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19 September
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Every digital service should present a single unified interface rather than multiple separate entry points.Their words
It seems fine to keep coding in a separate area, obviously, but in general, we should have one box per service!
17 September
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The story we tell about a life is not the life itself; life exists only in the present moment.Their words
The story of a life is not the life itself. Life is in the moment.
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But the reality of weaponized interdependence is now all around us.
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This concept is still alive in present-day Japan, where cherry blossoms are viewed with the bittersweet knowledge that their beauty lasts only for a short while.
1 September
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What drives glacial hazard risk is the rate of change in ice and permafrost, not the total amount of ice present.Their words
Rather, what drives risks is how fast the ice and the frozen ground beneath the ice are changing.
17 August
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The catch is that the future world that has been warmed by greenhouse gases and a present-day world that has been temporarily warmed by El Niño can have the same global-average temperature while having significant differences in the impacts of this warming.
11 August
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Facts and Fallacies of Software EngineeringTheir words
Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering by Robert L. Glass. In essence, this is a book about an industry that refuses to learn. That was true 25 years ago when this book was published, and it's probably twice as true today. (Just think about all the AI adoption metrics being rolled out — back to productivity mistaken for lines of code produced, only more elaborate. And expensive). What I like about this book is that Glass doesn't present anything new. Quite the opposite, actually. Rather, it's about research lessons that we all should know, but tend to forget. Ever had to do an estimate, or plan according to a requirements spec? Or maybe you thought that enough eyeballs make all bugs shallow? Then this book is for you. A great work by a fantastic author.
8 August
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Interviews reward presentation; only a hands-on case study shows how fast a candidate's thinking decays.Their words
the number of people who present incredibly well, and then you give them a prompt and some data and ask them to come back with a PRD on something, and then we make them verbally defend it, how quickly the thinking decays from folks who are good at the theater, but not the specifics, uh is kind of really telling, I think.
30 July
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And if they're completely failing, that's probably a good sign. If they're kind of able to do some of it but not very well, that's maybe not a great sign because that's a probably a a sign that the capability is starting to be present in those models and with more training data or larger scale models or or whatever it's likely to get better. So um you know look for something where the model succeeds 0% or 1% of the time not not 20%.
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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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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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Agriculture is the only major sector that at present is significantly energised directly by zero cost and zero carbon sunlight.
29 June
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A lot of HSTS deployments are weaker than they look.
26 June
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And so you kind of end up in this this bad equilibrium where everybody kind of knows that it's a bad equilibrium, but like nobody wants to break out. And I I felt like, okay, well, if I just hopefully come out and say like, look guys, let's all recognize that we're in a bad equilibrium and let's move to this different equilibrium where we're we're plotting things with an X-axis
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Europe, along with China and the United States, is an economic superpower. And, at this point in time, it is arguably the world’s only democratic superpower.
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if you want to manage something like as a leader, you have to understand that the most consequential decisions that will affect any organization's life are almost by definition made when no manager is present.
29 April
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Underneath the anger of anxious attachment is unresolved grief about not having been responded to.Their words
Underneath anger is sadness over all your cumulative experiences in life of not being responded to, past and present. The sadness around powerlessness. Unresolved grief.
25 April
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Having a fulfilling Nothing practice requires an equal embrace of all present sensation.
11 March
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And what makes an MMO, massively multiplayer online game, massive is having the other people there. And they’re so important or else the world feels kind of wrong and dead. But the concept that we have to force you to interact with them to do anything is very off-putting to a lot of people.
13 February
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One is at every moment of this exponential, the extent to which the world outside it didn't understand it. This is This is a bias that's often present in history where anything that actually happened looks inevitable in retrospect.
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Michael Pollan Teaches Intentional EatingTheir words
Over thirteen lessons, you’ll learn about the past, present, and future of meat, from the ways animals and humans are treated in meat processing plants to emerging meat alternatives.
6 January
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Cycles are so hard to predict, because it’s easier to forecast in straight lines.
1 January
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the cost of your good habits is in the present. The cost of your bad habits is in the future. And so what you find is that a lot of things that typically get categorized as a bad habit, eating too many donuts or smoking a cigarette or something like that feels good in the moment, but it creates some kind of cost or consequence in the future.
