Writing
2026
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Public writing as a longtermist wager
What gets published gets remembered.
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There is 1 good social media service, and it's owned by Amazon
Or: how I learned to stop scrolling and love shelving.
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Bitter pills to swallow
Fast progress is real, not eternal.
2025
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Anecdotes from underdevelopment
Small conveniences build up to big quality-of-life differences.
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Why I made the questionable decision to join a 'startup' university
It was an obvious decision then, and a borderline rational decision in retrospect. Startups change fast.
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Why I made the questionable decision to join a 'startup' university: My options
You may not know your opportunity cost
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Why I made the questionable decision to join a 'startup' university: Students
A real community, but that may not be enough
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Reviewing 'Boom: Bubbles and the End of Stagnation'
Entertaining, but lost in reference
2024
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Writing a short post
Regularize your ideas.
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Reviewing 'A Brief History of Intelligence'
Max Bennett synthesized decades of research in biology, neuroscience, and machine learning into one coherent evolutionary story of how intelligence got where it is.
2023
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The value of bare-metal knowledge
Understanding all layers of the compute stack is extremeley rewarding. It will bring you benefits regardless of the development layer you work in.