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November 2022Since I was about 9 I've been puzzled by the apparent contradiction between being made of matter that behaves in a predictable way, and the...

It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel Is Losing It

PayPal and Palantir cofounder Peter Thiel has long held outrageous ideological views — and imposed them on the world using his billions of dollars...

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How to Turn Liquid Glass into a Solid Interface

Apple’s new Liquid Glass interface design brings transparency and blur effects to all Apple operating systems, but many users find it distracting or difficult...

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Leveling Up in the Vibe Coding Video Game

While “vibe coding” was a catchy phrase when I first heard it, something about it felt like a head fake to me. And, now...

How to Do Great Work

July 2023If you collected lists of techniques for doing great work in a lot of different fields, what would the intersection look like? I decided to...

Opal is beginning to roll out 15 new countries

Two months ago, we introduced Opal as an early experiment within Google Labs. Our goal was simple: give users the ability to build AI-powered...

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Superlinear Returns

October 2023One of the most important things I didn't understand about the world when I was a child is the degree to which the returns...

How to build your company to last, with John Elkann

Masters of Scale: How to Build Your Company to Last with John Elkann – formatted transcript ROBERT PASIN: One of the first things he...

PEP 810 – Explicit lazy imports

Author: Pablo Galindo , Germán Méndez Bravo , Thomas Wouters , Dino Viehland , Brittany Reynoso , Noah Kim , Tim Stumbaugh Discussions-To: Discourse thread Status: Draft Type: Standards Track Created: 02-Oct-2025 Python-Version: 3.15 Post-History: 03-Oct-2025 Table of Contents This PEP introduces syntax for...

Break the Fast With Me and Sue Heilbronner in Longmont on 10/2

I’m not aware if there has ever been a book launch associated with a Yom Kippur Break Fast, but we are going to have...

An NFT That Saves Lives

May 2021Noora Health, a nonprofit I've supported for years, just launched a new NFT. It has a dramatic name, Save Thousands of Lives, because that's what...

LLM Observability in the Wild – Why OpenTelemetry should be the Standard

A few days ago I hosted a live conversation with Pranav, co-founder of Chatwoot, about issues his team was running into with LLM observability.The...

Crazy New Ideas

May 2021There's one kind of opinion I'd be very afraid to express publicly. If someone I knew to be both a domain expert and a...

How to price your product to scale, with Payal Kadakia

PAYAL KADAKIA: Every weekend I was, I felt like I was on a mini roadshow. Where my parents would come with me and...

Response Time: Vol. 46 – The Intercom Blog

You satisfy your customers, but can you satisfy our curiosity? With Emily Bach, Customer Support Team Lead at Mangomint. Please tell us a little bit about...

California lawyer’s ChatGPT use is why courts want AI regulation

By Khari Johnson, CalMatters A courtroom at the San Diego County Superior Court in San Diego on Oct. 9, 2023. Photo by Adriana Heldiz, CalMatters This...

Handle Reports, Presentations, and Email with One Lifetime Microsoft Office License

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Fierce Nerds

May 2021Most people think of nerds as quiet, diffident people. In ordinary social situations they are — as quiet and diffident as the star quarterback would...