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Creator of Claude Code at Anthropic.

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  The skill that matters now is not prompt engineering but giving a model a way to verify its own work, and it is the thing people most often get wrong.

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  I think the skill nowadays is less about prompt engineering and more about figuring out how do you give Claude a hard task that seems a little bit too hard. And then how do you make it possible for Claude to verify its work along the way? And the verification I think is probably the single most important thing that people do not get right

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Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.

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  Mitsubishi air conditioning

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  LG or Mitsubishi air conditioning in EVERY room, both cooling/heating, every unit should have its own outdoor unit, or you get annoying things like you can't cool one room and heat the other at same time! I think they're called mono splits

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  LG air conditioning

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  LG or Mitsubishi air conditioning in EVERY room, both cooling/heating, every unit should have its own outdoor unit, or you get annoying things like you can't cool one room and heat the other at same time! I think they're called mono splits

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Writes Very Serious, a newsletter on politics, the economy and culture, and hosts the podcast of the same name.

From one piece Europe Needs Air Conditioning 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Some European leftists oppose comforts like air conditioning on political grounds, in effect favoring hardship over comfort.

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  European leftists explicitly advocate that people should be kept poor, uncomfortable, and literally sweating.

  Europe Needs Air Conditioningjoshbarro.com

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  European countries are wealthy enough to afford widespread air conditioning, comparable to Japan.

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  Europe is not actually poor. Japan is about as wealthy as Europe, and almost all Japanese homes are air-conditioned. Europeans could afford to air-condition their homes (and their hospitals!) just like the Japanese do.

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Writes Strange Loop Canon, on the intersection of technology, economics and business — "building models of the world to understand these problem areas and to define them better".

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  As AI labs aim for broad, general capability, handling messy real-world bureaucratic tasks is becoming a primary application domain for their models.

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  Considering every lab wants to "eat the world" the focus on how to work in real-world messy situations seems apt as their primary home.

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Co-founder and CEO of Snap Inc., the company behind Snapchat, which he started in 2011 while studying product design at Stanford.

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  Distribution, not product-market fit, is the hard part of consumer technology, and almost nobody spends enough time on it.

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  And I think people don't spend nearly enough time thinking about, you know, distribution and figuring out distribution. And that seems to me uh to be a huge differentiator.

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Researcher on distributed systems and local-first software at the University of Cambridge; wrote Designing Data-Intensive Applications.

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  Writing is how the thinking gets done, so a writer who hands the words to a machine has given away the part that mattered.

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  It's more that for myself, the process of writing is the way how I figure things out. And figuring things out is really my goal here. So, I'm I'm trying to figure it out in my own heads, and for that I just have to write it myself.

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Researcher on developer productivity; co-wrote Accelerate and the DORA research, and created the SPACE framework.

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  Release management is human group sense-making, and it does not scale to the volume of change AI now produces.

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  so many times that process has been managed by humans because you're selecting the right candidate build and you're verifying it and you're thinking, you know, you're figuring out cherry picks and then you like rebundle and then you send it out and that doesn't scale if you have one or two or a handful of people trying to make group decisions and do group sense making.

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Founder and chief analyst of SemiAnalysis; reports on semiconductor supply chains, AI datacentre economics and what the chip export controls actually do.

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  Getting a data centre permitted in the empty middle of America is far easier than putting one in orbit.

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  And so I think people are figuring out how to build these things and permitting like I I just like ultimately like permitting and red tape in middle of nowhere Texas or middle of nowhere Wyoming or middle of nowhere like New Mexico is probably a hell of a lot easier than sending stuff into space

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American writer and long-term traveller. Blogs at tynan.com about travel, owning few possessions, habits and the gear he carries; author of Superhuman by Habit and Make It Big.

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  Preferring iPhones for their blue message bubbles is a matter of social conditioning rather than the phones' actual merits.

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  You still have to have to fight against the Apple blue-bubble brainwashing, but once you do you'll never go back.

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Vice chairman of Ogilvy & Mather Group, the advertising agency; author of Alchemy (2019) and the Wiki Man columnist at The Spectator.

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  An objective meant to serve people should be defined with psychology included, because changing the psychology is often cheaper than changing the technology.

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  do not define an objective which is designed to serve human beings without considering psychological factors because you might be able to solve your problem very very cheaply and efficiently by changing the psychology not by changing the technology

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Reinforcement-learning researcher; co-wrote the field's standard textbook, wrote The Bitter Lesson, and shared the 2024 Turing Award.

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  Large language models mimic what people say to do rather than work out what to do, which is why they are not about understanding the world.

