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What launched at Google I/O 2026 (30-minute day 1 recap)

Why Google's launch-to-availability gap is still a problem—and what to do when a featured product doesn't actually work yet

— Claire Vo
58m ago

We live on the surface of a star, and we are made of the dust of stars. The atoms in our bodies were forged in the hearts of dying stars billions of years ago.

2h ago

The best way to get smart is to try to be a little smarter than you were the day before. And the way to do that is to recognize how much you don't know.

4h ago

We are not thinking enough about thinking, and hardly thinking at all about awareness. Hardly thinking—which is the core of the matter.

4h ago

The mind of man may be compared to a musical instrument, and it requires to be tuned up and put in order before it can produce harmonious results.

10h ago
lennysnewsletter.com
The Lenny and Friends Summit is back!

There's such power in IRL events, especially these days and especially for product leaders, who often lack peers they can be real with.

12h ago
currincy
How Peter Frampton Changed Tom Morello’s Life

There's an arrangement trick that he does in "Do You Feel Like We Do" that I lifted for Rage Against the Machine. And it's basically where there's a long breakdown where the rock power goes away, the title of the song is said over and over again, then it comes crashing in with a completely monstrous rock power that raises the hairs on your arms and makes you want to jump around the room. Well, that's the formula for pretty much every Rage Against the Machine song.

12h ago
whyisthisinteresting
The World Cup Squad Edition

The expansion to 48 teams has created a new dynamic where historically small teams will likely make the tournament in the years to come. And with this, talent from the lower divisions of soccer powerhouses can be captured by those small nations with ancestral links. This summer, players from places like the English 3rd tier, the Dutch 2nd tier and the USA 2nd tier will walk out en masse for their first World Cup match.

12h ago
longreads.com
Roadside Attraction

But as I sit in my house, so quiet I can hear the blood in my body, the sunset painting the sky a deep, pink hue, I can only think that all of these men are gone and I am still here. I continue, continue, and continue, to still be here. It seems I am in wait, Jodie Foster on the side of the road, letting the world, and the world beyond the world, whisper into my ears.

16h ago
noahpinion.blog
All non-drone militaries are obsolete

The reason is cost. Drones are simply so cheap to produce in huge numbers that they can overwhelm any more expensive system.

18h ago

The big question about artificial intelligence is not whether machines can think, but whether humans will stop thinking and let the machines do it for them.

1d ago

We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal ONE.

1d ago

The mind has not merely made a discovery of external fact; it has altered its own nature. It has become capable of rising above the present and the particular to the conception of law, of growth, of progress.

1d ago
lennysnewsletter.com
🎙️ How I AI: HTML is the new Markdown: How Anthropic engineers are building with Claude Code

Engineers are becoming "compute allocators" rather than code writers. When Claude can run for eight hours on a single task, you're really deciding how to spend $500 of compute. The critical skill is no longer writing code; it's deciding what's worth building, defining the boundaries of what you need to know, and staying in sync with the agent throughout the process.

1d ago
themarginalian.org
Nick Cave on the Two Pillars of a Meaningful Life

If we truly comprehend and acknowledge that we are all imperfect creatures, we find that we become more tolerant and accepting of others' shortcomings and the world appears less dissonant, less isolating, less threatening.

1d ago
whyisthisinteresting
The Monday Media Diet with Jake Newby

Even if you think you have no interest in those topics, it's hard not to be drawn in by Em's super smart writing and analysis, which regularly broadens out to examine wider cultural and societal issues.

1d ago

The true paradox of the machine is that it was created to serve man, yet it has enslaved him to its rhythms and demands; we have made ourselves the appendages of our own inventions.

1d ago
3quarksdaily.com
The Secret to Ending Arguments Faster

When you see anger, it's just the tip of the iceberg. Anger is the secondary emotion. The primary emotion could be sadness, could be disappointment, could be stress.

2d ago

We are always dying. From the moment we are born, we begin the process of dying. We do not know how long we shall live—how many years or months or days.

2d ago

The best thing you can do is compound money at high rates of return for a long time. That's the game. Most people don't understand that the biggest returns come from sitting, not trading.

2d ago

The mysterious fact about the human being is that he is not content to be a human being—he wants to be a human being plus something else. He wants to transcend himself, and the usual way he tries to do this is to become part of an even larger organism, a social group.

