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16 Sep The Powerful Connection Between Smell & Memory Kottke.org Culture 16 Sep There is no such thing as a ‘text’, and if there were it would degrade literature to be treated as one. The Common Reader Culture 16 Sep Stories are important models yet flawed Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views Finance 16 Sep Very good news Marginal Revolution Economics 16 Sep The two components of investor intelligence Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views Finance 16 Sep Open Thread: Hard to Finish? Miller's Book Review Culture 16 Sep The ambiguities of experience - impacts decision-making Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views Finance 16 Sep We Must Create the Shit Machine . “I asked... Kottke.org Culture 16 Sep What Regulatory Capture Actually Looks Like Marginal Revolution Economics 16 Sep An Argument With a Friend Who Doesn't Exist Speak and Regret Psychology 16 Sep 10 Wednesday AM Reads The Big Picture Finance 16 Sep Hand-drawn illustration library FlowingData Tech 16 Sep Conferencing, Day 1 Paul Krugman Economics 16 Sep To teach students how to think, shut down the Wi-Fi, scramble the cell signal, and send them to weeklong retreats in the deep, dark woods Arts & Letters Daily Culture 16 Sep Jonathan Swift envisioned a large wooden contraption that would allow anyone to write brilliantly, sans “genius or study.” Sound familiar? Arts & Letters Daily Culture 16 Sep Stephen Hawking, brilliant and extraordinary, was spoken of with reverence and affection. Those who knew him have a dimmer view Arts & Letters Daily Culture 16 Sep Dwight Macdonald was famous for writing with a sneer. His criticism now reads less like erudition than compulsive, gleeful bullying Arts & Letters Daily Culture 16 Sep Watched vertically on a phone, the Chinese “micro-drama” — under two minutes — may be the defining art form of our era Arts & Letters Daily Culture 16 Sep Prophets of literary doom keep writing books about the death of reading. The genre refutes the thesis  Arts & Letters Daily Culture 16 Sep Would an influential jeremiad against American literature’s devotion to emotional immaturity change writerly habits? Alas, no Arts & Letters Daily Culture 16 Sep Is all the hate for Rachel Cusk’s latest novel merely a misunderstanding of its genre, and the terms the book sets out for itself? Arts & Letters Daily Culture 16 Sep Nature rightly insists that we must learn from the tragedy of Jason Arday. Unfortunately the journal has learned the wrong lessons Arts & Letters Daily Culture 16 Sep The Atomphilosoph. In technologically driven catastrophes, Günther Anders saw cosmic arrogance — and also the need for a new moral code Arts & Letters Daily Culture 16 Sep Questions for Kevin Warsh Robin J Brooks Economics 16 Sep Pluralistic: How an AI moratorium can save AI bosses (16 Sep 2026) Pluralistic Tech 16 Sep The economics of cyber risk Marginal Revolution Economics 16 Sep The anti-American Right Noahpinion Economics 16 Sep Central bankers draw on their experiences Klement on Investing Finance 16 Sep When discussing AI policy, start with China Marginal Revolution Economics 16 Sep The frontier Anthropic & OpenAI models are only ~4... Kottke.org Culture 16 Sep Three blind men, and unemployment Data For India Economics 16 Sep Inefficient Labor Saving Automation Homo Economicus Economics 16 Sep Why Are Valuations Falling in a Bull Market? A Wealth of Common Sense Finance 16 Sep Neuromancer, Chapters 13-15: Immortal No More Freddie deBoer Culture 16 Sep Jev means structured output is interesting again Sean Goedecke Tech 15 Sep “The Secret Life of Circuits” is here lcamtuf's thing Tech 15 Sep Shitty Maps and Special People Summer Lightning Culture 15 Sep Gemini Live audio Simon Willison Tech 15 Sep Apple TV Dethrones HBO Spyglass Tech 15 Sep Last year in Ireland, a bouncy castle infested with a... Kottke.org Culture 15 Sep How To Talk to a Tyrant Persuasion Culture 15 Sep The Ductus of Protocol Fiction Protocolized Culture 15 Sep Naomi Klein : “Extreme wealth has a deranging... Kottke.org Culture 15 Sep Publication Day! No more hype, time to fight. Patterns by Naomi Klein Culture 15 Sep Taryn Simon’s Father Country I Do Love You Kottke.org Culture 15 Sep Callum Williams on cybersecurity prices Marginal Revolution Economics 15 Sep They’re not scared of Skynet. They’re scared of Chernobyl. Mo Tech 15 Sep The Tube Computer was recently constructed from... Kottke.org Culture 15 Sep Without This Concept, Liberalism Is Nothing Persuasion Culture 15 Sep Tuesday links: playing by its rules Abnormal Returns Finance 15 Sep Tycho’s Burning Man Sunrise Set for 2026 Kottke.org Culture 15 Sep Debt & DataCenters: CHART OF THE DAY Grasping Reality Economics 15 Sep Tuesday assorted links Marginal Revolution Economics 15 Sep The Anomaly Zoo Does Not Speak in One Voice, but It Does Have a Consensus Larry’s Substack Finance 15 Sep In the winter of 1988, Francis Fukuyama wrote an essay while visiting his in-laws in Las Vegas. He's been fending off critics ever since Arts & Letters Daily Culture 15 Sep “In Silicon Valley, science fiction is neither a slight nor an incidental entertainment,” says Jill Lepore. “Instead it’s taken as a form of technical writing, a set of assembly instructions” Arts & Letters Daily Culture 15 Sep At 83, Terry Eagleton is fixated on death, which he unnervingly describes as “the erotic bliss of yielding to an impregnable power" Arts & Letters Daily Culture 15 Sep Natural Law Theory Is Obviously False Bentham's Bulldog Philosophy 15 Sep Alex Gibney’s documentary reveals that Elon Musk has... Kottke.org Culture 15 Sep J.R.R. Tolkien on How to Fall in Love with Life The Marginalian Life 15 Sep With a new installment every seven years since 1964, the... Kottke.org Culture 15 Sep Research links: shifting beliefs Abnormal Returns Finance 15 Sep CROSSPOST: STEVE VLADECK: 250. What We Learned from USPS v. California Grasping Reality Economics 15 Sep Are global reserves moving away from the dollar? Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views Finance 15 Sep The Bad Guy With An AI Named Claude Don't Worry About the Vase Tech 15 Sep [Video] What Should William Do? [RSS Exclusive!] Dan Q Tech 15 Sep My new essay about Samuel Johnson The Common Reader Culture 15 Sep The Spice Drawer Kottke.org Culture 15 Sep Transcript: Seth Bernstein, Chief Executive Officer of AllianceBernstein The Big Picture Finance 15 Sep KILL YOUR DARLINGS The Cutting Floor Culture 15 Sep There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy Experimental History Psychology 15 Sep Canada is cosying up to Europe Programmable Mutter Tech 15 Sep [Note] F-Day plus 214 Dan Q Tech 15 Sep AI's "No Fate" Future Spyglass Tech 15 Sep A declaration signed by 25 Fields medalists : “The... Kottke.org Culture 15 Sep Humanity’s Flight 93 Moment The Intrinsic Perspective Tech 15 Sep Why Is Trump Still Boosting AI? Paul Krugman Economics 15 Sep What Was the Best Portfolio Over the Last 50 Years? Of Dollars And Data Finance 15 Sep The striking thing is how late the market moved Marginal Revolution Economics 15 Sep Jacob Weisberg on the Contagion of Cowardice Persuasion Culture 15 Sep 10 Tuesday AM Reads The Big Picture Finance 15 Sep Zombie Freud, part I Figs in Winter Philosophy 15 Sep Hotter days and more of them FlowingData Tech 15 Sep [Article] A Postcard from a Labyrinth Artist Dan Q Tech 15 Sep How Will Markets Trade the Fed? Robin J Brooks Economics 15 Sep Consuming more than the Colorado River provides FlowingData Tech 15 Sep Those new service sector jobs Marginal Revolution Economics 15 Sep Pluralistic: Everybody pees (15 Sep 2026) Pluralistic Tech 15 Sep (SEMI-)CROSSPOST: JACOB LEVY: Conceptualizing Academic Freedom Grasping Reality Economics 15 Sep More than a military alliance Klement on Investing Finance 15 Sep Thomas Bernhard on Walking, Thinking, and the Paradox of Self-Reflection The Marginalian Life 15 Sep Did the ACA reduce mortality? Marginal Revolution Economics 15 Sep The Peace of Wild Things: Wendell Berry’s Poetic Antidote to Despair, Animated The Marginalian Life 15 Sep Following: The government doesn't want to regulate AI Platformer Tech 15 Sep With Yumeshipping, Your Heart Has to Be in It or What’s the Point? default.blog Culture 15 Sep Tell agents the why, not just the how Sean Goedecke Tech 14 Sep King Ludd Astral Codex Ten Culture 14 Sep Tag index for Org mode blog Entropic Thoughts Tech 14 Sep Bond markets - is this just a return to normal Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views Finance 14 Sep The contagion of fear Simon Willison Tech 14 Sep The Feminization of Employment Growth During Trump II: CHART OF THE DAY Grasping Reality Economics 14 Sep What blog posts influenced your thinking the most? Simon Willison Tech 14 Sep From a curator at the Getty, ratings of every... Kottke.org Culture 14 Sep The Origin of the Necropolis The Abrahamic Metacritique History 14 Sep [Repost] On Publishing Your Salary Dan Q Tech 14 Sep The 2026 winners of the Ig Nobel Prize include papers... Kottke.org Culture 14 Sep The Sexual Revolution of the Imagination default.blog Culture 14 Sep CROSSPOST: ANDREW GELMAN: “Replication Crisis”, Dan Ariely Files Grasping Reality Economics 14 Sep Rocky Sleep, You Watch, Question? Kottke.org Culture 14 Sep Now open for business in Nyack, NY: Busman’s Holiday , a... Kottke.org Culture 14 Sep Monday links: pausing vs. pacing Abnormal Returns Finance 14 Sep Monday assorted links Marginal Revolution Economics 14 Sep Ok wait, the NES Tetris world record is now 40.26... Kottke.org Culture 14 Sep In an 8th-century Chinese text, Buddha warns of 50 “demonic states” in which meditators can be trapped. Now science is exposing those dangers Arts & Letters Daily Culture 14 Sep Time speeds up and slows down; days blend together to the point of indistinguishability — time disorientation is real Arts & Letters Daily Culture 14 Sep Helen Vendler spent a lifetime writing about lyric poetry, yet her criticism always started from frustration, not certainty Arts & Letters Daily Culture 14 Sep Japan requests revision to UN-supported map FlowingData Tech 14 Sep 150 Controversial Views Bentham's Bulldog Philosophy 14 Sep The Atmosphere Just Set a Water Vapor Record The Climate Brink Science 14 Sep A Deep Dive Into the Full Bayeux Tapestry Story Kottke.org Culture 14 Sep We Must Pace The Frontier Don't Worry About the Vase Tech 14 Sep Can phones explain PISA? The Common Reader Culture 14 Sep She Says Spacetime Points Are Just Where Fields Meet Curt Jaimungal Science 14 Sep I’ve linked to Summoning Salt’s videos before (they make... Kottke.org Culture 14 Sep Quoting Laurie Voss Simon Willison Tech 14 Sep Adviser links: good vs. great planning Abnormal Returns Finance 14 Sep In 1992, Canada declared a moratorium on Northern cod... Kottke.org Culture 14 Sep Kids These Days, Part II Small Potatoes Psychology 14 Sep Betting on the Leverage Effect: A New Way to Measure Asymmetric Risk Larry’s Substack Finance 14 Sep Two-Hour Mix of the Jazz in Haruki Murakami Novels Kottke.org Culture 14 Sep Some Links Wollenblog Philosophy 14 Sep Swarms of AI Committing Crime For Money Persuasion Culture 14 Sep Whatever it takes was not free. The Two Cents Economics 14 Sep Big Tech and Big Oil have fused – Call it Fossil Tech Patterns by Naomi Klein Culture 14 Sep We Are Living in the Fantasy World of 13-Year-Old Boys .... Kottke.org Culture 14 Sep 2026 Barron’s Top 100 RIA List The Big Picture Finance 14 Sep Are universities on the brink of an Uber-like revolution? Optimally Irrational Economics 14 Sep Exchanges mergers and EU Capital Market Union (CMU) Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views Finance 14 Sep The Sheep Show at Patterdale Over the Field Culture 14 Sep The MAGA Plot(s) to Destroy Humanity Paul Krugman Economics 14 Sep Nobody Owns Disability Freddie deBoer Culture 14 Sep Talk Your Book: Why Aren’t There More IPOs? A Wealth of Common Sense Finance 14 Sep Clippings 18 ~ Taking the temperature Investment Ecosystem Clippings Finance 14 Sep Can US democracy survive its debt tipping point? Klement on Investing Finance 14 Sep AI, Redistribution, and the Size of the Pie Marginal Revolution Economics 14 Sep Pluralistic: But do you use keyboard shortcuts? (14 Sep 2026) Pluralistic Tech 14 Sep 10 Monday AM Reads The Big Picture Finance 14 Sep Bad Feelings Plain English Culture 14 Sep [Reply] Re: How I made… Dan Q Tech 14 Sep The Dollar into the FOMC Robin J Brooks Economics 14 Sep Three types of literature regarding the world of AI Global Inequality and More Economics 14 Sep Is it the screens? Or education systems? Marginal Revolution Economics 14 Sep The growth effects of natural disasters Klement on Investing Finance 14 Sep Inverse-square law lcamtuf's thing Tech 14 Sep Does AI assistance enhance or erode expertise? Marginal Revolution Economics 14 Sep Monopoly Round-Up: Just Stop the Anthropic IPO Already BIG by Matt Stoller Economics 14 Sep One in every 250 young men in Punjab and Delhi is in prison Data For India Economics 14 Sep People Hate Paying Taxes More Than They Like Making Money A Wealth of Common Sense Finance 14 Sep Two missing pieces in the AI safety discussion Noahpinion Economics 14 Sep The Way We Live Now: 11-11-01; Lost and Found , a piece... Kottke.org Culture 14 Sep commit-rewriter 0.1 Simon Willison Tech 14 Sep Slow developer experience will bottleneck fast models Sean Goedecke Tech 14 Sep Planning with Agents: Divided Worlds, Boundary Objects, and Thicker Interfaces Maggie Appleton Design 14 Sep Interpreting Pangram Armin Ronacher Tech 13 Sep shot-scraper 1.12 Simon Willison Tech 13 Sep Seneca on True and False Friendship The Marginalian Life 13 Sep Open Thread 451 Astral Codex Ten Culture 13 Sep The Accelerationist Case for Frontier Pacing Contraptions Tech 13 Sep The ‘End Times Fascists’ of AI, ft. Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor Blood in the Machine Tech 13 Sep Inflation expectations are still high Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views Finance 13 Sep The danger in in the covariance matrix Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views Finance 13 Sep Best food I’ve ever eaten Derek Sivers Life 13 Sep Linkpost September Bentham's Bulldog Philosophy 13 Sep Sunday assorted links Marginal Revolution Economics 13 Sep 1988 Porsche 911 M491 Cabrio (Sold!) The Big Picture Finance 13 Sep Sunday links: constitutional checks Abnormal Returns Finance 13 Sep Apparently Criminals Don’t Have Free Will, But Elites Do Rob Henderson Psychology 13 Sep Brand New AI Solves a Millennium Prize Don't Worry About the Vase Tech 13 Sep Brand new short film! Plus early press for End Times Fascism Patterns by Naomi Klein Culture 13 Sep The Saudi Pipeline Attack and Oil Prices Robin J Brooks Economics 13 Sep The Moving Story of the Dawn Redwood: How a Fossil Came Back to Life to Bring Humanity Together in the Middle of Our Deadliest War The Marginalian Life 13 Sep The Fascinating Science of How We Think Not with the Brain But with the World The Marginalian Life 13 Sep Top clicks this week on Abnormal Returns Abnormal Returns Finance 13 Sep Diversity Is Our Strength? Marginal Revolution Economics 13 Sep Trade, Peace and War Paul Krugman Economics 13 Sep 10 Sunday Reads The Big Picture Finance 13 Sep Admiral William J. Fallon on Decisions, Discord & Diplomacy Persuasion Culture 13 Sep Lifted AF ⊗ Cyborgs, centaurs and cyberpunks Sentiers Tech 13 Sep How to Think About the Saudi Pipeline Attack Robin J Brooks Economics 13 Sep [Checkin] Dan Q did not find GC3C7FT Woodies Dan Q Tech 13 Sep [Checkin] Geohashing expedition 2026-09-13 51 -1 Dan Q Tech 13 Sep A simple model of AI-aided economic growth Marginal Revolution Economics 13 Sep #361 Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt Anticipating the Unintended Economics 13 Sep AI is breaking our proxies for expertise Sean Goedecke Tech 12 Sep Generating running routes with GPT-6 Astra and ChatGPT Work Simon Willison Tech 12 Sep SubTuringBradBot & Parasocial Sociability: SUNDAY SPECIAL: MAMLMS & SOCIETY Grasping Reality Economics 12 Sep How to Be a Good Explorer on the Lifelong Expedition to Yourself The Marginalian Life 12 Sep California Brown Pelican Simon Willison Tech 12 Sep Don Quixote’s Guide to Better Reading Miller's Book Review Culture 12 Sep AI and the future of the humanities The Common Reader Culture 12 Sep Our Eukaryotic Moment Contraptions Tech 12 Sep Quoting Paul Ford Simon Willison Tech 12 Sep How a Healthy Society Falls Apart The Honest Broker Culture 12 Sep The mathematicians rebel against AI Marginal Revolution Economics 12 Sep How should social science think about AI? Programmable Mutter Tech 12 Sep GPT-6-Astra Can Do Ambitious Things Don't Worry About the Vase Tech 12 Sep Dario Calls for a Pause Marginal Revolution Economics 12 Sep Vile Incurable Sores on Innocent Tongues Bentham's Bulldog Philosophy 12 Sep The Perfect Nightmare for Kevin Warsh Robin J Brooks Economics 12 Sep MiB: Seth Bernstein, Chief Executive Officer of AllianceBernstein The Big Picture Finance 12 Sep Saturday links: an over-optimized life Abnormal Returns Finance 12 Sep UK fact of the day Marginal Revolution Economics 12 Sep The Prediction Archive Marginal Revolution Economics 12 Sep Pluralistic: LLMs are real, AI is fake (12 Sep 2026) Pluralistic Tech 12 Sep Henry Farrell and Abe Newman on Weaponized Interdependence Paul Krugman Economics 12 Sep 10 Weekend Reads The Big Picture Finance 12 Sep Judith Dada on the Rise of the AfD Persuasion Culture 12 Sep Video: How to travel Figs in Winter Philosophy 12 Sep The Perfect Nightmare for Kevin Warsh Robin J Brooks Economics 12 Sep Volatility vs. Drawdowns Stockviz Finance 12 Sep Get the Middle East out of my politics! Noahpinion Economics 12 Sep The politics and possibilities of ‘AI could kill us all’ Blood in the Machine Tech 12 Sep Labor reallocation during the Industrial Revolution Marginal Revolution Economics 12 Sep The excess pessimism of early nuclear bomb designers Marginal Revolution Economics 12 Sep A Beginning, Not a Decline: Colette on the Splendor of Autumn and the Autumn of Life The Marginalian Life 12 Sep OpenAI agents attacked RubyGems back in May Simon Willison Tech 12 Sep The Ontology of Time. We Had It Backwards Curt Jaimungal Science 12 Sep Put your hands in the air Nicholas Gruen Culture 12 Sep Don't build tools for AI agents Sean Goedecke Tech 12 Sep P(doom) Armin Ronacher Tech 11 Sep Aristotle and AI Anecdotal Value Culture 11 Sep So you want to use OpenRouter? Simon Willison Tech 11 Sep Will UFO Research Always Be a Sideshow? default.blog Culture 11 Sep The Day Dostoyevsky Discovered the Meaning of Life in a Dream The Marginalian Life 11 Sep Can Export Restrictions Make AI Go Faster? Homo Economicus Economics 11 Sep The Glow Part 2 Kneeling Bus Culture 11 Sep Apple Unveils the CEO Handoff Spyglass Tech 11 Sep Millionaires Everywhere A Wealth of Common Sense Finance 11 Sep Why Leaves Change Color and How We Become Who We Are: The Science of Chlorophyll and the Poetics of Personhood The Marginalian Life 11 Sep When Conservative Social Policies Backfire Persuasion Culture 11 Sep Humanity Matters Wisdom of Crowds Culture 11 Sep Friday links: mediating norms Abnormal Returns Finance 11 Sep The Allocative Cost of War Marginal Revolution Economics 11 Sep Neat little prototype demo of a Bluesky reader that... Kottke.org Culture 11 Sep Quoting Boris Cherny Simon Willison Tech 11 Sep Feeling sad about AI Simon Willison Tech 11 Sep 9/11 in Realtime FlowingData Tech 11 Sep This Week At Persuasion Persuasion Culture 11 Sep A late 90s guide to Super Metroid was written in... Kottke.org Culture 11 Sep Major Life Announcement Matt Mullenweg Tech 11 Sep Quoting huggingface.co/security.txt Simon Willison Tech 11 Sep Friday assorted links Marginal Revolution Economics 11 Sep The Golden Age of Impact Bentham's Bulldog Philosophy 11 Sep The extraordinary achievement of Moby-Dick is to unroll the blank sheet on which modernity will write itself Arts & Letters Daily Culture 11 Sep The nonfiction collapse. We’re nearing the point at which one fiction blockbuster could outsell the entire nonfiction bestseller