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The 7+/-2 rule never fails. I thought I was ready to kickoff something we shaped. But putting it through my documentation process felt hard. Why? Oh yeah. Missing a level of chunking. Suddenly way easier to talk about w/ both the team and agents.
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korrents.com
A company that fails to innovate and neglects marketing loses ground to competitors, even under financial strainTheir words
They failed to innovate, and failed to do much on the marketing or communications front.
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Optimizing JavaScript chunking strategy can produce significant efficiency gains at internet scaleTheir words
Improving Next.js chunking can yield massive efficiency improvements at internet scale.
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In most of the world there is: no real willingness to solve problems nor an acceptance of people offering to solve their problems (out of pride) simply too much regulation so the problem cannot be solved without a license or long approval time very low standards of what is deemed acceptable so the problem isn't seen as a problem in the first place
31 August
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I want to be clear, you can't throw edtech in. You can't take our time back and throw it into a school. It's not going to work cuz you haven't solved any of the other problems. And so edtech is not a magic, you know, it's not a silver bullet.
27 August
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Don't expect a response to an AI-written email, or a templated email. I get it, you think it's a numbers game: send a tweaked email out to 100 podcasts, and hope that at least one replies. In reality, by playing the same game as everyone else does, you are assisting to the noise, and end up drowning yourself in it as well.
26 August
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Finishing one piece of work, even a failed one, permanently removes the difficulty of finishing.Their words
Once you finish—even one time, even on a project that ultimately fails—you will never have trouble finishing again.
24 August
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it was only about 15 years ago I started beginning to be aware that there may be a an important biology underlying motivation and when that biology goes wrong, it can lead to loss of motivation and even pathological apathy.
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10 August
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Now, if I do web stuff, it's easy to create a cloud session. If I do like something that requires Mac OS, that's already where like 99% of the tools fail me.
7 August
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we've both come to believe that when transformation fails repeatedly, it's time for something different, and one of the tools that leaders need to add to their tool belts (and probably use a lot more frequently than they do today), is starting fresh, creating new entities (agencies and departments, for example) and either endowing them with new authorities or transferring authorities from legacy institutions to the new ones.
4 August
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i would rather be an optimist and work hard than a pessimist posting about why things won't work. it's much more difficult and the most likely path is failure, but society fails if people don't try. no amount of "it will never work" essays will drive society forward.
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Just like Hollywood once compared Netflix to the Albanian Army, the US establishment doesn’t yet understand how much better Satoshi Nakamoto or Vitalik Buterin is than every apparatchik they have in the Federal Reserve system.
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What's proven is if you properly architect it and have co- cloud code go into certain sub segments or have cloud help you build the architecture, you modify, refine it, lock it in and say just work on these few things
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A good idea often fails to spread not for lack of merit but because no convenient way exists to implement it.Their words
Sometimes, a good idea doesn't get traction because there isn't a convenient way to implement it.
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Then the person who doesn't satiate in capital is going to have if they're being rational they're going to have a higher savings rate.
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I'm watching people write these huge markdown files to give the agent context. How about you write documentation to give me context so I can have fully working examples.
21 May
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Central planning is not a solution simply because agents are software, and do not fix the problem of local knowledge which lives near the work.
20 May
From one piece Why Rust is different, with Alice Ryhl 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Now the thing is you can of course write examples in your documentation and Rust makes all examples into tests. This means that if you change the underlying code now your test fails. And so this means that you can't even you can't forget to update your examples in your documentation.
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And what this is is that in the guide level explanation, you explain your feature as if you were writing a guide as if the feature already existed. And in the reference level explanation, you explain your feature again as if it already existed, but as if it would be in the language reference instead of a tutorial.
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if we can't solve the sadist problem in nursing homes I don't see how we can assume it's solved in cows.
27 April
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Extending the lifespan of a brittle system just means the system eventually fails more spectacularly.
