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abstraction

• Starting in the summer of 2020 and peaking in late ...
• In [The Umami Theory of Value], we discussed how, in ...
• But fifty years of progress in miniaturization and software changed ...
• But in modern financial markets, you can get an economic ...
• the program is an abstract symbol manipulator, which can be ...
• It is probably more illuminating to go a little bit ...

accessibility

• Something interesting about using voice for this means that you ...
• It's easy to look at pregnancy (for example) as something ...

adaptation

• This scavenging in the SaaS landscape is how people express ...
• Folk interfaces are when users reappropriate existing software to solve ...

agriculture

• A few months ago, I was at an event that ...
• Consumers want perfection, but farmers want commodity,” he said. This ...
• The process [of regenerative ag] is expensive, since farmers who ...

ai

• As these stories pop up people act like they’re an ...
• But you can already see the idea of a “prompt” ...
• the tech am I digging recently is a software framework ...
• We’re building apps to surround and harness AI, but we ...
• > Just imagine if we rewound the clock back to ...
• It’s using the ReAct pattern, which is straightforward and surprisingly ...
• So people are going to be even more blindsided when ...
• The discovery of scaling laws has typically preceded a boomtime ...
• Use a small model to generate a 'draft' output, then ...
• lol c’mon, if this wasn’t from an A.I., this would ...
• But I’ve also noticed a creeping desire among A.I. evangelists ...
• AI, with its perceived threat to automate a vast array ...
• The dark irony here is that corporatized communication is what ...
• Of course, OpenAI does offer a “social” feature, but the ...
• If you don’t know the difference between something like DALL-E ...
• We can summarize the difference between the micro- and macroeconomic ...
• And yes, there’ll be plenty of cases where “raw ChatGPT” ...
• • Maybe they’re just creating massive amounts of “digital representations ...
• The **lab mice problem** **Today's 'subhuman' AIs are safe.**What about ...
• The **King Lear problem** The AI is **(actually) well-behaved when ...
• The **Lance Armstrong problem** Did we get the AI to ...
• Modern generative models are generic data transformation engines, able to ...
• There’s a third impact of AI harder to spot and ...
• Essentially, the use of AI *as a technology* has less ...
• using AI to design products is more powerful than using ...
• I’m actually using GPT3 in a production system. The mistake ...
• **Mediocre computing** is computing that aims for parity with mediocre ...

amateur

• Professionals stick to the schedule; amateurs let life get in ...

antagonism

• this is the problem when your sole governing ideals are ...

architecture

• In this process, we figure out the most comfortable beautiful ...
• Studio Project #3: A House for Oneself
• All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong. Most buildings ...
• The room is architected for discussions and decisions, not just ...
• Today, nearly 150 years later, burglary and architecture still go ...
• At Maggie Daley Park, one of the project’s defining challenges ...
• Jingu is famous for its tradition of periodic reconstruction, known ...

art

• So when an artist creates a work that comes together ...
• If you know what you want to do and you ...
• The most economically powerful thing you can do is to ...

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• And it was this work that really opened my eyes ...

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• Then the big parks, which are beautiful and well maintained. ...

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• the system grows for a while (increasing λ), or we ...
• As we think about it this way, we realize that ...
• We can then define the Utilization of the server (calling ...

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• The Harold Mangum System uses phonetic sounds for 0 to ...

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• There are articles about how to drive like a real-world ...

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• One of the most common mistakes when starting with Domain ...
• Examples of things that happen that might not be suitable ...

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• most people “take far too much pleasure in their beliefs ...
• One of the consequences of demateralisation is that things that ...
• What we call history is, in practice, what we can ...
• History is an edit war. Truth, factual and moral, hangs ...
• A general heuristic I’ve come to use to ascribe “value” ...
• Find the best teachers and take all their classes, no ...
• Census figures show there are 40,000 more Latinos in Chicago ...
• Chicago remains the third largest city in the country with ...
• I’m personally convinced that these companies are selling products that ...
• although as with all plastic recycling, “downcycling” is the more ...
• At Maggie Daley Park, one of the project’s defining challenges ...
• This sort of knowledge is what Dan Wang calls process ...
• Jingu is famous for its tradition of periodic reconstruction, known ...
• The four elements of credible neutrality are: (1) Don’t write ...
• But just as the gig economy mode of work brought ...

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• To summarise those desirable qualities, a good notation is: Composable ...
• Or to be more specific, urbanist Kevin Lynch’s city maps ...

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• Everything has an interface. A platform has an API. A ...
• The value of a product is the number of problems ...

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• We’ve somehow managed to create a societal scenario where the ...

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• The poetic work of American artist Duane Michals, famous for ...

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• Recollection is such a small, basic part of thinking! There ...
• A tool is something that takes an existing workflow, and ...

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• the internet could collapse unevenly just like a deindustrializing city. ...

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• Bryan Beckman is a Clearwater environmentalist whose daily life has ...

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• Why is that a hard message to communicate through marketing, ...
• A few months ago, I was at an event that ...
• Consumers want perfection, but farmers want commodity,” he said. This ...
• The process [of regenerative ag] is expensive, since farmers who ...

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• There have always been people who have had to censor ...
• It’s also silly when the moral terms of our engagement ...
• I talked to strangers, and listened to them, and felt ...

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• And on Instagram, such narratives are presented in a curatorial ...
• A life that is cosmopolitan, which is to say, a ...

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• Instead, it’s much better to wrap your patch in a ...
• Monkeypatching Responsibly I like to frame the monkeypatching conversation around ...

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• CLICHES ARE A SUBSTITUTE FOR CRITICAL THINKING ...

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• Rewild your attention” — that’s a wonderful way of putting ...

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• When asked for IC career advice the first thing I ...

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• It’s seems obvious that collective action from internet creators is ...

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• never again let anyone tell you that the fury or ...
• I have seethed as generations of Democrats have argued that ...

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• Code runs on people. Please keep it simple. 'Everyone knows' ...

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• The slow blade penetrates the shield ...

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• It's easy to look at pregnancy (for example) as something ...

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• A lot of developer tools also assume a developer will ...
• If our notion of “what is supposed to happen” is ...
• most of the conversations around developer experience are about how ...
• With developers spending less than a third of their time ...

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• Since writing is very hard and rewriting is comparatively easy ...

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• In your head, ideas expand until they max out “working ...

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• Alice Waters had this incredibly boss move at Chez Panisse ...
• Luxury always boils down to time: someone is paying a ...

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• A conversation can happen between yourself and yourself, across time, ...

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• The truth emerged only slowly, and was, in its own ...

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• Sacasas describes the concept of “reality privilege” to which Andreessen’s ...

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• There should be a guy who every morning rides his ...

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• The Phillips curve is an economic concept developed by A. ...

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• The pandemic highlighted our intimate relationship with biology. Urban tech ...

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• Like climate change, COVID is settling into its status as ...
• when Netflix drops a big new show “it feels like ...

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• The next day I encountered a more novel creature in ...

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• Here's what everyone peddling the new trendy systems is so ...

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• Tree-sitter’s parsers already let us efficiently parse the code that ...

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• WHAT’S THE BENEFIT OF TURNING NUCLEAR WASTE INTO GLASS? In ...
• the Coanda effect - the tendency of a fluid jet ...

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• but the pandemic really broke things. The offline world lost ...

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• I hope the history books written about this moment in ...
• In a now-deleted tweet, a friend recently remarked on how ...

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• It’s a nice fantasy to think about future singularity. But ...

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• Part of what makes for a really good profile — ...

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• The term 2.5-D was coined by anime fans in Japan ...

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• But the community feels different now, now that many of ...

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• There is a widely circulated number, and it’s even bigger ...

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• In the lab or studio, the hardest question to answer ...

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• Human memory is squishy, and that's great. You retain facts ...

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• This whole little story is both very funny and also ...

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• these are the three main lists of golden signals today: ...

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• And regulations are written in blood, so we’ll only get ...
• TDD/FP/Agile zealots are probably zealots because adopting TDD/FP/Agile/Whatever made them ...

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• Feature and experiments inform your platform roadmap, and inversely platform ...

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• Although the ownership of a particular stone might change, the ...

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• An immediate hypothesis was that Omicron may have developed in ...

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• Trust on its own isn’t much of a management technique. ...

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• THE MEANING OF A COMMUNICATION IS THE BEHAVIOUR THAT RESULTS. ...
• The classification scheme used here is possibly the clearest one ...

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• When we deal with buildings we deal with decisions taken ...

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• Robustly getting a machine to react based on its surrounding ...

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• There’s the implicit expectation in AI and data science that ...

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• Party food before social media was not prepared with photographic ...

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• Grateful to have this language back as a first-class citizen ...

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• the Gruen Transfer, a phenomenon that architecture theorist Sanford Kwinter ...

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• series of reactions strips its highest-energy electrons and uses them ...

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• **Mediocre computing** is computing that aims for parity with mediocre ...

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• something called [the Hermeneutic circle], which [Ryan Kitchens] described as ...

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• because a service *is* running with a dependency down does ...

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• I’m actually using GPT3 in a production system. The mistake ...

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• Taking vacation is just good business sense. ...

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• the crypto industry in 2022 rediscovered the 2008 financial crisis. ...
• He is making multi-year, illiquid, unhedgeable speculative investments in brand-new ...

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• Writing is nature’s way of letting you know how sloppy ...