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  reinforcement learning is about understanding your world whereas large language models are about mimicking people doing what people say you should do. They're not about figuring out what to do.

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Co-founder and CEO of Shopify; long-time Linux user and Omarchy contributor.

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  A stated company value that nobody would take the other side of is a platitude, not a choice.

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  figuring out a document that is actually like sort of all the things that are not platitudes whereas like all the things where someone else like some other company would plausibly take the other side of and but that's but those are the real choices, right? Like if no one would take the other side, it's a platitude.

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Writes Don't Worry About the Vase, a near-daily account of what is happening in AI and what they think it means. Former Magic: the Gathering pro and trader; unusually willing to put a number on a belief and to grade their own past calls.

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  Useful Fictions

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  the rate of return on considering them, why they might work and what you might want to do with them is fantastic, and it’s a joy to read about it.

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Writer and former McKinsey/BCG strategy consultant; author of The Pathless Path and Good Work, about leaving the default career track. Publishes the Boundless newsletter and podcast.

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  Young Money: A Field Guide to Wealth and Purpose in Your Twenties

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  Fantastic memoir of figuring it out in your twenties and alternatives to blindly pursuing the default path.

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Engineer writing about the physical economy — oil and gas, manufacturing, batteries, drones and what it costs to build things.

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  An off-grid data centre can delete its uninterruptible power supplies entirely, because the battery bank outside already is one.

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  Deleting the UPSs could knock off ~$750/kW after considering equipment, installation, and square footage reduction.

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

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  Someone who can't name what they'd do differently is unlikely to be good at improving over time.

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  if the person responds to "what would you do differently" with "nothing," or with non-actionable vague platitudes, it's a sign they may not be great at figuring out how to get better at things over time.

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Founder and chief executive of Pershing Square Capital Management, the activist investment firm he started in 2004.

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  Judging how wide a company's moat is is the hardest thing an investor does, and this is the most disruptable period in history.

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  The most difficult analysis to do as an investor is that, is kind of figuring out how wide is the moat, how much at risk is the business to disruption? And we're in, I would say, the greatest period of disruptability in history.

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Software engineer; co-founder and former CTO of Tailscale, previously on the Go team at Google.

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  The right moment to migrate from an ad hoc data store to SQL is the moment you first need an index.

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  I suspect, considering the process retrospect, a great deal of that pain can be avoided by committing to migrating directly to an SQL system the moment you need an index.

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

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  Delay in permitting clean energy kills more Americans every year than the September 11 attacks did.

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  The terrorist attacks on 9/11 killed 2996 people in a day of singular horror. Our ongoing indifference to regulatory inefficiency, considering only the area of green energy development, kills more people every year – more than 10 people per day, and that’s only within the US.

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Writes Nintil, long researched essays on metascience, biology, economics and whatever he has decided to read the literature on.

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  Pre-grant peer review predicts which research will have impact substantially better than chance does.

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  I have reviewed before the effectiveness of peer review at figuring out "what's good" in the context of grant awards, finding that peer review as currently practiced does substantially better than chance at predicting future impact, especially for the most impactful of the papers; but at the same time is is far from perfect, leaving plenty of variance unexplained.

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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.

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  Getting to Plan B

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  If your company is struggling because your initial idea isn't working, this is the book to read. It provides a great blueprint for thinking through pivots for your business. As oneforty was considering pivots in Fall 2010, this book proved very helpful.

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  Bossypants

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  Not only is Tina Fey a very funny writer, it's fascinating to have the opportunity to climb inside the head of a successful female leader. Reading the internal drama within Tina's head as she thought about whether she wanted a second child while considering how it would affect the 100+ employees that worked for her on 30 Rock was priceless. As a manager, it gives me an understanding and level of empathy I wouldn't have had otherwise.

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  Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and VC

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  If you're considering raising institutional funding for your startup, then this is a key book to read to understand the fundamentals of the legal documents and terms. It came recommended by a number of fellow entrepreneurs and it didn't disappoint. I haven't raised money yet myself so I may change this score up or down significantly once I have that first hand experience.

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Medicinal chemist; has written In the Pipeline, the drug-discovery blog, since 2002, and the “Things I Won’t Work With” posts about chemicals that try to kill you.

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  The bureaucracy around clinical trials is Chesterton's Fence: it was built on the harm done by sloppier trials and should not be pulled down without knowing why it went up.

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  The procedures that have grown up around drug development are a sort of Chesterton's Fence: we shouldn't pull them down without considering the reasons why they were put up.

  Why Are Clinical Trials So Complicated?web.archive.org