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Enjoying the spectacle of big-name mainstream commentators stumbling across the Rationalists and recoiling with a horrified you-must-be-joking expression.
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also super nice to see the @typesafeai team enjoying their moment on here. find them all here
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Mainstream software will largely continue to be created by big tech companies, and that is acceptable.
We acknowledge that mainstream software will largely be the creation of big tech companies, and that's ok.
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I've been enjoying Muse: https://t.co/ynb57nMDw4. Among many other things, you can use it to buy anywhere on the internet with @link.
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I've been enjoying Muse: https://t.co/ynb57nMDw4. Among many other things, you can use it to buy anywhere on the internet with @link.
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some more things about Django I've been enjoying
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Decentralized networks can be both principled and mainstream-popular without giving up usability.
It's exciting, and shows that you don't have to accept a bad set of tradeoffs to make tech that's both principled and popular.
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AI is making formal methods more popular without making them mainstream, moving them from about a tenth of a per cent of engineers to three tenths.
I think it is making it more popular. I don't know if it'll make it go mainstream, but it's definitely making it a lot more popular. It's bringing it from maybe like 0.1% to 0.3% which is huge.
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First NecronomiCon talk is on Theosophy. The panelists are going into all sorts of great stuff about the connections between Theosophy and thr scientific, pseudoscientific, intellectual, and political revolutions of the…
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Still really enjoying Muse. I use Things.app for all of my todos, and though it has cloud sync they (still) haven’t added an official API. I told muse to build it and a minute or two later I have ongoing todo sync from…
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Changing Israeli policy toward Palestinians requires imposing costs on mainstream, not just settler, Israelis.
We need to do something that inflicts pain on nicer, more sympathetic Israelis in Tel Aviv and Haifa, something that makes them want to actually change course and meaningfully alter the situation.
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Progress has never come from centralization; it comes from individuals trying things the mainstream had written off.
that's how progress has always been made historically, right? It's not um through centralization. It's through empowering individuals to try things that are somewhat out of the mainstream that other people didn't think…
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Formal methods with Hillel Wayne
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People who actively participate in a field give better commentary on it than pure observers with no stake in the outcome.
players who are also commentators give better commentary than people who are just commentators. Stock analysts who never invest have zero skin in the game.
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👋 Will be speaking at React Nexus this year on something I've been really enjoying lately 🤫
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Here's my conversation with Andrew Scull, all about psychiatry, its long history from Freud/Jung to today, including asylums, icepick lobotomies, electroshock therapy, antidepressants, antipsychotics, and some horrific…
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Rectangle — Ryan Hanson
For window management, I use Spectacle (personal) or Rectangle (work).
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Export controls cannot deny China compute: it already manufactures most of the world’s mainstream chips and has some of the world’s best computer scientists.
And so you just have to first realize that chips exist in China. They manufacture 60% of the world's mainstream chips, maybe more. It's a very large industry for them. They have some of the world's greatest computer…
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ok everyone, i took one for the team here's the data we all wanted to see - real token value of each LLM subscription, empirically measured through usage on my real subscriptions - supergrok heavy has now become the…
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If you lived through the era when sysadmins stopped handcrafting server pets, what's happening now should feel eerily familiar. Nondeterminism will require more engineering discipline, not less. This is our best chance…
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I thoroughly enjoyed going deep with @nxthompson on AI and the future of writing and creativity for The Most Interesting Thing in AI podcast. A few highlights: • How Nick and I have used @Gemini_Notebook to write our…
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Ideas that first circulate in private group chats often become mainstream public opinion.
Time and time again I've seen group chat conversations act as the memetic upstream of mainstream opinion.
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Transmission
Recently, I've been enjoying a BitTorrent client called Transmission.
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by Tae Kim. Enjoying it so far.
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To a certain extent, the concerns about cognitive offloading are an example of technological lag, where the mainstream discussion of AI and its impact is still framed in terms of the first-generation chatbots.
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The Seventh Sense — Joshua Cooper Ramo
I am enjoying it and think you all will too.
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and then as things hit invisible asymptotes those same loud voices who write viral essays have curiously moved on to other things.
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Hispanic immigrants are integrating into the American mainstream faster than the European immigrants of the nineteenth century did.
All the evidence is that Hispanics are integrating into the American mainstream more quickly and more effectively than the European immigrant groups that came starting around 1835.
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WhatsApp Encryption, a Lawsuit, and a Lot of Noise
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Solar has got cheaper faster than even its most optimistic forecasters expected.
