Assorted Things

Topics include technology, productivity, leadership, politics, economics, AI, cancer treatment, marketing, praise, literacy, and business.

  1. The Woke Right Stands At the Door - by Jonathan Rauch
    If you’re a thinking moderate, the convergence of magical thinking on both the woke left and the alt-right is hard to miss.
  2. EHRs: The hidden distraction in your doctor’s office | Hacker News
    Comments on HN re: EHRs; pretty fascinating.
  3. Why Blue States Can’t Have Nice Things - by Jacob Savage
  4. Why Senior Leaders Should Stop Having So Many One-on-Ones
    Generally good advice, imo.
  5. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Capitalism Needs A Better Marketing Team
    Pretty decent summary of the economic illiteracy (which I often see when people throw around the word “capitalism”) with a concise response.
  6. Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity - METR
    “…we find that when developers use AI tools, they take 19% longer than without—AI makes them slower.” “…developers expected AI to speed them up by 24%, and even after experiencing the slowdown, they still believed AI had sped them up by 20%.”
  7. The Catch in Catching Cancer Early
    New blood tests promise to detect malignancies before they’ve spread. But proving that these tests actually improve outcomes remains a stubborn challenge.
  8. The Gap Through Which We Praise the Machine
    “My current theory of agentic programming: people are amazing at adapting the tools they’re given and totally underestimate the extent to which they do it, and the amount of skill we build doing that is an incidental consequence of how badly the tools are designed.”
  9. Not reading or writing would be unthinkable
    The evidence is clear: those who don’t read or who outsource their essays to AI lose the facility for complex thought
  10. The state of B2B monetization in 2025
    Introducing new data from 240 software and AI companies
  11. Agentic Coding Recommendations | Armin Ronacher’s Thoughts and Writings
    Via Simon Willison, of course.
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