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Library
Cards and collections from my Semble library. Pages saved for later, grouped into shelves I return to. 1427 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
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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
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vc stuff
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development
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atproto stuff
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Nine Months of The Spreadsheet: What AI Taught Me About How I Work
In February I wrote about The Spreadsheet: one tab per week, a column for each area of my life, and a green/yellow/red rating for impact and vibe. Every Monday I feed it to Claude and ask “how did I do?” and “what can I learn?” Nine months in, I’m still doing it. And with that […]
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Politics Gets Interested In Those Trying Not To Die
This was the month the world took notice that AI might kill everyone.
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The Curious About Everything Newsletter #66
The many interesting things I read in August 2026
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Alice GG • Attention is all you have
The Tetris effect is one of psychology’s most easy to reproduce experiments.Simply spend a bit of time playing the eponymous game every day for a few weeks.A...
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The current balance of power in open models
The expanded form of a testimony I prepared for Congress.
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Import AI 473: The US's superintelligence strategy; human brain in a mouse skull; and machine hermeneutics
Is the wall AI is hitting in the room with us right now?
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Monthly Roundup #46: September 2026
AI has taken over this blog.
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What I get out of effective altruism
Part 1: The EA story of the world
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Better Call Sol Or Better Yet Claude or Astra
What should your AI lawyer do for you?
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Humanism without (All) Humans
Microsoft Humanism puts corporate muscle behind an overweening class of bad AI philosophies
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Theory Beyond Theorems and Proofs: A Guest Post
Scott’s foreword: I’m extremely grateful to my brilliant colleagues, Pravesh Kothari, Raghu Meka, and Prasad Raghavendra, for sharing the guest post below about how theoretical computer science (and in particlar, the STOC/FOCS/SODA conferences) should evolve to deal with the AI asteroid that’s right now slamming into our field, at least as we human theorists have […]
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#785: Phoning home
Plus: Synthetic content, crashing for clicks and participatory vicarious nostalgia
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International relations has a problem with the future
Then, so does everything else
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Sayaka Murata’s Alien Eye
A Profile of the author of the new book “Vanishing World,” plus “Convenience Store Woman,” both translated from the Japanese by Ginny Tapley Takemori. Elif Batuman reports.
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Why I still haven’t bought into true RSI
An “AI moderate’s” view on recent events and the trajectory of frontier models.
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'Ask for what you want' is a key skill for the 21st century
<p>Takes practice, and a bit of audacity. <a href="https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/ask-for-what-you-want/">Read here.</a></p>
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Don’t treat surface-level metaphors about AI as if they describe fundamental reality
Debates about whether AI is a “tool” or whether it’s wrong to “anthropomorphize” it often seem confused about what reality is made of
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Anthropic Looks At Some Of Its Alignment Problems
Anthropic has given us its assessment of four ‘recent cybersecurity incidents’ involving Claude that happened during cybersecurity evaluations, three of which were previously known.
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The Overhang
Using your deep knowledge, wide knowledge, taste, and agency
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The Overhang
Using your deep knowledge, wide knowledge, taste, and agency
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On the Loose
The Coming of Userless Agents
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The Preference Cascade Is Only Getting Started
We are in the midst of a preference cascade about existential risk from AI.