What I Read Last Week

01/25/2025

2025/01/18

• 2025-01-11 - Smith - At Least Five Interesting Things Red Tape Edition - NEPA (millstone around US’ neck); Carter deregulated a lot - energy, trucking, airlines, retail banking; targeted tariffs. We’re reaping the benifits; greedflation - not a real thing; a bad viral chart about faith in democracy (misleading y-axis); Acemoglu on H-1Bs - theories with full of holes - H1Bs don’t take tech progress on a different trajectory, they don’t impact STEM education.
• 202-01-12 - Street - A Series of Plateaus - Eliminate options, don’t accumulate them. George Leonard: mastery is nothing but a series of plateaus with brief spurts of progress.
• 2025-01-11 - Venables - Keys to Career Success - Take action, Add Value, Play to your Strengths, Collaborate, Deal with Ambiguity, Be Honest.
• Aristophanes - The Acharnians
• 2025-01-12 - (Readwise) - Wisereads Vol. 73 — Altman’s Reflections, Steinbeck’s Cup of Gold, and More - The theme that ‘agents will join workforce in 2025’ seems to be prevalent everywhere. NYT article on ‘attention’ was a good read.
• 2025-01-13 - Smith - Should Economists Read Marx - The argument is that economists don’t necessarily need to read Marx. Do doctors need to read Galen? Do physicists need to read Newton? But I think Marxism is a cultural force than a book of theory.
• 2025-01-06 - Altman - Reflections - Talks about the unexpected tremendous growth curve of OpenAI and the conflicts that came due to it.
• 2025-01-14 - Zaides - Being an Engineering Manager at Meta - Don’t manage a team, support a team to achieve the org’s objectives.
• 2025-01-14 - Anderberg - Discussion What Are Your Favorite Science Fiction Fantasy Novels - Over 100 comments to this post. Great recos. Many people like Ursula K. LeGuin. As expected Frank Herbert, Robert Jordan, Andrej Sapkowski, George RR Martin, Andy Weir, etc., showed up on people’s lists.
• 2025-01-15 - Smith - TikTok Is Just the Beginning - Great argument on why Tiktok should be banned. Chinese govt would rather see TikTok destroyed than give it to Americans. I felt if it was like ‘the Opium wars’ in reverse.
• 2025-01-15 - Kao - How I Give High-Quality Feedback Quickly - Give feedback 20% of the important stuff, give verbally, take a step back and give feedback on the theme.
• 2025-01-16 - Issa - The Art of Being Reflections on a Christmas Break With Family - Be present, embrace imperfection instead of being irritated due to choosing perfection, give undivided attention to others.
• 2025-01-18 - Smith - Why I’m Long-Term Bullish on the Middle East - Great article on the Middle-east. The area has a lot of potential - people and resources. If electricity and desalination becomes cheaper, in 50 years, the area could be the bustling center of the world.

2025/01/11

• 2024-12-15 - Ferriss - 11 of My Favorite @Paulg Essays - Great list. Essays about keeping your identity small, thinking, how to do great work, kids, etc.
• 2024-12-22 - Walters - A Flannery O’Connor Advent - Genuine love is harsh, terrifying and demanding; leads to growth and not sentimental atrophy.
• 2024-12-22 - Gurwinder - The Riddle of Luigi Mangione - Gist - One can never know what an individual is capable of. Luigi was one of Gurvinder’s fans, had reached out to him for advice.
• 2024-12-23 - Smith - Good Cities Can’t Exist Without Public Order - Tokyo, Paris, Singapore, etc. are much safer than US cities like NY, SF, LA. Public safety is a must-have for cities to grow, for people to connect and thrive.
• 2024-12-24 - Smith - Yes, Americans Are Much Richer Than Japanese People - Japan is safer but people work longer hours, longer years and take much lesser vacations than Americans.
• 2024-12-26 - Clear - 3-2-1 On making a comeback, revising your habits, and how to work smart - Work hard to discover how to work smart.
• 2024-12-26 - Smith - Indian Immigration Is Great for America - Skilled immigration is important for success. But there are always loopholes that lead to some people being abused (lower wages) and some people losing jobs.
• 2024-12-27 - Patel - Notes on China - There is a lot to learn about Chinese people, values and culture. Was surprised to read about unemployment. Lot of menial jobs that the educated youth don’t want to take up. Reminded me of Kerala. Looks like China might have to open up immigration if menial jobs are not being done. Well, robots to the rescue?
• 2024-12-28 - Venables - Top Ideas and Posts From 2024 - Great posts. I liked posts on training/awareness, risk quantification, ten laws.
• 2024-12-31 - Johnson - How to Read a Novel - Johnson says he agrees with Collison on Middlemarch being a great read. I thought I’d read all the famous George Eliot books - The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Adam Bede. But Middlemarch is apparently the best, the best ever probably, as per Johnson.
• 2025-01-02 - Smith - The Players on the Eve of Destruction - About Taiwanese people being calm about the impending threat of invasion.
• 2025-01-02 - Gurwinder - 25 Useful Ideas for 2025 - Great list. I loved #14 (Law of stupidity), #17 (Blue Dot), #19 (Rumsfeld Matrix), #24 (Barrow’s First law). RV brought my attention to #15 (weakest argument) & #5 (region-beta paradox).
• 2025-01-04 - Smith - How Do We Measure Whether China’s Economy Is Ahead of America’s - GDP shows China is behind the US. But PPP (purchasing power for normal people) shows that China is ahead.
• 2025-01-05 - Walters - Soul Journeying - I’d never thought of Epiphany being related to the Journey of the Magi. It is a Catholic thing, I think. In our (orthodox) church the readings are always around John the baptist. Great poem with a lot to think about.
• 2025-01-05 - (Readwise) - Wisereads Vol. 72 — Dwarkesh Patel’s Notes on China, Farnam Street’s Annual Review Workbook, and More - 1. Netflix’ metrics probably results in influx of mediocre films? 2. When Walmart becomes a major employer, it drives down wages, 3. Is AGI here or near? 4. Shane Parrish’s annual review - pretty intense and time consuming workbook.
• 2025-01-07 - Zaides - The Victim Trap of Engineering Managers - Drama triangle, complaining never fixes anything.
• 2024-10-08 - Stanek - The Changing Engineering Landscape and How to Stay Ahead of It - GenZ has a totally different work-life balance and work expectations. Managers need to adapt to different leadership styles.
• 2025-01-08 - Kao - “Looks Good to Me” Is a Lazy Default Why Managers Should Give Feedback on Work Output - When you say “looks good” without critically reviewing, you are lowering the standard.
• 2025-01-08 - Walters - Thomas Aquinas, Badass - Thomas Aquinas was revolutionary for his time, learnt Aristotle, joined Dominican order against the wishes of people around. Real saints live on the edge, forsaking comfort.
• 2025-01-09 - Smith - The Taiwan Posts - Very inspiring posts about Taiwan.
• 2025-01-09 - Issa - Beyond Goals How to Make 2025 Truly Count - Mo rewrites his 2025 goals by aligning each telic goal with atelic activities. telic - purpose driven like running a marathon, writing a book, etc. Atelic - non-purpose driven like cooking, walking, chatting, etc.

