Articles by herbertl
2

The next generation of AI businesses (seths.blog)

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Shedding (winnielim.org)

28

Recoverable and Irrecoverable Decisions (herbertlui.net)

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Is Waymo Worth $126B? (om.co)

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Building the New York Times Product Team: The Right Team for the Job (nytimes.com)

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15 Years of Blogging (nolanlawson.com)

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Stranger Who Made a Mistake (alearningaday.blog)

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Write for Yourself, and Wisdom Will Follow (moretothat.com)

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The Idea River (nik.art)

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China's Demographic Crisis and the Return to 400M (sinification.org)

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From Digital Nomad to Baklava Salesman (theunplannedpivot.substack.com)

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Pre-Steal This Book (2008) (seths.blog)

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The City Where Traffic Fatalities Vanished (reasonstobecheerful.world)

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Information Addiction as the Root of Bad Habits (nik.art)

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The Arc of the Practical Creator (moretothat.com)

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AI-Assisted Development at Block (block.xyz)

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TBM 401: Solving Problems the Hard Way (cutlefish.substack.com)

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The Rise of the Model Designer (aidesignfieldguide.com)

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The Tighter Weave: On Editing and Not Editing (hedgehogreview.com)

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The Work Behind the Writing: On Writers and Their Day Jobs (lithub.com)

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Share Your Reminders to Yourself (herbertlui.net)

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When Was I Happiest? (kevquirk.com)

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Enjoy the Amateur Enhancements (nik.art)

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Let's Talk About What It Means to Rest for the Sake of Rest (electricliterature.com)

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In search of our own voice (animationxpress.com)

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Feather by Feather: On Life, Death, and Birding (lithub.com)

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We may know what a healthy gut microbiome looks like (newscientist.com)

3

Make Something Heavy (workingtheorys.com)

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A brilliant warning about the gamification of everyday life (theguardian.com)

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Balsa M2-F3 Lifting Body (engineersneedart.com)

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The Case for Blogging in the Ruins (joanwestenberg.com)

3

Fart Walks (alearningaday.blog)

2

I Try to Be Kind (hedgehogreview.com)

1

The Three AI Bets (alearningaday.blog)

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Waywo. Because work doesn't have to be polished to be shared (medium.com/deliveroo-design)

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Your Brain on ChatGPT [pdf] (researchgate.net)

2

The Privilege and Point of Writing (herbertlui.net)

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The big regression (world.hey.com)

2

Shape of AI (shapeof.ai)

2

Why Does A.I. Write Like That? (nytimes.com)

2

The Validation Machines (theatlantic.com)

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Reading Without Limits or Expectations (carolinecrampton.com)

2

What Becomes Valuable When AI Makes Creative Work Easy (every.to/p)

7

Why RSS Matters (werd.io)

1

Which Kind of 'Enough'? (seths.blog)

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The suck is why we're here (nik.art)

2

Have LLMs destroyed essay mills? (markcarrigan.net)

4

Confidence Required (sive.rs)

3

Art, Money, and AI (hughhowey.com)

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Context Graphs (foundationcapital.com)

3

Betty Reid Soskin, who became a park ranger at 85, dies aged 104 (theguardian.com)

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Sometimes, the quiet achievements are the most important ones (herbertlui.net)

2

The Misfit Tree (collabfund.com)

2

Konami Code (craigatallahfrost.com)

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Why Sell Lifetime Plans, in a Default Subscription World? (pketh.org)

2

Maybe the Default Settings Are Too High (raptitude.com)

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CSS-Tricks: Thank You (2025 Edition) (css-tricks.com)

2

The Exhilirating Movement from Treatment to Cures for Autoimmune Diseases (erictopol.substack.com)

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I Thought Germany Had Too Little Housing (nik.art)

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A-I-A-I-O: Artificial writing and philosophies of alienation (youareawriter.substack.com)

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Four Winners and Losers of Apple's 2025 (512pixels.net)

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Better Than the Cheap Alternative (seths.blog)

2

Soulless Software (nik.art)

1

The Plan Is the Program (proofofconcept.pub)

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Letting the Minecart Crash (nik.art)

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Curiosity in Relationships (okaykoa.substack.com)

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Understanding carriage (seths.blog)

2

Replace Your To-Do List with Interstitial Journaling to Increase Productivity (medium.com/better-humans)

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Treat your morning ritual like an opening chess move (herbertlui.net)

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What will enter the public domain in 2026? (publicdomainreview.org)

2

Positive Lexicography: an index of 'untranslatable' words related to wellbeing (hifisamurai.github.io)

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All it takes is for one to work out (alearningaday.blog)

2

Love Against Probability (themarginalian.org)

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In Favor of Giving Things Up (raptitude.com)

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Invite your heroes into your AI conversations (glez.de)

2

What rituals from the past teach us about panic and anxiety (psyche.co)

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The Tails (quarter--mile.com)

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Stop All (seths.blog)

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The Pursuit of Wonder (seths.blog)

5

Is narcissism on the rise among younger generations? (psyche.co)

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Ten Pointless Facts about Me (forkingmad.blog)

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Explores MedellĂ­n's rebirth through the eyes of its skaters (wetransfer.com)

2

A Day in the Life of an Infrastructure Security Engineer at Reddit (reddit.com)

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On Withdrawal from Social Media (markcarrigan.net)

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In defence of new 'ugly,' 'small' government-designed houses (nationalpost.com)

2

Resonant Computing Manifesto (resonantcomputing.org)

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The internet is dying on the outside but growing on the inside (ystrickler.com)

3

Work Fast but Towards What (quarter--mile.com)

3

If optimizing for commitment doesn't work for you, optimize for balance instead (herbertlui.net)

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Why an abundance of choice is not the same as freedom (aeon.co)

2

Challenges Are Just Opportunities in Disguise (johnpweiss.com)

3

If You Get the Chance (collabfund.com)

1

Whose Cup Are You Filling? (derekthompson.org)

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Why AI Companies Are Racing to Build a Virtual Human Cell (time.com)

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Friendship Begins at Home (3quarksdaily.com)

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The first non-opioid painkiller (worksinprogress.co)

2

I made a website with Apple iWeb in 2025 (spacebar.news)

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Replanting Articles: Bring Legacy Posts to Your Website (cybercultural.com)

1

2001: Steve Jobs Launches iTunes and Apple's Digital Hub (cybercultural.com)

3

State Surveillance (hughhowey.com)