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• A three second warning can’t compete against 45 minutes of ...

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• The cotton gin, a canonical example of automation, perversely *increased ...
• In most places, the olive harvest is mechanized, but that’s ...

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• what the chemical industry calls “verbund.” This is a setup ...
• mere-exposure effect: doing something many times makes us believe we ...
• The promotion of brainstorming as a starting point is all ...
• Many students and academic writers think like the early ship ...
• An idea kept private is as good as one you ...

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• • **“Advancing the industry.”** I believe that I can improve ...

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• Stochastic resonance is the phenomenon in which random noise can ...

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• the role of the human in terms of AI is ...
• the GPT-3 language model that undergirds ChatGPT; ChatGPT applies a ...

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• if you are talking about “numerous black swans” then you ...
• In the glory days, [Olympus enthusiasts] dressed up this insight ...

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• During the summer of 2021, Canadian researchers … found that ...

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• When we say, “If you’re going to read one thing ...

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• Stereo width is a big part of the *Glowed Up* ...
• Sidechain compression listens to a second track to decide when ...

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• Sonali had told us about Annaprashana, which is a Hindu ...

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• The fruits are so small that the red doesn’t jump ...

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• As far as I can tell, cognitive bandwidth and network ...
• the [Law of stretched systems]: > Every system is stretched ...

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• There’s a third impact of AI harder to spot and ...
• Essentially, the use of AI *as a technology* has less ...
• using AI to design products is more powerful than using ...

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• My general view on beliefs is that we get to ...
• Ultimately, I decided not to, and developed the idea that ...

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• If you start by stealing $1,000, pretty soon you need ...

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• Eventually, you reach this list’s conclusion, which lies in an ...
• To achieve that braking safety, the subway’s signal architecture works ...

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• the programmer's task is not just to write down a ...
• the program is an abstract symbol manipulator, which can be ...
• to the extent that we view ourselves as mechanisms, we ...
• It is probably more illuminating to go a little bit ...
• My point today is that, if we wish to count ...

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• Most of our thoughts appear and pass away instantly, for ...
• in the web, it makes sense that links should reflect ...

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• '**Cartesian theater**' is a derisive term coined by philosopher and ...

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• I summarize these daily notes into a weekly digest. These ...

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• In essence, journalling is similar to a psychotherapy session. The ...

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• If you thought the Fed only cared about propping up ...

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• Officials estimate between 5,000-10,000 people are dying per *day* . ...

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• traditional arch bridges [were built by first having a wood ...

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• one of the realization that I hadworking on something like ...
• and soall Apple products broke almostinstantly and uhall the tools ...
• our philosophy is that to make fastsoftware you need slow ...

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• Scavenge-friendly electronics are parts that are no longer manufactured, but ...
• **Designing for Disassembly** ensures that all elements of a product ...
• Utilizing what has survived the collapse of industrial production or ...
• Utilizing only already available computational resources, to be limited by ...
• Utilizing computational resources as finite and precious, to be utilised ...
• The abundance of digital storage and processing power has caused ...
• A post-collapse society that has eventually lost all of its ...
• Collapse informatics prioritizes community needs and aims to contribute to ...
• **Designing for Descent** ensures that a system is resilient to ...
• Asking for the most suitable programming language for permacomputing is ...

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• As a religion, social justice works. It works not merely ...
• What is the alternative to naïve cynicism? An active response ...
• But the [hyperobject] that is climate change requires the very ...

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• One imperfect but useful way to think about crypto,” I ...

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• The attraction of private investments is that they *don’t have ...

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• In conditions of uncertainty, you might be tempted to use ...
• If you run a mutual fund, a high mark is ...

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• So to summarize–downballot races are cheap, cost-effective, and because they ...
• Even in a normal year, early money is many times ...

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• this is the problem when your sole governing ideals are ...

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• Every year, the company adds even more steps to the ...

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• The fact that I had never been on the ghost ...

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• Erasure Coding is a ubiquitous technique in storage and physical ...
• Let's think about that cache again: when that one node ...
• Erasure coding is the idea that we can take a ...

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• Skeptics of solar feasibility pantomime a kind of technical realism, ...
• We live on a sun-drenched blue marble hanging in space, ...

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• pruning for sparsity – turns out [some LLMs work just as ...
• distillation – a technique by which larger, more capable models ...

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• An edge city is a dense, auto-oriented job center arising ...

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• And so when one wonders why newsletters “came out of ...
• Many people began to routinely expense Substacks, just like people ...
• The single biggest thing Substack accomplished was *legitimizing* a Schelling ...
• One publication well-known enough by cognoscenti to get namechecked in ...

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• This is a new food culture, where the chef is ...

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• Ideally you could adjust a dial and and set the ...

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• The only issue is that it missed out on two ...
• You are approaching this like an established natural sciences field ...

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• Self-worth, the unexpected corollary of having positive archetypes in your ...
• The world is mostly shaped by wealth, more so than ...

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• The IRS [says]: 'To be deductible, a business expense must ...
• you can pay me money, and I will continue writing. ...

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• Like the orbits of all other satellites, and of the ...
• Weightlessness is bad for the bones, but good for the ...

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• A bill of materials or BOM is a list of ...

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• This is an example of the ‘capability overhang’ phenomenon I’ve ...

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• One interesting and [possibly even true] thing that I learned ...

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• Modern generative models are generic data transformation engines, able to ...

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• The seemingly earnest popularity of these videos, especially among younger ...

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• Many people believe that cash, the paper printed by the ...

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• Seeing your website’s actual server is the virtual equiv of ...

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• I’d argue that field-level encryption should be a starting place ...
• From the perspective of non-mega-platform companies, I think this is ...
• While today there’s a wide distance between GDPR, CCPA, HITRUST, ...

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• His only real hope of avoiding many years in prison ...
• Yeah I mean a general lesson here is that you ...

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• Influence operations can take many shapes; most such operations are ...

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• But, paradoxically, crypto is much *more* reliant on trust than ...
• It was like a fantastical version of their old jobs, ...

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• If only they were literally raping children and then eating ...

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• • Maybe they’re just creating massive amounts of “digital representations ...
• The **lab mice problem** **Today's 'subhuman' AIs are safe.**What about ...
• The **King Lear problem** The AI is **(actually) well-behaved when ...
• The **Lance Armstrong problem** Did we get the AI to ...

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• TikTok’s entire strategy is to turn viral content into public ...

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• Repair and remain. Work with what you’ve got. Sit still ...

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• That, for me, is the big difference between altruism—or its ...
• And when you’re afraid of someone’s judgment, you can’t connect ...
• “Asking for help with shame says: You have the power ...

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• But if you use the trick I learned twenty years ...

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• And yes, there’ll be plenty of cases where “raw ChatGPT” ...

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• as users becomes accustomed to agents and NPCs, we’ll see ...
• Laurel suggests that we see the computer screen as a ...
• the computer interface has *always* been a multiplayer environment for ...
• Next we bring in creative divergence. How? **Geists!** Geists will ...

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• In October of last year, YouTube creator and fandom expert ...

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• A standard way to poison a code model is to ...

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• One of the challenges with JIT compilers is that they ...

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• Bakker introduced me to the term **biophony** to refer to ...

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• Around here [I often quote] the most important thing I learned ...
• Another lesson is that, when junior investment bankers work all ...
• the *Howey* test of what makes an “investment contract” a ...

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• If a `swear` ever fails, **the function is deleted from ...

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• At least sometimes, it seems, there is more demand for ...
• This is one of the main things that happens in ...

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• Disproportionately impactful engineering teams are distinguished by effectively shipping the ...
• > A cost center is a function that is operated ...

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• Analyses have [found] that 12 people—coined the “disinformation dozen”—are responsible ...

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• In contemporary Japan, however, as a general rule, all buildings ...

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• **Accretive** tools build over time. Developer tools tend to work ...
• **Ephemeral** tools are about the conversation. Slack is one. Zoom ...
• The room is architected for discussions and decisions, not just ...

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• • The applicability of software to the just advancement of ...

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• Because going against our natural inclinations can make us feel ...

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• I think my favorite activity ever is cooking for people ...

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• In other words, feel more calm in real time, meaning ...

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• We can summarize the difference between the micro- and macroeconomic ...

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• I start every Q&A by saying, “I’m glad to talk ...
• Many engineers won’t get to work with you directly, and ...
• Good reviews are anchored in feedback from the audience, and ...
• The most effective communication within an organization is between peers ...

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• Life (and intersectionality) are complex, but money is, relatively speaking, ...

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• Dialogue from movies and TV shows has become more difficult ...

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• The main issue here is that, at least when it ...
• If you don’t know the difference between something like DALL-E ...
• The term was “Web 2.0” was first coined in 1999 ...

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• Amazon thought that if they could force users to go ...

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• I’m a Staff Prompt Engineer (the first, Alex Wang asserts), ...

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• The **Queuing Rule of Thumb (QROT)** is a mathematical formula, ...

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• Related, if you can see a better way to do ...

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• > Yes. To me, the essence of the third place ...

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• The dark irony here is that corporatized communication is what ...
• Of course, OpenAI does offer a “social” feature, but the ...

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• input the number of daily trials I have, and then ...
• I will say that based on paying around with lots ...

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• The report said that for every $1 of new global ...

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• Also another, related point is that as far as I ...

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• The trickiest part of speeding up a program is not ...

