"If I've learned one bitter lesson about this stuff over the years, it's that the best productivity hack in the world is simply liking your job." (!) Great post with some new tools I hadn't heard of: platformer.news/productivity-t…

Bureaucratic science is already generously funded and does not need more private support. Philanthropists should fund young outsiders, like during the Golden Age of Science. Read the new article by Stuart Buck (link below):

This is an incredible deep dive into data centers and their water consumption. Lots of links that you can look into (though I didn't). The conclusion seems to be that data centers have to be treated like any other industrial center. andymasley.substack.com/p/i-cant-find-…

On Stratechery, Ben Thompson makes the case for US govt's recent stake in Intel: stratechery.com/2025/u-s-intel/

A new post on The Conversation estimates that flushing the toilet equals the water used in 154 GPT-5 prompts and 1,714 GPT-4o prompts. I am wondering if anyone has seen analysis or pushback on the piece. theconversation.com/ai-has-a-hidde…

It is all too common for faculty and administrators to refer to a campus conversation or class discussion of public policy as causing "harm". We must challenge the use of this language.

This is the right way to deal with factual disagreements: by reiterating the shared commitment to due diligence. Karen Hao is also correct to note that her differences with Andy Masley are philosophical and not just rooted in the factual domain but facts can still be corrected.