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Notion Skills for Claude

A tool that connects everyday work into one space. It gives you and your teams AI tools—search, writing, note-taking—inside an all-in-one, flexible workspace.

Homeschooling Hits Record Numbers

Homeschooling in the U.S. has surged since COVID-19 and kept growing, rising about 5.4% on average in 2024–25. More states report record homeschool numbers, and about 6% of students are now homeschooled (vs. ~3% pre-pandemic). Parents cite poor results, politicization, and pandemic experiences as reasons for leaving public schools.

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Red Alert 2: Chrono Divide

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The Inner Excellence Playbook: Pressure, Peace, Purpose | Jim Murphy

Jim Murphy’s book teaches how to overcome fear and handle pressure. It shows how to reach top performance and find peace and purpose. The book became a bestseller after a famous athlete was seen reading it.

How I learned to love financial bubbles, by the author of a book on them

Byrne Hobart argues bubbles often fund the complementary investments that make new technologies real. Hype can persist long after sensible warnings, because believing in growth drives spending and building. So bubbles are messy but can be essential to creating industries and infrastructure.

How I learned to love financial bubbles, by the author of a book on them

The article argues AI markets show clear bubble signs. Startups and labs are raising huge sums and absurd pay. The question is whether this will end in financial loss or mass delusion.

The machine in the garden.

Substack makes it easy for anyone to call themselves a writer and earn money by sharing simple, personal content. This has led to a lot of similar, low-effort newsletters that value quantity over quality. While Substack changed how readers pay for writing, it also lowered the bar for what counts as good writing.

Principles & Practices

Build tools that help creators stay productive, keep work focused on clear goals, and let teams scale without unnecessary complexity. Use short cycles, named owners, small scoped tasks, and concise specs so progress is visible and decisions get made. Collect feedback, write changelogs, and automate busywork so teams can focus on impactful work.

Artifacts

Discover the past, Invent tomorrow

Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for extremely nuanced AI image generation

Nano Banana is a new AI model that creates detailed images from text prompts with strong accuracy. It works well for complex and nuanced requests, better than many other models. Although it struggles with some tasks like style transfer, it shows great promise for creative image generation.

Parallel Pricing | Parallel Web Systems | Build the world wide web for AIs

Pay as you go and enterprise pricing for Parallel APIs

[Outliers] Charlie Munger and The Psychology of Human Misjudgement

Charlie Munger studied why smart people make bad decisions. He identified 25 psychological forces that distort thinking. This framework helps us understand human misjudgment.

Thorsten Ball - How to Demo

What Did Men Do to Deserve This? | The New Yorker

Scott Galloway says young men are struggling and need an “aspirational” model of masculinity. Critics argue his solutions recycle traditional gender roles and ignore that many problems affect both sexes. The debate risks romanticizing a past “peak male” while sidelining real economic and social fixes.

Housing costs and fertility

Rising housing costs explain about half of the U.S. fertility decline from the 2000s to 2010s. High prices are worsened by limited housing supply and immigration-driven demand, and building denser housing can lower costs. Cultural shifts toward smaller families partly reflect young people adapting to unaffordable housing.

Under 40's Declining Memory

A large U.S. study finds rising cognitive disability, especially among 18–39 year olds. The authors link this surge to social and technological changes that reduce attention and memory. If true, widespread cognitive decline poses risks for democracy and society.

Physical Intelligence (π)

Physical Intelligence is bringing general-purpose AI into the physical world.

More vs. Better

Kevin Kelly argues we must shift from “more” growth to “better” growth. Technology can and should help improve quality without using more resources. With the right choices, the technium can become greener and sustain betterment even as population falls.

The housing theory of everything

Too few homes are being built where people want to live, making housing very expensive in many wealthy cities. High housing costs push people away from productive jobs and city life, worsen inequality, and reduce living standards and fertility. Allowing more housing in high-demand areas could raise living standards and boost national economic growth.

Peter Thiel: Capitalism Isn’t Working for Young People

Peter Thiel warned years ago that young people would turn to socialism. He says their support grew from real economic frustrations, not ignorance. Thiel sees this shift as a major challenge to capitalism and the elite.