2025/01/04

• 2024-12-09 - Karpathy - Of ~200 Books I’ve Read, the Few That Stayed With… - The Selfish Gene, LOTR, 1984, Atlas Shrugged, Countdown to Zero Day. Need to check out ‘Master Switch’ and ‘In Defense of Food’
• 2024-12-16 - Smith - At Least Five Interesting Things Will of the Masses Edition - Younger people are going away from X, Drone future, Asian shift to right, China has become unpopular, Polycrisis - a lot of things are going wrong together, illegal immigration strains local govts, Iran’s diminishing power.
• 2024-12-19 - Issa - The Tao of Enough - Say no to hedonic treadmill. Be present - in the Here and Now.
• 2024-12-19 - Denning - If You’re Poor, the Solution Isn’t to Save Money. It’s to Make More Money. - Provide more value to make more money.
• 2024-12-19 - Smith - Macroeconomics The Predator of Foolish Regimes → Bolivia failed since they didn’t take care of macroeconomics.
• 2024-12-18 - Smith - America Is Losing the Physical Technologies of the Future - Nissan merging with Honda, may be Mitsubishi will too. Electrical technology is not about saving the planet, it is about embracing the future. Looks like other countries, esp China is getting ahead in this.
• 2024-12-17 - Noda - 2024 Benchmarks for the DX Core 4
  • Core 4 benchmarks - Speed, Effectiveness, Quality, Impact
  • Smaller companies are faster, Tech companies are more effective, Non-tech companies are safer (lesser customer-facing defects), Tech companies innovate more since they have better developer experience.
• 2024-12-16 - Zaides - The 3 Top Mistakes of Managers Under 30 → Too conscious of age, Trying to please the team, Making fast decisions to seem decisive.
• 2024-12-29 - Smith - At Least Five Interesting Things Build Something, Dammit! - Two factions among democrats - abundance vs power, China spying on people in the US, US is lagging behind on manufacturing, More good jobs in the US than bad (means people are going up the ladder), Milei is doing well so far thanks to austerity measures.
• 2024-12-30 - (Readwise) - Wisereads Vol. 71 — Keep Going by Austin Kleon, Anthropic on Agents, and More - Effective agents by Anthropic, About faith by David Brooks, Write down your goals, improve by 42%, AI code is the new no-code.
• 2024-12-19 - Clear - 3-2-1 How to deal with stress, forging your own reality, and learning vs. achieving - Best way to deal with stress is to do something rather than think of something (to divert attention), wander to learn; focus to achieve, do what you enjoy to others.
• 2024-12-19 - Hitze - The Gift of Time, Gap Year, and Trad Wives - Trad wife influencer - Hannah Neeleman, Gap year could accelerate career; improve life (e.g. Sam Altman)
• 2024-12-21 - Smith - What Are the Checks and Balances on the Power of Elon Musk - There are checks and balances for govt officials but none for private individuals, esp those who are wealthy.
• 2024-12-22 - (Readwise) - Wisereads Vol. 70 — Kadavy’s How to Sell a Book, Ilya Sutskever’s Talk, and More - Rick Steves says culture shock is constructive, Entropy is degree of disorder in a system; it could also be viewed as a measure of ignorance, Parkinson’s law (work expands to fill allotted time) is real; fight it by using deadlines, Ilya - data is the fossil fuel of AI (all data that could be created by humans is created!), Tim Ferris list 11 of his fav Paul Graham’s essays, Clio by Anthropic (privacy preserving tool to analyze AI usage), David Kadavy - sold 100K self-published books!

