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2025
» Jan 1, 2025
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2024
» Jan 19, 2024
- Cool phrase - Felix culpa, a happy accident.
- Free murder mysteries!
- Shein competing with Amazon in fast fashion.
- How to scale nuclear power.
- Extreme brainstorming questions to trigger new, better ideas.
- The best cheeses of 2023
- Plan for awe
- NYC guide
- Deciding whether an investment is worthwhile, finding fulfillment, how to set a vision
- The industrial sector is responsible for about 25% of global CO2 emissions, and most industrial sectors are already in a position to cut an average of 85% of emissions. Link
- Decarbonization in 2024
- Work out to help the 220 other versions of yourself in a week
- How to write stuff no one else can. When finishing an interview, ask “Who else do you think I should talk to about this?”
- Disorder is not a mistake; it is the default. Order is always artificial and temporary.
- Death Spirals
- Everything is Waiting for You
- The birth of modern AI
- Plotter artist
- The origin of COVID-19 was more likely zoonosis than lab leak.
- Tarpit ideas
- Best old fashioned recipes
- 100 deep questions
- Turn trash to ash - “The Phoenix can thermally reduce 4-8 tons of unsorted municipal solid waste – plastic, Styrofoam, food waste – into 3% ash every 24 hours. It operates without using fuel or producing toxic emissions, and at less than half the cost of landfill tipping fees.”
- Do you have 1 year of experience repeated 20 times or 20 years experience?
- Ambition’s gravity
- Public speaking: reframe anxiety as excitement
- When people imagine how things could be different, they almost always imagine how things could be better.
- It’s more advantageous to structure decisions to be easily reversible than to take too much time trying to make the perfect choice.
- Designing a delightful dark theme
- How to avoid plastic at the grocery store.
- Maine leading the way on legislation to extend producer responsibility for packaging.
- 101 additional advices
- Growth and brand strategy consultant
- Copying helps you develop your own style.
- Are you hunting antelope or field mice?
- Anthropic tries to explain how LLM works.
- Take ownership of your future self.
- Simple Solution to the Problem of False-Positive Publications.
- Investigate further
- You can rationalize just about anything.
- Tracking the climate crisis with OKRs
- Sean Ellis (Hacking Growth) recently completed a world tour and said NuBank is the most interesting company he found. Incredible organic growth and deep product market understanding.
- How VCs become jerks
- Alarmist narratives about misinformation might greatly exaggerate its prevalence and effects.
- Multivitamins don’t seem to extend life
- Naming a company
- One page Event Websites
- 60 AI tools to start an online business in 2024
- Avoid oxybenzone in sunscreen
- Why small annoyances can harm us more than big disruptions: the region-beta paradox
- Hardware for lucid dreaming
- “It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.”
- “The major reason for setting goals is to compel you to become the person it takes to achieve them.”
- How to price a data asset
- How to get out of the bog
- Don’t put this off - take care of yourself
- Intensive lifestyle changes often improve cognition in early Alzheimer’s
- Profile of Palmer Luckey
- Profile of Tom Wolfe
- Profile of Alex Karp
- Corrugated board grades explained
- Thoughts on creating a personal CRM in Airtable
- Which utilities are green button participants?
- CDR Leaderboard
- Cool website founded by guy complaining about NASA
- Takeaways from Outlive
- Sunset - Helps startups shut down
- Content marketing and X presence growth ideas
- Peter Thiel class notes
- How the semiconductor industry actually works
- Dataset of hardware synthesizers, samplers, and drum machines produced since 1896
- Market prices are not probabilities of winning an election
- Let’s terraform Nevada?
- Israel is the world leader in desalination
- Lessons from a first exit
- Climate footprint calculator
- Employee performance is closer to a Pareto distribution than Gaussian. This means low performers are 3x as common as high performers.
- Words as weapons: How equity language derails education reform
- Vaccine risks and rewards - Today’s vaccine schedule was created for convenience, and doctors recommend so many shots so soon after birth primarily because they are concerned that parents won’t return for future shots. Maybe the Swiss schedule is better
- It does not take much effort to be a high performer
- Startup to watch: Airship Industries
- We can upgrade our transmission lines with a new type of wire: a core made of carbon fiber, surrounded by trapezoidal pieces of aluminum. This will double electricity throughput compared to legacy steel wires.
