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Why Can't America Teach Writing?
A blogger's lament
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March 2023
Bing Chat is a Precursor to Something Legitimately Dangerous
AI harm might be closer than we think
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February 2023
Substack Decupled My Subscriber Growth
How I ran an A/B test to decide whether I should move to Substack
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January 2023
I Hired 5 People to Sit Behind Me and Make Me Productive for a Month
Tripling my productivity with one weird trick
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October 2022
Elastic Productivity Tools
Like most tech bros, I’m a little too interested in productivity and optimizing my life. I’ve even made a few of my own tools to help me stay focused…
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Friends From First Principles
Throughout my life, friends were always an unintentional byproduct. I would bump into someone at a few parties, spend a few days living with them, or…
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DALL·E 2 vs $10 Fiverr Commissions
Recently I wrote a blog post that had a concept I wanted to show graphically. Given that my drawing skills are terrible, I turned to Fiverr to get…
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Privacy As A Moral Buffer
Epistemic Status: Overly Opinionated There will always be a "gap" between morality and law. Sometimes the gap is "loose", in which case people have more…
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Generating Sparse And Dense Random Graphs
Suppose you want to generate a graph with V vertices and E edges, such that each graph (i.e. each configuration of edges) is equally likely to be…
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