ai Artificial General Intelligence We’re moving from a time when humans were doing the work while using tools to, well, a time when the tools are doing the work.
leadership Thinking one move ahead If your goal is to win at chess and you can undo moves on one game but not the other, you should choose the one where you can undo 100% of the time.
ai Featured IA fora dos Estados Unidos Welcome to our world! For today’s empathy exercise, you’ll need a little workaround: copy and paste this prompt on ChatGPT or Claude to read the article in English: Translate the article at https://duion.life/ia-fora-dos-estados-unidos from Portuguese into natural, idiomatic English, keeping the tone and style intact.
philosophy What happens to our jobs given AI? But so much of our economy is now either mechanized or digital, that I’m not sure we can make cooks and dentists out of everybody. Besides, who will have the money to pay us.. other cooks and dentists?
ai Featured 3 AI Competencies Knowing how to code by hand won’t prepare you to use AI augmented coding, the same way that writing with a pen wouldn’t prepare you to use a typewriter.
ai Recent books and brief AI reflections We’re running a live experiment with very big levers and very little control.
philosophy Featured What I talk about when I talk about reading It’s 10:00pm. Bernstein is playing Mahler.. again. Bernie. And Mahler. And Dui. The Complete Mahler Symphonies, recorded in 1960, take a little over 12 hours to complete. I’ve listened to it several times now. Typically, I listen to each of Mahler’s symphonies in order. Unless I
self-discipline Featured Apple Watch, but no iPhone An Apple Watch without an iPhone is the only way to be found, reach others, and not be distracted
ai Featured Are you talking to a robot? This myriad of async text mediums, I’m afraid, is a perfect breeding ground for talking agents.
ai Featured Agentic AI is the new revolution As AI workflows grow more autonomous, we’ll find ourselves delegating more and more tasks to them.
ai Featured Is Vibe Coding the New Rails? Remember how magical Rails felt in the early days? So does Vibe Coding. But after two decades in software, I’ve learned where that magic tends to break.
philosophy 30 Day Non-Vegan Experiment Results After 30 days of eating meat again, I gained muscle, ate socially, and traveled easily — but still chose to go back to being vegan. Here’s why.
ai Featured Vibe Coding A new paradigm is coming: AI is, like it or not, “taking over our jobs,” and this is the beginning of that transition
philosophy No longer vegan What I don’t think you can do, though, is be vegan, really strong, and not either 1) rely on a lot of supplements, or 2) stay in a perpetual bulking phase.
philosophy Self-Defense An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, so I avoid harm threats whenever I can. But if I can’t, that’s where self-defense matters most.
philosophy Featured Deontological Confusion This ability of humans to create a new set of rules, together with our propensity to follow the rules but nothing else when playing to win, can cause us to justify (and rationalize) all sorts of higher-level rule breaking.
philosophy Featured What is Consciousness? In short, when it comes to even defining consciousness, in all honesty we (humans) are just completely clueless, which is quite a scary realization.
105 hours 105 Hours – Build a Timetable I use a set of tactics and principles to manage my time. I call it 105 hours – the number of waking hours we have each week. One of the most valuable habits around time management I have is to have a timetable: a clear idea of what you plan to
philosophy Featured Moral Compass The first step to having a moral compass is, well, getting one – which means not using anybody else's.
philosophy Self-honesty, humility, and competence empathy One of the most reliable mechanisms for developing humility is – counterintuitively – developing competence.
philosophy The tool is the message By choosing your tools you are, in a very real way, choosing who you want to be.
philosophy Cognitive emotions – aligning impressions and reason I call cognitive emotion the alignment (or lack thereof) between our cognition and emotions for our actions.
105 hours 105 Hours – My Digital Minimalism There are many downsides to this approach of using technology, but it also frees up an enormous amount of time and attention to focus on what matters most.
leadership Featured Your system is a lagging indicator of your team Today's system reflects your team from years ago, and the system you'll have years from now will reflect the team you have today.
