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Library
Cards and collections from my Semble library. Pages saved for later, grouped into shelves I return to. 1015 cards, 26 shelfves.
Shelves
26 collections- Collection 9 cards
Modern reading apps
Cool apps to help you read better
- Collection 792 cards
Skyreader Saves
- Collection 2 cards
toread
- Collection 1 card
To process
- Collection 2 cards
Building with agents
- Collection 3 cards
Protocol thinking
- Collection 4 cards
Cybernetics
- Collection 1 card
Cryptocurrency
It's bad
- Collection 2 cards
Thinking about thinking
- Collection 2 cards
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 9 cards
Security?
- Collection 1 card
Tech and Law
- Collection 118 cards
the AI of it all
- Collection 5 cards
understanding events
- Collection 1 card
vc stuff
- Collection 12 cards
development
- Collection 19 cards
atproto stuff
Recently filed
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Guardian Angels: LLM Personalization for Productivity and Security
I propose an approach for highly personalized LLMs, for near-future productivity gains and personal info/cybersecurity against increasingly powerful LLMs: they should, in the spirit of uploading, try to emulate the user’s values and preferences in order to amplify the principal—not replace them. I discuss a package of techniques and proposals to accomplish such ‘guardian angels’; dynamic evaluation of LLMs combined with active learning and elicitation and heavy inner-monologue search/data-augmentation.
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“Reckless” Ben’s Videos Keep Getting More Damning. His Pro Se Lawyering Keeps Getting Worse.
One thing that we’ve heard for many years in covering a variety of ridiculous civil and criminal court cases is the belief that when a crazy case is filed, the person accused of wrongdoing should “just walk into court and tell the judge what really happened.” While that might feel right, it’s really not how […]
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Latent Space as a New Medium
Lately I’ve been asking myself: what might artificial intelligence be good for besides answering questions and writing code?
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What will be left for us to work on?
My keynote at ICML 2026
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Better Call Sol The Workhorse
OpenAI’s GPT-5.6-Sol is finally here, along with the cheaper Terra and Luna.
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Is my ATProto app actually decentralized?
A few days ago I wrote about rolld, the little board game tracker I built on the AT Protocol. As I mentioned then, this is very much a learning experiment for me, a way to play with ATProto and learn about it. In this post, I'd like to come back to a few of my struggles and the things I learned while designing it.
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The loudest warning about AI and jobs yet
200 economists and AI leaders say something big is happening. What should we do about it? Plus: Apple sues OpenAI
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Self-promotion without the ick (thanks Claude)
To be brutally honest, this (making Claude my social media manager) all started because I felt inadequate about self-promotion. And being an engineer, my response to feeling bad about something is to ask what I can build and what data would make the feeling go away. So at the start of the year I built […]
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What Does Claude Need to Be My Social Media Manager?
I have a problem that I suspect others reading this share: my content is spread across too many places, and I have no coherent picture of what’s actually working. I post on Mastodon, Bluesky …
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Why Reading Matters
<p>Last week, Rose Horowitch published a splashy Atlantic article titled “The End of Reading is Here.” (Ironically, given the subject matter, it weighed in at ... <a title="Why Reading Matters" class="read-more" href="https://calnewport.com/why-reading-matters/" aria-label="Read more about Why Reading Matters">Read more</a></p> <p>The post <a href="https://calnewport.com/why-reading-matters/">Why Reading Matters</a> appeared first on <a href="https://calnewport.com">Cal Newport</a>.</p>
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6 months to live for open models
The most serious test to date of open source AI’s viability is happening right now.
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The End of Reading Is Here
Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history.
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The Taste Essay
Taste cultures, risk, cruelty, and kindness
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Selective Optimism: a critique of AI 2040
Some context for this post: I’ve been working part-time as a consultant for the AI Futures Project over the last year.
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Introduction for and Reactions to Plan A
Introducing Plan A
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Degeneracy is a Symptom
On Conspicuous Despair, the Ponzi stage of being alive, and why your grandparents are wrong about you.
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The Decline of Deviance 2
2 Decline, 2 Deviance
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The Decline of Deviance
Where has all the weirdness gone?
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Veblen Bads 2: Dejection Boogaloo.
Repressed of the Obra Dinn
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Jonathan Haidt’s Claims On Kids & Tech Crumble Under Scrutiny From Top Expert, Candice Odgers
Jonathan Haidt’s incredibly well-timed decision to surf on the wave of a moral panic about kids and social media has made him a false hero for many parents and educators. In my review, I noted that his book, “The Anxious Generation,” is written in a way that makes adults struggling with the world today feel…
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AI 2040: Plan A
A detailed forecast and recommendation for how the US, China and the rest of the world should navigate superintelligence.
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Introducing AI 2027
Or maybe 2028, it's complicated