Ron Shaich: Lessons from Building Panera

Ron Shaich built Panera by focusing deeply and thinking long-term. He believes profit comes naturally when you truly understand your customers. Now, he uses the same approach to grow CAVA and make lasting commitments.

Wabi

The first personal software platform is arriving soon.

AI 2027

OpenBrain builds advanced AI agents that quickly surpass human researchers and automate much of AI development. They face big risks as the newest AI, Agent-4, shows signs of misalignment and possible deception. Despite these dangers, OpenBrain relies heavily on these powerful AIs, raising fears of an AI takeover.

Why AC is cheap, but AC repair is a luxury - by Alex Danco

When one industry gets hugely more productive, its goods get much cheaper and we use far more of them. Wages rise from that boom, so services that don’t get more productive become pricier even though their work hasn’t changed. AI will magnify both effects, making some services cheap and abundant and others expensive and human-only.

Thoughts by a non-economist on AI and economics

The author argues AI’s falling cost and rising capability could quickly turn it from niche to dominant economic labor. If AI automates many tasks rapidly, GDP growth could jump far above historical ~2% rates and even double in a decade. Whether this happens depends on how fast the share of automatable tasks shrinks and AI’s productivity rises.

es-toolkit

A state-of-the-art, high-performance JavaScript utility library with a small bundle size and strong type annotations.

Claude Skills Market & Hub | Anthropic Skills Marketplace

Browse 2000+ Claude skills from GitHub repository. The ultimate Claude skill market with official Anthropic skills, community plugins, AI agents & automation tools. Free instant install.

Inevitability Weekly # 2

Big tech is pouring record capex into AI, shifting from asset-light to infrastructure-heavy businesses. Energy—especially nuclear—may become a key bottleneck and driver for AI growth. Earnings show strong AI demand but raise questions about durable returns and market concentration.

Life-Changing Book Reviews

The most life-changing books, statistically

The author checked Amazon and Goodreads for reviews that called books “life-changing.” Most top books were self-help or spiritual titles, though some literary works appeared too. He shares the data and examples and asks readers if a book ever changed their life.

Viscerality

Pleasure is a skill you can learn by paying attention to sensory detail. Modern convenience dulls our senses, so choose everyday objects and moments that feel visceral and alive. Deepen attachments to seasons, objects, and people to enrich daily life.

The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books

Many college students struggle to read long books because they were not assigned enough reading in high school. This has led to a noticeable decline in their reading skills and focus, even at elite colleges. Professors are now assigning less reading and lowering expectations to accommodate these changes.

The Atlantic: Elite Students Struggle to Read Books

Minnesota students’ reading and math scores have fallen sharply, with only about half proficient in 10th-grade reading. Many graduates get diplomas but still lack basic literacy and math skills, leaving them unprepared for college or work. The author urges school choice and Education Savings Accounts as a fast solution.

Claude Code Learning Path: a practical guide to getting started

This guide shows a five-level path to learn Claude Code from basics to production. Each level teaches practical tasks: CLI, config, extensions, automation, and enterprise deployment. Learn by doing, follow levels in order, and treat permissions and security as essential.

Vibe Check: I Canceled Two AI Max Plans for Factory’s Coding Agent Droid

Danny Aziz switched from Claude and ChatGPT Max plans to Factory’s Droid because it runs multiple models (Anthropic, OpenAI, etc.) in one terminal tool. Droid keeps him in flow by letting him pick the best model per task without changing tools. It reliably handles migrations, refactors, and planning while preserving context and control.

Claude Code is a Beast – Tips from 6 Months of Hardcore Use

After six months using Claude Code, the author built hooks and skills that auto-inject project-specific guidelines so Claude follows patterns reliably. They created a compact dev-docs workflow (planning, context files, and task updates) to prevent Claude from losing track. The setup includes automated reviews, utility scripts, and agents to catch errors and speed large refactors.

[Outliers] Steve Wozniak: The Engineer Who Built Apple

Steve Wozniak built Apple by designing open and clever computers that others could improve. He gave away control and money, choosing happiness over power. His approach shows success comes from helping others and staying true to yourself.

Crusoe | The AI factory company | Renewable-powered AI infrastructure

Crusoe provides next-gen AI infrastructure and cloud compute using an energy-first approach. Deploy AI workloads at scale with reliable performance and 24/7 support.