list Arts & Letters Daily Culture 11 Sep Literature without lust? For Leslie Fiedler, the American canon comprised adventure books, sea tales, and other prepubescent diet fare Arts & Letters Daily Culture 11 Sep Pluralistic: Inefficiency is bad, actually (11 Sep 2026) Pluralistic Tech 11 Sep Soft-deprecating re.match() Simon Willison Tech 11 Sep What is literary criticism if it is not close reading? Art, Magic, and Common Sense. The Common Reader Culture 11 Sep Jacob Coxon Warns of Human Extinction and Triggers a Preference Cascade Don't Worry About the Vase Tech 11 Sep Stop Panicking About AI BIG by Matt Stoller Economics 11 Sep The AI Regulatory Commission Cass’s Substack Economics 11 Sep Why Harvard's Dean 'Encourages' Students to Use AI Plain English Culture 11 Sep Don't sleep on wrapture Simon Willison Tech 11 Sep The Extinction Risk Preference Cascade: Quotes Don't Worry About the Vase Tech 11 Sep A Better Way to Predict Long-Term Stock Returns Larry’s Substack Finance 11 Sep Open-Source AI & Open Models Reading List Interconnects Tech 11 Sep Biiiiig Stretch Kottke.org Culture 11 Sep “In almost every [US] county, extreme heat is at... Kottke.org Culture 11 Sep Where Has Construction Automation Been Successful? Construction Physics Tech 11 Sep [Repost] Opusfived Dan Q Tech 11 Sep Wishful Thinking Is (Mostly) A Myth - Unpaywalled Conspicuous Cognition Philosophy 11 Sep [Repost] Hot new laptop features Dan Q Tech 11 Sep 9/11 Changed Our Politics Persuasion Culture 11 Sep The Long Decline of America Paul Krugman Economics 11 Sep 10 September 11th Reads The Big Picture Finance 11 Sep Wealth inequality in America, updated for 2026 FlowingData Tech 11 Sep The Global Debt Shock Robin J Brooks Economics 11 Sep Using India's e-courts data to answer questions around access to justice Data For India Economics 11 Sep CROSSPOST: ROY EDROSO: Tubby, Hero & Victim of 9/11 Grasping Reality Economics 11 Sep My AI podcast with James Pethokoukis Marginal Revolution Economics 11 Sep The shape of AI slop Klement on Investing Finance 11 Sep The shapeshifting trap Koenfucius Psychology 11 Sep Why Gold didn’t actually overtake Treasury Securities as the World’s “favorite” reserve asset? Mostly Economics Economics 11 Sep What is money? Mostly Economics Economics 11 Sep Markets do respond to AGI news Marginal Revolution Economics 11 Sep Is there now a better trend in youth mental health? Marginal Revolution Economics 11 Sep Datasette 1.0a39 and 0.65.4 security releases Simon Willison Tech 11 Sep datasette-publish-fly 1.4 Simon Willison Tech 11 Sep The Unspeakable World: Alan Watts on How to Touch the Pulse of Life The Marginalian Life 11 Sep VC Isn’t VC Anymore — Understanding the Rise of Cancer... Kottke.org Culture 11 Sep The Simpsons Switcheroo Kottke.org Culture 11 Sep The AI safety vibe shift Platformer Tech 11 Sep “ Gimme is a dazzling ever-growing type family of... Kottke.org Culture 11 Sep For Amy Maria Konnikova Psychology 11 Sep github-to-sqlite 2.9.1 Simon Willison Tech 11 Sep datasette 0.65.4 Simon Willison Tech 11 Sep datasette 1.0a39 Simon Willison Tech 11 Sep At 25, we are all New Yorkers, again Anil Dash Tech 10 Sep Bring Blockbuster Video back to your town/city by... Kottke.org Culture 10 Sep Any Nix package, live in your browser Simon Willison Tech 10 Sep CROSSPOST: DAN DREZNER: The Trump Administration Strategy Fail Grasping Reality Economics 10 Sep Gloria Steinem’s final essay , posthumously published by... Kottke.org Culture 10 Sep OpenAI spent millions to solve this famous math problem — mathematicians are furious Understanding AI Tech 10 Sep TIL that my iPhone has a tiny bit of water in i t (for... Kottke.org Culture 10 Sep Teaser trailer for Musk , a 3h45m-long documentary film... Kottke.org Culture 10 Sep Albert Camus on the Source of Strength and How to Save Our Sanity in Trying Times The Marginalian Life 10 Sep Native is now the future of mobile at Shopify Simon Willison Tech 10 Sep Think Twice About Age Verification Persuasion Culture 10 Sep China’s Subsidies Worked; Countervailing Tariffs Didn’t Richard Baldwin Substack Economics 10 Sep The Mother of All Trolley Problems Open Questions Philosophy 10 Sep My short interview with Julia Willemyns Marginal Revolution Economics 10 Sep A Short History of Trend-Following and Momentum A Wealth of Common Sense Finance 10 Sep The Apple Event Smelled of a Rich Mahogany Spyglass Tech 10 Sep Thursday links: foldable phones Abnormal Returns Finance 10 Sep Interest Rates and Stock Prices: An Old Debate Flares up! Musings on Markets Finance 10 Sep Germany Proves Again that Censorship Doesn’t Work Freddie deBoer Culture 10 Sep T-Bills and Chill? Try Munis & Chill Instead The Big Picture Finance 10 Sep Hugging Face is Much Scarier Than Was Reported Bentham's Bulldog Philosophy 10 Sep Thursday assorted links Marginal Revolution Economics 10 Sep One resignation turned the embers of AI fear into a wildfire Interconnects Tech 10 Sep He burned with no causes, claimed Tom Stoppard. That detachment let him dramatize ideas his committed peers couldn't touch Arts & Letters Daily Culture 10 Sep Once again this year, Vinita Prabhakar assigned her college students a short story she'd taught for a decade. This time, she lost her job Arts & Letters Daily Culture 10 Sep During the golden age of Oxbridge dons, intellectual elites were treated as a national treasure. Then came Margaret Thatcher Arts & Letters Daily Culture 10 Sep AI #185: Preference Cascade Don't Worry About the Vase Tech 10 Sep A Better Way to Judge Private Equity Funds Larry’s Substack Finance 10 Sep Marriageable Women, Informants, Ego-Shock Rob Henderson Psychology 10 Sep Longform links: actual writing Abnormal Returns Finance 10 Sep Cultural trends through kid drawings FlowingData Tech 10 Sep ✚ Application of charts and data FlowingData Tech 10 Sep Royce On San Francisco Astral Codex Ten Culture 10 Sep Bessent and the Bonds Paul Krugman Economics 10 Sep [Repost] Automattic Minus Matt Dan Q Tech 10 Sep 10 Thursday AM Reads The Big Picture Finance 10 Sep Scanning Plugins Matt Mullenweg Tech 10 Sep AI Safety Is Having a Moment Plain English Culture 10 Sep What kinds of things are living organisms? Figs in Winter Philosophy 10 Sep I’ve started an AI-drafted blog Pertinent Observations Life 10 Sep Insuring Against Success? Economic Forces Economics 10 Sep [Note] Pixel Area Dan Q Tech 10 Sep [Note] Sundog Dan Q Tech 10 Sep The Dollar Debasement Trap Robin J Brooks Economics 10 Sep AI, Tyler Cowen, Thomas Schelling and the US / Russia Talks The One Percent Rule Tech 10 Sep Economic Scenarios for Transformative AI Marginal Revolution Economics 10 Sep [Repost] Use Firefox Dan Q Tech 10 Sep Some remarks on being stuck, with digressions on David Hockney, developing