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Tren Griffin
x.com
The publisher of my next book is Craig Pearce (Harriman House an imprint within the Pan Macmillan publishing group). We went on a fishing expedition today near Seattle and discovered he is a natural. Three high quality…
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Tren Griffin
x.com
Warren Buffett remains a Berkshire director and can still achieve his goal as stated below since being an effective director requires work: "I'm planning to work past 100, but to do that, I'll have to think outside the…
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Tren Griffin
x.com
John Deere makes engines, transmissions, frames, and software in-house. Deere controls the interfaces and provides services. This is what Steve Jobs once called "software in a box." The hardware and software capture…
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Tren Griffin
x.com
"Profitable" defined how exactly? Be specific.
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John Scalzi
Bluesky
…of being a novelist (maaaaaybe), and being a screenwriter (absolutely…
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John Scalzi
Bluesky
I mean, I think I'm just "'AI' Exasperated."
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Tren Griffin
x.com
"We must pace the U.S. 10 Year."
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John Romero
x.com
I’m proud of Quake. We all are. Quake changed games forever. That said...
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John Scalzi
Bluesky
I'm looking forward to the classy Merchant-Ivory-esque remake, "Whaleautumn"
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Ben Thompson
x.com
I have always said understanding accounting is underrated. I now realize understanding finance — specifically discount rates — is underrated as well. Long but excellent.
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Tren Griffin
x.com
TLDR: Silicon Valley Bank didn't fail simply because interest rates rose. It failed because people holding fire extinguishers were too afraid of getting reprimanded to turn them on. Knowing risk exists means nothing if…
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John Cochrane
Blog
Interest Rate Surge?
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Tren Griffin
x.com
Profit Before Any Bad Stuff (PBABS) "Inviting the cost of goods sold to our calculation of profit would ruin the vibe." "COGS is a social construct."
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Tren Griffin
x.com
Even if you have an IKON season pass for skiing from Alterra like me you won't get a friends and family allocation in the Altera IPO.
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Tren Griffin
x.com
True Gross Margin must come from the GAAP region in Accounting Land to authentically use the name. Community Adjusted Gross Margin comes from many promoters in many regions.
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Tren Griffin
x.com
…A conversion rate from free to paid of ~3% for a consumer service is not great, but is instead on the lower end of…
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John Romero
x.com
I'm back for SDCC Malaga this year! Hope to see you there.
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John Cochrane
Korrent
When the Fed buys long-term Treasuries under QE and issues overnight debt, the result is equivalent to the Treasury having issued overnight debt.
In QE, the Treasury issued long-term bonds. The Fed bought up the long bonds, issued overnight debt, and passed the interest difference back to the Treasury. In the end, it is just as if the Treasury issued overnight…
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Tren Griffin
x.com
4) frontier model training cost alone ~ = revenue and open source is barking at closed source heels. Requiring that all models be centralized with safety monitors etc, kills the open source business model.
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John Scalzi
Bluesky
Finally saw that Converse ad. My dudes, I'm the whitest of white people and even I saw what the fuck that looked like (don't post the ad in my comments, thanks)
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Tren Griffin
x.com
“The United States now has on-orbit space control weapons capable of defending the joint force against hostile adversary action.” The best way to assure communications is with a distributed system that routes around…
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Paul Krugman
Korrent
Trump is globally hated but not feared, the opposite of where Machiavelli said a prince should be.
Globally, then, Trump is in exactly the opposite position of where Machiavelli said a prince should be: hated but not feared.
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Patrick O'Shaughnessy
x.com
…to the airport in his car. The radio was missing in the car, a big, gaping hole in the dashboard. I said, Bill, what happened to you, did you get ripped off? And he said no, I had it taken out. Why'd you have it taken…
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John Scalzi
Bluesky
What the actual fuck I do not approve of contemporaries doing this
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Tren Griffin
x.com
People do things like buying groceries and see inflation. Ouch. Bonds don't seem like a good bet to compensate for price increases. On the margin, people dial up their allocation to stocks. Of course, many other factors…
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Tren Griffin
x.com
…This magnifies both good and bad outcomes. That each individual bet has a limited loss doesn’t prevent the risk of…
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Tren Griffin
x.com
As opposed to before when analyst models were able to predict prices: "JPMorgan Analysts Unsure How to Model Oil as Iran War Drags On" Complexity, Knightian Uncertainty, Ignorance, oh my! Seattle-area auto regular…
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John Baez
Mastodon
Imagine thinking you had a good 20 years ahead of you. You go to the doctor for an annual physical, she does some tests, then comes back with a long face and says "I'm sorry to say: you have just 2 months to live".…
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Tren Griffin
x.com
The market for used boats is currently terrible. Fiberglass ≠ scrap value. The economics = haul-out + demolition + landfill. If the boat is on land, you can rent a dumpster and dismantle it with a chainsaw or Sawzall.…
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Zvi Mowshowitz
Korrent
Even Anthropic does not prioritize AI safety to the extent that doing so would maximize its own medium-term (3-12 month) business interests.
