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No one was happy. Because no one knows what they want until they receive it. You don't know what a program should do until you play with it. So in the agentic age, you should resist the temptation to be overly specific upfront. Be as vague as you can to manifest something, then interact with the something. The way you arrive at good software is you write a little bit of software, and then you try to use it. It is in the process of using software that you discover what you really want.
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19 July
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Or the perfect way to go through feedback and leveling and compensation. But every time we saw that and we added more process, we spent more time without getting better outcomes.
22 June
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Leaders' resistance to remote work is driven by a desire for power and status, not by genuine productivity concerns.Their words
what really drives leaders to resist remote work isn't productivity concern. It's ego. Ordering people in is a power and status move. Leaders want to be worshiped at the office altar.
4 June
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Which of those two people are going to reproduce, find a mate, all of these sorts of things? I think the answer is kind of clear, right? It's the second one that has the preference for other people.
25 April
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Dominant companies shape not just their users' choices but the imagination of people actively trying to resist them.Their words
When a company dominates the market, they capture not only their own users but even the imaginations of people actively resisting them.
3 April
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Root crops resist state taxation better than grain because they can be harvested piecemeal and stored underground.Their words
Even other domesticated foods like root crops and tubers proved remarkably resistant to the tax collector, because they grow underground and can safely be left in the soil for months, even years.
2 March
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And what makes a society illegible to the tax collector also makes it illegible to the traditional archaeologist.
12 February
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So, so the latest generation of models has a lot of post-training to detect those approaches, and it's not as simple as ignore all previous instructions and do this and this. That was years ago. You have to work much harder to do that now. Still possible.
20 October 2025
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An average email or line of code is fine. Average art isn’t. To make something alive with AI, we have to resist its pull towards average by working beside it, shaping what it gives, and listening for what’s missing.
10 October 2025
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The West is not doing Ukraine a favour by helping it resist Russia; Ukraine is doing the West a favour.Their words
The West is not doing Ukraine a favour by helping it resist aggression; it is Ukraine doing the West a favour.
8 September 2025
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We live in a culture that preaches self‑esteem more than self‑knowledge. That leaves people morally flabby-performing virtue while outsourcing the actual discipline that keeps ordinary humans from doing monstrous things.
19 April 2025
2 April 2025
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When we resist not knowing, we often leap to conclusions, make decisions without all of the information, or simply guess. Of course, that might make it even more likely that we're wrong, the very thing our subconscious is trying to avoid. Needing to be right comes at the expense of curiosity.
14 February 2025
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