Articles by herbertl
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Writing Crystalized Thinking at Amazon. Is AI Muddying It? (bigtechnology.com)

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No Bookmarks (nik.art)

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The Best Is Still Hard to Be (benn.substack.com)

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Is Love Addictive? Many Say Yes, and It's Changing Our Idea of Romance (nytimes.com)

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The Kind of Joke No One Makes Anymore (nik.art)

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Surprise on Ice (nplusonemag.com)

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Smartphones, Online Music Streaming, and Traffic Fatalities [pdf] (nber.org)

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OpenAI Has Poached Instagram's Celebrity Whisperer (vanityfair.com)

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Pigeons and Planes Has a Website Again (pigeonsandplanes.com)

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Following the Money (alearningaday.blog)

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The Software Upgrade in Chinese Civic Behaviour (thewire.in)

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You Get Good at What You Do (Or Do You?) (chriscoyier.net)

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People-Shaped Problems (herbertlui.net)

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Fire Up the Wayback Machine (archpaper.com)

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I Still <3 the Internet (deezlinks.com)

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Sam Altman Says Companies Are 'AI Washing' Layoffs (gizmodo.com)

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Books and Screens (aeon.co)

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Tacit (stripe.press)

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We Are the Introverts (incidentalcomics.substack.com)

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Why don't Indians read for pleasure? (theculturecafe.in)

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Perplexity's Retreat from Ads Signals a Bigger Strategic Shift (wired.com)

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Warner Bros.' Deal with Netflix Could Be Undone with New Paramount Twist (movieweb.com)

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The latest design problem? Getting a job (carly.substack.com)

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What Cooking Tells Us About AI (nik.art)

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The Last Temptation of Claude (cosmos-institute.org)

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'Sand and a Source of Light' (animationobsessive.substack.com)

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Trapped in the Hell of Social Comparison (noahpinion.blog)

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America's Future Leaders Are Learning to Become Grifters (robkhenderson.com)

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Subverting Hell (aeon.co)

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No Meaningless Sequences (philosophyofwriting.substack.com)

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Living in the Petri Dish of the Future (om.co)

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The next generation of AI businesses (seths.blog)

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Shedding (winnielim.org)

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Recoverable and Irrecoverable Decisions (herbertlui.net)

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Is Waymo Worth $126B? (om.co)

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Building the New York Times Product Team: The Right Team for the Job (nytimes.com)

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15 Years of Blogging (nolanlawson.com)

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Stranger Who Made a Mistake (alearningaday.blog)

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Write for Yourself, and Wisdom Will Follow (moretothat.com)

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The Idea River (nik.art)

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China's Demographic Crisis and the Return to 400M (sinification.org)

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From Digital Nomad to Baklava Salesman (theunplannedpivot.substack.com)

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Pre-Steal This Book (2008) (seths.blog)

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The City Where Traffic Fatalities Vanished (reasonstobecheerful.world)

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Information Addiction as the Root of Bad Habits (nik.art)

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The Arc of the Practical Creator (moretothat.com)

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AI-Assisted Development at Block (block.xyz)

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TBM 401: Solving Problems the Hard Way (cutlefish.substack.com)

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The Rise of the Model Designer (aidesignfieldguide.com)

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The Tighter Weave: On Editing and Not Editing (hedgehogreview.com)

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The Work Behind the Writing: On Writers and Their Day Jobs (lithub.com)

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Share Your Reminders to Yourself (herbertlui.net)

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When Was I Happiest? (kevquirk.com)

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Enjoy the Amateur Enhancements (nik.art)

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Let's Talk About What It Means to Rest for the Sake of Rest (electricliterature.com)

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In search of our own voice (animationxpress.com)

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Feather by Feather: On Life, Death, and Birding (lithub.com)

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We may know what a healthy gut microbiome looks like (newscientist.com)

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Make Something Heavy (workingtheorys.com)

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A brilliant warning about the gamification of everyday life (theguardian.com)

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Balsa M2-F3 Lifting Body (engineersneedart.com)

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The Case for Blogging in the Ruins (joanwestenberg.com)

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Fart Walks (alearningaday.blog)

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I Try to Be Kind (hedgehogreview.com)

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The Three AI Bets (alearningaday.blog)

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Waywo. Because work doesn't have to be polished to be shared (medium.com/deliveroo-design)

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Your Brain on ChatGPT [pdf] (researchgate.net)

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The Privilege and Point of Writing (herbertlui.net)

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The big regression (world.hey.com)

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Shape of AI (shapeof.ai)

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Why Does A.I. Write Like That? (nytimes.com)

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The Validation Machines (theatlantic.com)

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Reading Without Limits or Expectations (carolinecrampton.com)

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What Becomes Valuable When AI Makes Creative Work Easy (every.to/p)

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Why RSS Matters (werd.io)

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Which Kind of 'Enough'? (seths.blog)

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The suck is why we're here (nik.art)

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Have LLMs destroyed essay mills? (markcarrigan.net)

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Confidence Required (sive.rs)

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Art, Money, and AI (hughhowey.com)

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Context Graphs (foundationcapital.com)

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Betty Reid Soskin, who became a park ranger at 85, dies aged 104 (theguardian.com)

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Sometimes, the quiet achievements are the most important ones (herbertlui.net)

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The Misfit Tree (collabfund.com)

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Konami Code (craigatallahfrost.com)

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Why Sell Lifetime Plans, in a Default Subscription World? (pketh.org)

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Maybe the Default Settings Are Too High (raptitude.com)

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CSS-Tricks: Thank You (2025 Edition) (css-tricks.com)

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The Exhilirating Movement from Treatment to Cures for Autoimmune Diseases (erictopol.substack.com)

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I Thought Germany Had Too Little Housing (nik.art)

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A-I-A-I-O: Artificial writing and philosophies of alienation (youareawriter.substack.com)

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Four Winners and Losers of Apple's 2025 (512pixels.net)

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Better Than the Cheap Alternative (seths.blog)

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Soulless Software (nik.art)

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The Plan Is the Program (proofofconcept.pub)

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Letting the Minecart Crash (nik.art)

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Curiosity in Relationships (okaykoa.substack.com)

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Understanding carriage (seths.blog)

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Replace Your To-Do List with Interstitial Journaling to Increase Productivity (medium.com/better-humans)

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Treat your morning ritual like an opening chess move (herbertlui.net)