style, and gardens Henrik Karlsson Life 10 Sep Ricardo Reis and the IMF? Marginal Revolution Economics 10 Sep Build. More. Houses. Klement on Investing Finance 10 Sep “After the University” (Review) Anecdotal Value Culture 10 Sep My very interesting Conversation with Jared Diamond Marginal Revolution Economics 10 Sep The New Science of Plant Intelligence and the Mystery of What Makes a Mind The Marginalian Life 10 Sep “We found ~18,000 posts from autonomous AI agents... Kottke.org Culture 10 Sep The Race After AGI The Cutting Floor Culture 10 Sep Different Types of Truth with Jeffrey Kripal default.blog Culture 10 Sep The Chicago Public Library informs patrons of how much... Kottke.org Culture 10 Sep Quoting Calif Research Simon Willison Tech 10 Sep Over the past 12 years, Super Bowl-winning coach Mike... Kottke.org Culture 10 Sep They really do think AI might kill everyone Sean Goedecke Tech 10 Sep [RODEN] Writing in 2026, Walking Europe Craig Mod Culture 09 Sep .blend URL Viewer Simon Willison Tech 09 Sep From the Internet Archive: Vanishing Culture: A Report... Kottke.org Culture 09 Sep Vintage Eastern European Matchbox Labels (1950-1980s) Kottke.org Culture 09 Sep At The Money: Becoming a “FinFluencer” The Big Picture Finance 09 Sep A catalogue of 645 acts of hate from the week after 9/11... Kottke.org Culture 09 Sep The Almighty Dollar - a deep dive into monetary history Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views Finance 09 Sep Net interest and entitlement 98.4% of tax receipts Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views Finance 09 Sep Bayeux Go! A playable video game of the Bayeux... Kottke.org Culture 09 Sep Talking FOOTBALL with Neil Paine Freddie deBoer Culture 09 Sep How to Change Your Life The Marginalian Life 09 Sep The Last 24 Hours Are the Opening Scene in a Horror Movie The Honest Broker Culture 09 Sep Spaceships : A version of Asteroids where “you are not... Kottke.org Culture 09 Sep If Most Professors Have the Same Politics, That's Bad for Democracy Persuasion Culture 09 Sep Wednesday links: a moment of sheer luck Abnormal Returns Finance 09 Sep What should I ask Kevin Roose? Marginal Revolution Economics 09 Sep Profitability: The Common Thread Behind Quality, Defense, and Value Larry’s Substack Finance 09 Sep Reading Max Weber in the Age of AI Weltinnenpolitik Economics 09 Sep Wednesday assorted links Marginal Revolution Economics 09 Sep Will AI soon lead to double-digit growth? Ghosts of Electricity Economics 09 Sep Limited Inerrancy: Limited Plausibility Bentham's Bulldog Philosophy 09 Sep The political right often acts in bad faith in its attacks on academia; in response, academics lapse into tendentious moralism Arts & Letters Daily Culture 09 Sep Pauline Kael was useless as a guide to movies. She was indispensable as an autobiographer of the Age of Cinema Arts & Letters Daily Culture 09 Sep Gooey, disgusting AI slop is everywhere these days, including the pages of The Wall Street Journal. Here comes the AI police Arts & Letters Daily Culture 09 Sep Tomorrow: Against the Machine Reading Group Over the Field Culture 09 Sep The shifting Overton window Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views Finance 09 Sep 1873 - the first depression and monetary mistakes Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views Finance 09 Sep Personal finance links: taking a walk Abnormal Returns Finance 09 Sep GPT-6 Astra: The System Card, Alignment and What Comes Next Don't Worry About the Vase Tech 09 Sep The 101 Plays Itself . The five lanes of highway 101 in... Kottke.org Culture 09 Sep Culture Becomes a Dark Forest The Intrinsic Perspective Tech 09 Sep How Long Till Death Revokes Your Library Card? Miller's Book Review Culture 09 Sep Next Wins Appeal Marginal Revolution Economics 09 Sep When will average people feel AI’s impact? Interconnects Tech 09 Sep Adding Injury to Insult, Canada Edition Paul Krugman Economics 09 Sep Animal Spirits: Everywhere Millionaires A Wealth of Common Sense Finance 09 Sep 10 Wednesday AM Reads The Big Picture Finance 09 Sep Pluralistic: Anti-vax/anti-trust (09 Sep 2026) Pluralistic Tech 09 Sep Let There Be 'iPhone Duo' Spyglass Tech 09 Sep [Note] Dan Q Tech 09 Sep China Doesn’t Set Global Oil Prices Robin J Brooks Economics 09 Sep [Article] Hot take: AI peaked with Taco Bot 3000 Dan Q Tech 09 Sep Liberalism needs a new philosophy of immigration Noahpinion Economics 09 Sep Terence Tao on the paradox of solving mathematical problems FlowingData Tech 09 Sep Reading sentences to ponder Marginal Revolution Economics 09 Sep The price momentum of lottery tickets Klement on Investing Finance 09 Sep Reasons to go to college Marginal Revolution Economics 09 Sep Comparative Advantage Revisited The Slack Wire Economics 09 Sep Expected Time of Arrival Data For India Economics 09 Sep Kahlil Gibran on the Courage to Weather the Uncertainties of Love The Marginalian Life 09 Sep The Paradoxes and Possibilities of Transformation: Adam Phillips on Our Ambivalent Desire for Change The Marginalian Life 09 Sep Neuromancer, Chapters 10-12: A Doll’s House Freddie deBoer Culture 09 Sep The AI warnings are coming from inside the lab Platformer Tech 09 Sep Quoting Terence Tao Simon Willison Tech 09 Sep Why we should anthropomorphize AI agents Sean Goedecke Tech 09 Sep I Don’t Want to Interact With Stochastic Parrots Ploum Tech 09 Sep Cancer Capital: It sucks for founders, too! Anil Dash Tech 08 Sep Some thoughts on the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem Simon Willison Tech 08 Sep Introducing ChatGPT Images 2.5 Simon Willison Tech 08 Sep The Beginning of the End of History Persuasion Culture 08 Sep The Hidden Fault Lines in Private Credit Funding Larry’s Substack Finance 08 Sep Better AI code comment detector Entropic Thoughts Tech 08 Sep Will the end of reading be the end of democracy too? The Common Reader Culture 08 Sep CROSSPOST: JOHN QUIGGIN: US Navy Defeated Again Grasping Reality Economics 08 Sep The End of a Golden Era For Investors A Wealth of Common Sense Finance 08 Sep Tuesday links: a meme asset Abnormal Returns Finance 08 Sep Tuesday assorted links Marginal Revolution Economics 08 Sep Americans are indifferent to art but obsess over art heists. "It’s as though a nation of teetotalers chooses, year after year, to hang out in bars Arts & Letters Daily Culture 08 Sep Rachel Cusk’s new novel was billed as “literary scandal of the year.” Strip away the controversy and it’s instantly forgettable Arts & Letters Daily Culture 08 Sep Babitz bubbles, Renata revivals, Hardwick hurricanes: How NYRB Classics built its name by resurrecting old and overlooked novelists Arts & Letters Daily Culture 08 Sep She Says Spacetime Points Are Just Where Fields Meet Curt Jaimungal Science 08 Sep How bad are the bond market returns? Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views Finance 08 Sep The Discipline and the Discipline Never Met a Science Culture 08 Sep Latest open artifacts (#24): Motif-3, GLM-5.3, Hy4-preview and open model licenses Interconnects Tech 08 Sep Where are we going to get the needed copper? 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Paul Krugman Economics 08 Sep Astra Is Hard to Monitor Don't Worry About the Vase Tech 08 Sep “What is this? A dilemma for ants?” Wollenblog Philosophy 08 Sep No Doing, No Learning Marginal Revolution Economics 08 Sep Summing up economic history in one para Mostly Economics Economics 08 Sep Government support of religion strengthened religiosity and divided America Mostly Economics Economics 08 Sep Interest Rate-Hike Expectations: CHART OF THE DAY Grasping Reality Economics 08 Sep 10 Tuesday AM Reads The Big Picture Finance 08 Sep Sarah Longwell on How Democrats Can Defeat Trump Persuasion Culture 08 Sep How to find happiness with Cicero Figs in Winter Philosophy 08 Sep Never forget what matters with Dr David Urbansky, founder of Linkflare Ness Labs Life 08 Sep The rise and rise of Germany’s right Mostly Economics Economics 08 Sep Will Oil Prices Spike Again? Robin J Brooks Economics 08 Sep UN votes to support map projection that accurately shows the size of Africa FlowingData Tech 08 Sep Ed Elson and Scott Galloway interview me on AI Marginal Revolution Economics 08 Sep Southeast Asia as the new investment hub Klement on Investing Finance 08 Sep Will new transportation technologies increase urban density? Marginal Revolution Economics 08 Sep What Became of the Asian Century? The Cutting Floor Culture 08 Sep Monopoly Round-Up: The Enshittification of the American Hamburger BIG by Matt Stoller Economics 08 Sep How to Break Free from the Tyranny of Certainty: The Japanese Concept of “Ma” The Marginalian Life 08 Sep Teaser trailer for You Can See Everything from Nathan... 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Small Potatoes Psychology 07 Sep Import AI 472: DeepMind's cheating math agents; populist AI policies; and Forethought theorizes a nightwatchman Import AI Tech 07 Sep [Article] The Husbands by Holly Gramazio Dan Q Tech 07 Sep When a Mentally Ill Person Kills, How Much Confinement is Long Enough? Freddie deBoer Culture 07 Sep The Rise and Fall of Crime Homo Economicus Economics 07 Sep J. Bradford DeLong: Professor of Economics, Emeritus Grasping Reality Economics 07 Sep Neo-Nazis and the Impotence of Trumponomics Paul Krugman Economics 07 Sep CROSSPOST: RILEY CEDER & J.D. SIMKINS: Navy Not Returning to Damaged Bahrain Base ‘Anytime Soon,’ Top Officer Says Grasping Reality Economics 07 Sep Talk Your Book: AI Winners & Losers A Wealth of Common Sense Finance 07 Sep Broke and in search of a sinecure, Edgar Allan Poe went to Washington in 1843 to try to meet the president’s son. 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Food Arts & Letters Daily Culture 07 Sep 10 Labor Day Reads The Big Picture Finance 07 Sep Elon Musk & His DOGE & DogeCoin Adventure: CHART OF THE DAY Grasping Reality Economics 07 Sep Invasion of the “meat proxy” butterfly catchers Pilgrims in the Machine Culture 07 Sep What the Rise of Germany’s AfD Means Robin J Brooks Economics 07 Sep AI keeps stubbornly refusing to take our jobs Noahpinion Economics 07 Sep Capital gains vs. wealth taxes Marginal Revolution Economics 07 Sep Open Thread 450 Astral Codex Ten Culture 07 Sep How the New Forms of money should be included in U.S. Monetary Aggregates Mostly Economics Economics 07 Sep Why Indonesia faced youth protests despite stable macroeconomic conditions? 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Armin Ronacher Tech 06 Sep Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI Simon Willison Tech 06 Sep OpenAI and the Wiki Incident Don't Worry About the Vase Tech 06 Sep Insurance price sentences to ponder Marginal Revolution Economics 06 Sep Amazon is Polluted The Honest Broker Culture 06 Sep The True Purpose of Tarot The Marginalian Life 06 Sep Signs and Existence The Abrahamic Metacritique History 06 Sep Sunday assorted links Marginal Revolution Economics 06 Sep How to Apologize: Reflections on Forgiveness, Self-Forgiveness, and the Vulnerabilities of Being Human The Marginalian Life 06 Sep The Sex Organs of the Machine World default.blog Culture 06 Sep Sunday links: randomly correct Abnormal Returns Finance 06 Sep Do doomers believe what they say? Small Potatoes Psychology 06 Sep The purpose of DNS is to spread scams Simon Willison Tech 06 Sep The Economic Meltdown of Iran Robin J Brooks Economics 06 Sep Some Status Games Are Worth Playing Rob Henderson Psychology 06 Sep What Daily Stock Returns Tell Us About the Economy Larry’s Substack Finance 06 Sep (NOT A) CROSSPOST: HALINA BENNET: The Return of Institutional Purpose [to Academia] Grasping Reality Economics 06 Sep Top clicks this week on Abnormal Returns Abnormal Returns Finance 06 Sep Weaponized Interdependence Paul Krugman Economics 06 Sep The Bizarro Code Cass’s Substack Economics 06 Sep GPT-6 Astra Reviews ‘The Social Roots of Delusions’ Conspicuous Cognition Philosophy 06 Sep In Memory of Jeffrey Williamson: SATURDAY “SLOUCHING” & FRIENDS Grasping Reality Economics 06 Sep 10 Sunday Reads The Big Picture Finance 06 Sep The future is not tech-forward ⊗ Models don’t go rogue Sentiers Tech 06 Sep There's No Limit to How Bad Code Can Get Simon Willison Tech 06 Sep What is the Debasement Trade? 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Robin J Brooks Economics 05 Sep ThothBot Makes an Appearance in My RA-Group Telegram Chat: FRIDAY FOG & FLATLANDS Grasping Reality Economics 05 Sep My Sons Read ‘Middlemarch’ and Sided Against Dorothea Miller's Book Review Culture 05 Sep Reading List - 09/05/2026 Construction Physics Tech 05 Sep The Kalshi Citizen Debt Forecast (CDF) Marginal Revolution Economics 05 Sep 10 Weekend Reads The Big Picture Finance 05 Sep Day Off Paul Krugman Economics 05 Sep Jared Diamond on Whether Leaders Make History Persuasion Culture 05 Sep Suggested Readings Figs in Winter Philosophy 05 Sep Will the Fed Hike? Robin J Brooks Economics 05 Sep Doomsayers were doomed and India bloomed Stockviz Finance 05 Sep Pluralistic: Google skates (05 Sep 2026) Pluralistic Tech 05 Sep America is still beating China in the AI race Noahpinion Economics 05 Sep Mein Ingeborg Bachmann Studium Marginal Revolution Economics 05 Sep Is Lichtenstein an actual monarchy? Marginal Revolution Economics 05 Sep Interpersonal important and urgent work Pertinent Observations Life 05 Sep XKDR Newsletter - Issue 53 XKDR Forum Science 05 Sep The Most Important Thing to Remember About Your