Articles by herbertl
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Don't Call It a Moat (99d.substack.com)

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Synthetic Responses: The Big Lie of AI (lovelaceanalytics.com)

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Heinz Duct Tape (alearningaday.blog)

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Nobody is coming to save your career (alifeengineered.substack.com)

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Why chatbot therapists can't offer what we need (psyche.co)

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Writers Against AI (paulkingsnorth.substack.com)

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There are no happy endings on the internet (embedded.substack.com)

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DigitalOcean Seeks $800M in Funding (datacenterdynamics.com)

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Planck Knowledge vs. Chauffeur Knowledge (alearningaday.blog)

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AI Tokens Are Mana (proofofconcept.pub)

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500 App Reviews Published (appaddict.app)

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Software Is a Feeling (robinrendle.com)

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Insider trading with Truth Social and form capture (greyenlightenment.com)

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The Multibillion-Dollar Foundation That Controls the Humanities (theatlantic.com)

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Working on Products People Hate (seangoedecke.com)

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Americans are coping ourselves to death (2023) (noahpinion.blog)

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Behind the Scenes of the Westworld UI (vanschneider.com)

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Participate, even if you're not prepared (herbertlui.net)

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Red Lobster's Last Gasp (bloomberg.com)

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Maybe Turning War into a Casino Was a Bad Idea? (theatlantic.com)

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Designed to Be Specialists (aworkinglibrary.com)

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A Year with the Framework 13 (kevquirk.com)

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My heuristics are wrong. What now? (brooker.co.za)

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Don't Forget Your Superpower (superpath-weekly.beehiiv.com)

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The Belonging Industrial Complex (asseenonbyochuko.substack.com)

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Excuse Me, Is There AI in That? (2024) (theatlantic.com)

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Gratidepth (nik.art)

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Jensen's Trillion-Dollar Token Factory (crazystupidtech.com)

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Fifty Years of Apple, Twenty Years for Me (theenthusiast.net)

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Get Paid to Bully AI (memvid.com)

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Freedom of Focus (seths.blog)

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How to write yourself every day (psyche.co)

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Open Ears, Open Mind (herbertlui.net)

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Knife at the Throat (lrb.co.uk)

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Doomporn (alearningaday.blog)

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Could a Day Job Be the Foundation of an Artist's Success? (3quarksdaily.com)

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How a mathematician is cracking open Mexico's powerful drug cartels (nature.com)

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Coding Agents and Complexity Budgets (leerob.com)

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Permission to Suck (parkergates.substack.com)

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Does High Home-Ownership Impair the Labor Market? (2013) (nber.org)

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Nobody finishes reading my books (paulbloom.net)

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Nobody Knows (alearningaday.blog)

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Hitching Your Software Engineering Firm's Positioning to a Platform (punctuation.com)

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I underestimated AI capabilities (again) (planned-obsolescence.org)

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Forward Deployed Designer (proofofconcept.pub)

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Protocol Cards: Evidence-backed practices for instant nervous system regulation (protocolcards.com)

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The Terrible First Draft That Saved My Book (thequietlife.net)

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Prime Radiant: What We're Working On (primeradiant.com)

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Books and Blogs (2017) (stratechery.com)

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Anthropic and The Pentagon (schneier.com)

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Imagination Is Work (seths.blog)

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Pure Independence (collabfund.com)

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Factory Logic (asteriskmag.com)

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The Crypto Chokehold (bostonreview.net)

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Apple Does Fusion (om.co)

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Chiplets: A Technology, Not a Market (2025) (semiengineering.com)

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The jellyfish knows how to survive uncertain times (herbertlui.net)

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The Longing (1999) (cluetrain.com)

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Cold Comforts (asenseofwander.substack.com)

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Software development now costs less than than the wage of a minimum wage worker (ghuntley.com)

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Apple Does Value (Week) (om.co)

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You Can Meditate in a Coffin in Japan. They'll Even Give You a Cute One (vice.com)

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Vercel's AI Sales Agent: 10 SDRs Down to 1 in Six Weeks (tomtunguz.com)

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Takamoto and Disney and the War (animationobsessive.substack.com)

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Three Modes of Cognition (kk.org)

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Metrics Make Us Miserable (derekthompson.org)

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Block and Tackle: Job Cuts and the AI Narrative (om.co)

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Social media just doesn't hit like a website does (herbertlui.net)

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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)