Tiffany Yong
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- How to be more ambitious: A tutorial for humans with models37 savers
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- Be impatient | benkuhn.net24 savers
- Deep Learning12 savers
- What makes a good photo - Andrea Bianco Photographer2 savers
- The Innovation/Execution Spectrum - Jacob Kaplan-Moss1 savers
- Amtrak Right Now7 savers
- Do Thing, Do One Thing49 savers
- What 81,000 people want from AI \ Anthropic26 savers
- Computing the optimal road trip across the U.S. | Dr. Randal S. Olson5 savers
- How to live without your phone - by Sam Kriss6 savers
- Refugium I Locations1 savers
- https://cs.stanford.edu/~jsteinhardt/ResearchasaStochasticDecisionProcess.html31 savers
- It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons @ tonsky.me7 savers
- The Anthropic Hive Mind. As you’ve probably noticed, something… | by Steve Yegge | Feb, 2026 | Medium17 savers
- OH no Type Company3 savers
- Why I Ignore The Spotlight as a Staff Engineer - Lalit Maganti3 savers
- A Guide to Claude Code 2.0 and getting better at using coding agents | sankalp's blog12 savers
- curius graph26 savers
- 2025 letter | Dan Wang62 savers
- Who Goes Fascist? - Lux Magazine7 savers
- Kolmogorov–Smirnov test4 savers
- Career Advice That Doesn’t Suck27 savers
- NVIDIA Isn't Enron - So What Is It?3 savers
- karpathy/nanochat: The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy.4 savers
- Inside Cursor - Colossus14 savers
- Economics and AI | Tom Cunningham – Tom Cunningham9 savers
- Viscerality - by Simon Sarris - The Map is Mostly Water14 savers
- Interesting Stuff | Rohan's Rambles3 savers
- What it’s like to walk across Massachusetts1 savers
- On the Equilibrium Properties of Spatial Models1 savers
- w33377.pdf1 savers
- A clarified typology of core-periphery structure in networks | Science Advances1 savers
- cuahsi.shinyapps.io/macrosheds/2 savers
- Checklist for Gender Equality in Your Everyday Life3 savers
- Instagram Infographic Generator1 savers
- Labs · Patrick Collison7 savers
- Principles of Effective Research | Michael Nielsen23 savers
- Infinity Category Theory Offers a Bird's-Eye View of Mathematics - Scientific American2 savers
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- Monkeytype6 savers
- Nick Cave - The Red Hand Files - Issue #64 - Do you have any regrets as you get older? : The Red Hand Files3 savers
- The maze is in the mouse. What ails Google. And how it can turn… | by Praveen Seshadri | Feb, 2023 | Medium14 savers
- Benefits of a daily diary and topic journals | Derek Sivers4 savers
- Organizing Genius reading group7 savers
- You and Your Research82 savers
- What Should You Do with Your Life? Directions and Advice - Alexey Guzey75 savers
- Advice · Patrick Collison69 savers
- Why books don't work66 savers
- i wish we’d grown up on the same advice - by vincent huang61 savers
- How to Pick a Career (That Actually Fits You) — Wait But Why61 savers
- Things You Learn Dating Cate Hall - by Sasha Chapin52 savers
- Quantum computing for the very curious52 savers
- You don’t need to work on hard problems51 savers
- Making Normal Conversations Better - by Sasha Chapin42 savers
- Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference - Thinking Machines Lab40 savers
- Pain is not the unit of Effort38 savers
- Squad Wealth36 savers
- The Gap Map34 savers
- How to be More Agentic - by Cate Hall - Useful Fictions33 savers
- Advice for ambitious teenagers -32 savers
- Stop trying to try and try32 savers
- How to hire low experience, high potential people31 savers
- Research Debt30 savers
- World-building IRL - by Joss - box.29 savers
- To listen well, get curious28 savers
- Do I Need to Go to University? -- colah's blog26 savers
- How Superhuman Built an Engine to Find Product/Market Fit | First Round Review26 savers
- Research as Understanding26 savers
- Multi-layered calendars « julian.digital26 savers
- Some Notes – Raffi Hotter25 savers
- Library for Life24 savers
- why are we lying to young people about work? - by Maalvika24 savers
- Research Taste Exercises [rough note] -- colah's blog22 savers
- Stratechery by Ben Thompson22 savers
- Love is not a math problem - by Gonzalo Nuñez21 savers
- Instead of your Life's Purpose - by existentialpervert6921 savers
- Why the Canadian Tech Scene Doesn’t Work20 savers
- How to build meaningful relationships after college18 savers
- We Don’t Sell Saddles Here. The memo below was sent to the team at… | by Stewart Butterfield | Medium18 savers
- Rauno Freiberg18 savers
- A Speech I would Like To Give Undergrads - by Judah17 savers
- Real Conversation Questions17 savers
- Loneliness: The Four Circles of Belonging (2/2) - by joss15 savers
- The Technium: Scenius, or Communal Genius15 savers
- How to Live Near Your Friends - by Priya - offscript14 savers
- Moth Minds: Fund individuals doing work you believe in14 savers
- Your Life is Driven by Network Effects13 savers
- research as leisure activity - by Celine Nguyen13 savers
- On Being an Illegible Person13 savers
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- John Carmack on Idea Generation12 savers
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- Engineer by Day, Venture Capitalist by Night | by Casey Caruso | Medium11 savers
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All in all, it was a very good, very long walk.