Mother The Marginalian Life 05 Sep A Wallet Is Not Sovereignty. Continuity Is. The Cutting Floor Culture 05 Sep The Odyssey: the last word Nicholas Gruen Culture 05 Sep Latent Powers Armin Ronacher Tech 04 Sep The Pelican comparison grid for Astra is pretty interesting Simon Willison Tech 04 Sep This Week At Persuasion Persuasion Culture 04 Sep How to Handle Provocation: Bertrand Russell’s Remarkable Response to a Fascist The Marginalian Life 04 Sep Don’t Celebrate Lindsay Clancy Persuasion Culture 04 Sep Just one more thing.... Anecdotal Value Culture 04 Sep The real AI jobs apocalypse Blood in the Machine Tech 04 Sep More on lower rates The Grumpy Economist Economics 04 Sep Will Young People Ever Buy a House? A Wealth of Common Sense Finance 04 Sep YouTube Videos I’m Recommending Right Now The Honest Broker Culture 04 Sep The Art of Choosing Love Over Not-Love: Rumi’s Antidote to Our Human Tragedy The Marginalian Life 04 Sep Your Book Review: The Tale Of Genji Astral Codex Ten Culture 04 Sep The Worst Case Is Still on the Table The Climate Brink Science 04 Sep Friday links: living with leverage Abnormal Returns Finance 04 Sep Who is the marginal. bond buyer? Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views Finance 04 Sep The diesel fuel shock - the driver of concern Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views Finance 04 Sep Why America Is Losing the New Cold War Persuasion Culture 04 Sep Nobody Knows Anything, Rate Expectations Edition The Big Picture Finance 04 Sep A Brief Reminder Bentham's Bulldog Philosophy 04 Sep OpenAI's rogue agents were caught communicating via public wikis Simon Willison Tech 04 Sep We are at the Will Smith eating spaghetti phase of computer use Mo Tech 04 Sep How are the market valuations for the U.S: insurers doing? Marginal Revolution Economics 04 Sep Inklings #025 📧 Spyglass Tech 04 Sep Persona Launch Party: In Defense of Human Nature with Francis Fukuyama Wisdom of Crowds Culture 04 Sep 19 robotics companies to watch Understanding AI Tech 04 Sep Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1: The System Card Don't Worry About the Vase Tech 04 Sep Friday assorted links Marginal Revolution Economics 04 Sep How America Is Retreating From Its Tariff War Richard Baldwin Substack Economics 04 Sep Old-New Anti-Semitism The Abrahamic Metacritique History 04 Sep Private Equity 25-Year Track Record Larry’s Substack Finance 04 Sep Fiscal Playground: A platform to figure Indian Public Finance Mostly Economics Economics 04 Sep Montek Singh Ahluwalia: Change Architect Mostly Economics Economics 04 Sep We Can’t Help Hurting People by Abandoning Basic Epidemiological Rigor Freddie deBoer Culture 04 Sep Real GDP Per Capita and the Standard of Living Marginal Revolution Economics 04 Sep 10 Friday AM Reads The Big Picture Finance 04 Sep Ingots We No Longer Trust Paul Krugman Economics 04 Sep Estimating a much stronger than usual El Niño FlowingData Tech 04 Sep Pluralistic: Amazon achieves enshittification inception (04 Sep 2026) Pluralistic Tech 04 Sep [Article] F-Day plus 204 (no content??) Dan Q Tech 04 Sep Did Japan Just Intervene Again? Robin J Brooks Economics 04 Sep Shout it from the rooftops (of the data centers) Marginal Revolution Economics 04 Sep Instant judges Koenfucius Psychology 04 Sep It’s not me, it’s you Klement on Investing Finance 04 Sep August newsletter is out Simon Willison Tech 04 Sep The Power of Being a Threshold Person: Liminality, Communitas, and the Anti-structures of Possibility The Marginalian Life 04 Sep Share price numbers for the Hugging Face incident Marginal Revolution Economics 04 Sep Reasons to Lower Rates The Grumpy Economist Economics 04 Sep Everything Is Already There: Javier Marías on the Courage to Heed Your Intuitions The Marginalian Life 04 Sep Google gets away with it Platformer Tech 04 Sep Radical responsibility means treating people like tools Sean Goedecke Tech 04 Sep Cancer Capital: VC didn’t use to work like this Anil Dash Tech 03 Sep OpenAI's AGI Eras Tour Spyglass Tech 03 Sep Astra, doing poetry Marginal Revolution Economics 03 Sep Lessons from Victor Niederhoffer’s Life The Big Picture Finance 03 Sep Talking Midterms and Data Centers with Rep. Ro Khanna from California’s Silicon Valley Patterns by Naomi Klein Culture 03 Sep AI, tools and transformation Benedict Evans Tech 03 Sep Wendell Berry on Solitude and the Two Great Enemies of Creative Work The Marginalian Life 03 Sep GPT‑6 Astra Simon Willison Tech 03 Sep Thursday links: solvency is a necessity Abnormal Returns Finance 03 Sep How Will the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act Affect Housing Supply? Part III Construction Physics Tech 03 Sep I Taught a Short Story. My College Fired Me For It. Persuasion Culture 03 Sep When you should sell to the lowest bidder Economic Forces Economics 03 Sep Form a curve, make a pot FlowingData Tech 03 Sep And it begins…(a good start…) Marginal Revolution Economics 03 Sep Robot startups are trying everything they can think of to get more data Understanding AI Tech 03 Sep How to Invest When Your Portfolio Gets Bigger A Wealth of Common Sense Finance 03 Sep This Isn’t About Parasocial Attachment default.blog Culture 03 Sep CROSSPOST: PAUL KRUGMAN: Imperialist Delusions & the Price of Fuel Grasping Reality Economics 03 Sep [Repost] Why I Stopped “Creating Content” Dan Q Tech 03 Sep Autumnal Open Thread Kottke.org Culture 03 Sep Ok I'm a little worried now Mo Tech 03 Sep Numbers, numbers, numbers Marginal Revolution Economics 03 Sep Retraining Workers for “AI”: CHART OF THE DAY Grasping Reality Economics 03 Sep Liquidity Without Liquidation: How Much Can You Withdraw from a Tax-Aware Strategy Without Blowing Up Its Tax Benefits? Larry’s Substack Finance 03 Sep In 1970, 1 in 13 four-year degrees was in English. Today it's 1 in 60. What happened? “Canon" became a dirty word Arts & Letters Daily Culture 03 Sep A tour through Eve Babitz’s letters reveals that this glamorous, supremely insouciant writer was once boring Arts & Letters Daily Culture 03 Sep “As intellectually undistinguished as it is possible to be”: F.R. Leavis’s torching of C.P. 