SaaS vs. Libraries: From Humanware to Machineware

Be History or Do History

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Thesis Drift

On The Meaning of Ritual

Why Status Is Confusing

Love and Other Unrealizable Utopian Projects

The Moat of Low Status

The Illusions of Barbell Theory

My "Are you presuming most people are stupid?" test

Develop the Taste for Shit

Notes on Creative Transparency

Preserving Sacredness

Ruthless prioritization while the dog pees on the floor

Context Is All You Need

Are you stuck in movie logic?

Self-Sabotage

Open the Door

What Happened to Working Your Way Up from the Mailroom?

The Scandal of Outdated Science

Jane Austen's Rake Problem

The Art of Understanding What's Going On

Computing Is Efficient

Nobody Complains About CGI

The Delight of Specificity

Paik: Misanthropy and Narcissism

Tying Yourself to the Mast

The Vegan Holocaust

Who do you go to for advice?

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The Spectacle of "Building"

How to be an artist in the age of AI

The Coming Age of Hyper-Mediation

Your Manager Is Not Your Best Friend

The Reenchanted World

Context is all you need

Starting a company working on hard problems

The Dawn of Infinite Code

Stories Are Behavior, Understood

What heuristics reliably help you understand things much more deeply?

Maybe You're Not Trying

Overlooked Films

The pleasure of reading private notebooks

Steve Albini Proposal Letter to Nirvana for in Utero

When you belong nowhere, you choose somewhere to call home

AI, Heidegger, and Evangelion

If a Person Was a House

Close Reading Is for Everyone

Everyone Here Is in a Cult

Alex Danco on the culture of gift-giving that powers Silicon Valley

The Wonder of Modern Drywall

The Signature and the Shadow

I Want a Squire

Competing Elite-Selection Mechanisms

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Infinite Playgrounds: The Building of AI-Native Worlds (Part I)

Book Review: Nadia's Antimemetics

A Philosophy of Conversation

Remarks on AI from NZ

Literature Is So Back

The irrepressible monkey in the machine (2023)

Choice at Different Abstraction Levels

What problem should you be working on now?

Lessons for YouTubers [Thread]

Wisdom Without Words

Palantir built the ultimate founder factory – Nabeel S. Qureshi

Observations from people-watching

What to do about the decline of the humanities

Seeing Like a State University

How to Cultivate Great Taste

Forensic Fandom

The Lenny Rachitsky Playbook

Vibecore: The Economics of Authenticity

Bangkok Diary, 2025

The Difficulty in Dating Good Men

Sometimes the reason you can’t find people you resonate with is because...

Bullshit Advice

My History with Philosophy

Alien Poop Means We Are Not Alone. But Let Me Just Adjust This Model Parameter

The Ecstasy of Deep Influence

Emails for Humans

Graham Duncan: Talent Whisperer

Meditations on Investing

Autoamputation Flow

The Scale of Ownership: Why Fundamental Innovation Can't Be Rented

Repeat great words, repeat them stubbornly

Terms of Centaur Service

The Race Is on to Redesign Everything for AI Agents

Rehearsing Possible Lives

2027 Intelligence Explosion – Scott Alexander and Daniel Kokotajlo

Understanding Demand

Chasing Shadows: The Hidden Trap of Mistaking Outputs for Inputs

The Lottery of Fascinations (2013)

Civilization Was Built on Madness