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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
This blog post by Helen Toner (well-known by some for a stint on the OpenAI board) is *really really* interesting because it is the first thing I've read by someone in Frontier AI that starts to get to grips with sociotechnical concerns open.substack.com/pub/helenton...
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Taking Jaggedness Seriously
Why we should expect AI capabilities to keep being extremely uneven, and why that matters
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Catt Small @catt.design · 20/11/2025
People keep saying nice things about my course. Wild that over 150 students have participated since July of last year.
I cannot recommend this enough! I love how this course was relatable, tangible, and actionable! As someone who has been curious about how to approach next steps in my career, I now have a better understanding of what I can act on.Thanks for the course. It came at the perfect time. As the first Staff Designer at my company, I've been navigating how to define the role and everything around. This course gave me the frameworks, language and confidence to step up and shape the role.It's rare to find a course that goes into so much detail and gives so much guidance along the way. I highly recommend Catt and this course if you have any knowledge gaps about the Staff/Lead Product Designer roles and moving into a IC/leadership position!This was an excellent course! It provided a blend of actionable guidance for day-to-day work and a deep understanding of the Staff Designer's role and expectations.
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Gary Chou @garychou.com · 05/11/2025
Typesetting a google doc is oddly relaxing
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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 04/11/2025
watching the Mamdani campaign from afar during the primary, so many things were impressive, among them the incredible work his online video team was doing to spread the message in fun, creative, educational, invigorating ways that spoke to people this is my story about how they did it
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Selling Zohran | Defector
On a cool Sunday in November, a few days after Donald Trump’s re-election, Zohran Mamdani stood on a street corner in Jamaica, Queens, holding up a hastily drawn cardboard sign that read “DID YOU VOTE...
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chris xu @chrysaora.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Was honored to help @chana.bsky.social edit this deep dive compilation of Curtis Sliwa lore gathered over weeks. There is so much jaw-dropping material, we simply could not bear to make it shorter than 76 slides.
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I’m sorry but you still don’t know enough about Curtis Sliwa
I’m sorry but you still don’t know enough about Curtis Sliwa
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Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
"Our takeaway is that mainstream fact-based journalism plays a central, if not the central, role in helping extremist politicians capture public attention." www.niemanlab.org/2025/06/how-...
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How American journalism amplifies extremism (it’s not the way you think!)
American journalism creates space for small-town extremists to gain power, especially given declines in local news.
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Gary Chou @garychou.com · 08/08/2025
Hi folks—I'm starting a new club for people who want to reflect and learn with others. I promise it will be fun if you are into this kind of thing—request an invitation here: orbital.nyc/membership
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Orbital Membership – Quarterly reflection, curated by Gary Chou
An invite-only learning network where thoughtful professionals commit to quarterly reflection and share their key lessons. August cohort requests now open.
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Ted Han★ 韓聖安 @knowtheory.net · 05/08/2025
Okay, sorry sorry, I can't let this thing from @ghost.org's post go. When Ghost says it now connects to all these places including Bluesky, what they don't mention is that the Real Heroes, completely unmentioned in the post, are @snarfed.org, @quillmatiq.com & @anew.social and their @ap.brid.gy.
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Alex Hillman @alexhillman.com · 05/08/2025
Oh hey, today is the 5 year anniversary of when I originally launched my book tiny.mba. If you don't have a copy, or want to grab a copy as a gift, I set up the discount code 5YEARS to take 25% off the purchase price of both the print bundle and ebook options.
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The Tiny MBA Book - Alex Hillman
You don't need an MBA or fancy investors to be successful in business. Use the 100 ideas in this tiny book to evaluate and execute on your built
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 24/07/2025
As someone who has run platforms with millions of users creating content for communities with large numbers of queer and marginalized creators, here’s what I’ll say: there are, effectively, almost no real choices for payment networks if you want to allow regular people to pay for your service. So…
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Chris Morrell @cmorrell.com · 26/06/2025
I'm so grateful for the community that's grown around PHP× in general and PHP×Philly specifically. So I was really excited to find some time to chat with @alexhillman.com about the 20 years he's spent tending the Indy Hall community, and see if there are any lessons he's learned that can translate…
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 19/05/2025
We’ve got our first (of many!) pages up with more to come. First up, details about efforts to eviscerate Medicaid, with up to $880 billion in cuts, likely to lead to millions of people losing their sole insurance: unbreaking.org/issues/medic...
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Unbreaking — How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.
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Gary Chou @garychou.com · 16/05/2025
Hit me up with the best Sinners think pieces
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Leon Yin @leonyin.org · 01/05/2025
NEW: @bloomberg.com analysis of +13 years of ICE detentions shows immigrants transferred to the South and SW from interior US at unprecedented rates. Reducing the odds of winning their cases. w/ @elenamejia.bsky.social @racheladhe.bsky.social @pollymosendz.bsky.social bloom.bg/43am95w
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chris xu @chrysaora.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
We’re doing the thing 😭
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Mina Markham @minamarkh.am · 08/04/2025
Randomly thinking about how in the future of Firefly everyone spoke Mandarin. I always wondered how that might have happened.
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Camille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com · 26/03/2025
Can't believe it's been 10 years since I posted the RTR engineering ladders publicly. Anyway, I threw together a retrospective on that: skamille.medium.com/10-years-of-...
