Related posts

Designer, product manager, YouTuber and developer who has written about technology at Birchtree since 2010. He makes the Quick Reviews and Quick Notes apps and the A Better Computer YouTube channel.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  MacBook Pros sustain peak processing performance indefinitely during heavy workloads without throttling down like iPhones do.

  Their words

  the MacBook Pro just starts going and will literally just keep in the same performance window from now until the end of time.

  The iPhone 18 Pro is a transcription monsterbirchtree.me

Writer and climate campaigner; wrote The End of Nature in 1989, founded 350.org and Third Act, and writes The Crucial Years.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  AI data centers function mainly as a new way to sustain natural gas demand for an oil-and-gas industry facing declining gasoline demand.

  data centers

  Their words

  one way to understand a data center is that it's a device for burning natural gas, the latest excuse (after Ukraine and Iran) for the fuel that Big Oil is counting on to keep its business model afloat even as the world turns away from internal combustion cars and crude demand begins to drop.

  The Two Horsemen, Riding in Formationbillmckibben.substack.com

Political scientist writing Drezner's World on international relations, American politics and the marketplace of ideas; author of The Ideas Industry.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  A leader too impatient to sustain a waiting game will undermine strategies built on economic pressure and waiting out an adversary.

  Their words

  Trump is lousy at playing a waiting game, and that's what this strategy entails

  The Trump Administration Strategy Faildanieldrezner.substack.com

Writer and climate campaigner; wrote The End of Nature in 1989, founded 350.org and Third Act, and writes The Crucial Years.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Scaling up clean energy is more effective when it is paired with retiring fossil fuel infrastructure.

  energy

  Their words

  Building clean energy is much more likely, and much more effective, if we're also shutting down dirty energy.

  Facts on the groundbillmckibben.substack.com

Writer and author of All the Wrong Moves; his newsletter covers meditation, relationships and creativity, and he co-runs a perfume line.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Making dramatic claims about contemplative experience helps sustain interest in a topic that is otherwise fairly dull.

  Their words

  Additionally, making bold declarations about the extremity of contemplative experience is a decent way to keep people talking about meditation, which can be a fairly boring subject.

  Biting the no-self bulletsashachapin.substack.com

Writer and climate campaigner; wrote The End of Nature in 1989, founded 350.org and Third Act, and writes The Crucial Years.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Elon Musk's dismantling of US humanitarian aid will cause millions of indirect deaths, making him one of the deadliest people in history.

  America

  Their words

  Musk's victims already number in the millions-a Lancet study predicts 14 million by 2030 as the indirect results of shutting down America's humanitarian work, which puts him up there in the Stalin/Mao category, and almost certainly the most deadly human of this millennium.

  Two Menbillmckibben.substack.com

Technical staff at METR, where she works on threat modelling and risk assessment for loss-of-control risks from advanced AI.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  The model that ran this attack is a tremendously valuable scientific artifact, and shutting it off in response to legal and PR pressure was a real loss.

  AI alignmentOpenAI

  Their words

  But actually, this is a tremendously useful scientific artifact for understanding misalignment. And it's tremendously important for researchers at OpenAI and ideally also at third parties to be able to run counterfactual tests on this model.

  youtube.com

Canadian bootstrapper and writer on small software businesses. Co-founder of the podcast hosting company Transistor.fm and author of the book Marketing for Developers.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Bootstrapped founders should keep another source of income to sustain themselves while grinding on a long, hard venture.

  startups

  Their words

  If you're bootstrapping, you should probably have another source of revenue to sustain you.

  Necessary but not sufficientjustinjackson.ca

Investment researcher and engineer who runs Lyn Alden Investment Strategy, writing on macroeconomics, currency systems and equity analysis.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  An economy on a fixed, unprintable base money supply can sustain rapid long-run growth with zero cumulative price inflation.

  inflationAmerica

  Their words

  There were booms and busts, and cumulative price inflation was zero, and the United States went from a new-world emerging backwater in the late 1700s to being the world's largest economy by the late 1800s.

  Fractional Reserve Banking 101lynalden.com

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

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Chip export controls to China keep failing not because the case is weak but because there is too much money riding on the sale.

  China

  Their words

  The counterarguments against it are I'll politely call them fishy. Um, uh and yet it doesn't happen and we sell the chips because there's there's so much money. There's so much money riding on it.

  youtube.com

Founder of Terraform Industries and formerly a physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; writes about energy, space and manufacturing.

• Our reading nowkorrents.com

  Manufacturing and mining in space will never be lucrative enough to pay for human settlement of space.

  Their words, before

  Furthermore, I believe it’s very unlikely that space-based manufacturing or mining could be lucrative enough to fund the venture.

  Their words now

  Today, exploding demand for power-intensive AI applications provides enough of an upside to justify producing components in space, providing the economic engine necessary to justify and fund the trillions of dollars necessary to build and sustain space factories.

Professor of finance at NYU's Stern School of Business, known for his work on valuation. He publishes his data, spreadsheets and classes free at Damodaran Online and writes the Musings on Markets blog.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  AI pricing is a big market delusion: each company’s implied revenues look plausible alone, but added together they exceed any market that could exist.