2024/12/28

• 2024-12-08 - Walters - A Flannery O’Connor Advent
• 2021-03-06 - Forsgren - The SPACE of Developer Productivity
• 2024-12-12 - Issa - Relief The Uncelebrated Emotion That Fuels Growth
• 2024-12-12 - Clear - 3-2-1 On acting with confidence, the different types of age, and the importance of momentum
• 2024-12-10 - Zaides - Using Fake Deadlines Without Driving Your Engineers Crazy
• 2024-12-09 - Smith - Insurance Companies Aren’t the Main Villain of the U.S. Health System
• 2024-12-14 - Venables - Leadership One Day at a Time, One Step at a Time
• 2024-12-13 - Kapoor - Kids Got Privilege—and They’re Alright
• 2024-12-13 - Gurwinder - How Empathy Makes Us Cruel and Crazy
• 2024-12-15 - Walters - A Flannery O’Connor Advent
• 2024-12-15 - (Readwise) - Wisereads Vol. 69 — Leading to Thrive by Klaus Kleinfeld, Book Recs From Andrej Karpathy, and More

2024/12/21

• 2024-12-15 - (Readwise) - Wisereads Vol. 69 — Leading to Thrive by Klaus Kleinfeld, Book Recs From Andrej Karpathy, and More
• Euripides - Iphigenia at Aulis
• 2024-12-07 - Zilberman - The Simple Secret of AMAZING Developers
• 2024-12-05 - Smith - At Least Five Interesting Things Nerdy Economics Edition
• Euripides - Iphigenia at Aulis
• Euripides - The Cyclops

2024/12/14

• 2024-11-28 - Clear - 3-2-1 On Loving Your Fate, How to Handle Pressure, and the Value of Being Proactive Yet Positive
• 2024-11-29 - Kapoor - Gone to the Dogs
• 2024-12-04 - Smith - Manufacturing Is a War Now
• Euripides - Iphigenia Among the Tauri
• 2024-11-30 - Venables - Regulatory Harmonization - Let’s Get Real
• 2024-12-01 - Walters - A Flannery O’Connor Advent
• 2024-12-02 - (Readwise) - Wisereads Vol. 67 — Good Nature by Kathy Willis, Steven Johnson on Context Windows, and More
• 2024-12-03 - Hitze - Big Idea Scrapbook On Purpose and Permission
• 2024-12-03 - Noda - Measuring PR Throughput—perspectives From SPACE Author Brian Houck
• 2024-12-08 - (Readwise) - Wisereads Vol. 68 — Main Street Millionaire by Codie Sanchez, Facebook’s Little Red Book, and More
• 2024-12-05 - Clear - 3-2-1 How to learn faster, what you put into the world, and the value of numerous attempts

2024/12/07

• 2024-11-28 - Hitze - It’s Better to Be Selfish and Happy
• 2024-11-30 - Smith - No, You Are Not on Indigenous Land
• 2024-11-26 - Patel - Review of 2 Books China’s Economy by Arthur Kroeber & China Chapter in Trade Wars Are Class Wars by Pettis & Klein
• Parrish - Morgan Housel Get Rich, Stay Rich
• 2024-11-26 - Zaides - Safe vs ALL-IN Engineering Management
• 2024-11-30 - Zilberman - It’s All About the Story
• Google - EP197 SIEM (Decoupled or Not), and Security Data Lakes A Google SecOps Perspective

2024/11/30

• 2024-11-22 - Smith - Nobody Knows How to Stop Humanity From Shrinking
• 2024-11-21 - Issa - The Power of Vulnerability The Heartfelt Response to My Book Launch Request
• 2024-11-21 - Denning - Study Human Psychology, Then Make Money Doing Whatever You Want
• 2024-11-21 - Hitze - The End of Overthinking
• 2024-11-24 - Street - Work Hard in Silence
• 2024-11-25 - Noda - What Causes ‘Bad Days’ for Developers
• 2024-11-25 - Smith - At Least Five Interesting Things The New Conservative Era
• 2023-10-02 - Qureshi - Principles
• 2024-11-24 - (Readwise) - Wisereads Vol. 66 — How to Think Like Socrates by Donald Robertson, Casey Neistat on Hard Things, and More
• 2024-11-24 - (Readwise) - Wisereads Vol. 66 — How to Think Like Socrates by Donald Robertson, Casey Neistat on Hard Things, and More
• 2023-04-19 - Street - The Winner’s Edge
• 2024-05-24 - Street - Simple Truths Clear & Gentle Guidance on the Big Issues in Life
• 2024-06-13 - Street - Experts vs. Imitators
• 2024-11-24 - Smith - Four Years of Noahpinion