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• [End-user programming is] a vision for empowered computing pursued by ...
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• **Create capacity (rather than capture it).** This value focuses leaders ...
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• As described in Rumelt’s [Good Strategy, Bad Strategy], a strategy ...
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• Tags are primarily used for both *querying* , or discovering ...

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• Give considered thought to what is “worth our attention in ...

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• We have built many projects, and we believe the most ...
• The most important notation that summarizes a queue: • ρ: ...
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• This first lab newsletter of 2023 is very link-y, perhaps ...

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• The answer, of course, is that the competitiveness of unaided ...
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• Just like regular investment funds can either be actively managed ...

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• The most economically powerful thing you can do is to ...

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• Columnist Brian Merchant touched on this fuzzy connection between the ...

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• Text inputs have no affordances When I go up the ...
• **Good tools let the user choose when to switch between ...
• It’s using the ReAct pattern, which is straightforward and surprisingly ...
• To encode the position of the current token in the ...
• More capable models can better recognize the specific circumstances under ...
• All you crazy MFs are completely overlooking the fact that ...
• GPT-3/4 is like a Meeseeks box for computer and internet ...
• If you are talking to a human and he or ...
• We are so amazed by its ability to babble in ...
• So people are going to be even more blindsided when ...
• lol c’mon, if this wasn’t from an A.I., this would ...
• But I’ve also noticed a creeping desire among A.I. evangelists ...
• Of course, OpenAI does offer a “social” feature, but the ...
• And yes, there’ll be plenty of cases where “raw ChatGPT” ...
• I’m actually using GPT3 in a production system. The mistake ...

checklists

• the questions my favourite writing professor would ask. • Do ...

chicago

• For me, ICEWATCH is a deeply spiritual practice: I want ...
• Census figures show there are 40,000 more Latinos in Chicago ...
• Chicago remains the third largest city in the country with ...

climate-change

• From everything I can tell, there is no making it ...
• We live on a sun-drenched blue marble hanging in space, ...
• But the [hyperobject] that is climate change requires the very ...

clown-town

• Starting in the summer of 2020 and peaking in late ...

cocktails

• It’s a cocktail not of judgment, but of analysis and ...
• A martini is supposed to be made to the drinkers’ ...

collective-labor

• It’s seems obvious that collective action from internet creators is ...

commons

• Financial systems help us overcome a collective action problem. In ...
• I call this “unlocking the commons,” and it’s the same ...
• The fact that I had never been on the ghost ...
• Then the big parks, which are beautiful and well maintained. ...

communication

• I recommend that teams receiving executive feedback try to “extract ...
• The people whose compensation depends on your opinion have ample ...
• I recommend sharing the full document with the group, then ...
• In *Staff Engineer*, I argued that writing an engineering strategies ...
• A strategy is composed of three parts: 1. **Diagnosis:** a ...
• I used to start my lecture on dictionaries in Python ...
• Repetition makes lies seem true, but repetition also makes truth ...
• **Gardens** - This is the wiki layer Michael references above ...
• **Campfires** - mostly blogging for me, though I know some ...
• **Streams** - mostly Twitter for me, this is where fast ...
• To expand the term beyond its original scope, Max Pain ...
• As a subset of contrarianism, Hot Sauce Behavior became especially ...
• Programmable notes are note-taking systems that allow you to write ...
• *Epistemology* is the study of knowledge – how we know ...
• the New York City question: if you are to meet ...
• In [game theory], a **focal point** (or **Schelling point**) is ...
• AI, with its perceived threat to automate a vast array ...
• I think what has happened is there was a massive ...
• Triadic closure is a concept in network theory which is ...
• The dark irony here is that corporatized communication is what ...
• A surprising amount of executive time is spent cleaning up ...
• updates establish a persistent drip of information from you to ...
• you can significant improve the quality of internal communcations within ...
• Many engineers won’t get to work with you directly, and ...
• **Ephemeral** tools are about the conversation. Slack is one. Zoom ...
• Sometimes we love to grandstand to an audience of strangers ...
• THE MEANING OF A COMMUNICATION IS THE BEHAVIOUR THAT RESULTS. ...
• Human memory is squishy, and that's great. You retain facts ...
• A conversation can happen between yourself and yourself, across time, ...
• The trade-off, though, is that a uniform interface degrades efficiency, ...

commute

• Okay, so habits are good: they free the mind for ...
• [Many years ago I got obsessed with habit-breaking days.] We ...

competition

• There’s a third impact of AI harder to spot and ...

compilers

• One major purpose of dataflow analysis is observing safety constraints ...
• The directed multigraph defined by interpreting basic blocks as vertices, ...
• Subsequent branch-free instructions make up segments of *linear code*. The ...
• One of the challenges with JIT compilers is that they ...
• Compiled queries are a very exciting area of GraphQL that ...

compliance

• In general, the chief compliance officer at any company has ...

composability

• Part of what makes LoRA so effective is that - ...
• To achieve that braking safety, the subway’s signal architecture works ...
• because a service *is* running with a dependency down does ...

conflict

• **Approach conflict with curiosity.** One of my foundational beliefs is ...

consumption

• **Streams** - mostly Twitter for me, this is where fast ...
• The best things in life are free. The second best ...

controllability

• We’re building apps to surround and harness AI, but we ...
• Here are three levels of mapping, arranged in decreasing effectiveness ...
• insights from the seven stages of action lead us to ...

cooking

• The way he talks about foraging in this conversation reminds ...
• This guy Eric invited us over for dinner one time. ...
• This is a new food culture, where the chef is ...
• There is no need to cut croutons into perfect little ...
• Before using dried fruit I rehydrate it in a bowl ...
• because nuts like all fatty ingredients will absorb odors. ...
• Cheese is a living thing that needs to breathe. Waxed ...
• Buy them in small quantities and replenish them often instead ...
• What will keep beans tough, though, is acid, so never ...
• Don't store in plastic containers, because the plastic can absorb ...
• Build layers into your dish, like you're making nachos. Hide ...
• All roots have edible greens, so catch them early when ...
• please note-when grilling or charring, skip the oil. Cook your ...
• Alice Waters had this incredibly boss move at Chez Panisse ...
• Luxury always boils down to time: someone is paying a ...

covid-19

• Today ***,*** roughly 500 Americans are dying each day from ...
• Officials estimate between 5,000-10,000 people are dying per *day* . ...
• An immediate hypothesis was that Omicron may have developed in ...
• The pandemic highlighted our intimate relationship with biology. Urban tech ...

crime

• In general, the chief compliance officer at any company has ...
• One interesting and [possibly even true] thing that I learned ...

cryptocurrency

• The very most important thing to understand in finance and ...
• 'Monetize' is a terrible word that tacitly admits that there ...
• Also another, related point is that as far as I ...
• But, paradoxically, crypto is much *more* reliant on trust than ...
• It was like a fantastical version of their old jobs, ...
• One imperfect but useful way to think about crypto,” I ...

curiosity

• I make a practice of regularly checking in about whether ...
• **Approach conflict with curiosity.** One of my foundational beliefs is ...
• The room is architected for discussions and decisions, not just ...
• It confirmed Biederman’s sense that “most advances in science come ...

data

• few days ago I did something that I never thought ...
• Syntax coloring isn't useless, it is childish, like training wheels ...
• The fact that this slight change in study design yielded ...
• The way double descent is normally presented, increasing the number ...
• One of my favorite systems papers ever is the [COST] ...
• Timestamps produced by a vector clock take the most amount ...
• Timestamps produced by a Lamport clock take the least amount ...
• Your choice of data layout/structure has two consequences: it makes ...
• Adobe claims Firefly was trained on a data set that ...
• Data can be processed as *unbounded* or *bounded* streams. 1. ...
• So, does the creation and destruction of information have any ...
• Remember that we started with 115 TB of content that ...
• The next problem we have is how to build this ...
• From the perspective of non-mega-platform companies, I think this is ...
• Erasure coding is the idea that we can take a ...
• There’s the implicit expectation in AI and data science that ...
• The classification scheme used here is possibly the clearest one ...
• Choose one Entity to be the root of each Aggregate, ...

decisions

• Challenge to Unlock Stalemate Debates
• Decision Momentum

deduplication

• I used to start my lecture on dictionaries in Python ...
• Remember that we started with 115 TB of content that ...

defaults

• Sometimes a habit will be hard to remember and you’ll ...

demographics

• Census figures show there are 40,000 more Latinos in Chicago ...
• Chicago remains the third largest city in the country with ...

design

• 'Jobs to be done' is an attempt to identify demand ...
• A pattern as a form/context pair and a generic set ...
• centers and generative process ...
• Beyond Fitness: Life and a Better World ...
• Form, Context, and Fit ...
• Christopher Alexander: A Primer

distribution

• Before there was a de facto platform for hosting code, ...

domain

• Another way this is noted is that Factories are “pure ...
• The Factory should create new objects, while the Repository should ...
• For immutable Value Objects it means that all attributes are ...
• An Aggregate is a group of associated objects which are ...
• There are three characteristics of a Service: The operation performed ...

economics

• the true nature of housing prices. It’s not about the ...
• [Max Pain] is an urban legend-slash-theory from the options market, ...
• The most economically powerful thing you can do is to ...
• But in modern financial markets, you can get an economic ...
• For the last five hundred years, the best way to ...

