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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
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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
- Collection 1 card
Cool tools
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Awesome terminal
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Local first
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Tech right analysis
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Security?
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Tech and Law
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the AI of it all
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understanding events
- Collection 1 card
vc stuff
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development
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atproto stuff
Recently filed
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Issue 102 – The public will pay
Justin Sun buys his way out of an SEC fraud case, Iranian transactions on Binance draw DOJ scrutiny as the exchange sues the newspaper that reported on them, and crypto super PACs dump millions into Tuesday’s primaries in Illinois.
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Why Meta is retreating from encryption
In 2019, Mark Zuckerberg called privacy the future of social networking. Not anymore
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Marathon is a satire
Bungie's latest is a subtle but vicious comedy about work, debt and the corporate world
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The most brilliant move in corporate history?
In a bold departure from its Big Tech peers, Apple sidestepped the $650 billion AI infrastructure spending frenzy, a move likened to opting out of purchasing the US Navy annually. While Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Meta funneled cash into data centers, transforming from cash cows into debt-laden entities, Apple maintained a modest $14 billion capital…
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Reflections on Habermas; Luzzato's "The First Fascist"
Reading, Watching 03.15.26
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Why Hasn’t AI Made Work Easier?
<p>I’ve been studying the intersection of digital technology and office work for quite some time. (I find it hard to believe that my book, Deep ... <a title="Why Hasn’t AI Made Work Easier?" class="read-more" href="https://calnewport.com/why-hasnt-ai-made-work-easier/" aria-label="Read more about Why Hasn’t AI Made Work Easier?">Read more</a></p> <p>The post <a href="https://calnewport.com/why-hasnt-ai-made-work-easier/">Why Hasn’t AI Made Work Easier?</a> appeared first on <a href="https://calnewport.com">Cal Newport</a>.</p>
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Agents Over Bubbles
Agents are fundamentally changing the shape of demand for compute, both in terms of how they work and in terms of who will use them. They're so compelling that I no longer believe we're in a bubble.
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ImportAI 449: LLMs training other LLMs; 72B distributed training run; computer vision is harder than generative text
Will AI cause a political interregnum
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The next phase of open models
Markets, capabilities, cope, and bewilderment in the industrialization of language models.
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“Network” is a prayer, not a prophecy
There is a story that Max Brod, Franz Kafka’s friend and literary executor, once told about a conversation he had with the novelist in 1920:
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The End of Children
Birth rates are crashing around the world. Should we be worried? Gideon Lewis-Kraus reports.
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The KDO Rolodex Is Now a Wee Feed Reader?
Hello, good afternoon! As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I have a bunch of new stuff for KDO in the pipeline. I’ve been focused on backend infrastructure recently
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What do "which is A.I.?" quizzes tell us?
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Cantrip: On summoning entities from language in circles
With Cantrip, deepfates reimagines the fundamentals of language model agents. Available as a ghost library with generative test specification.
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Collections: Warfare in Dune, Part II: The Fremen Jihad
This is the second part (I, II) of our somewhat silly look about the plausibility of warfare in Frank Herbert’s Dune. Last week, we looked at the system of warfare that is dominant in the setting when the first book opens: warfare among the Great Houses. While I noted some worldbuilding issues I see – … <a href="https://acoup.blog/2026/03/13/collections-warfare-in-dune-part-ii-the-fremen-jihad/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Collections: Warfare in Dune, Part II: The Fremen Jihad</span> <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>
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The Shape of the Thing
Where we are right now, and what likely happens next
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Grief and the AI Split
TL;DR: AI-assisted coding is revealing a split among developers that was always there but invisible when we all worked the same way. I've felt the grief too—but mine resolved differently than I expected, and I think that says something about what kind of developer I've been all along.
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Temporal: The 9-Year Journey to Fix Time in JavaScript
JavaScript's Date object has been a source of bugs for three decades. Temporal, which just reached Stage 4, is a modern replacement with immutable types, first-class time zone and calendar support, and nanosecond precision. This is the story of how Bloomberg, Igalia, and the TC39 community spent nine years turning an idea into a shipping standard.