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2024/11/23

• 2024-11-17 - (Readwise) - Wisereads Vol. 65 — Vitalik Buterin on Prediction Markets, the Wizard of Oz, and More
• 2024-11-18 - Smith - Why Targeted Tariffs Are More Effective Than Broad Tariffs
• 2024-11-19 - Zaides - Staying Calm When You Want to Disappear
• 2024-11-19 - Smith - America doesn’t really have a working class
• Adler - How to Read a Book
• 2024-11-20 - Mathew - Cannons to the Front of Him
• Stoll - Cuckoo’s Egg
• 2024-11-20 - Smith - What Drove Asian and Hispanic Voters to the Right in 2024
• 2024-11-20 - Kao - How to Give a Senior Leader Feedback
• 2024-11-21 - Johnson - In the Context of Long Context
• Euripides - Orestes

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2024/11/16

• 2024-11-06 - Kao - Part I What Finesse Looks Like When Reading People and Situations
• 2024-11-05 - Noda - Platform vs. DevEx Teams What’s the Difference
• 2024-11-08 - Smith - Americans Hate Inflation More Than They Hate Unemployment
• 2024-11-08 - Walters - Don’t Fool Yourself; He’s an Evil Man and He’s Going to Hurt You
• 2024-11-09 - Zilberman - 5 Things You NEED to Know Before You Become a Manager
• 2024-11-10 - Smith - The Educated Professional Class Is Out of Touch With America
• 2024-11-10 - Walters - Shattering the Ultimate Glass Ceiling
• 2024-11-10 - (Readwise) - Wisereads Vol. 64 — Erica Rooney’s Glass Ceilings and Sticky Floors, the University of Chicago on Effective Writing, and More
• Stoll - Cuckoo’s Egg
• 2024-11-12 - Issa - My New Book, the Midlife Shift, Is Published Today!
• 2024-11-12 - Smith - The Blue Cities Must Be Fixed
• 2024-11-13 - Smith - At Least Five Interesting Things Trump Aftermath Edition
• 2024-11-13 - Kao - Part II The Art of Workplace Finesse
• Euripides - The Phoenician Maidens
• 2024-11-15 - Kapoor - What’s in a Name
• 2024-11-15 - Smith - Liberalism Is the Rebellion Now
• 2024-11-16 - Venables - Lessons in Crisis Management - Top 10 Disaster Movies

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2024/11/09

• 2024-03-05 - Mathew - Do We Have Freewill
• 2024-10-23 - Mathew - A Tail of Two Cities
• 2024-05-25 - Gurwinder - 23 Truths I Wish I Knew at 23
• 2024-08-08 - Gurwinder - The Outrageous Rise of Neotoddlerism
• Harari - Nexus
• 2024-11-04 - Smith - Why on Earth Does Trump Want to Cancel the CHIPS Act
• 2024-11-03 - (Readwise) - Wisereads Vol. 63 — Dr. Ali Binazir’s 5 Hidden Love Questions, 18 Life Learnings From Maria Popova, and More
• 2024-11-04 - Walters - The Common Good
• Stoll - Cuckoo’s Egg
• 2024-11-07 - Smith - Identity Politics Isn’t Working
• 2024-11-07 - Denning - This Is the Single Breathtaking Moment When Your Entire Life Changes
• 2024-11-07 - Issa - On Writing a Memoir
• Euripides - Heracles Mad
• 2024-11-02 - Venables - Risk Appetite and Risk Tolerance - A Practical Approach
• 2024-11-02 - Zaides - How to Start, Run, and Sell a Bootstrapped SaaS
• 2024-11-03 - Smith - Trumpism Is Kakistocracy
• 2024-11-03 - Hitze - Big Ideas, Bad Ideas, and Blunders
• 2024-11-05 - Zaides - Engineering Management in the Next Unicorn App

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2024/11/02

• Harari - Nexus
• 2024-10-25 - Grant - Why Business Leaders Make Lousy Politicians
• 2024-10-25 - Johnson - Ways of Flourishing
• 2024-10-26 - Smith - Why America’s Future Could Hinge on Elon Musk
• 2024-10-26 - Zilberman - 5 Principles to Be a Professional Developer
• 2024-10-27 - (Readwise) - Wisereads Vol. 62 — Reflections on Palantir by Nabeel S. Qureshi, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and More
• Stoll - Cuckoo’s Egg
• Euripides - Hecuba
• 2024-10-28 - Smith - On Immigration, What Americans Want Is Democratic Control
• 2024-10-30 - Kao - When You’re Pigeonholed as “Great at Project Management”
• 2024-10-30 - Smith - If Trump Loses the Election, Our Nation Can Finally Rest
• 2024-10-29 - Denning - If You Want to Be a Millionaire, You Need to Be Nicheless
• 2024-10-29 - Zaides - Why Sprints Are Taking the Joy Out of Building Software
• 2024-10-30 - Noda - 2024 DORA Report
• 2024-10-21 - Anderson - Stories of Good and Bad Feedback Dave Received From His Managers
• 2024-10-28 - Anderson - 3 Good Things and 3 Bad Things About Working at Amazon From 12+ Years in Management
• 2024-10-31 - Smith - Thinking About Temporary Hardship
• 2024-11-01 - Smith - Democrats Fixed Many of the Problems of the Early 2020s