education

• **Design an obstacle course, not a syllabus.** One thing that ...
• That was where I caught the connection between a college ...
• [Athletes and musicians pursue virtuosity in fundamental skills much more ...
• I used to start my lecture on dictionaries in Python ...
• Repetition makes lies seem true, but repetition also makes truth ...
• Education is what, when, and why to do things. Training ...
• You are approaching this like an established natural sciences field ...
• Find the best teachers and take all their classes, no ...

elections

• So to summarize–downballot races are cheap, cost-effective, and because they ...
• Even in a normal year, early money is many times ...

end-user-programming

• This scavenging in the SaaS landscape is how people express ...
• Folk interfaces are when users reappropriate existing software to solve ...
• [End-user programming is] a vision for empowered computing pursued by ...

engineering

• > A cost center is a function that is operated ...

entertainment

• To expand the term beyond its original scope, Max Pain ...
• As a subset of contrarianism, Hot Sauce Behavior became especially ...

environment

• The Maui surfer girls love each other’s hair. It is ...
• Strong commitment in design is good for dementia, where challenges ...
• Okay, so habits are good: they free the mind for ...
• Stop thinking about your environment as filled with objects. Start ...
• In this way, the most common form of change is ...
• The process [of regenerative ag] is expensive, since farmers who ...

epidemiology

• Officials estimate between 5,000-10,000 people are dying per *day* . ...

epistemology

• *Epistemology* is the study of knowledge – how we know ...

equanimity

• When you run into a complex problem, slow down to ...

estimation

• Let’s demonstrate the method with an example. Consider computing the ...
• Imagine we want to compute the square root of a ...

ethics

• When we say, “If you’re going to read one thing ...

evangelism

• But I’ve also noticed a creeping desire among A.I. evangelists ...

event-loop

• The bottom line is this; in modern multicore, multi-CPU devices, ...

exercise

• Physical activity decreases the risk of a network of diseases, ...
• And then along came Brad Schoenfeld and Co., who laid ...
• Top-tier athletes are fanatically disciplined about improving their foundational skills—skills ...
• [Athletes and musicians pursue virtuosity in fundamental skills much more ...

expenses

• The IRS [says]: 'To be deductible, a business expense must ...

exploration

• But fifty years of progress in miniaturization and software changed ...
• **Follow existing patterns unless there’s an order of magnitude improvement.** ...
• Essentially, the use of AI *as a technology* has less ...
• using AI to design products is more powerful than using ...
• An immediate hypothesis was that Omicron may have developed in ...

fauna

• Bakker introduced me to the term **biophony** to refer to ...
• But if you use the trick I learned twenty years ...
• Every species on Earth—past or present, from the single-celled microbe ...

favorite

• A river of material flows through us. When we share ...
• All you crazy MFs are completely overlooking the fact that ...
• Poka-yoke is another Japanese method, this one invented by Shigeo ...
• insights from the seven stages of action lead us to ...
• Seven stages of action: one for goals, three for execution, ...
• One thing I've noticed is that a lot of colleagues ...
• **A few desirable qualities for creative contexts:** Note that very ...
• Cognitive load is the amount of working memory needed to ...
• [Athletes and musicians pursue virtuosity in fundamental skills much more ...
• A strategy is composed of three parts: 1. **Diagnosis:** a ...
• In general, the chief compliance officer at any company has ...
• I make a practice of regularly checking in about whether ...
• Bill Thurston [writes]: > Mathematics is a process of staring ...
• Triadic closure is a concept in network theory which is ...
• Related, if you can see a better way to do ...
• A surprising amount of executive time is spent cleaning up ...
• updates establish a persistent drip of information from you to ...
• **Accretive** tools build over time. Developer tools tend to work ...
• “Asking for help with shame says: You have the power ...
• traditional arch bridges [were built by first having a wood ...
• My general view on beliefs is that we get to ...
• Ultimately, I decided not to, and developed the idea that ...
• When we say, “If you’re going to read one thing ...
• Writing is nature’s way of letting you know how sloppy ...
• I’m actually using GPT3 in a production system. The mistake ...
• And some of these things we do, and some of ...
• Similarly, if your reward for exercising is eating a bowl ...
• Whenever you want to change your behavior, you can simply ...
• There’s the implicit expectation in AI and data science that ...
• “We like the idea that there’s always someone responsible for ...
• It's easy to look at pregnancy (for example) as something ...
• A few months ago, I was at an event that ...
• The process [of regenerative ag] is expensive, since farmers who ...
• Remember that when you’re in the right you can afford ...
• He has wondered lately if that’s all living really is—one ...
• My laboratory is like a church because it is where ...
• People are made of stories. Our memories are not the ...
• “Coincidence and intention are two sides of a tapestry, my ...
• The central thesis of this book is precisely that an ...

feedback

• For large-scale software *systems*, Van Roy believes we need to ...
• In October of last year, YouTube creator and fandom expert ...

finance

• if the US government *does* default, that will probably cause ...
• The very most important thing to understand in finance and ...
• Every so often the US government thinks about defaulting on ...
• The three bank runs which already happened had idiosyncratic causes, ...
• The decision to sharply manage down the price of eggs ...
• Financial systems help us overcome a collective action problem. In ...
• Nick Rowe memorably described [finance as magic]. The analogy I ...
• Philanthropy is often conflated with charity, a sort of blank-minded ...
• But I think the modern bank-regulatory view is that *the point ...
• the true nature of housing prices. It’s not about the ...
• in practice the answer is that some companies create negative ...
• [Max Pain] is an urban legend-slash-theory from the options market, ...
• But in modern financial markets, you can get an economic ...
• Finance, like its cousin Poetry, is the use of precise ...
• Also another, related point is that as far as I ...
• At least sometimes, it seems, there is more demand for ...
• This is one of the main things that happens in ...
• Around here [I often quote] the most important thing I learned ...
• the *Howey* test of what makes an “investment contract” a ...
• It was like a fantastical version of their old jobs, ...
• Many people believe that cash, the paper printed by the ...
• In conditions of uncertainty, you might be tempted to use ...
• If you run a mutual fund, a high mark is ...
• One imperfect but useful way to think about crypto,” I ...

flora

• All roots have edible greens, so catch them early when ...
• There are a hundred species or so known as “resurrection ...
• A chilly autumn brings on the same hardening as a ...
• When you are in the forest, for every tree that ...
• Every species on Earth—past or present, from the single-celled microbe ...

folk-creations

• The Japanese philosophy of [Mingei] was another movement we should ...
• This scavenging in the SaaS landscape is how people express ...
• Folk interfaces are when users reappropriate existing software to solve ...
• one of the realization that I hadworking on something like ...

funding

• Philanthropy is often conflated with charity, a sort of blank-minded ...
• The entrepreneur is the customer and the LP is the ...
• The most economically powerful thing you can do is to ...
• I call this “unlocking the commons,” and it’s the same ...
• you can pay me money, and I will continue writing. ...
• I’ve been mainly “hiring” members for permission. Not in a ...
• As I’ve written in past reviews, “permission” seems to be ...
• Concretely, I exclusively offer ongoing retainer agreements, without hourly billing ...
• if the effort required to replace or fork a dependency ...
• The most economically powerful thing you can do is to ...
• So to summarize–downballot races are cheap, cost-effective, and because they ...
• Paying a maintainer for their attention can also translate into ...
• As for subscriptions, paywalls might seem like a way to ...
• It’s seems obvious that collective action from internet creators is ...
• But just as the gig economy mode of work brought ...

game-theory

• [Max Pain] is an urban legend-slash-theory from the options market, ...
• the New York City question: if you are to meet ...
• In [game theory], a **focal point** (or **Schelling point**) is ...
• One imperfect but useful way to think about crypto,” I ...
• In the glory days, [Olympus enthusiasts] dressed up this insight ...

geists

• Programmable notes are note-taking systems that allow you to write ...
• as users becomes accustomed to agents and NPCs, we’ll see ...
• Laurel suggests that we see the computer screen as a ...
• Next we bring in creative divergence. How? **Geists!** Geists will ...

goals

• Beyond Fitness: Life and a Better World ...
• Christopher Alexander: A Primer
• **Create capacity (rather than capture it).** This value focuses leaders ...
• **Follow existing patterns unless there’s an order of magnitude improvement.** ...
• As described in Rumelt’s [Good Strategy, Bad Strategy], a strategy ...
• I’m actually using GPT3 in a production system. The mistake ...
• Goals are about the results you want to achieve. Systems ...
• A general heuristic I’ve come to use to ascribe “value” ...
• The process [of regenerative ag] is expensive, since farmers who ...
• understand that the path is neither short nor easy. That ...

governance

• But the thing about state-sponsored attacks is that they’re a ...
• [CAP theorem] is perhaps the best-known statement of the tradeoffs ...
• Instead, the basic principle I would like to see communicated ...
• As long as people think that government (as an ideal ...
• this is the problem when your sole governing ideals are ...
• So to summarize–downballot races are cheap, cost-effective, and because they ...
• There is generally no judicial remedy for a policy that ...
• Then the big parks, which are beautiful and well maintained. ...
• And it was this work that really opened my eyes ...

