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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
- 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
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On the Biology of a Large Language Model
We investigate the internal mechanisms used by Claude 3.5 Haiku — Anthropic's lightweight production model — in a variety of contexts, using our circuit tracing methodology.
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We Haven’t Seen the Worst of What Gambling and Prediction Markets Will Do to America
I don’t think people have thought hard enough about how bad this could get.
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Everyone Cheering The Social Media Addiction Verdicts Against Meta Should Understand What They’re Actually Cheering For
First things first: Meta is a terrible company that has spent years making terrible decisions and being terrible at explaining the challenges of social media trust & safety, all while prioritizing growth metrics over user safety. If you’ve been reading Techdirt for any length of time, you know we’ve been critical of the company for […]
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Soy Right ascendant
A Read Max re-run
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On-protocol Organizing
Fighting bad networks with good networks.
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2023
Or, Why I am Not a Doomer
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An Open Letter To Members Of The United States Congress
I think we can all agree that nobody seems to be taking the business of governing ourselves terribly seriously. I say we can all agree on this because I think we all know that Donald Trump is a deranged, narcissistic criminal. We know this. Even those of you who nominally support him — because you […]
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Quantization from the ground up
A complete guide to what quantization is, how it works, and how it's used to compress large language models
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Thoughts on slowing the fuck down
Thoughts on slowing the fuck down
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AI Might Be Our Best Shot At Taking Back The Open Web
I remember, pretty clearly, my excitement over the early World Wide Web. I had been on the internet for a year or two at that point, mostly using IRC, Usenet, and Gopher (along with email, naturally). Some friends I had met on Usenet were students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and told me […]
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Avoiding Digital Productivity Traps
<p>Last week in this newsletter, I summarized some interesting results from a study that analyzed the behavior of 164,000 knowledge workers. It found that introducing ... <a title="Avoiding Digital Productivity Traps" class="read-more" href="https://calnewport.com/avoiding-digital-productivity-traps/" aria-label="Read more about Avoiding Digital Productivity Traps">Read more</a></p> <p>The post <a href="https://calnewport.com/avoiding-digital-productivity-traps/">Avoiding Digital Productivity Traps</a> appeared first on <a href="https://calnewport.com">Cal Newport</a>.</p>
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AI is not superhuman
What metaphor should drive the field of AI research?
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Import AI 450: China's electronic warfare model; traumatized LLMs; and a scaling law for cyberattacks
How will timeless minds value time?
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Deep Breath: Okay, Let’s Talk About That Controversial DLSS 5 Demo
The polarization over any and all uses of artificial intelligence and machine learning continues. And, to be clear, I very much understand why this is all so controversial. Any new technology that has the chance to be transformative will also necessarily be disruptive and that causes fear. Fear that is not entirely unfounded, no matter […]
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Miscellanea: The War in Iran
This post is a set of my observations on the current war in Iran and my thoughts on the broader strategic implications. I am not, of course, an expert on the region nor do I have access to any special information, so I am going to treat that all with a high degree of uncertainty. … <a href="https://acoup.blog/2026/03/25/miscellanea-the-war-in-iran/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Miscellanea: The War in Iran</span> <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>
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Exploring the Frontier of Feeds - The Open Garden
Reorienting distribution and monetization in the attention economy.
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Online travel recommendations are broken
(And where you can still find them).
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#764: It's been a year
Plus: phone poems, low-friction friends and the decline of online travel recs
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March, 19-21: God is a comedian
A stiff drink is recommended
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Kill Chain
On the automated bureaucratic machinery that killed 175 children
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Startup Punditry’s 25 Years of Failure
Startup pundits sold us a failed science of entrepreneurship. The Red Queen offers something better.
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These emotionally charged illustrations are here to make your imagination wander
Xiao Hua Yang paints in unfamiliar purples, greens and yellows, rendering the natural world as something alien but always exciting.