6 April
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I don't think the continuation of the species is some niche, selfish lifestyle choice, nor do I think people without children should have to constantly absorb the consequences of a structure that isn't helping either of us.
20 March
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It used to be that you have documentation for other people who are going to use your library, but like you shouldn't do that anymore. Like you should have instead of HTML documents for humans, you have markdown documents for agents.
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korrents.com
Regulation must precede reflection: cognitive insight fails while a nervous system is in defensive dominance.Their words
Polyvagal theory provided me with a coherent framework for understanding why cognitive insight alone often fails when a nervous system is in defensive dominance. In such states, higher-order cortical processes are functionally constrained.
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Do not run a personal agent on a cheap or local model: weak models are gullible and easy to prompt-inject.Their words
That's why I warn in my security documentation, don't use cheap models. Don't use Haiku or a local model. Even though I, I very much love the idea that this thing could completely run local. If you use a, a very weak local model, they are very gullible. It's very easy to, to prompt inject them.
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Good documentation is produced by effort, not by tooling that keeps code and docs togetherTheir words
This reinforced my belief that good documentation comes from effort, not tooling.
8 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.
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it doesn't matter how good the drink is if people think you've bought it for $8.95 it's not doing the job it's supposed to do which is to signal generosity to signal hospitality or to mark a special occasion
7 December 2025
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korrents.com
Podcasting works best as edutainment, and fails when it becomes too highbrow or purely educational.Their words
Podcasting is edutainment. If you try to have too highbrow a view of yourself, and only do education, you will lose.
25 November 2025
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I think for example our intuitive feeling of hunger is not succeeding in guiding us correctly in this world with an abundance of food.
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I've worked a lot of companies right but I'm wrong all the time and I think consumer behavior can be very fickle and especially when you work at a company you become a power user naturally. So sometimes you you may forget like what the actual user experience is for a brand new user.
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So the next step then is to try anything no matter how stupid and in fact almost the stupider, the better, which technically is almost guaranteed to fail, but the way it fails is going to be instructive.
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Anthropic prompt engineering documentationTheir words
I still think Anthropic have the best prompting documentation of any LLM provider.
5 May 2025
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I’m unhappy with that. I would not be happy with information loss. I love that it’s telling us that there’s this crisis because I do think it’s giving us the clues, and we have to take them seriously.
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And to go back to thinking about money, money works because we all believe in it. It's a form of social trust, and it's a form of belief and faith in our society and in the other people in it. And when that breaks down, the money system will break down as well.
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Passing ARC-AGI does not equate to achieving AGI, and, as a matter of fact, I don't think o3 is AGI yet. o3 still fails on some very easy tasks, indicating fundamental differences with human intelligence.
OpenAI o3 Breakthrough High Score on ARC-AGI-Pubarcprize.org
25 August 2024
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Telegram clearly fails to meet this stronger definition for a simple reason: it does not end-to-end encrypt conversations by default.
Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app?blog.cryptographyengineering.com
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When a company fails, most people blame the CEO. I generally blame the board. Because the board's job is to make sure the right person's running the company, and if they're failing, help the person.
17 January 2024
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korrents.com
Expecting AI or longer lives to arrive in time makes people skip having a plan for falling birth rates at all.Their words
And they don’t see a need for a plan B, in case their forecast fails.
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Go standard library documentationTheir words
the Go standard library documentation is probably my favourite language reference
28 May 2022
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Usesrcmnd.app
NotionTheir words
System for notes, knowledge base, and project management. Helps organize and store references, documentation, and roadmaps.
25 May 2022
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Pure discovery learning, where students are never shown instructions or examples, fails miserably.
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DebianTheir words
Debian is a decent programming environment. It has some of the consistency properties like macOS, but fails unexpectedly.
1 May 2020
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You cannot wing it when you're giving a drug to human beings.
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Lovedrcmnd.app
How Apollo flew to the MoonTheir words
This is far and away the best general-audience technical documentation of the Apollo missions I've read.
27 June 2017
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