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2024/10/26

• 2024-10-19 - Smith - The Free World Teeters on the Edge of a Knife
• 2024-10-19 - Venables - Threat Hunting Real World vs. Cyber World
• 2024-10-19 - Narla - 3 Tricks to Convince People Using Data
• Stoll - Cuckoo’s Egg
• 2024-10-20 - Smith - EVs Are Just Going to Win
• 2024-10-20 - (Readwise) - Wisereads Vol. 61 — Dario Amodei’s Machines of Loving Grace, Journey to the Center of the Earth, and More
• Euripides - The Bacchantes
• 2024-10-21 - Smith - A Better Way to Build a Downtown
• 2024-10-22 - Denning - I Used to Be Impressed by People Who Had a Lot of Money — But Now I’m Impressed by People Who Have Time to Think Deeply
• 2024-10-22 - Zaides - Breaking the Wall Between Teams
• 2024-10-23 - Kao - Frustrated by Rejection How to Plan Before You Ask
• 2024-10-23 - Smith - How Long Can We Sustain Economic Growth
• 2024-10-24 - Hitze - The Political Mind Virus

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2024/10/19

• 2024-10-11 - Amodei - Machines of Loving Grace
• 2024-10-13 - (Readwise) - Wisereads Vol. 60 — The Great Mental Models by Shane Parrish, Chris Dixon on Hobbies, and More
• 2024-10-13 - Grant - What Builds Resilience—and Where to Find Your Niche
• Harari - Nexus
• 2024-08-27 - Mastroianni - There’s a Place for Everyone
• 2024-02-29 - Segan - The Future Belongs to Those Who Prepare Like Dwarkesh Patel
• 2024-08-20 - Patel - Dwarkesh Podcast Progress Update
• Euripides - Electra
• Stoll - Cuckoo’s Egg
• 2024-10-13 - Smith - At Least Five Interesting Things to Start Your Week
• 2024-10-16 - Walters - The Many Faces of God
• 2024-10-16 - Kao - “What Will I Tell My Boss” Why Founders Should Understand the Worldview of Bureaucrats
• 2024-10-15 - Smith - A Nobel for the Big Big Questions
• 2024-10-15 - Zaides - How to Have 27 Hours in Your Day
• 2024-10-17 - Issa - Why Procrastination Is a Mask to Deeper Issues.
• 2024-10-17 - Allosso - Reference Notes on Doto, part 1
• 2024-10-17 - Smith - What Remains of the Progressive Project
• 2024-10-17 - Denning - If You Only Have 60 Minutes a Day to Build a One-Person Business, Do This
• 2024-10-18 - Noda - Why Developers Lose Trust in AI Tools
• 2024-10-18 - Kapoor - Getting (Dumb) Lucky!

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2024/10/12

• 2024-10-05 - Smith - Let Us Pause to Appreciate the Remarkable U.S. Economy
• 2024-10-06 - (Readwise) - Wisereads Vol. 59 — Good Work by Paul Millerd, Steve Jobs’ 10-Minute Rule, and More
• 2024-10-05 - Venables - Job Interviews Part 2 Conducting the Security Interview - The Big 10
• 2024-09-30 - Anderson - Why You Can’t Teach Leadership — Experience vs. Instruction
• 2024-09-23 - Anderson - 10 Reader Questions About Career Politics, Investing, Job Hopping, and AI
• Ahrens - How to Take Smart Notes
• Wise - The Well-Trained Mind
• Harari - Nexus
• 2019-01-02 - Anderson - The Ideal Manager Exercise — How to Choose and Communicate With Your Current or Future Manager
• 2024-09-16 - Anderson - Dave’s Path to Amazon - And He Makes Fun of the Midwest
• 2024-10-07 - Smith - What if Everyone Is Wrong About What AI Does
• 2024-10-08 - Smith - The Democrats Are a Strong Party, the Republicans Are a Weak Party
• 2024-09-13 - Johnson - Listening to the Algorithm
• 2024-06-07 - Johnson - Revenge of the Humanities
• 2024-10-09 - Smith - In Which I Rebut Nate Silver on the Economy and Matt Yglesias on Nuclear
• Euripides - Andromache
• 2024-10-09 - Hitze - Crises, Chaos, and Hurricanes

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2024/10/06

• 2024-09-27 - Smith - Strategies to Secure America’s Supply Chains
• 2024-09-29 - (Readwise) - Wisereads Vol. 58 — Earn It by Steve Pratt, Altman on the Intelligence Age, and More
• 2024-09-28 - Hitze - The Writer’s Chisel; Or, AI in Writing
• 2024-10-01 - Miessler - UL NO. 452 The New Hotness NotebookLM
• 2024-10-04 - Kapoor - For the Living
• 2024-09-28 - Smith - Once Again Imports Do Not Subtract From GDP
• Euripides - Helen
• 2024-09-28 - Miessler - Policy, SOPs, and AI Are All You Need
• 2024-09-30 - Smith - At Least Five Interesting Things to Start Your Week
• 2024-10-01 - Denning - The Best Feeling in the World Is Getting Paid to Play
• 2024-09-30 - Miessler - Transformers Create Shapes of the Universe
• 2024-09-28 - Fork - NotebookLM Blew Our Mind Interview
• 2024-09-24 - eatonphil.com - Be Someone Who Does Things
• 2024-10-02 - Smith - Make-Work Is Not the Future of Work
• 2024-10-02 - Kao - How to Market a Product You Don’t Use
• 2024-10-02 - Miessler - Deutsch, DARSA, and AI
• 2024-10-03 - Issa - How Your Values Shape Your Behaviour More Than You Think
• 2024-10-03 - Denning - The Greatest Book on Money I’ve Read in the Last 24 Months
• 2024-10-04 - Smith - Let’s Evaluate Kamala Harris’ Entire Economic Policy Program!