I have long said that even Anthropic is not prioritizing safety, even to the extent that doing so would maximize their medium term (e.g. 3-12 months) business interests.
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Tren Griffin
x.com
If like me you like to read a transcript after you listen to an important talk here's a link to one: https://t.co/le3tWc7PUW "COVID-19 caused 15 million deaths, disrupted every life on the planet and cost our globe $45…
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Tren Griffin
x.com
…AI safety and AI competition is becoming increasingly blurred,” added Sun, who has discussed AI with US counterparts. “If every safety question becomes interpreted through the lens of strategic competition, meaningful…
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Tren Griffin
x.com
China state newspaper blasts Anthropic's calls to slow AI as 'Cold War' tactic. "This 'silent AI Cold War' is hypocritical and short-sighted," adding that excluding China from global AI innovation would "significantly…
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John Scalzi
Blog
I Assure You All That My “Dad Joke” Powers Are At Their Full and Terrible Peak
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John Baez
Mastodon
…are other sides to it. But when you get a lot of men with too much money who think they're saving the world, surrounded by groupies, what do you expect? Read the long Bluesky thread about this, collected on one page:…
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John Siracusa
Mastodon
@appfigures Guess who’s back after a long vacation… (I really thought it was fixed this time!)
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Ray Maker
Blog
Garmin Fenix 9 Series In-Depth Review: Worth the Upgrade?
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John Resig
x.com
A little experimental game I'm making: carving Japanese-style woodblock prints! Wanted something chill, atmospheric, but most importantly: accurate to the actual experience of carving woodblocks! Still messing around…
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John Scalzi
Bluesky
…valuable thing to get my work out into the world. It wouldn't happen without…
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Matt Birchler
Bluesky
"Apple said they invented this"
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Tren Griffin
x.com
…support the cooperation in developing and applying large language models, hold specialized AI seminars and training courses, and build an open ecosystem for AI." Chinese President Xi Jinping, delivered in his address…
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Pieter Levels
Korrent
Many fit-looking people achieve their physique with performance-enhancing drugs (TRT, steroids, HGH), more than is commonly assumed.
I think people really underestimate how many people are on gear (TRT, Tren, HGH etc) and are not natural
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John Siracusa
Mastodon
RE: https://mastodon.social/@siracusa/117196097301277170 I eventually got back in by changing my password from a Mac that was still signed into this Apple ID, but that revoked all my app-specific passwords, which was a…
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Max Hodak
Korrent
What people care about in their own identity is continuity, not similarity -- they accept enormous drift so long as the thread is unbroken.
so I'm in the camp that like continuity is greatly important. And so people will accept significant drift in their identity over time as long as they have continuity.
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Luke Wroblewski
x.com
this is well said.
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John Gruber
Mastodon
Finally.
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John Maeda
x.com
🧚🏆
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Fei-Fei Li
Korrent
An AI's sympathy and a friend's are not the same act: one is a learned pattern about what to say, the other rests on having felt the thing.
when the machine says I'm sorry you're so sick today it's very different from how your friend says it to you because the machine said that because it has learned through pattern when someone tells it I'm sick you should…
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John Resig
x.com
Ripped Google Analytics out of https://t.co/x3215Zppfi this past week and replaced it with a better, more detailed, home-grown setup that doesn't use any cookies! I didn't realize how much traffic I'm sending to museums…
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Austin Kleon
x.com
“How is it not called OTHER MOTHER?” I said, loudly, afterwards
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John Siracusa
Mastodon
💸 💸 💸
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Travis Kalanick
Korrent
Business had become politics without anyone noticing, which is why almost everything said about a company a decade ago was negative.
the media landscape 10 years ago, 90% of what was said was very negative. Business had become politics and we didn't know it.
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John Siracusa
Mastodon
RE: https://c.im/@rconti/116959863454627322 It's not a good rendering!
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John Resig
x.com
I've finally found a Wordle-like game that I'm good at! You have to associate historical artifacts with their origin and time of creation. Very fun! https://t.co/0UgbC4Nfmc · Jul 31 2026 🟦🟩🟩🟨🟩🟩🟩🟦🟦🟦 82,910 ·…
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Jason Zweig
Blog
Some Summer Reading
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Henry Farrell
Korrent
John Dee functioned as an imperial propagandist, not merely a wizard figure
John Dee, who appeared in Flint and Mirror as well as several other Crowley novels, was not just a wizard but an imperial propagandist.
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John Mearsheimer
Korrent
States are not inherently aggressive; anarchy leaves them no choice but to behave aggressively.
