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AI Article · 8 min read
For three months I have worked every day with an AI coding assistant that wakes up each session knowing nothing about the last one. What it knows, it reads from a file. That file grew to 685 kilobytes, went stale in ways that reached the real-money side of the project, and turned into the best lesso
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The World Article · 19 min read
Yesterday somebody flew drones into the pumping stations of Saudi Arabia's East–West pipeline, and the smoke was visible from orbit. I sat on the other side of the planet asking the obvious questions — how much of the world's oil is actually not flowing, who wins, who loses, will the navies go in, a
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Markets & Economy Article · 13 min read
Since June I have been building automated trading strategies with an AI coding assistant — about forty of them, on one small brokerage account. Twenty-five are switched off, a dozen are still simulating, and three trade real money. Every trading blog publishes its winners; here is the graveyard, wit
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Modern Article · 13 min read
Robert Propst designed the cubicle to give office workers a screen they controlled. He lived to watch companies turn it into a box, and called the result "monolithic insanity." The strange part is that nothing was added to his design to ruin it — the panels were only turned, from an open 120-degree
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Self-custody Article · 19 min read
A friend of mine spent six months building a self-custodial Lightning wallet that runs in a browser, and he'd be the first to tell you it has no audit. I trust him — which is exactly why I shouldn't ask you to trust it on my say-so. So I read the code, checked the served binary against the published
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Food & Cooking Article · 5 min read
Bún chả Hanoi at Pho Hathanh, a Vietnamese restaurant in a converted craftsman house in Portland, Oregon, run by a husband-and-wife team cooking in the style of their hometown. Five out of five, and one of my favorite Asian dishes done right.
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AI Article · 15 min read
Some friends and I have been arguing about whether it will ever seem normal to spend six million tokens in eleven minutes to make a blog post — and whether a world where the well-off can run AI flat out leaves everyone else with the crumbs. So I priced the tokens, traced where the price is going, an
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Markets & Economy Article · 14 min read
The Treasury tripled its next bond buyback to $6 billion, and long-term interest rates rose on the news instead of falling. That reaction looks backwards until you understand what a buyback actually is — not a repayment, but a swap that leaves the debt exactly where it was and moves the due date clo
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Self-custody Article · 15 min read
On September 9th roughly 347,000 people got an email from [email protected] warning them about a chip flaw in their wallet and pointing them somewhere to check it. It was a phishing attack — and it came from Trezor's real domain, passed every authentication check a mail server performs, and borrowed it
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Health Article · 26 min read
About one adult in ten will make a kidney stone. Before the questions about water, calcium and what to eat, the first one: what a stone actually is, what it is made of, and why it forms in some kidneys and not others — read from the studies. With a postscript on hard water, distillers, and calcium p
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