2d ago

The true paradox of consciousness is that we are never more fully ourselves than when we have forgotten ourselves—and this forgetting is not a loss but a gain, for in losing the boundary of self we touch something universal.

2d ago
noahpinion.blog
Dating advice for men

A lot of men — maybe even most men — get emotionally attached to our sex partners. There are well-known natural mechanisms for this. For those guys, going through one woman after another, again and again, for years and years, is just making and breaking those attachments again and again. That's not fun, that's self-punishment.

2d ago
themarginalian.org
Middle Age and the Art of Self-Renewal: An Extraordinary Letter from Pioneering Education Reformer Elizabeth Peabody

The perilous time for the most highly gifted is not youth. The holy sensibilities of genius — for all the sensibilities of genius are holy — keep their possessor essentially unhurt as long as animal spirits and the idea of being young last; but the perilous season is middle age, when a false wisdom tempts them to doubt the divine origin of the dreams of their youth; when the world comes to them, not with the song of the siren, against which all books warn us, but as a wise old man counselling acquiescence in what is below them.

2d ago
jefftweedy
Baby Where You Are (Ted Lucas cover)

I'm sharing a cover of a Ted Lucas song today, using the overdubbing capabilities of an iPhone, which are rudimentary but fun.

3d ago

The best investment is in the business that compounds the fastest while requiring the least capital to do so. Most people focus on the numerator and ignore the denominator.

3d ago

We do not remember days, we remember moments. The gods, not being human, have mercifully forgotten the days and the years, the stretch of foul weather and the long dull reaches of our lives, and have retained only the bright moments: thus our lives are high-lighted and dramatic with the deus ex machina and the tragedy of unforeseen events.

3d ago

The eye is not merely a physical organ, but the supreme instrument of the mind; it is the only sense that can perceive beauty, and beauty is the only thing that makes life worth living.

3d ago
dwarkesh.com
The mistake of conflating intelligence and power

Power is more the product of having the authority and trust to get lots of people to collaborate with you, rather than some galaxy brain scheming capability. Trump is not powerful because his brain, considered in isolation, is the most effective optimization engine on Earth. He is powerful because the government which hundreds of millions of people consider legitimate gives him a lot of power.

3d ago
notboring.co
Cowboy Space Corporation

turning Robinhood money into sci-fi energy and compute moonshots is exactly how you should billionaire.

3d ago

The mind is furnished with a set of instincts which seek out certain kinds of phenomena and are angered by their absence and appalled by alien forms; which love them when found, but will have none of them when not directly forced upon us.

4d ago
longreads.com
I Spent Months with an AI Companion. It Was Worse than Being Alone

You can't customize your friends. You screen for certain traits, but what you're drawn to, as much as the trait's performance, is the 3D process that forms it: your friend's life story. We surmise, based on our affinity, it will be a story we share. We choose our friends because we want to live in the universe of their personality: its past, present, and future. What gives a personality dimension is time, the gathering of experiences.

4d ago

The best way to think about the future is to invent it. Most people don't like to think about the future because they're not sure they can control it, but if you invent it, then you've already thought about it.

4d ago

The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would have remained unchanged since the earliest days; no evolution, no mankind, nothing.

4d ago

The true paradox of human existence is that we are condemned to be free; we are forced to choose, and yet there is no certain ground on which to base our choices.

4d ago
3quarksdaily.com
The Use and Abuse of Joan Didion

Authors and their entire bodies of work can be encapsulated in fragments: a few underlined sentences from their books endlessly reposted on Instagram, influencers flaunting book covers on the beach, photographs of authors appearing lost in melancholy—or best of all, smoking—making rounds on the Internet.

4d ago
stratechery.com
2026.20: Shifting Alliances in a Changing World

the inference that will matter most in the future, at least in terms of market size, will be "agentic inference", where humans aren't involved at all. That will lead to very different trade-offs in architectures, and is good news for both China and space (but maybe not Nvidia).

4d ago
readtrung.com
Swatch, Audemars Piguet and The Dream Equation

You need to be visible to be desirable. But not accessible enough so that too many people can buy your brand. The [Dream Equation] is a statistical model we've developed to explain the relationship between desirability and accessibility.

4d ago
dwarkesh.com
Eric Jang – Building AlphaGo from scratch

naive policy gradient RL has to figure out which of the 100k+ tokens in your trajectory actually got you the right answer, while AlphaGo's MCTS suggests a strictly better action every single move, giving you a training target that sidesteps the credit assignment problem.

4d ago

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