It really depends. I believe and apply a lot of Cal Newport advice, and benefit greatly from it. But I also see in my daily life how just being close to people you work with, and (crucially) being a short walk away/floor from people in other groups, creates immense value by helping unclog processes and especially by creating new ideas and products that wouldn‘t otherwise exist.

It still astounds me that the big dogs still do not phase config rollouts. Code is data, configs are data, they are one and the same. It was the same issue with the giant crowdstrike outage last year, they were rawdogging configs globally and a bad config made it out there and everything went kaboom.

You NEED to phase config rollouts like you phase code rollouts.

Before Uber and Lyft destroyed the functioning taxi market, you got Mercedes by default for a traditional, regulated taxi in many EU countries.

You didn't have to argue, interact with a surveillance company, interact with customer service etc. All you needed to do is pick up the phone and get a luxury ride without tracking or surveillance.

I strongly believe the manuscript is undecipherable in the sense thats it's all gibberish. I can't prove it, but at this point I think it's more likely than not to be hoax.

Not to mention 29% tariffs on Norfolk Island. Who hasn’t exported anything to the U.S. in years.

And a 10% tariff on the Macdonald Islands, which has a population of zero (not including the penguins).

Perhaps Trump thought he was taxing a fast food competitor?

Fun fact: these are all internal territories of Australia. Why they get separate tariffs is weird.

A ui is worth 1,000 tokens (at least).

I agree that chat isn't the end interface for AI powered applications.

That said the ability to describe desires in "fuzzy" ways is a usability value unlock.

My take is that natural language should be use surface functionality, translate between structures, and generate personalize defaults.

Its a hybrid approach and why my co-founder and I started https://tambo.co

Before the 2000s, depending on how overtly conservative you were and who was in govenenent (coups, counter-coups, and fits of "democracy" happened every couple years), you might not have been allowed to attend at all.

An entire generation of women from conservative backgrounds couldn't attend university in Turkiye until the 2000s because of the hijab ban.

Unsurprisingly, once conservative Turkish politicians like Erdogan took power, they came with vengeance. Didn't help that rural, working class, and certain ethnicities (Anatolian Turks, Kurds) were more conservative than others - go to Istanbul Airport sometime and count how many un-hijabed vs hijabed women work as the bathroom cleaning staff.

Of course, those same conservative politicians then do the exact same shenanigans of corruption, power politics, and authoritarianism, and so the cycle continues.

The intersectionality between class, religion, ideology, and ethnicity makes Turkish politics wonky.

As always with nuclear there are a few taboo topics. One of them being fuel supply. For European reactors that seems to be either Mali/Niger, or Russia. Both not excellent if the goal is geopolitical independence.

Solar, wind and batteries have no fuel concerns, and they are inherently decentralized.

Isn't the price of a KW of solar panels similar to the price of a KW of nuclear power these days?

I wonder what hinders us to replace the roofs of all houses with solar panels and put batteries in all cellars?

It might still be useful to build out nuclear power plants. But the solar+battery approach seems like an easier first step to increase the available power, doesn't it?