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If meta’s marketing team had any self awareness about the state of the ‘brand’, they would know the absolute best thing they could do for probably the next year at least would be t…

tech bro delusion + influencer culture has reached a new dystopian low.

"First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys." - this line always makes me settle back in my chair. 'Something Wicked This Way Comes', Ray Bradbury. It's mysterious and nos…

yeah, I noticed this too and thought it was interesting. Scott has always been prone to a form of what i'd call 'excessive rationality' where his quest for things to be hyper-logic…

well, this is a first. never seen someone say they prefer AI slop even when they know it's slop. fascinating.

why have a blog if you're going to just use AI for everything? at that point, just do twitter threads or something. that way you can tweet out whatever you prompted the model with.…

how bizarre to read this from the future. also, love your writing style. it's funny that we all keep bumping up against this persistent confrontation with the ego because of AI. i …

hard to be sympathetic here when the candidate experience has been such a mess in tech for years now. i appreciate that remotely and efficiently judging future success based on a r…

intellectual work (or really any discipline with a 'skills tree' that you can progress up or down) degrades over time without practice. same way that, if you don't run for a while,…

Agree - organized religion is a farce. that said, the desire for community/rituals/reflection that religions exploit to get people hooked are basic desires that 'society at large' …

excellent essay. what a great read. like the author said, so much of 'success' or 'progress' (in research but of course also across disciplines) depends upon temperament. just stra…

this is clearly targeting either vibecoders or people with extremely limited experience in software. i feel like it would be obvious to anyone who doesn't fall into those two categ…

i do this with some frequency, maybe a few times a month. i'll email bloggers/poets/researchers i like or founders of interesting companies that solve very specific problems in a s…

completely agree re: the average human, of any time period, with the same options, will make roughly the same choices - especially in the face of powerful incentives. the tl;dr tho…

important context for me is that layoffs keep eating my company every 6 months or so, meanwhile the due date is fast approaching. treading shark-infested waters

I guess it depends on what sacred means to you. i'm not a religious person, so my definition is entirely personal, but i consider honoring yourself even when it looks like a failur…