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Kat uses career envy as a signal. If someone's path makes you jealous, that is data about what you want. Kat Excellence writes at https://t.co/RoNpJ113Fq Full episode:
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The pursuit of excellence requires no justification.Their words
And before you ask, the pursuit of excellence requires no justification!
17 September
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14 September
From one piece Bad Feelings 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
Envy is usually based on a distorted, delusional picture of another person's life rather than reality.Their words
The good news about envy is that it is very often a delusion.
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korrents.com
Envy is triggered by feeling similar to someone, not simply by the size of the difference between you.Their words
Although it seems to be based on a perceived difference ("he is rich, and I am not"), it is actually triggered by a feeling of similarity ("if he and I are so alike, why is he so much richer?")
8 September
7 September
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People who act and speak in public as right-wing extremists and are labeled as such, establish a claim to authenticity.
6 September
1 September
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But keep those methods you use to investigate things and monitor things very separate from the methods you use to generate reward which is something that AI companies including open AAI have held up as a principle especially in the case of avoiding putting training pressure on the chain of thought. So you might have monitors that read the agents chain of thought in order to alert you if something is going wrong somewhere but you don't train the agents with the outputs of that monitor.
29 August
25 August
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korrents.com
The S&P 500’s price-to-sales ratio no longer signals what it once did, because today’s companies earn higher margins.Their words
Therefore, the only correct interpretation of the P/S ratio over the last decade is that it doesn’t signal what it used to.
Why I Was Wrong to Be Bearish on U.S. Stocksofdollarsanddata.com
24 August
20 August
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That world is is generated by the brain. And so, if you can get visuals the visual signal, auditory signal, balance, motor, like somatic sensory motor in and out of the brain, that is that is an end in itself. That is the central object.
18 August
3 August
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it helps sending a signal and a reminder that Open Source is to a large extent done voluntarily and even maintainers need a break at times.
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korrents.com
The post-1970s global increase in heatwave frequency is caused by greenhouse gas emissions from human activity.Their words
This differs from the Dust Bowl because it is a global signal, occurring essentially everywhere. This is almost certainly due to greenhouse gas emissions from human activities.
30 July
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Lovedrcmnd.app
The Signal and the NoiseTheir words
And, in addition, Nate Silver’s earlier book The Signal and the Noise was, I thought, brilliant. I am forever deeply in his debt for his making me better-informed and wiser across a whole bunch of different dimensions.
26 July
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From one piece Why Netflix is betting on systems thinkers—not specialists—in the AI era | Elizabeth Stone (CPTO) 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
Craft excellence within each discipline is not going away, however much AI blurs the work across functional lines.Their words
I still see a craft excellence that's really important in the disciplines that I don't think is going away anytime soon. Even if there's fluidity or blurring of the work across the functional lines.
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It was instead a very strongly held opinion that that you get to excellence by giving people a lot of agency and accountability. By pushing decisions as deep in the organization as possible, hiring great people who can be trusted to have good judgment and make good decisions.
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30 June
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To real estate professionals, slowing growth or declines in rent are often signals to stop building new housing.
Some Things YIMBYs Tend To Get Wrong (and Right)strongtowns.org
27 June
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These failures are a strong signal that HDL-C is not the variable we should be trying to manipulate.
14 June
From one piece The hidden pattern behind successful products | Mark Pincus (FarmVille, Words with Friends, & more) 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
AI should be used as a failure machine that tests many ideas cheaply, not as a way to build one idea faster.Their words
the way we should be using AI is as a testing machine, a failure machine, and a way to vibe code, cloud code, but but build build the, you know, the the lowest possible cycled version of your product that you can get signal back on.
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korrents.com
If you are asking whether your product is an A, it is not an A — real signal never leaves you asking.Their words
If you're asking whether or not your product is an A, it's not an A. And you're you're full of hope.
13 June
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korrents.com
Polished UI is a reasonable signal that a team invested comparable effort in the underlying code quality.Their words
Users can't see the code, so UI is the only way for them to judge the quality of the app. If UI looks good, that means developers had time to polish it, which means that they probably spent a comparable amount of time to iron out the code.
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They just recently released a report, and I think like you really have to squint to see anything happening. Like basically, if you want to take kind of like uh an an approach across the entire economy and looking at even looking at like software engineering, like the most exposed sort of sectors, there's just like not really anything going on. There might be a little bit of a signal about like junior developers getting jobs less than before, and that but that's like a less than before rather than a level shift.
3 June
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korrents.com
Having worked at a highly selective, demanding employer signals conscientiousness and reliability.Their words
Having worked there is a signal that you work hard, you complete your assignments, you adapt well to new tasks and requirements, and you're ready to take on new challenges.
2 June
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To change course in democratic nations will require a major change in public opinion as a signal to political leaders that the current course is not acceptable.
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korrents.com
A user's own behavior over time is a more reliable signal of what they want to see than who they explicitly follow.Their words
A user's behavior, especially as it changes over time, is a better signal for what the user wants to see.
