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Jia Jiang adventures boldly into a territory so many of us fear: rejection. By seeking out rejection for 100 days -- from asking a stranger to borrow $100 to requesting a "burger refill" at a restaurant -- Jiang desensitized himself to the pain and shame that rejection often brings and, in the process, discovered that simply asking for what you... See more

AI coding agents like Devin are already being tested on completing real-world tasks from freelancer platform Upwork, and have even been spotted asking questions in coding communities when it gets stuck. For $500 per month, Devin can work on your code base independently, doing work equivalent to a junior engineer.

All of my agency hacks are kind of like this—seeking out big, glaring edges that most people might rather ignore.

In their book Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict, political scientists Erica Chenoweth and Maria Stephan compare over 300 violent and non-violent struggles in the 20th century to conclude that non-violent civil disobedience is about twice as effective as armed revolution.

Etnisch nationalisme zorgde vooral voor spanningen tussen volkeren onderling en inspireerde onafhankelijkheidsconflicten; van de strijd van Polen om vrij te worden van Russische overheersing tot de Ierse emancipatiestrijd. Dit liep nooit uit op genocide. Eén van de meest gruwelijke slachtpartijen van het ene volk door het andere in Europa in de... See more

Stop trying so hard. Last week I discovered life's greatest irony in a coffee shop at 2 p.m., over-caffeinated and buzzing with excitement about a book titled Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned, a treatise on living a life without objectives. What happened next honestly felt like a cosmic joke. My unfiltered brain dump about this book on X—this... See more

Steve is the cofounder and CEO of Val Town, a cloud-based platform for developers to write, share, and deploy code directly in the browser.

Cate Hall is a former lawyer and poker player currently working on AI risk mitigation.

Readers, I highly recommend the prescient article written by the incomparable and much missed Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, on rabbisacks.org:

Future Tense: The New Antisemitism

What is it & how do we deal with it?

1 November 2007