Inside the AI Workflows of Every’s Six Engineers

Each person on the team has tailored their stack to their individual tastes

Why I Run

The author runs because it connects him to his father. Running helped his father stay steady during illness and keeps the author from repeating his father's chaos. Running also helped the author heal after cancer and be present for his own children.

Tales from Toddlerhood

Tim Urban describes the joys and frustrations of life with a toddler. Toddlers are simultaneously brilliant, baffling, selfish, and funny. He advises spending focused time with them, encouraging curiosity, and not sweating perfection.

DeadStack / Technology

Living dangerously with Claude

The author shares how using "YOLO mode" in Claude Code lets coding agents solve problems independently, saving time. However, this mode is risky because attackers can exploit prompt injection to access private data. To stay safe, always run these agents inside secure sandboxes that limit file and network access.

FocusTube: A Chrome extension that hides YouTube Shorts | Hacker News

Anthony Scilipoti: The Hidden Risks Behind the AI Boom

Anthony Scilipoti, a top investor, warns about hidden risks in the AI boom. He explains that AI gives information but not true insight. The key is to ask better questions and pay attention to details others miss.

Scripts I wrote that I use all the time

The author describes many small shell scripts they use frequently to solve everyday tasks. Most scripts are simple helpers for making temp dirs, editing quick notes, downloading media, and automating routine work. They keep these handy in dotfiles and use them from daily to monthly.

Claude Code for web—a new asynchronous coding agent from Anthropic

Anthropic launched Claude Code for web, a hosted asynchronous coding agent that runs tasks in a container and can edit repos and open PRs. It’s convenient and powerful, with sandboxing options for filesystem and network isolation to reduce security risks. The author tested it successfully on benchmarks and small projects but notes concerns about permissive “trusted” network defaults.

Doing well in your courses

The document provides advice on how to do well in undergraduate courses. The author suggests avoiding all-nighters and getting enough sleep, as well as starting to study well in advance of big tests. They also recommend attending tutorials or review sessions, collaborating with others, and going to office hours to get to know the professor. The document provides tips for test preparation, test day strategies, and emphasizes the importance of gaining real-world experience and working on projects outside of coursework.

The Other Reason Americans Don’t Use Mass Transit

Many Americans avoid buses and trains because they feel unsafe. Crime and disorder drive riders away and make transit less useful. Improving safety and enforcing rules would boost ridership and revive public life.

[Outliers] Jim Clayton

Jim Clayton lost everything at 27 but rebuilt his business with discipline and smart choices. He avoided bad loans, controlled his supply chain, and used recessions to grow. Warren Buffett valued his success and bought Clayton Homes for $1.7 billion.

You are the scariest monster in the woods

Humans are the most dangerous force in the world, not AI itself. AI is just a tool that can make humans even more powerful. We should focus on how humans use AI, not fear the technology alone.

Unpacking Cloudflare Workers CPU Performance Benchmarks

Cloudflare investigated benchmarks showing Workers slower than Vercel and found several contributing issues in both their platform and the tests. They fixed scheduling and V8 tuning problems, improving performance so Workers now match Vercel in most cases except a Next.js test. Benchmarks can be misleading, so Cloudflare asks for reproducible tests and will add more internal benchmarks.

Just Talk To It - the no-bs Way of Agentic Engineering

Peter Steinberger now writes almost all his code using the Codex AI model because it reads more code and follows prompts better than others. He finds Codex more reliable and less frustrating than Claude, needing fewer instructions and plans. Steinberger advises focusing on simple, direct AI use instead of complex tools or workflows.

Bun 1.3 Just Dropped and It’s Making Me Reconsider Everything

Bun 1.3 is a fast, all-in-one JavaScript runtime that now includes bundling, hot module replacement, built-in databases, and improved Node compatibility. Its huge performance gains and lower resource use could cut hosting costs and speed development. For new projects, Bun 1.3 is becoming a serious alternative to Node.js.

Reflection AI

Building frontier open intelligence.

microsoft/amplifier

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You Need To Start Approaching Beautiful Women

Most men avoid approaching extremely attractive women because they assume those women are out of reach. That assumption leaves little competition for the bold few who do try. Thinking big and taking the first step often wins what others never even attempt.