Incredible. Vance arrives in Alaska carrying his newborn baby. He is single-handedly humanizing fatherhood. Kids aren’t burdens, they’re the future.

The differentiating skill today, in the age of AI does your work, is the ability to understand. The ability to know where your understanding ends. A high standard for your understanding itself

I was told 20 seconds later to be a better peacemaker and not to cyber bully, I apologize

Before you play a game, study the winners. If you wouldn't trade places with them, don't play their game.

YouTube plans to introduce AB testing for videos. I agree with many others that this is a bad idea. Maybe you squeeze out some more watch time in the short term, but undermining a sense of a shared viewing experience among the audience is too steep a price.

Land is a lot cheaper away from the cities. Therefore, people like proximity to cities, or they are unaware of the alternatives, or a mix of both.

"Muslim man stabs the pilot and tries to crash a plane full of people..." Wall Street Journal: "Apparent struggle..." You cannot hate the media enough.

“Writing isn’t as important as we think” is certainly one way for a college professor to announce that we should stop taking college professors seriously.

"If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them." ― George Orwell

Making progress doesn't always feel like making progress. It sometimes feels like being stuck. Scrolling feels like progress. Problem.

Be careful not to become impressive to strangers and unavailable to your family.

Schopenhauer wrote this paragraph more than 150 years ago, and it’s still true

Study the news, you'll conclude that things have never been worse. Study history, you'll conclude that things have never been better.

One of the odd things about learning mathematics is how long you can manipulate an equation without having much of a picture of it in your head. You learn the notation, follow the derivation, get the answer, and move on. Then somebody shows you the same idea visually and you realize there was a geometric intuition hiding underneath the symbols the whole time. A Fourier sum becomes rotating vectors added head-to-tail. Attention becomes a weighted combination you can watch being formed. SVD becomes a sequence of transformations you can follow one step at a time. Even the equation behind a diffusion process feels different when you can see a point following a changing vector field. None of this replaces the mathematics. The equations are still where the precision lives. But once you have a picture in your head, the notation has something to attach itself to. I think this is why some mathematical ideas suddenly become much easier years after we first learned them. We finally stop seeing the equation as a line of symbols to manipulate and start seeing the process it describes. I wish more mathematics had been taught that way.

I am unapologetically natalist This is not a judgement of those without children Whether you have kids or not we all should want people to want more kids Our society and our future quite literally depends on it. Nothing matters more than encouraging and supporting more kids

"using ai to build games takes the fun of development away" bro i never had this much fun building anything in life what are you even talking about

Astra seems a lot dumber today.

If AI is making it easier to build a company, I hope we get millions more people solving wonderfully specific problems.  Better tools for nurses, better tools for our aging parents, software no one is thinking about. The possibilities are endless!