28 May
21 May
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Money might still matter for AI agents because it compresses many messy negotiations into one shared signal.
8 May
From one piece David Reich – Bronze Age shock, the Neanderthal puzzle, & the sudden spread of farming 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Our interpretation of this result is that once you slide the statistic above five, essentially all the signals of natural selection are real.
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So we just could not see a way this could happen by chance and once we saw that we really felt quite convinced that this was a real signal and that really somehow there has been natural selection to increase the genetic changes that today manifest themselves as more years of school at predicting more years of schooling.
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It may still be the case, and I guess it is, that immune traits are the most selected category, but is not at all the case, and in fact, we can prove it's not the case that behavioral traits are not selected.
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And really from a statistical point of view, what happens at these times of migration is there's just huge fluctuations in frequencies, and these are extremely uninformative times for looking and detecting natural selection.
7 May
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the reviewer is the principal, the contributor is the agent, and code review only worked because the reviewer could cheaply infer effort from reading the code. Agents collapse that signal.
14 April
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Excellence in design is not just about craft quality. It is about whether a designer is both willing and allowed to create impact.
5 April
2 April
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Usesrcmnd.app
SearXNGTheir words
I gave pi a skill for using the search engine SearXNG (which aggregates many search engines together at the same time), and one for calling into a daemon that I wrote that gives it access to read my email and Signal messages, and send-to-self, and send to others only with human confirmation.
24 March
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korrents.com
Putting the children most likely to succeed into one school is segregation, not educational excellence.Their words
Simply creating artificial separation between different students is not a strategy for “educational excellence.” It’s just segregation.
9 December 2025
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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
20 October 2025
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You use a tool, but you play an instrument. It’s a more expansive way of doing, and the doing of it all is important, because that’s where you develop the instincts for excellence. There is no purpose to better machines if they do not also produce better humans.
12 October 2025
5 October 2025
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And if I'm starting to see like more and more experiments that are not statistically significant, that may be a signal to me to say, okay, we might have kind of tried to exploit a little bit too far. Like there might not be as much juice to squeeze.
30 September 2025
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No, I'm not saying that you should never take pills. There are obviously some diseases that you can only fight with antibiotics, for example. So, I'm not suggesting we go back to the Middle Ages, but what I'm saying is we overuse pills.
12 September 2025
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Like now, like basically learning is not for these systems is not just learning from raw actions. It's also learning from words eventually be learning from observing what people do from the kind of natural feedback that you receive when you're doing a job together with somebody else.
2 September 2025
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But once you actually have a sophisticated industrial economy, central planning can't handle the complexity. And so you try and create incentives and structures around that while not having pricing and that just doesn't work.
2 June 2025
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There is, however, one approach that tops all of them - which the Swiss banking industry has not yet achieved, but is destined to. And that is to become a centre of true investing excellence.
10 April 2025
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korrents.com
Loneliness is an evolved biological signal that triggers a threat response rather than just an emotional state.Their words
Loneliness is an inherited biological adaptation signal that puts us into a state of threat.
1 April 2025
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The stereotype is that new managers often micromanage, but at Wave, I've noticed that new managers often err on the side of undermanaging, or being too hands-off, perhaps out of a desire to signal that they trust their reports.
25 March 2025
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Good taste: taste is the ability to distinguish excellence from mediocrity. The hand can never consistently produce better than the eye can discern.
The Death of Product Development as We Know itlg.substack.com
17 March 2025
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SignalTheir words
I recommend Signal instead of text messages because it end-to-end encrypts all your communications.
13 January 2025
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A glut follows every semiconductor shortage.
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19 May 2024
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korrents.com
Private group chats have become the primary venue for the most interesting conversations in tech.Their words
Most of the interesting conversations in tech now happen in private group chats: Whatsapp, Telegram, Signal, small invite-only Discord groups.
22 April 2024
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This is the 2001 monolith hypothesis. I would be less surprised to find a quiescent alien artifact in our solar system than I would to catch a radio signal from an intelligent civilization.
25 February 2024
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korrents.com
Repeated vague platitudes without follow-up specifics signal weak first-principles thinking.Their words
If they don't follow this up with a more specific, precise or nuanced claim, they may not be a strong first-principles thinker.
12 January 2024
7 March 2023
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High rung thinking will almost always land on "centrist" position because it acknowledges tradeoffs, or on non-politicized positions because it's not beholden to supporting either of the two parties in a zero-sum game. It's not a coincidence that the political square is a triangle.
7 February 2023
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Experiencing sleepiness is normal and does not necessarily imply that you are undersleeping.
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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.
1 June 2022
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A low r is actually a signal that something is wrong with the economy: In effect, if we think of the safe rate as the risk-adjusted rate of return on capital, the low safe rate is sending the signal that, risk adjusted, the return on capital is low.
5 September 2021
5 November 2019
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To make deliberate progress towards more intelligent and more human-like artificial systems, we need to be following an appropriate feedback signal: we need to be able to define and evaluate intelligence in a way that enables comparisons between two systems, as well as comparisons with humans.
27 July 2017
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