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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.
- Collection 7 cards
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
- Collection 20 cards
Cool Atmosphere apps
- Collection 9 cards
Internet sensemaking
- Collection 5 cards
The structure of social media
- Collection 9 cards
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
Recently filed
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This Is Your Brain on X
Shifting the Vibes Again
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Understanding is the new bottleneck
Agents can write code faster than we can absorb it. Here's why it still matters for humans to understand what they build — and some techniques for doing that efficiently: explainer docs, quizzes, micro-worlds, and shared spaces.
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No-One Makes You Shop at Amazon
Responding to Noah Smith
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Monthly Roundup #45: August 2026
As AI has escalated increasingly quickly, more and more of my posts have ended up focusing on AI.
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AI #181: Astra Goes Cyber Critical
The hacking of HuggingFace by an internal OpenAI model, and more importantly the internal events that led to that and the fallout from it, remain the thing that matters.
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The shapeshifter’s little brother
Thoughts on the Meta CEO’s recent essay on AI, “The Future Is for Everyone”—less a manifesto, and more like nine blog posts in a trenchcoat.
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Why LLMs Are Bad Writers But Good Editors
my new Atlantic essay + Claude editor setup
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Deep Research, information vs. insight, and the nature of science
What AI will accelerate in the scientific process, what it cannot do, and how we can prepare for new manners of scientific investigation.
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for Server User-Agents
Notes from the 41st IIW
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Introducing Delta
From the Zed Blog: A multiplayer environment for coding with agents, from the creators of Zed.
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I wrote an AI textbook — how long until AI can do it better?
Reflections on AI's writing ability and how AI models get more capable.
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The End of Mathematics
<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">I am a professor at the University of Toronto. I completed my PhD at Stanford in 2015.</p><p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Broadly speaking, I am interested in the interplay between algebraic geometry and number theory (and, to a lesser extent, topology). Most of my work has focused on using arithmetic techniques to study classical questions about, for example, complex algebraic varieties.</p>
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What's the point of Bibliograph?
Explaining why Bibliograph is being built and how it can benefit the ATProto ecosystem
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When Does a Specification Become a Program?
A spec can contain prose, tests, schemas, formal models, even executable code. The useful boundary is not the syntax but, rather, what survives: if you throw the implementation away, what has to remain so you can build the next one?
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Worldbuilding with Spatial Intelligence
The next stage in the development of AIs is to give them spatial intelligence.
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The Pacing of the Frontier
In the wake of the letter calling on us to prepare to potentially Pace the Frontier, there has been much discussion of when pacing the frontier would be prudent, and whether it makes sense to prepare to do so.
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Superintelligence is a dragon
What Mark Zuckerberg misunderstands about powerful AI
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Humans understand what AI cannot
In classrooms and Chinese Rooms
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Coming of a New Sun
Reporter Jenny Gesteson visits a south Texas 'dark factory' to see how the machines there - and the minds that operate them - are learning to run themselves.
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Import AI 468: 23 RSI ideas; PostTrainBench+; and how trust and transparency interplay with AI racing
Which galaxy will you choose?
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On AI Coding and Its Discontents
<p>Back in January, I received a note from a senior software engineer in Silicon Valley. He described himself as an AI skeptic who became converted ... <a title="On AI Coding and Its Discontents" class="read-more" href="https://calnewport.com/on-ai-coding-and-its-discontents/" aria-label="Read more about On AI Coding and Its Discontents">Read more</a></p> <p>The post <a href="https://calnewport.com/on-ai-coding-and-its-discontents/">On AI Coding and Its Discontents</a> appeared first on <a href="https://calnewport.com">Cal Newport</a>.</p>