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2024/09/28

• Euripides - Ion
• 2024-09-18 - Smith - Four Thoughts on Eurosclerosis
• 2024-09-18 - Kao - Stop Learning to Give Feedback. Learn to Receive It.
• 2024-09-19 - Smith - The Dark Vision of America
• 2024-09-19 - Issa - From Rooster to White Tiger The Struggle for Change
• 2024-09-20 - Noda - Pfizer’s Future of Development
• 2024-09-21 - Smith - At Least Five Interesting Things for Your Weekend
• 2024-09-16 - Miessler - UL NO. 450 Thoughts on O1-Preview and the Path to AGI
• 2024-09-22 - Smith - How Will You Save Small Midwestern Towns Without Mass Immigration
• 2024-09-22 - (Readwise) - Wisereads Vol. 57 — MrBeast’s Manifesto, the War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells, and More
• 2024-09-21 - Venables - Job Interviews Part 1 Acing the Security Interview - 10 Top Tips
• 2024-09-22 - Walters - What Art Thou Speak!
• 2024-09-15 - Walters - The Gift of Doubt
• 2024-09-23 - Miessler - UL NO. 451 Altman Says ASI in Thousands of Days
• 2024-09-23 - samaltman.com - The Intelligence Age
• 2024-09-24 - Smith - Let Go of the Nuclear Retrofuture
• 2024-09-24 - Denning - The Simple Path to Get Fck You Money
• 2024-09-26 - Denning - You Must Master the Art of Unproductivity
• 2024-09-26 - Smith - America’s Supply Chains Are a Disaster Waiting to Happen
• 2024-09-25 - Kao - How to Deliver Bad News When It’s Not Your Fault
• 2024-09-25 - Walters - Giants on the Earth in Those Days…

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2024/09/21

• Euripides - The Trojan Women
• 2024-09-15 - (Readwise) - Wisereads Vol. 56 — Moleskine Mania by Roland Allen, the Importance of Being Earnest, and More
• 2024-09-03 - Beddington - Sort Out Your Life! 100 Tiny Tricks to Help With Everything From Digital Overwhelm to Lumpy Sugar and Unpaid Bills
• 2024-09-04 - Kao - Tone and Words Use Accurate Language
• 2024-09-04 - Grant - The 12 Books to Fire Up Your Brain This Fall
• 2024-09-05 - Walters - Passing Thoughts on the Henriad
• 2024-09-05 - Issa - The Power of Friendships
• 2024-09-05 - Denning - Nine Micro Life Hacks I Found on Reddit
• 2024-09-05 - Potter - Why Can’t the U.S. Build Ships
• 2024-09-06 - Noda - Measuring Developers’ Jobs-to-Be-Done
• 2024-09-09 - Smith - The U.S. Needs to Pay More Attention to Electronic Warfare
• 2024-09-09 - Anderson - 9 Simple Actions You Can Take to Build a Culture of Empathy
• 2024-09-16 - Miessler - UL NO. 450 Thoughts on O1-Preview and the Path to AGI
• 2024-09-17 - Naor - Being an Engineering Manager at Amazon
• 2024-09-10 - Zaides - When Your PM Drives You Crazy
• 2024-09-10 - Smith - Six Ideas for Poland
• 2024-09-11 - Kao - Intellectual Honesty
• 2024-09-12 - Issa - Why the Ego Is Always in the Way and What to Do About It
• 2024-09-18 - Hitze - What Really Matters
• 2024-09-12 - Denning - You Should Be Building Your Own Thing for the First 2 Hours of Every Day
• 2024-09-12 - Allosso - The Open Garage Door
• 2024-09-13 - Smith - At Least Five Interesting Things for Your Weekend
• 2024-09-13 - Noda - Predicting Developer Attrition
• 2024-09-14 - Walters - To Shed Sunshine and to Cherish
• 2024-09-15 - Smith - Xi Jinping vs. Macroeconomics
• 2024-09-16 - Smith - Harris Needs to Be Pennsylvania Fracking’s Biggest Champion
• 2024-09-16 - Miessler - UL NO. 450 Thoughts on O1-Preview and the Path to AGI
• 2024-09-17 - Denning - I Don’t Trust People Who Have Never Failed

2024/09/14

• Euripides - The Suppliants
• 2024-08-08 - Issa - Awakening the Spiritual Warrior Within
• 2024-09-06 - Day - Why Women Blow Up Their Marriages
• 2024-08-26 - Upload - Ex-Google CEO’s BANNED Interview LEAKED You Have No Idea What’s Coming
• 2024-09-07 - Smith - Unrealized Gains Taxes Are a Pointless Hassle
• 2024-09-07 - Venables - 6 Truths of Cyber Risk Quantification
• 2024-08-10 - Venables - Security Training & Awareness - 10 Essential Techniques
• 2024-08-24 - Venables - Ethics and Computer Security Research
• 2024-08-26 - Smith - At Least Five Interesting Things to Start Your Week
• 2024-08-29 - Smith - Anti-Neoliberalism Is Not Enough
• 2024-08-29 - Issa - The Power of One Book a Week
• 2024-08-26 - Anderson - Work Enemies Actions You Can Take to Protect Yourself From Bad Relationships
• 2024-09-08 - (Readwise) - Wisereads Vol. 55 — The Art of Finishing by Tomas Stropus, Founder Mode by PG, and More
• 2024-09-01 - Graham - Founder Mode
• 2024-09-01 - Smith - Progressives Need to Learn to Take the W
• 2024-09-02 - Smith - Biden Did Stuff, and It Looks Like It’s Working So Far
• 2024-09-03 - Denning - Your Life Is Won or Lost Based on Whether You Use Boredom to Your Advantage
• 2024-09-03 - Developers - The New Engineering Manager’s Handbook