So it's very important to understand that I'm not arguing that states are inherently aggressive. My point is that as long as states are in anarchy, they have no choice but to behave in an aggressive fashion.
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Charity Majors
x.com
tfw AWS posts something you recorded at AWS:reinvent EIGHT MONTHS AGO, with no indication that it was not recorded last week. It's not that I don't stand behind what I said....Or maybe it is? I don't remember what I…
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Anthony Sculimbrene
Site
Kizer Bear Zero Review
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John MacFarlane
Uses
3M LX550 Vertical Notebook Riser
For ergonomics I have the laptop opened almost 180 degrees and propped up on a 3M LX550 Vertical Notebook Riser, so I'm looking directly at its beautiful 1600x1200 15" matte screen.
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Tren Griffin
Loved
Shoe Dog — Phil Knight
The best book I have read about being an entrepreneur is Shoe Dog by Nike founder Phil Knight. If you are interested in business and have not read this book, what exactly are you reading?
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Tren Griffin
Loved
Zero to One — Peter A. Thiel
Peter Thiel described the period well when he wrote in his excellent book Zero to One:
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Tren Griffin
Loved
Investing: The Last Liberal Art — Robert Hagstrom
The best book on this is by Robert Hagstrom entitled: Investing: The Last Liberal Art.
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Tren Griffin
Loved
The Success Equation — Michael Mauboussin
The very best books on this topic have been written by Michael Mauboussin, including The Success Equation.
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John Allspaw
x.com
I'm actually talking about this topic alongside others right now... https://t.co/ylXNc2d5Un (or https://t.co/iNqKYeHAge)
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John Allspaw
x.com
Some songs remain the same. LLM enthusiasts might consider which challenges are genuinely new, and which have been worked out for a long time already.
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Tren Griffin
Loved
Margin of Safety — Seth Klarman
I have previously written a blog post on Seth Klarman that included some quotes from his excellent book Margin of Safety.
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Radek Pietruszewski
Read
Titan: Life of John D. Rockefeller — Ron Chernow
Nice read, but be warned: this is long.
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Radek Pietruszewski
Read
Bad Blood — John Carreyrou
A story of a big, decade-long Silicon Valley scam. Good read.
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Tren Griffin
Recommends
The Misbehavior of Markets — Benoit Mandelbrot and Richard Hudson
Mandelbrot and Richard Hudson are the authors of the influential book The Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence. I suggest you read this book for yourself (even though it is not an easy book to…
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John Maeda
Blog
CMF
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Tren Griffin
Loved
The Devil’s Financial Dictionary — Jason Zweig
Janson Zweig has written a wonderful book entitled The Devil’s Financial Dictionary in the style of Bierce that is both entertaining and educational.
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Tren Griffin
Recommends
The Most Important Thing — Howard Marks
When I am asked by someone what book they should read first to learn about investing I often suggest Howard Marks’ The Most Important Thing
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John Resig
Uses
Carcassonne
For games I play Starcraft 2 (id: frowny.396, I'm a Silver Protoss), Minecraft, and some iPhone games (including Carcassonne and Words with Friends).
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John Cochrane
Korrent
Customers leave faster when prices rise than they come back when prices fall, which is why sellers hold prices as long as they can.
I suspect higher prices make people leave more quickly than lower prices make them come.
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Tren Griffin
Loved
The Messy Middle — Scott Belsky
I was up very late last night reading a great book that will appear in stores soon written by Scott Belsky entitled The Messy Middle that explains why this passion is required.
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Andy Baio
Uses
VS Code — Microsoft
Lately, I'm using VS Code after a long stint with Atom.
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John Mearsheimer
Korrent
States do not merely defend the power they have: they seize every opportunity to gain more that looks cheap and likely to succeed.
I'm not a defensive realist, I'm an offensive realist. And my argument is that states look for opportunities to gain more power, and every time they see, or almost every time they see an opportunity to gain more power,…
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John Scalzi
Recommends
Coco
(Coco is wonderful, though, you should absolutely see it if you have not).
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John Siracusa
Liked
Safari — Apple
My primary web browser has been Safari since it was introduced, mostly due to the minimalist user interface and speed of non-rendering tasks (e.g., how long it takes to create a new, empty browser window).
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Graham Hancock
Korrent
Calling the lost civilisation advanced means only that it could calculate longitude, not that it built machines.
And when I say that, as I have said on a number of occasions, that it had technology equivalent to ours in the 18th century, I’m referring specifically to the ability to calculate longitude. I’m not saying that they…
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John Cochrane
Korrent
When a shock falls hardest on the poor, hand out cash rather than hold the price down.
But more deeply, if distributional consequences of a shock are important, then hand out cash. So long as everyone faces the same prices.
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Michael Lewis
Korrent
You never call a source uninformed: you call knowing everything already known, and then ask for what has not been said.
