Articles by herbertl
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The Death of Amazon's Writing Culture (alifeengineered.substack.com)

2

How China Became Rich (worksinprogress.news)

2

The UAE embraces AI for kindergartners (restofworld.org)

5

Swarm Intelligence (kk.org)

2

Deskilling the Body (aeon.co)

3

The Pundit's Trilemma – Authoritative, general, prolific: pick any two (programmablemutter.com)

1

Import Twitter Data Archive Using WP-CLI Resources (github.com/shawnhooper)

3

Software's centaur age may last decades (seangoedecke.com)

1

The Plunging Price of Thought (epoch.ai)

4

I'm Still Convinced the iPod Was the Perfect Gadget (wired.com)

1

Want to be a lifelong learner? Don't go it alone (psyche.co)

1

My Hobby Is Learning (kevquirk.com)

1

32 Years and Still Diggin (scripting.com)

1

Inventing Pad Thai (jstor.org)

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Don't let a misunderstanding distract you from your goals (herbertlui.net)

2

Don't let activation energy expire (herbertlui.net)

1

Default Alive (alearningaday.blog)

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The Amazon tax (seths.blog)

1

Mecca and the Mall (aeon.co)

7

The AI Slop Backlash Is Having an Impact (wired.com)

15

Humazon (hughhowey.com)

1

The Day of Small Things (robinrendle.com)

1

The Book Is a Book, Not Disembodied Information (nntaleb.medium.com)

2

The online shopping trend where you buy nothing (restofworld.org)

4

RIP Claude (randsinrepose.com)

4

Publishing Your Salary (kevquirk.com)

1

The magic of a two-year waitlist (seths.blog)

2

Everything I don't like is slop (carly.substack.com)

1

Let's stop talking about A.I (ckarchive.com)

4

I wrote my book by hand (augustlamm.substack.com)

3

I've Been to the Future. It Worked Out (iwanajohannsen.substack.com)

16

The Ambition Project (betonit.ai)

3

Creative Slack (herbertlui.net)

2

Skip the Punishment (nik.art)

5

Simon Willison on Technical Blogging (writethatblog.substack.com)

2

The third wave of American philanthropy (nanransohoff.substack.com)

1

We spend $45,000 on doing more weird every month (posthog.com)

1

What I think about when I edit blog posts (ianv.substack.com)

1

Would You Like to Come to a Barbecue? (nothingbutawordbag.substack.com)

1

Things I would like to tell my 10 year old self (winnielim.org)

1

How–and Why–To Cull Your Book Collection (lithub.com)

2

Should designers publicly share killed or speculative work? (benbarry.com)

3

Personal taste fell out of fashion (theguardian.com)

3

Prompts for Long Term Thinking (kk.org)

6

Canon – An Art History Game (perell.com)

4

Judge a Book by Its Cover (mediumrare.site)

3

The OpenAI Hack Shows the Genie Is Out of the Bottle (schneier.com)

3

Celebrity Art (seths.blog)

3

Reading Matters Deeply (aworkinglibrary.com)

2

Be the best in the world, for a few real people (herbertlui.net)

1

Don't Pave the Cow Path (alearningaday.blog)

1

Umyazu (aworkinglibrary.com)

2

Great, Gaudy Artifice (nplusonemag.com)

1

The Fan Zone (nplusonemag.com)

1

I Believe in You (2015) (creativeleadership.com)

1

You Are the Riverbed (nik.art)

5

Art Invented Humanity (aeon.co)

2

AI's functional capability is created by marketing (ianv.substack.com)

1

Life and Death on a Tower (datacenterdynamics.com)

2

The Business Is the Business (nik.art)

2

Venture Mindset (herbertlui.net)

2

Essential Words (pudding.cool)

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The gap is not glorious (loveofallwisdom.com)

2

I Guess I'm Playing the Long Game Now (brainbaking.com)

1

Art director's post reveals Lil' Finder Guy's origin story – and then disappears (cultofmac.com)

3

Protopia (kk.org)

3

The Bitter Lesson (2019) [pdf] (utexas.edu)

1

Improvements to Web for AI Should Benefit All Users (cloudfour.com)

1

The Motivation (randsinrepose.com)

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The Artist Who Colored Ghibli (animationobsessive.substack.com)

1

The Lego Problem, Revisited (seths.blog)

5

Creative Focus (herbertlui.net)

2

Job Lock and Victor Fuchs – American Healthcare Chronicles (alearningaday.blog)

1

Industrialism and the Slippery Slope (seths.blog)

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How Far Behind the Frontier Are Leading Open Weight Models on Cyber? (aisi.gov.uk)

2

Why some DVLA digital services don't work at night (dafyddvaughan.uk)

3

Welcome to Toronto, World Capital of the Urban Raccoon (lithub.com)

3

Don't Force the Money Too Early (nik.art)

2

Prompted to Start: How Generative AI Is Transforming Entrepreneurship [pdf] (nber.org)

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I started a “dirt notebook” (pinewind.bearblog.dev)

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Is "jobs" a four-letter word? (benn.substack.com)

1

How to Maintain Our Privacy in the AI Age (wsj.com)

1

Find Diverse Sources of Happiness (herbertlui.net)

4

Find Your Good Sources of Dopamine (nik.art)

3

Slashfriends – A Directory of /Friends Pages (slashfriends.org)

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Financial advice I can give you is to sell your car (yourbrainonmoney.substack.com)

2

Dopamine TV: How China's short dramas are redefining entertainment (thedial.world)

3

Disposable Software (seths.blog)

2

Choo Choo Has an Ouchie (jackcheng.com)

2

A Painting Only Lives When a Person Looks at It (nik.art)

2

Apple acquires observability startup SigScalr (9to5mac.com)

3

The Table of Purpose: How to Love Someone Without Losing Yourself (ftcheck.substack.com)

1

You are not in the race against slop cannons (hils.substack.com)

2

When You Didn't Get Picked (nik.art)

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Human Life in a Post-AGI World (tylercowen.com)

2

Hyper-Local, Hyper-Cloud (proofofconcept.pub)

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Less is more, more or less (jakub.kr)

3

We Can Read Again (medium.com/the-prototype)

2

You are not the person you see in the mirror (iai.tv)

2

A Captive Audience (seths.blog)