Articles by herbertl
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Stop Ruining It (seths.blog)

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Passion and Work (nik.art)

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Are your creative projects livestock or pets? (herbertlui.net)

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We Are Living in Pinocchio's World (om.co)

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Worrying is self-fulfilling; what to do instead (asmartbear.com)

3

Boarding China's Last Bus (asteriskmag.com)

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Signing off in a world of what's next (om.co)

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How do the most prolific people produce so much? (2023) (commonreader.co.uk)

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Geography Is Four-Dimensional (sive.rs)

2

Mechanical Pencil: An illustrated celebration of the engineering around us (mechanical-pencil.com)

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How to Cure the Hiccups (nik.art)

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The shared tragedy of Red Queen hiring (seths.blog)

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GitHub is sinking (dbushell.com)

72

The locals don't know (quarter--mile.com)

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Self-Fulfilling Misalignment Data Might Be Poisoning Our AI Models (2025) (turntrout.com)

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How to use food to help your mood (2022) (psyche.co)

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Adult Age Differences in the Response to Recent versus Long-Term Regrets [pdf] (apa.org)

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Let Me Convince You to Be Prolific (3quarksdaily.com)

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Not fight, flight or freeze, but fawn (psyche.co)

3

Attacking your competitors online is dumb (posthog.com)

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Reality emerges: What is the Universe made of? (aeon.co)

3

Dream Physics (seths.blog)

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The Informal Org Chart (alearningaday.blog)

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The world reveals itself to those who travel by foot (henrikkarlsson.xyz)

2

My Initial Thoughts on Thunderbird Pro (kevquirk.com)

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Talk to Your Competitors (herbertlui.net)

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Planting Trees and Dreaming of Software (jerodsanto.net)

4

The Cult of Male Miata Drivers (2022) (melmagazine.com)

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Why ADHD Is the Cheat Code of the AI Era (airsugar.com)

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We Can Do Hard Things (allenpike.com)

2

Year (seths.blog)

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Life's Compounding Effect (2023) (yusufaytas.com)

3

Five Banana Lessons (allensthoughts.com)

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Menace on the Streets (macleans.ca)

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Stop Supplying. Start Owning (allensthoughts.com)

1

Make Common Sense Common Again (nik.art)

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Proudly Pathetic (craigatallahfrost.com)

1

Apple scales out 6G ambitions with engineer job listings (sdxcentral.com)

36

The USB Situation (randsinrepose.com)

37

When the Internet Was a Place (2025) (frontporchrepublic.com)

56

Maladaptive Frugality (herbertlui.net)

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Memory Is the Machine (om.co)

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Our Uncertain Uncertainties (kk.org)

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The Work Worth Doing (nik.art)

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How to Say No (2023) (psyche.co)

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One Developer, Two Dozen Agents, Zero Alignment (maggieappleton.com)

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In the AI Era, Shopify Is Investing in Junior Engineers–Not Cutting Them (coderpad.io)

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Half a Month of Consolation Writing Advice (astralcodexten.com)

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The Manosphere in the Middle (3quarksdaily.com)

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Creative Enfeeblement (herbertlui.net)

2

The Surprising Self-Doubts of One of the Most Famous Artists in History (christopherpjones.substack.com)

1

Accounting for the Lag (nik.art)

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Books are not too expensive (millersbookreview.com)

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One Person's Trash on the Joys of Collecting Junk (lithub.com)

2

Inside Notion (colossus.com)

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The scientific case for being nice to your chatbot (platformer.news)

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Eat Your Words (om.co)

2

Input Brain vs. Output Brain (humaninternet.ai)

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The secrets of the shinkansen (worksinprogress.news)

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What's obvious to you might not be to me (herbertlui.net)

12

Social media has become a freak show (natesilver.net)

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Behold, an AI startup with a real business (crazystupidtech.com)

3

I Tried Vibing an RSS Reader and My Dreams Did Not Come True (jim-nielsen.com)

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Sora: A Solution Without a Problem (kaptur.co)

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People Are Not Friction (daverupert.com)

2

Shibuya's New 'G-Cha and Ba-Cha' Cafe Is Run by Senior Citizens (spoon-tamago.com)

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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)

3

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)

3

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)

3

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)

10

Working on Products People Hate (seangoedecke.com)

3

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

3

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

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

3

Red Lobster's Last Gasp (bloomberg.com)

5

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)

2

Open Ears, Open Mind (herbertlui.net)

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Knife at the Throat (lrb.co.uk)