What it’s like to walk across MassachusettsBut there may nevertheless be something irreducible about the shared experience of parenthood—a life in which your fragile heart now seems to beat on the outside of your body.
The End of Children | The New YorkerPhysical “Stuff” tends to last longer (gadgets, jewelry, toys), but the value usually decreases over time.
How Much is a Memory Worth? — Mike Troxellcreate a WhatsApp for AIPhone
The end of software | Evan ConradScenius can be thought of as the best of peer pressure.
The Technium: Scenius, or Communal GeniusNone of the details of his life have changed, except one thing. He now lives with an awareness that he was never truly entitled to be alive; he just happened to be, and still is.
Your Whole Life Is Borrowed Timeits ideal state is relishing the struggle of existence, not being totally chill
Self-Love Doesn't Require You to Become Huggy and PassiveSometimes you can feel a conversation ‘click shut,’ like the energy that propels it has been exhausted. When you do, you can just end it, rather than trying to wring more out of it. “It was great talking to you, I’m going to go [perform some action]” is almost never an inappropriate thing to say at this point.
Making Normal Conversations Better - by Sasha ChapinBut good, deep conversations usually contain silences where you can reorganize your thoughts or simply occupy the flow of time together.
Making Normal Conversations Better - by Sasha Chapinthese 13–15 friends collectively represent 2,000–3,000 hr of invested time to merely achieve that status, not including time needed to maintain closeness
How many hours does it take to make a friend? - Jeffrey A. Hall, 2019support clique, sympathy group, friendship group, clansmen, and acquaintances
How many hours does it take to make a friend? - Jeffrey A. Hall, 2019Do they act as advisors for the people who use their work at the company?
10 More Notes – Raffi Hotter“shared experiences”
10 More Notes – Raffi HotterLack of empathy is the root of most problems in the world.
10 More Notes – Raffi Hottergrading for learning is, to paraphrase a 1960’s-era slogan, rather like bombing for peace
The Case Against Grades (##) - Alfie Kohn“Kohn’s Korollary to Meier’s Mandate”: Any public officials who talk sanctimoniously about the need to “raise the bar” and demand “tougher standards” should be required by law to take these exams themselves…and have their scores posted online.
It's Time to Rethink Education Policy - Alfie KohnIs Time Working for or Against You?
Is Time Working for or Against You? | Applied Divinity StudiesA Harvard graduate who changes the world has learned to buck the pressures around them, instead of being positively guided by their environment.
Harvard Creates Managers Instead of ElitesI seem to have become more entangled in those trappings than I was before all this
Harvard Creates Managers Instead of Elitesonce their moral outrage is soothed by an acceptance letter, tend to perpetuate the same power dynamics they once condemned
Harvard Creates Managers Instead of Elitesprioritizes external validation above internally derived motivation
Harvard Creates Managers Instead of ElitesIt is possible to teach people to do visionary, generative, and purpose-defining work. And as Harvard students, admitted for talent and ambition and placed in a position of elite privilege, we are the exact people one would expect to be taught this. But the Harvard social environment never teaches students what this generative part of reality looks like. This creates a managerial, not a transformative and strategic, elite.
Harvard Creates Managers Instead of ElitesIn reality, few simple pastimes exist at Harvard.
Harvard Creates Managers Instead of Elitescost of basic human needs goes up faster than wages do
Considerations On Cost Disease | Slate Star CodexSo now the doctor consults a psychiatrist, who does an hour-long evaluation, charges the insurance company $500, and determines using her immense clinical expertise that the patient is upset because he just had a heart attack.
Considerations On Cost Disease | Slate Star CodexIt’s almost as if industries have their own reasons for switching to more-bells-and-whistles services that people don’t necessarily want, and consumers just go along with it because for some reason they’re not exercising choice the same as they would in other markets.
Considerations On Cost Disease | Slate Star CodexKeep an eye out for the stories being written within your own communities and think about which ones you want to be remembered.
To build a community, elevate the storytellers | thesephist.comThe stories we don’t tell also carry a message.
To build a community, elevate the storytellers | thesephist.comThey communicate something about the MIT community, and invite those who want to be a part of the same values and the same culture.
To build a community, elevate the storytellers | thesephist.comGreat communities build up and remember a collective identity, but not by rote repetition. They remember, together, by telling stories.
To build a community, elevate the storytellers | thesephist.comThe solution is at the other end: to realize that having invested time in something doesn't make it good.
Why Smart People Have Bad IdeasIf you're going to spend years working on something, you'd think it might be wise to spend at least a couple days considering different ideas, instead of going with the first that comes into your head.
Why Smart People Have Bad IdeasThis is a mistake, because the younger you are, the more risk you can take.
Hiring is Obsolete