Adam Engst

More quotes to ponder

I am always on the lookout for sentences that make me think. Here’s a recent collection:

If you want new ideas, read old books. — Shane Parrish

To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion. — Stephen Hawking

Thousands of people don’t like what I do. Fortunately, millions do. — James Patterson

Everything that needs

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In more than thirty years as a writer, editor, and publisher, I have, to my best reckoning, introduced, abridged, issued or reissued, and read nearly every major work of inspirational literature produced or translated into English.

Based on experience, the “rules” of effective living—at least those I consider befitting an ethical and accountable... See more

Jamie McCarthy via Irregulars irregulars@lists.tbtf.com via easysrs.org

Sun, Jul 13, 2025, 3:00 PM

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I would expand on this by pointing to Wilhoit's Law, from 2018. I think this portion of it is exactly correct:

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:

There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind,

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There are a lot of persuasive papers and books kicking around about social cognition, and the ones I’ve read so far land in essentially the same place. We mostly don’t know things, even though we believe we do, and this is mostly okay because we can either learn things as needed, as when we flip to YouTube to search why knenmore clothe dyrer make... See more

Productive meetings

This 1-minute video by John Cleese is all you need to know about how to have productive (vs unproductive) meetings. One minute! Applies to zoom meetings, too. — KK

LLMs are intelligence without agency—what we might call "vox sine persona": voice without person. Not the voice of someone, not even the collective voice of many someones, but a voice emanating from no one at all.

— Benj Edwards

[Claude Code] has the potential to transform all of tech. I also think we’re going to see a real split in the tech industry (and everywhere code is written) between people who are outcome-driven and are excited to get to the part where they can test their work with users faster, and people who are process-driven and get their meaning from the

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