Agency > Intelligence I had this intuitively wrong for decades, I think due to a pervasive cultural veneration of intelligence, various entertainment/media, obsession with IQ etc. Agency is significantly more powerful and significantly more scarce. Are you hiring for agency? Are

Post AI Realities: - The best engineers are more valuable than ever, - You need way fewer of them, - Cap tables and team structures are changing because of it More thoughts here: danmurphy.xyz/posts/2025-12-…

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If you get the chance, TRAIN DREAMS on Netflix is one of the best films I’ve seen in a long time. I haven’t stopped thinking about it.

you pity the moth confusing a lamp for the moon, yet here you are confusing a screen for the world

It's depressing how widely shared and read this is. It's AI-generated word salad posted by someone with a vested interest in spreading AI hype. AI is "big," I guess, but its effects will be much more complicated and variegated than this "essay" implies.

you've changed my life with this, brb

We're committing to cover electricity price increases from our data centers. To ensure ratepayers aren’t picking up the tab, we'll pay 100% of grid upgrade costs, work to bring new power online, and invest in systems to reduce grid strain. Read more: anthropic.com/news/covering-…

Solar will utterly dominate future electricity production

Taste has always been a core skill.

I recommend reading The Way of Zen. It’s fantastic and will probably change the way you look at life

Joy is a competitive super power. Alysa Liu retired from figure skating at 16. She was tired of not not having fun, tired of being consumed by her sport. She came back two years later with a new goal: to have as much fun on the ice as possible. And now she’s an Olympic gold

An Optimization Mindset says: “If I optimize every aspect of my life, then I’ll be happy.” A Happiness Mindset says: “If I learn how to be happy, then I’ll naturally function in an optimal way.” A Happiness Mindset ime outputs more happiness and, actually, more success in life

Most people don’t appreciate at all how beautiful the world is.

When I was 14 years old, I traveled to the Big Bend region of West Texas for the first time. My extended family had lived along the U.S.–Mexico border since the 1970s, but this was my first time visiting them. As a suburban kid from Philadelphia, I’d never seen anything quite

Dario Amodei just gave his first interview since the Pentagon blacklisted his company. The toll is visible on his face. He was asked one question. What would you say to the President right now? He didn’t hesitate. Amodei: “We are patriotic Americans. Everything we have done

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BLM Announces Plan to Fell Oregon's Last Great Forests One billion board feet per year... 20 days to make your voice heard. They filter drinking water for downstream communities. They hold soil on steep slopes above salmon streams that are already in crisis. They’re home to the

We destroy the things that matter just so we can build more things that are meaningless. Why?

One of the most important threads you'll read. The West is drying out and it's an existential threat. Water is a civilizational resource -- you literally can't sustain civilization without it. More to come soon on ACC's water policy agenda. This is mission-critical.