Weekly Digest - Feb 8-14, 2026
Here's what I published from Sunday, February 8, 2026 to Saturday, February 14, 2026: If someone forwarded you this email, you can subscribe here
Here's what I published from Sunday, February 8, 2026 to Saturday, February 14, 2026: If someone forwarded you this email, you can subscribe here
Here's what I published from Sunday, February 1, 2026 to Saturday, February 7, 2026: If AI companies were consumer tech from a decade ago Late night noodling, but even in the light of day this still feels right to me. If we mapped current #AI companies to consumer
Here's what I published on Wednesday, February 4, 2026: If AI companies were consumer tech from a decade ago Late night noodling, but even in the light of day this still feels right to me. If we mapped current #AI companies to consumer tech from the 2010s: Anthropic
Late night noodling, but even in the light of day this still feels right to me. If we mapped current #AI companies to consumer tech from the 2010s: Anthropic = Apple. Focused on high quality for a smaller market. Stubborn and opinionated in annoying ways, but innovating in important ones. Sets
Here's what I published from Sunday, January 25, 2026 to Saturday, January 31, 2026: If someone forwarded you this email, you can subscribe here
Here's what I published from Sunday, January 18, 2026 to Saturday, January 24, 2026: Why Love-Work Is Different Than Hate-Work A great read, and not just because of how deeply I felt the distinction between love-work and hate-work. I also really enjoyed how Horton described research eras in
Here's what I published on Tuesday, January 20, 2026: Why Love-Work Is Different Than Hate-Work A great read, and not just because of how deeply I felt the distinction between love-work and hate-work. I also really enjoyed how Horton described research eras in psychology. All fields have this
A great read, and not just because of how deeply I felt the distinction between love-work and hate-work. I also really enjoyed how Horton described research eras in psychology. All fields have this sort of thing, and knowing them helps make sense of how we got to our current kind
Here's what I published on Monday, January 19, 2026: AI verifiability, but compared to what? Much of the advice around using AI is that if you use it, then you need to verify what it produces. This is presently good advice. But I'm doubtful it will
Much of the advice around using AI is that if you use it, then you need to verify what it produces. This is presently good advice. But I'm doubtful it will be good advice in the long-run. Consider how little verification happens in large institutions by leaders who
Here's what I published from Sunday, January 11, 2026 to Saturday, January 17, 2026: If someone forwarded you this email, you can subscribe here
Here's what I published from Sunday, January 4, 2026 to Saturday, January 10, 2026: Professors Are Conservative, Actually Politically, academics are much more liberal than the average person. But Paul Bloom makes the excellent point that, in areas related to their work, academics are actually deeply conservative. Asking