A number of commentators have consistently predicted that solar cost improvements will level out “this year” since about 1990, and yet if anything deployment, cost decline, and the learning rate have only improved.
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The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter — Joseph Henrich
A decade on, it already feels possible that in the future, commentators will argue that this specific fruitful synthesis lit the fuse on evolutionary cultural anthropology’s explosion (with due apologies to earlier…
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The Nasty Bits — Anthony Bourdain
The Nasty Bits, by Anthony Bourdain. I read this book not too long before Anthony Bourdain died. I remember really enjoying his voice, his style, his sense of flair.
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45A/41D: absolute crime against crosswords. I had absolutely no way to ever get it. Horrific. I was enjoying the theme but now I've completely forgotten about it and am just steaming. #nytxw
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Silver Bulletin — Nate Silver
He offers a unique form of grounding on political, sports and other issues, and a way of bridging my kinds of ideas into mainstream discourse. I almost never regret reading.
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College is not a good career investment for most of the population.
Despite misleading statements by mainstream education economists, college attendance in particular is not a good career investment for most of the population.
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A profit motive inside a game holds players there long past the point where they are still enjoying it.
The profit motive is incredibly powerful and will keep players engaging in your experience well past the point of actual enjoyment.
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Large Transformer Model Inference Optimization
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Searching the Creative Internet
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Prediction: AI will make formal verification go mainstream
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An independently owned platform is a necessary counterweight to the government and the mainstream media.
So having an independently owned powerful platform is very important for truth, for free speech, for hearing the other side of the story, for counterbalancing the power of the government.
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The evidence behind mainstream sleep advice is much weaker than sleep scientists and public health experts present it as being.
It appears that the evidence for all of these beliefs is much weaker than sleep scientists and public health experts want us to believe.
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so the mainstream view would say, well, China has cheaper labor, which is no longer true, uh, say compared to Mexico, and it's got lower environmental regulations, uh, which is true, and that it is more…
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The Thing I Love Most About Uber
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Policy should secure people's freedom to leave a platform while keeping their community, their purchases and their data, rather than try to keep dying platforms alive.
And policymakers should focus on freedom of exit – the right to leave a sinking platform while continuing to stay connected to the communities that you left behind, enjoying the media and apps you bought, and preserving…
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The most likely way world fertility rises again is the growth of small insular high-fertility groups, not a change of mind in the mainstream.
the most likely identifiable scenario by which fertility will rise again is via the growth of currently-small insular high-fertility subgroups like the Amish and Orthodox Jews
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The U.S. dollar's continued global dominance is a lagging indicator, not proof that American hegemony remains intact.
the dollar's status is not a harbinger of U.S. hegemonic decline - it's a lagging indicator.
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the steady accumulation of humiliating defeats that have badly eroded U.S. deterrent power.
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The era of heavy U.S. involvement in the Middle East has been a disaster for U.S. power and prestige and should end.
But overall, the era of heavy U.S. involvement in the Middle East has been a disaster for U.S. power and prestige, and it’s time for that era to end.
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CROSSPOST: SHELLAC: Suspiciously Precise Floats, or, How I Got Claude’s Real Limits
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A founder of a startup I funded had these brass plaques made to put up over his and his cofounder's desks. (He's Build Stuff, she's Talk to Users.)
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Apple TV's overall show quality now exceeds Netflix's and Prime Video's, though it still lacks HBO's peak-level top-tier content.
While the average overall quality of Apple's shows are higher than those on Netflix or Prime Video, they still don't have the type of 'A+' content that HBO was regularly pumping out at their peak.
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This GIF from @joshwcomeau.com's last email is mesmerizing. Here's the border-shape he made of that
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The Navier Stokes equation isn't just a continuous limit of what's actually made of atoms, it also isn't relativistically invariant, meaning it's not compatible with Einstein's theories. It's a limiting case that works…
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These mocha-ordering fellow humans must fall into one of these categories: They don't know that it's rude They don't care that it's rude They disagree that it's rude
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The MAGA Plot(s) to Destroy Humanity
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It’s real and it’s spectacular!
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Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration Into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel — Michio Kaku
It’s a very interesting book, but for some reason Michio Kaku’s style doesn’t spark me as much as Briane Greene’s or Stephen Hawking’s or Neil deGrasse Tyson’s.
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The S&P 500’s price-to-sales ratio no longer signals what it once did, because today’s companies earn higher margins.
Therefore, the only correct interpretation of the P/S ratio over the last decade is that it doesn’t signal what it used to.