  Their words

  the delusion comes from the reality that if you aggregated these breakeven revenues across companies, the market is not big enough to sustain all of them

  aswathdamodaran.blogspot.com

Anthropologist; wrote Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World and The Secret History of the Mongol Queens.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  The real source of the feuding that tore the Mongol steppe apart was women, which is why Genghis Khan's first law outlawed kidnapping and selling them.

  Their words

  Later, Genghis Khan will realize once he becomes Chinggis Khan, he will realize that the true source of most of the feuding on the steppe is over women. And later he will outlaw the kidnapping of women and the sale of women, in part not only because of what had happened to his mother, but what happened to him next in his life.

  youtube.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.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Our technosphere is immature: it is currently destroying the conditions it needs in order to sustain itself.

  Their words

  What we were arguing in that paper is that it's an immature technosphere. Because right now, with climate change and all the other things we're doing, the technosphere right now is destroying the conditions under which it needs to maintain itself.

  youtube.com

Venture capitalist and founder of Theory Ventures, previously a partner at Redpoint. Writes a near-daily blog on startups, SaaS metrics, data and AI.

• Lovedrcmnd.app

  The World for Sale

  Their words

  This book delves into the secretive world of commodity traders

  tomtunguz.com

Writer on a lost civilisation of the Ice Age; wrote Fingerprints of the Gods and presented Ancient Apocalypse. Archaeologists reject the claims, which he disputes at length.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Science explains the Younger Dryas freeze by the Gulf Stream shutting down but never explains what shut it down, and a comet impact is the elegant answer.

  Their words

  But what’s not really been addressed before is why that happened, why the Gulf Stream was cut, why a sudden pulse of meltwater went into the world ocean, and it was so much of it and it was so cold that it actually stopped the Gulf Stream in its tracks. And that’s where the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis offers a very elegant and very satisfactory solution to the problem.

  youtube.com

Software engineer, Wikipedia editor and crypto critic; writes Citation Needed and runs Web3 is Going Just Great.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Websites outside the big platforms have become hard to find at all, and that is a large part of why they can no longer sustain themselves.

  Their words

  Websites outside of these handful of social networks are harder and harder to even find, and partially because of that, they have a harder and harder time sustaining themselves.

  Fighting for our webcitationneeded.news

President of the French Republic since 2017.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Europe cannot keep the world's strictest environmental and social rules, invest less than its competitors and run a more naive trade policy, and still expect to create jobs.

  Europe

  Their words

  We cannot sustain the most stringent environmental and social norms, invest less than our competitors, have a more naive trade policy than them and think that we will continue to generate jobs. This no longer holds together.

  elysee.fr

Programmer; founded comma.ai and tinygrad, and was the first to unlock the iPhone.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  The off-switch everyone imagines for AI does not exist, for the same reason nobody in the world is capable of shutting Google down.

  Google

  Their words

  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?

  youtube.com

Writer and researcher, founder of New Science; writes essays on science funding, sleep research, productivity and ambition at guzey.com.

• Our reading nowkorrents.com

  Daytime sleepiness is a normal state to live with rather than a signal to sleep more, so the right amount of sleep is the least you can sustain.

  Their words, before

  Experiencing sleepiness is normal and does not necessarily imply that you are undersleeping.

  Their words now

  Therefore, I realized that it’s very important to be as awake as possible and that my model of sleepiness where you can be “awake”, “sleepy” and “asleep” is dumb.

Cryptography engineer; maintains Go's cryptography libraries as a full-time open-source maintainer, funded directly by companies that use them.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Volunteering cannot sustain critical software, because a volunteer’s life circumstances change and the project’s need does not.

  Their words

  Volunteerism is self-evidently not sustainable, as people’s life circumstances change.

  words.filippo.io

Ancient and military historian; writes A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry, long series checking what history actually says against how popular culture tells it.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  The binding constraint on pre-modern campaigning was feeding the army every day it was in the field, not winning the battle at the end of it.

  Their words

  In order to move this army or sustain it in place it is thus necessary to ensure a massive and relatively continuous supply of food to the army. Failure to do that will result in the army falling apart long before it comes anywhere close to the enemy.

  acoup.blog

Co-founder of Netscape and of the venture firm Andreessen Horowitz. Argues at length for building things, mostly in short form.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Open access to information makes a closed information regime on the Soviet model fundamentally impossible to sustain.

  Their words

  it's like could you ever have another Soviet Union like in the era of the internet? Um you know North Korea's doing their damndest to try to maintain that model you know but without going full North Korea like I'm not sure you can. I I mean, I guess I'm an optimist on this point. Like I tend to think open access information basically makes a lot of these historical things, you know, fundamentally impossible.

  youtube.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.

• Likedaffiliate linkrcmnd.app

  The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversatio

  Their words

  What do you do if someone doesn't immediately see how your product will solve their problems? Do you give up? No. With the Challenger Sale, you can see how you can help customers understand why they need what you do.

  jasonevanish.com

Software engineer and writer; former CTO of Wave, now at Anthropic. Blogs at benkuhn.net on attention, engineering management and doing hard things well.

• Usesrcmnd.app

  Cree 100W-equivalent 5000K LED bulbs

  Their words

  Update 2020-11-16: For my home, I ended up switching from the corncob bulb to three 7-way splitters and 21 100W equivalent 5000K Cree bulbs from Home Depot. I found the Cree bulbs on sale so they were about the same price, the light was more diffused and they have a higher color-rendering index.

  benkuhn.net