Collections — Rabbit Holes

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Start Here

New to Rabbit Holes? These posts capture what this place is about.

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On AI and job automation Jan 7 · 2 min Zero Sum thinking is ruining the world Sep 25 · 1 min We are borrowed stardust Sep 14 · 1 min The weight of telling stories Aug 28 · 4 min Why read? Aug 17 · 6 min

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Deep Thoughts

Posts that made me stop and think for days.

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What factors enabled China to dominate so many critical industries? Jan 27 · 15 min Summoning Ghosts: Why You Need to Try AI Coding Tools Dec 27 · 11 min Some non-advice advice Dec 23 · 6 min Odds and ends Oct 14 · 4 min On luck and randomness in life Aug 25 · 17 min Why read? Aug 17 · 6 min What It Means to Be Human in the Age of AI Aug 12 · 5 min War and Peace isn’t a novel, it’s a mirror Aug 5 · 6 min

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Quick Hits

Bite-sized ideas you can read in under 2 minutes.

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Michael Muthukrishna makes the case for land and inheritance tax Jul 12 · 1 min Time to make web forums great again? Jul 3 · 2 min Impact of heatwaves on labor productivity Jun 29 · 1 min Marie Curie on adversity Jun 14 · 1 min AI will make the world more legible Jun 13 · 1 min Orhan Pamuk on stories Jun 8 · 1 min We're all hydrogen atoms that learned how to talk. Jun 5 · 1 min Cheaper LLM models offer mundane utility Jun 3 · 1 min

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Link Safari

The best stuff I found around the internet.

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Michael Muthukrishna makes the case for land and inheritance tax Jul 12 · 1 min Time to make web forums great again? Jul 3 · 2 min Is microfinance useful or useless? Jun 30 · 3 min Impact of heatwaves on labor productivity Jun 29 · 1 min Marie Curie on adversity Jun 14 · 1 min Orhan Pamuk on stories Jun 8 · 1 min Great monologue from Andor May 30 · 1 min Introducing Yawp May 28 · 1 min

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Life & Philosophy

On meaning, existence, and how to live.

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We're all hydrogen atoms that learned how to talk. Jun 5 · 1 min Therapy speak is making us miserable Apr 26 · 1 min Another dodgy self help guru? Feb 22 · 1 min Simone Weil is awesome Feb 13 · 1 min A considered life Jan 29 · 2 min Dare to feel Jan 24 · 2 min Flimsy beliefs Jan 24 · 1 min What drives us Jan 19 · 1 min

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Tech & AI

The future is already here, just unevenly distributed.

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A few thoughts on AI-assisted writing Jun 21 · 5 min Cheaper LLM models offer mundane utility Jun 3 · 1 min A voice-first future? May 30 · 1 min A gaggle of links May 19 · 5 min Harness engineering Apr 22 · 1 min Are open weight models a bigger deal than we realise? Apr 21 · 1 min Use the damn tools Apr 4 · 1 min This time is NOT different Mar 26 · 1 min

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Money & Markets

Economics, finance, and how the world really works.

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Some interesting facts Jan 31 · 2 min Do markets make people moral? Jan 30 · 1 min Fuck you money Jan 26 · 2 min The fault in our precious metals Jan 23 · 1 min Emotional returns vs financial returns Jan 4 · 3 min On having a philosophy of money Oct 25 · 1 min You never know when the carousel stops spinning Oct 18 · 2 min Will the poor countries catch up the rich? Sep 1 · 6 min

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Art & Creativity

On making things and why it matters.

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Reading books is the most glorious pastime Apr 25 · 2 min Writing advice from Ernest Hemingway Apr 4 · 1 min The brutal economics of music streaming Mar 2 · 1 min An AI reading companion Feb 18 · 2 min Build something you care about and benefits others Feb 11 · 1 min I have always felt alright in my company Feb 1 · 3 min What does it mean to translate something? Feb 1 · 1 min Dare to feel Jan 24 · 2 min