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Anthropic's $2T IPO, Zuck's AI Manifesto, Nvidia's $500B AI Bet, Grok's Comeback
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Emotion regulation is not a private skill: you regulate other people's emotions and they regulate yours.
is it's interpersonal. It's between people. You regulate other people's emotions and you have to pick up on other people's emotions and you influence other people's emotions.
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A lot of the discussion about the depreciation of/undervaluation of China's real effective exchange rate takes for granted that this is about the currency. After all, it's called the "exchange rate"! But it's actually…
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Anthropic or OpenAI's revenue could equal or exceed the combined revenue of Elon Musk's public companies within the next one to two years.
it's not out of the question that Anthropic or OpenAI-which barely had any revenue before 2023-could equal or surpass the revenue of all of Musk's public companies some time in the next 12 to 24 months.
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Fixing one of climate’s worst plots
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A person's core personality disposition is innate, not a product of upbringing, generation, birth order, or nationality.
our Tendency is a hard-wired part of our nature. It's not a product of upbringing, generation, birth order, nationality-it's part of our inborn nature.
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The West's biggest blindspot is repeatedly underestimating China's speed and capabilities.
The West's biggest blindspot is repeatedly underestimating China's speed and capabilities
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What is the value of one hour of a startup founder's time?
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Trump’s $1.4 billion crypto disclosure
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China's high-speed rail costs, once adjusted for the amount of tunneling, are not especially low compared to France's.
Well, PRC HSR construction costs relative to the amount of tunneling aren't particularly low. France's are lower; Germany's are inconsistent, depending on whether money is wasted on excessive tunneling or on other…
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Once wealth became a function of commerce rather than land, who is rich and powerful became mostly a question of how industrialised a country is.
Well, once wealth is a function of of commerce, industry, and trade, it isn't land anymore. And this upends the world. If you think about the world today, who's rich, who's poor, who's powerful, who's not, it's often…
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The worry that AI's returns are locked away in private companies is overstated: well under a fifth of American market capitalisation is private.
it's already not that hard to index. So it's not There's been a bit of an increase in the privatization of returns but it's still like you know well under 20% of the total market cap of um non-non-tiny companies in in…
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The term AGI has stopped being useful: today's best systems already meet some people's definitions of it while falling far short of others'.
Today’s best AI systems are good enough that they’re now inside the fuzzy conceptual cloud of “AGI-ish”: that is, they’ve surpassed some people’s definitions of AGI, while falling well short of others’.
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Mari's Movie Club #3: Groundhog Day
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Deep compiler knowledge is still interesting, but it is no longer useful to a working engineer in any meaningful sense.
I had a lot of my own ego and identity wrapped up in my sort of compiler background. It's all It's interesting, right? But it's it's not useful in any meaningful sense anymore.
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Pre-training is not the process by which humans learn; it sits somewhere between human learning and human evolution.
I think there's something going on that pre-training it's it's not like the process of humans learning. It's somewhere between the process of humans learning and the process of human evolution.
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The industry is pretending today's coding agents are amazing when what they produce is slop, and some of that pretending is fundraising.
And I kind of feel like the industry it's it's um it's over it's it's making too big of a jump and it's trying to pretend like this is amazing and it's not. It's slop and I think they're not coming to terms with it and…
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Conquest of the Useless — Werner Herzog
A surprising number of my favorite books were not meant to be published. They were private notebooks, or fragments from works-in-progress that never got finished: among them Pascal's Pensées, Simone Weil's private…
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A surprising number of my favorite books were not meant to be published. They were private notebooks, or fragments from works-in-progress that never got finished: among them Pascal's Pensées, Simone Weil's private…
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A surprising number of my favorite books were not meant to be published. They were private notebooks, or fragments from works-in-progress that never got finished: among them Pascal's Pensées, Simone Weil's private…
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A surprising number of my favorite books were not meant to be published. They were private notebooks, or fragments from works-in-progress that never got finished: among them Pascal's Pensées, Simone Weil's private…
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Hospital at the End of the World is Key's first novel, and it's terrific.
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A surprising number of my favorite books were not meant to be published. They were private notebooks, or fragments from works-in-progress that never got finished: among them Pascal's Pensées, Simone Weil's private…
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Rachel Cusk's prose imitates the surface techniques of W.G. Sebald without adopting his underlying artistic aims.
I believe that Cusk's own style apes the externalities of W.G. Sebald's style without carrying over his internals.
