My theory why quality is so rare is that it is rare to have people care for their work or allowed to care for their work. The culture shifted from people doing their craft to fastest way to check the checkbox grantslatton.com/nobody-cares

great thread

Panic update.... $MOVE Index (live) is now at 172, a level only touched in: 1) Oct 1998 LTCM collapse 2) Sep 2008 Lehman collapse 3) Mar 2023 SVB collapse Note - Mar 2020 Covid peak was 164 This is the bond market "stop out" trade, the Hedge Funds are unwinding all their

"except for China" tells you everything you need to know...

Art Of The Squeal

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This is how a champion speaks about a victory. Bravo.

if you add "abstraction", make sure it's actually abstracting an intuitive concept. else it's just indirection. this is the old complaint about Java, academia, pseudo-intellectualism, simulacra, etc.

no one knows when exactly to use a semicolon they just throw it in there

The Most Overlooked Global Risk Right Now: Shadow FX Intervention and the Illusion of Dollar Liquidity Everyone’s watching the Fed. Some are watching yields. Few are watching the real fracture line: the silent, state-driven reengineering of global FX flow mechanics. What’s

Comedians have done well in the internet era because they have a lot of experience talking to crowds of potentially hostile, semi-interested people. This became a hugely valuable skill set in the age of podcasts and social media.

i agree with this

this is amazing

truly prophetic

We discovered faster way to compute product of matrix by its transpose! This has profound implications for data analysis, chip design, wireless communication, and LLM training! paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.09814 The algorithm is based on the following discovery: we can compute

There is a real probability airborne infectious disease might be straight-up solvable. Treat air light we treat water, do pathogen control on it, laugh as Pestilence takes another L. Some people study this question professionally. Want to meet them in SF next Monday? If so:

Liquid Glass is looks super distracting. It sacrifices contrast for some "joy" and "expressiveness". #WWDC25

this is the best news of the week so far

Never believe anything until it is officially denied.

U.S. thirty year at five point zero zero the sound of rivets popping