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Mark Manson x.com 10 Sept How to win at life: - Step 1: Commit to doing a hard thing. - Step 2: Do the hard thing. - Step 3: Feel good about doing the hard thing. - Step 4: Become someone who enjoys doing hard things.
Guillermo Rauch x.com 19 Sept Free Jev on Vercel I know what I’m doing this weekend 😁
John Scalzi Bluesky 18 Sept What the actual fuck I do not approve of contemporaries doing this
Nate Silver Korrent 9 Sept A sports model that shows profound, systematic differences from Vegas is probably doing something wrong. But if your model shows profound, systematic differences from Vegas, it’s probably doing something wrong.
Craig Hockenberry Mastodon 19 Sept Doing App Store screenshots for the Duo will be “fun”. It’s likely that we’ll need to provide two sets: one for external screen, another for the internal screen. And remember that we’ll be doing all of them without a…
Matt Webb x.com 30 Aug oh are we doing map perspectives now
Brandon Taylor Newsletter 17 Sept labyrinthmaxxing and minotaur hours
Daniel W. Drezner Newsletter 19 Sept The Beclowning of the State Department Continues Apace
Dax Raad x.com 18 Sept i had fable doing some inference optimization work, it was making a ton of progress then it realized what it was doing and started to reject my requests so i switched to astra and told it to spawn fable subagents to do…
Zed Shaw x.com 17 Sept Doing some intros for my Learning OpenGL series and I think I found the best thumbnail:
Tom Holland x.com 8 Sept Amazing to discover there’s something that England is actually doing quite well!
Michael Pollan x.com 11 Sept What Are We Doing to Our World of Wonder? https://t.co/9S23FZsYD5 via @NYTOpinion
Tobias Lütke Liked 24 Aug omasnap Jon is doing fab work on omasnap
Thomas Ptacek Korrent 4 Sept Nobody expected an agent to take notes about what it was doing for future agents to read. One startling thing nobody ever expected an agent to do was to take notes about what it was doing for future agents to read.
Pieter Levels x.com 18 Sept I'd love to believe in calls but I've never ever had them lead to anything It always feels like I'm doing a social or therapeutical service for the other person to spend their time Many times the calls were for those…
Dax Raad x.com 17 Sept i've been really impressed with everything you've been saying and doing oh wait sorry confused you with someone else
Brett Terpstra GitHub 27 Jul doing
Armin Ronacher Blog 7 Sept Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?
Paul Graham x.com 19 Sept Something 14 yo told me: You have to overact when doing Shakespeare, because the language is now so hard for audiences to understand.
Daniel W. Drezner Newsletter 9 Sept The Trump Administration Strategy Fail
Ryan Holiday x.com 17 Sept To do for others what we wish had been done for us— and in so doing, do quite a bit for ourselves.
Sam Altman x.com 9 Sept Welcome, Paul. Grateful you are doing this, and all you have done for AI safety. Excited to work together again.
Casey Newton Bluesky 18 Sept On the eve of our final episode, wrote a farewell to Hard Fork and a few thoughts about what we're doing with Machine Gods
Dan Shipper x.com 4 Sept i've got Astra doing film study for our @every fantasy football draft we going to take over this league 😤
Zvi Mowshowitz Korrent 2 Sept 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.
Chad Fowler Bluesky 28 Aug @nandi.uk you've finally pushed me over the line with nix. Doing something crazy (localfirst Omarchy alternative)
Jeff Atwood Mastodon 10 Sept "I have declared what you are doing impossible from my dream fantasy bunker of a perfect world!" That's great pal, thanks, appreciate the feedback.
Tomasz Tunguz x.com 2 Sept I used to think AI productivity meant doing less. Automate the mechanical work, & human effort shrinks toward zero. The reality is stranger.
Matt Webb x.com 9 Sept brb running a million simulated fruit flies in fruit fly utopia then going out and doing something really awful tonight so I'm still karmically balanced
Auren Hoffman x.com 8 Sept six years to a billion in revenue used to be a rocket ship. still is amazing. but now some companies are doing it in six months!
