Setting time on fire and the temptation of The Button(oneusefulthing.org)

97 points by headalgorithm 3 years ago | 31 comments

The Cybernetic Teammate(oneusefulthing.org)

24 points by tobr 1 year ago | 8 comments

Management as AI superpower: Thriving in a world of agentic AI(oneusefulthing.org)

73 points by swolpers 9 months ago | 78 comments

15 Times to use AI, and 5 Not to(oneusefulthing.org)

6 points by twapi 1 year ago | 0 comments

Reflections on using OpenAI o1 / Strawberry for 1 month(oneusefulthing.org)

22 points by avthar 2 years ago | 1 comments

I, Cyborg: Using Co-Intelligence(oneusefulthing.org)

7 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 0 comments

The Bitter Lesson Is Misunderstood(obviouslywrong.substack.com)

335 points by JnBrymn 1 year ago | 218 comments

A Substack essay arguing the Bitter Lesson is really about data rather than compute, citing scaling laws where compute scales with data squared.

There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy(experimental-history.com)

59 points by luu 1 month ago | 31 comments

An Experimental History Substack essay by Adam Mastroianni arguing there is no loneliness epidemic but there is an epidemic of scurvy.

Every SaaS business will become a harness around a model(blog.sshh.io)

117 points by iacguy 24 days ago | 85 comments

Substack essay by Shrivu Shankar arguing that every SaaS business will become a harness wrapping AI models with tooling and state.

The upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis is the loss of community(afterbabel.com)

684 points by throwup238 2 years ago | 627 comments

An After Babel Substack essay by Seth Kaplan arguing that the loss of community is the upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis.

Disney erased FiveThirtyEight(natesilver.net)

395 points by 7777777phil 5 months ago | 210 comments

Nate Silver's Silver Bulletin essay on how Disney mismanaged and ultimately erased FiveThirtyEight's archive over ten years.

Business books are entertainment, not strategic tools(theorthagonist.substack.com)

489 points by ZeroTalent 1 year ago | 228 comments

A Substack essay from The Orthagonist arguing that popular business books are cheap entertainment built on simplified stories rather than useful strategic tools.