graphql

• All in all, I don’t think service communication is the ...
• GraphQL is purposefully transport/protocol agnostic. Nothing is stopping us from ...
• build a GraphQL API server that is resolved by many ...
• Airbnb’s approach of wiring up different schemas together to form ...
• My advice would be for GraphQL APIs to rely on ...
• A lot has to be reinvented with a GraphQL API. ...
• The trade-off, though, is that a uniform interface degrades efficiency, ...
• We can often categorize APIs in three broad categories: Private ...
• Compiled queries are a very exciting area of GraphQL that ...
• Some would even say field ordering should be normalized, but ...
• The generation of a cache key is always important, but ...
• It’s often very useful to provide inline performance information in ...
• I like to think of the lifecycle of a GraphQL ...
• Once the client has the identifier for a particular query, ...
• Persisted queries are a must for all internal APIs, and ...

habits

• **Inaction → Committed Action** Clarifying our values and learning a ...
• That said, much like [internal communication], networking is a relatively ...
• Okay, so habits are good: they free the mind for ...
• [Many years ago I got obsessed with habit-breaking days.] We ...
• This is one reason why we continually grasp for the ...
• Happiness is the state you enter when you no longer ...
• Sometimes a habit will be hard to remember and you’ll ...
• Professionals stick to the schedule; amateurs let life get in ...
• We imitate the habits of three groups in particular: The ...
• Stop thinking about your environment as filled with objects. Start ...
• In this way, the most common form of change is ...
• The 1st Law of Behavior Change is to make it ...
• Whenever you want to change your behavior, you can simply ...
• your habits are how you embody your identity ...
• Goals are about the results you want to achieve. Systems ...
• The hard part is distinguishing between quitting because the resistance ...

hacking

• Folk interfaces are when users reappropriate existing software to solve ...

happiness

• Happiness is the state you enter when you no longer ...

health

• Pollan proposes a new (and very old) answer to the ...
• We have built many projects, and we believe the most ...

history

• What we call history is, in practice, what we can ...
• History is an edit war. Truth, factual and moral, hangs ...

horizontal-scaling

• Consistent hashing is a distributed systems technique that operates by ...
• Erasure Coding is a ubiquitous technique in storage and physical ...
• Let's think about that cache again: when that one node ...

hot-sauce

• As a subset of contrarianism, Hot Sauce Behavior became especially ...

hunting

• The way he talks about foraging in this conversation reminds ...

identity

• it’s not always about what happens during the workout. It’s ...
• Similarly, if your reward for exercising is eating a bowl ...

incentives

• Virtually all maintainers are either volunteers or full-time employees of ...
• • Maybe they’re just creating massive amounts of “digital representations ...
• When I suggested this to friends in the Pentagon they ...
• Similarly, if your reward for exercising is eating a bowl ...

incident-management

• One thing I've noticed is that a lot of colleagues ...
• I’ve often seen teams leading reliability efforts respond to the ...
• As incidents continue to occur, teams generally respond by starting ...

information

• This first lab newsletter of 2023 is very link-y, perhaps ...
• I think what has happened is there was a massive ...
• A three second warning can’t compete against 45 minutes of ...

interfaces

• Syntax coloring isn't useless, it is childish, like training wheels ...
• Text inputs have no affordances When I go up the ...
• Forcing functions are the extreme case of strong constraints that ...
• Physical constraints are made more effective and useful if they ...
• These four classes of constraints-physical, cultural, semantic, and logical-seem to ...
• Here are three levels of mapping, arranged in decreasing effectiveness ...
• Seven stages of action: one for goals, three for execution, ...
• Affordances determine what actions are possible. Signifiers communicate where the ...
• The presence of an affordance is jointly determined by the ...
• Pareidolia — our tendency to see “faces” in everything from ...
• Programmable notes are note-taking systems that allow you to write ...
• This scavenging in the SaaS landscape is how people express ...
• Folk interfaces are when users reappropriate existing software to solve ...
• The room is architected for discussions and decisions, not just ...
• as users becomes accustomed to agents and NPCs, we’ll see ...
• Laurel suggests that we see the computer screen as a ...
• the computer interface has *always* been a multiplayer environment for ...
• Next we bring in creative divergence. How? **Geists!** Geists will ...
• Stop thinking about your environment as filled with objects. Start ...
• The 1st Law of Behavior Change is to make it ...
• To summarise those desirable qualities, a good notation is: Composable ...
• Everything has an interface. A platform has an API. A ...
• The value of a product is the number of problems ...
• Or to be more specific, urbanist Kevin Lynch’s city maps ...
• The trade-off, though, is that a uniform interface degrades efficiency, ...
• We can often categorize APIs in three broad categories: Private ...
• Context Maps where contexts have clear roles and their relationships ...

jekyll

• How to use Simply Jekyll features on your website

journalism

• The most economically powerful thing you can do is to ...
• I think what has happened is there was a massive ...
• The main issue here is that, at least when it ...

judgement

• One interesting and [possibly even true] thing that I learned ...

knowledge

• The Platonic fold is the explosive boundary where the Platonic ...
• It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy-books ...
• Cognitive load is the amount of working memory needed to ...
• in the web, it makes sense that links should reflect ...
• This sort of knowledge is what Dan Wang calls process ...

language

• For example, let's take the simple question: 'How old are ...
• To encode the position of the current token in the ...
• Actually, it reminds me in some ways of things that ...
• We are so amazed by its ability to babble in ...
• More generally, Van Roy sees a layered language design with ...
• *The point is to pick a paradigm with just the ...
• if you are talking about “numerous black swans” then you ...
• Grateful to have this language back as a first-class citizen ...

leadership

• I designed the RAMBO Model as a simple framework to ...
• These constraints create better decisions both because constraints drive innovation, ...
• In 2023, our universe has shifted. There’s little hiring happening, ...
• Challenge and Support
• **THE PRIORITIZATION MATRIX** All of the projects and activities on ...
• When you run into a complex problem, slow down to ...
• There’s no status website to check your relationship with other ...
• The four common archetypes of Staff-plus roles I encountered are: ...
• The truth is, nearly every attempt to design a hierarchy-free, ...
• Most organizations run these twice a year, which is a ...
• Executives are rarely held accountable unless they expose themselves to ...
• Once you acknowledge that leadership is inherently non-deterministic you can ...
• If something is rotten in an org, the root cause ...
• The people whose compensation depends on your opinion have ample ...
• Strategy can only be employed top-down, so it’s not a ...
• As an engineering executive, it’s particularly important to think about ...
• **Are you willing and able to enforce the strategy?** If ...
• **Are you either confident in your diagnosis or do you ...
• I recommend sharing the full document with the group, then ...
• A strategy is composed of three parts: 1. **Diagnosis:** a ...
• Repetition makes lies seem true, but repetition also makes truth ...
• leaders work *on* the system, not *in* the system ...
• **Optimize for the {whole, business unit, team}**. Pick *one* of ...
• As described in Rumelt’s [Good Strategy, Bad Strategy], a strategy ...
• A surprising amount of executive time is spent cleaning up ...
• updates establish a persistent drip of information from you to ...
• you can significant improve the quality of internal communcations within ...
• In a lifetime of many, many independent choices, small and ...
• Self-worth, the unexpected corollary of having positive archetypes in your ...
• What I’ve found most successful is to identify a few ...
• The expected time to complete a new task approaches infinity ...

liveness

• ANY LARGE SYSTEM IS GOING TO BE OPERATING MOST OF ...
• For large-scale software *systems*, Van Roy believes we need to ...
• because a service *is* running with a dependency down does ...

llm

• Part of what makes LoRA so effective is that - ...
• In many ways, this shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone. ...
• We’re building apps to surround and harness AI, but we ...
• It’s using the ReAct pattern, which is straightforward and surprisingly ...
• More capable models can better recognize the specific circumstances under ...

lo-ras

• But you can already see the idea of a “prompt” ...

logistics

• Infrastructure undergirds society; failures of it are a per se ...
• The fact that I had never been on the ghost ...

machine-learning

• But you can already see the idea of a “prompt” ...
• The way double descent is normally presented, increasing the number ...
• In machine learning, double descent is a surprising phenomenon where ...
• Adobe claims Firefly was trained on a data set that ...
• There’s the implicit expectation in AI and data science that ...

machines

• The cotton gin, a canonical example of automation, perversely *increased ...

managing

• A **responsibility assignment matrix**1 (**RAM**), also known as **RACI matrix**2 ...
• I designed the RAMBO Model as a simple framework to ...
• Challenge and Support
• Today's gap represents a failure of planning sometime in the ...
• Task-relevant maturity ...
• managers do not talk to their subordinates about their problems ...
• Delegation without follow-through is abdication ...
• CEOs always act on leading indicators of good news, but ...
• **Create capacity (rather than capture it).** This value focuses leaders ...

maps

• Or to be more specific, urbanist Kevin Lynch’s city maps ...

markdown

• Test page to see how the raw markdown is rendered

marketplaces

• This is enshittification: surpluses are first directed to users; then, ...
• Why is that a hard message to communicate through marketing, ...

materials

• At Maggie Daley Park, one of the project’s defining challenges ...

math

• The student who overcomes this problem might learn the following ...
• Let’s demonstrate the method with an example. Consider computing the ...
• Imagine we want to compute the square root of a ...
• Imagine we want to compute the square root of a ...
• As we think about it this way, we realize that ...

max-pain

• To expand the term beyond its original scope, Max Pain ...
• [Max Pain] is an urban legend-slash-theory from the options market, ...

meaning

• In [The Umami Theory of Value], we discussed how, in ...
• The **Lance Armstrong problem** Did we get the AI to ...