Paul Krugman Korrent 12 Sept The more actors weaponize interdependence without good maps of the system, the more unexpected failures and dumb mistakes will occur. the more that we see actors looking to weaponize without any very good maps of how and what they are doing or what kinds of unexpected repercussions might happen, the more we can expect not simply increased risks of…
Lyn Alden x.com 29 Aug “The Fed needs clear market signals, as unfiltered as possible.” -Kevin Warsh, while Scott Bessent is running around doing Treasury interventions
Tom Verrilli Korrent 2 Aug People who manage product managers should still spend almost all of their own time doing individual contributor work. There's like I think four or five people across the team who manage other PMs. All of them would spend 90 plus percent of their time doing IC work. I'm still probably 50% of my time doing IC work personally.
James Clear x.com 27 Aug Long-term thinking changes short-term actions. Spend a little time today doing things that will benefit you in ten years.
Nat Eliason x.com 31 Aug One surprising thing about Founders Weekends: The 11-13yo students often outperform the 14-16yo students. Why? They're more fearless doing sales.
Casey Muratori Newsletter 10 Sept What Is AI Doing to Math?
dynomight Blog 2 Aug Indirect lessons from human alignment
Charity Majors Korrent 12 Aug Writing is thinking on paper and there is no shortcut for doing that thinking, so handing the writing to AI hands away the thinking. And I have decided not to sink anymore because writing is thinking on paper. And there's no shortcut for doing that thinking.
Julie Zhuo x.com 4 Aug What's something (work or personal) that you hated doing that now AI does for you?
Ajeya Cotra Korrent 1 Sept Responding to a dangerous cybersecurity evaluation by stopping such evaluations buries the problem somewhere nobody can track it. even in this incident we saw there was a lot of pressure um as a result of this incident to stop doing cyber security evaluations and I really don't think that stopping doing evaluations and like sort of blinding…
Boris Cherny Korrent 27 Jul Software maintenance is on the path to being fully automated, with scheduled agents already doing what used to take dozens or hundreds of engineers. we're on the path to fully automating the maintenance of our apps by doing this. And this is again hundreds of agents running every day, sometimes thousands of agents every day. It's doing the work of you know, dozens…
Phillips P. O'Brien Korrent 15 Aug Ukraine's partners used their aid to control and limit Ukraine, and in doing so made the war longer and bloodier than it needed to be. They have used aid not only to help, but also to try and control and limit Ukraine. In doing this, they have helped transform this war into a longer, bloodier affair than it needed to be.
Mari Andrew Newsletter 1 May Take your time
swyx x.com 18 Aug we've been doing a lot of a/b testing of @aiDotEngineer youtube thumbnails. i always hated that it is such an opaque process. open sourcing/crowdsourcing our learnings today! https://t.co/J9SYClIF7z doing this in hopes…
Freddie deBoer Newsletter 17 Aug Perhaps "Woke 1.0" is an Admission of Past Mistakes and a Commitment to Doing Better
Brad Feld Korrent 19 Jun Doing creative work in public, where failures are visible, produces faster useful feedback. I'm doing it in public, where the failures show and crap gets feedback quickly so I can improve.
Brad Feld Korrent 15 Jun A hardware company can be doing everything right and still fail the Rule of 40 for years. A hardware company doing everything right can fail the Rule of 40 for years.
Adam Mosseri Korrent 9 Jul Designers will do well out of AI rather than badly, because taste is the hardest part of their job to imagine being automated away. you've got these other generalists doing design, you've got engineers doing design, product staff doing design, but I'm actually pretty long on design or designers because they tend to have taste and I think that is…
Scott H Young Korrent 22 Jul AI can supply the instruction and the feedback in a practice loop, but it cannot supply the middle step, which is doing the work. AI has the potential to assist with both the first and last element of that loop. What it cannot replace is the middle step—doing the work for yourself.
Jarrett Walker Blog 23 Jun Public Transit Is Not “Coming Back” … It’s Doing Something Better
Ryan Greenblatt Korrent 11 Aug The least verifiable part of AI research is the judgement call about what goes into the one big training run. …terms of like the AI are really good at verifiable domains but not not at doing the actual thing is just like big experiments. You only get a few tries um well a few is maybe a bit understated but like basically like…
Varun Raj Manoharan x.com 25 Jul I’m doing exactly this with my homelab server. @Tailscale for running the dev environment @Cloudflare tunnel for the production environment.
Susan Cain Newsletter 31 Jul I'm doing a Substack Live, TODAY at 2 pm ET, with Sarah Fay! Open to all.
Charity Majors Bluesky 20 Jul We're doing an AMA in a week and a half! Sign up now and send us your toughest questions, we'll do our best. 🐝
Adam Mastroianni Blog 23 Jun The most wonderful thing that happened to Tommy McHugh
Scott H Young Korrent 22 Jul You cannot learn from work you did not do yourself. But having AI do your homework is self-defeating. You can’t learn without doing the work.
