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The man who tried 200 to-do apps has some advice about AI

"I think staying ahead is wildly overrated," he told me. "This idea that everyone is selling — that you have to either get on the AI train or get left behind — is pernicious and frankly wrong."

whyisthisinteresting

The Slow Motion Soccer Edition

Composed players aren't actually perceiving time more slowly than those around them. Their brains are just better at predicting what comes next, so they're preparing their next move while everyone else is still processing the current one. The stillness is a byproduct. The speed was spent earlier, in the reading rather than running.

upstartsmedia.com

Exclusive: Startup Adapter Launches With $17.8M To Bring New 'Cognition' To AI Tools

"It was obvious to us that 10,000 other people were going to go do the content thing," he says. For Ghetti, those "flashiest" uses missed the most important questions: how could we use technology to truly understand our own digital footprint, our own precious data? More importantly: if we got there, how would we control those treasure troves, so that we weren't putting the big AI labs like OpenAI in charge of our own "personal worlds"?

themarginalian.org

How to Help Someone Change: The Samurai Guide to Giving Feedback

To give a person an opinion you must first judge well whether that person is of the disposition to receive it or not. You must become close with them and earn their trust. Approaching subjects that are dear to them, seek the best way to speak and to be well understood.

longreads.com

Skill Nostalgia

Nostalgia can be a toxic impulse, reactionary and uncritical, but it can also hold revolutionary potential for the future. Here, nostalgia is more than a self-soothing search for comfort; it's about engaging with loss, reconnecting with ideals that might improve the future.

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The loudest warning about AI and jobs yet

The implication is clear, and worrisome: employers are increasingly turning to AI systems to do the entry-level work that their junior workers once did. For the moment, that seems to be creating jobs for more senior workers. But what will happen should AI systems be able to do those tasks, too?

lennysnewsletter.com

🎙️ How I AI: GPT-5.6 review, How a solo builder runs 24/7 local AI, and What an agent harness is and how to build one

The open chat field has been good enough, until it stopped being good enough. I acknowledge in this episode that just typing into Claude Code has produced real work. But this marks a shift in my thinking: general-purpose agents are now better used to orchestrate specialized harnesses than to do every job themselves. Giving a constrained agent a specific harness gets more consistent output than giving a powerful agent an open prompt.

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This solo builder runs 24/7 local AI on his own hardware | Alex Finn

Why unlimited local inference changes the use-case math in a way a $20 cloud subscription never can

noahpinion.blog

The American suburbs are better than you think

But in survey after survey, we don't find... the suburbs are not the isolating, lonely hell that they're often made out to be. And I think that the constant ranting against the suburbs complicates the quest for denser cities. It creates the suspicion that urbanists and YIMBYs want to make the whole nation into Manhattan.

themarginalian.org

The 12 Kinds of Time and How to Be More Fully Alive

Time is not a resource we have for cashing in. True timefulness … is to live in awareness of the dynamic and unpredictable array of times that co-exist within one life, as well as the intersubjective nature of time between all individuals. To live it well, we may need to break the temporal norms altogether and finally come to terms with time as entirely relational and contingent upon each other in specific and localised ways.

whyisthisinteresting

The Monday Media Diet with Charles McFarlane

With the military-civilian divide in the US what it is, military culture increasingly exists apart from broader American culture. I want to translate some of that military culture to a more general audience so they understand what they are looking at, for example, when federal agents dress more and more like soldiers: What are they referencing? Where did this come from? And what does it say about culture? People think we live in a militarized society, but really, I think we need a better understanding of what is going on in our military so we can better understand the people who make it up.

ai-supremacy.com

OpenAI just lost the AI wearables Race

But these aren't strategic blunders, this AI device thing is one of OpenAI's major moonshots being dismantled by anti-competitive misconduct. Like, they did this to themselves! They might not even get a chance to compete, because cheating was an option on their table.

wired.com

Uber’s Autonomous Vehicle Strategy: Slow Their Adoption

In at least two places, Uber has pushed a policy that could give it an advantage over developers of self-driving cars. The company says it's fighting monopolies.

honest-broker.com

The 10 Greatest Failures of Orson Welles

It's testimony to Welles's greatness that The Magnificent Ambersons is still ranked among the best movies of the era despite the meddling. After Brazil, everything fell apart for Welles. Hollywood never forgot him, but also never forgave him.

lennysnewsletter.com

How tech workers actually feel about AI in 2026 | Annual AI sentiment survey (Noam Segal)

Why AI has split the tech workforce almost exactly in half—one half that's thriving, another that's shaken

themarginalian.org

Do Not Spare Yourself

To try to save ourselves from the despair by which we contour hope, to spare ourselves the fertile doubt and the gasps of self-surprise by which we discover who we really are, is to live a safe distance from alive.