medicine

• An immediate hypothesis was that Omicron may have developed in ...
• Working in the hospital teaches you that there are only ...

meetings

• the real sign of malorganization is when people spend more ...
• two basic kinds of meetings:process-oriented meeting, knowledge is shared and ...
• Anyone who spends about a half day per week as ...
• The most effective communication within an organization is between peers ...

memberships

• I’ve been mainly “hiring” members for permission. Not in a ...

memory

• Strong commitment in design is good for dementia, where challenges ...
• Top-tier athletes are fanatically disciplined about improving their foundational skills—skills ...
• As long as people think that government (as an ideal ...
• State introduces an abstract notion of time in programs. In ...
• **Accretive** tools build over time. Developer tools tend to work ...
• One of the challenges with JIT compilers is that they ...
• Human memory is squishy, and that's great. You retain facts ...
• Recollection is such a small, basic part of thinking! There ...
• He has wondered lately if that’s all living really is—one ...
• People are made of stories. Our memories are not the ...

metrics

• Just like regular investment funds can either be actively managed ...
• We have built many projects, and we believe the most ...
• > A cost center is a function that is operated ...
• If you run a mutual fund, a high mark is ...
• My point today is that, if we wish to count ...
• The classification scheme used here is possibly the clearest one ...
• I’m personally convinced that these companies are selling products that ...
• the system grows for a while (increasing λ), or we ...
• We can then define the Utilization of the server (calling ...

money

• The law states that any circulating currency consisting of both ...
• [Max Pain] is an urban legend-slash-theory from the options market, ...
• Starting in the summer of 2020 and peaking in late ...
• The best things in life are free. The second best ...
• The report said that for every $1 of new global ...
• Life (and intersectionality) are complex, but money is, relatively speaking, ...
• Many people believe that cash, the paper printed by the ...
• The world is mostly shaped by wealth, more so than ...
• Even in a normal year, early money is many times ...
• If you run a mutual fund, a high mark is ...
• Ask a science professor what she worries about. It won’t ...
• Although the ownership of a particular stone might change, the ...
• Luxury always boils down to time: someone is paying a ...

motivation

• The ultimate goal of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is ...
• When you start a creative project but don’t finish, the ...
• Motivation factors include challenging work, recognition, responsibility, and personal growth ...
• i thought, or hoped, that not caring would protect me, ...
• understand that the path is neither short nor easy. That ...

music

• Stereo width is a big part of the *Glowed Up* ...

napkin-math-numbers

• Hashing, crypto-safe (64 bytes) 500 ns 200 MiB/s ...
• Random Memory R/W (64 bytes) 50 ns 1 GiB/s ...
• Let’s demonstrate the method with an example. Consider computing the ...
• Imagine we want to compute the square root of a ...

negotiation

• The **door-in-the-face technique** is a [compliance] method commonly studied in ...

networks

• Triadic closure is a concept in network theory which is ...

noise

• Stochastic resonance is the phenomenon in which random noise can ...

notation

• A tool is something that takes an existing workflow, and ...
• To summarise those desirable qualities, a good notation is: Composable ...
• Or to be more specific, urbanist Kevin Lynch’s city maps ...

note-taking

• Many students and academic writers think like the early ship ...
• Top-tier athletes are fanatically disciplined about improving their foundational skills—skills ...
• **Gardens** - This is the wiki layer Michael references above ...
• I make a practice of regularly checking in about whether ...
• Programmable notes are note-taking systems that allow you to write ...
• **Accretive** tools build over time. Developer tools tend to work ...
• Next we bring in creative divergence. How? **Geists!** Geists will ...
• Human memory is squishy, and that's great. You retain facts ...
• A conversation can happen between yourself and yourself, across time, ...
• To summarise those desirable qualities, a good notation is: Composable ...

observability

• Dealing with Error: • Put the knowledge required to operate ...
• insights from the seven stages of action lead us to ...
• Principles of Good Systems ⬢
• these are the three main lists of golden signals today: ...
• It’s often very useful to provide inline performance information in ...

open-source

• Paradoxically, the one clear winner in all of this is ...
• Part of what makes LoRA so effective is that - ...
• In many ways, this shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone. ...
• If free software gifts are communism and open source is ...
• [[Here's the thing about gifts: the sender chooses them, not ...
• This story archetype is the Hero's Journey that inspires all ...
• Incentives are well aligned with the success of the open-source ...
• Concretely, I exclusively offer ongoing retainer agreements, without hourly billing ...
• Virtually all maintainers are either volunteers or full-time employees of ...
• At minimum, open source projects hosted on GitHub can be ...
• Developers don’t contribute to open source for lack of technical ...
• Before there was a de facto platform for hosting code, ...

openai

• But I’ve also noticed a creeping desire among A.I. evangelists ...
• Of course, OpenAI does offer a “social” feature, but the ...
• If you don’t know the difference between something like DALL-E ...

optimization

• Amdahl's law is often used in [parallel computing] to predict ...
• **THE PRIORITIZATION MATRIX** All of the projects and activities on ...
• In machine learning, double descent is a surprising phenomenon where ...
• One of my favorite systems papers ever is the [COST] ...
• Selecting the hen who lays the most eggs doesn't necessarily ...
• what the chemical industry calls “verbund.” This is a setup ...
• A common rule [...] is to detect and fix any ...
• In general, the chief compliance officer at any company has ...
• **Optimize for the {whole, business unit, team}**. Pick *one* of ...
• The trickiest part of speeding up a program is not ...
• Disproportionately impactful engineering teams are distinguished by effectively shipping the ...
• > A cost center is a function that is operated ...
• The **Lance Armstrong problem** Did we get the AI to ...
• This is an example of the ‘capability overhang’ phenomenon I’ve ...
• Every year, the company adds even more steps to the ...
• In most places, the olive harvest is mechanized, but that’s ...

parenting

• Nothing is unimportant to a little child. He might cry ...
• Self-worth, the unexpected corollary of having positive archetypes in your ...

pathology

• Instead of pathologizing every human quirk, we should say, By ...

patronage

• I call this “unlocking the commons,” and it’s the same ...

pattern-language

• There are useful mental analogies between pedestrian line-of-business CRUD apps ...

perception

• Regulators then heard the numbers, did a bit of modeling ...
• Stochastic resonance is the phenomenon in which random noise can ...
• The Gestalists showed that there was no obvious relationship between ...

performance

• as devices get extremely fast, interrupt-driven work is no longer ...
• In general, the chief compliance officer at any company has ...
• The discovery of scaling laws has typically preceded a boomtime ...
• Use a small model to generate a 'draft' output, then ...
• The trickiest part of speeding up a program is not ...
• The abundance of digital storage and processing power has caused ...
• In conditions of uncertainty, you might be tempted to use ...
• our philosophy is that to make fastsoftware you need slow ...
• Buy them in small quantities and replenish them often instead ...
• the system grows for a while (increasing λ), or we ...
• As we think about it this way, we realize that ...

permissions

• If you’re still wondering whether that resource you’re going to ...

photography

• Screenshotting as one of the essential underrated tools of the ...

platforms

• Imperfect social media tools gave anyone the ability to publish ...
• To expand the term beyond its original scope, Max Pain ...
• This is enshittification: surpluses are first directed to users; then, ...
• Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to ...
• The fundamental problem is that there’s a fundamental disagreement inside ...
• The dark irony here is that corporatized communication is what ...
• Of course, OpenAI does offer a “social” feature, but the ...
• Analyses have [found] that 12 people—coined the “disinformation dozen”—are responsible ...
• TikTok’s entire strategy is to turn viral content into public ...
• From the perspective of non-mega-platform companies, I think this is ...
• But just as the gig economy mode of work brought ...

police

• And it was this work that really opened my eyes ...

politics

• Separating out the well and worthy workers from the sick ...
• Authoritarianism is about *taking things from me.* Communism, in its ...
• lol c’mon, if this wasn’t from an A.I., this would ...
• When someone (or some entity such as business) enjoys a ...
• We feel rather than know (and many of us refuse ...
• In October of last year, YouTube creator and fandom expert ...

practice

• But the [hyperobject] that is climate change requires the very ...
• it’s not always about what happens during the workout. It’s ...

probability

• In conditions of uncertainty, you might be tempted to use ...
• if you are talking about “numerous black swans” then you ...

product

• [Noriaki Kano], a Japanese researcher and consultant, published a paper ...
• In order to uncover our customer’s perceptions towards our product’s ...
• The takeaway here is that any analysis we do at ...
• Kano classifies features into four categories, depending on how customers ...
• **Designing for Disassembly** ensures that all elements of a product ...
• One of the consequences of demateralisation is that things that ...
• I’m personally convinced that these companies are selling products that ...

professional

• Professionals stick to the schedule; amateurs let life get in ...

proximity

• Strong commitment in design is good for dementia, where challenges ...

psychology

• mere-exposure effect: doing something many times makes us believe we ...
• As I’ve written in past reviews, “permission” seems to be ...

queues

• as devices get extremely fast, interrupt-driven work is no longer ...
• We have built many projects, and we believe the most ...
• • λ: arrival rate. This measures how fast new items ...
• The **Queuing Rule of Thumb (QROT)** is a mathematical formula, ...
• As we think about it this way, we realize that ...
• We can then define the Utilization of the server (calling ...

