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Library
Cards and collections from my Semble library. Pages saved for later, grouped into shelves I return to. 1434 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)
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Modern reading apps
Cool apps to help you read better
- Collection 1153 cards
Skyreader Saves
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toread
- Collection 1 card
To process
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Building with agents
- Collection 3 cards
Protocol thinking
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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
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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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Permissioned Data Diary 5: What’s in a Name?
In this permissioned data diary, we dive deep into the URI structure for permissioned data on atproto and use it to motivate a bunch of the larger design.
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Claude Code, Codex and Agentic Coding #8
When I started this series, everyone was going crazy for coding agents.
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Will A.I. Make College Obsolete?
Jay Caspian Kang writes that more and more families may decided that college isn’t worth the cost, amid the rise of A.I. and easily found information.
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What Will It Take to Get A.I. Out of Schools?
Jessica Winter on the increasing use of A.I. in schools, including Google’s and Anthropic’s forays into education.
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Notes from inside China's AI labs
Lessons from my trip to talk to most of the leading AI labs in China.
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'The Drama' and the microgenerational digital divide
PLUS: The "forklift model" of A.I. education
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What is Anthropic?
What is Anthropic?
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How Socialist were the National Socialists? Part 2
The Nazi Economy
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I don’t think we are close to “AI scientists”
Today's AI agents are not designed to extract deep insights from new observations.
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Aviate, Navigate, Communicate
What to do about Mythos
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Import AI 455: AI systems are about to start building themselves.
The first step towards recursive self improvement
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The distillation panic
‘Distillation attacks’ is a horrible term for what is happening right now.
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Speculations on the Future of the Scientific Method
The following essay was published 20 years ago (January, 2006) on my blog The Technium. I edited the intro here, but the speculations are basically unchanged.
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High Throughput, Low Completion
I have never been someone who organises things. I have a great memory and a high tolerance for ambiguity, and I evolved to match the era of the internet where searching things by keyword was sufficient. I documented, extensively. But I did not really organize. Not myself, nor – despite my job – other people. […]
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How Socialist were the National Socialists? Part 1
An Endless "Debate"
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Data center land use issues are fake
We have plenty of land, data centers provide more revenue per unit area than any other building, and we should have way less farmland
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Getting Gooier
How AI is transforming humans
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Notes on a non-profit indicted for bank fraud
Well-regarded non-profit runs domestic intelligence agency; distributes intelligence product; achieves adoption in financial infrastructure; recruits agents and allies; intervenes against U.S. political fundraising.
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People prefer A.I. art because people prefer bad art
A Read Max re-run
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Our Future Is Being Devoured By Feral Thought Experiments
Here's a chance to start taking it back.
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AI #166: Google Sells Out
This was the week of GPT-5.5.
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Agent Memory Patterns
A short HOW TO guide for agent memory systems. Especially the difference between blocks, files and skills.