- 2024 album of the year compilation
- Lessons for a new manager
- Dwarkesh Patel’s notes on China
- Large solar project in Arizona
- An interview with Drew Houston, the founder of Dropbox
The best tacit knowledge videos on every subject
- Having better conversations
- How to make AI think like a focus group
- The impact of BCL6 on maintaining muscle mass.
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2023
» Jan 16, 2023
- Cool word alert: Armamentarium - a collection of resources available for a certain purpose.
- Anatomy of a good conversation
- Pick a monster, not an enemy.
- How to make friends as an adult.
- Try marinating meat with mayo.
- How to forgive yourself.
- Advice on managing people.
- Some thoughts on the evolution of boundary setting.
- Improving indoor air quality
- “The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less; time is ample and its passage sweet.” - link
- You can’t reach the brain through the ears
- The scents of history at AromaPrime
- Avoid the creation of scar tissue
- Satisficing vs maximizing and a method for making important decisions. Rocks, pebbles sand.
- 100 tips for a better life
- Psychedelic first responders - Tripsit.me
- Failure is a habit
- The bad patient - “As the only person in a position to testify about how he or she feels, the patient is the victim, neutral witness, and scene of the crime.”
- By limiting work to 4 hours per day, will give you more agency and cause you to enjoy the work more.
- Questions
- Reality is very weird
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
- Admiral Stockdale - “You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end, which you can never afford to lose, with the discipline of confronting the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they may be.”
- Sam Altman - How to be successful
- How to communicate when trust is low
- Monotype is monopolizing the font industry
- Doing great work - “It will probably be harder to start working than to keep working. You’ll often have to trick yourself to get over that initial threshold. Don’t worry about this; it’s the nature of work, not a flaw in your character. Work has a sort of activation energy, both per day and per project. And since this threshold is fake in the sense that it’s higher than the energy required to keep going, it’s ok to tell yourself a lie of corresponding magnitude to get over it.”
- Healthcare in India
- Andrew Wilkinson -routines
- Simple Fragrance Method Boosts Cognitive Capacity by 226%
- Secretary problem
- Book rec: Good Strategy, Bad Strategy - A strategy is a high-level plan to achieve one or more goals under conditions of uncertainty, designed through recognizing the challenge (diagnosis), setting a direction to overcome it (guiding policy), and detailing steps to implement the policy (coherent actions) - link.
- Try using the ladder of inference to reach a shared conclusion without conflict.
- The Work by Byron Katie to examine your beliefs.
- Consumers say they want sustainability. So why don’t their wallets show it?
- Halfsies - A game of shapes and strategies.
- Gates Notes on AI and introducing GPTs
- Deep sea treasure hunters
- Using AI to map scents
- The carbon footprint of generating AI images is not good
- Alternatives to nuclear power in East Africa
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2022
» Feb 4, 2022
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1/1/20
» Jan 1, 2020
- Autobiography of a famous Instagrammer
- The Crane Wife
- Stories of escape
- 50 ways to be generous
- Dopamine fasting
- Subtract
- Neumann’s charisma was intoxicating to be around. “If you had to go to war, you wanted him to be your general,” a former executive said. “His sense of himself is beyond human,” recalled another.
- Convince a conservative of a liberal viewpoint by appealing to respect for authority or something else they value, and make sure they know that you are listening to them.
- Story of the two lights
- Be more careful, but more importantly build a better system
- Do one creative thing every day before you start dealing with BS. For me it doesn’t seem like great advice, I like creative outlets as a break or as a focus. I don’t assign personal value to producing continuous creative output.
- The psychology of being late. Overly optimistic, reluctance to change gears, undervaluing of self. Or just arrogance. Only way to change is to actually want it.
- The cofounder of Wired - •Anything real begins with the fiction of what could be. Imagination is therefore the most potent force in the universe, and a skill you can get better at. It’s the one skill in life that benefits from ignoring what everyone else knows.
- Minerals at British Museum
- Wakaresaseya - Ending a relationship via paid sabotage
- When an abuser is given a boundary, to them it will feel like abuse