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Some quick exercises to counter these tendencies:

1. Pay close attention to when your pattern-sensing radar goes off and you start congratulating yourself for seeing something you've seen before. Why? This is often a signal that you might be overgeneralizing.


2. Write down where you've worked and for how long, compare those contexts, and ask yourself,

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I’m gonna give my favorite-novel-of-the-year award to Venita Blackburn’s Dead in Long Beach, California , about a woman who assumes her brother’s identity shortly after his death. It’s fun, beautiful, slim, weird. And it’s about grief. Blackburn’s approach to space-time in her short fiction is awesome; her novel has vivid characterizations—of both... See more

List of revealing questions (h/t People Watching newsletter) https://t.co/jHXXmY5UNb

Why do small children in Japan ride the subway alone?

https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2024/12/19/why-do-small-children-in-japan-ride-the-subway-alone

from The Economist

Excited to announce the first 18 startups of the Menlo's Anthology Fund with Anthropic! Anthology Batch One. In the last 6mos, we looked through 1000s of startups to get to these. CRUD business apps will collapse in the AI era, logic will shift to AI agents.... See more

YC and a16z's 2025 request for startups: https://t.co/JeIwa9Z3HZ