Kent Beck Korrent 1 Jul Saying that coding will be automated away first betrays a misunderstanding of software engineering, because coding is only a small part of the work. My response is that that's a statement by someone who doesn't understand software engineering. Coding is part of what you're doing, but it's only a small part of what you're doing.
Julie Zhuo Newsletter 13 Jun To All the Folks Who Are About to Be Rich
Lawrence Freedman Korrent 10 Oct 2025 The West is not doing Ukraine a favour by helping it resist Russia; Ukraine is doing the West a favour. The West is not doing Ukraine a favour by helping it resist aggression; it is Ukraine doing the West a favour.
Craig Mod Bluesky 26 May I'm doing a book event on June 10 at Malaprop's in Asheville, NC — come! say hi! ask questions!
Craig Mod Bluesky 9 Jun I'm doing a reading in Asheville tomorrow night. We've already maxed out on RSVPs but you can still attend; hope to see you there:
Sarah C. M. Paine Korrent 9 Jun The seas are open to China only in peacetime, and that is a fact of its geography rather than anything anyone is doing to it. And also, for China, with its geographical setup as it is, uh the seas are going to be open to it only in peacetime. In wartime, this has nothing to do with anyone doing anything to them. It's just facts.
Paul Bloom Newsletter 8 Apr A lot of developmental psychology isn't worth doing
Derek Sivers Korrent 3 May Contributing to the internet without monetizing it is still the right way to be online, even after the surrounding culture stopped doing it. Like picking up trash where you walk, even if the rest of the world is full of litter. You keep doing what you can to make things better.
Dan Shipper Korrent 24 May The edge of AI is not San Francisco; it is wherever a model meets a real person doing something real. I think people think of the edge of AI as being in San Francisco. And I actually don't think that that's where it is. I think the edge of AI is wherever AI meets like a real human doing something.
Dan Luu x.com 28 Apr Can someone at OpenAI help me with an account issue? I'm doing non-security testing and constantly getting flagged for doing "cybersecurity" work. I did the approval / ID scan on my personal account, but my work account…
swyx Korrent 22 Apr A single year tends to look much like the one before it, but a decade can change everything about a person's life. In one year you'll probably mostly be thinking and doing what you think you'll be doing in a year today. In a decade, EVERYTHING can change.
Sanjay Bakshi x.com 14 Apr https://t.co/JGsnEXIi3l Looking forward to doing this again. New cases. Expanded course. Bigger venue. @FLAMEUniversity
L. M. Sacasas Korrent 2 Jun A machine doing your work better than you is no reason to stop doing it, because the point of the work was never that only you could do it. If there is some thing that you are meant to do, who the hell cares if there is a machine that can be made to do it just as well or even better? It is still your thing to do.
Jeffrey Paul YouTube 28 Dec 2012 Faux Jeff Doing Faux Gangnam Style
David Heinemeier Hansson YouTube 6 Oct 2025 Doing More Than Just the Bare Minimum
Jennifer Burns Korrent 19 Jan 2025 Ayn Rand believed she was doing rational philosophy, but the work that actually made her powerful was mythopoetic and psychological. So, she thought of herself as rational. She thought of rationality as what she was doing, but she was actually doing a kind of mythopoetic psychological work as well.
Ed Zitron Korrent 21 May 2025 Management has stopped meaning doing work and now means maintaining a culture of dominance and extraction. Management as a concept no longer means doing "work," but establishing cultures of dominance and value extraction.
Arvid Kahl Korrent 30 Jan Solving your community's problems, not just doing your passion for pay, is the path to a profitable business. Just doing your thing for money rarely works. My personal take on "follow your passion" is this: find the place where other people have the same passion, then solve their problems.
Nicole Forsgren Korrent 22 Mar Flow is a people problem before it is a tooling problem — it needs clear direction, scope and purpose, which no tool supplies. Uh well, tech is easy, people are hard. And so, you know, sometimes getting the flow really is about understanding what I'm doing, having very clear direction and goals and and knowing what my what my work is doing.
Brad Feld Liked 22 Mar The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life — Paul Millerd Paul’s book reinforced the framing for what I’ve been doing.
Terry Cavanagh Mastodon 6 Feb 2025 well, doing an AMA on reddit today, wish me luck I guess!