You don't call uninformed. You call knowing as much as there is to know and then you start picking the brains of people who might know more and have not said.
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John Siracusa
Liked
Terminal — Apple
My second-most-frequently-typed-in application is Terminal. It has few frills, but it gets the basics right: I can copy and paste long lines of text without incident, it supports UTF-8, "unlimited" scrollback length,…
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Bob Nystrom
Blog
Setting Up an SDL3 Mac App in XCode 16
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Ben Kuhn
x.com
"Mechanistic interpretability never does anything useful" they said "It'll never beat a standard baseline" they said "Talk to me when you ship something" they said Ahem:
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John Gruber
Uses
Markdown
Not the least of which is Markdown, which I use for everything I write.
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Lenny Rachitsky
Loved
Opal
I love this camera (disclaimer: I’m an investor) and it got me a long way, but eventually I upgraded
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John Allspaw
x.com
I'm grateful for so many things about the closing keynote that @jasonkoppe and I gave at the @LFISoftware conference. All fields looking to make progress need exemplars, and when it comes to learning effectively from…
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John MacFarlane
Uses
pandoc
I use pandoc's extended markdown for lecture notes, letters, slide presentations, handouts, and short articles.
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Graham Hancock
Korrent
That an advanced civilisation existed in the Ice Age is a hypothesis offered to answer the puzzles of prehistory, not something anyone has proved — and it is worth inquiring into anyway.
It’s often said that I’m claiming to have proved that there was an advanced lost civilization in the Ice Age. And I am not claiming to have proved that. That is a hypothesis that I’m putting forward to answer some of…
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John Mearsheimer
Korrent
A two-state solution is no longer possible; that boat has sailed.
That's why I've sort of taken to saying, and I hope I'm wrong here, that on the two-state solution, that boat has sailed. It's no longer possible.
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John Maeda
Blog
Out Of Distribution Thinking / AI Models
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John Scalzi
Loved
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Still, I’m glad that Rothman decided to spend a little bit (or actually a lot) of the money Fox was getting out of the X-Men and Ice Age series to make this extremely handsome, extremely rewatchable ballad to the high…
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John Maeda
YouTube
UsefulMBA: A Beginning by John Maeda
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John Maeda
YouTube
John Maeda: Design & AI Live Stream
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John Gruber
Uses
Moleskine Notebook — Moleskine
I carry a paper notebook and pen with me everywhere. Currently: an unlined soft cover Moleskine and a 0.38mm Uni-ball Signo RT (black).
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Sriram Krishnan
Blog
Building something no one else can measure
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Jonathan Gagné
Loved
Pulsar dripper — NextLevel
After years of development, I'm super happy to report that the dripper I dreamed of for so long is finally out!
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Hilary Mason
Uses
screen
I'm a heavy user of screen, particularly for monitoring long-running processes and being able to use the same session from different locations.
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John Baez
Uses
Instiki
This uses some software called Instiki, but another guy takes care of that, a whiz named Andrew Stacey - not me.
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Sreetam Das
Uses
Notion — Notion Labs
Notion for task management, long-term planning and notes
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John Baez
Read
The Silk Road: A New History — Valerie Hansen
The Silk Road: A New History by Valerie Hansen. I'm going to western China this summer for a math conference, and then we'll go to Dunhuang, an old city on the Silk Road with hundreds of caves full of paintings.
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Rahul Vohra
Korrent
The right way to work is to do whatever feels right for as long as it feels right, and read your time back at the end of the week — not to obey a timetable.
What I'm saying is do what feels right for as long as as it feels right to do. Then at the end of the week you can see where your time is going.
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Adam Frank
Korrent
Life is going to be common in the universe; the genuinely open question is how long technological civilisations last.
Intelligent life and how long intelligent, technological civilizations, I think there's a big question about how long those last. And I'm hopeful, but in terms of just, I think life is absolutely going to be common,…
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John Maeda
Blog
Finding Purpose (2027)
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Michael Lopp
Mixed on
Tumi — Tumi
If I'm traveling elsewhere on the planet, I have a Tumi bag which is ugly, but affords me more space for long haul travel accessories.
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John Gruber
Uses
Yojimbo — Bare Bones Software
Yojimbo for storing and tagging notes, bookmarks, passwords, and etc. – at this writing I have 4,675 items in my Yojimbo library.
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John Gruber
Uses
Moleskine
I carry a paper notebook and pen with me everywhere. Currently: an unlined soft cover Moleskine and a 0.38mm Uni-ball Signo RT (black).
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John Siracusa
Bluesky
Hyperspace:
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John Allspaw
x.com
Reminder
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John Siracusa
Bluesky
Apple Turnaround:
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John Siracusa
Bluesky
Apple Turnover:
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John Siracusa
Bluesky
Hyperspace Update: