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The Huggingface Incident
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Your Book Review: Breakdown In Pakistan
Finalist #3 in the Book Review Contest
Psychology Research Is Mostly Fine
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Netflix Earnings, Is Netflix Washed?, Additional Notes
Netflix’s earnings were fine, and befitting a mature company whose most exciting days are likely behind them.
How building software is changing at Anthropic
A deepdive on what’s changed in how the leading AI lab makes software. Ever more code review and testing is done by AI, two-pizza teams very much alive, and more. Details from inside of Anthropic
Links For July 2026 (Part 1)
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Open Thread 444
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11 products I love, free for a year—the biggest Product Pass expansion in 2 years
Runway, Higgsfield, Waking Up, Brain.fm, Customer.io, Resend, Pangram, Mercury Personal, Supercut, Readwise, and Jam are joining Product Pass today, all included with Annual and Insider memberships
Anthropic’s first technical PM on token maxing, the jagged edge, and living in the future | Dianne Penn
Listen now | Dianne Penn, Anthropic’s first PM, on the bets that made Claude dominant: the coding pivot, the eval-driven development loop, and what comes after coding is solved
We asked too much of the American university
Our one remaining functional institution is going downhill.
An open letter to David Sacks
China is closing the gap, but it’s not because we have too much regulation on AI
🎙️ How I AI: Claude Opus 5 Review + Browser use in Codex + How Cursor and a Raspberry Pi makes AI fun
Your weekly listens from How I AI, part of the Lenny’s Podcast Network
The Wake: Questions and Answers
i will tell the triewth
What will more intelligence actually do for us?
A lot, actually. But it won't look quite like what humans do with our intelligence.
Inside PM at Stripe: What Comes After "Become a Builder"?
Kevin Yien on the judgment, opinions, and systems the PM job demands now.
Circular financing ain’t what it used to be
Nvidia is falling. The mood has changed.
Roundup #85: Most policy is also industrial policy
Trump and science; U.S. national debt; Europe and software; America and trains; China and metal refining; Indian women; Murder
OpenAI’s disconcerting hack of HuggingFace
and what we should do about it
The Final Battle of Hopkins Bike Lanes
One of the most important climate actions goes to Berkeley City Council.
Podcast: A Debate on Hopkins Bike Lanes!
But actually a friendly discussion between two Berkeleyans on different sides of the Hopkins bike lane debate.
Sorry, Sam and Elon, we have not reached the Singularity
Not that anyone even knows what that means.
Who was the worst monster of the 20th century?
And who is the worst monster of the 21st?
Chartbook 461: Polycrisis & nostalgia for lost futures.
There are few things that generate nostalgia quite like a lost future.
Demand Push
Is a catastrophic shortage of US natural gas really on the horizon?
Rejecting the Constitutional Order
A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.
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An interview about parenting, some tidings, and [paid subscribers] Ask Me Anything about parenting
I was interviewed by Nicole Ruiz for The Third Oikos, mostly about my life as it relates to parenting.
The UK, Europe, and Canada Are Losing Freedom of Speech
Dispatch Summer 2026
Historical accuracy is a surprisingly modern idea
“The Odyssey” itself is deeply anachronistic.
Young Money
Spending in your twenties
Why DoorDash, Instacart, and Uber Eats Integrated LLMs Into Search Three Different Ways
In this article, we will walk through their differing solutions and try to make sense of their choices and understand the pattern behind them.
Does every question mark deserve a Betteridge?
An essay that may or may not reach a firm conclusion
The Life-Changing Decision You’re Not Prioritizing Enough
Lessons from a co-bought brownstone in NYC
The case for making your own apps
Glaze's Thomas Paul Mann on disposable software, the SaaS apocalypse, and why half the software you use in a few years will be something you made. PLUS: OpenAI's rogue model, and the distillation debate
Australia’s Social Media Policy Is Succeeding
Here’s what the critics are missing.
For Their Own Ends
A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.
The 50 Essential Western Films (Part 2)
In this installment, I cover the period from 1955 through 1968
Import AI 466: The bitter lesson for robotics, AIs complete week-long programming tasks; and OpenAI's accidental AI hacker
The warning shots will continue until civilization wakes up
The Quiet Revolutions Reshaping the Everyday
How commodification, the digital turn, and a certain kind of psychologizing rewired intimacy and identity.
Mega Cap Tech Sell Off Means Money is Going Somewhere...
Level 2 - Value Investor
Week Nine in 250 to 250
This was the ninth week of videos from the 250 to 250 Project that we’re producing to honor the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
Against Oligarchy, Part II: Wealth Taxes
Going where the money — and the power — is
Farms aren’t nature
A banal take with serious consequences
Overloads in Possession – MH
A key tactical tool in modern football is the use of overloads. Creating a (situational) numerical advantage allows for more effective combinations, opening up spaces, and disrupting the opponent's defensive structure. This article explains the strategic benefits of overloads in various areas of the pitch and demonstrates how they can be created and exploited to pose challenges for the oppos ...
July 25, 2026
It turns out Trump has not abandoned his plan to paint the massive grey granite Eisenhower Executive Office Building white.
🧠 Community Wisdom: Staying on a client’s radar during pilot purgatory, pairing Linear with a discovery tool, the limits of what AI can automate, whether Techstars is worth it, and more
Community Wisdom 194
July 26, 2026
From the time he took office in January 2025, Trump and his cronies have not simply challenged laws or constitutional provisions.
July 27, 2026*
The Trump administration is trying to rewrite the history of the United States.
Trying to Rewrite History
A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.
Senra Systems: Harnessing Human Skill
A Co-Written Essay with Senra Systems CEO Jordan Black
How NVIDIA Builds Open Models for the Age of AI
Bryan Catanzaro, VP of Applied Deep Learning Research at NVIDIA, walked us through how his team builds the company’s open models, the reasoning behind their architecture, and why NVIDIA open-sources so much of it.