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10 Years of Engineering Ladders
On March 26, 2015, I posted a short blog post to the Rent the Runway engineering blog, Sharing Our Engineering Ladder, with a quick intro…
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Gary Chou @garychou.com · 09/03/2025
Anyone have a favorite multivitamin?
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Gary Chou @garychou.com · 06/03/2025
Jury service has strong squid games vibes.
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Ron Bronson @ronbronson.com · 01/03/2025
I once saved an agency around $2 million on a modernization project because of a bad contract they had, it took me several phone calls and less than a week. You need alignment and air cover to pull stuff like this off, but the game changing is stuff we weren't even allowed to promote or talk about
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Ron Bronson @ronbronson.com · 26/02/2025
We're live. Excited for you to join us on this journey & for @joelgoodman.co for designing our band photo.
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Camille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com · 06/02/2025
www.argmin.net/p/are-radiol...
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Are radiologists finally out of a job?
No.
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
this looks super good I love how things are working out for ke huy quan. he seems like a really good guy
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Leon Yin @leonyin.org · 22/01/2025
NEW: Bloomberg reviewed +1K hours of YouTube vids from 9 popular streamers and podcasters who cater to American men. We analyzed 2 yrs of guests and transcripts to see how they discussed political topics and understand their role as a new mainstream info hub www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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Gary Chou @garychou.com · 17/01/2025
If you or someone you love is interested in the challenge of funding innovation in the social sector, join me next week on Thursday, Jan 23 as I share lessons learned from my past year of research: lu.ma/vkgy7qb4
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Part 1: Funding Innovation in the Social Sector · Luma
What if the social sector could embrace risk-taking and experimentation to unlock transformative outcomes? Join us for this insightful session where I’ll share…
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Ruben Åkenes @rubenakenes.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
One Date, add a slob of 🥜 butter inside and a nibble of dark chocolate... Voila, you got a healthy Snickers ✅🤌
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Gary Chou @garychou.com · 13/01/2025
What is the healthiest thing that tastes as good as a doughnut (or variant)
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 08/01/2025
Jeff Atwood steps up to be a thing that’s sorely needed in tech right now: a leader. He actually *gives* half of his current net worth (not a pledge — he already cut checks) to 8 organizations helping the most vulnerable. blog.codinghorror.com/stay-gold-am... An inspiring move, when it most matters.
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Stay Gold, America
We are at an unprecedented point in American history.
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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 09/12/2024
The key finding of my comparison of how journalists & creators build trust with audiences: Journalism has placed many markers of trust in institutional processes that are opaque to audiences, while creators try to embed the markers of trust directly in their interactions with audiences.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Post election, I've been trying to report more on the decline of trust in institutions. Obviously the media's crisis is part of this. Last week, I came across a paper from @juliaangwin.com that looks at how creators build trust w/ their audiences & I called her up. Lots of good lessons here, imo
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‘A Terrible Irony’: How the Media Lost Trust
And a template for rebuilding it
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Camille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com · 07/01/2025
Worth reading thoroughly to understand the context of this remark, which remarkably even more apt than it seems out of context
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Gary Chou @garychou.com · 04/01/2025
I've started using an insulated mug and it really makes a difference.
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Gary Chou @garychou.com · 27/12/2024
Pretty amazing how sleep is beneficial to the writing process.
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Gary Chou @garychou.com · 27/12/2024
Good morning to all of my hot new followers
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Lianna Patch @punchlinecopy.com · 21/12/2024
i love this book and recommend it often! perfect present for the entrepreneur you love
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Gary Chou @garychou.com · 19/12/2024
The problem with switching to ordering decaf espresso is that sometimes mistakes are made
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Gary Chou @garychou.com · 16/12/2024
If you or someone you know is a philanthropic funder, I’m seeking collaborators for experiments in 2025 aimed at advancing risk-taking in the social sector: garychou.com/the-opportun...
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The Opportunity Beyond the Uncertainty
TL;DR: I’m seeking philanthropic funders to collaborate on grantmaking experiments in 2025 that are focused on supporting risk-taking and experimentation.  Thanks to a grant from Nick Barr and the fi...
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Gary Chou @garychou.com · 13/12/2024
How many words is too many words?
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Gary Chou @garychou.com · 12/12/2024
You really can't cheat the writing process
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Warren Wan @warrenwan.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
Bombas
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Gary Chou @garychou.com · 05/11/2024
Give me all your sock recommendations
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Leon Yin @leonyin.org · 08/03/2024
New: Employers and HR vendors are using AI chatbots to interview and screen job applicants. We found that OpenAI's GPT discriminates against names based on race and gender when ranking resumes. W/ @davey.bsky.social and @leonardonclt.bsky.social gift link: bloom.bg/3It4cE4
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OpenAI’s GPT Is a Recruiter’s Dream Tool. Tests Show There’s Racial Bias
Recruiters are eager to use generative AI, but a Bloomberg experiment found bias against job candidates based on their names alone
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Gary Chou @garychou.com · 04/03/2024
I'm looking for a minimum viable NAS for a 4TB sata HDD, mainly for time machine backups. Is there anything easier/cheaper than the Synology DS223j? I am just a simple man.
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Gary Chou @garychou.com · 11/05/2023
What we need is a mastosky client
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Gary Chou @garychou.com · 10/05/2023
Hi
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