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GitHub Podcast — GitHub
GitHub Podcast: Another biased one because it's my place of work, BUT it's still good!
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VibeTunnel's first AI-anniversary
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Different people's areas of strongest judgment or taste rarely overlap much with each other.
it's quite rare for different people's "zone of best taste" to overlap very much.
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The Art of Unix Programming — Eric S. Raymond
The Art of Unix Programming - Eric S. Raymond (Addison-Wesley, 2003)
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Managing change has always been the manager's whole job; the only thing AI changed is how fast the change now arrives.
I think that managing change, it's always been manager's job to manage change and there's always the chaos of what's going on. I just think the rate of change is accelerating and we've seen that over the last couple of…
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Heidegger: An Introduction — Richard Polt
Richard's Polt's Heidegger: An Introduction is one of the best I've come across. It's a fantastically clear and concise exploration of Heidegger's philosophy, concentrating on his first great work, Being and Time,…
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This Mortal Boy — Fiona Kidman
It's an amazing novel, this. It's compelling. It's a novelization of a real event: the second last hanging in New Zealand.
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iMac — Apple
It's a great piece of hardware and to me it's kind of crazy to think that it's just consumer-grade iron; I barely use a third of its true processing power, I'd bet.
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The Devil's Teeth — Susan Casey
I'm a big fan of Susan Casey, who has perfected a style of nature journalism that's built around a narrative of personal adventures. (I recommend you start with The Devil's Teeth.)
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The true unit of life is not DNA and not the cell but the biosphere — the whole community.
Because the bacteria, even though they're individual examples of life, and I believe this the true unit of life, it's not DNA, it's not a cell, it's the biosphere. It's the whole community.
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If anyone in the Nazi leadership was a genius it was Goebbels the propaganda chief, not Hitler.
And you were talking about the genius of war. It’s not Hitler that’s a genius. If anyone’s a genius, it’s Goebbels, the propaganda chief.
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Roll Back the World: A Sister’s Memoir — Deborah Kasdan
Deborah Kasdan’s Roll Back the World: A Sister’s Memoir (2023) is an honest and vulnerable account of her sister Rachel’s life with schizophrenia and the challenges this presented for the family.
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One Last Month of Second Person
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Poor Charlie's Almanack — Charles T. Munger
Poor Charlie's Almanac, A Cultural History of Physics, Total Freedom (Krishnamurti).
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That there is no soul is an assumption of science rather than a finding: no experiment has ever shown that the light simply blinks out.
The general view of science, I think, is that we’re accidents of evolution. When we die, the light blinks out. There’s no more of us. There’s no such thing as the soul. But that’s not a proven point. There’s no…
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The West's biggest blindspot is repeatedly underestimating China's speed and capabilities.
I worry however that one of America’s superpowers is to spin up yarns to reduce the urgency for action.
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Paint.NET
The Paint Program that Microsoft forgot, written in .NET. It's 80% of Photoshop and it's free.
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Pyramids were being built on the coast of Peru thousands of years before anything in Egypt.
In fact, there’s one that’s now pushing 6000 BCE. That’s thousands of years before the stuff in Egypt. And that one’s called Huaca Prieta. And it was not an Egyptian pyramid, but it was a pyramid and it was thousands of…
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Thoughts on Flash - Steve Jobs. Not technically an internal memo but it's here because a) it's Steve Jobs and b) it's one of the best pieces of business writing I've seen.
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I chose Nausea for several reasons. One is that it's the first existentialist book that I ever read. It's what first made me curious to learn more, and that's exactly what the book does. It's readable, it's powerful,…
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The Road — Cormac McCarthy
This is a sad, depressing love story of a father to his son. It’s pure sacrifice. The narrator’s melancholy mindset and recognition of impossible odds never derails his duty to his boy. It’s the pinnacle of grace.
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but what they built were pyramids. They look like mounds now, and they didn’t build them out of stone. That’s kind of our just inherent western bias. Something that’s built out of stone is sophisticated, and something…
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UP3216Q — Dell
My display is a 32-inch 4k Dell – I think it's a UP3216Q. It's a wonderful screen for editing photographs and for rendering lots of xterms, which, let's face it, is 90% of my computing life.
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High Output Management — Andrew S. Grove
So High Output Management is one of Andy Grove’s books. It’s the best book on management ever written. He wrote another book called Only the Paranoid Survive
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Sam — Rob Pike
I use Rob Pike's Sam editor most of the time – that's what I'm using right now – and vi the rest of the time, because I know it well enough that there's no need to think.