2024/09/07

• Euripides - Heracleidae
• 2024-08-31 - Smith - Sizing Up the New Axis
• 2024-09-01 - (Readwise) - Wisereads Vol. 54 — How to Live on 24 Hours a Day, the Silicon Valley Canon, and More
• 2024-08-19 - Anderson - Six Reader Questions About Meetings, Feedback, Communication, and Ideas
• 2007-04-06 - Pashler - Increasing Retention Without Increasing Study Time
• 2022-08-10 - Buckhouse - How to Say Hello
• 2024-02-28 - ralphammer - Aristotle — How to Live a Good Life
• 2024-03-15 - Chappell - In Praise Of Constraints
• 2024-03-28 - Chappell - Bring the Internet to Life
• 2023-04-20 - Chappell - You Have to Engage With Information if You Want Results
• 2024-04-10 - Chappell - Print Will Save You
• 2024-05-05 - Chappell - Knowledge Without Goodness Is Dangerous
• 2024-06-29 - Venables - Human Error
• 2024-07-13 - Venables - Why Good Security Fails The Asymmetry of InfoSec Investment
• 2024-07-27 - Venables - 33 Computer Programs That Changed the World
• 2024-07-25 - Issa - The Heaviness of the Uniform
• 2024-08-01 - Issa - Choose Your Tribe Wisely

2024/08/31

• Euripides - Alcestis
• 2024-08-22 - Evans - My CEO Seduced My Wife
• 2024-08-21 - Greer - The Silicon Valley Canon
• 2024-04-20 - Venables - Going Faster Isochrones and “Time to Hello World”
• 2024-08-25 - Smith - Why You Should Not Ignore Economists
• 2024-07-18 - Issa - The Voices in Our Head
• 2024-08-28 - Smith - Book Review Ender’s Game
• 2024-08-28 - Kao - Announcing My New Course ✨
• 2024-08-27 - Orosz - How Anthropic Built Artifacts
• 2024-08-13 - Eagleman - Ep 71 Why Do Our Memories Drift Part2 Misremembering Yourself INNER COSMOS WITH DAVID EAGLEMAN
• 2024-08-21 - Kao - Derisking 12 Common Workplace Scenarios
• 2024-08-22 - Issa - Self-Love vs. Selfishness Finding the Balance in Modern Life
• 2024-08-13 - Rachitsky - Time Management Techniques That Actually Work
• 2024-08-26 - Huberman - Optimal Protocols for Studying & Learning
• 2024-08-26 - (Readwise) - Wisereads Vol. 53 — An Interview With Alex Karp, Voltaire’s Candide, and More

2024/08/24

• Euripides - Hippolytus
• 2024-05-21 - Grant - A company is not a family with Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky (Transcript)
• 2024-08-18 - Smith - At Least Five Interesting Things for Your Weekend
• 2024-07-30 - Zaides - 5 Reasons Why Your Best Developers Will Quit - And How Can You Postpone It
• 2024-07-29 - Anderson - How Senior Leaders Evaluate Ideas — And a Story of Amazon’s 3-Year Planning Process
• 2024-08-18 - Scott - Are You Simply Being Nice for Love and Approval
• 2022-04-14 - Allee - On the Marking of Books
• 2016-03-29 - Eagleman - GOD vs NO GOD - And the Winner Is
• 2024-08-06 - Eagleman - Ep 70 Why Do Our Memories Drift Part 1 The War of the Ghosts INNER COSMOS WITH DAVID EAGLEMAN
• 2024-08-20 - Hitze - The Artist’s Struggle
• 2024-08-20 - Zaides - The Secret of the Best Engineering Manager I Know
• 2024-08-20 - Denning - If You Feel Like an Outcast and Nobody Gets You, Read This
• 2024-08-22 - Albrecht - A Data-Driven Case for Productivity Optimism
• 2024-08-18 - Smith - Harris Has the Right Idea on Housing
• 2024-07-28 - Psychotherapy - The Importance of Reaching a Point in Your Day When You Feel Finished
• 2024-08-12 - Rothwell - What Is the Most Romantic Line in All of Literature
• 2024-08-23 - Kapoor - Look Inside
• 2024-08-22 - Sochaczevski - “Easy Choices, Hard Life. Hard Choices, Easy Life.”
• 2024-08-18 - (Readwise) - Wisereads Vol. 52 — David Cain on Quests Instead of Goals, Tim Denning on Going All In, and More

