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• Julie Zhuo Newsletter 5 Aug Eye, Hand, AI: a letter to my daughter
• Daniel Lemire x.com 9 Sept Though I am a university professor, I am critical of the value of the education we provide. And I am the fellow who published several manuals. Probably thousands of pages over the years. I believe that @bryan_caplan and…
• James Clear x.com 31 Aug A Monday morning question for you: I'm not usually awake from 5am to 6am, but when I am I tend to enjoy it. Start the day slow. Watch the sunrise. Get a few things done before everyone else wakes up. Meanwhile, I am…
• Haley Nahman Korrent 20 Sept A partner's difficult trait becomes tolerable only if their good qualities outweigh it and you don't feel alone dealing with its effects. My general view on a partner with a challenging quality is that to make peace with it, two things need to be true: 1. They have enough wonderful qualities you value to compensate for it, and 2. They don't make you feel…
• Dex Horthy Korrent 15 Jul Maxing out your token usage is optimising one node of the factory for utilisation instead of the end-to-end goal of shipping value that is stable and lasts. And so it's like I mean getting into Eli Goldrat and the goal is like optimizing for utilization and efficiency of one node in your factory rather than the end to end goal of like how do we ship value and things that…
• Arvid Kahl Korrent 30 Jan People pursue hobbies largely for value that can't be easily monetized. Here's the thing: most of the time, we do things we love because they produce value that's not easily quantified.
• Bob Nystrom Blog 24 Jan The Value of Things
• Henrik Karlsson x.com 23 Mar I met up with @jacksondahl in Copenhagen and had a conversation about the value of lingering in confusion, using constraints to enable more creative work, how I journal, why love is like eating dogs, and many other…
• Dario Amodei Korrent 13 Feb In an AI world growth and economic value come easily; distribution, wealth and political freedom are the hard parts, and that is where policy belongs. What I would say is that you know we are we are about to be in a world where growth and economic value will come very easily. If right if we're able to build these powerful AI models, growth and economic value will come…
• Rory Sutherland Korrent 9 Dec 2025 Cutting a job defined by its narrowest function destroys the tacit value that job was quietly creating. the dorman was doing multiple things, many of which were human and kind of tacit. Security would be one. You know, there are no vagrants to sleep in the doorway, hailing taxis, dealing with luggage, recognizing regular…
• Cory Doctorow Korrent 21 Jan 2023 Platforms die in a three-stage cycle: first they are good to users, then they abuse users on behalf of business customers, then they abuse everyone to claw the value back for themselves. Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for…
• Ryan Singer Blog 17 Apr 2025 When engineers say "that'll take months!"
• Tobias Lütke Korrent 18 Sept 2025 A stated company value that nobody would take the other side of is a platitude, not a choice. figuring out a document that is actually like sort of all the things that are not platitudes whereas like all the things where someone else like some other company would plausibly take the other side of and but that's…
• David Reich Korrent 8 May A society that intensely values intelligence is unprecedented in human history; the Bible, Homer and other ancient texts value strength, courage and beauty instead. First of all, I think we are speaking from the point of view of a society which intensely values this particular trait, you know, ability to score well on IQ tests or things like them or to go to school for a long time…
• Russ Cox Korrent 18 Jul 2024 Debugging by reasoning backward from a bad state is inherently harder than reasoning forward from a known decision point. One of the hardest things about debugging is running a program backward: there's a data structure with a bad value, or the control flow has zigged instead of zagged, and it's very difficult to understand how it could…