Articles by herbertl
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Welcome to Toronto, World Capital of the Urban Raccoon (lithub.com)

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Don't Force the Money Too Early (nik.art)

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Prompted to Start: How Generative AI Is Transforming Entrepreneurship [pdf] (nber.org)

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I started a “dirt notebook” (pinewind.bearblog.dev)

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Is "jobs" a four-letter word? (benn.substack.com)

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How to Maintain Our Privacy in the AI Age (wsj.com)

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Find Diverse Sources of Happiness (herbertlui.net)

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Find Your Good Sources of Dopamine (nik.art)

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Slashfriends – A Directory of /Friends Pages (slashfriends.org)

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Financial advice I can give you is to sell your car (yourbrainonmoney.substack.com)

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Dopamine TV: How China's short dramas are redefining entertainment (thedial.world)

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Disposable Software (seths.blog)

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Choo Choo Has an Ouchie (jackcheng.com)

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A Painting Only Lives When a Person Looks at It (nik.art)

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Apple acquires observability startup SigScalr (9to5mac.com)

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The Table of Purpose: How to Love Someone Without Losing Yourself (ftcheck.substack.com)

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You are not in the race against slop cannons (hils.substack.com)

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When You Didn't Get Picked (nik.art)

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Human Life in a Post-AGI World (tylercowen.com)

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Hyper-Local, Hyper-Cloud (proofofconcept.pub)

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Less is more, more or less (jakub.kr)

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We Can Read Again (medium.com/the-prototype)

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You are not the person you see in the mirror (iai.tv)

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A Captive Audience (seths.blog)

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In defense of not understanding your codebase (seangoedecke.com)

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Frame money with value, not morality (herbertlui.net)

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How to Read Scientific Papers (Or Give Good Dating Advice) (serenakrejcipapa.substack.com)

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AI's "overnight" solution for our flaky tests took two weeks to adopt (thoughtbot.com)

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The Winning Essays for the Big Questions About AI (dwarkesh.com)

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Escape from Squircle Jail (tyler.io)

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Being lonely taught me how to be me (psyche.co)

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Generous Collusion (seths.blog)

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Ireland is now paying artists a basic income (positive.news)

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The Return of Gravity (abcdinamo.com)

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Google Search lets creators know more about their reach (theverge.com)

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Chinese AI models are gaining ground with U.S. companies as costs surge (cnbc.com)

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Longing for a Crash (masoncurrey.substack.com)

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Modest Shapes (herbertlui.net)

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The healing power of watching the boys of 'Jackass' do stupid things (yahoo.com)

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The Nature of Launch Day (seths.blog)

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Invisible Companies (colossus.com)

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Zhuangzi and the Case Against Meritocracy (aeon.co)

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Quiet, My Exoself (kk.org)

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macOS California Camino (basicappleguy.com)

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The best response to AI slop and online noise is from Robin Williams (jayacunzo.com)

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Turning music into a chore is how I became a musician (2022) (scapegoat.dev)

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Accidental Anonymity (macwright.com)

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Posthog's marketing budget in 2026 (with actual $ figures) (posthog.com)

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Delete Doesn't Mean Deleted. Just Ask OpenAI (lindsaygross1.substack.com)

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Lost Confidence (asmartbear.com)

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When typing is better than talking (alearningaday.blog)

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The quiet grief of adult friendship (indiatimes.com)

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Solo founding is at an all-time high: Top performers have these traits in common (stripe.com)

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Tired of Performing Masculinity (paradisetime.substack.com)

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The AirPods Effect (theescapenewsletter.com)

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Vacation With An Artist: Book mini-apprenticeships with master artists (vawaa.com)

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Struggling with creative work doesn't mean you're failing (psyche.co)

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Retool Launches React AI App Builder (retool.com)

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Writing as Species-Being (philosophyofwriting.substack.com)

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Surf's Up (visakanv.substack.com)

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How We Automated Technical Implementation (antimetal.com)

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The Dream of Running a Shop (nik.art)

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Do AI tutors empower or enslave learners? [pdf] (arxiv.org)

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The Myth, the Mythos and the Man (om.co)

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Making peace with your unlived dreams (2023) (nik.art)

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Marketing Clerks (seths.blog)

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Adobe Photoshop: A Case for Keeping an Intel or PowerPC Mac (lowendmac.com)

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Why Do Asian Brands Pretend to Be Japanese? (thechow.net)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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Attacking your competitors online is dumb (posthog.com)

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

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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)

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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)

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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)

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Year (seths.blog)

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