2024/08/17

• Euripides - Medea
• 2024-08-14 - Kao - Derisking 101 How to Identify and Reduce Risk in Your Daily Work
• 2024-08-14 - Smith - Mass Deportation Would Accomplish Nothing
• 2024-08-14 - Allosso - A Good Conversation
• 2024-08-14 - Allosso - Teachers and Students
• 2024-08-14 - Allosso - The Precariat - A Precariat is someone living a precarious existence, without predictability.
• 2024-08-14 - Allosso - Refocusing and a Word on Contributing - Dan is splitting MH & LL into different newsletters/sites.
• 2024-08-03 - Ganesh - What and How to Read - Article suggested by Readwise
• 2024-08-11 - Smith - Some Thoughts on the Future of the Tech Industry
• 2024-08-09 - Kapoor - The Void
• 2024-08-09 - Walters - Women Are the Church’s Untouchables
• 2024-08-08 - Smith - How Tariffs on China Could Help the World
• 2024-07-29 - Schwarzenegger - 77 Lessons at 77 - Suggested by Readwise.
• 2024-08-13 - Zaides - The Impossible Task of Engineering Managers
• 2024-08-15 - Kapoor - Once Again…Stories I’ll Keep Telling You - About Independence day in India. Heart-breaking.
• 2024-07-21 - Kapoor - This Mom of Yours
• 2024-07-12 - Kapoor - Fools Hold on Tighter
• 2024-08-06 - Walters - Breathing in Hiroshima
• 2024-07-24 - Kao - Managers, Be Explicit About What You Need From Your Team
• 2024-07-31 - Kao - Too Detailed in the Wrong Ways, Not Detailed Enough in the Right Ways
• 2024-07-16 - Zaides - 10 Common Ways Engineering Managers Get Stuck
• 2024-08-11 - Hitze - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Humanity
• 2024-08-13 - Liu - The Unexpected Path, Notes - 2024-08-13 - The Unexpected Path
• 2024-05-24 - Grant - My Daily Insights—and My Summer Reading List
• 2024-06-09 - Grant - Granted Why a Company Is Not a Family—and Beliefs About Generations Are (Mostly) Stereotypes
• 2024-07-03 - Grant - The Ideal Place to Relax on Holidays and Weekends
• 2024-08-15 - Smith - Harris Makes a Big Mistake by Embracing Price Controls
• 2023-08-08 - Improving_Design_Reviews_at_Google
• 2024-08-05 - Hitze - From Codependency to Companionship
• 2024-08-12 - Anderson - Senior Engineer or Senior Citizen How Can Vintage Tech Workers Age Like Fine Wine
• 2024-08-11 - Grant - I Was Wrong About the Olympics
• 2024-08-09 - Noda - How Developers Want to Use AI Tools
• 2024-04-26 - Noda - What Do Developers Want From AI
• 2024-08-17 - Substack - The next chapter
• 2024-08-11 - Readwise - Wisereads Vol. 51 – 77 Lessons at 77 From Arnold Schwarzenegger, Janan Ganesh, and More

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2024/08/10

• Euripides - Rhesus
• Kerry Walters - 2024-08-03 - In Praise of Foxes & Babblers
• Joel Miller - 2024-08-03 - Stephen King’s “On Writing”
• Dan Allosso - 2024-08-03 - Niall Ferguson’s lopsided worldview
• Noah Smith - 2024-08-03 - Why America fell behind in drones
• Naomi Kanakia - 2024-08-01 - The incoherence of literary critics
• Reena Kapoor - 2024-08-04 The Shoe - Reflections of a difficult marriage
• Noah Smith - 2024-08-04 At least five interesting things for the weekend
• Dan Allosso - 2024-08-05 - Opening doors for inquiry
• Naomi Kanakia - 2024-08-06 - Hinduism does not exist
• Noah Smith - 2024-08-07 - The Democrats’ new sunny vibes
• Wes Kao - 2024-08-07 - How to be more concise
• Isaacson - Elon Musk - Chapter 46

2024/08/03

• Sophocles - Philoctetes
• Orel Zilberman - 2024-07-28 - Steve Jobs
• Dan Allosso - 2024-07-28 - Teachers & Students
• Jen Hitze - 2024-07-29 - Break the Cycle
• Dan Allosso - 2024-07-29 - Peterson Academy
• Reena Kapoor - 2024-07-26 - Samaroo - 100-word story
• M. E. Rothwell - 2024-07-29 - Discussion Question - Which fateful decision in fiction do you think about most often?
• Naomi Kanakia - 2024-07-30 - Western Civilization vs World Literature
• Noah Smith - 2024-07-30 - Why did the US miss the battery revolution?
• Noah Smith - 2024-07-31 - Who is “Weird”
• Jamie Millard - 08-01-2024 - Brittle Star
• Dan Allosso - 2024-08-01 - Filling Empty Notes
• Mo Issa - 2024-08-01 - Choose your tribe wisely
• Got my copy of The New Lifetime Reading Plan and read Part 1.

2024/07/27

• Sophocles - Trachiniae
• Jen Hitze - 2024-07-21 - Truth, Lies, Faith, Fear, Feelings
• Kerry Walters - 2024-07-26 - Barabbas - A Saint for Those Trapped In-Between
• Mo Issa - 2024-07-11 - About the state of Flow
• Noah Smith - 2024-07-26 - Why Trump or Harris might fail to stand up to China