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Other startups who had exactly the same experience in the first few years thought "this isn't working" and gave up. What they didn't realize (because you never ...

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They only have this opportunity because they were already out there building stuff. That showed them exactly where AI could most effectively be applied. So AI i...

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AI is giving a lot of hard-working founders the growth they deserve. Every couple days I hear about another startup that was working hard and doing ok but not g...

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RT by @paulg: Pete Hegseth quoted a fake Bible verse from Pulp Fiction during a Pentagon sermon.

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RT by @paulg: A new paper in @Nature from David Reich, @aliakbari23 and colleagues breaks the conventional understanding of recent human evolution. The field ...

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I finally tried to create an Instagram account. (I've managed to avoid it so far.) It was instantly suspended, before I'd even finished the signup process. The ...

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Something I taught 14 yo: Most progress is a mix of steps forward and steps back, just with with more of the former. But you can get a run of steps back. So to ...

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RT @johnarnold: Online gambling is the silent epidemic. You will probably know if someone close to you love has a drinking or a drug probl…

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Interesting ideas tend to appear in multiple places in slightly different forms. Though that's somewhat of a tautology, because this is a big part of what makes...

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(I know because my algorithm for voting is: vote for the candidates who don't have woke shibboleths in their personal statements, and it used to be hard to find...

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Only 1 of the 9 candidates for the Harvard Board of Overseers have woke shibboleths in their personal statements. Just a year or two ago the majority seemed to....

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Amusing edge case: If you post multiple nude statues, Twitter's image cropping algorithm makes you seem lascivious.

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Rippling is still growing 78% a year at this size? This is why startups are valuable.

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Self-portrait by Joshua Reynolds, 1780s. Other sitters can take their glasses off, but sitters in self-portraits can't.

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Judging from auction catalogues, Austrians seem to like tchotchkes the most of any European country. I wonder if it's because, as the (necessarily somewhat mobi...

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(I'm kidding about implementing this. The back button of every popular browser has always worked within pages as well as between them.)

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People often ask me for a way to get back to where they were after reading footnotes in my essays. I'm happy to report that I've now implemented this for my sit...

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Cause and effect probably goes both ways here. Having kids makes you more conservative, and being conservative makes you more inclined to have kids.

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A watchmaker told me that he prefers it when he opens a watch that needs service and the movement is dirty. If the movement is clean, it's more likely the probl...

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Taught 14 yo (he's now 14) about the concept of a conservation law, and how doing good things for people seems to violate one in the sense that it makes them ha...

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