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They evolved into a variety of hominid species, all of whom have since been discontinued, except one—a saucy one called homo sapiens. For them, the advancements in intelligence proved to be a major survival asset, so their cognitive capacity rapidly increased, developing into an array of shiny new tools that no animal had ever possessed before.... See more
Tim Urban • Page Not Found — Wait But Why
"I was waiting for something extraordinary to happen, but as the years wasted on, nothing ever did unless I caused it.”
—Charles Bukowski
The computer can look at every word on the page, every phrase, name, quote, and section of text, and show me a "map" of the words and ideas behind which lay the most interesting ideas I might want to know about. Links are no longer lonesome strands precariously holding together a sparsely connected Web, but a booming choir of ephemeral connections... See more
Linus Lee • the stream
There are a lot of approaches to organization design, but none are reliable and construct-valid. It ignores how personhood and work are intertwined. In addition, the organization isn't a self-aware social singularity, so employees are differentiated as futuristic cogs who 'energize' themselves autonomously. A strategy that can only focus on one... See more
Nathan Snyder • The Problem with Organization Design
By default, anthropic hides these "inner thought" aka text chunks. This is the reason why sometimes you see the anthropic flower loading in the middle of a response. Claude is basically deliberating at arbitrary points of a response for a better output - imo one of the most underrated unhobblings.
junex.comLLMs are better with an internal monologue
i felt this one so deeply because it relates to how certain sedimentary rocks form — accretion. most software is an ongoing effort.
this was a major unblock for me after hearing people talk about building for so long. they were talking about building abstractions. iteratively. over time.
The thing that no one ever tells you about your calling is that it’s boring. Oh, everything is interesting if you’re interested… shut up. Yes, it will be exhilarating and fun and fluid and and natural and meaningful. It will also be tedious. It will hurt. You will encounter obstacle after obstacle until you feel like you’re in a video game with... See more
Interesting analogy for creating conditions for 10x work:
Limit drag. Reduce interruptions by working in extended periods of focus work.
Maximize thrust. Fill focus time with primarily long-duration tasks.
The reasoning is that the work that is highest impact typically takes a lot of reasoning / requires a lot of implementation detail. Minimizing distractions while doing such work allows you to do more of such work. You get marginally better at doing such work over time.