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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.
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p(doom)
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Modern reading apps
Cool apps to help you read better
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Skyreader Saves
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toread
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To process
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Building with agents
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Protocol thinking
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Cybernetics
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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
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Internet sensemaking
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The structure of social media
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Books I've been reading
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Tools for thought
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Cool tools
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Awesome terminal
- Collection 8 cards
Local first
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Tech right analysis
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Security?
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Tech and Law
- Collection 153 cards
the AI of it all
- Collection 5 cards
understanding events
- Collection 1 card
vc stuff
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development
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atproto stuff
Recently filed
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The political economy of billionaire derangement
The passions are devouring the interests
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'love island' and the mirror of red pill ideology in modern dating
red pill masculinity, the objectification of women through entertainment ecosystems—and how it helps script modern heterosexual dating culture
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Harari vs. Henrich
What science actually says about human evolution
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‘David Bowie was a crazy workaholic’: Labyrinth at 40 – an oral history
Today, Jim Henson’s dark fairytale is seen as a classic of 80s high camp. But on release, it bombed. Here, members of the cast and crew remember laughter, tricky puppets and Henson’s ‘joyful magic’
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Chili Peppers of the World: Cultivars, Species, and Heat
An illustrated guide to chili peppers of the world, organized by Capsicum species and cultivar, with notes on origin, heat, form, domestication, and global food history.
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I wanted to be Anthony Bourdain—until I met him.
CW: suicide, suicidal ideation, addiction
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Nenex: A Neural Personal Wiki Idea
Proposal for a personal wiki built on neural nets: all edits are logged & used to finetune a NN assistant in realtime.
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Guardian Angels: LLM Personalization for Productivity and Security
I propose an approach for highly personalized LLMs, for near-future productivity gains and personal info/cybersecurity against increasingly powerful LLMs: they should, in the spirit of uploading, try to emulate the user’s values and preferences in order to amplify the principal—not replace them. I discuss a package of techniques and proposals to accomplish such ‘guardian angels’; dynamic evaluation of LLMs combined with active learning and elicitation and heavy inner-monologue search/data-augmentation.
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“Reckless” Ben’s Videos Keep Getting More Damning. His Pro Se Lawyering Keeps Getting Worse.
One thing that we’ve heard for many years in covering a variety of ridiculous civil and criminal court cases is the belief that when a crazy case is filed, the person accused of wrongdoing should “just walk into court and tell the judge what really happened.” While that might feel right, it’s really not how […]
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Latent Space as a New Medium
Lately I’ve been asking myself: what might artificial intelligence be good for besides answering questions and writing code?
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What will be left for us to work on?
My keynote at ICML 2026
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Better Call Sol The Workhorse
OpenAI’s GPT-5.6-Sol is finally here, along with the cheaper Terra and Luna.
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Is my ATProto app actually decentralized?
A few days ago I wrote about rolld, the little board game tracker I built on the AT Protocol. As I mentioned then, this is very much a learning experiment for me, a way to play with ATProto and learn about it. In this post, I'd like to come back to a few of my struggles and the things I learned while designing it.
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The loudest warning about AI and jobs yet
200 economists and AI leaders say something big is happening. What should we do about it? Plus: Apple sues OpenAI
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Self-promotion without the ick (thanks Claude)
To be brutally honest, this (making Claude my social media manager) all started because I felt inadequate about self-promotion. And being an engineer, my response to feeling bad about something is to ask what I can build and what data would make the feeling go away. So at the start of the year I built […]
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What Does Claude Need to Be My Social Media Manager?
I have a problem that I suspect others reading this share: my content is spread across too many places, and I have no coherent picture of what’s actually working. I post on Mastodon, Bluesky …
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Why Reading Matters
<p>Last week, Rose Horowitch published a splashy Atlantic article titled “The End of Reading is Here.” (Ironically, given the subject matter, it weighed in at ... <a title="Why Reading Matters" class="read-more" href="https://calnewport.com/why-reading-matters/" aria-label="Read more about Why Reading Matters">Read more</a></p> <p>The post <a href="https://calnewport.com/why-reading-matters/">Why Reading Matters</a> appeared first on <a href="https://calnewport.com">Cal Newport</a>.</p>
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6 months to live for open models
The most serious test to date of open source AI’s viability is happening right now.
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The End of Reading Is Here
Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history.
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The Taste Essay
Taste cultures, risk, cruelty, and kindness
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Selective Optimism: a critique of AI 2040
Some context for this post: I’ve been working part-time as a consultant for the AI Futures Project over the last year.