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by vonnik 1y ago
this is a great piece! one nitpick: > And though when we started our business in 2023 (ChatGPT wasn’t out yet), you could begin to feel that something like that was possible in a way it wasn’t before. ChatGPT launched in late 2022...
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by vonnik 1y ago
OK, so now a foreign power has dirt on senior US officials as well as operational details about their plans. The first possibility leads to blackmail, the second to defeat, and both to scandal.
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by vonnik 1y ago
Highly recommend Shakescleare for anyone reading Shakespeare, esp students: https://www.litcharts.com/shakescleare/shakespeare-translati...
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by vonnik 1y ago
for the silicon kind of reversible computing, see vaire.co. they're in tapeout.
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by vonnik 1y ago
Not for a business guy it’s not. Both sides have a hard time evaluating each other.
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by vonnik 1y ago
I have found something similar to be true when it comes to building. Some years ago, John Collison tweeted that he realized everything he saw in the built environment had once been someone’s passion project. I think there’s another, maybe m
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by vonnik 1y ago
The most acute need for a network state is among white-collar refugees (yes, they exist!). These people need all kinds of services that their host states are unable/unwilling to provide, including access to work. Sora Union is one org
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by vonnik 2y ago
For more in this vein, from 90 years ago: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Work_of_Art_in_the_Age_o...
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by vonnik 2y ago
The main victim of this order is the US defense industry. What Ukrainians need most are the low-cost drones made of commercial parts from Asia which have made it hard for the Russians to fire artillery and supply the front. To produce these
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by vonnik 2y ago
I have been helping to send aid to the Ukrainian army for the last 2.5 years through Ukraine Defense Fund: https://ukrainedefensefund.org/ Profile of the founder in WIRED: https://www.wired.com/story/uk
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by vonnik 2y ago
Was at a couple national parks this month. The chaos due to short staffing saddened me. Foolish tourists will die or be hurt, and nature will be damaged, because the monitors and first responders are not there. What’s the plan here? I thoug
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by vonnik 2y ago
Curious to what extent Iceberg enables data composability and what the best complements and alternatives are.
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by vonnik 2y ago
I went thru the author’s struggle, too. Here’s what I came with: https://vonnik.substack.com/p/how-to-take-your-brain-back
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by vonnik 2y ago
Totally agree with this. The thing is, there are at least four major factors that lead to the energy depletion of burnout: - physical (i'm unhealthy, don't sleep, eat or exercise well) - mental (i'm distracted and interrupted
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by vonnik 2y ago
relevant: Slack, by Tom DeMarco https://www.amazon.com/Slack-Getting-Burnout-Busywork-Effici...
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by vonnik 2y ago
I burned out bad running a startup and shutting it down during Covid. I managed to recover since then. There are lots of causal factors leading to burnout. It’s basically a long term energy imbalance along multiple dimensions. One of those
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by vonnik 2y ago
Not terribly insightful. The question in the headline is not answered.
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by vonnik 2y ago
Totally agree with this and would add that cognitive load is not just a matter of the code before you, but a function of your total digital environment: https://vonnik.substack.com/p/how-to-take-your-brain-back Interru
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by vonnik 2y ago
Rux ignores one of the main bottlenecks of clinical trials: finding the clinical trial managers whose expertise is necessary to manage them and surface candidates for them. Pharma would run as many trials as there are managers. And managers
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by vonnik 2y ago
And yet … there are some engineers who manage to solve hard problems to get something new working and debug it, however long it takes, and many others who don’t and/or can’t.
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by vonnik 2y ago
I’m a big believer in learning tied to projects and goals, at least for the consumption that the author is describing. It usually feeds back into building, which feeds back into learning. But more broadly, it comes down to where you draw th
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by vonnik 2y ago
I heard someone say once that testosterone makes doing hard things feel good. If that’s true, then it would align with the conclusions in this paper.
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by vonnik 2y ago
See also: metal organic frameworks. Cheaper to produce and faster at adsorbing. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal%E2%80%93organic_framew...
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by vonnik 2y ago
We can alter our environment and make behavioral choices that engage us with discomfort. Choosing to learn is one example. Exposure therapy is another.
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by vonnik 2y ago
This is also known as hormesis, a biological phenomenon where exposure to a low dose of a potentially harmful stressor (toxin, radiation, or environmental factor) leads to a beneficial adaptive response in an organism. Examples include exer
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by vonnik 2y ago
The ongoing Ukraine war is what prevents these countries from being invaded now. Winning that war by destroying Russia’s ability to produce conventional weapons, and exhausting its supply of military age men, will protect these countries an
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by vonnik 2y ago
He’s really talking about how to maintain focus and neurological energy, but doesn’t have the right words. Fwiw, I wrote about it here: https://vonnik.substack.com/p/the-inner-game-of-knowledge-wo... It’s something I s
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The Inner Game of Knowledge Work(vonnik.substack.com)
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by vonnik 2y ago
Anyone interested in this should look into BorgWarner, the company that produces most of the EV power trains in the US. They charge a several x markup and hold a virtual monopoly. https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.10440
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by vonnik 2y ago
Imagine if that statement applied to every non-digital thing as well.

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