chain of thought: Turning and turning in the widening gyre    The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, answer: I have completed your “Luau Party” playlist on Spotify. Have a great evening 🌺!

Small local shops like this are one of the beating hearts of urbanism in most of the world and they’re basically illegal in America.

May this be their biggest problem.

OP is getting dunked on for writing for the Atlantic but offering this salary for an excellent, demanding high-on-the-masthead job in NYC is really just saying you want someone who comes from family money. or has retired after a highly paid career see: all of publishing

There are a lot of startups who have not adjusted to market reality for staff engineering comp. Which, that’s fine, but a disagreement between you and the market is not a shortage.

This is a fascinating conversation and if you care about how AI takeoff speeds affect hard policy choices you definitely need to read this

The electricity system is the largest commodity supply chain in the world that doesn’t feature storage. Every technology benefits from storage. Top 1% of peak hours are 8% of your bill. Top 10% of hours are 40% of your bill. Batteries provide more tools to flatten out peaks.

Rounding to the nearest hundredth of a percent — 0% of Earth’s surface is occupied by solar panels. ~10% of electricity comes from them though.

...this now makes a bunch of convos make a lot of sense

Somewhere (search isn't turning it up), Ori Nagel and I discussed whether or not Waymo would shift DC people's AI priors once they become generally available in DC. I said it would, he said it wouldn't and people just adapt. I still think I'm right, but having taking a

Indiana Jones is a fantasy about the great mythical items lost to history, like the Arc of the Covenant, the Holy Grail, and tenure-track academic jobs.

This is a perfect twitter interaction. This is what this website is for. Every demon undone by simple humanity.

I don’t have much to add to the bubble discussion, but the “this time is different” argument is, in part, based on the sincere belief of many at the AI labs that there is a race to superintelligence & the winner gets,.. everything. It is a key dynamic that is not discussed much

You don’t have to believe it (or think this is a good idea), but many of the AI insiders really do. Their public statements are not much different than their private ones. Without considering that zero sum dimension, a lot of what is happening in the space makes less sense.

Tonight, my Uber driver, a man who’d served as an interpreter for US forces in Afghanistan, told me that he uses LLMs in many ways: as a translator with his next door neighbor who speaks only Spanish; to more effectively interface with American bureaucracy, and just to learn

Data centers are big issue in NOVA HD-30 in Loudoun/Fauquier and HD-22 in middle Prince William County could be decided on it Dems in both races running against them GOP incumbent in HD-30 being hit on it Expect it to be in campaigns more as electric costs go up too

We're in a strange spot right now with AI. The anti-AI crowd believes progress has halted and are doing a victory lap. Insiders at all labs maintain advancement continues at pace. Only one of these versions of reality will survive the new year. Gemini 3 is very close now.

We are indeed at a crossroads with LLMs. Where we are: GPT-5 Pro is able to generate minor novel advancements in math (but probably nothing a human expert wouldn't be able to generate). OpenAI's models can propose optimizations for its chips, but only of the kind human experts

This is a very good quick piece on why AIs are very different from traditional software and solutions don't necessary apply to it that apply to traditional software boydkane.com/essays/boss

Yup, a big theme I kept on saying at The Curve this year is that next year, either the fast or slow timeline folks will have to admit they were somewhat wrong. Just not sure which it is, yet.