Joe Hewitt GitHub 12 May 2014 express-rewrite — Express middleware for rewriting URLs without doing an http redirect.
Diederik P. Kingma x.com 25 Apr 2025 Doing ICLR'25 test of time award with @jimmybajimmyba in a few mins
Michael Batnick x.com 2 Apr 2025 A lot of stocks are doing fine, even though the stock market is not.
Paul Graham Korrent 1 Sept 2024 There are things founders can do that managers cannot, and not doing them feels wrong to founders because it is wrong. There are things founders can do that managers can't, and not doing them feels wrong to founders, because it is.
Bret Victor Loved 6 Nov 2024 The Art of Doing Science and Engineering — Richard Hamming How to do great work.
Satya Nadella Korrent 12 Nov 2025 Microsoft's end-user tools business will become an infrastructure business in support of agents doing the work. In fact, I kind of look at it and say our business which today is an enduser tools business will become essentially an infrastructure business in support of agents doing work.
ThePrimeagen Korrent 22 Mar 2025 If AI can make you irrelevant, what you were doing was work slightly too complicated to automate before, not programming. And if you truly make yourself irrelevant, I would challenge you that you're just doing something that was just slightly too complicated to automate.
Jasmine Sun Newsletter 27 Oct 2025 🌻 AI friends too cheap to meter
Casey Handmer Korrent 15 Aug 2025 Natural gas can power the first gigawatt of data centres a year but not the fiftieth, because every input behind it runs into a supply limit. We're not going to run out of natural gas at 1 gawatt per year indefinitely. Okay, what if we're doing 5 gawatts per year? What if we're doing 50 gawatts per year? What if we're doing 100 gawatt per year? Like, you can…
Lawrence Freedman Korrent 10 Oct 2025 'As long as it takes' lacks urgency, and it is a formula available to Ukraine's allies precisely because they are not the ones doing the fighting. As a formula ‘as long as it takes’ lacks urgency. It is an option for the allies precisely because they are not doing the fighting.
Guy Spier Korrent 8 Sept 2025 A culture that emphasizes self-esteem over self-knowledge leaves people less equipped to resist doing monstrous things. We live in a culture that preaches self‑esteem more than self‑knowledge. That leaves people morally flabby-performing virtue while outsourcing the actual discipline that keeps ordinary humans from doing monstrous things.
Oliver Burkeman Korrent 16 Aug 2021 You are never really multitasking: at any moment you can only be doing one thing, and the strain comes from pretending otherwise. What's true of both the crisis situation and the daily situation is that at any given moment, you can only ever actually be doing one thing.
Saloni Dattani Newsletter 4 Sept 2025 Proteins, weird blobs that do important things
Cal Newport Korrent 27 Aug 2010 Doing less and doing it better is worth pursuing as an end in itself, because a life with both freedom and focus is a life well lived. These students practice the above rules not as a means but as an end: A life with both freedom and focus is a life well-lived.
Marc Andreessen Korrent 25 Jan 2022 Almost everything worth doing sits in a probabilistic domain where a perfect score is not available. …composing music or playing basketball or playing poker, right? Or basically doing anything interesting we're in a probabilistic domain,…
Nick Janetakis Liked 30 Dec 2025 Toshiba Chromebook 2 CB35 — Toshiba It’s great for a portable device which doubles as a $350 laptop capable of doing development work on the go.
Philip Koopman Korrent 29 Dec 2023 One company doing one ill-advised thing damages an entire emerging industry, which is why safety is a shared problem rather than a competitive one. The Cruise debacle of the last few months proved (once again; remember Uber ATG?) that it only takes one company doing one ill-advised thing to hurt the entire industry.
Jamie Dimon Korrent 16 Jul 2025 A bank takes on the character of the clients it chooses, so who you do business with is the first risk decision you make. You know, in the banking business, the character the clients you have will reflect in your bank. So, the first thing is who you're doing business with, how you're doing business
Eugene Yan Bluesky 27 Apr 2025 The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn by Richard Hamming only $1.99 for the Kindle version today:
Rodney Brooks Korrent 1 Jan Most of the companies now selling a transport technology will quietly disappear, and the survivors will redefine what they are doing without renaming it. …shop and disappear. Those that remain will pivot and redefine what they are doing, without renaming it, to something more achievable and with, finally, plausible business…
James Gosling Uses 11 Nov 2010 Wacom tablet — Wacom It's got a Wacom tablet and a 3Dconnexion mouse. This machine is mostly used for doing graphics.
