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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
Here's what I published on Tuesday, January 6, 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 a prof about AI is
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 a prof about AI is like asking a taxi driver to weigh in on Uber. I think I have good
Here's what I published on Monday, January 5, 2026: An amazing story of courage and empathy This is an incredible moment of courage that happened in 2023. I’d never heard about it until this article. Nathan saved dozens of lives. Nathan started to think of himself as
This is an incredible moment of courage that happened in 2023. I’d never heard about it until this article. Nathan saved dozens of lives. Nathan started to think of himself as being in the right place at the right time. His instinct was to get this man and his
From an economist, about his extensive experiments with AI-driven academic research. I don’t have much of a research background, but his experiences seem right where expected. My point is that the experiment — can we do research at high speed without much human input — was a failure. And it wasn’