make your company "a good place to work," not to make a good product, not to make a difference or contribute to anything other than further growth.
14 May 2025
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Biological age is moot; people from about 17 with an adult mind until senility or dementia are all pretty much equal.Their words
Your actual biological age is really moot. Anybody over the age of, I don't know, 17 that has a pretty adult mind, all the way up until you're senile and getting Alzheimer's or dementia, anything between there, we're all pretty much equal.
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We need to leap into action on many of the same things that could help if it does turn out that we only have a few years.
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These systems will be absolutely central to the economy, technology, and national security, and will be capable of so much autonomy that I consider it basically unacceptable for humanity to be totally ignorant of how they work.
4 February 2025
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Progressive MythsTheir words
I recently interviewed Mike Huemer on his new Progressive Myths. To repeat, I consider it “the best book on wokeness.” You know you’re reading a special book by page 3
3 February 2025
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So there is an angle of, the US' actions, from the angle of the expert controls, have been so inflammatory at slowing down China's progress on the leading edge that they've turned around and have accelerated their progress elsewhere because they know that this is so important.
27 January 2025
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Also, current models, while impressive, still fall well short of expert human performance.
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22 December 2024
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And this is important, so yes, you should expect legs or jointed sticks, how many joints they're going to be? Anybody's guess. Do you expect humanoids, things with a sensing apparatus on top of a shoulder with two arms and two legs? That's probably a pretty random set of occurrences that led to that.
20 December 2024
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If there are ways that you can help improve the governance of AI in these and other countries, you should be doing it now or in the next few months, not planning for ways to have an impact several years from now.
16 December 2024
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C# in DepthTheir words
C# is the language I probably understood down to the nitty-gritty details. Just when I thought myself of being an expert - knowing all that is to know on memory allocation, garbage collection, LINQ - I read this book. It made me realize how many things I did not know.
16 October 2024
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If I had the power to do so, I would make it a law, an absolute law, that anybody running for a powerful political position, particularly if that position is president or head of state in any kind of way, that that person has to undergo the ayahuasca ordeal first.
14 October 2024
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Many software investors eschew hard tech startups because of their capital intensity, but it’s hard to deny that huge returns are possible in hard tech: just consider SpaceX.
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This fits with some of the studies of chess experts and so forth that it’s not so much that you learn the patterns passively. You learn what to look for. You learn what’s important and what’s not.
4 March 2024
From one piece Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War | Lex Fridman Podcast #415 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I asked people who accompanied Boris Johnson to Kiev that question, the answer was no. And I believe this answer, and I’ll tell you why. Because it is very difficult for me to imagine President Zelensky to take orders from anybody in the world.
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And the combination of all this factors led to the processes in which Ukraine’s decision to go independent spelled the end to the Soviet Union. And if today anybody wants to restore, not the Soviet Union, but some form of Russian control over the post-Soviet space, Ukraine is as important today as it was back in December of 1991.
17 January 2024
From one piece Five Fertility Fails 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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They do not want to give such enemies the satisfaction of admitting they have a point.
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Similarly, most recent discussions of how to promote fertility discuss how we might promote housing, inequality, schooling, day-care, etc., but few consider directly paying parents big amounts to have kids. As indirect approaches require us to guess what are the actual main obstacles to fertility, they are more likely to fail.
14 December 2023
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And I would encourage anybody, if anybody listening to this is an entrepreneur, has a small business, whatever, think about the things that are not going to change over 10 years. And those are probably the big things.
26 October 2023
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Despite evaluations, we cannot consider coming powerful frontier AI systems "safe unless proven unsafe". With current testing methodologies, issues can easily be missed. Additionally, it is unclear if governments can quickly build the immense expertise needed for reliable technical evaluations of AI capabilities and societal-scale risks. Given this, developers of frontier AI should carry the burden of proof to demonstrate that their plans keep risks within acceptable limits.
25 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.
29 June 2023
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Everyone who talks about AI talks about the button, the button to turn it off, right? Do we have a button to turn off Google? Is anybody in the world capable of shutting Google down?
24 June 2023
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At the same time, in order to reduce the probability of someone intentionally or unintentionally bringing about a rogue AI, we need to increase governance and we should consider limiting access to the large-scale generalist AI systems that could be weaponized, which would mean that the code and neural net parameters would not be shared in open-source and some of the important engineering tricks to make them work would not be shared either.
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A thought does not fit inside a sound wave, so most of what a person means is lost before it reaches anybody else.Their words
You simply can’t fit a thought into a sound wave.
You can't reach the brain through the earsexperimental-history.com
4 March 2023
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Consider the solar industry, for which the US laid the scientific groundwork, only for Chinese firms to make all the photovoltaic cells.
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Programming, of course, is forgetting, but we need to at least try to be aware of the costs of the abstractions we choose and consider who it is that ends up being forgotten.
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as you age, you just naturally build up all of this all of this sort of psychic scar tissue and you have all these cautionary lessons in your in your head all the time. And you just you and and therefore as a consequence, right? Your your aperture of what you're willing to explore as you get older just shrinks.
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Work that matters requires tolerating discomfort and boredom rather than escaping into distraction.Their words
Consider the possibility that mild discomfort – butterflies in the stomach, a sense of difficulty, a moment of boredom – might simply be the price of doing things you care about.
20 January 2021
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We can change software much faster than anybody else can change their systems.
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Buy This Book Before You Buy Facebook: A PandoDaily Expert Guide To The Internet's Biggest IPOTheir words
If you don't know how Facebook became what it is today, this is an interesting account of many of the key steps along the way.
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Sapiens: A Brief History of HumankindTheir words
A lot of people have raved about this book in Silicon Valley, so I wanted to see what it was all about. It's a great interpretation of the history of man. Unfortunately, it has about 10% of the citations it deserves for the subject matter. I found it a really interesting set of ideas for how to think about how we evolved. I felt there was some inaccuracies, but appreciate having the perspective of an expert.
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REWORKTheir words
The team at 37 Signals have very strong opinions on how to build a company and much of it is solid advice to consider. This book is particularly great because it's a simple, quick read; they do not waste your time with fluff.
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Tested Advertising MethodsTheir words
If you want to learn the art and science of copywriting, then this is the book for you. An expert copywriter for decades, Caples breaks down in detail what makes a great ad versus a failing one. It's loaded with examples and the kind of insights only a veteran can provide. You do need to provide a little imagination as he focuses on mail in based advertising in magazines, which isn't common today. But really, how different is that from downloading free whitepapers today?
30 January 2020
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AKG C1000STheir words
I've always had an AKG C1000S microphone for recording. I'm not a microphone expert but it does the job for me.
23 July 2019
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If the people can decide, even if they come up with the same, identical solution as the expert people or machines, they will trust them, implement them, and abide with them.
10 July 2019
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Interface copy is an affordance: reading it is an act that gives the user information for what to do next.Their words
We consider interface copy to be an affordance, too. Reading it is an act that gives the user information for subsequent actions.
20 June 2019
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PDF ExpertTheir words
In terms of iOS apps, I use PDF Expert, which is a great PDF reader and annotator (using Apple Pencil), Notability as a virtual whiteboard (again with Apple Pencil), Google Docs for document editing, Google Calendar, and Gmail.
30 August 2018
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The likelihood that someone is providing high-quality information in these domains is lower than in less controversial areas like physics or neuroscience.
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