Josh Barro Newsletter 12 Dec 2025 Elite Colleges Should Try Harder to Stay Elite
ThePrimeagen Korrent 22 Mar 2025 AI helps exactly as far as the work is predictable and well documented, and stops helping on anything cutting edge. Okay, my general view is it comes down to something that's pretty simple, which is that if you're doing something in which is very predictable, AI is really nice. When you're doing something that is just not…
Bret Victor Korrent 15 Mar 2006 Information software design is graphic design: a software designer who decides what the user will see is doing graphic design whether she realizes it or not. When the software designer defines the visual representation of her program, when she describes the pictures that the user will interpret, she is doing graphic design, whether she realizes this or not.
Jenny Odell Mastodon 30 Oct 2024 I honestly couldn’t tell if this was a joke but it did make me want to bike past doing a loud monologue
Scott Hanselman Liked 22 Dec 2020 Winget — Microsoft I use it to setup a machine in an hour from the command line, versus a day before doing it manually.
Nick Lane Korrent 7 Sept 2022 Feelings begin as electrical fields on cell membranes, giving an organism real-time feedback on how it is doing in its environment. And I had suggested that that’s linked to the electrical fields on the membranes themselves and that they give some indication of how am I doing in relation to my environment as a real-time feedback on the world.
danah boyd Disliked 12 Aug 2009 Kindle — Amazon I have audio recorders that come out when I'm doing fieldwork. I tried a Kindle but found I didn't like.
Rodney Brooks Korrent 5 Nov 2022 The air-taxi industry's forecasts are not backed by flying hardware: there are no videos of prototypes doing what the hype says will be routine within three years. I see lots of hype about eVTOLs being on the verge of being big, but I can’t find any videos of prototypes doing what the hype says will be common place by 2025.
Peter Steinberger Bluesky 23 Aug 2025 If you're around Vienna, come over! I organized one in London and it was so good that we're now doing it in Vienna too!
John Maeda Blog 30 Aug 2025 Finding Purpose (2027)
John Mearsheimer Korrent 17 Nov 2023 What Israel is doing in Gaza is a massacre, but it is not a genocide. I think what the Israelis are doing in Gaza represents a massacre. I would use that term given the number of civilians that they've killed and the fact that they've been indiscriminate in terms of how they've been…
Andrej Karpathy Korrent 17 Oct 2025 We are not building animals, we are summoning ghosts: entities made by imitating human text rather than by evolution. we're not doing training by evolution. Uh we're doing training by basically imitation of humans and the data that they've put on the internet. And so you end up with these like sort of ethereal spirit entities because…
Kent C. Dodds Korrent 13 Jan 2025 Most people should get married and have kids much earlier than the current average, and have more of them. Most people should get married and have kids much earlier than the current average (and have more kids than the current average). Doing this successfully (without screwing it up with selfish pride) will make the world…
Emily Short Liked 7 Feb 2011 Processing I've dabbled in Processing, and thought it was awesome, but haven't had enough time to devote to doing anything significant with it so far.
Steve Klabnik Recommends 10 Mar 2010 REWORK — Jason Fried I’d recommend this book to anyone who’s working in the business world or doing a startup, even if they hate that term.
Patrick McKenzie Korrent 28 Oct 2011 Engineers are hired to create business value rather than to program things, and the only goals are adding revenue and cutting costs. The person who has decided to bring on one more engineer is not doing it because they love having a geek around the room, they are doing it because adding the geek allows them to complete a project (or projects) which…
Maggie Appleton Site 4 Jan 2025 Growing a Human: The First 30 Weeks
Holden Karnofsky Korrent 18 Aug 2011 The more an argument asks you to do, the more evidence you should require before doing it. The more action is asked of me, the more evidence I require.
Tyler Cipriani Mastodon 16 Mar 2025 My brain today: remember that task that was fun to think about? What if we obsessed about that today instead of doing taxes so you don't go to jail?
Jeff Bezos Korrent 14 Dec 2023 Human brains are doing something fundamentally different from today's AI, and the evidence is that they run on roughly twenty watts. We do know that humans are doing something different from these models, in part because we're so power efficient. The human brain does remarkable things and it does it on about 20 watts of power. And the AI techniques…
Sabine Hossenfelder Liked 23 Feb 2013 The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics — Leonard Susskind and George Hrabovsky Susskind made his lecture notes into a book and did a great job.

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