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2012•righto.com

Cells are very fast and crowded places

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2022•experimental-history.com

Good conversations have lots of doorknobs

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A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and make them route interesting stuff to your inbox
2022•henrikkarlsson.xyz

A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and make them route interesting stuff to your inbox

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1994•medium.com

The Road to Self-Renewal

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1991•mit.edu

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2012•esquire.com

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2014•seriouseats.com

Friday Night Meatballs: How to Change Your Life With Pasta

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2009•nytimes.com

The No-Stats All-Star

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2021•luttig.substack.com

Finance as culture

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2022•thepointmag.com

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2014•norvig.com

Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years

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Who Can Name the Bigger Number?
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Who Can Name the Bigger Number?

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1974•calteches.library.caltech.edu

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2014•rampantgames.com

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2017•bactra.org

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2009•ribbonfarm.com

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2019•freddiedeboer.substack.com

Planet of Cops

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2009•theatlantic.com

What Makes Us Happy?

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1992•newyorker.com

Playing Doc’s Games

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2019•meltingasphalt.com

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2016•nplusonemag.com

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2019•onezero.medium.com

The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet

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2020•3quarksdaily.com

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2016•onartandaesthetics.com

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Can Poetry Matter?
1991•theatlantic.com

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2019•nickcammarata.com

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2011•newyorker.com

Personal Best

by Atul Gawande
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1965•esquire.com

Frank Sinatra Has a Cold

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2021•worksinprogress.co

The Housing Theory of Everything

by John Myers & Ben Southwood & Sam Bowman
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2018•slatestarcodex.com

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2017•everythingstudies.com

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1965•newyorker.com

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2001•worrydream.com

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2015•meaningness.com

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2014•slatestarcodex.com

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1995•jwz.org

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2020•thediff.co

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1982•theatlantic.com

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2022•danwang.co

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2011•newyorker.com

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2014•waitbutwhy.com

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2019•rootsofprogress.org

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2019•rootsofprogress.org

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2019•markusmeister.com

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2018•talyarkoni.org

If we already understood the brain, would we even know it?

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2004•gwern.net

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2023•writings.stephenwolfram.com

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2014•techcrunch.com

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1978•mikkelaaland.com

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2013•meltingasphalt.com

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2003•inf.ed.ac.uk

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2010•ribbonfarm.com

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1986•wtf.tw

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2017•byrnehobart.medium.com

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2018•samoburja.com

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2017•thezvi.wordpress.com

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2015•newyorker.com

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1989•longnow.org

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2021•oliverburkeman.com

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2015•stratechery.com

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2000•cs.oswego.edu

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2012•jsomers.net

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1989•archive.is

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1946•orwellfoundation.com

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2015•blog.samaltman.com

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1966•web.archive.org

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1978•hac.bard.edu

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1906•theatlantic.com

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1990•granta.com

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2019•albertbridgecapital.com

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1946•orwellfoundation.com

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2011•gist.github.com

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2021•simonsarris.substack.com

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2020•milan.cvitkovic.net

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1932•harpers.org

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1990•web.archive.org

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2017•integralprogramresources.org

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1985•theanarchistlibrary.org

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1996•kyrgyzstan.unfpa.org

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2010•putsomethingback.stevejobsarchive.com

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1985•allaboutstevejobs.com

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2019•theatlantic.com

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2008•paulgraham.com

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2010•ma.tt

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The Mundanity of Excellence
1989•fermatslibrary.com

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1729•gutenberg.org

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Fallibility, Reflexivity, and the Human Uncertainty Principle
2014•georgesoros.com

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2018•foundersatwork.posthaven.com

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2021•perell.com

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Foreword to Amusing Ourselves to Death
1985•tau.ac.il

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2021•writings.stephenwolfram.com

A story of computational irreducibility

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1979•nissenbaum.tech.cornell.edu

The Fragmentation of Value

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2000•gwern.net

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2012•theamericanscholar.org

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1986•davidquammen.com

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1949•langurbansociology.files.wordpress.com

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2008•kk.org

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1992•music.hyperreal.org

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2022•oaktreecapital.com

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2020•lesswrong.com

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2019•eugenewei.com

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2022•comment.org

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2012•thebaffler.com

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2013•cdixon.org

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2020•nintil.com

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2017•juliagalef.com

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2019•nadia.xyz

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2021•devonzuegel.com

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2019•andymatuschak.org

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1996•harpers.org

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2011•a16z.com

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1994•ccru.net

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2016•espn.com

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2013•noahpinionblog.blogspot.com

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lifehacks
2023•guzey.com

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2017•johnsalvatier.org

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Don't Call Yourself a Programmer
2011•kalzumeus.com

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1,000 True Fans
2008•kk.org

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2023•grahamduncan.blog

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Email (let's drop the hyphen)
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2020•jsomers.net

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2018•autotranslucence.com

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1944•lewissociety.org

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2006•longnow.org

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You and Your Research
1986•d37ugbyn3rpeym.cloudfront.net

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On Self-Respect
1961•vogue.com

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The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce
1983•web.stanford.edu

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Ladder of Abstraction
2011•worrydream.com

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1958•fee.org

I, Pencil

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2016•meltingasphalt.com

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2021•ciechanow.ski

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2018•augmentingcognition.com

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Always bet on text
2014•graydon2.dreamwidth.org

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1972•wheels.org

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2020•patrickcollison.com

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