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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)
- Collection 9 cards
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
- 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
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development
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atproto stuff
Recently filed
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GPT-5.5: Capabilities and Reactions
The system card for GPT-5.5 mostly told us what we expected.
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Who Asked For This?
<p>Last week, Elizabeth Lopatto published an insightful article in The Verge. It boasted an intriguing title: “Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want.” “Within ... <a title="Who Asked For This?" class="read-more" href="https://calnewport.com/who-asked-for-this/" aria-label="Read more about Who Asked For This?">Read more</a></p> <p>The post <a href="https://calnewport.com/who-asked-for-this/">Who Asked For This?</a> appeared first on <a href="https://calnewport.com">Cal Newport</a>.</p>
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GPT 5.5: The System Card
Last week, OpenAI announced GPT-5.5, including GPT-5.5-Pro.
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Our Uncertain Uncertainties
Even the experts inventing AI don’t know what will happen next.
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We Need Homes in the Delta Quadrant
Place is security, space is freedom. — Yi-Fu Tuan
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The Cloister Web: Reshaping the Political Maidan
The advent of the "Cloister Web," a conceptual space where individuals leverage Large Language Models (LLMs) to cultivate novel ideas and commit them to a persistent public memory, heralds a profound shift in our intellectual and political landscapes.
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The Octotypic Mind
Carcinization, Cognitive Prosthetics, and the Shape of Intelligence After AI
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The Cosmos and the Model
Humboldt, the Romantics, and What AI Loses by Averaging
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The Lightening of Intent
Why Execution Got Cheap and Intent Got Live
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The Viscous Frontier
How to Move When the Machine Stops Pulling
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AI in World Machine Theory
The telos of AI is to create liveness at planetary scale
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The Divergence Machine II
Progress as a non-stationary argument
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AI #165: In Our Image
This was the week of Claude Opus 4.7.
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Modeling Software With Quint - Zicklag's Leaflets
I believe having good abstractions is key to writing good code. But as a coder, I often write code in an effort to find those abstractions…
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An Interview with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian About the Agentic Moment
An interview with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian about Google's cloud priorities, enterprise agent platform, and Google’s integration advantage.
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Stop Begging Big Tech To Fix Your Social Media Experience. You Can Do It Yourself.
Disclaimer: This post talks about Bluesky and an offering from Bluesky and I am on the Bluesky board. Take everything I say with whatever size grains of salt you feel is appropriate. I’ve written a few times now about how I think that AI tools, used carefully and thoughtfully, represent our best chance at taking […]
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Opus 4.7 Part 3: Model Welfare
It is thanks to Anthropic that we get to have this discussion in the first place.
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Repositories Are Human/Agent Knowledge Factories
We argue that source repositories are no longer just containers for human-authored code — they are containers and generators of knowledge supporting the interaction of humans with AI agents. Taking this perspective demands that we rethink how we structure projects, write documentation, and more broadly how we rethink the entire software development process. We draw […]
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Announcing: Navigating the AI Shift
For a lot of people, AI started out as a net negative. You’re reviewing documents someone couldn’t be bothered to write themselves. You’re having your time wasted by PRs generated by someone who never tried to understand the problem. The efficiency gains everyone keeps talking about haven’t really shown up in your week – but […]
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AI as a Fascist Artifact
(This is a bit of a merger of two talks I recently gave about fascism and AI. One was in German at the Cables Of Resistance conference, one in English at the Milton Wolf Seminar on Media and Diplomacy. I added some shots of the slides I used as a structure for the text which […]
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Opus 4.7 Part 2: Capabilities and Reactions
Claude Opus 4.7 raises a lot of key model welfare related concerns.