recommendations

• *Epistemology* is the study of knowledge – how we know ...

recreational-drugs

• pot makes you feel fine with being bored, and it's ...

recycling

• although as with all plastic recycling, “downcycling” is the more ...
• Jingu is famous for its tradition of periodic reconstruction, known ...

reliability

• Erasure Coding is a ubiquitous technique in storage and physical ...
• Let's think about that cache again: when that one node ...
• Erasure coding is the idea that we can take a ...

religion

• lol c’mon, if this wasn’t from an A.I., this would ...
• Lastly, in a sense this is a religious course: I ...
• As a religion, social justice works. It works not merely ...
• My laboratory is like a church because it is where ...

renewable-energy

• Skeptics of solar feasibility pantomime a kind of technical realism, ...

republican-party

• this is the problem when your sole governing ideals are ...

research

• I make a practice of regularly checking in about whether ...
• Bill Thurston [writes]: > Mathematics is a process of staring ...

rfc

• MAY This word, or the adjective 'OPTIONAL', mean that an ...
• MUST This word, or the terms 'REQUIRED' or 'SHALL', mean ...
• Bigger projects often use a formal “request for comments” (RFC) ...

risk

• In conditions of uncertainty, you might be tempted to use ...
• if you are talking about “numerous black swans” then you ...

robots

• But fifty years of progress in miniaturization and software changed ...
• as users becomes accustomed to agents and NPCs, we’ll see ...
• Next we bring in creative divergence. How? **Geists!** Geists will ...

root-cause-analysis

• Errors have two major forms. Slips occur when the goal ...

routine

• [Many years ago I got obsessed with habit-breaking days.] We ...

safety

• Elisa Baniassad and Alexander Summers have this great paper [Reframing ...
• The **Therac-25** was a computer-controlled [radiation therapy] machine produced by ...
• Poka-yoke is another Japanese method, this one invented by Shigeo ...
• the Toyota Production System. Among its many key principles is ...
• Forcing functions are the extreme case of strong constraints that ...
• insights from the seven stages of action lead us to ...
• Principles of Good Systems ⬢
• For large-scale software *systems*, Van Roy believes we need to ...
• I’d argue that field-level encryption should be a starting place ...
• To achieve that braking safety, the subway’s signal architecture works ...

salt

• Those little shakers on the table are of no help ...

scalability

• few days ago I did something that I never thought ...
• But the thing about state-sponsored attacks is that they’re a ...
• [CAP theorem] is perhaps the best-known statement of the tradeoffs ...

scaling

• as devices get extremely fast, interrupt-driven work is no longer ...
• Principles of Good Systems ⬢
• In general, the chief compliance officer at any company has ...
• The discovery of scaling laws has typically preceded a boomtime ...
• Use a small model to generate a 'draft' output, then ...

science

• much of science is straightforward, logical, almost rote. It's easy ...
• there have been many experiments running rats through all kinds ...
• The fact that this slight change in study design yielded ...
• That whole summer in Colorado was a data-gathering bust, but ...
• I wanted to be studying plant growth, but science for ...
• People are like plants: they grow toward the light. I ...
• My laboratory is like a church because it is where ...
• Science has taught me that everything is more complicated than ...

search

• Remember that we started with 115 TB of content that ...
• The next problem we have is how to build this ...

seasoning

• Never buy preground or precracked pepper, ever! You want the ...
• Those little shakers on the table are of no help ...
• Sonali had told us about Annaprashana, which is a Hindu ...

security

• Canary tokens are a free, quick, painless way to help ...

self

• You are not the system

services

• There are three characteristics of a Service: The operation performed ...

side-effects

• The law states that any circulating currency consisting of both ...
• Every so often the US government thinks about defaulting on ...
• Infrastructure undergirds society; failures of it are a per se ...
• Thompson’s argument in that post is that Silicon Valley *used ...
• in practice the answer is that some companies create negative ...
• this is the first important non-intuitive thing about KYC and ...
• Selecting the hen who lays the most eggs doesn't necessarily ...
• No exploration without contamination ...
• Dialogue from movies and TV shows has become more difficult ...
• There is no need to cut croutons into perfect little ...
• because nuts like all fatty ingredients will absorb odors. ...
• Cheese is a living thing that needs to breathe. Waxed ...
• Don't store in plastic containers, because the plastic can absorb ...
• The full cycle went like this: when a neighborhood first ...

social-networks

• Observationally, I would say that there's little correlation between expertise ...
• For the Integrity Institute, the label “integrity worker” applies to ...
• Imperfect social media tools gave anyone the ability to publish ...
• This is enshittification: surpluses are first directed to users; then, ...
• The seemingly earnest popularity of these videos, especially among younger ...
• And so when one wonders why newsletters “came out of ...
• Party food before social media was not prepared with photographic ...
• Rewild your attention” — that’s a wonderful way of putting ...

software

• 'It's interesting how every build system, frontend framework, programming language ...
• So here are the benefits of inheritance: • Unlike composition, ...
• Elisa Baniassad and Alexander Summers have this great paper [Reframing ...
• If you’re still wondering whether that resource you’re going to ...
• One of my favorite systems papers ever is the [COST] ...
• All you crazy MFs are completely overlooking the fact that ...
• Timestamps produced by a Lamport clock take the least amount ...
• The bottom line is this; in modern multicore, multi-CPU devices, ...
• Hashing, crypto-safe (64 bytes) 500 ns 200 MiB/s ...
• Random Memory R/W (64 bytes) 50 ns 1 GiB/s ...
• Programmable notes are note-taking systems that allow you to write ...
• This scavenging in the SaaS landscape is how people express ...
• Folk interfaces are when users reappropriate existing software to solve ...
• Remember that we started with 115 TB of content that ...
• The next problem we have is how to build this ...
• [End-user programming is] a vision for empowered computing pursued by ...
• [End-user programming is] a vision for empowered computing pursued by ...
• We have built many projects, and we believe the most ...
• Tags are primarily used for both *querying* , or discovering ...
• For large-scale software *systems*, Van Roy believes we need to ...
• More generally, Van Roy sees a layered language design with ...
• State introduces an abstract notion of time in programs. In ...
• [End-user programming is] a vision for empowered computing pursued by ...
• The trickiest part of speeding up a program is not ...
• ![] ...
• The term was “Web 2.0” was first coined in 1999 ...
• > A cost center is a function that is operated ...
• If a `swear` ever fails, **the function is deleted from ...
• One of the challenges with JIT compilers is that they ...
• Laurel suggests that we see the computer screen as a ...
• the computer interface has *always* been a multiplayer environment for ...
• And yes, there’ll be plenty of cases where “raw ChatGPT” ...
• and soall Apple products broke almostinstantly and uhall the tools ...
• our philosophy is that to make fastsoftware you need slow ...
• the programmer's task is not just to write down a ...
• the program is an abstract symbol manipulator, which can be ...
• to the extent that we view ourselves as mechanisms, we ...
• My point today is that, if we wish to count ...
• When we say, “If you’re going to read one thing ...
• Before there was a de facto platform for hosting code, ...
• A tool is something that takes an existing workflow, and ...
• The four elements of credible neutrality are: (1) Don’t write ...
• We can often categorize APIs in three broad categories: Private ...
• Context Maps where contexts have clear roles and their relationships ...
• Another way this is noted is that Factories are “pure ...
• The Factory should create new objects, while the Repository should ...
• For immutable Value Objects it means that all attributes are ...
• Choose one Entity to be the root of each Aggregate, ...
• An Aggregate is a group of associated objects which are ...

solar

• Skeptics of solar feasibility pantomime a kind of technical realism, ...

spaceflight

• But fifty years of progress in miniaturization and software changed ...

specialization

• In most places, the olive harvest is mechanized, but that’s ...

sponsorship

• I call this “unlocking the commons,” and it’s the same ...
• you can pay me money, and I will continue writing. ...
• I’ve been mainly “hiring” members for permission. Not in a ...
• As I’ve written in past reviews, “permission” seems to be ...

sports

• Loss in Judo is more personal than in other sports. ...

stimulus

• The Gestalists showed that there was no obvious relationship between ...

stochastic-management

• this is the first important non-intuitive thing about KYC and ...

strategy

• Strategy can only be employed top-down, so it’s not a ...
• To ensure your strategy is operating at the right altitude, ...
• **Are you confident the strategy will create leverage?** Strategies require ...
• **Are you willing and able to enforce the strategy?** If ...
• **Are you either confident in your diagnosis or do you ...
• In *Staff Engineer*, I argued that writing an engineering strategies ...
• A strategy is composed of three parts: 1. **Diagnosis:** a ...

stream-processing

• Data can be processed as *unbounded* or *bounded* streams. 1. ...

supplementals-10287441

• The central thesis of this book is precisely that an ...

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• At minimum, open source projects hosted on GitHub can be ...
• Developers don’t contribute to open source for lack of technical ...
• Bigger projects often use a formal “request for comments” (RFC) ...
• Paying a maintainer for their attention can also translate into ...
• Before there was a de facto platform for hosting code, ...
• As for subscriptions, paywalls might seem like a way to ...

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• What I’ve found most successful is to identify a few ...
• I can’t stress enough that these fixes are slow. This ...
• The expected time to complete a new task approaches infinity ...

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• The Gestalists showed that there was no obvious relationship between ...
• It confirmed Biederman’s sense that “most advances in science come ...

