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Said and published
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Paul Krugman
Newsletter
Day Off
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David Heinemeier Hansson
x.com
Every day offers a new choice not to be a miserable c*nt.
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Terence Eden
Bluesky
This reads like something from The Day Today: "officers found albums with a street value of about £1m"
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Jason Zweig
x.com
The U.S. Treasury Department was officially established this day in 1789.
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Ted Gioia
Korrent
Within living memory leisure was a media-free zone in which nobody expected your day off to earn money for anyone else.
As recently as a hundred years ago, leisure time existed in a media-free zone. Nobody expected you to make money for wealthy elites on your day off.
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Joe Previte
x.com
"today your day is going to be full of wins and luck will follow you" been telling myself this yesterday and today - 2 new signups for wellness coaching - finally found solution for treating weeds - found buyer for desk…
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Steven Johnson
x.com
I have some news. But first a little backstory. Almost exactly four years ago, I drove down to Mountain View for my first day as a Google employee. I was fifty-four years old, and somehow had managed to avoid ever…
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Dean W. Ball
Korrent
Truly self-sovereign AI agents, running on compute no human owner can switch off, are inevitable rather than merely possible.
…there is a chance that the deliberate acts I referenced above will one day be considered crimes, or at least grave sins. Instead, I am saying it is an inevitable…
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Chelsea Finn
Korrent
A small team should start from an open-source generalist policy and fine-tune it on day one, rather than scale up its own specialist models first.
I mean at the very least I actually think that just starting with a generalist policy and then fine-tuning it even like right off the bat uh can be really effective.
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Davis Kedrosky
x.com
Just another day at the office.
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Derek Sivers
Blog
Offline 23 hours a day
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Matt Webb
Bluesky
Took the afternoon off to do kid wrangling because the school is closed from the heat (trading with other families who take over kid wrangling other days this week) and I think that is my first “climate day” as a reason…
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Mari Andrew
Newsletter
Relax and Write in Brooklyn
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Dex Horthy
Korrent
Every abstraction in agentic programming — RAG, memory, agentic history, structured output — is just a different way of passing tokens into a model, and understanding that beats learning any of them.
And at the end of the day, they're all like different ways to pass tokens into a model and ask it to produce usually some structured output. And understanding that is a lot more powerful than trying to learn memory and…
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Joe Previte
x.com
as software engineers most of us are sitting in an office chair all day we spend hours staring at a screen, not moving more then our fingers or wrists sometimes we lock in and it feels like there are only occasional…
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Joey Hess
Mastodon
Spent a good part of the day repairing my electric lawnmower. It would be easy to find someone to do small engine repair on a gas one, and it would be easy to throw out a ~8 year old mower and get a better replacement…
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Håkon Wium Lie
Liked
Swatch model GB743
I wear a Swatch model GB743, which is lightweight, ticks, and has high-contrast analog dial with day and date. I only take it off to change battery.
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Daniel Jalkut
Uses
MarsEdit — Red Sweater Software
I'm constantly using MarsEdit to draft and publish blog entries, and FastScripts to shave seconds or minutes off the repetitive tasks that are part of my work day.
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Jasmine Sun
x.com
data center road trip // day 2-3 - Port Washington has faced intense protests and a mayoral recall over their data center. residents cite environment and aesthetics, but are fine with the power plant in the middle of…
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Mark Lynas
Changed their mind
Genetically modified crops are dangerous enough that campaigning to destroy them is justified.
Five years ago, almost to this very day, I stood before you and offered an apology for my earlier anti-GMO activism.
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Felix Salmon
Loved
sea serpent bracelet — Jill Platner
My sea serpent bracelet from Jill Platner. I put it on and take it off dozens of times a day, and slide it back and forth between my hands. It has the perfect weight and feel
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James Clear
Korrent
Small changes only compound when they are oriented toward a larger outcome; otherwise they evaporate rather than accumulate.
are your small actions accumulating or are they evaporating? You know, are you doing small things each day that are oriented toward a larger outcome or are you doing small things each day that are just kind of like…
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Jensen Huang
Korrent
Engineer from the physical limits first, then improve, rather than shaving a few days off a 74-day process by continuous improvement.
I don't love the other methods, which is continuous improvement. The problem with continuous improvement, it… First of all, you should engineer something from first principles at the speed, you know, with speed of light…
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David Hone
Korrent
Being big pays off every day and is punished in extinctions, which is why body size keeps getting reset rather than climbing forever.
…do well in extinction events, so that tends to reset the clock by killing off the big stuff, and then smaller stuff does better…