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Few will deeply read as many works of literature across the Western canon as Barzun did, given his exceptionally long career in academia, but From Dawn to Decadence grants the humble reader an extraordinary vantage, thanks to Barzun’s vast corpus of knowledge and his perspicacious observations about cultural currents across half a millennium.
26 October 2025
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Over the past few decades, journal editors and peer-reviewers have increasingly insisted that papers must present large datasets that have been treated using complex statistical methods in order to make even the mildest claims about what caused what.
26 September 2025
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A lot of it has to do with just how you feel about change. Um, and if you think the current situation is really really good, then you're uh more likely to be suspicious of change and averse to change than if you think um it's imperfect. And I think it's imperfect. In fact, I think it's pretty bad.
3 September 2025
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City on the EdgeTheir words
It’s fantastic and is going to be a powerful and definitive story of San Francisco from 1990 to the present day.
21 August 2025
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Any pretense of the pure or organic is undercut by a kind of willful alchemy; everything is an admixture.
3 August 2025
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A common-sense utopia is much closer to the present day than it is to the best futures actually available to us.Their words
But the difference in value between the world today and that common-sense utopia might be very small compared to the difference between that common-sense utopia and the best futures we could feasibly achieve.
16 June 2025
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How you measure the present strongly shapes what can be extrapolated about the near future.Their words
Extrapolating from the present day into the near future is highly dependent upon how we measure the present day.
14 May 2025
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How something is presented completely changes a person’s experience, enjoyment, or frequency of use of it.Their words
How you present something to somebody completely changes their experience of it, their enjoyment of it, or even how often they're going to use it.
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As much as possible, try to not predict what the future may hold, but just wait as long as possible for that future to become the present and show you what it actually needs.
2 April 2025
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Good leadership is defined by presence, curiosity, and authenticity rather than always having the right answer.Their words
Leadership isn't about always having the answer and always being right. It's about being present, deeply curious, and authentic.
6 November 2024
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The Elements of Graphing DataTheir words
How to present data, and the why of the how.
25 May 2024
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It’s just this idea that people have about the past can be very useful if it brings you happiness in the present, but if it narrows your worldview in the present, you’re not aware of those biases that you have, it can be toxic either at a personal level or at a collective level.
9 May 2024
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The human mind functions as an association-forming machine, linking past experiences to present beliefs.Their words
Exposure therapy works because the human mind is an association machine.
14 April 2024
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The value of anything is the present value of the cash you can take out of it over its life.Their words
The value of anything, I would say, other than love, let's say, is the present value of the cash you can take out of it over its life.
21 December 2023
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The problem with these grand ambitions—saving humanity from extinction and enabling our species to reach its full potential millions of years from now—is that they ostensibly justify any cost in the present.
19 December 2023
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PsychTheir words
Despite having read a few bookshelves worth of academic psychology texts, I enjoyed Yale professor Paul Bloom's survey of the field. Because understanding psychology cannot be divorced from understanding its history, I enjoyed Bloom's birds-eye view of the field from the past to the present day.
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Society's response, despite promising first steps, is incommensurate with the possibility of rapid, transformative progress that is expected by many experts. AI safety research is lagging. Present governance initiatives lack the mechanisms and institutions to prevent misuse and recklessness, and barely address autonomous systems.
28 September 2023
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After text, photos and video, immersive presence is clearly the next frontier of how people communicate.Their words
And I think the ability to be immersed and feel present with the people around you or the people who you care about is, from my perspective, clearly the next frontier. It just so happens that it's incredibly technologically difficult.
14 June 2023
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Anxiety and worry arise from dwelling on an imagined future rather than the present moment.Their words
Most of our fears begin to subside when we just allow ourselves to be in this moment, as anxiety and worry stem from a preoccupation with an anticipated or envisioned future.
28 June 2022
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It appears that the evidence for all of these beliefs is much weaker than sleep scientists and public health experts want us to believe.
25 January 2022
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What what I find generally is if I don't understand something, I I try to read backwards and and and kind of the further back back I read, the more universal things I find. And the more things that I think are kind of remarkable and unique to our era actually turn out to be quite universal.
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