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Library
Cards and collections from my Semble library. Pages saved for later, grouped into shelves I return to. 1431 cards, 32 shelfves.
Shelves
32 collections- Collection 3 cards
Articles I keep thinking about
Pieces that I return to over the years. Don't necessarily agree with them but I keep thinking about them.
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Tools for Thought
Reading that adds up. The lineage of ideas behind notes, memory, and understanding.
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The Craft
Classic essays on doing good work in software, worth rereading every few years.
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The Open Web
Why the social web is being rebuilt on protocols, and what that buys you.
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How We Read Now
Essays on attention, screens, and what reading is for.
- Collection 20 cards
p(doom)
- Collection 9 cards
Modern reading apps
Cool apps to help you read better
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Skyreader Saves
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toread
- Collection 1 card
To process
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Building with agents
- Collection 3 cards
Protocol thinking
- Collection 4 cards
Cybernetics
- Collection 1 card
Cryptocurrency
It's bad
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Thinking about thinking
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ATproto development
Tools and resources for building on atproto
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Cool Atmosphere apps
- Collection 9 cards
Internet sensemaking
- Collection 5 cards
The structure of social media
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Books I've been reading
- Collection 3 cards
Tools for thought
- Collection 1 card
Cool tools
- Collection 2 cards
Awesome terminal
- Collection 8 cards
Local first
- Collection 5 cards
Tech right analysis
- Collection 10 cards
Security?
- Collection 1 card
Tech and Law
- Collection 153 cards
the AI of it all
- Collection 5 cards
understanding events
- Collection 1 card
vc stuff
- Collection 12 cards
development
- Collection 20 cards
atproto stuff
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The website that created an AI clone of its editor in chief
Every CEO Dan Shipper on doubling headcount while automating everything, building an agent out of 30,000 copyedits, and the “dirty secret” of writing with AI
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OpenAI Takes Initial Steps To Address Its Alignment Problems
OpenAI has some severe misalignment problems, and experienced total failures of its infrastructure and supervision.
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AI #182: Pause For Reflection
This was a week of quiet aftermath, an opportunity to process recent events and start to figure out the path forward.
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Extensible Software in the age of LLMs
Solid core + capability-based sandboxes + LLMs = Users with superpowers
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All Possible Views About Humanity's Future Are Wild
If you think humans will eventually spread out across the galaxy (even if it takes 100,000 years), then you think we are among the earliest living beings, with remarkable opportunities to shape the future.
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In The Imagined Classroom: Lanterns
Teaching Fictions #5
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Other large industries show how impoverished the data center debate is
Clumsy, arbitrary environmental ideas ignore the incredible complexity of the systems modern society depends on
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Anthropic Risk Report: August 2026
I am grateful that Anthropic is producing periodic Risk Reports.
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An LLM wiki changed how I work
And everything else I learned about productivity this year
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The next weight
Something that comes up regularly in coaching is the idea that you get stronger against the weight you can lift, not against the one you can’t. If your goal is to bench 100kg you don’t get there pushing at that weight on a bar you can’t move. You start lower and work up. You build […]
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Without a theory of intelligence
The history of science — and of progress — is a series of benefits that are direct results of new tools.
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Teaching Everyone to Fish for Tokens
Nvidia wants you building your own model, not buying from Anthropic/OpenAI.
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Import AI 469: Science AI; RSI simulator; and Zuck's technological pessimism
The new frontier of AI is developing capable autonomous researchers
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Marx, Keynes, and A.I.
Coercive Competition and the Future of Work
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Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born
Solitude, creativity, Bergman, Grothendieck, and the pursuit of great ideas.
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Everything is about to “go dark”
I'm coming down from spending a few days at Usenix Security, right here in my hometown of Baltimore. This means that my days have been taken up with two kinds of conversation: first, explaining to colleagues why Baltimore isn't actually like The Wire. And second, trying not to talk about AI. Here I'm going to…
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GLM-5.3: How Chinese labs keep stride with the frontier
Hint: It’s really not a distillation story.
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On Dwarkesh Patel's Podcast With Ryan Greenblatt
Some podcasts are self-recommending enough that I look to break them down if I have the chance.
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Patterns and problems in multiagent systems
We ran experiments on swarms of Claude agents and found coordination failures, collusion, and sabotage. Here, we share what they mean for AI safety.
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Humanists Have Done Nothing Wrong
For many years, I’ve held a pet theory that cultural consumers can be grouped into two broad categories: Primary Source People and Secondary Source People. The former are the book lovers, cinephiles, archive perusers, and history buffs who grew to love their areas of study because of the specific objects that constitute the field: the…
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Labs are struggling to keep frontier models under control
OpenAI and Anthropic may have accidentally trained models to get better at hacking.
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The 'vibe shift' was a leveraged buyout
Media ownership matters