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• Sometimes we love to grandstand to an audience of strangers ...

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• “How does writing help you think?” “That is a good ...
• “We like the idea that there’s always someone responsible for ...
• People are made of stories. Our memories are not the ...
• “Coincidence and intention are two sides of a tapestry, my ...

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• That whole summer in Colorado was a data-gathering bust, but ...
• And some of these things we do, and some of ...
• There are a hundred species or so known as “resurrection ...
• A chilly autumn brings on the same hardening as a ...
• Ask a science professor what she worries about. It won’t ...
• Being paid to wonder seems like a heavy responsibility at ...
• When you are in the forest, for every tree that ...
• Every species on Earth—past or present, from the single-celled microbe ...
• I wanted to be studying plant growth, but science for ...
• People are like plants: they grow toward the light. I ...
• My laboratory is like a church because it is where ...
• Science has taught me that everything is more complicated than ...
• He taught me that there is no shame in breaking ...
• Working in the hospital teaches you that there are only ...

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• He has wondered lately if that’s all living really is—one ...

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• There is generally no judicial remedy for a policy that ...
• The full cycle went like this: when a neighborhood first ...

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• Instead of pathologizing every human quirk, we should say, By ...

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• In a 2003 memoir called Where the Money Is: True ...
• Today, nearly 150 years later, burglary and architecture still go ...

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• That was where I caught the connection between a college ...
• Remember that when you’re in the right you can afford ...

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• Lastly, in a sense this is a religious course: I ...
• In a lifetime of many, many independent choices, small and ...
• Education is what, when, and why to do things. Training ...

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• No, students of Systemantics, Positive Feedback into a large System ...
• A COMPLEX SYSTEM THAT WORKS IS INVARIABLY FOUND TO HAVE ...
• Charles Darwin made it a rule to write down immediately ...
• ANERGY-STATE. Any state or condition of the Universe, or of ...

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• The Platonic fold is the explosive boundary where the Platonic ...

surveillance

• And it was this work that really opened my eyes ...

survivalism

• The **Lindy effect** (also known as **Lindy's Law**1 is a ...
• to meet a future full of catastrophe, we need to ...
• It’s not like survival, resilience, perseverance and strength in the ...
• Scavenge-friendly electronics are parts that are no longer manufactured, but ...
• Utilizing what has survived the collapse of industrial production or ...
• A post-collapse society that has eventually lost all of its ...
• Collapse informatics prioritizes community needs and aims to contribute to ...
• **Designing for Descent** ensures that a system is resilient to ...

systems

• I was taken with this cybernetic description of an aircraft ...
• Speaking from a systems design point of view, we say ...
• You are not the system
• Amdahl's law is often used in [parallel computing] to predict ...
• From the point of view of relationshps which appears in ...
• Principles of Good Systems ⬢
• ANY LARGE SYSTEM IS GOING TO BE OPERATING MOST OF ...
• No, students of Systemantics, Positive Feedback into a large System ...
• A COMPLEX SYSTEM THAT WORKS IS INVARIABLY FOUND TO HAVE ...
• ANERGY-STATE. Any state or condition of the Universe, or of ...
• A pattern as a form/context pair and a generic set ...
• centers and generative process ...
• Christopher Alexander: A Primer
• In general, the chief compliance officer at any company has ...
• Programmable notes are note-taking systems that allow you to write ...
• leaders work *on* the system, not *in* the system ...
• Tags are primarily used for both *querying* , or discovering ...
• The room is architected for discussions and decisions, not just ...
• In October of last year, YouTube creator and fandom expert ...
• the [Law of stretched systems]: > Every system is stretched ...
• What I’ve found most successful is to identify a few ...
• I can’t stress enough that these fixes are slow. This ...
• The expected time to complete a new task approaches infinity ...
• Whenever you want to change your behavior, you can simply ...
• Goals are about the results you want to achieve. Systems ...
• In a 2003 memoir called Where the Money Is: True ...
• THE MEANING OF A COMMUNICATION IS THE BEHAVIOUR THAT RESULTS. ...

taxes

• The IRS [says]: 'To be deductible, a business expense must ...

taxonomy

• Tags are primarily used for both *querying* , or discovering ...

teams

• Scenius” is Brian Eno’s term meaning *communal genius* and [last ...
• The expected time to complete a new task approaches infinity ...

theme

• How to use Simply Jekyll features on your website

tolerance

• In general, the chief compliance officer at any company has ...

tools

• Text inputs have no affordances When I go up the ...
• **Good tools let the user choose when to switch between ...
• Screenshotting as one of the essential underrated tools of the ...
• exactly the same thing goes for spaced repetition right you ...
• **Accretive** tools build over time. Developer tools tend to work ...
• **Ephemeral** tools are about the conversation. Slack is one. Zoom ...
• The room is architected for discussions and decisions, not just ...
• to the extent that we view ourselves as mechanisms, we ...
• in the web, it makes sense that links should reflect ...
• There’s a third impact of AI harder to spot and ...
• A tool is something that takes an existing workflow, and ...
• The value of a product is the number of problems ...

training

• Top-tier athletes are fanatically disciplined about improving their foundational skills—skills ...
• [Athletes and musicians pursue virtuosity in fundamental skills much more ...

types

• Another way this is noted is that Factories are “pure ...
• The Factory should create new objects, while the Repository should ...
• For immutable Value Objects it means that all attributes are ...
• Choose one Entity to be the root of each Aggregate, ...
• An Aggregate is a group of associated objects which are ...

urban-planning

• Architect Albert Pope offers a better explanation in his excellent ...
• *brown lands* , a semi-obsolete urban planning term that encompasses ...
• An edge city is a dense, auto-oriented job center arising ...
• In a 2003 memoir called Where the Money Is: True ...
• Today, nearly 150 years later, burglary and architecture still go ...

validation

• *Epistemology* is the study of knowledge – how we know ...

vendors

• **Default to vendors unless it’s our core competency.** You can ...

venture-capital

• Thompson’s argument in that post is that Silicon Valley *used ...
• The entrepreneur is the customer and the LP is the ...

war

• Then the big parks, which are beautiful and well maintained. ...

weight-training

• And then along came Brad Schoenfeld and Co., who laid ...

work

• **THE PRIORITIZATION MATRIX** All of the projects and activities on ...
• The process and the practice: Sources and habits Seeds Experimentation ...
• Often, in making edits to a work: The ego comes ...
• A river of material flows through us. When we share ...
• Art doesn't get made on the clock. But it can ...
• Believing a certain mood or state is necessary to do ...
• Just one habit, at the top of any field, can ...
• Discipline and freedom seem like opposites. In reality, they are ...
• **Every change in medium is a learning experience.** Paint and ...
• First of all, if you’re talking to a manager, they ...
• In knowledge work we barely recognize the difference between immersive ...
• Separate the processes of creating from improving. You can’t write ...
• What we are trying to do influences what becomes salient ...
• A challenge with big projects is that what you're working ...
• solo creative work is about a combination of maintaining a ...
• **A few desirable qualities for creative contexts:** Note that very ...
• Reports are more a medium of self-discipline than a way ...
• Charles Darwin made it a rule to write down immediately ...
• If something is rotten in an org, the root cause ...
• I make a practice of regularly checking in about whether ...
• Bill Thurston [writes]: > Mathematics is a process of staring ...
• When you start a creative project but don’t finish, the ...
• Motivation factors include challenging work, recognition, responsibility, and personal growth ...
• i thought, or hoped, that not caring would protect me, ...
• Give considered thought to what is “worth our attention in ...
• Around here [I often quote] the most important thing I learned ...
• Another lesson is that, when junior investment bankers work all ...
• something called [the Hermeneutic circle], which [Ryan Kitchens] described as ...
• Being paid to wonder seems like a heavy responsibility at ...
• Recollection is such a small, basic part of thinking! There ...
• My laboratory is like a church because it is where ...
• He taught me that there is no shame in breaking ...
• It’s not a surprise when a scientist is surprised. That’s ...
• Volunteering to do emotional labor—even when you don’t feel like ...
• If your organization wanted to replace you with someone far ...

writing

• “How does writing help you think?” “That is a good ...
• But here is his best line: > Taleb had been ...
• I’ve been thinking of a kind of article I commonly ...
• To write about something hard to explain, write a detailed ...
• The promotion of brainstorming as a starting point is all ...
• An idea kept private is as good as one you ...
• Forget your generalized audience. In the first place, the nameless, ...
• The unit of blogging isn’t pageviews, it’s conversations. Don’t worry ...
• MAY This word, or the adjective 'OPTIONAL', mean that an ...
• MUST This word, or the terms 'REQUIRED' or 'SHALL', mean ...
• Top-tier athletes are fanatically disciplined about improving their foundational skills—skills ...
• In *Staff Engineer*, I argued that writing an engineering strategies ...
• **Campfires** - mostly blogging for me, though I know some ...
• the questions my favourite writing professor would ask. • Do ...
• Interlace is “the device of interweaving of a number of ...
• When you start a creative project but don’t finish, the ...
• updates establish a persistent drip of information from you to ...
• you can significant improve the quality of internal communcations within ...
• **Accretive** tools build over time. Developer tools tend to work ...
• **Ephemeral** tools are about the conversation. Slack is one. Zoom ...
• His only real hope of avoiding many years in prison ...
• Writing is nature’s way of letting you know how sloppy ...