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The Wobbly Tower of Financial Abstraction

The Wobbly Tower of Financial Abstraction

As the kids get older, they are increasingly inquisitive about money. The curiosity reveals itself in their questions, which are usually naïve but occasionally insightful. Like: how do credit cards work? Or, why people choose to live where they do,…

The Myth of the Titleless Company

The Myth of the Titleless Company

Engineering Director. Senior Engineer—wait, they're only two years out of school? Three-time CEO… of companies with no employees, hm. Vice President. Are we talking about a big tech company, a tiny startup, or a financial institution?…

Review: The Metaverse

Review: The Metaverse

I picked up The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything when it came out in 2022, though I haven't gotten around to reading it until now. The author, Matthew Ball, was a venture capitalist known for elaborately…

How to Write Words Good (with AI)

How to Write Words Good (with AI)

If you scroll to the bottom of each post on the site, you may notice a curious badge: It's a badge from the Not By AI group, a project that looks to explicitly tag creative content—writing, visual…

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Why It's Hard to Replicate the Kindle Experience

Why It's Hard to Replicate the Kindle Experience

There are rumors that the entire Amazon Kindle lineup will be refreshed this year: more memory for AI, plus removable batteries to comply with EU regulation. Hey—more Kindle hardware is good news. Yet, the reading experience on Kindles has…

Paperclip Capitalism

Paperclip Capitalism

Back in 2017, the sci-fi author Ted Chiang wrote a prescient article surfacing the fears of AI. This was before the technology had reached its current, supercharged LLM form, before even GPT-1 was trained. He was reflecting on…