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The Profile: The billionaire soccer icon & the creator of the 'Founders' podcast

For five and a half years, David Senra read one business biography a week, recorded a podcast about it, and published each episode to almost no one. Today, Founders is a cult obsession among some of the world's most powerful CEOs and billionaires, and a one-man business generating millions in annual profit.

noahpinion.blog

I have never been working class

Class in some countries is about the past; you can be a shabby aristocrat if your grandfather was the Earl of Whatevershire. In American policy discussions, class is often implicitly about the present — where you lie in the income and wealth distributions this year. But on some level, everyone knows that class in America is really about the future.

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Take Me Home, Hot Stuff

Art, on the otherhand, is ever-expanding, like the universe itself, with limitless new frontiers to explore and question, and with possibilities for unending growth, understanding, and emotion.

themarginalian.org

The Art of Dignity Beyond Pride: How to Move Through Heartbreak Like Frida Kahlo

It is a fallacy, a dangerous myth, that this wish should be dispassionate — letting go can be as passionate as love itself, as much an act of devotion, for only a rigor of feeling can ensure not the termination but the transmutation of a relationship.

longreads.com

No Return

Two years later, when Thomas's name was in the news, Walkner came back to the post and answered his question: "Why did we turn around just before the summit? Because turning back when conditions become too dangerous is what distinguishes good and experienced alpinists."

stratechery.com

2026.28: XBOX On the Rocks

the Game Pass initiative that was the last great hope for XBOX has been a failure. I'm not a gamer, but Ben's rendering of the XBOX story — and the Game Pass story — is a great case study of both internet economics and management mistakes (and analyst ones!).

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Adam Brown – Einstein's happiest thought: General Relativity from scratch

It took Einstein, one of the most famous minds in history, about a decade to figure it out. But when I teach it I'll do a 10-week course, and in 10 weeks people will get a better idea of general relativity than Einstein really had in 10 years. That's because we have an advantage that Einstein didn't have. We have Einstein, and many others like him going before us, who've been able to take these super complicated ideas—understood at the time as being totally incomprehensible by anybody with a sub-Einstein level of intelligence—and boil them down to their essentials, and not make many of the same mistakes that were made by our forebears.

upstartsmedia.com

Radical AI’s Joseph Krause: The Scientist Building The ‘Waymo’ Lab For New Materials

"Regardless of what industry you care about, automotive and aerospace, manufacturing and defense, climate, energy, semiconductors, electronics, the most important industries in the world are all a direct result from materials R&D. So to us, it felt like the perfect blend where you have this technology that is completely changing the paradigm in discovery, and you have this field that's 100-something years old and hasn't had it happen yet. That's a place that we should attack."

noahpinion.blog

MAGA's attack on science is even worse than it looks

When MAGA types tell you about scientists losing their credibility, or a drop in trust in science, they're only talking about themselves. Whatever left-wing politicization of science happened during the Biden administration — and there was definitely some of that — it was not enough to make most Republicans lose faith in the scientific enterprise, or favor research cuts in order to purge unwanted ideology from the system.

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Not the future. Don't talk about the future.

A company that replaces a billing department with a chatbot interface records lower costs and higher output per worker. The national accounts register a productivity gain. But the hours that patients spend decoding their own tests appear nowhere — not in labour statistics, not in GDP.

notboring.co

Weekly Dose of Optimism #201

Getting any one advanced reactor to criticality by July 4, 2026 would have been considered a minor miracle, but getting four with more to come means that there's going to be competition. Whoever can deploy most quickly, with a product that customers want, at the best price, will win. The field shifts from science to manufacturing.

themarginalian.org

The Healing Power of Gardens: Oliver Sacks on the Psychological and Physiological Consolations of Nature

A man with Tourette's syndrome, afflicted by severe verbal and gestural tics in the urban environment, grows completely symptom-free while hiking in the desert; an elderly woman with Parkinson's disease, who often finds herself frozen elsewhere, can not only easily initiate movement in the garden but takes to climbing up and down the rocks unaided; several people with advanced dementia and Alzheimer's disease, who can't recall how to perform basic operations of civilization like tying their shoes, suddenly know exactly what to do when handed seedlings and placed before a flower bed.

whyisthisinteresting

The Ocean’s Missing Middle

This twilight band is believed to contain 70 per cent of all animal life on Earth. It also performs one of the planet's most important climate functions. Each night, billions of organisms migrate upward to feed near the surface, then return to depth by morning. In doing so, they transport carbon from the atmosphere into the deep ocean, where it can remain sequestered for centuries. Without this biological pump, global temperature targets would already have been exceeded.