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->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->-> Top Sources: None --> Today's links The difference between "today's task" and "accretive work" : Sometimes, "I got it working" is fine, but sometimes it isn't. Hey look at this : Delights to delectate. Object permanence : Series of tubes;…
Trump’s $1.4 billion crypto disclosure 0:00 / 647.394626 1× Listen to me read this post here (not an AI-generated voice!), subscribe to the feed in your podcast app, or download the recording for later. President Donald Trump’s most recent financial disclosure reveals that…
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It’s been an incredibly long few weeks, and as a result my previously-planned Hater’s Guide just isn’t possible within what little time I have left in this week, which is why I’m starting an ongoing series — Notes From The Bubble — where I’m going to…
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So it’s been a big week for me after I published an exclusive covering OpenAI’s audited financials from 2024 and 2025 , with reactions ranging from “oh my god, OpenAI spent $34 billion to make $13.07 billion in revenue!” to “actually, it’s good the company…
Issue 106 – A tremendous birthday present 0:00 / 2090.370204 1× Listen to me read this post here (not an AI-generated voice!), subscribe to the feed in your podcast app, or download the recording for later. I was hard at work building Tech Influence Watch , my campaign finance…
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The Second Circuit of Appeals, which in November 2025 heard oral arguments in Sam Bankman-Fried’s appeal of his November 2023 conviction [ I96 ], has upheld the verdict and rejected Bankman-Fried’s request for a new trial with a new judge. I’ve purchased the full document so…
End Citizens United’s Tiffany Muller on fighting big money in politics 0:00 / 2889.839229 1× Listen here, subscribe to the feed in your podcast app, or download the recording for later. Sixteen years after the Citizens United decision opened the floodgates to unlimited corporate…
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I was reading Hacker News the other day, as one does, and a post titled "Using AI to write better code more slowly" had climbed near the top. I read it, and then I just kinda sat there chewing on it while I worked for the afternoon. Ultimately, I think Nolan has named something I'd been turning…
I'd been using Claude Code for about a week when I asked it to scaffold a Laravel authentication module. It generated the routes, the controllers, the middleware, the views. Clean code. Well-structured. Proper separation of concerns. I skimmed it, nodded, ran the tests. Green across the board. I…
Epigraph We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us. You install an AI coding assistant. You type a prompt. It writes some code. You fix the parts it got wrong. You type another prompt. This is the loop, and for most people it stays the loop forever. Prompt, generate, fix, repeat. I did…
I keep a file called history.jsonl on my laptop. I didn't put it there. Claude Code did, logging every prompt I've sent since October. The other day I counted the lines: 3,976. Six months, almost four thousand requests, across a dozen projects and at least five programming languages. That's roughly…
About this post This post is adapted from a talk I gave at an Elevate CX conference in the fall of 2024. I've restructured it for the page, but the core argument and most of the language are preserved from the original. I'm not going to tell you empathy is bad. I want to be clear about that up…