2026-08-30
Speed Without Data Is Just Faster Failure
Building fast gave everyone the ability to iterate faster. It didn't give anyone better information to iterate on. Tara Seshan (Product Lead at OpenAI) on the gap that sends teams...
Persuasion as Market Making
People often imagine persuasion as a dark art. A charismatic person finds just the right series of words to induce emotions that lead someone, or a group of people, to...
Native Fan Port of Game Boy Tetris Drop onto PC
The iconic DMG Game Boy version of Tetris has received a native fan port to PC. The port, which goes by the name Kirpich (which is Russian for “brick”), not...
The Cross-Category Practice of Industrial Designer Kyung-seo Yoo
From a portable French press to a slow-feeder dog bowl, Yoo's projects share almost nothing in common except the way she solves them.
The Agent Drafts, a Human Approves: Inside State of the Map US 2026
State of the Map US 2026 showed open mapping moving toward AI-drafted data, serverless map stacks, and human approval at scale.
The Impostor in Your Environment is the AI Agent Holding a Valid Credential
AI agents can act with valid credentials while hiding hijacked intent. Enterprise security needs agent-aware identity, provenance, and resource controls.
OODing up your Anki game
TL;DR: You've been using Anki right for ages; why don't you start using it wrong?Using Anki for tasks it's suboptimal for has synergistic benefits for someone already using Anki quite...
Thoughts I failed to develop into posts
The first day at the Inscribe Residency I went through my list of drafts, and found things I'm very unlikely to ever develop into longer things, which I'm gathering here...
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The Inscribe residency is a European imitation of Inkhaven: smaller, poorer, and concerned with the question of what it could mean to do the European version of something that probably...
P(kill-switch|detection)
Background For the sake of argument, I'll assume that the summaries of the HF incident are broadly accurate. I'll assume the attack is over. And I'll also assume that OpenAI...
Matter, Memory, and the Paradox of Perception: Henri Bergson on How to See Reality
In 1896, decades before Santiago Ramón y Cajal pioneered neuroscience, more than a century before Oliver Sacks showed us how perception phosphoresces in the 100 milliseconds between the world and...
A Star Wars Galaxies community server was allegedly hacked with AI assistance by a Reddit moderator harboring a primeval grudge
"We’re obviously bothered by this, but there isn’t much we can do outside of being up front with all of you and staying focused on what makes Legends great."
Dissecting a Lethal Universal Travel Adapter
The world’s refusal to standardize on a single type of mains power outlet has led to a vibrant market of so-called travel adapters, all of which try to outdo each...
55 Years Later, Lucy's Best Quote In 'Peanuts' History Proves She's The Real Star
Reading this article about Lucy Van Pelt will cost you a nickel
10 Years Later, Anime's Forgotten WWII Epic Is Waiting to be Rediscovered on Prime Video
In This Corner of the World is a heart-wrenching masterpiece about the ordinary people caught in the gears of history.
Star Wars Zero Company's permadeath makes it a better RPG than most RPGs, even though it's not really an RPG
Choice and consequence vs. death and consequence.
How to Apprehend Reality as It Really Is: Thoreau on Knowing vs. Seeing
"We hear and apprehend only what we already half know."
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