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Marginal Revolution Economics 03 Sep 10 Thursday AM Reads The Big Picture Finance 03 Sep Logistics of fueling aircraft and feeding sailors with a limited supply chain FlowingData Tech 03 Sep The idea of a university (and that of a professor) Figs in Winter Philosophy 03 Sep Imperialist Delusions and the Price of Fuel Paul Krugman Economics 03 Sep Why you won’t get a flying car Noahpinion Economics 03 Sep The Meltdown of the Iranian Rial Robin J Brooks Economics 03 Sep Pluralistic: Preparing for a post-Trump internet (03 Sep 2026) Pluralistic Tech 03 Sep Who Owns What China Builds? The Cutting Floor Culture 03 Sep Why office workers are turning against AI Blood in the Machine Tech 03 Sep College EA Meetups Everywhere: Times & Places Astral Codex Ten Culture 03 Sep Something to Lose The Cutting Floor Culture 03 Sep BM Snaps Matt Mullenweg Tech 03 Sep Book Review 4/26: A Man of the World: Tom Mboya, the Cold War and Decolonization in Kenya (by Daniel Branch) An Africanist Perspective Economics 03 Sep Thursday assorted links Marginal Revolution Economics 03 Sep The costs and benefits of working for a large asset manager Klement on Investing Finance 03 Sep My excellent Conversation with Michael Moritz Marginal Revolution Economics 03 Sep The Creative Power of Uncertainty: Polish Poet Wisława Szymborska’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech The Marginalian Life 03 Sep Italo Calvino on Reading and Sex The Marginalian Life 03 Sep Finding Emily The Common Reader Culture 03 Sep Bangalore India hospital flow Derek Sivers Life 02 Sep The Paradox of Knowing Who You Are and What You Want: Cristina Campo on Fairy Tales, Time, and the Meaning of Maturity The Marginalian Life 02 Sep $150 Trillion Global Economy (2030) The Big Picture Finance 02 Sep READING: LEWIS CARROLL (1895): What The Tortoise Said To Achilles Grasping Reality Economics 02 Sep llm-openrouter 0.7.1 Simon Willison Tech 02 Sep Birthright Citizenship and Reasoning by Analogy Cass’s Substack Economics 02 Sep Wendell Berry on Hope, Despair, and the Measure of Effective Protest The Marginalian Life 02 Sep How the LSAT Become the Ticketmaster of Law School Admissions BIG by Matt Stoller Economics 02 Sep The Viking Alliance Is Coalescing: CHART OF THE DAY Grasping Reality Economics 02 Sep llm 0.34 Simon Willison Tech 02 Sep Neuromancer Book Club, Chapters 7-9: The City of Dub Freddie deBoer Culture 02 Sep Nobody Can Test AI Models Anymore Mo Tech 02 Sep How to Have Enough: Wendell Berry on Creativity and Love The Marginalian Life 02 Sep Observable notebooks get a rewrite FlowingData Tech 02 Sep New Insights into the Accrual Anomaly — And Why They Collide with a Rational-Pricing Story Larry’s Substack Finance 02 Sep llm-anthropic 0.28 Simon Willison Tech 02 Sep The Scaling and Profitability Trade off: Venture Capital's Weakest Link! 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The original copy reveals a palimpsest of what propaganda demanded Arts & Letters Daily Culture 02 Sep Modern diet and food-fad notions obscure a basic truth: For most of human existence, we have lived in the shadow of starvation Arts & Letters Daily Culture 02 Sep Claude's new system prompt really doesn't want to reproduce song lyrics Simon Willison Tech 02 Sep [Article] It took 13 years to notice my invalid vehicle registration certificate! Dan Q Tech 02 Sep If You Can’t Beat ’Em, Join ’Em Open Questions Philosophy 02 Sep Personal finance links: supercharged fraud Abnormal Returns Finance 02 Sep Back to the Frontier AI Races • Netflix Out-YouTubes YouTube Spyglass Tech 02 Sep Anthropic Has Some Alignment Problems Don't Worry About the Vase Tech 02 Sep Bad Strategy, First-World Problems, Heterodox Dating Rob Henderson Psychology 02 Sep Regional variations in seasonal temperatures Data For India Economics 02 Sep Books: Indispensable When You’re Indisposed Miller's Book Review Culture 02 Sep Open Science Met Social Justice. They Don't Get Along. Speak and Regret Psychology 02 Sep Animal Spirits: The Next Michael Burry A Wealth of Common Sense Finance 02 Sep 10 Wednesday AM Reads The Big Picture Finance 02 Sep Pluralistic: Unpermissioned research (02 Sep 2026) Pluralistic Tech 02 Sep The Hits Keep Coming Paul Krugman Economics 02 Sep Anatomy of the Global Bond Market Sell-Off Robin J Brooks Economics 02 Sep Efficiency or resilience? Democracies can only pick one Klement on Investing Finance 02 Sep India enlists 3 million people to count the full population FlowingData Tech 02 Sep [Checkin] Dan Q wrote note for GC9EXXC Shady Seat on The Green Dan Q Tech 02 Sep We are all ‘in hock to the bond market’ Klement on Investing Finance 02 Sep Absurd Adventure And Amygdalectomy Advocacy Astral Codex Ten Culture 02 Sep Quoting Rick Brewster Simon Willison Tech 02 Sep The Invention of Zero: How Ancient Mesopotamia Created the Mathematical Concept of Nought and Ancient India Gave It Symbolic Form The Marginalian Life 02 Sep America is still poised for a data center boom Marginal Revolution Economics 02 Sep The College Wage Premium in the Generative AI Era Marginal Revolution Economics 02 Sep Philip Hensher: How Can You Kill a Book Like That? The Common Reader Culture 02 Sep You are here Data For India Economics 02 Sep The Thing Itself: C.S. Lewis on What We Long for in Our Existential Longing The Marginalian Life 02 Sep How Special Is Programming as a Token-Infall Attractor?: CHART OF THE DAY Grasping Reality Economics 02 Sep How to protect yourself from workslop Sean Goedecke Tech 02 Sep I Don’t Have a Smartphone… Ploum Tech 02 Sep VC isn’t VC anymore — understanding the rise of Cancer Capital Anil Dash Tech 01 Sep Claude Fable 5.1 made me a really nice animated pelican Simon Willison Tech 01 Sep Trump Is in Open Revolt Against the Constitution Kottke.org Culture 01 Sep The First Cosmographia History 01 Sep Gina Trapani: The joy of making stuff with a 3D printer... Kottke.org Culture 01 Sep Joan Didion on Letting Go The Marginalian Life 01 Sep The 3 Buddhist Steps to Repairing a Relationship The Marginalian Life 01 Sep How Do We Know What We Want: Milan Kundera on the Central Ambivalences of Life and Love The Marginalian Life 01 Sep 2 Odysseus 2 Ithaca: Emily Wilson is completely... 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Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views Finance 01 Sep GeoJSON Map Viewer Simon Willison Tech 01 Sep Minimum Viable Soul default.blog Culture 01 Sep 14 Questions I’m Thinking About A Wealth of Common Sense Finance 01 Sep How Blackwing Pencils Are Made Kottke.org Culture 01 Sep What I Learned on the Open Road Persuasion Culture 01 Sep Cooling down less in the evening FlowingData Tech 01 Sep Tuesday links: the electric revolution Abnormal Returns Finance 01 Sep Industry Standard Tools . “Every trade has a small... Kottke.org Culture 01 Sep Quoting Tarn Adams Simon Willison Tech 01 Sep Idiosyncratic risk is dominating the equity markets Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views Finance 01 Sep Wendell Berry’s Nine Rules The Honest Broker Culture 01 Sep The Power of Ideas Or Ideas of Power The Abrahamic Metacritique History 01 Sep Tuesday assorted links Marginal Revolution Economics 01 Sep This is a fun read: If You Build It, Will They Come? On... 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