Talking to 35 strangers at the gym. “The solution was to approach the person as quickly as possible so that I didn’t have time to think about running away.” A lonely guy runs a one month experiment: talk to one […]
If you can’t get a job today, it’s your fault. An aggressive title to an article that otherwise makes a good point. “the most valuable thing a 22 year old can do in 2026 is create something.” The argument: the […]
What really won the trillion-dollar tariff Supreme Court case. “After enlisting the help of four unlikely coaches — and one secret weapon he hasn’t told anyone about until now — he walked into the courtroom ready for anything.” Neal Kumar […]
Outsource thinking, not understanding. “You can outsource your thinking, but you can’t outsource your understanding.” Karpathy’s update on “vibe coding” is that the real skill is developing taste for directing messy, agent-like LLM systems without fooling yourself about what you […]
A team appeared out of nowhere. “All of a sudden, in the slides there were a new team.” Aleix Morgadas on what happens when leadership adds a CX team based on an old operating model, then wonders why the dashboard […]
All writers will end up AI-maxxing. “AI is so beneficial to writers and content creators that people will have no choice but to use it.” Hanania argues the real line is not human vs AI, it’s whether you verify claims […]
Six years of Al and the world got stupider. “The entire life of the artist, indeed, the life of the mind in general, is defined by resistance to slop.” Erik Hoel’s argument from experience: LLMs mostly scale output and efficiency, […]
I’m Oughties-Amish and it feels great. “An underappreciated fact about the Amish is that they’re not simply Luddites. They don’t oppose technology qua technology; rather, they oppose its deleterious effects. This is why nearly all of them accept washing machines […]
Letting an LLM write for you. “Letting an LLM write for you is like paying somebody to work out for you.” The argument is simple: writing is where you do the thinking, and outsourcing it costs you both understanding and […]
Seeing like a spreadsheet. “This is a story about how a piece of software transformed the way that American businesses understood themselves, and how they were understood by others.” David Oks argues the spreadsheet quietly rewired corporate life, from what […]